Dowbrigade

I like to play the market. Sometimes I play the Star, sometimes Stop ‘n Shop. I think of my technique as investing in a sort of Super Market Index Fund. My method is simple; I buy whichever of the major national brands is on sale that week. I figure I end up [...]

Microsoft has been selling the Xbox, a gaming box which includes a hard
drive, at $179 as a loss leader, making their profit on game sales.  Now
enterprising hackers have discovered how to convert the [...]

An Italian soldier of the 7th NBC (chemical, biological and nuclear
warfare) regiment inspects the ground around the White Horse barracks
where the Italian ground forces headquarters are located, in the outskirts
of the [...]

Bowing to pressure from school officials and students who would be denied diplomas, California yesterday delayed for two years implementation of the exit exam graduation requirement. Will other states follow suit?
“It needs to be an outright cancellation of the diploma penalty or a much longer moratorium to take care of racial and class inequities [...]

Word on the street is that dealers and users are bracing for a flood
of high-test hydroponic cannabis from our friendly northern neighbors.
The Canadian Government is supposedly already hard at work with the scales
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The University of Delaware’s new approach to preventing illegal file
sharing and minimizing the spread of computer viruses is a series of
television ads featuring the school’s mascot telling students about
the potential consequences [...]

Very cool exploration of the relationships inherent in meaning, image and lexicon. An exploration in language and learning, the Thesaurus is a visual representation of the English language. It creates constantly changing webs of related words and concepts.

Chuck Fehlis of San Antonio captured this image on his digital camera
shortly before 11 a.m. today. It shows a black ring that National Weather
Service officials first believed was a halo effect produced by the sun.
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