Archive for October, 2007
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Foreclosure actions were reported on more than 446,000 properties the three months ended Sept. 30, up 30 percent from the second quarter and double last year’s third quarter. That brings the overall foreclosure rate to one in every 196 U.S. households.Read the full story
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
The carrier said it would ask passengers on the A380 to refrain from sex while ensconced in one of its 12 first-class suites, which boast the world's first airborne double beds. Clearly, the airlines want to keep their monopoly on screwing you when you fly!Read the full story
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
The Small World ride now must accommodate adults who frequently weigh north of 200 pounds, which it often cannot do. Increasingly, overweighted boats get to certain points in the ride and bottom out, becoming stuck in the flume. via BoingBoingRead the full story
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
OpenSocial is a set of three common APIs, defined by Google with input from partners, that allow developers to access core functions and information at social networks: 1) Profile Information (user data) 2) Friends Information (social graph) and 3) Activities (things that happen, News Feed type stuff)Read the full story
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
The nation's largest urban car-sharing company, Cambridge, Mass.-based Zipcar, is absorbing Seattle-based Flexcar in a move that could hasten the spread of a business whose rapid growth relies on lifestyle marketing as much as its promise to save people money.
Executives said Tuesday the two will combine by week's end to ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
While privacy and open society advocates have been concerned about the dominance of Google's search engine for the past several years, most of us are just beginning to comprehend Facebook’s growing impact on who, when, what and how we connect with friends and colleagues online. Personally, I’m concerned that one ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Each year Project Censored reports what the mainstream media leaves uncovered.Read the full story
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
The contemplative park opens Nov. 10, featuring starry lunar-art elements that pay tribute to a solstice-happy neighborhood that calls itself "The Center of the Universe."Read the full story
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
Roberts' court off the rails? The company has been battling the judgment for more than a decade. The company has managed to get the award cut in half from the original $5 billion awarded in 1994 by an Anchorage jury in the class-action suit.Read the full story
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
After months of speculation, Microsoft announced today that it is investing $240 million in Facebook. The social networking company is being valued at $15 billion, which means Microsoft will own 1.6 percent.Read the full story
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