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The first color photograph [PIC]

2007-10-08T06:07:00.003-07:00

It was made taken three shots with red, green and blue filters on the camera. The three photographic plates now reside in a small museum at 14 India Street, Edinburgh, the house where Maxwell was born.

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The Perfect Desktop - OpenSUSE 10.3 (GNOME)

2007-10-08T06:07:00.001-07:00

This guide shows how you can set up an OpenSUSE 10.3 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, incl. Skype, Flash Player, Adobe Reader, multimedia codecs, and Google Earth. The benefits are: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best is: all software comes free of charge.

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High School Teacher Makes Parents do the Same Homework as their Child

2007-10-08T06:04:00.003-07:00

If the parents do not comply, Mr. Frye tells them, their child’s grade may suffer — a threat on which he has made good only once in the three years he has been making such assignments. The point, he said, is to keep parents involved in their children’s ’ education well into high school.

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Theft of 52-cent doughnut. Man faces 30 years to life.

2007-10-08T06:04:00.001-07:00

He is accused of shoplifting the pastry in Farmington, Mo., and pushing a store worker trying to stop him. The worker was unhurt. But with that shove, his shoplifting turned into a strong-arm robbery. As a persistent offender, man could face a murderer's term. "I can't believe this crap," he said.

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How To Market Your Startup Offline

2007-10-08T06:02:00.003-07:00

So you have been on the front page of Digg, you have been a Stumble Upon Top Pick and the blogospere buzz machine has blessed you with enough ink to make Gutenberg cry. Still, your neighbors still doesn’t have any idea what it is that you are doing coding in your den all night long. In fact, he’s pretty sure that you’re some kind of terrorist.

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RIAA Jury Finds Minnesota Woman Liable for Piracy, Awards $222,000

2007-10-08T06:02:00.001-07:00

Recording Industry Association of America defendant Jammie Thomas was found liable Thursday for copyright piracy in the nation's first file-sharing case to go before a jury.

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Six Types of Words That You Should Axe in Business Writing

2007-10-08T06:01:00.003-07:00

In business, we often compose messages in a hurry for e-mails, notes, urgent reports, or last-minute projects. Editing is, therefore, especially necessary to rid your writing of confusing, boring, and obsolete elements. Here are some great tips that help you decide which words to cut and which words to put in their place.

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The Con That Turned the World Against America

2007-10-08T06:01:00.001-07:00

The world’s financial system came precariously close to seizing up these past couple months. In fact, as far as some big banks and financial institutions were concerned, for a moment in time, the system was in a full-blown cardiac arrest. Liquidity, the flow of money the lifeblood of todays economic structure came uncomfortably close to clotting up

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The 10 Commandments of Investing

2007-10-08T05:59:00.005-07:00

On a plane back from New York, someone sitting next to me noticed I was writing my next blog, and asked me what my “10 Commandments of Investing” would be. A quick conversation led me to rapidly type my thoughts. So, consider this my extremely abbreviated summary of the things you should never forget when investing and planning your future.

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High-Priced Student Loans Sow Seeds of Trouble for U.S. Economy

2007-10-08T05:59:00.003-07:00

The near doubling in the cost of a college degree the past decade has produced an explosion in high-priced student loans that could haunt the U.S. economy for years. While scholarship, grant money and government-backed student loans -- whose interest rates are capped -- have taken up some of the slack, many families and individual student...

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Internet Business is killing the 80/20 rule

2007-10-08T05:59:00.001-07:00

For 100 years economists have followed the Pareto Principle in business. The 80/20 rule also applies to life and Diggs. Internet Business has been showing signs of eliminating the 80/20 rule as mentioned by Wired Magazine. Now researchers at MIT have released a new report showing case studies on how Internet Business is killing the 80/20 rule.

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List of countries by their current account balance

2007-09-20T23:03:00.001-07:00

Wow! This is a list of countries and territories by current account balance, in millions of U.S. dollars, equivalence based on The World Factbook. It's sobering to see where the US stands against China.

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Why Renting is Better than Buying a Home

2007-09-20T23:01:00.003-07:00

When you rent, most people mistakenly assume the decision is made out of necessity, not rationality. But there is a very good reason to rent in today's bubble-stricken market: median incomes do not support median home prices.

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Canadian Dollar Reaches 30-year high against US dollar! $1 US = $1 CAN

2007-09-20T23:01:00.001-07:00

See story. The Canadian Dollar will probably surpass the US Dollar sometime today.

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Canadian dollar hits parity with greenback: report

2007-09-20T23:00:00.005-07:00

The Canadian dollar reached parity Thursday morning with the U.S. currency for the first time in 31 years.

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Philanthropist Has Given Away an Estimated $4 Billion

2007-09-20T23:00:00.003-07:00

He wears a $15 watch, flies economy class and does not own a house or car. For years few guessed that Chuck Feeney was one of the world's biggest philanthropists, secretly giving away his billionaire fortune. He liked making money but not having it, and gave it away for years in strict secrecy.

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Now even the scientist are saying we're scr3wed with the Subprime mess

2007-09-20T23:00:00.001-07:00

America's love affair with consumption has been a big source of economic stimulus for a long time. But the party might be about to end. Americans' overextended wallets could trigger the most severe downturn in economic activity seen since at least the 1980s — and possibly since the Great Depression.

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Internet Commenter Business Meeting 2

2007-09-20T22:59:00.001-07:00

An all new meeting, with all new comments...FIRST!

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Fed Cuts Key Rate by .5% Point

2007-09-20T22:57:00.005-07:00

The Federal Reserve Tuesday responded aggressively to a housing downturn that threatens to spread to the broader economy, cutting its main benchmark interest rate by a half-percentage point and broadly lowering borrowing costs.

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Parking stripe ads assault the senses beneath your feet

2007-09-20T22:57:00.003-07:00

"Remind me to do burnouts on each and every one of these."

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Finally the New York Times gets it

2007-09-20T22:57:00.001-07:00

The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web site, effective at midnight Tuesday night.

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Mind-Boggling Visualization: One Quintillion United States Pennies

2007-09-20T22:56:00.001-07:00

Value in U.S. dollars = $10,000,670,883,840,000.00 (Ten quadrillion, six hundred seventy billion, eight hundred eighty-three million, eight hundred and forty thousand dollars and zero cents).

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M.B.A.s Are Losing Their Importance on Wall Street

2007-09-20T22:55:00.001-07:00

Many young people on the fast track to fat paydays in the financial industry are choosing to forgo M.B.A. programs. As more Americans have become abundantly wealthy, young people are recalculating old assumptions about success. The flood of money into private equity and hedge funds over the last decade has made billionaires...

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The party's over for American consumers

2007-09-20T22:54:00.003-07:00

The new numbers on consumer confidence are out. They show American consumers are very confident that the economy is going down the tubes.

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T-Mobile: Your Bill Looks Fraudulent. Pay It Anyway

2007-09-20T22:54:00.001-07:00

Mitoko was shocked to find $1,000 worth of charges from an unknown phone number on her latest T-Mobile bill. T-Mobile refused to vacate the charges, even after admitting that the number that somehow latched onto her account was already under investigation for suspicious activity.

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