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TechRepublic 's adopted me as a digi-pundit, complete with ugly masthead pic. ROFL away. OMG IF U CN RD THS U R BSTD Milan make me buy more, me like Microsoft’s Milan? Does Palm see the Vision Thing? Let’s see with the Foleo. $100 laptop debuts in Uruguay. Can you hear me now (from 5.5 miles high)? AdSense ad-heavy sites swept away in Google late spring cleaning. Anti-spyware bill sent to Senate, passes House. Diamonds: Girl’s best friend / Evidence of global cooling? Information wants to be free, including air ticket prices. Motorola mobiles send Linux handsets stateside Quicker Quicken profits. Another strike against DRM: Amazon weighs in for better digital downloads.

For the cost of the long distance call (a portion of which, by agreement, custom and law goes to the terminating phone company), this itty bitty Iowa telco gives you free conference calling . Calls can be arranged either ad hoc , or pre-booked over the web , at no charge to you. This turns cellular companies and long distance carriers, upset at losing their slide of a very lucrative market (profit margins of 29,000% are not unheard of among phone comanies for specific services) into psychopathically rapid wolverines, and the attack lawyers are circling, only their fins showing above water . Of course, you know what to do if you calls are blocked; change long distance companies. This website gives you the information you need to make an informed choice about long distance resellers .

The virtual economy is growing apace. Now, there's a VISA card for World of Warcraft : Priceless.

Here the Register interviews two smart lads who are ready to take over every Windows Vista machine their software touches . Hmm.

Bake coal w/ waste heat from a nuke plant, get Carbon Monoxide AKA ' coal gas '. Sequester the radon, other radioactive nasties and heavy metals found in coal (which is why people die of cancer downwind of coal plants, and why coal kills many times more folks than nuclear power). Add more Hydrogen, electrolized from water with nuclear power (the oxygen gets liquidized, and goes to hospitals or industrial processes). Voila! Low sulfur diesel fuel, and jet fuel , using a plant designed by a Vancouver WA company . Can you say, "Energy Independence?" With a two hundred year worldwide coal reserve , we have some time to think about the next step in energy , which is what Japan is now planning to test .

It's over at Operation Dice Drop now.

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