Do Solar Energy Pods Rock You?

F. G. Fitzer 6/8/2011
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Solar panels on the top feed into lights inside the Soft Rocker that can be turned on at night to allow for outside evening reading. The Soft Rockers also have a power port that can be used to charge small electronic devices through USB ports.

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Hot or Not: Where’s interest in 2012 Republican Presidential Contenders Highest?

Jim Cook 6/5/2011
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Hot or not? Introduced quietly last month to little fanfare, Google Correlate is a service that allows anybody to track variation in the volume of any frequent Google search across the 50 states of the USA (plus the District of …

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The 3 Ways Americans Elect Could Improve Politics (and the 3 Ways it Could Go Wrong)

Jim Cook 6/2/2011
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The summer is an empty stage. With Congress and the President going on extended vacations, with students away from campus and student activism on hold, there is a vacuum of traditional political news during the summer months, a vacuum that …

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USA: Hack our Computers and We’ll Kill You

Jim Cook 6/1/2011
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That’s what the upcoming Pentagon policy document on cyber-war boils down to. When a person messes with U.S. government computers, that could be considered an “act of war,” with the weapons of war to be rained down upon that person …

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The Military Millipede Puts Another Step on American Soil

Jim Cook 5/26/2011
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To prevent the emergence of a national security state, the United States military has been prevented from interfering with civilian domestic affairs through a number of laws ranging from the Third Amendment to the Constitution to the the Posse Comitatus …

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Promises For Patriot Act Hearings Are Going Dark

jclifford 2/21/2011
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So far, the Subcommittee on Crime Terrorism and Homeland Security doesn’t seem inclined to keep David Dreier’s promise of a hearing of Americans’ grievances about the Patriot Act’s Big Brother system of spying set up against them. Instead, it is working to promote the FBI’s Going Dark program to expand electronic surveillance by the government.

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Following Google, Irregular Times Announces the Launch of Its Very Own App Store

Jim Cook 2/11/2011
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Yesterday, I was invited to visit the new App Store for the Google Chrome browser. An App Store for the Chrome browser? Could it be that Google is catching up to Apple in the App Wars? Is this a new …

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China’s Kindle Not Frustration Free

F. G. Fitzer 12/23/2010
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Cutting costs by manufacturing the Kindle in China instead of in the United States provided the profit margin necessary to design the box for the Kindle certified Frustration Free.

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Kindle A Conspiracy

F. G. Fitzer 12/21/2010
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Is the microphone on the Kindle used to make it a listening device for the government?

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What Can A Kindle Do?

F. G. Fitzer 12/21/2010
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An eReader, like a Kindle, is designed to get me to spend more money. An old fashioned paper book sure can’t do that for me.

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LCD Boogie Board Vs. Magic Slate: The March of Progress

Jim Cook 12/2/2010
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Boogie board: $39.95 from Brookstone: LCD Boogie Board™ lets you make lists, draw doodles, jot down thoughts—all without paper or pencil. Amazing LCD tablet lets you write on it with the included stylus, or even your fingernail. Without wasting paper …

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Watching A New Mars Rover

Peregrin Wood 12/1/2010
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A new camera feed allows you to watch as the people at NASA work at testing and fixing a one-ton rover named Curiosity, which will be launched on a journey to the Red Planet about one year from now.

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Important Windows Update: Microsoft Invades Your Privacy With a Bing Bar

Jim Cook 10/22/2010
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If you use a computer running Microsoft Windows and you’re like me, you might just click “OK” when you’re presented with software updates to install. Those updates come in fast and furious, and with so many viruses and worms out …

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Lego League The Successor To BASIC Education?

jclifford 9/11/2010
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Unlike archaic, top-down groups like the Boy Scouts, the First LEGO League is co-ed, and doesn’t discriminate against children on the basis of things like religion or sexual orientation.

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Was The Video Camera Worth It?

Rowan 8/31/2010
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113 years ago today, Thomas Edison patented a movie camera. In theaters today, we have Piranha 3D. The most popular video on YouTube is I MARRIED MY SISTER! by SHAYTARDS. Was the invention worth it?

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1975 Utopia Never Came

Truman 8/23/2010
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We’re walking forward into a future with a 100% chance of extraordinary heat, still wearing the grey flannel suits of the 1950s.

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Walk And Blow Your Way To Cleaner Energy

The Green Man 8/17/2010
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Two devices that take power from the movement we already see all around us.

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Why, Anyone can write an iPhone App … for $700 + $99 a year

Jim Cook 7/14/2010
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As Irregular Times has been gathering and sharing a greater depth and breadth of information on the U.S. Congress lately, the possibility of sharing that information over more than one platform has occurred to me. There are a lot of …

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