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You fools, this is how the Matrix started!

bio fuel cell

Power from the people - BBC News

How Impressive </s>

Siri says some weird things - This is my next

Wake me when they have translator microbes

Google Translate app for Android now has speech-to-speech translations in 14 languages - This is my next

The Little Things

I was out running errands today, walking through the city. I remembered, a mile away from home, that a screw had fallen out of my wife's favorite eyeglasses over the weekend, and that she was waiting for me to fix them. Walking down a city street, I said, "Remind me to fix Amy's glasses when I get home."1 Half an hour later, within a few doors of our house, the reminder went off.

- John Gruber

iPhone 4S review - Daring Fireball

Overly Simplistic

Public sector unions rank as one of the most important obstacles to the improvement of public services from education to transit. And the Democrats are the party of the public-sector unions.

- David Frum

Why I am a Republican - FrumForum

The Zune is Dead

Microsoft confirms Zune HD is dead - This is my next

Recumbent

Woman in business suit riding an eltric recumbent three wheeled ebike

Scammers

What's going on here? The answer, surely, is that Wall Street's Masters of the Universe realize, deep down, how morally indefensible their position is. They're not John Galt; they're not even Steve Jobs. They're people who got rich by peddling complex financial schemes that, far from delivering clear benefits to the American people, helped push us into a crisis whose aftereffects continue to blight the lives of tens of millions of their fellow citizens.

- Paul Krugman

Panic of the Plutocrats – NYTimes.com

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple Computers and the only American in the country who had any clue what the fuck he was doing, died Wednesday at the age of 56.

via daringfireball.net

"Last American Who Knew What The Fuck He Was Doing Dies"

Last American Who Knew What The Fuck He Was Doing Dies - The Onion : America's Finest News Source