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Stuff and Whatnot
Fail.
Geeky stuff ahead. For a while now, I've been using Installous to get all the apps for my phone. It's fun because if you do it the normal way (through the iTunes store), you'd have to go through the hassle of credit cards and payment stuff like that. But with Installous, you just have to download and install the apps. Because everything's free on Installous. You get the paid apps for free. It doesn't really seem like such a cool thing when you're using it and taking it for granted, but when you think about how, someone in the world is paying $50 for an app that you're getting for free, it's neat. So to turn this into a story, I upgraded my iPhone firmware a couple of weeks back. Before this, I was using 3.0 but this guy gave me his phone with 3.1.2 firmware to take home and he just said that it was awesome. I didn't really see any difference when I compared the two, but I was really gullible and the prospect of awesomeness sounded good. So I upgraded mine as well. Because I'm a... (more)

The Common Ills
Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "I Am The War Hawk You Have Been Waiting For"
Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "I Am The War Hawk You Have Been Waiting For" Isaiah's latest The World Today Just Nuts "I Am The War Hawk You Have Been Waiting For" featuring Barack and some of the liars who pimped him. Barack declares, "I am the War Hawk you have been waiting for." Alice Walker gushes, "So true! Yea!" Pockmarks On His Soul Tom Hayden declares, "Peace, like clear skin, is overrated." Phyllis Bennis pants, "When I think of all the Afghan babies who will now die, I get wet." "Me too, Phyllis," insists John Nichols. While Amy Goodman explains, "I'm so happy, I'll make it my lead story tomorrow. If I don't get carded for cigarettes before then." Isaiah archives his comics at The World Today Just Nuts. the world today just nuts comic barack obama comic i am the war hawk you have been waiting for alice walker tom hayden phyllis bennis john nichols amy goodman the common ills

newlife
Electronic Cigarette
Our Product: Electronic-Cigarette E-liquid E-cigarette E-cigarette Electronic-cigarette-accessory Shenzhen TOP Electronics Co, Ltd is a high-tech enterprise specializing in R &D, manufacturing, selling and serving electronic cigarette. With the increasing popularity of healthy, environmental, green consumption ideas in the global market, governments and concerned organizations in different countries have paid more and more attentions to the threat posed by traditional cigarettes to the health of consumers and therefore introduced various anti-smoking bans and measurements. Starting from May 1, the consumption tax rate of A class cigarette in China is raised from 45% to 56%, B class cigarette from 30% to 36%, cigar from 25% to 36%. This increases the force and coverage of anti-smoking campaign. Therefore, E-cigarette is developed and is rapidly accepted and favored among the consumers and markets worldwide. As a substitute similar to the appearance, way... (more)

Middle East News
Another Import from Israel
Another Import from Israel LAPD official: Israeli crime on the rise By YAAKOV LAPPIN Israeli organized crime activity in Los Angeles has gotten "a little bit worse" recently, a senior Los Angeles Police Department official told The Jerusalem Post on Monday. Michael P. Downing, deputy chief of the LAPD's Counter-Terrorism and Criminal Intelligence Bureau, was in Tel Aviv on Monday and Tuesday to take part in the Safe City Solutions Conference, which attracted security experts from around the world to examine ways of tackling violent urban crime and terrorism. Downing said Israeli crime rings in his city were active in the fields of real estate, fraud, money laundering and narcotics. A sizable portion of Israeli mob activity takes place abroad, as seen in the cases of alleged Israeli crime barons Meir and Itzik Abergil, who are set to be extradited to the US on charges of smuggling ecstasy and a host of other crimes, and the arrest of mob kingpin Ze'ev Rozenstein in 2004, on a... (more)

classic battery
9 ways to go green and save green
9 ways to go green and save green Going green is all the dell laptop battery rage for a lot of reasons. Although some of this green talk is hype, a lot of it is the real deal. There are a number of things that you can do in your business to easily and cheaply jump on the green bandwagon and saving your organization a few dollars at the same time you help reduce your impact on the planet. Green desktops. Most PC vendors today have an option for more efficient laptop battery power supplies in desktop PCs. These power supplies reduce heat waste in your computers and can help to lower your overall energy costs. For example, Dell's Studio Hybrid consumes only 26W when idle and 44W at full load. In contrast a typical desktop computer can consume two, three and four times this amount. At the same time, make sure that power management is enabled on desktop PCs so that dell Latitude C600 battery power consumption is, for example, greatly reduced by turning off a monitor after 20 minutes of... (more)