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• Prison Guard finds $10,000, turns in the $5000 to police, they are still looking for the owner of the $500 [Unlikely]July 5, 2009
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• In your 50s? Worried about the recent deaths of people in their 50s? Besides getting your AARP membership (yup, 50 is the qualifier), here's some more tips to help you make it to your 60s, also known as the "stay of my lawn" stage [PSA]July 5, 2009
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• See if you can tell which images have been faked in this story about snopes.com [Interesting]July 5, 2009
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• Washington Post publisher worried that paper's plan to sell its access to power brokers might have caused readers to doubt paper's independence, integrity [Followup]July 5, 2009
  <table> <tr><td> <a href="http://www.fark.com/4490329"><img alt="Followup" title="Followup" src="http://img.fark.net/pub/topics/followup.gif" width="54" height="11"></a> </td><td> <a href="http://www.fark.com/4490329">[link]</a> <a href="http://www.fark.com/4490329">[24 comments]</a> </td></tr></table>
• Walt Disney World monorails collide head-on, one killed. Unfortunately it wasn't the bastard who decided to close the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ride [Florida]July 5, 2009
  <table> <tr><td> <a href="http://www.fark.com/4490387"><img alt="Florida" title="Florida" src="http://img.fark.net/pub/topics/florida.gif" width="54" height="11"></a> </td><td> <a href="http://www.fark.com/4490387">[link]</a> <a href="http://www.fark.com/4490387">[117 comments]</a> </td></tr></table>
• Cop fired for posting sexually suggestive photos on her MySpace page. "Your naked buttocks are showing." [Interesting]July 5, 2009
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• Local mom wants a law requiring all teen drivers have a "Caution - Newly Licensed" magnet on their cars, never get laid [Stupid]July 5, 2009
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• Guy tries to go fishing with dynamite, winds up getting real chummy with the fish [Fail]July 5, 2009
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• "President of the Internet" voting goes on until July 11. Leo Laporte gets Drew's vote [Amusing]July 5, 2009
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• Ugly-ass baby panda goes on display at Thai zoo. It looks delicious [Sappy]July 5, 2009
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• London?s Tower Bridge is on Twitter, I?ll be on the bridge later today
• Tech execs: how to reach ?normal? users with PR and with TechCrunch/GigaOm et al
• How the SF Giants saved a million bucks with telecommunications upgrades
• Behind the scenes with @garyvee at one of the best wine stores in the world
• Really Secret Scoble
• How @loumongello turned vacation at Disney World into riches

TechWheat

• [Technologizer]: Lala's Spectacular New Music ServiceOctober 21, 2008
  For a couple of months now, I've been using a music service that's been in a quiet (but open) beta period. It's been kind of amazing. That service is the all-new version of Lala, and it's officially throwing its doors open to the public today.
• [Computerworld]: ASUS may ship two-screen Windows 7 notebooks in Q1October 19, 2008
  Asustek, also known as ASUS -- the people who make the Eee PC -- plans to ship new notebooks that have touch screens on both the top (where the screen normally goes) and the bottom (where the keyboard normally goes) as early as the first quarter of next year, according to a report.
• [Liliputing]: MSI Wind vs. Asus Eee PC 1000H: The nitpicker's guideOctober 17, 2008
  These two netbooks are remarkably similar.
• [jkOnTheRun]: Foxmarks Secure Password Sync out of betaOctober 17, 2008
  I shared this news over at Web Worker Daily earlier today, but thought it worth a mention in case you missed it. Foxmarks, the Firefox extension that synchronizes bookmarks, profiles and more, just hit version 2.5.
• [HotHardware]: Lenovo's IdeaPad S10 Netbook, HotHardware Video SpotlightOctober 17, 2008
  Lenovo's IdeaPad S10 is a 10" Netbook that sports low power consumption, ultra-portability, respectable performance and a well rounded feature set.
• [Google]: Browse what the world is saying on Blog SearchOctober 1, 2008
  Adapting some of the technology pioneered by Google News, we're now showing categories on the left side of the website and organizing the blog posts within those categories into clusters, which are groupings of posts about the same story or event.
• [Liliputing]: Lenovo IdeaPad S10 dissectedSeptember 27, 2008
  Lenovo's first Netbook began shipping this week, and customers are just starting to receive their orders.
• [jkOnTheRun]: Asus adds integrated wireless broadband to Eee PC netbooksSeptember 25, 2008
  It's not just 3G, it's three-and-three-quarters-G with support for HSUPA. That means if the wireless network in your area is up for it, you'll have speedy downloads of up to 7.2 Mbps and 2 Mbps back up.
• [Walt Mossberg]: Google's G1: First ImpressionsSeptember 23, 2008
  The phone, expected to be the first of many to use the Android operating system, was largely designed by Google, and was built by HTC of Taiwan. It will be sold in the U.S. starting next month by T-Mobile, for $179 with a two-year contract.
• [TorrentFreak]: uTorrent's Mac Client LeakedSeptember 23, 2008
  An early Alpha release of the long awaited Mac version of the popular BitTorrent client uTorrent has leaked to the public. The application is still in development, but most features seem to work just fine. As expected, the application looks very Mac-like, and better than its Windows counterpart.