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Madoff's tough spell

Much has been said about Bernard Madoff's 150 year prison sentence. The Los Angeles Times points out the obvious : his sentence is a lot shorter than what was handed out to the likes of Denis Kozlowski (8 to 25 years), Bernie Ebbers (25 years) and Jeff Skilling 24 years and 4 months). Mado...

Keep Your Computer Clean & Make Better Digital Photographs

I'm not talking about cleaning your computer monitor's screen, so you can discern colors and detail better, although that helps too. What I'm referring to is cleaning your computer's memory so it will operate quicker and more efficiently. The reason for this is simple. When you...

MGB-GT, Yours for Just $20 in Museum Charity Raffle

It isn't often that I participate in so-called "lucky draws," especially those where the first prize is a brand-new million dollar+ home. What would I, a bachelor of considerable years, do in an 8-room house, anyway? I could barely afford the taxes let alone the services of a cleani...

Hope Cleaning Services creates sustainable jobs in San Antonio

Social Entrepreneur is an individual who identifies an environmental or social problem in society and creates a venture that will direct its goals to improve society and the environment. A business entrepreneur creates a business that will generate profit; a social entrepreneur produces a company th...

Integrated Pest Management More Effective in Reducing Conckroach Allergens in Schools

© Sarah Camp According to a study comparing different schools, integrated pest management is a much better strategy in controlling cockroach infestations and reducing the levels of cockroach allergens in the area. Here's an excerpt from the abstract of the study published in the Journal of...

Bacteria with Multiple Antibiotic Resistance in Waste Treatment Plants

© DefMo Researchers have discovered increasing populations of bacteria with multiple resistance to antibiotics in waste water treatment plants. They found the so-called superbugs-bacteria resistant to multiple antibiotics-up to 100 yards downstream from the discharge point into the Huron River....

IT-740 Staff Badge: World’s thinnest hybrid active RFID Tag

Ladies and gentlemen, presenting to you the world's thinnest hybrid active RFID tag - the IT-740 Staff Badge . This RFID Badge is so thin that it's almost impossible to differentiate it from a standard employee badge. Despite being thin Staff Badge is high on battery life and certainty...

Improving Indoor Air Quality

© gonzomama As a segue to my previous post on indoor air quality , here are some tips from Dr. Neil Schachter to give your home a healthier boost: 1. Avoid cleaning products with ammonia and chlorine -Some household chemicals may be irritants to the respiratory tract in people who are sens...

Indoor Air Pollution

© michael gallacher When you hear the words "air pollution", do you think also in context of indoor air pollution? If you are less concerned about indoor air quality, you belong to the majority. Unfortunately, the fact is that the indoor levels of some pollutants may be two to five ...

What's the State of Your Air?

The American Lung Association (ALA) has just released the State of the Air 2009 report card on air quality, ranking cities most affected by outdoor air pollution. Click here to see where your city ranks in outdoor particle pollution. While improving outdoor air quality is important, indoo...

NeedleSight: We want you safe

© ZaldyImg This RFID project has already won the people's choice award at the annual trade show of University of Victoria in Canada. Dubbed as NeedleSight , this RFID based solution which is the brainchild of MBA students at University of Victoria in Canada will help in identifying a...

Free Bamboo Plants and Air Filters

© mutednarayan As you may know, people with diabetes suffer from diminished lung capacity. According to research published in the April 2008 issue of Diabetes Care - a journal published by the American Diabetes Association - the lungs of people with type 2 diabetes deteriorate more quickly tha...

More People Allergic to Fragrance Ingredient in Soaps

According to a new Swedish study, more people turns out to be allergic to the by-product of a fragrance compound used in soaps and shampoos. "I would suspect that about 2% of the complete population of Sweden are allergic to air oxidized linalool . That may not sound very much, but it i...

Grill Daddy Pro

Love to grill, but hate The clean-up? Then you probably are in the market for Grill Daddy and Grill Daddy Pro . The first grill cleaning tool of its kind, perfectly sleek and ultra lightweight, eco-friendly and made to last, The Grill Daddy and Grill Daddy Pro are specifically designed to...

WagerLog: Track Your Gambling Stats

• WagerLog: Track Your Gambling Stats • The unrecognizable Internet of 1996. • Connected Life Head Marco Boerries to Leave Yahoo • Hulu 成名后的尴尬：与 CBS 等合作伙伴撕破脸皮 • Gmail phishing attack hits on heels of outage • New in Labs: Browser title bar tweaks • Easy-CV.com | my online resume • Flo...

Klean Kanteen Stainless Steel Sippy Bottles and Kanteens

As a segues on my previous post on BPA-free baby bottles , here's a BPA-free drinking flask for toddlers and older kids on the go: the Klean Kanteen . I especially love their little version that comes with an adapter to fit Avent sippy cup spouts. They're as safe as glass bottles, ...

More Tips On Saving Money On Your Food Bills

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 3000673 One thing that a lot of us love to do more than about anything is to eat. We love to eat and we love to eat a lot. It's definitely easier, too, to walk into a fast food restaurant and let them do all the cooking and cleaning - we just eat it a...

Floppy Disk is Actually Stealth CD-R

So, I was cleaning out an an old desk drawer the other day when I pulled out a floppy disk. My son picked it up and asked me what it was, and so I explained it to him. He looked at me, looked at the disk, and then peered at the iMac sitting on my desk and asked me where to stick it. I felt old....

Prevent Poisonings this Holiday Season

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 7514436 Hosting a Christmas party or dinner? Aside from planning the menu and program, make sure to make precautions against food poisoning and other mishaps. AAPCC Board Member Edward Krenzelok, PharmD, director of the Pittsburgh Poison Center and Drug...

Cleaning Up Amsterdam...

If you're planning a trip to Amsterdam in the near future for some partying and general debauchery, you should know that the Dutch government has decided to clean the city up. The Associated Press is among news sources reporting that the brothels, sex shops, and marijuana cafe's in the cen...

Behind the $1 salary

Chastened by the public uproar, the chief executives of the Big Three automakers have pledged to earn $1 A year in salary to keep their companies in business. It's a good symbol designed to generate maximum publicity, but it's just that. In real life, it's not that big a sacrific...

University of Zurich Develops Uniquely Water-Resistant Fabric

The University of Zurich's Stefan Seeger this week announced the development of uniquely water-repellent nanotech fabric. "By coating polyester fibers with millions of tiny silicone filaments, the fabric is made so hydrophobic that you could literally put your jacket into a bucket...

Create a Thanksgiving craft to keep

With Thanksgiving rolling around, you've probably got kids underfoot and hyper. Here is a cute idea - make custom Thanksgiving placemats. Supplies: Laminating sheet. (You can get packs of 10 laminating sheets that don't require a machine at any craft or office supply store but we finally bo...

Man Bag Search Begins

As an Editor that enjoys writing about accessories I love looking high and low for great accessories. With daily posts, I feel that I touch on various areas until one day I saw my boyfriend hard at work. Now if you are not aware he is the Food Editor of my other blog, Kitten Lounge . It was ...

Some Tips For The Flu Season

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 6186051 With influenza season beginning Wednesday, there is no time like the present to take precautions against colds and flu. School-age children are most likely to get infected with flu and to spread it, recent studies have found. We know that in th...

Xerox Takes Major Step Forward in Cleaning up My Office

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Viorika Prikhodko Cleaning and de-cluttering my desk was probably certainly not drove Xerox and their research and development on their new paper concept, but it will certainly be the result. Xerox has been developed, for tech demo purposes, erasable paper. Do...

GOOD CLEAN FUN: Tips to Keep Kids Healthy

The following I got in the mail, sent by Alexis Black of Current. I would like to lift the whole mail out here as it is too timely and contains some wonderful tips for us parents in lieu of the coming cold and flu season: Cold & Flu Season is rapidly approaching and instead of being fea...

What is "Mlearning"?

4541146 Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Vasiliki Varvaki This year, there's been a bit of talk about "Mlearning." What is it? And how does it affect online students? Training Zone reports: "Mlearning involves delivering blended learning and elearning material via mobile de...

US auto makers ask for a bailout

You really have to worry when big corporations go to the Government and ask to be put on welfare! Last week, I did a blog entry looking at how General Motors was asking for a moratorium on crash testing. Now we have news reports that they are now begging Washington for $50 billion in loans ...

Freecycle

Welcome! The Freecycle Network™ is made up of 4,583 groups with 5,698,000 members across the globe. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. ...

Air Scrubbing Bricks Hope to Clean the Air

© Ahron de Leeuw China is busting pollution down for the Olympics in all sorts of wildly technological ways, but they are not the only ones. Researchers from the University of Twente have combined concrete, science, and a bit of previous Japanese technology to create concrete bricks that ca...

Dementia and the Single Life

As if single folks don't have enough to think about these days, a new study suggests that the unmarried way of life may increase your risk of dementia. Apparently the interaction you get on a daily basis when you live with a mate (arguing over cleaning, talking about your weekend, dec...

More waste and fraud in Iraq

The office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction has put out a damning report on the $900 million construction project awarded to Parsons corporation for work done, or more to the point not done, in Iraq. The report found that $142 million, or almost 43% of the contract...

Have Fun Mopping Your Floors

If the roomba isn't for you, then maybe this mop is. The RC Floor Sweeper is essentially a dust mop attached to the front of a remote control RC car. The car can be operated by remote from your sofa, and will clean your floors in the process. It's not exactly the most efficient w...

Maritz Goes to VMWare

Former Microsoft exec Paul Maritz has replaced company co-founder Diane Greene as CEO of VMWare in a move which coincides with a warning of lower expected revenue forecasts for 2008. While VMWare has been handily cleaning up in the virtualization sector, renewed competition from Microsoft and growi...

The clothes washing lounge chair

No matter what color or size they are, washing machines typically are just not very attractive to look at. This washing machine concept takes your traditional washing machine and turns it into a lounge chair. While cool in concept, I can't imagine how this would be to sit on while it ...

Clueless about XBRL

Last month, I did a blog entry looking at how accountants were not ready for Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) which is supposed to make it easier for investors to analyze financial data. It seems they're not on their own. According to a new survey from Compliance Week, report...

Nikon 公布 D700 D-SLR，售价 2999.95 美元

前两天不少地方还在争论 Nikon D700 传言的可信性，今天 Nikon 官方就正式公布了 Nikon D700 D-SLR，预计售价 2999.95 美元。以下是官方新闻稿、参数表以及部分产品图片： THE AGILE NEW NIKON D700 FX-FORMAT D-SLR CAMERA DELIVERS PERFORMANCE INSPIRED BY THE NIKON D3 IN A SMALLER, LIGHTER DESIGN Nikon's Second FX-Format Camera Delivers Peak Pro Performance i...

PacMan Roomba

I've always been a huge fan of the Roomba (and a huge non-suporter of that whole cleaning thing). One Roomba lover has managed to pimp their Roomba out in true geek form with 448 LED's to turn it into a Pacman like vacuum cleaner. Pretty cool stuff. This is really the first Roomba...

Salmonella and Tomatoes

© Rainan117 So I'm at Houlihans the other night, and I try to order a bruschetta, only to find out items made with fresh tomatoes have been pulled form the menu. Last year it was the E. coli-spinach issue. Before that we had the mad cow disease problem. Well, today it's tomatoes. And...

Cleaning Up With The Laundress

My Sunday routine involves a few hours of cleaning and straightening up around the house, followed by copious amounts of lounging. This morning, I handwashed a few of my womanly (ahem!) underpinnings in the Delicate Wash from luxe, New York-based laundry company, The Laundress . The Laundr...

BestBuy Cleaning-up E-Waste it Helped Create

© bovinity Best Buy recently announced their plans to test a program that will allows consumers a convenient and free way to discard of millions of unused and forgotten televisions, computers and dated gadgets. Best Buy will except the e-waste regardless of where it was purchased. According t...

DHL opens a €300 million facility in Leipzig, Germany

Global logistics carrier DHL has opened a €300 million new distribution hub in Leipzig, Germany, to offer a faster service to its clients, Managing Automation reported. The move reflects the continuing shift of Europe's center of economic and manufacturing gravity steadily East, in searc...

Failed audit in Iraq

No surprises that US government auditors have found that the contracting practices in Iraq are deficient. And a complete waste of taxpayers' money. The New York Times reports that the us army 's disbursement of $8.2 billion in taxpayer money on contractors in Iraq lacked adequat...

Mac OS X 软件更新 20080522

传 Apple 将为 Apple TV 推出新的可编程多媒体键盘

传 Apple 将为 Apple TV 推出新的可编程多媒体键盘 传刘德华低调捐款5000万 新的 Get a Mac 广告：Pep Rally 和 Group 王菲将为灾区复出 上央视为灾区募捐 Streema: Social Networking and Radio Combined Skype 2.7.0.330 for Mac OS X 心系灾区：斯琴高娃捐款不作秀，方中信要在四川灾区盖座学校，及更多…… Xbox 360 春季更新详细列表 《家有儿女》制片公司遭起诉 Bill's Gold Watch 心系灾区：部分地区赈灾义演...

Palladium Wedding Bands

Palladium is a platinum group metal, which also includes platinum, ruthenium, osmium, iridium, and rhodium. These metals are found together in nature and have similar qualities. They are white in color, extremely durable, and unaffected by elements in the air that make other metals tarnish. Pallad...

Securing personal data from USBs, PDAs, Mobiles, Palms....

Going to and from the office you just realize you left your USB drive on the desk. Thoughts of theft by the cleaning crew quickly rush through your head. So you turn around in traffic and when you get to the office you can't seem to find that blasted USB drive. Your frantically search your...

Talbot Trail ATV Club Cleans Up Trash

St. Thomas Times-Journal, St. Thomas, ON Ahh, spring cleaning . The Talbot Trail ATV Club helps clean up. It's good to see other groups holding these cleanup events. I know locally we have cleanups at the dunes via the ASA a couple times a year. The Talbot Trail ATV Club hit t...

Cool Place: Green Gym

This gym in Sao Paulo, Brazil cost $10 million to build and was built to be as coolly sustainable as possible. Rain water is reused for cleaning, there are solar panels everywhere, and even the pool has been treated with ozone to help protect it instead of harmful chlorine. This gym is a grea...

Mac OS X 软件更新 20080430

Beauty Gizmos & Gadgets : Clarisonic Skin Brush

Ok, ok, so I wouldn't exactly call the Clarisonic Skin Brush "news-y." After all, this is the same gadget that sold out across the country for months after being featured as one of the The Big O's Favorite Things last year. But since I'm always looking for the next miracl...

Der Abstieg: Gina-Lisa soll jetzt nackt putzen

Gina-Lisa Lohfink, neuerdings angeblich Gina-Lisa™, das ausdruckslose Breitgesicht aus der Sendung "Germany's Next Top Model", hat nach Presseberichten damit begonnen, sich als Nacktputzerin zu verdingen, was mich persönlich nicht wundert - verwunderlich ist schon eher, wie dies 21...

Spring Cleaning Begins Here

When I think of Spring and a fresh start, of course I think of green. It's a lush color and it's a good way to add some life into your wardrobe. That being said, kale has a beautiful bag with a great color that is perfect for the summer bag. The Lyndon is a great shoulder bag t...

Paint.NET v3.30 正式版发布

一个免费而强大的图形处理工具，仅1.6 MB，包含英语、简体中文、法语、德育、意大利语（新增）、日语、朝鲜语、葡萄牙语和西班牙语。其实Paint.NET几乎可以完全替代Photoshop，而且小巧、免费，但是用PS习惯了，换成Paint.NET还真是有点困难。 下载： http://www.getpaint.net/

Are you decluttering your office?

What is keeping you from loosing the clutter? © Blind Grasshopper Many times the task of decluttering our lives just becomes to great or a task that seems impossible to achieve. The former organizer from the TLC show Clean Sweep Peter Walsh says that we should sometimes just start off doi...

March Spam Statistics

Security vendor Softscan has released its March spam statistics. It found that spam accounted for 96.63% of all email in March, but noticed a sudden 45% drop at the end of the month: "Although there was a significant drop in spam levels at the reputation filter, we didn't see any dro...

Tagged by Allergizer: The 7 Random Things About Me

Hey...April Fools' Day is over and here comes another month. Hello, Spring! Done your spring cleaning already? Anyways...to start the month off, lemme answer the tag by Ruth of Allergizer . 1. Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog. 2. Share seven random and/...

Nokia N810 Internet Tablet WiMAX Edition 正式发布

前几天 看见过 Nokia 更新了 N 系列产品的网站信息 ，发现新款的 N810 将会要支持 WiMAX。今天，Nokia 就正式发布了 Nokia N810 Internet Tablet WiMAX Edition，售价仅为 449 美元。以下是配置、套件和软件应用简表：

The winners from underpriced IPOs

The pricing of initial public offerings (IPOs) always raises one interesting question. Who benefits? Data shows that IPOs in the United States are underpriced an average of 15 percent. Translated, that means at the end of the first day of trading, the stock price of a company is typically 15 pe...

14-Year Old Girl Delivers Stillborn Baby On Flight

On Monday, a 14-year old girl delivered a stillborn fetus in the bathroom of an airplane. The stillborn baby was discovered by the cleaning crew of the airplane shortly after the it landed at Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport. According to an article on MSNBC , the unidentified girl di...

The Appeal of Geeks

There's an image of the geek as nerd, dork, alone, and without female companionship. That may be true in some cases. But on the whole, I disagree. For a couple of reasons. First, I think geeks make great boyfriends. I've dated a few because, well, I'm kind of a geek myself. I li...

How to Clean Vegetables

Why do you need to worry about cleaning your vegetables? Well, because the water used to rinse them before they get to the market isn't always clean. And large grocery chains at home and abroad sometime add wax to the water to make everything shiny and attractive... but the wax can tr...

Spring Cleaning For Your Home Office

Whether you have an entire room or like me, just a corner of the living room, your office could probably use some spring cleaning . Here are a few tips. 1. Get rid of clutter. The very first thing to do is to go thorough your desk and surroundings and get rid of any papers, catalogs, etc, you ...

Readybot kitchen cleaning robot

If you've ever wished you had a robot to clean your kitchen for you now your dreams can come true. The Readybot is a kitchen cleaning robot designed by a group called the Readybot Robot Challenge. The robot can currently do around 50 percent of your typical kitchen chores but developers ho...

Canon EOS Rebel XSi

I've been really digging the latest in digital cameras these days, and shutterbugs ought to get a load of the EOS Rebel XSi from Canon. This particular camera is designed with the point-and-shooter in mind as it has a 12.2 megapixel CMOS sensor . It also has a 3 inch LCD monitor, and ...

Superheated Steam Cleaner

I have to say that I like to have things clean. I may not be germaphobic, but I wouldn't mind having the Superheated steam cleaner to help me really get that disinfecting clean. As you can see, all you need to do is aim this 1200 Watt Superheated Steam Cleaner toward any problem area...

Nokia Intros Super-Flexible Nanotech Morph Concept Phone

Nokia Research Center and the University of Cambridge today introduced Morph , a prototype for a flexible mobile phone that makes use of nanotechnology, at the Museum of Modern Art 's Design and the Elastic Mind exhibit. What exactly is it? According to Digital Trends' Geoff ...

Nokia Working on Super Flexible Mobile Phone

Nokia has another futuristic mobile phone concept that might possibly redefine the way we use mobile phones. Introducing Morph - a joint project joint nanotechnology model created by Nokia Research Center and the University of Cambridge. Morph is a concept that demonstrates how future mobile de...

Keep your desk clean with the Thanko USB mouse

Is your desk at work getting a little gross? Maybe the Vacuum Mouse from Thanko can help. The mouse works just like your traditional 3-button computer mouse , but this one has a twist...it also works as a vacuum. Obviously the device is pretty small so it's not going to exactly clean ev...