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Effin' Fast!

Wes Phillips First Published: Jun 08, 2006 0 comments

Take an F1 track and race a Fiat, Ferrari 360 Modena, and an F1 car for one lap. Who wins? Nah, let's make it interesting: Give the Fiat a 30-second head start over the Ferrari and don't even start the F1 until one minute and twenty-one seconds have passed. Yeah, same result, but a lot more interesting this way.


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Does The Five-Second Rule Work?

Wes Phillips First Published: Jun 07, 2006 0 comments

According to researchers at the University of Illinois, if you drop food on hardwood or tile floors and pick it up within five seconds, it probably is safe to eat.That's because it takes at least that long for germs to devour dropped dry food. It takes wet food less time to become contaminated—and if you drop food onto carpet, all bets are off. "That's an entirely different story and we haven't done that study yet."


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IMPORTANT! DO THIS NOW!

Wes Phillips First Published: Jun 06, 2006 0 comments

The (insert adjective here) recording and entertainment lobbies have sneakily maneuvered to have language inserted in http://www.copyright.gov/docs/regstat051606.html">

Section 115 Reform Act (SIRA), which is being considered by the House Judiciary Committee, that will destroy fair use as we know it. The language is vague but it appears to require licenses from copyright holders for "every digital copy made in the transmission of digital media—including cached copies on servers or on your hard drive, and even temporary copies in RAM," according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).


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