Truck passes out free beer to students

Seeded on Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:43 PM EST (The Globe and Mail)

Guelph, Ont. — A beer giveaway didn't last long before police in this southwestern Ontario city moved in.

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Ajax/Flash Web PowerPoint

Seeded on Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:33 PM EST (TechCrunch)

New York-based Thumbstacks is a bare bones but functional application that allows users to build presentations online and present them via a permanent URL. It uses both Flash and Ajax - it uses Flash if its installed, and defaults to Ajax if not.

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The Army's Robot Sherpa

Seeded on Thu Mar 9, 2006 3:54 AM EST (Popular Science - )

From the backcountry to the rubble-strewn back alleys of a war-torn city, this mechanized pack animal will follow soldiers wherever duty calls them

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World's First Dedicated Power Supply for Graphics Cards

Seeded on Sat Mar 4, 2006 8:17 PM EST (dailytech.com)

Thermaltake's new Purepower Power Express 250W takes some of the burden off your existing PSU

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Watch the Skies in the Year 52,007 A.D.

Seeded on Sat Mar 4, 2006 7:21 PM EST (damninteresting.com)

Fifty thousand years from now– if all goes according to plan– a bright streak will smudge the sky as a man-made meteor plunges into the Earth's atmosphere.

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