Ford has a new safety promotion they are doing called “Driving Skills for Life” – it’s kind of like an online driver’s ed. There is a course, and a quiz. Score 8 out of 10 on the quiz, and you get 10 free songs from iTunes. As a side note… on their rules page, I [...]
BYU is headed to the Las Vegas bowl on December 22nd. This is good news for all cougar fans that will be in the Vegas area. It might be good news for those of us around the country because it is going to be on ESPN. (There is still a good chance that ESPN will [...]
An Australian couple hired a Mitsubishi Lancer to travel across New Zealand recently, not realising its GPS was set to “*avoid all major roads” by the previous user. The couple were taken on a remarkable, and *extremely* dangerous route to their destination. Does this seem like a lot of fun for anyone else, or is [...]
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CNN has an article about a woman who simply couldn’t wait until she landed for a nicotine rush. Apparently she at least had the courtesy to “step outside” because she walked over to a door and stayed fiddling with it in an attempt to open it. A flight attendant stoped her and helped her back [...]
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Portuguese scientists said they had developed an experimental vaccine against tooth decay which was successful in laboratory tests on rats and could pave the way for a version that works for humans. What we found is that the animals which were vaccinated with this protein developed much smaller lesions than the control group which had [...]
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A great tool for finding colors that look good with other colors. You can even get the hex value, export, and create a color theme. It will even make an Adobe Illustrator file for you. Only drawback is that it doesn’t use PANTONE colors, so you still have some work to do if you like [...]
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If you are waiting to get a new computer for after the Intel drop – here’s one more reason to wait. Detailed specs are not available, but rumor has it that the iBook line may see a price drop by as much as $200 in some cases. (If only the iPod Shuffle could shift to [...]
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Mercedes likes to tout their new radar- assisted braking as the cutting-edge of car technology. They are so confident in this, that they arranged to do a demonstration on live TV. The scenario was this: 3 Mercedes S-class vehicles are driving in a line. First one brakes. The next two slam right into the back [...]
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