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A DC airport ticket agent offers some examples of 'why' this country is in trouble: 1. I had a New Hampshire Congresswoman (Carol Shea-Porter) ask for an aisle seat so that her hair wouldn't get messed up by being near the window. (On an airplane!) 2. I got a call from a Kansas...

Link Removed due to 404 Error Plans to erect a sculpture in a London park using girders salvaged from New York's World Trade Center, which was destroyed in attacks on September 11, 2001, have been put on hold after victims' families complained. The memorial, designed by Japanese-Russian...

IDG News Service - A Nevada student who gave the opening address at his high school graduation last year has been charged with breaking into his school district's computer system and bumping up his classmates' grades for a fee. Police say Tyler Coyner, 19, was the ringleader in a group of 13...

A ' sex toy show' at Northwestern University in Chicago featured a woman being brought to orgasm by a machine-powered saw that had a dildo where the blade would normally be. As a group of around 100 students looked on, the naked woman was penetrated by the phallic object in a human...

As promised, the great Stephan T. Lavavej is back! Link Removed Tens of thousands of you have watched STL's (those are his initials, so that's what we call him) Link Removed, or Standard Template Library. If you haven't, you should. This series, Advanced STL, covers the gory details of the...

If you are interested in learning Windows 7, Adult Education has the training for you. We will offer a 16-hour class March 29 to April 21. Link Removed - Invalid URL

A high school English teacher who was suspended from her job after she blogged that her students were "rude, disengaged, lazy whiners," said on Wednesday that she did nothing wrong. "Some of the students, parents and administrators don't want to hear the truth," said Natalie Munroe, 30, a...

Have you ever needed to memorize a number of objects’ names, such as word definitions in a new language, animals' names, people’s names, or tree leaf shape nomenclature? If you did, you might have employed a useful tool, known as the flashcard. By creating cards with questions, pictures, or...

Link Removed is back on C9!! Link Removed Yuri is a logician, computer scientist and inventor of abstract state machines. He currently works at Microsoft Research (he's a member of Wolfram Schulte's RiSE team). This is the second part in a series of lectures exploring the fundamental...

IDG News Service - Dell will launch a 10-in. Windows 7-based tablet for business users later this year, aimed primarily at "vertical" markets such as health care, education and the financial sector, the company said Tuesday. Link Removed

Google Android tablets also due later this year Dell will launch a 10-inch Windows 7-based tablet for business users later this year, aimed primarily at "vertical" markets such as health care, education and the financial sector, the company said Tuesday. Link Removed - Invalid URL

Dell will launch a 10-inch Windows 7-based tablet for business users later this year, aimed primarily at "vertical" markets such as health care, education and the financial sector, the company said Tuesday. Link Removed - Invalid URL

Google Android tablets also on the way Dell will launch a 10-inch Windows 7-based tablet for business users later this year, aimed primarily at "vertical" markets such as health care, education and the financial sector, the company has announced. Link Removed - Invalid URL

Dell will launch a 10-inch Windows 7-based tablet for business users later this year, aimed primarily at vertical markets like health care, education, and the financial sector, the company said Tuesday. Dell is hedging its bets, however. It will also offer 10-inch tablets based on Google's...

Dell will launch a 10-inch Windows 7-based tablet for business users later this year, aimed primarily at "vertical" markets such as health care, education and the financial sector, the company said Tuesday. Link Removed

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at Link Removed. In this episode, Steve and Wade: Highlight the January 2011 Update to the Link Removed& Course Celebrate the one year birthday of the Windows Azure Platform Talk...

TPL Dataflow (TDF), System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow, builds upon the foundational layer for asynchronous and concurrent programming using Tasks provided in TPL in .NET 4. TDF is a complementary set of primitives to those delivered in TPL in .NET 4, addressing additional scenarios beyond those...

In this episode of the SharePoint Sideshow, Paul Stubbs interviews Microsoft curriculum manager Cliff Fitzgerald. Cliff discusses the many learning opportunities that Microsoft FAST Search makes available for developers and IT Pros alike. For example, FAST University offers self-directed online...

Link Removed due to 404 Error KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – Most of its residents left, the school closed, the city government was disbanded and starting this week nearly every commercial building in Picher, Oklahoma, will be demolished. But the owner of the last-remaining open...