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Monthly Archives: October 2007

Sputnik - 50th Anniversary

04-Oct-07

Today is the 50th anniversary of the launching of Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite launched into genocentric orbit. It fueled a lot of fear in the U.S. because they feared the USSR could spy on them because Sputnik was visible with the naked eye. It was a real crisis and really got the [...]

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A Call to Close 1 Million Bank of America Accounts

03-Oct-07

They Do Not Deserve Their Own Employees
The banking industry is a cut-throat marketplace to try to get and maintain a foothold on the competition. Bank of America is no different, struggling to maintain their marketshare to the smaller, catchier competition such as Wachovia and Washington Mutual (WaMu). Here is my call for action and why:
I [...]

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Fingers of the Future

02-Oct-07

I love my Wired magazine, and I’ve been waiting to put this article up, so here it is. Dan Didrick of nearby Naples, FL is quite an inventor to have come up with such a brilliantly simple prosthetic digit.
He calls it X-Finger, and it is free of wires, batteries, and invasive probes. To operate your [...]

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