Barack Obama's $3 Million Overhead Projector (55)
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During the last Presidential debate, John McCain delivered this line about his opponent with withering contempt: [Obama] voted for nearly a billion dollars in pork barrel earmark projects, including, by the way, $3 million for an overhead projector at a planetarium in Chicago, Illinois. I'm already tired of hearing these guys talk, but that caught my ear. A $3 million dollar projector? What does that even look like? Gearlog did some digging and found out ...
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Justin said:
I really thought Obama should have thrown this remark back in McCain's face. Three million dollars small potatoes and education, especially science education, should be one of the FIRST things we're spending tax dollars on.
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cbsmith said:
Two thoughts:1) It seems likely to me that $3 million for a top quality planetarium projector is a great deal.2) Why have it earmarked just for Chicago? Why not have a fund for planetariums, rather than just one specific one, which is selected by means of politics rather than some kind of objective criteria? That's the trouble I have in earmarks: not that what the money is spent on wasteful things (which happens, but far less often than people think), but that the criteria for where and on whom it is spent is highly arbitrary and inevitably NOT in the nation's best interests.
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lance said:
This is an awesome "overhead projector" wish we had these things in high school and college...oh wait, there is one at the planetarium, but I don't think it was as fancy as this!
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vanlandw said:
How much more McCain stuff can vanlandw share out?
Sony Ericsson laying off 450 employees in Research Triangle Park, NC (3)
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Filed under: Cellphones "Planned" and "executed" are two very different things, and while we knew Sony Ericsson was mulling the idea of hacking 2,000 jobs, the hammer has finally fallen in Research Triangle Park, NC. The company will soon be axing 450 employees at its North American headquarters as part of a large reorganization, with most everyone knowing by the week's end whether they'll stay or go. According to Aldo Ligouri, Sony Ericsson's head of ...
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PBMax said:
Hope no one I know is getting laid off!
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JimmyBTM said:
hell in a handbasket
Wario Land: Shake It Busts Up YouTube (66)
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Wow. Whoever came up with this new ad for Wario Land: Shake it deserves a raise and a paid vacation to Cancun or something. They’ve taken a basic concept of the game and managed to make it into creative and effective marketing on a platform where even the most humdrum viral campaigns tend to flourish. Screenshots don’t really do it justice, so be sure to check it out yourself. Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the ...
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Tim said:
OK...I am not often humbled when it comes to ad creation and packaging...I am humbled by this execution. Brilliant in every way.
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Vidar Larsen said:
A modern ad campaign that actually makes sense, and should appeal to the target audience. Great work!
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mina. said:
i played this last week and it was awesome. check it out!
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alan said:
Very creative ad. Way to be in touch with current culture, Nintendo.
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Sarlaac said:
This is awesome. I need learn how to do this.
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Haidong said:
this is surely a WOW
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Adam said:
You had me at Muhahha.
Save Your Automobile in a Hurricane Using Sophisticated Gadgetry [DIY] (19)
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The Hurricane Rope Tether—because you can never be too prepared when it comes to protecting your beater car from being washed away in a storm. This fancy DIY project is brought to you via a KTRK TV viewer in Houston during their recent brush with Hurricane Ike. File this one under smart tips for suburban disaster survival. [KTRK via Digg via Gearfuse]
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beggs said:
Oh, that made my day...
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njsf said:
This one is _really_ low tech :-)
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kyle said:
This is amazing! Why did I think of that. haha...
Control two machines with one mouse and keyboard (1)
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This post is for those who have to juggle between two desktops/laptops kept on their work-stations. It is a real pain to switch from one mouse-keyboard to another while performing tests. Here is a simple and elegant solution for it- Input Director. A free tool for personal non-commercial use. With the help of this software you can control two desktops with a single mouse-keyboard. The broad steps are: Download and install this software on both ...
Hulu Launches Fall Lineup, Premieres Before TV Broadcast (58)
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Hulu on Tuesday announced that it has launched its Fall Premiere Lineup, which over the next seven weeks, will be the place to find season premieres of Prison Break, Bones, House, Heroes, The Office and 30 Rock. To build up the hype around new shows or those in their second season, Hulu will also debut the first episode of Knight Rider, Lipstick Jungle, Chuck and Life, one week before they air on broadcast television. The ...
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Yan said:
Is NBC starting to get it? Not holding my breath...
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Ephraim said:
seems like the studios are finally starting to get it...very exciting! I would have thought that Comcast would have been the company to deliver this sort of change...can't wait to see what comes of this!
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Brian said:
ani - lipstick jungle one week early
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Schlomo Rabinowitz said:
At first, Hulu was a guilty pleasure of mine (come on, with a catalog with 2 David Lynch movies, and Jonny Socko episodes, you cant go wrong), but they really have done incredibly well for an online video portal made by the major networks.
Mythbusters Build a 2100 Barrel Painball Gun to Paint the Mona Lisa, Instantly [Leonardo Duurrrr Vinci] (29)
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In a presentation made at Nvidia's NVISION show this week, Adam and Jamie unveiled a 2100 barrel paintball gun and - in an instant - painted a pretty convincing (if not slightly drippy) Mona Lisa. In typical Mythbusters fashion, the incredibly elaborate experiment was only tenuously linked to their hypothesis. The presentation was intended to represent the difference in operation between single and multicore processors, referring to current gen CPUs versus GPUs, respectively. Of course, ...
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Eugene said:
SWEEET!
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Hadyn said:
ok, this...is cool
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Steve said:
This is cool.
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kyle said:
I love these guys!
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Aaron said:
Bad ass.Evil Horse.
Bloomberg News Accidentally Publishes Draft of Steve Jobs's Obituary [Oops] (23)
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Note to Bloomberg News employees: when you're in the system updating your draft of Steve Jobs's obituary, do NOT press publish. That, though, is exactly what happened late last night, as sleuthed by our buddies over at Gawker. Now, pre-writing obits for prominent figures such as the Steve, in good health and in bad, is totally S.O.P. in the media—so this should not be viewed as yet another non-statement on Jobs's personal health. But unfortunately, ...
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David said:
FAIL
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Michaelk said:
Apparently they un-published REALLY quick...
In the AutoblogGreen Garage: 2009 Ford Escape Hybrid Limited FWD (1)
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Filed under: Hybrid, Ford, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, In The AutoblogGreen Garage, Green DailyClick the 2009 Escape Hybrid for a high-res galleryThe very first production hybrid from a Detroit automaker has been with us since 2004 and going into the 2009 model year it has finally completed its second generation transformation. In 2007, Ford redesigned the all the visible elements of the Escape but largely carried over mechanical components. We drove the updated 2009 model a couple ...
Mygazines: Read Full Magazines Online for Free [Free Magazines] (13)
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File this under the new to us category, though the site technically launched in July. Mygazines allows you to read fully scanned magazines online. All of your favorites are there—Seventeen, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Brides and Oprah—that is, until the publishing industry figures out how to shut down a site registered in the Caribbean island of Anguilla. [Mygazines via Lifehacker]
Face the Glory - Free Southern Style Chicken Sandwich or Biscuit with Med or Large Drink Purchase! (1)
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Yup, go to McDonald's and get a free Southern Style Chicken Sandwich/Biscuit with a medium or large drink purchase. You must print the coupon from a color printer! Expires 09/01/2008. FREE SOUTHERN CHICKEN SANDWICH OFFER
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Review (Verdict: The First Star Wars Movie You Will Truly Hate) [Star Wars: The Clone Wars Review] (18)
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars is a lot of firsts. It's the first new Star Wars film since Emperor George Lucas wrapped up the canonical series three years ago. It's the opening salvo of a wave of Expanded Universe TV series—the film launches The Clone Wars animated series, and meanwhile a live-action one set between the prequels and the original trilogy is deep in development. It's the first animated Star Wars feature film. And most ...
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Bill said:
Brutal review. This film must truly suck some animated asterisks.
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Josh Hoover said:
Ummmm...
VMware ESXi Available For Free Starting Today (4)
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Mierdaan writes "VMware's bare-metal hypervisor is available for free starting today. ESXi, which can either be installed or run from an embedded device available in certain servers, has a 32MB footprint and gives small businesses an easy way to get into the virtualization world, with easy upgrade paths to enterprise-level features such as (H)igh (A)vailability and (D)istributed (R)esource (S)cheduler. ESXi runs on most any hardware with a server-class disk controller, and previously retailed for $495. ...
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Keener2u said:
ESXi doesn't do DRS and elastic cloud goodness..
Yahoo Adds Shortcuts To Olympic Data In Search (8)
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In preparation for the start of the summer Olympics on August 8, Yahoo has added Olympic-themed Shortcuts to its search results. Yahoo Shortcuts serve up contextually relevant content from various Yahoo properties inline within the search results. Now, whenever somebody searches for Olympic results, news, or athletes, different Shortcut widgets will pop up. A search for “Olympics medal count,” for instance, will generate the table above, which comes from Yahoo Sports. A search for “Olympics ...
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Reid said:
Pretty nice if you're looking for information on medals.
Yahoo Adds Shortcuts To Olympic Data In Search (3)
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In preparation for the start of the summer Olympics on August 8, Yahoo has added Olympic-themed Shortcuts to its search results. Yahoo Shortcuts serve up contextually relevant content from various Yahoo properties inline within the search results. Now, whenever somebody searches for Olympic results, news, or athletes, different Shortcut widgets will pop up. A search for “Olympics medal count,” for instance, will generate the table above, which comes from Yahoo Sports. A search for “Olympics ...
