By now you have probably heard of hypermiling and the 50-90 mpg exploits of Wayne Gerdes. If you haven’t, hypermiling is a set of techniques and practices that seek to maximize a vehicle’s fuel efficiency through careful and calculated driving.
What this means to the average motorist is that you must alternate between driving like my [...]
Ten Ways to Save Money at the Pump
From the Sierra Club
Worried about the high cost of gas? You’ve got good reason. Gas prices look like they’re set to reach record levels.
The best way to avoid spending more on gas than you need to? Keep all of these tips in mind:
1. Drive Smart! When you [...]
On Thursday, 02.07.08, I ordered a Pentax K10D kit from Broadway Photo’s Online Store. On Friday, I got a call from one of their reps who: (1) Tried to tell me the camera came with no accessories, and get me to upgrade about $300 to the “full kit;” (2) Told me that the camera did [...]
A thousand souls populate McMurdo during the Austral summer fromNovember to February – not just scientists, but also pilots, plumbers,burger flippers, and everyone else needed to keep a small city ticking.Down here, even a job like plumbing can transform into a survival epicin the blink of an eye. Just a few days before our mid-November [...]
Pregnant Marine Cpl. Maria Lauterbach was believed to have been killed by a crowbar blow to the head, a federal law enforcement official involved in the case tells the Blotter on ABCNews.com.
ABC News: Official: Marine Killed by Crowbar, Baby Was a Girl
I’m still against capital punishment, but I’m thinking maybe tattoo “Killed Pregnant Woman With Crowbar” [...]
Steve Bass has been covering the Consumer Electronics Show, and brings us the following, courtesy of Liquid Image.
For those who have fumbled with a Nikonos — especially a Nikonos I — the only possible thought would be “If only…” Among other things, with a 2 GB MicroSD card and good batteries, you could have [...]
I received this email today. Every link on the page except for the link to view the card is a genuine link to the Hallmark site. The viewing link is to an executable file. I didn’t take it any farther than that. You may also notice that “recieved” is misspelled twice. [...]
The search engine company has developed a series of translation bots for its Google Talk application, which translate conversations in real time.
The service includes 24 translation bots, converting between languages such as English, French, German, Korean, Japanese and Chinese.
Google learns to speak your language
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke listed three wishes on his 90th birthday: for the world to embrace cleaner energy resources, for a lasting peace in his adopted home, Sri Lanka, and for evidence of extraterrestrial beings.SPACE.com — Sci-Fi Author Sir Arthur C. Clarke Lists 90th Birthday Wishes
This is the Martha Stewart of travel – she can make you feel like a real lummox for arriving at your final destination with fold-marks in your clothes, for that last-minute shoe panic on the way out the door, for not having the sense to pack a toothbrush and underwear in your carry-on in spite [...]
Kung fu master Shi Dechao can swing his 22-pound “monk’s spade,” an ancient Chinese shovel, like a majorette twirling a baton. His lightning punches, in a style the ancients called Iron Fist, generate a thunk! straight out of kung fu movie sound effects. A powerful grunt punctuates his routine.
But Dechao, and most of the other [...]
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3. Police and Firefighter Charities
2. The Email Charity Scam
1. The Donate A Car Deal
Four Charity Scams to Avoid
Humans have been around for quite a while. Even if you accept Bishop Usher’s figure of 6010 years ago (as of October 22nd) for the date of Creation, there have been 300 generations of us. If you prefer evolution, the figure expands to at least 7,500 generations in the case of Homo sapiens, and much [...]
The moon will arrive at last quarter phase on Saturday, Dec. 1 at 7:44 a.m. EST, when its disk will be exactly 50 percent illuminated. How does it brightness compare at that moment with when it’s full?
Most would believe it’s half as bright, but in reality astronomers tell us that the last quarter moon is [...]
This 359-seat Airbus 380-600, ready for delivery to Etihad, the National Airline of the United Arab Emirates, was undergoing final static tests of its four 56,000 lb. thrust engines when something went very wrong. Etihad will be waiting for the first of its six $319.2 million 380s for just a bit longer.
This is probably the [...]
For all the low-energy-use virtues of compact florescent lightbulbs (CFLs), few of them match the streamlined elegance of the classic Edison lightbulb. And yes, this makes a difference — not only to getting people to make the switch (ha!) to CFLs, but because there’s just no reason they need to be ugly.
Enter design company Hulger [...]
The language of science, like that of the United Nations, is by nature cautious and measured. That makes the dire tone of the just-released final report from the fourth assessment of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a network of thousands of international scientists, all the more striking. Global warming is “unequivocal.” Climate [...]
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