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A New Place for Solar Energy: Highway Right of Way
Right of way highway solar could be a solution to our nation’s energy needs and could also reduce costs to manage these right of ways. Another benefit would be to help wildlife managers create wildlife corridors for both human and wildlife safety.

Avoid Downloading Fake Torrents and Spam with Vertor
With millions of potential targets, BitTorrent sites are a great arena for scammers and spammers. Vertor is a new BitTorrent site that aims to eliminate these threats.

iFart app for the iPhone nets developer $40,000 in 2 days
iFart is now the most popular application for the iPhone, and over Christmas Eve and Christmas day, more than 58,000 people downloaded it, netting the developer over $40,000 in just 2 days.

Smartphones drive mobile markets
The last 12 months has seen the launch of iconic devices such as the iPhone 3G, Google G1, Blackberry Storm and Nokia N97.

The 12 Most Embarrassing Photos of 2008
And here we are, making it worse!

2009: Netbook or notebook?
Will the Netbook eventually kill the pricey ultraportable?

Tampa Bay Handcuffs & Ejects You for Rooting for Away Team
Steve flew down to Tampa to watch his Raiders play the Buccaneers. After cheering for the away team, he was handcuffed, detained, frisked, and ejected with no explanation. He’d like one.

Honeybees can get hooked on cocaine
Unlike most insects, bees are drawn to the coca plant chemical — they become addicted, and suffer withdrawal symptoms when deprived of it, a study finds.

History? Wizards beat Thunder in NBA’s “Worst Match-up EVER”
The Thunder entered with an NBA-worst 3-27 record, with the Wizards at 4-23. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, there had never been an NBA game matching teams with individually lower winning percentages.

First look: Linux kernel 2.6.28 officially released
Version 2.6.28 of the Linux kernel has officially been released. Ars takes a look at some of the new features, including the ext4 filesystem and the new GEM GPU memory manager.

NGC 1569: Starburst in a Dwarf Irregular Galaxy
Grand spiral galaxies often seem to get all the glory, flaunting their young, bright, blue star clusters in beautiful, symmetric spiral arms. But small, irregular galaxies form stars too. In fact, as pictured here, dwarf galaxy NGC 1569 is apparently undergoing a burst of star forming activity, thought to have begun over 25 million years ago.

Adam West on the ‘Batman’ Set in 1966 (PIC)
A robed Adam West holds a pen and looks over the script of the latest episode of Batman while on the set. Photographed in 1966 by Yale Jones.

Last week we asked you where you found wallpaper to customize multiple monitor setups. Most popular by a landslide, was Mandolux. The site has an extremely simple design, lacking even a search function. The newest wallpaper is displayed on the main page, all previous ones are available on the archive pages.

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Imagination Technologies has posted a series of job openings for OpenCL engineers, indicating that the open, general purpose GPU parallelism technology Apple spearheaded for use in Mac OS X Snow Leopard is destined to also play a significant role in boosting embedded graphics and video acceleration on the company’s future handheld products.

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Take a look at what type of gifts the players haul in from their respective bowl games.

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Great idea, lets kick a flaming basketball soaked in gasoline and see what happens….

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The Internet can prove complex to some, especially copyright holders. Recently, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) notified the webhosting company of a BitTorrent tracker dedicated to Open Source Software, that it was infringing copyright of one of their clients.

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Steven Wevodau

Fast-food and table-service meals at restaurants are both larger and have more calories than meals prepared at home, U.S. researchers have learned.

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The search giant’s product for customers’ in-house search now can translate search queries. It’s an experimental option for now.

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When an expansion team enters a league or an existing team relocates, it picks a new moniker, ideally one that will look good on a t-shirt. The process of selecting a new name can be a protracted one, though, and the winning nickname often only gets the nod at the expense of several other less-inspired finalists.

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As George W. Bush prepares to leave office, he and his staff appear to be attempting to rewrite history to cast him in a more favorable light — but it seems that history may have the last laugh. (Video)

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Court declares part of the Patriot Act ‘unconstitutional’
A federal appeals court ruling late Monday is the cause célèbre of the American Civil Liberties Union, as another provision of the Bush administration’s Patriot Act falls to the judicial system.