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16 Secrets The Restaurant Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know

November 21, 2008 on 8:02 pm | In Information Universe | No Comments

Simply outrageous.

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Kafka of the Cubicle

November 21, 2008 on 5:12 pm | In Information Universe | No Comments

TOKYO — The American poet Theodore Roethke called it ‘the inexorable sadness of pencils.’ It’s the desolation of time lost and dreams forsaken while sitting in an office.

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The Tarmac’s Madding Crowds

November 21, 2008 on 4:56 pm | In Information Universe | No Comments

There should be a mandate on how long airlines can keep their passengers idled before taxiing back to the gate. (Just in time for your holiday travels.)

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More Gamble Than Gift: This Holiday Season’s High-Tech Duds

November 20, 2008 on 5:49 pm | In Information Universe | No Comments

Buying any sort of high-tech product involves risks not faced with most other purchases. The sweater you get for yourself probably won’t cost dramatically less next year or be replaced in stores by a vastly upgraded Sweater 3.0, but your new laptop, camera or phone can become overpriced or obsolete… (Some things to think about when holiday shopping.)

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Thanks to gamers, the desktop supercomputer arrives

November 19, 2008 on 4:04 pm | In Information Universe | No Comments

Nvidia today unveiled a workstation it calls the Telsa Personal Supercomputer at the annual Supercomputing 08 show here. The Tesla sports 960 cores, almost 4 teraflops of performance and costs less than $9,995. It achieves that speed and price by using four graphics processing units (GPUs), each of which has 240 cores.

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Sites can now know your gender by using sneaky CSS hack

November 19, 2008 on 9:37 am | In Information Universe | No Comments

This “old skool” CSS hack analyzes which sites you’ve visited. For instance, if you’ve been to Digg or Slashdot recently it almost certainly means you’re male. Test it for yourself and post the results in the comments below. I was 92% chance of being male. And….. they were right. At least since last time I checked

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Women Find Scarred Men Attractive When Looking For a Fling

November 19, 2008 on 9:18 am | In Information Universe | No Comments

Men with facial scars are more attractive to women seeking short-term relationships, scientists at the University of Liverpool have found.

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F.D.A. Scientists Accuse Agency Officials of Misconduct

November 18, 2008 on 7:38 pm | In Information Universe | No Comments

In a letter to Congress, federal scientists said that officials ignored their concerns and approved unsafe or ineffective medical devices. (Caveat emptor.)

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GPS built into SIM card gives ANY phone GPS!

November 18, 2008 on 4:57 pm | In Information Universe | No Comments

Wow. How’d they do it? Smartcard company Sagem Orga and BlueSky Positioning say they’ve collaborated to put GPS capability into a conventional tiny cell phone SIM card.

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Saving the Story (the Film Version)

November 18, 2008 on 4:38 pm | In Information Universe | No Comments

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory plans to examine whether the old way of telling stories — particularly those delivered to the millions on screen — is in serious trouble. (Evolve or die, but when the bottom line is profit over artistic accomplishment, what do you do? What do you do…)

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