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Finally! The evils and insidiousness of Socialism exposed. Well, uhm, sort of.

Glenn Beck and other far right multi-millionaires are
claiming that the US is hot on the path towards socialism. Part of their claim is that the US is much
more generous and supportive of our working and poor people than other
countries. People may wish it was so,
but it is not.

As Senator Patrick Moynihan used to say “Everyone is
entitled to their own opinions. But
everyone is not entitled to their own facts.”

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Excellent, I’ll be out fighting crime by night in no time at all. Hopefully, it will come in colors other than “boy scout blue”.

You don’t have to be the out-of-this-world kin of the Kents’ in order to slip into the wearable armor made for the red-caped crusader. By splicing the carbon in cotton with boron, researchers at the University of South Carolina have markedly increased this familiar fabric’s resiliency. With a final flexible state re-inforced with boron carbide – the same material used to shield military tanks – this design breakthrough is far from a passing …
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This just in from the Department of the Obvious!

by Josh Nelson

When President Obama announced recently that he’d open new coastal areas to offshore drilling, there was considerable speculation as to what the political fallout might be. Most progressive pundits were baffled by the decision, and the general consensus seemed to be that it was a political move designed to influence key decision makers. The immediate reaction from the right was apoplectic, with Republican leaders like John Boehner (Ohio) taking great offense. Senator Murkowski (Alaska), whose vote some Democrats consider possible on climate legislation, is exactly …
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Fascinating solution, especially in the wake of recent search and rescue scenarios. Of course, this potentially opens you up to the machinations of magnetic mutant menaces. 😉

Radio waves are nice and all, but when you think that your Wi-Fi signal weakens when you go into another room, just think about what would happen if there were 30 solid feet of rock between you and the router. And if lives depend on your signal, what you really need is something for which barriers like that are no worry. For instance, magnetic fields, which “propagate” differently, and can …
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An nice additional feature, but didn’t we see this in Blackberries, Palm, etc about… 15 years ago?

Steve Jobs was holding out on us. During his iPhone OS 4 announcement on Thursday, Jobs mentioned that OS 4 would work with Bluetooth keyboards, but he didn’t mention one very cool related feature: Your iPhone will be able to work with the iPad Keyboard Dock. We were able to get our hands on iPhone OS 4, which is currently available only to developers, and we popped our tester iPhone 3GS into the dock. It worked smoothly and made document …
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