Posted on January 31st, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange gave a rare interview on CBS’s 60 Minutes. Wikileaks, Assange said, is a conduit for information for other journalists (the New York Times recently published some of its leaks). If someone in the State Department knows of wrong doing and has no way of getting the information out to the public, Wikileaks can help, he said. As an example, he said 15,000 civilian deaths in Iraq went unreported. Assange refuted the idea that he is doing anything illegal. Military personnel can go to jail for sharing classified documents, but not publishers. In the last 50 years, none have, he said. Click here for interview.
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Posted on May 9th, 2010 by Joy Schwabach
The containment dome isn’t working, but this idea from Brazil fixed a crisis ten years ago.
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Posted on April 28th, 2010 by Joy Schwabach
Compare prices for any year in the past to today’s dollars, have your news and blogs read out loud to you, and find TV shows on the web.
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Posted on March 31st, 2010 by Joy Schwabach
News.google.com/archivesearch lets you search newspapers to find that article you should have saved. We get this kind of reader request a lot.
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Posted on March 24th, 2010 by Joy Schwabach
Four sites: Get the actual front pages of newspapers, hire someone for $5 or hire yourself out, find out if you phone is emitting too much radiation, get 50 gigabytes of free storage.
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Posted on January 8th, 2010 by Joy Schwabach
Vark.com gives you quick answers from experts. FastFlip lets you flip through magazines and newspapers online.
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Posted on December 4th, 2009 by Joy Schwabach
Google’s FastFlip and free anti-virus solutions.
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Posted on November 17th, 2009 by Joy Schwabach
Lexy.com delivers sports highlights, news updates, science headlines, etc. to your phone.
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Posted on June 15th, 2009 by Joy Schwabach
Microsoft’s new “Bing” search engine is designed to give Google a run for the money. From our first look, it may very well do that. It’s free and you can use it at bing.com.
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Posted on May 3rd, 2009 by Joy Schwabach
For something truly awesome, try newstimeline.googlelabs.com. It gives you the news highlights for any day or month, any year, if they have it.
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