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Last weekend I went on a trip with my current girlfriend, we went and drove about 6 hours to her younger brother’s high school graduation. Her car doesn’t have a CD player or an input line for an mp3 player, so we were forced to resort to the radio for when we wanted to listen [...]

Lots of news from Yahoo in it’s efforts to fight off the takeover offer from Microsoft.

Yahoo announced they will go through a two week trial period outsourcing their search ads to Google
News Corp is in talks to join with Microsoft in it’s takeover offer for Yahoo
AOL and Yahoo are looking at joining their internet operations

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Trent Reznor, the front man for Nine Inch Nails, who has widely been acknowledged as one of the most important artists in the music industry. Trent Reznor has released a new multi-part album, Ghosts I-IV, with both a Creative Commons license and an innovative pricing scheme. The first 9 tracks are available as a free [...]

An issue that is near and dear to my heart is the discussion over being cheap or being frugal. This is brought on by all of these articles on the subject. To start with, what does the term cheap mean: of very low account or small cost, frugal on the other hand: economical in [...]

Cosmic Variance is a blog that discusses mostly physics related news and advances, noted an interesting study this morning. The study (PDF) examined the number of patents granted for sulfur-dioxide control technologies per year, noting at the points when major air control legislation listed. The graph can be quickly summed up by saying that [...]