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Denver Airport Overrun by Car-Eating Rabbits 278

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 14, 2010 @12:14PM from the night-of-the-lepus dept.

It turns out the soy-based wire covering on cars built after 2002 is irresistible to rodents. Nobody knows this better than those unlucky enough to park at DIA's Pikes Peak lot. The rabbits surrounding the area have been using the lot as an all-you-can-eat wiring buffet. Looks like it's time to break out The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

Google Apps Deciphered 91

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 25, 2009 @02:47PM from the read-all-about-it dept.

Lorin Ricker writes "Computing in the Cloud — Free Apps — Outsource It! Yippee! Automation TCO nirvana at last! You can hear the non-technical managers and home-users unite in grateful song and dance! If we can just offload our office applications and data to the Cloud Known As Google, that apparently bottomless source of storage, search and now other useful capabilities, our office automation problems will be solved! Hooray! 'Well, just y'all hold up there a minit, lil' cowboy. Thar's a few thangs y'all oughta know 'bout afore ya go rushin' off...' If John Wayne didn't say exactly that, well, he should'a." Keep reading for the rest of Lorin's review.

Obama's "ZuneGate" 608

Posted by kdawson on Sunday December 07, 2008 @06:17AM from the et-tu-barack dept.

theodp writes "Barack Obama supporters were left shaking their heads after a report surfaced that the president-elect was using a Zune at the gym instead of an iPod. So why would Mac-user Obama be Zune-ing out? Could be one of those special-edition preloaded Zunes that Microsoft bestowed on Democratic National Convention attendees, suggests TechFlash, nixing the idea that the soon-to-be Leader of the Free World would waste time loading Parallels or Boot Camp in OS X just to use a Zune."

Comment short story collections! (Score 1) 1419

by iirving on Wednesday July 09, 2008 @09:14AM (#24115765) Attached to: Sci-Fi Books For Pre-Teens?

I would consider (and have given to my nephews and nieces) short story collections. Short enough for them to work with but very rewarding. In particular Clarke, Asimov, Niven. For Heinlein I would stick to early Heinlein (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinlein_juveniles ), say : "Rocket Ship Galileo", "Farmer in the Sky" ,"The Rolling Stones".

I would also consider various short story collections. The great advantage is that if some of them don't resonate with one or more of your kids then next one will.

One new book worth looking at is Cory Doctorow's Little Brother http://craphound.com/littlebrother/about/

Also : with respect to some stories being "darker and more political". As long as they are also reading stories with a different messages / vibes then they will not even notice.

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