There has been some rumbling ever since the election of 2004 that Karl Rove had a... secret plan to rig that election, and that eventually he would try it again
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Among the April Fools' Day jokes Google put up on Sunday was a partnership with NASCAR and entering their own self-driving car. Now everyone knew that Google HAD a self-driving car (and if you drive in the Bay Area, you may have even been next to it.) Well apparently, they thought enough of this one to actually make a more commercial version a
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Light emitting diodes (LEDs) are pretty efficient compared to most other lighting options. But here's a new one: Researchers have developed one with an efficiency of over 200%. The bad news: To even see them you would literally need eleventy kabillion of them since they operate at the scale of trillionths of watts
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Imagine the Manhattan street grid took over the world.Gotham-phile geocachers and assorted other place-nerds, now you can give your location relative to the Manhattan grid. For instance, I'm at S 507th St and 15441st Avenue (it gets worse, a point in northern Uzbekistan features all the avenues converging, a point off the coast of western
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Let them eat... frankly you don't wanna know. This is right up there with the food printer in terms of Just 'Cause You Can Don't Mean You Should. I've heard of recycling, but this is going way too far. Although one commenter notes that this could make for an almost-closed system for a long space flight.