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Jonathan Sexton marked his debut with 16 points in a highly-impressive start to his international career to guide Ireland to a comfortable victory over Fiji at the RDS in Dublin. (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Meteorites, microscopes, or mixing things to go boom. Your science nerd loves it all. Here are a couple of gift ideas for that space explorer, mad scientist, or engineer in your life. BTW, if you hate the gallery format as mu (Read More)
New York Times:
A food-obsessed traveler uses the Zagat guide of the Napoleonic era to explore the culinary wonders of this city in the 21st century.
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Money RSS Feed:
Mortgage brokers have been badly hit by the credit crunch, with more than half of intermediaries going out of business in the past two years. There are now only 12,500 brokers offering independent mortgage advice in the UK, d (Read More)
Engadget:
Welcome to the Engadget Holiday Gift Guide! The team here is well aware of the heartbreaking difficulties of the seasonal shopping experience, and we want to help you sort through the trash and come up with the treasures this (Read More)
Gizmodo:
We've teamed up with the HD Guru himself, Gary Merson, to publish the absolute best five TVs you can buy right now. As you'll see (and might already notice above), there are some surprises on the list. Panasonic Z1 Panasonic (Read More)
Lifehacker:
The preview edition of Gina and Adam's new book, The Complete Guide to Google Wave, is now available in PDF form for your offline, ebook-reading pleasure. Google Wave is a young tool that's not terribly easy to understand for (Read More)
Engadget:
Seriously, how awesome have the past few hours been? Engadget turns the design stakes up to 11, Google finally dishes the dirt on Chrome OS, and now you can even download the forthcoming software to have a fiddle with yourse (Read More)
Gizmodo:
The Milipol exhibition in Paris is where all the pros play with the military-industrial complex's hottest toys. I used special commando skills (and a press badge) to infiltrate the premises and show you the world's freshest, (Read More)
TechCrunch:
The public debut of Google Chrome OS today has the press abuzz over the potential of the new web-based operating system. And now that it’s open sourced, you have the chance to try it out for yourself. Unfortunately, most peo (Read More)
Gizmodo:
There are loads of Apple haters out there (even some among our commenters), and they deserve great tech gifts just as much as that guy who thinks all PMPs are called iPods. Here are some very un-Apple gift ideas. BTW, if you (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Not sure what HDTV you should buy this holiday season? Thank God we have flowcharts to make the process easier. Actually, I'm not sure if this flowchart makes anything easier. In the end it might just make fun of you and brin (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Most serious gamers might seem easy to buy for at first: games! But they probably are buying most games they really want right when they're released. So you've got to be a bit more creative than that. BTW, if you hate the gal (Read More)
Gizmodo:
You can buy an HDTV, a nice big one, for six hundred bucks. Or you can pay six thousand. It's presumably somehow better. You're probably wondering, "What the hell makes it better?" Here's the breakdown: To be clear, we're onl (Read More)
Lifehacker:
If the iPhone's zoom just isn't doing it for you, and you prefer a higher-quality optical zoom to lesser digital zoom apps, DIY web site Instructables details how to make a contraption that'll help you achieve just the frame (Read More)
Times Online:
Thierry Henry is feeling the wrath of the footballing public and the media today after his deliberate handball saw France qualify for the World Cup finals in South Africa instead of the Republic of Ireland. The French captai (Read More)
Times Online:
Continuing our series of retrospectives on the past decade. Read the entry for 2000 here, where Andy Flower leads Glenn McGrath by a nose in the vote for your favourite player of that year, and vote on the player of 2001 at t (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Life is stressful! If the person you're shopping for is anxious all the time, you might as well help them out with a gift that will let them chill out, if but for a little while. Sound Isolating Headphones: The first step to (Read More)
Boing Boing:
This is a great idea -- a show about useful DIY skills, set in a zombie apocalypse context. It reminds me a bit of Max Brooks marvelously deadpan Zombie Survival Guide.
Guns 'n Gardens
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TechCrunch:
As the TechCrunch Network’s resident mobile guy, I was given the task of writing up a list of apps for each smartphone platform that you ought to buy as little e-stocking stuffers for your loved ones. It was to be my primary (Read More)