Daily Archives: July 28, 2003

Christopher Lydon: The Nature of Sound

Can sound be usefully incorporated into the blogging format? That is the question being explored by Christopher Lydon, eminent radio personality, in his blog, appropriately called Christopher Lydon. The blog consists largely of annotated streaming oral interviews with such blogging … Continue reading

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Million Dollar Robot Race

Teams are preparing for the DARPA Desert Challenge, a robot race with a milliondollar prize. Put simply, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) will give $1 million to the team whose robotic car drives itself the fastest from Los … Continue reading

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Flasher’s Rig Recognized in Sharon

WALPOLE — A North Carolina trucker charged with exposing himself to three Walpole 9-year-old girls in a local Stop & Shop Saturday was arrested at a Sharon motel yesterday after a police officer recognized his rig. The store’s surveillance video … Continue reading

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Experts Urge Strong Education Not Trade Barriers

The New York Times technology section has an article which argues that we should not try to stop the exodus of manufacturing jobs overseas. It makes the argument that this movement makes US businesses more profitable at home. Rather, we … Continue reading

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US Firm to Buy Soyuz for Tourism

MOSCOW (AFP) – US firm Space Adventures is interested in buying a Russian Soyuz space craft to make tourist flights to the International Space Station, ITAR-TASS said Saturday. The Arlington, Virgina-based firm brokered the first two tourist space flights in … Continue reading

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8 Questions that Freak Men Out

See how many of the eight you can guess before reading the article.  Hint: "Was that your thing?" is not on the list. from Netscape

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