“Will the feds phase out traditional lightbulbs?”

In a bid to save money on electrical bills, we’ve been switching all of the commonly-used lights in our house to compact florescent (CF) bulbs. We started about a year ago, and just finished yesterday, after I discovered a kind of 60W-equivalent CF bulb I hadn’t seen before that is no taller than a standard …

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What’s In a Name?

I was just reading this article about two fairly-new TV-over-Internet startups, when my mind stumbled over this paragraph and fell flat on it’s face: The company is eschewing the vogue for user-generated novelty and signing up real talent. The latest name to be revealed is movie director Spike Lee, who will make an exclusive video …

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