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New NFL rules for 2008

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:49:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Good to know...

Defensive helmet radios: Teams will now be permitted to have one defensive player on the field with a radio in his helmet. This gives the defense the same ability to communicate its signals as the offense

Incidental facemasks: The foul for incidental grasp and release of the facemask has been eliminated. Twisting, turning or pulling the facemask will remain a 15-yard personal foul

Forceout rule: The forceout rule has been eliminated. A player who receives or intercepts a ball must land with both feet inbounds

Reviewable plays: Instant replay will expand to include field-goal and extra-point attempts as well as illegal forward handoffs

Second half coin toss: Clubs will now have the option to defer the opportunity to kick or receive the kickoff to the second half

Muffed snap: It will now be a live ball when a direct snap from center to a player who is in position to receive a hand-to-hand snap goes untouched

Tags: nfl, rule changes, sports

Political Humor by Jon Stewart

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:04:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Genius...LOL. http://tinyurl.com/65d7wv

Clip Source: www.thedailyshow.com

Sarah Palin Gender Card

Tags: politics, humor, satire, comedy

Amazon Kindle 2.0

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:52:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Nice balance to this biz week article. Not sure i'm sold on the Kindle either, but its tough to question John Doerr. He's been right many, many times...and his wins typically come with many, many zeros behind it.

Clip Source: www.businessweek.com

Amazon.com plans to unveil a larger-screen model of its Kindle e-book player, aimed at students, in the coming months

sources say the new version is significantly thinner, has a better screen, is more stylish and includes fixes to some of the user interface annoyances with the first version

“They’ve jumped from Generation One to Generation Four or Five. It just looks better, and feels better,”

Kleiner Perkins VC John Doerr, an original backer of Bezos, told me he thinks the Kindle will be a $1 billion business before too long.

the cynic in me thinks Amazon may be forced to talk up the Kindle beyond its potential: because it may be the company's best hope to become a true digital media power

Tags: kindle, amazon.com, kleiner perkins, john doerr

Giants' Umenyiora To Miss Season With Knee Injury

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:36:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Ughhhhhh!....what a crushing blow to the champs. Hopefully, they can lure back Strahan from the broadcast booth. Bummer!

Clip Source: wcbstv.com

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) ― New York Giants defensive end Osi Umenyiora will have season-ending surgery on his injured left knee.

The loss is a major one for the Super Bowl champions in the wake of the retirement of seven-time Pro Bowl defensive end Michael Strahan a few months ago.

Typo vigilantes banned from national parks

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:33:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This just made me smile...

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

Two self-styled vigilantes against typos who defaced a more than 60-year-old, hand-painted sign at Grand Canyon National Park were sentenced to probation and banned from national parks for a year.

"a pair of Kerouacs armed with Sharpies and erasers and righteous indignation."

The misspelled word "emense" was not fixed, Deck wrote, because "I was reluctant to disfigure the sign any further. ... Still, I think I shall be haunted by that perversity, emense, in my train-whistle-blighted dreams tonight."

Tags: humor

Stores reward hybrid drivers

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:55:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Its a start...

Clip Source: www.chron.com

Ikea has designated hybrid-only spaces across the U.S., including one at its Houston store on the Katy Freeway. Home Depot and Office Depot are trying out similar parking perks for fuel efficiency in Austin, Chicago and several other cities.

Tags: green energy, hybrid technology

The Pentagon's "Get Smart" Plan

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:42:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This has got to be a joke. The Pentagon "disestablished" the "CIFA" office yet "those responsibilities will now be carried out by a new organization called the Defense Counterintelligence and Human Intelligence Center". WHAT? They shut down one unit only to have another office do the same thing under a different name???? Why not use "The Cone of Silence" and save everyone the trouble of moving boxes from one office to the other?

Note to the Pentagon: I think Control and KAOS are easier acronyms to remember

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Monday said it was closing a controversial intelligence office that had raised concerns about domestic spying by the military after the September 11 attacks.

The Defense Department said it had "disestablished" the Counterintelligence Field Activity office, or CIFA, created in February 2002 by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld

Those responsibilities will now be carried out by a new organization called the Defense Counterintelligence and Human Intelligence Center

Tags: pentagon, intelligence, lunacy

Virtual Flash Cards for Studying

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:17:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Wow, studyprof flash cards...so cool. Great idea, and free.

Clip Source: www.downloadsquad.com

The program, which has a free trial version available, allows you to create flashcards in a relatively simple environment

Give your card a title and an image or audio then virtually flip the card and place the information you are trying to learn on the back

After making a set of cards you can file them in your card box and retrieve them and replay them, slideshow style with simple mouse clicks.

Tags: kids, productivity

Cuba and Venezuela to lay undersea Internet cable

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:08:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: LOL. Take a look at this headline from CNet article. When i say, ahem...a version of this at home my kids laugh like crazy... and my wife gets pissed

Clip Source: news.cnet.com

Cuba and Venezuela to lay undersea Internet cable

A new undersea fiber-optic cable being laid between Cuba and Venezuela will help provide high-speed Internet access to Cuban citizens by 2010.

Tags: humor

Web pioneer Gross revitalized by green energy

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:14:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Bill Gross is the Ron Popeil of Internet entrepreneurs...or perhaps the failed car man and innovator Preston Tucker I am excited to see what he will do with his alt energy incubator. Maybe he will once again innovate enough to help shape the green economy. But, with regard to his claim of becoming more disciplined than he was in the 90's...I'll take the under. Good luck Bill, i'm pulling for you!

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Gross, now 49, is again building solar power projects, albeit after a lengthy detour through the early days of the Internet.

His company, Idealab, created a slew of Web businesses in the 1990s

As the Internet boom melted down, however, the California energy crisis of 2000 was rekindling Gross' teenage passion for alternative energy.

Idealab dusted itself off and embarked on a mission few others were embracing at the time -- developing green energy technologies.

His idea for small, pre-fabricated solar-powered thermal power plants, being developed by Idealab company eSolar, caught the eye of Oak Investment Partners and Google Inc (GOOG.O).

Half of Idealab's 16 companies are focused on energy, and it has learned to be more disciplined than in the late 1990s.

"Now we say 'Treat these dollars as if it's the last dollars you'll ever see."'

Tags: bill gross, entrepreneurship, green energy, solar, venture capital

Police find cocaine in car used by officers

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:20:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: LOL...knuckle heads. Can you imagine the phone call to the guy/girl who bought the other car at auction? Think anyone would ever admit that?!

"Yeh, hi...its the Dallas Police Dept. By any chance did you find about 50lbs. of cocaine in your car when you picked it up?"

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

DALLAS - Police didn't have to go far to find $400,000 worth of cocaine — it was in an undercover car they'd been driving for two months.

An officer cleaning the car at a patrol station Wednesday discovered the nearly 50 pounds of cocaine carefully hidden in hydraulically controlled compartments.

It had been found at a drug house earlier this year along with a 1999 Honda.

Bernal said the narcotics division searched both the vehicles and found nothing unusual after the seizure. The Honda was sold at auction.

Bernal said police plan to contact the person who bought the Honda to find out if drugs are hidden in that car, too. And, they are also trying to find out who owned the cocaine they have been secretly driving around with.

Tags: strange but true, unbelievable, police

Blackstone to Buy Billion - Euro Wind - Park: Sources

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:55:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Whoa. Blackstone is considered by many as the preeminent private equity firm. This is not a trivial investment, and i'm not talking about $. This commitment to the business of alt energy - specifically wind powered energy - could lead the way for the next wave of major investment capital. Very exciting.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Private equity firm Blackstone <BX.N> plans to invest more than 1 billion euros ($1.57 billion) in a project to build wind farms in the North Sea to generate electricity, people familiar with the matter said.

Blackstone plans to take a stake in the "Meerwind" project to build some 80 wind farms off with a capacity of 400 megawatts off the German island of Helgoland, two people said on Wednesday.

Tags: blackstone, private equity, wind power, alternative energy

Citibank Security Breach!

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:13:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Jeez, these poor bastards can't get out of their own way...C'mon guys, get it together - America needs you!

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Hackers broke into Citibank's network of ATMs inside 7-Eleven stores and stole customers' PIN codes, according to recent court filings that revealed a disturbing security hole in the most sensitive part of a banking record.

The scam netted the alleged identity thieves millions of dollars. But more importantly for consumers, it indicates criminals were able to access PINs — the numeric passwords that theoretically are among the most closely guarded elements of banking transactions — by attacking the back-end computers responsible for approving the cash withdrawals.

Tags: citibank, security, banks

Bill Gates or Tony Hawk?

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:11:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Man, this photo just jumped out at me...freaky right? c'mon, you have to admit he looks like him

Clip Source: www.engadget.com

Tags: bill gates, tony hawk

Is Amazon's Kindle about to Tip?

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:44:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: hmmm...2,500 four-year universities in the U.S. The author of this article says Amazon has a long way to go. I say, that's 2,500 highly qualified "Glengary" leads to go after!

I can hear Bezos now..."We're adding a little something to this month's sales contest. As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Anybody want to see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired. "

Clip Source: news.cnet.com

Another prestigious school is embracing Amazon's Kindle e-reader.

Princeton University has announced that it will start printing Kindle-edition textbooks this fall, according to a story in The Christian Science Monitor.

Princeton follows Yale, Oxford, and UC Berkeley in creating textbooks for the Kindle. In the United States, there are about 2,500 four-year universities, so Amazon still has a long way to go.

Tags: amazon, kindle