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Google Granted “Landing Strip” Patent

Google has just been granted a landing strip patent for its driverless cars. Somehow the term “landing strip” doesn’t instill confidence in me when we are talking about self-driving cars.


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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Sesame Street

1. Oscar The Grouch Was Orange In Season One
2. Kermit The Frog Was On Sesame Street For Many Years
3. Elmo Is The Only Puppet To Testify Before Congress
4. James Earl Jones Was The First Celebrity Guest On Sesame Street
5. Big Bird is 8’2″ Tall
6. The South African Version Of Sesame Street Has An HIV-Positive Muppet Named Kami
7. Roosevelt Franklin Was A Popular Early Character, But Was Discontinued
8. “Sing A Song” Was Originally Going To Be The Show’s Theme Song
9. Cookie Monster’s Real Name Is Sid
10. Sesame Street Was Once Sued For $5.5 Million Over Their “Let It Be” Parody “Letter B”


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Free Calls Within The US And Canada Through 2012

In case you haven’t seen this yet, Google has extended free domestic calls within the US and Canada for 2012.

As the holiday season approaches, we’re happy to announce that we’ve extended free domestic calls within the US and Canada for 2012. This is our way of helping you connect with friends and family across the country. And you can still call the rest of the world from Gmail at our insanely low rates.

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Italian cat inherits $10m fortune

Tommaso, a four-year-old, one-time stray from Rome, is thought to have become the world’s richest cat. Since the death of his 94-year-old mistress last month, he has become a property magnate — or perhaps mognate — with flats and houses worth an estimated €10m scattered from Milan in the north to Calabria in the south.

In a handwritten will, signed on 26 November, 2009, Tommaso’s mistress — the childless widow of a successful builder — gave her lawyers the task of identifying “the animal welfare body or association to which to leave the inheritance and the task of looking after the cat Tommaso”.


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