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Canadian Cannabis Car 120

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday August 24, 2010 @10:35AM from the Cheech-and-Chong-already-did-it dept.

sykobabul writes "The CBC is reporting: 'An electric car made of hemp is being developed by a group of Canadian companies in collaboration with an Alberta Crown corporation. The Kestrel will be prototyped and tested later in August by Calgary-based Motive Industries Inc., a vehicle development firm focused on advanced materials and technologies, the company announced.' Leave it to us Canadians to come up with all sorts of uses for cannabis."

US Government Caught Manipulating Wikipedia 471

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday December 12, 2007 @12:37PM from the your-tax-dollars-at-work dept.

surfi writes "As The Inquirer points out, someone with a House of Representatives IP address has been feeding propaganda into the 'invasion of Iraq' article on Wikipedia." Well at least they are in good company with trustworthy institutions like the CIA and the Vatican.

Submission + - Mission-critical hospital systems on Linux (computerworld.com)

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jcatcw

on Wednesday December 12, 2007 @10:09AM

jcatcw writes: "Health care software vendor McKesson Provider Technologies is focusing on ways to cut IT costs for customers, including hospitals and medical offices. The cure is moving many of McKesson's medical software applications to Linux, which can then be used on less expensive commodity hardware instead of expensive mainframes. A deal with Red Hat allows McKesson to offer its software in a top-to-bottom package for mission-critical hospital IT systems."

Comment Ask Garry Kasparov (Score 1) 406

by rockandrolldoctor on Friday December 07, 2007 @09:58PM (#21620451) Attached to: Graph Shows Fraud in Russian Elections

Kasparov has been involved actively in Russian politics, granted from the vocal minority since 2005. He brought together an opposition coalition in early 2007. Some of Russians opposition views can be read here.

There is much more than fraud in Russian politics.

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