Day: December 28, 2012

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The 5 Best Television Shows Of 2012

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Tim Molloy, The Wrap Showtime Despite its Emmy-winning status, “Homeland” doesn’t make it into the top five. ‘Married to the Army: Alaska’ – a Reality Show About Real Conflicts Texas Radio Station Apologizes for Falsely Reporting George H. W. Bush’s Death The Easiest Oscar Nomination, and Other Oscar-by-the-Numbers Secrets “Louie” is still TV’s best comedy. The final season of “30 Rock” is filled with everything we love about the show. “Homeland”…

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13 Ways To Lose Weight Without Blowing Your Budget

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Mandi Woodruff Red Bull Content Pool The weight loss industry is rigged with budget traps and health gimmicks at every turn, but there’s no reason to put your finances at risk for a healthier lifestyle.  Just go back to basics. That means skipping the flashy new workout equipment, sky-high gym membership and splurging on luxury foods. We tapped a few wellness experts for simple ways you can start losing weight without blowing your budget. With…

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John McAfee Tells World How He Fooled Cops and Escaped Belize

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As reported on Wired. BY ROBERT MCMILLAN John McAfee. Photo: Brian Finke   One of the reporters who snuck out of Belize with John McAfee earlier this month said the adventure was “dangerous, amazing, touching, and many other adjectives that I cannot remember right now.” Turns out that the words that eluded him were “rainy” and “lucky.” On the day after Christmas, McAfee posted a long blog post describing how he gave Belizean authorities the slip and snuck out of the…

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Race Fan Builds F1 Car in His Garden Shed

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As reported on Wired. BY ALEXANDER GEORGE Photo: Sam Collins for Car and Driver/Used with permission   Kevin Thomas has a bit more mechanical knowledge than the average Formula 1 fan, and he’s used it to cobble together an F1 racer using cast-off parts and eBay bits. The enterprising Briton, not having the hectares of cash needed to buy a modern Formula 1 racer, decided to build one. In his garden shed. Using spare parts. The…

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The 8 Craziest Job Openings in the Military-Industrial Complex

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As reported on Wired. BY NOAH SHACHTMAN AND ROBERT BECKHUSEN Top-secret janitor. Pollster to the spies. Classified comic book artist. Any organization sufficiently large is bound to have the odd job opening within it. But few organizations are as freakin’ colossal as the U.S. military intelligence industrial complex, with an estimated 4.9 million Americans holding security clearances today. Which means there are thousands of unconventional positions to fill at any given moment. Here are some of the wilder military…

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Apple pulls Samsung Galaxy S III Mini from patent battle

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As reported on The Verge. By Bryan Bishop Samsung scored a win today, as Apple agreed in a court filing to pull its infringement claims against the Galaxy S III Mini. The device had been accused along with anassortment of other devices in the second legal battle the two companies are engaged in with Judge Lucy Koh. Apple had included the Galaxy S III Mini because it was available for sale through Amazon.com, but Samsung argued that the device had…

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Photos of the strange Apple computers that never were

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As reported on The Verge. By Bryan Bishop Earlier this year we got to take a peek behind the curtain to see what Apple’s design process for the iPhone and iPad was like, and now we’re seeing some Apple II and Macintosh product designs that never came to be. Designboom has an assortment of images, culled from designer Hartmut Esslinger’s new book Design Forward, along with some excerpts from the text. Esslinger helped found Frog Design, the company that partnered with…

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Government Politics

Senate votes to let the NSA keep spying on you without a warrant until 2017

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As reported on The Verge. By Adi Robertson The US Senate has voted to approve the FAA Sunsets Extension Act of 2012, which will authorize warrantless surveillance of Americans for counter-terrorism purposes for another five years. The bill extends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act of 2008, which granted retroactive immunity for wiretaps and email monitoring under the Bush Administration and created a framework for future warrant-free surveillance as long as one party is…

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Looks Like PBS Made A ‘Silicon Valley’ TV Show That Could Really Be Worth Watching

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As reported on TechCrunch. by COLLEEN TAYLOR Those who dreaded the ‘Silicon Valley’ reality TV series that aired this past year on Bravo did not have much to worry about after all. The show received mostly negative reviews and had alackluster performance in the ratings department, and it doesn’t seem likely to return — at least not to chronicle the tech scene here in California. But today we got word of a new TV show also dubbed ‘Silicon Valley’ that seems like it should be…

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In Praise Of Dangerous Toys

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JOHN BIGGS When I was growing up, my dad taught me that potassium nitrate, sulphur, and charcoal made gunpowder. He told me that you could add iron to the mix to get a red flame and that acids wouldn’t eat through your test tube. Then he sent me into the basement to make whatever I wanted while he read the paper. That was, arguably, a long time ago. All that’s changed. As…

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