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Houses made from recycled materials, isn’t that Amazing?

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From the New York Times Website

From the New York Times Website

A project started by Dan Philipps 12 years, where he builds low income housing out of recycled / salvaged materials. The Recycled Houses

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September 4, 2009 at 11:06 am

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Google asking for apology for todays outage.

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From the Google Official Blog.

“We’re working very hard to solve the problem and we’re really sorry for the inconvenience. Those users in the US and UK who have enabled Gmail offline through Gmail Labs should be able to access their inbox, although they won’t be able to send or receive emails.”

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September 1, 2009 at 5:45 pm

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GMAIL is down. Sept. 1, 2009

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Google is down. For more than 30 mins now,  I’ve been trying to login to my GMail Account. I also tried my companies email service hosted at Google Apps, it’s also down.

Hmm. I wonder what’s going on?

To check the status, click here.

Update: 5:15 EST service for gmail are back online.

After refreshing the google apps page for my companies email i got this:

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Both service were back online at around 5:20 EST.

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September 1, 2009 at 4:49 pm

The Hulk and his other comrades are going to Disneyland

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Have you seen the headlines today?
Disney To Acquire Marvel Entertainment For $4 Billion
DISNEY TO ACQUIRE MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT

No one ever saw this coming. Entertainment giant Walt Disney Company just announced that they are acquiring Marvel and it’s 5,000 characters. Looks like our superheroes are going to Disneyland, hope they like the company of Mickey, Donald, Goofy oh and the 7 dwarfs.

Read the full News Release here : DISNEY TO ACQUIRE MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT

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August 31, 2009 at 12:47 pm

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Goodbye Reading Rainbow.

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Too bad we won’t be seeing you anymore, you’ll be missed.

“Reading Rainbow” aired its last episode on PBS last Friday, August 28, 2009. The show hosted by Star Trek’s Levar Burton(Geordi La Forge) has been one of the favorite weekdays shows ends its 26 year run. Read the rest of this entry »

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August 30, 2009 at 2:37 am

Watermelon can soon power our car. Imagine that.

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Check this one out.  I read this article at Vos Iz Neias.

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that leftover watermelons from a typical U.S. harvest could be converted to up to 9.4 million liters (2.5 million gallons) annually of clean ethanol fuel, which could be used to power cars, trucks, and even airplanes.

Imagine that.

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August 29, 2009 at 3:16 pm

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