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	<title>Mark Savage</title>
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		<title>Dirty Harry</title>
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via xkcd.com on 1/21/10
 

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		<link>http://marksavage.net/2010/01/26/dirty-harry/</link>
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		<title>Daredevil Space Diver To Leap Toward World&#8217;s First Supersonic  Free-Fall From&#8230;</title>
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via Popular Science &#8211; New Technology, Science News, The Future Now by Bjorn Carey on 1/22/10



Here&#8217;s Felix Baumgartner&#8217;s plan: Float a balloon to 120,000 feet. Jump out. Break the sound barrier. Don&#8217;t die. Simple, right?
If Baumgartner, a world famous base jumper and skydiver, pulls off the feat, he&#8217;ll set the record for the world&#8217;s highest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marksavage.net/2010/01/25/daredevil-space-diver-to-leap-toward-worlds-first-supersonic-free-fall-from/</link>
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		<title>Lockheed&#8217;s HULC Super-Soldier Exoskeleton Gets More Juice</title>
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via Popular Science &#8211; New Technology, Science News, The Future Now by Jeremy Hsu on 1/22/10


HULC want longer-lasting batteries!Even the finest super-soldier suit can end up as expensive deadweight if the batteries run out of juice. Lockheed Martin wants to avoid that fate for its robotic exoskeleton by turning to fuel cells that can power [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marksavage.net/2010/01/25/lockheeds-hulc-super-soldier-exoskeleton-gets-more-juice/</link>
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		<title>Oxford cops reprimanded for tobogganing on riot shields</title>
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via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on 1/14/10
 
London Oxford cops who used their riot shields for toboggans during the recent, unprecedented snowy weather have been reprimanded by their Superintendent, Andrew Murray, who &#8220;reminded them in no uncertain terms that tobogganing on duty, on police equipment and at taxpayers&#8217; expense is a very bad idea [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marksavage.net/2010/01/14/oxford-cops-reprimanded-for-tobogganing-on-riot-shields/</link>
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		<title>Internet Survival Guide for Traveling Where Privacy Isn&#8217;t Respected</title>
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via Lifehacker by Anonymous on 1/14/10

Ed. note: On Tuesday, Google responded to cyber attacks aimed at Chinese human-rights activists by ending search-result censorship in China. An anonymous reader with experience living where privacy isn&#8217;t respected writes in with tips for keeping your data safe in these situations.
The author asked to remain anonymous and preferred to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marksavage.net/2010/01/14/201/</link>
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		<title>Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell to Make Us Miserable</title>
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via Gizmodo by Matthew Inman on 1/11/10

Matthew Inman, aka &#8220;The Oatmeal,&#8221; is a former web designer turned comic artist. He subsists primarily on a diet of dead crickets and malt liquor. He also thinks that printers have a place in hell right next to unicorns.












Reprinted with permission from Matthew Inman. You can see more of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marksavage.net/2010/01/12/200/</link>
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		<title>RCA Airnergy Charger Harvests Electricity From WiFi  Signals</title>
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via OhGizmo! by Evan Ackerman on 1/9/10


By Evan Ackerman
This thing is, seriously, the highlight of CES for me (so far) this year. 3D TVs and eBook readers are fine, but there’s nothing amazing about them.
The Airnergy Charger is amazing.
This little box has, inside it, some kind of circuitry that harvests WiFi energy out of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marksavage.net/2010/01/12/rca-airnergy-charger-harvests-electricity-from-wifi-signals/</link>
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		<title>Reporter Breaks &#8220;Unbreakable&#8221; Phone At CES</title>
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via Geekologie &#8211; Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome by  on 1/11/10
 
This is a short video of BBC reporter Dan Simmons breaking an allegedly unbreakable phone at the Consumer Electronics Show.  The phone is supposed to be able to withstand a 10-story drop, being dunked 20-feet underwater for a half hour, and used as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marksavage.net/2010/01/11/reporter-breaks-unbreakable-phone-at-ces/</link>
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		<title>Why the US and much of Europe are shivering in the cold</title>
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via Ars Technica by jtimmer@arstechnica.com (John Timmer) on 1/11/10

Those of us shivering through extended stretches of subfreezing temperatures might be forgiven for getting a bit impatient for the onset of more significant global warming.  And, if you&#8217;re reading Ars, chances are good that this describes you, as the US and Europe have been blanketed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marksavage.net/2010/01/11/why-the-us-and-much-of-europe-are-shivering-in-the-cold/</link>
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		<title>How a Plugged-In DC Think Tank Published a General&#8217;s Brutal Intel Critique</title>
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via Danger Room by Nathan Hodge on 1/8/10


In military circles, the talk all week has been about how and why the top intelligence officer in Afghanistan wound up publishing a scathing critique through a small-but-influential think tank. Now, we’ve got the answers.
When Maj. Gen. Michael Flynn published his tough assessment of the military’s spy agencies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marksavage.net/2010/01/08/how-a-plugged-in-dc-think-tank-published-a-generales-brutal-intel-critique/</link>
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