Hand-knit Peruvian Alpaca scarf. Photo: Planet Threads Do you look more like a walking snowman in the wintertime, disappearing under a layer of layers in your effort to keep the thermostat turned down ? With a few wardrobe updates, it’s possible for a girl to be warm in the winter months and still look, ahem, hot. To help nip frost bite in the bud, we’ve rounded up five essential green fashion accessories for winter that will… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Alaska’s sore loser, Lisa Murkowski, is now getting financial help for her write-in bid from an assortment of lefty special interest groups : Murkowski gets nearly $600,000 in advertising help from Native corps and unions The organization has the backing of Ahtna Inc., Arctic Slope Regional Corp., Bristol Bay Native Corp., Bering Straits Native Corp., Calista Corp., Chugach Alaska Corp., Cook Inlet Region, Inc., Doyon Limited, Koniag Inc., NANA Regional Corp. and Sealaska Corp. Unions that have joined with them include the Alaska Professional Fire Fighters Association, the Anchorage Police Dept. Employees Assn. and the National Education Association Alaska. These groups are investing in the Sore Loserski for two reasons, and only the second one involves hoping she’ll win. The first reason is to draw off enough votes from Joe Miller that the Democrat might have a chance to win. If that doesn’t work then they can hope Murkowski somehow convinces enough Alaskans to write her name in and the victory. I think it’s still unlikely that a significant number of Alaskans will actually make the effort to write her in. I just hope she doesn’t blow it for Miller, a guy who’s very sharp and deserves the job.
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An intruder is arrested outside Paris Hilton’s LA house; Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino is eliminated from DWTS; Christina Aguilera and her husband Jordan Bratman announce separation. (Oct 13)
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All together now: finally . TiVo’s just announced a new online Season Pass Manager, allowing users to manage their season passes from the comfort of a browser — you can add, edit, and delete passes, as well as transfer them between TiVo boxes on your account. (That ought to make upgrading to a new TiVo a million times easier, which has been one of our longstanding complaints.) The best part? Editing the priority list online means you don’t have to sit and wait while your TiVo figures it all out — you can move things around at will in the browser and it’ll all get sorted out before the changes get sent to your box. Nice. Of course, TiVo is still way behind FiOS and Comcast when it comes to remote and mobile DVR management, but it’s nice to see the company address one of the biggest pain points with the device. Now just hit us with a serious Premiere performance update, alright? PR after the break. Continue reading TiVo launches online Season Pass Manager TiVo launches online Season Pass Manager originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 13 Oct 2010 08:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Creative Ideas for Urban Gardening: On Lampposts, Up in the Air, and On Other People’s Land
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‘Spiral Garden’ in an urban setting. Image via Designboom . With empty land at a premium in densely populated urban areas, builders have long reached into the sky to maximize the amount of residential or commercial space they can develop. Now a team of Spanish architects has proposed doing the same thing with
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Photos: Jetboil Jetboil’s new CrunchIt tool, to launch across the US in November 2010, allows campers and hikers to safely vent and puncture their butane gas fuel canisters. This indicates the canisters are safely empty, and all set for metal recycling, where appropriate programs operate. While not a perfect solution to the issue of single use camping stove gas canisters, the $7 USD 28g (1 oz) CrunchIt is certainly a creative and welcome first step. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Canon Cross Media Station pulls your pics and charges your cameras, wirelessly (video)
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Pulling memory cards and downloading pictures? A pain. Keeping track of a drawer full of different-sized battery packs for your travel, studio, and video cameras? A headache. If that’s you, Canon’s Cross Media Station could be a big hit of aspirin. Finally shown to the world after being teased at the Canon Expo last month, the prototype device looks something like a chubby scanner from a dark future. However, the top is actually an inductive charging pad. Set your camera up there (up to three at once) and a blue light will pop on to indicate flowing electricity. While the power heads one direction the data goes whizzing by in the other, pictures pulled and categorized on the device based on time, place, and recognized faces. As you can see in the video after the break, photos can be displayed over HDMI onto your HDTV. We’re guessing the wireless data spec is TransferJet , as Canon is a member of that consortium , but when it comes to the wireless charging we’re somewhat in the dark. It looks like the models in the video are using adapters to enable this functionality, but surely this will be integrated eventually. You know, in the future, when all the best stuff happens. Continue reading Canon Cross Media Station pulls your pics and charges your cameras, wirelessly (video) Canon Cross Media Station pulls your pics and charges your cameras, wirelessly (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 13 Oct 2010 08:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …WaPo Reports DHS Will Keep Its Probe Secret on Drunk-Driving Illegal Alien Who Killed Nun
October 13, 2010 No CommentThe Metro section of Wednesday's Washington Post is topped by this story on the right hand side: “The Obama administration will not release the results of
Continue reading …Webcam-spying school district settles out of court, FBI declines to press charges
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Looks like the Lower Merion School District will be paying off kids who got zinged by its laptop tracking program — to the tune of some $610,000. As you might recall, there was quite a bit of hubbub earlier this year when students discovered that their school issued computers tended to activate their webcams and shoot the photos back to administrators. Apparently the FBI has decided not to bring any charges in the case after all, and the various families of the students settled with the school district out of court. And yes, the schools have discontinued the tracking program. Webcam-spying school district settles out of court, FBI declines to press charges originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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A federal judge has ordered the military to immediately stop enforcing the policy ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’, which bans openly gay troops from serving in the military. (Oct. 13)
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