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Drowsy driving is equal to drunk driving Autoblog

Dianne — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:01:10 +0000

Around Memorial Day, the chances are good that either you or somebody that you are sharing the road with today has been out and about, spending the day with family or just enjoying their time...

10 Reasons Gen Xers Are Unhappy at Work

Dianne — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:36:31 +0000

I’m worried about Generation X and corporations. As far as I can tell, these two have a tentative relationship at bestâ€”and are likely headed for some rocky times...

Scientists Seek to Create 20 Million Processor Supercomputer

Dianne — Sun, 11 May 2008 22:06:03 +0000

Three U.S. government scientists are proposing to improve climate change predictions by creating a kind of super-supercomputer.

Best and Worst Moms, Exclusively On Mother's Day

Dianne — Sun, 11 May 2008 20:22:55 +0000

Mothers are precious. In fact, they’re super-heroines...except when they haunt you, beat you or sell you into government office. (And even then, there’s some love there.) From nurturing and strong to manipulative and murderous, moms do some crazy things in the interest of protecting (or betraying) their brood, and this list — hotly contested in the RT office, by the way — features five good eggs and as many rotten, with a few honorable mentions and iffy selections thrown in for good measure.

One Word Bioplastics The Technology Gains Momentum, But Hurdles Remain

Dianne — Sat, 10 May 2008 19:47:19 +0000

Itâ€™s been 40 years since Mr. McGuire pulled Benjamin Braddock withdrawal apart from his degree and said: â€œI just want to say one word to you. â€¦ Just one word are you listening? Plastics â€¦. There is a great future in plastics....

Stolen MacBook Victim Uses Screen Sharing and iSight to Bust Thieves

Dianne — Sat, 10 May 2008 18:50:10 +0000

A White Plains, NY woman who was the victim of burglary, including her MacBook, used the Back To My Mac screen sharing feature to turn on her webcam and capture images of the unwitting culprits using the computer. As a result, police were able to arrest the thieves and recover most of the stolen goods, which included two laptops, two flat-screen televisions, two iPods, gaming consoles, DVDs and computer games.

Country music superstar Eddy Arnold dies at 89

Dianne — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:28:29 +0000

Eddy Arnold, whose mellow baritone on songs like “Make the World Go Away” made him one of the most successful country singers in history, died Thursday morning, days short of his 90th birthday. Arnold died at a care facility near Nashville, said Don Cusic, a professor at Belmont University and author of the biography “Eddy Arnold: I’ll Hold You in My Heart.”

why we .Lie, cheat, fall in love, kiss, blush, have sex, die?

Dianne — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:28:16 +0000

Humans are arguably the most bizarre creatures in the animal kingdom. The proof is in the many gross, unnecessary, contradictory and simply inexplicable things we do. And of course we’re different in our capacity to ponder all these oddities...

Rumor: .Mac relaunch to coincide with iPhone 2.0?

Dianne — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:24:41 +0000

A little birdy told us about some unusual happenings at Apple. According to our anonymous tipster, .Mac will undergo a complete revamp that will coincide with the iPhone 2.0 launch (which everyone expects to occur at WWDC...

100% Recycled Paper Made In America In A Bio-powered Mill

Dianne — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:29:15 +0000

In the heart of Washington state’s logging country, where it’s a treasured pastime to curse the endangered spotted owl, you’ll find one of the greenest paper mills around. Tucked along the rainy coastline, Grays Harbor Paper produces some of the country’s only 100 percent recycled paper in a plant powered entirely by biomass fuel derived from logging waste.