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Decorating with LED is easy. After learning about many LED enabled home fixtures, we’ve understood that the most of them if not all can be installed by regular contractors or plumbers, with no special skills required. Really, all it takes is to plug in a LED powering connection via low voltage adapter that comes with […]
Airport security screeners are reportedly going to let passengers bring sharp objects on board airplanes again. Today’s Washington Post says the Transportation Security Administration plans to announce security changes Friday. Sources quoted by the paper say the new rules will allow things like scissors in carry-on bags. The reasoning is that such items are no […]
Donald Trump is leaving New York to fire people on the West Coast. NBC announced Tuesday that “The Apprentice” has been picked up for a sixth season and will be shot in Southern California. Next ‘Apprentice’ to Be Shot in Calif.
They’re young, smart, brash. They may wear flip-flops to the office or listen to iPods at their desk. They want to work, but they don’t want work to be their life. Generation Y: They’ve arrived at work with a new attitude
To get into Google’s internal offices requires a discussion with security, sign in, badge, and escort. However, the dining area has no specific security into or out of it. If you can get past parking security, you can walk right in and eat. Google Lunch?
What with CSS Reboot right around the corner and fresh designs in short supply given the Nov. 1st deadline is so near, I’ve decided to refresh your memory, with the sexiest designed websites you may have forgotten about. I refuse to discriminate here, either: I’m willing to be wowed by CSS and XHTML with some […]
Two buddies from Long Island came up with the idea of offering (relatively) cheap access to private jets. And with the help of folks like Warren Buffett, Derek Jeter and J. Lo, they turned the Marquis Jet card into one very cool brand. High Fliers
Telecommuters employed by a company outside their home state may be at risk of having to pay extra taxes unless Congress adopts a bill protecting them, experts said Tuesday. Telecommuters: Beware the tax man
A program that speeds pre-screened travelers through security will begin June 20, launching what airports hope will be a new era of checkpoint screening. Starting in June, some fliers can skip long security lines
Actor Pat Morita, whose portrayal of the wise and dry-witted Mr. Miyagi in “The Karate Kid” earned him an Oscar nomination, has died. He was 73. Pat Morita, ‘Karate Kid’s’ Mr. Miyagi, dies
Have wine with lunch (if there is lunch) on one of America’s airlines these days and you might be surprised at what you end up sipping. Airlines go to great lengths in choosing wine
Ta dah! To nobody’s surprise who has ever lived — or even visited — there, Manhattan is the most expensive place in the United States. Priciest U.S. cities
They’re the 10 priciest hotels in the world — but what does £8,000 per night actually get you? Susan d’Arcy finds out $plash the cash on the world’s most expensive beds
Glancing at the front page of the Wall Street Journal on Friday, you might initially roll your eyes (yet another Google story) and then hungrily set in to read the mid-page column on the Google boys’ new luxury Boeing 767-200 airplane. Google founders’ heady purchase
a 15-year-old boy rubbed a swab along the inside of his cheek, popped it into a vial and sent it off to an online genealogy DNA-testing service. But unlike most people who contact the service, he was not interested in sketching the far reaches of his family tree. His mother had conceived using donor sperm […]
Turn the pages of 10 Crescent Lane, a new high-end home catalog, and nothing about the furnishings or décor items whispers Home Depot. Upscale catalog starts new chapter for Home Depot
There are signs that the overheated market might finally be cooling. The Commerce Department, for example, said sales of new homes in September fell shy of expectations, median prices declined 5.7%, and the number of new homes for sale shot up to a record 493,000. Freddie Mac also said October mortgage applications seem to be […]
A drink somewhere between coffee and beer could soon be on the menu. Nestec, part of the Nestlé empire in Switzerland, has filed patents in every major market round the world on a “fermented coffee beverage” that pours and foams like beer, but smells of strong coffee and packs a concentrated caffeine kick. Invention: Coffee […]
If you own an iPod, it’s likely you are more apt to spread consumer-generated media as well as be more technologically savvy than your non-iPod brethren, a survey released on Monday said. Intelliseek, a Internet research firm, said it expects the trend to continue with the recent release of the video iPod. Study: iPod Owners […]
The superrich are increasingly buying widebody planes, remodeled to their own preferences for luxurious living aloft Penthouses at 30,000 Feet Check out the pics: Slide Show
Dell Inc. is taking a page from auto maker Toyota Motor Co.’s playbook and recasting its XPS Media Center PC line with a series of new models and services. Dell Punches Up XPS Media Center PCs
The Mobil Travel Guide selected one San Antonio hotel and one local restaurant to be recognized in the publication’s 2006 Mobil Four- and Five Awards program. Watermark, Le Reve earn ‘Four-Star’ rating in Mobil Travel Guide
Bill Cosby, who created a stir in the black community when he criticized young people for the way they speak, challenged parents in this crime-plagued, largely minority city to set goals for their children. Cosby: Parents must set goals for kids
Last year, the 37-year-old agricultural sales director from Post Falls, Idaho, noticed a throbbing sensation in this thumbs whenever he typed. He switched to tapping with his index finger, then his middle digit and finally his pinky. But his thumbs pained him to the point where he can’t even press the buttons on his TV […]
A surfer received a bad gash Wednesday when a 14-foot shark bit her leg in the waters off northern California and pulled her underwater, authorities said. Surfer Bitten by Shark in Northern Calif
It is healthier to walk along a busy road and breathe in exhaust fumes than to sit in the comfort of an airconditioned car, a U.S. researcher said on Wednesday. Air inside car said to be more harmful than outside
I recently discovered that a few important machines at a certain educational institute’s datacenter allows all students, faculty, and staff to authenticate against them via ssh. Everyone’s shells appear to be set to /bin/false (or some derivative) on said machines, so the only thing you’ll see after you authenticate is the login banner and your […]
In May, the Minnesota Office of Higher Education posted the inevitable culmination of a trend: Last year for the first time, women earned more than half the degrees granted statewide in every category, be it associate, bachelor, master, doctoral or professional. College gender gap widens: 57% are women
Older women are not the only ones prone to having defective eggs – young women have flaws in about half of theirs too, two separate studies suggest. Young women have flawed eggs too
The EFF has broken the tracking code for the Xerox DocuColor. The DocuColor prints a faint 15×8 grid of yellow dots on every page. To see these dots you need a magnifying glass. You can also use a blue light to make the dots appear black. The EFF page has a built in application for […]
Before dawn on a rainy Friday, John Richards totes a stack of CDs and a paper cup of coffee into the booth at KEXP. On the wall, yellow-headed pins stuck in a world map mark the origin of song requests. Baltimore. Boston. Baghdad. Tiny Seattle station emerges as leading force in indie radio
Waistlines are inching up on hemlines as fashion’s barometer. Navel-obscuring in the ’80s, they were navel-baring a few years ago, and this fall they’re creeping up toward the bellybutton again. Jeans lowdown: Waistbands are inching up
With a good night’s rest increasingly losing out to the Internet, e-mail, late-night cable and other distractions of modern life, a growing body of scientific evidence suggests that too little or erratic sleep may be taking an unappreciated toll on Americans’ health. Scientists Finding Out What Losing Sleep Does to a Body
Ditch the rice cereal and mashed peas, and make way for enchiladas, curry and even — gasp! — hot peppers. It’s time to discard everything you think you know about feeding babies. It turns out most advice parents get about weaning infants onto solid foods — even from pediatricians — is more myth than science. […]
When compiling our second annual list of The Most Expensive Restaurants in the U.S., a question arose. Has fine dining gotten a little too fine when bills for two (including a good bottle of wine and maybe a snifter or two of cognac) at the best establishments in the country routinely approach–and exceed–the $1000 mark? […]
In the back room of an unmarked brown building in a run-down strip mall, eight machines, each the size of a bass drum, are making diamonds. That’s right — making diamonds. Real ones, all but indistinguishable from the stones formed by a billion or so years’ worth of intense pressure, later to be sold at […]
These SBC guys are CRAZY! “If there were any delusions that Ma Bell Wasn’t Back, SBC CEO Edward Witacre has cleared that up in an interview with Business Week Online. When asked about Google, Vonage and other Internet Upstarts he responded in typical Ma Bell Style: ‘How do you think they’re going to get to […]
Occasionally getting drunk is a core part of national identity for most Australians, according to new research Getting drunk part of Australian identity, study finds
San Antonio has been ranked the fourth most dangerous metropolitan areas for children walking to and from school, according to a study San Antonio named one of the worst cities for child pedestrians
Treating infant ear infections with the common antibiotic amoxicillin doubles children’s risk they will suffer a problem later on with their permanent teeth, a study said on Monday. Antibiotic affects some children’s teeth: US study