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(via The Daily Mail)

The appointment of George Bush’s leading hawk as head of the World Bank was heading for a crisis over his relationship with a senior British employee.
Influential members of staff at the international organisation have complained to its board that Paul Wolfowitz, a married father of three, is so besotted with Oxford-educated Shaha [...]

(via DailyKos.com)

Suppressing free speech
Very rarely does the everyday public get a glimpse of what happens behind the scenes in a normally-secret Bush Administration.
But Monday, March 28, the Secret Service called three everyday people into their offices to discuss why we were kicked out of a presidential event in Denver last week where Bush [...]

Joshua Schachter received an influx of cash to work on Del.icio.us full time, cool deal.
More info here.

(via Slashdot.com)
comforteagle writes “This past week I launched an open source social bookmarking competitor to del.icio.us - de.lirio.us. After running it for a while open to the public it appears to be running relatively bug free so this is the invitation to the Slashdot crowd. The code is entirely open and the content is cc [...]

(via Treehugger.com)

Savings on energy bills is one of the key reasons to build (or renovate) green. But your bank is quite likely to charge you a higher interest rate on loans for any houses that deviate from the norm. The UK’s Ecology Building Society, in these solar-powered offices, offer mortgages for properties with “an ecological [...]

(via Treehugger.com)

Wayne New Jersey is undertaking a prototype energy plan in grand TreeHuggin-style. Let the pork barrel buzzards and influence peddlers have Washington DC. Economics and common sense, not idealism, are powerful enough forces that small towns can find ways to slow energy consumption and in doing so reduce taxes. Now that’s a “frame”. If [...]

(via Engadget.com)

Wired has the story of how four students from Carl Hayden Community High School in Phoenix, Arizona, beat some of the best schools in the country, including MIT, to win the national underwater robot championship. The students, who are all undocumented Mexican immigrants, built their robot on the cheap in just three days, using [...]

(via Mocoloco.com)

From Italy’s Oluce. You can also light up your garden or your sauna with lit Stones made of white weatherproof plastic, or Teda, a reflecting rod with both indirect and diffused light.
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