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Iditarod fans feed race habit (Pocono Record) 10 Mar 2010
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Cathleen Griffin usually feeds her passion for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race through the Internet, but next week she’ll travel to Alaska for the first time to see the winner cross the finish line in the old gold rush town of…
Letters: Added airline fees will drive away business travelers (USA Today) 10 Mar 2010
Added airline fees will drive away business travelers Keith Spaventa - Edison, N.J. Continental Airlines and others imposing fees for premium seating are starting to follow the government in their revenue generating tactics: Bite the hand that feeds you (”Continental…
Google Prettifies RSS With iPad-Ready Google Reader Play (Gizmodo Australia) 10 Mar 2010
The mad scientists at the Google Labs have unleashed their latest concoction: Google Reader Play , a new way to look at your feeds one Google-suggested site at a time. It’s actually pretty neat! And perfect for the iPad. (more…)
Faraway Iditarod fans feed race habit (AP via Yahoo! News) 10 Mar 2010
Cathleen Griffin usually feeds her passion for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race through the Internet, but next week she’ll travel to Alaska for the first time to see the winner cross the finish line in the old gold rush town of Nome.
Faraway Iditarod fans feed race habit (AP via Yahoo! Sports) 10 Mar 2010
Cathleen Griffin usually feeds her passion for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race through the Internet, but next week she’ll travel to Alaska for the first time to see the winner cross the finish line in the old gold rush town of Nome. “I just can’t imagine being there,” said the Sebago, Maine, resident.
Google Reader Play Transforms Feeds into Entertainment Experience (Mashable) 10 Mar 2010
Google has just released an alternative player for Google Reader that gives those with a penchant for browsing news the ability to do so in an image-heavy, TV-like fashion. Dubbed Google Reader Play , the new tool is an experimental Google Labs project that presents stories one by one — based on their Recommend Items technology — using enlarged photos and auto-playing videos (in lieu of text) on …
Naked Pizza’s Twitter feed is worth following, Entrepreneur Magazine says (New Orleans Times-Picayune) 10 Mar 2010
The March issue of Entrepreneur Magazine names Naked Pizza on its list of the 10 companies with Twitter feeds worth following. Naked Pizza was seventh on a list that included The New York Times, The Economist and Dunkin Donuts….
World’s largest meat-eating plant prefers to eat… droppings (BBC News) 10 Mar 2010
The largest meat-eating plant in the world is designed not to eat small animals, but small animal poo, scientists discover.
A Closer Look at Sony’s New Skin for Android Phones (Wired News) 9 Mar 2010
Sony’s new user interface is designed as a skin that will go on top of the Android operating system and aggregate social networking feeds. Take a closer look at it how it compares to Motorola’s MotoBlur and the HTC Sense.
Local golf: Grey Oaks on forefront of figuring out when to feed hungry fairways (Naples Daily News) 9 Mar 2010
NAPLES —The room could double as a lunch area, complete with the paper plates.But what’s on them isn’t to be consumed, at least not by people. John S. Shenk and his son John hand off about a dozen paper plates — each covered with a square of grass — to one another and move what would look like an old-time corded electric razor over the top of it.What in the heck are they doing? The end result …
Research and Markets: China Feed Market Review & Outlook Proposal 2009/2010: Analysis of Production, Consumption … (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) 9 Mar 2010
DUBLIN—-Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “China Feed Market Review & Outlook Proposal 2009/2010″ report to their offering.
Lifehacker RSS Feeds Do a Little Dance [Announcements] (Lifehacker) 9 Mar 2010
# announcements Hey there Lifehacker RSS readers! Starting today, as passed down from above, Lifehacker’s default RSS feed is switching from a full-item feed to an excerpt-only feed. Don’t panic! You can still get the full feed back. More »
Siena subdues Fairfield in OT to win Metro Atlantic Athletic title (USA Today) 9 Mar 2010
Edwin Ubiles scored 27 points and Alex Franklin added 22 points and 12 rebounds as Siena rallied from a double-digit halftime deficit and beat Fairfield 72-65 in overtime Monday night to win the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference tournament for the third straight season.
Bats Europe Selects QuantHouse for Market Data Feeds (Finance Technology Network) 9 Mar 2010
Bats Europe has selected QuantHouse to supply it with real-time market data feeds from other European trading venues.