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Here’s some tasty-looking hard candy. And here’s that same tasty-looking hard candy scanned by an SEM. Tuns out that there’s a company offering to stick almost anything under an electron microscope and we can’t help but wonder: What to pick

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What Would You Stick Under A Scanning Electron Microscope? [Qotd]

The bride: “We knew that we didn’t want standard paper invites. We wanted something for people to keep and remember. We’re geeks

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Is There Any Better Gaming Nerd Wedding Invitation Than This? Answer: NO. [Gaming]

Happy Birthday, Yahoo! You turned 15 today. As a present, here’s a pretty scathing assessment of you from Ditherati , compliments of Twitter.

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The Best Google-Yahoo Comparison To Date [Block Quote]

This is the most accurate, highest resolution true color image of planet Earth to date. And at 2048 x 2048 pixels, you should put it in your desktop background now. You can get America too: Click on the images to get the high resolution version.

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The Most Accurate, Highest Resolution Earth View to Date [Space]

AT&T is late to the Android games, but they’re making up for lost time with five Android handsets in the first half of the year. First up: the Motorola Backflip , coming March 7th for $100 with contract. Wait… $100

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AT&T Finally Gets Android: Motorola Backflip Arrives March 7 [At&t]

Um, a lot. TwttrPoop is everything that Twitter has been building toward: It tracks the whole world pooping in real time on Twitter. Or taking a dump, dropping a deuce or having explosive diarrhea. It even will show you how much more people talk about pooping than your company or world peace or the economy: Awwww, dammit. There is simply nothing left for Twitter to accomplish. [ TwttrPoop ]

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How Much Is the World Pooping? [Twitter]

Reportedly, Senator John McCain wants Predators to provide with uncensored Wi-Fi coverage to the people of Iran. I don’t know if this is even technically possible, but its so preposterous and fantastically cool that I love the idea: During the Cold War, we provided the Polish people and dissidents with printing presses. Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube are the modern-day printing presses.

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McCain Wants Predators to Provide Wi-Fi for Iranians [Iran]

Fortune’s profile-cum-appraisal of Howard Stringer and his efforts to reform Sony paints a fairly bleak picture.

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Why Sony’s Howard Stringer Has One of the Hardest Jobs in the World [Sony]

VIDEO: Twittering home automation – Tweets reveals “heart-beat of the house”

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VIDEO: Twittering home automation

Vizio is readying TVs that bring some of the most popular websites including Facebook, Twitter, and eBay to new sets equipped with 802.11n Wi-Fi (on top of already announced offerings ). [ Vizio ]

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Vizio Adds Twitter and Facebook Widgets [Vizio]