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| March 10, 2011
Category: News
World’s total CPU power: one human brain
| March 10, 2011
How much information can the world transmit, process, and store? Estimating this sort of thing can be a nightmare, but the task can provide valuable information on trends that are changing our computing and broadcast infrastructure. So a pair of researchers have taken the job upon themselves and tracked the changes in 60 different analog and digital technologies, from newsprint to cellular data, for a period of over 20 years.
Extreme Couponing
| March 10, 2011
Good shoppers use coupons to save money. Extreme couponers have something a bit more in mind whenever they scour their Sunday circulars: they want stuff for free. That’s right: Free, as in zilch, zip and zero dollar.
With a bit of knowledge and a lot of planning, the practitioner of “extreme couponing” can get a lot of stuff for free (or practically free). Billy Baker of The Boston Globe has the fascinating story of the couponing craze:
Spencer’s approach requires significant planning and effort, a willingness to stand up to hostile cashiers, and, some say, a lack of shame. But the reward she offers is too good for her thousands of devotees to pass up.
The goal is not simply a good deal, she says. “The goal is free.’’
On that seminal Sunday last month, a combination of factors collided to bring an entirely new pack of extreme couponers to the scene at once, unable to resist that first taste of “free.’’ After the Great Toilet Paper Rush, nothing would be the same.
“It was the day that sent a seismic wave through coupondom,’’ said Melanie Feehan, a veteran extreme couponer who arrived at a Rite Aid near her home in Plymouth shortly after it opened, only to discover the toilet paper had been cleared from the shelves by a man who bragged to a clerk that he had already emptied three other Rite Aids that morning.
“When a newbie couponer is birthed they are very much like baby vampires,’’ Feehan wrote on her popular blog, The Coupon Goddess. “They go on a couponing rampage that wreaks havoc at every store they descend upon . . . Carnage.’’
University newspaper gives students a step-by-step guide to shoplifting
| March 10, 2011
The Art Of Shoplifting’ urges cash-strapped students to ignore any moral concerns and follow its step-by-step stealing techniques.
Top tips include how to avoid CCTV and the best ways to plead your innocence of caught.
‘If possible, you should always have some money on you when intending to shoplift because if you’ve got none, its rather hard to argue that to steal the item was a spontaneous decision,’ claims the guide, produced by activists from Queen Mary College, University of London.
It adds: ‘If the cops do arrive, its a good idea to act scared s******* because they may assume you’re a first offender and not bother to check your record.
Great Deal – Gas coupon good at most retailers!
| March 9, 2011
I didn’t realize this but these coupons are good for one litre of gas at most retailers. I’ve seen them
around lots but never knew what they were for. Make sure to use it before it expires!!
Humanoids run world’s first robot marathon race
| March 9, 2011
Five bipedal machines began the non-stop 42.2-kilometre (26.2-mile) contest on a 100-metre indoor track in the western Japanese city of Osaka Thursday morning after doing knee bends or raising their hands to greet spectators.
One of the competitors retired after finishing only the first lap, but the others continued running day and night, getting up by themselves every time they fell to the floor or got into collisions with rivals.
