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Really interesting stuff..  Apparently the snow is vaporizing before hitting the surface but curious nonetheless.

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Well - interesting times here in the grand midwest. Our electricity was turned back on yesterday after 4 days of what the local papers call the great blackout of 2008. Of course, crazyskills.com was still accessible (by those who still had power) but certain other functions of the crazyskills republic were unavailable. [...]

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,425405,00.html [foxnews.com]
$7.2 billion put to good use. . .
At least it still hasn’t swallowed the Earth.

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Link: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,420062,00.html [foxnews.com]
Well, Supposedly the first test this morning was a “success,” though there are no reports of a black hole devouring earth, a beginning of an evolutionary cycle, or nuclear explosion.
“After a few trial runs, two white dots flashed on a computer screen near Geneva, Switzerland, at 10:26 a.m.”
$3.8 billion USD for 2 white [...]

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“A British physicist has claimed he can explain the secrets of the Big Bang Theory, but his controversial experiment has scientists believing he could bring about the end of the world, the U.K.’s Daily Mail reported.”
Link: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,418204,00.html [foxnews.com]
So this scientist built a 17-mile-long tunnel, within which he plans on Wednesday to smash sub-atomic particles together [...]

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http://news.cnet.com/2300-13576_3-6242563-1.html?tag=mncol [c|Net]
A cool pictorial look at the process of creating vinyls.  I have never seen the process described so well.
“No trip to the South would be complete without a visit to Nashville, Tenn. With that in mind, CNET News.com reporter Daniel Terdiman stopped in Music City during Road Trip 2008 with an eye toward finding [...]

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