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iPhone For Dummies: Includes iPhone 3GS

A full-color guide to the iPhone, including the new iPhone 3G S With its new 3G S model, the iPhone is definitely the must-have mobile device. This fully updated guide covers all the cool features of the fastest iPhone ever...
Filed under: NewsWhich high-profile celebrity couple is joining the Earth Hour party? Have you stockpiled your non-hybrid seeds for a crisis garden yet? Is your carbon footprint growing while you sleep? Today's Eco-Beat has the scoop on all the latest...
From: Green Daily | By: Josh Loposer | Friday, March 12, 2010
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A new solar charger promises to keep your iPhone juiced up at all times....
From: New York Times | By: ERIC A. TAUB | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Hearst's plan to create thousands of cheap, topic-centered iPhone apps has real potential to buoy its journalism....
From: The Atlantic | By: Niraj Chokshi | Friday, March 12, 2010
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How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint: 365 Simple Ways to Save Energy, Resources, and Money

How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint is the world citizen's guide to pushing back the advance of global warming. This colorful handbook offers 500 practical, easily achievable ideas that conserve energy, prevent pollution, and ...
In a legal settlement Thursday, the EPA agreed to help states test coastal waters for acidity, and to weigh whether to tighten rules on carbon emissions to address ocean acidification....
From: Christian Science Monitor | Friday, March 12, 2010
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(Photo: Joseph A. Garcia) Winter squash is actually grown from late summer through December and has a satisfying flavor, luscious texture and extensive shelf life. For locavores, who support sustainable agriculture by eating seasonal foods grown within...
From: Yahoo Green | By: Marie Oser | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Ocean acidification has been getting more attention in the last few months, but far less than is appropriate, in m opinion. After all, we’re messing with the chemistry of the waters that provide an enormous amount of food for human beings around the...
From: The Cost of Energy | By: Lou | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Careers in Renewable Energy: Get a Green Energy Job

Numerous job opportunities await in the fast-growing field of renewable energy. Grab this handy book and discover how green energy can be a part of your future. Job sectors include solar and wind energy, biofuels, hydrogen ene...
Image credit: Gearless I was quite excited the other day to learn about Robert Llewellyn's Gearless show in which he will be driving and reviewing a Mitsubishi MiEV over the course of an entire year. (Robert previously filmed a test drive of the MiEV...
From: TreeHugger | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Source: iStock Photo via American Chemical Society. Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor to NaturallySavvy.com's Naturally Green section. Alternative energy efforts received a bit of a boon this week from a study published...
From: TreeHugger | Friday, March 12, 2010
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By failing to tax the super-rich, we're burrowing even deeper into a billionaire bailout society in which the rich keep on gambling away our money, knowing that we will bail them out if they lose.
From: Huffington Post | By: Les Leopold | Friday, March 12, 2010
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The Art of Couture Sewing

The Art of Couture Sewing will be a practical guide to the fine construction practices usedin couture workrooms. Beginning with a brief history of couture, the book will providefully-illustrated instructions on constructing a ...
How do you rack up over 650,000 hits on YouTube in just a few hours for something that's essentially a ten-minute commercial? You'll need girls in prison. Lady Gaga. Beyonce. Mass murder. Oh, and sandwich-making. The music video for the power duet "Telephone"...
From: Salon.com | By: Mary Elizabeth Williams | Friday, March 12, 2010
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At this season's Junya Watanabe show, the hair took center stage. It was fluffed out and carved, holding itself out in geometric shapes like gravity-defying bonsais. The tents buzzed: Who was the Edward Scissorhands behind these looks? The magic man...
From: Allure | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Loehmann’s is expanding its Orange County presence in a big way. On Friday, it opened its fifth local store at Metro Pointe at South Coast in Costa Mesa. Its other stores are in Tustin, Huntington Beach, Laguna Niguel and Irvine. Loehmann’s is�...
From: Orange County Register | By: Hang Nguyen, retail reporter | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government

FUNNY.FRIGHTENING.TRUE.It happens to all of us: You're minding your own business, when some idiot informs you that guns are evil, the Prius will save the planet, or the rich have to finally start paying their fair share of tax...
Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos on Friday moderated a group of mostly liberal voices to sympathize with Democratic Congressman Patrick Kennedy and, at times, former Representative Eric Massa. Speaking of the politician who spent the week...
From: NewsBusters | By: Scott Whitlock | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Less than two weeks after Rush Limbaugh proposed eating "applesauce" as a solution for not being able to afford dentures due to lack of health insurance, Fox's Steve Doocy endorsed a veterinarian's idea to "fix" health care by "treat[ing] people like...
From: Media Matters | By: J.V.B. | Friday, March 12, 2010
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What an awesome week for all kinds of crazy. If aliens had landed on our planet, they would have watched as: the world’s most celebrated movie stars snored through a bizarre, seventeen-hour interpretive dance at the Oscars; Rep. Patrick Kennedy lost...
From: The Daily Caller | By: S.E. Cupp | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Subscribe to Wired Magazine

Wired readers want to know how technology is changing the world, and they’re interested in big, relevant ideas, even if those ideas challenge their assumptions -- or blow their minds.
In Iraq, insurgent networks had a motherlode of military-grade explosives for making roadside bombs. In Afghanistan, fertilizer bombs are the weapon of choice, making detection and interception a much greater challenge, according to the head of the Pentagon’s...
From: Wired | By: Nathan Hodge | Friday, March 12, 2010
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In the mid 1990s, a craze swept Japan and crested its way onto American shores: Kids were going crazy for the Tamagotchi, an egg-shaped digital pet. Every few hours, users would press a couple buttons to feed their Tamagotchi, play with it, or clean...
From: Wired | By: Thomas Goetz | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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The Cloak Bag is a camera bag that lets you take pictures whilst your camera is still inside. It also doesn’t look anything like a normal camera bag, making it doubly secure if you’re a vulnerable traveler on vacation. Like all the best niche products,...
From: Wired | By: Charlie Sorrel | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Read Huffington Post on the Kindle

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Lehman was so rotten at the top, so corrupt, so unwilling to tolerate dissension, and Dick Fuld and Joe Gregory so obsessed with clinging to their seats, that eventually, housing bubble or not, it would have failed.
From: Huffington Post | By: Vicky Ward | Friday, March 12, 2010
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The "collective display of pants-wetting" and politicization of terrorism by the Republicans are making America less safe. I wish the GOP would find its inner John Wayne.
From: Huffington Post | By: Mitchell Bard | Friday, March 12, 2010
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I've introduced H.R. 4789, the Public Option Act. This simple four-page bill lets any American buy into Medicare at cost. You want it, you pay for it, you're in. It adds nothing to the deficit; you pay what it costs.
From: Huffington Post | By: Rep. Alan Grayson | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Both sides in the health care debate have taken to the airwaves with new commercials intended to influence the outcome.
From: New York Times | By: KATHARINE Q. SEELYE | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Foreign Policy's recent photoessay offers readers a look at life on real Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams....
From: New York Times | By: FREAKONOMICS | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Diner's Journal is gathering readers' favorite bake-sale recipes (no homemade Doritos, please), and will post those judged to be the best.
From: New York Times | By: MARK BITTMAN | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Subscribe to Reason Magazine

Reason is edited for people interested in economic, social, and international issues. Viewpoint stresses individual liberty, private responsibility, and limited government.
Launching an optional war against the American health care system will sink the Democratic Party
From: Reason | By: Shikha Dalmia | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Scenes from the revolutionary takeover of Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat
From: Reason | By: Michael C. Moynihan | Friday, March 12, 2010
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In the capital of North Korea life is beautiful. The girls are beautiful. Even the traffic cops are beautiful. But Ms. Ro Yong Mi, who enjoys being a girl in the People’s Security Bureau's Traffic Control Corps, has too much Juche to hog all the credit....
From: Reason | By: Tim Cavanaugh | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Subscribe to OK! Magazine

OK! Magazine the home of celebrity news. Every week, OK! is packed with stories, the best photographs and the hottest stars from the world of showbiz.
There is so much potential for disaster in Our Family Wedding that you feel like you could light a match and the whole thing would blow up. For starters, the concept is a reworking of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner as a comedy. The last movie to try...
From: OK Magazine | By: Phil Villarreal | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Since Lindsay Lohan filed a lawsuit against E*Trade on Monday, the “milk-a-holic” baby case has been going sour. Lindsay’s lawyer, Stephanie Ovadia, believes the baby was definitely modeled after Lindsay. Stephanie explained to PopEater that critics...
From: OK Magazine | By: Nicole Eggenberger | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Now the cat is out of the bag about Miley Cyrus‘ romance with The Last Song co-star Liam Hemsworth, the teen star can’t stop talking about their “deep connection”. She rang into the Johnjay and Rich show on KIIS FM in Phoenix, Arizona on Thursday...
From: OK Magazine | By: Luisa Metcalfe | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Obama Loan Modification Program Languishes
From: Fox News | By: Ronald D. Orol | Friday, March 12, 2010
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S&P Hikes McKesson By One Notch To 'A-'
From: Fox News | By: Sue Chang | Friday, March 12, 2010
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President Obama is putting off his foreign trip for 3 days because of the health care bill. The president was expected to leave Thursday for the six-day tour that includes Guam and Australia. He has pushed his departure back until next Sunday. I do wonder...
From: Fox News | By: Greta Van Susteren | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Kroy Biermann is one of the best kept secrets in the NFL.  While he isn't the talk of water-coolers across the country just yet, he is poised to be one of this season's brightest NFL defensive stars.  Kroy was drafted as a defensive end in the fifth...
From: Bleacher Report | By: Gerald Laskowski | Friday, March 12, 2010
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This past week was my first real trip to Disney World. I went for a day and a half about five years ago but that trip was organized by someone else and I didn’t even realize Disney World wasn’t just ONE PARK until I walked into Magic Kingdom for...
From: Zoot | By: zoot | Friday, March 12, 2010
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George Mallory's camera may contain evidence of whether he and Andrew Irvine were the first to summit Everest.
From: Discovery Channel | By: Larry O'Hanlon | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Subscribe to Vanity Fair magazine

Smart, stylish, and voraciously interested in the world, Vanity Fair readers have an extraordinary ability to discern what is truly worth their time, attention, and money. It is essential for Vanity Fair readers to be conversant in a wide range of topics, and they pursue the knowledge of these subjects with an unusual intensity.
"I hoped Eric Massa would become a hard-working and principled dork in Washington," writes Barry Crimmins, a constituent and supporter of the Disgraced Former Congressman from upstate NY's 29th District. A "hard-working and principled dork"--that isn't...
From: Vanity Fair | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Circa 1945: A group of British soldiers enjoying a drink and a smoke in the army canteen. Photo from Fox Photos/Getty Images. Yesterday, the national security wizards over at Wired’s Danger Room pointed out that Senator Jim Webb, a Democrat and Vietnam...
From: Vanity Fair | Friday, March 12, 2010
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A view of Jackson Hole. By Tristan Greszko/courtesy of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. Dying to get out of your cubicle and hit the slopes for some spring skiing? Head to Jackson Hole, a sleepy ski town in northern Wyoming with an aura of the wild, untouchable...
From: Vanity Fair | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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WorldBytes, a charity that trains people to make their own journalism got sick and tired of British policemen, bureaucrats and officials telling them that they don't have the right to shoot motion pictures in public places. There's no law against making...
From: Boing Boing | By: Cory Doctorow | Friday, March 12, 2010
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(Today's post inspired by the ghost of Andy Rooney.) Don't we get to have our cheap movie clichés anymore? The well-shod feet walking away in the rain... the lonely figure in silhouette, illuminated by headlights at the mouth of a dark alley... the...
From: Boing Boing | By: Bill Barol | Friday, March 12, 2010
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These beautiful, fanciful miniature cities built into household objects like power-strips and desk-fans are part of the graduate show at the Kyoto University of Art and Design. The artist is uncredited, but it's very lovely work. Student Work | Kyoto...
From: Boing Boing | By: Cory Doctorow | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Subscribe to The Atlantic Magazine

Founded in 1857, The Atlantic is one of America's great thought leader magazines. It features ground-breaking articles on politics, social trends, education, literature and arts.
One of the repeated cri-de-coeurs about the various changes banks have been making in their credit…...
From: The Atlantic | By: Megan McArdle | Friday, March 12, 2010
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These big, smart computers -- they don't know as much as they think!...
From: The Atlantic | By: James Fallows | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Congressional Oversight Committee deeply disapproves of how the GMAC bailout was handled. I do too....
From: The Atlantic | By: Daniel Indiviglio | Friday, March 12, 2010
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