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A group of pranksters disguised themselves as construction workers on Saturday in order to post a Windows logo onto the facade of a future Apple Store in Hamburg, Germany.
The .WAV Collective posted a video of the prank taking place, as noted by MacNN. In the video, a fake construction crew...
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proponents of reactors have spent some $645 million in the last decade lobbying Congress for more subsidies. ….A critical moment is coming soon, when Obama goes to Congress to request an additional $36 billion in loan guarantees for new nukes in his 2012 budget.With them, America’s atomic...
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The Saudi royal family has unveiled plans to build the world's tallest building, which will be exactly a mile high.
Construction of the Kingdom Tower in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah is expected to cost £12billion and will comprise 275 floors, making it twice as high as the current...
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Link RemovedTOKYO (majirox news) – A gigantic concrete pump is heading towards Japan, the largest in the world, increasing speculating that Japan will soon attempt to entomb the Fukushima reactors.
“We either wait a few hundred thousand years for the radiation to cool, or we wait a few weeks to...
wo gigantic concrete pumps — described as the largest such equipment in the world — will soon be on their way to join the machinery being used to pour water on damaged reactors in Japan’s nuclear crisis, company officials said Thursday.
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The two machines are normally used to...
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A Malaysian landlord received a rather unpleasant surprise when he went to collect rent from some tenants and found his property had disappeared.
All that remained of Zuria Ali's house, which he had inherited from his parents, were 24 concrete pillar holders, a smashed TV and pieces of...
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – A 500-foot (152 meters) Ferris wheel, which would be the tallest in the Western Hemisphere, may be built on the famed Las Vegas strip, officials said.
A developer won permission to construct the Ferris wheel as the centrepiece of an amusement park and retail centre...
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Polish Town of Swiebodzin Constructs World's Largest Jesus Statue
People all over the world look up to Jesus -- but none look up to him more than residents of the Polish town of Swiebodzin.
The small village is now home to the world's largest statue of Jesus Christ, which rises 115 feet...
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Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Microsoft cloud. You can follow and interact with the show at Link Removed.
In this episode, Wade and Steve couldn't resist the urge to visit the Channel 9 studio while it's under construction. While deftly avoiding the danger of falling studio...
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Link RemovedThis past weekend, a team of Microsoft Employees - many from Windows -*participated in the Link Removed, a competition where teams from all over the world build human-powered flying machines, push them off a 30’ high dock, and see who can fly the farthest. The event was tons of fun...
In memory of Harold Hayes
In 1991 I sold my moving company in New Orleans and moved to Bayou La Batre Alabama. I had been running a bulletin board and was networking through Fidonet. I found someone selling a couple hundred used Hitachi cd rom drives and bought them to sell to sysops running...
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