ITwhirled
by Amy Bennett

A tribute to the weird, funny, twisted, technology-driven world we live in.

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Quiz: In their own words

Whose DNA isn't programmed to make cheap junk? Who is bringing holiday giving to the cell-phone-toting generation? Who can get 100M bps? Who doesn't need Microsoft to tell them their software is pirated? Think you know? Take the quiz and prove it.
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NASA continues to pepper Australia with space garbage

A short 29 years after the Skylab space station landed in bits across southwestern Australia, an ammonia tank from the International Space Station has splashed down in the South Pacific.
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University bans <3, 'monkey' suffix

Lake Superior State has issued its annual list of words it decrees affronts to the English language. This year there's an unword on the list,
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Cell phones reduce classiness of British royalty

Most Americans probably assume that any romantic scandal within the British royal family would involve a dropped handkerchief or a secret rendezvous arranged by servants. Nope. They just get caught texting other girls.
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High tech meets low tech: Pigeons used to deliver cell phones

It used to be that carrier pigeons were the best and most effective means to transmit messages. Maybe in some situations they still are...
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Bank robber distracted by cell phone call

if you're working on something important -- like, say, robbing a bank -- cell phone distractions can be costly.
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Satellites to track penguin poop

While antarctic penguins are too small to see from space, their poo is visible via satellite.
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Latest terrifying Japanese robot produces ghastly parodies of emotions

KOBIAN is a metal humanoid with 48 "actuators" that allow it to mimic the body posture and facial expressions that correspond to real human moods.
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Japanese train station attendants subjected to computerized smile inspections

Is your smile is adequately friendly for customer service purposes? This computer can tell.
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Software giant tangles with angry pachyderm

Thomas Siebel faces rampaging elephant in Tanzania.
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Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325

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