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Sunday, April 30, 2006

Engineers Unveil Futuristic Unmanned 'Crusher' Vehicle(Pics)

Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) is unveiling a unique ground vehicle that offers new strength, mobility and autonomy features for the Army's effort to keep its troops out of harm's way. It can climb over 4ft. steps on it's own, just one of many things the unmanned vehicle can do.

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The Counterattack On Google

"How Yahoo and MSN are scrambling to slow its search-ad juggernaut"

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Typed too fast? Google profits from your typo.

How Google makes money from your mistakes.

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Gas Too Pricey? Make Your Own

By filling 15 percent of your car's gas tank with ethanol, you can bring down the price-per-gallon from $3 to about $2.40... Of course, if you don't add the ingredient that makes ethanol unfit for human consumption, you would find yourself with something else: 190 proof moonshine.

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Firefox Extension - Download videos from Youtube and other 60 sites !

VideoDownloader add a small icon on the status bar. Just click that and download the video you are watching ! Download videos from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, Dailymotion... and other 60+ video sites ! AND all embedded objects on any webpage (movies, mp3s, flash, quicktime, etc) ! Directly ! Example: http://videodownloader.net/help/vd04.htm

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National Weather Service puts out RSS

The National Weather Service has an RSS feed that you can add to your reader to get watches/warnings relayed right to your computer (feed reader).

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