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EPA’s Porous Pavement Cuts Down on Parking Lot Pollution

BY Ariel Schwartz Fri Oct 30, 2009 at 1:00 PM Parking lots have a nasty tendency to harbor all the oil, grease, and antifreeze that leak from vehicles. And after a heavy rain, all those substances mix together and take a trip to the closest porous surface–no matter whether it’s a storm drain, patch of soil, or a river. But the US Environmental Protection Fast Company EPA’s Porous Pavement Cuts Down on Parking Lot Pollution…

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Did Sinking Pirate Bay Cause More Piracy? And Does It Matter Anyway?

BY Kit Eaton Mon Nov 2, 2009 at 9:19 AM Pro-copyright activists celebrated while file-sharers cried at rulings on the Pirate Bay’s illegality, and the subsequent attempts to sink the site. But some new data suggests piracy sites tripled in the aftermath, which really doesn’t sound good. McAfee, which makes security software for PCs, has done some analysis Fast Company Did Sinking Pirate Bay Cause More Piracy? And Does It Matter Anyway?…

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A Better Contender in the Quest for Aggregation: Pip.io

A Better Contender in the Quest for Aggregation: Pip.io Ever since social media data started growing like bathroom flora, there have been aggregation tools to make managing your stuff easier. Some are limited in scope; , for example, pulls together just a few services, but does it well. Other services are more ambitious; is a kind of centralized inbox Fast Company A Better Contender in the Quest for Aggregation: Pip.io…

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German chancellor prods US on global warming

By Juliet Eilperin German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Congress and the Obama administration to take bold steps to address global warming Tuesday, even as Senate Democrats and Republicans feuded over whether to press ahead with their chamber’s version of a climate bill. Speaking at a joint session of Congress, Merkel described climate change as one Washington Post German chancellor prods US on global warming…

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12 of the World’s Coolest Packaging Designs

12 of the World’s Coolest Packaging Designs Copyright © 2009 Mansueto Ventures LLC. All rights reserved. Fast Company, 7 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007-2195 Fast Company 12 of the World’s Coolest Packaging Designs…

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Why Dilbert is doomed

By Michael Lind Where are tomorrow’s jobs going to come from? The question is more urgent than ever, with official unemployment hovering around 10 percent and with nearly one in five Americans unemployed, if you count part-time workers who want full-time jobs and people so desperate that they have given up looking for work entirely. Most popular discussion Salon Why Dilbert is doomed…

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This Slow Death Is Choking the Oceans

This Slow Death Is Choking the Oceans Find out about perilous threats to the marine food chain. Sign up to become a Wavemaker, an Oceana online activist. Become an active voice in our campaigns to stop habitat destruction, overfishing and pollution. Oceana’s Wavemakers have successfully persuaded companies to stop selling shark products in cosmetics, The Daily Green This Slow Death Is Choking the Oceans…

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Google Voice User? Get The Quick Reference Card

Google Voice User? Get The Quick Reference Card If you’re a Google Voice user like me, you’ll be glad to print out this quick reference card that gives you all the menu options when you call the service to listen to voicemail or change settings, or receive calls. For example, when you receive a call with Google Voice you can hear who’s calling TechCrunch Google Voice User? Get The Quick Reference Card…

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Best iPhone Augmented-Reality Apps for Business

Best iPhone Augmented-Reality Apps for Business , cyborgs could call up crucial information on an object or person in their field of sight simply by fixing their gaze on a subject. These days a technology called augmented reality is designed to help humans similarly call up virtual information and then impose it on a screen image of the real world. Business Week Best iPhone Augmented-Reality Apps for Business…

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Don’t Gloss Over Stalin’s Crimes, Medvedev Says

Mikhail Metzel/AP Russians lay flowers on the Solovky Stone monument as they gather to remember victims of Soviet-era political repression, on Lubyanka Square, Moscow, Friday. By ELLEN BARRY MOSCOW — Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev on Friday warned that Russians have lost their sense of horror over Stalin’s purges, and called for the construction New York Times Don’t Gloss Over Stalin’s Crimes, Medvedev Says…

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