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Wired don’t get Values?

20-May-09

Here’s the problem with Wired: They think print matters.
via Welcome, Wired. We call this land “Internet” | Boing Boing Gadgets.
My guess is that the problem with Wired is aligning their money making values (print and web) with their human values (e.g. editorial lines or who is the most important journalist/blog/contributor/editor etc.).
It seems to me that [...]

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Music and ringtones to increase breast size

01-Mar-09
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Low fat diets: Not fit for purpose

09-Dec-08

Then in 2000, a group of scientists called the Cochrane Collaboration analysed 27 of the most rigorously controlled studies involving more than 18,000 participants and found that diets low in saturated fats have no significant effect on mortality, or even on deaths due to heart attacks. Two years ago came the Women’s Health Initiative trial [...]

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A “Second Earth” has been found 20 light years away

06-Dec-08

Measurements of the planet’s celestial path suggest it is 1½ times the size of our home planet, and orbits close to its sun, with a year of just 13 days. The planet’s orbit brings it 14 times closer to its star than Earth is to the sun. But Gliese 581 burns at only 3,000C, half [...]

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Wireless toilet control panel

01-Dec-08
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Rants: Consider This…The Stupidest Exercise Machine You’ll Ever See | Burbia.com

13-Nov-08

Rants: Consider This…The Stupidest Exercise Machine You’ll Ever See | Burbia.com.

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The Receptionist Test - The Daily WTF

23-Oct-08

John was a lot less level-headed. His task should’ve been the simplest of all — the receptionist couldn’t print a document. Totally understandable when the printer is turned off and all of the lights on its display were totally dark. First, he hit Control+P, selected the printer, and clicked “OK,” and confirmed it wasn’t working. [...]

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The virus demonstrates cancer-killing specificity that is 10,000 times higher than that seen in traditional chemotherapeutics

09-Oct-08

Senecavirus Structure Revealed (Oh, And It Still Kills Cancer Cells 10,000 Times Better Than Traditional Chemotherapeutics)
The Senecavirus is a “new” virus, discovered several years ago by Neotropix Inc., a biotech company in Malvern, Pennsylvania. It was at first thought to be a laboratory contaminant, but researchers found it was a pathogen, now believed to originate [...]

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Walls as telly, yes please!

16-Sep-08

Talking head says “walls as telly, I love it!”

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I’ve been keeping an eye on eReaders

09-Sep-08

Glen talks about Plastic Logic’s lastest? first? product…
Very cool…

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