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CHINA: World's 'fastest' train unveiled
China put into service the world's "fastest" rail link on Saturday, with speeds over ...

SPACE EXPLORATION: Russian rocket blasts off to International Space Station
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft with three astronauts on board took off from Kazakhstan ...

ARCHAEOLOGY : Find in southern France puts humans in Europe 200,000 earlier
Experts on prehistoric man are rethinking their dates after a find in a southern ...

Large Hadron Collider shut down until February
Scientists have switched the world's most powerful atom-smasher to standby for two ...

SPACE: US lauches space-mapping satellite WISE
NASA launched its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite from Califoria's ...

SPACE: Virgin Galactic unveils 'giant shuttlecock' space liner
Virgin's billionaire boss Richard Branson has unveiled SpaceShip Two, the Virgin ...

SPACE: Britain calls time on UFO hunting
The British government has decided to shut down a 50-year-old "UFO-hunting" unit ...

Mars Science Lab launch delayed two years
NASA's launch of the Mars Science Laboratory -- hampered by technical difficulties ...

Shuttle lands at California air base
NASA officials Sunday waved off the first opportunity for space shuttle Endeavour ...

Inspiration for 'Contact' still listening
From a remote valley in Northern California, Jill Tarter is listening to the universe. ...

Indian lunar orbiter hit by heat rise
Scientists have switched off several on-board instruments to halt rising temperatures ...

Motorola cuts 3,000 jobs and delays spin-off
Motorola is cutting 3,000 jobs and delaying the spin-off of its loss-making mobile ...

Chipmaker warns of global sales decline
TSMC chief executive says industry revenues in 2009 will fall by up to 10% in 'an ...

Netbooks lead computer growth
Despite the downturn in the economy, an unexpected surge in global consumer demand ...

Mobile makers braced for painful 2009
The world's leading mobile phone makers are braced for a painful 2009 after warnings ...

Microsoft looks to cloud to open new windows
If Microsoft fails to lay out a compelling plan for how it will adapt to the new ...

Microsoft results offer hope to tech sector
Microsoft is weathering the economic downturn better than expected, with sales in ...

Amazon wins over sceptics about web services
When Amazon Web Services was launched in March 2006, investors thought the hundreds ...

Hackers mimic Huffington Post's Twitter feed (AP)
AP - A Huffington Post spokesman says the left-leaning news and opinion Web site ...

China nabs 5,400 people for online porn in 2009 (AP)
AP - Chinese authorities caught nearly 5,400 suspects last year in a crackdown on ...

GPS-led travel goes amiss; 3 Ore. parties rescued (AP)
AP - In a holiday hurry, Jeramie Griffin piled his family into the car and asked ...

Orange Bowl blackout averted with 8-day extension (AP)
AP - Football fans will be able to watch college bowl games on Sinclair stations ...

Google executive running for Vermont governor post (AP)
AP - Internet search giant Google is based in Silicon Valley, yet it runs its community ...

AT&T is latest to end Tiger Woods sponsorship (AP)
AP - AT&T Inc. said Thursday it would no longer sponsor Tiger Woods, joining Accenture ...

Bono calls for control over Internet downloads (AFP)
AFP - Irish rock star Bono called Sunday for tougher controls over the spread of ...

Home & Office : Magnetter Key Hanger
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Home & Office : 8-Bit Oven Mitt
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T-Shirts & Apparel : Dice Handbag Kits
Make your own D20 handbag!DIY Kit to make a handbag that looks like a D20! $29.99 ...

Geek Toys : Perplexus
Perplexus is back and more awesome than ever!Fun clear sphere full of mazes and ...

T-Shirts & Apparel : Office Space
In space, no one can hear you scream about TPS Reports. We're with Peter: Human ...

T-Shirts & Apparel : Under Attack Babydoll
Blast from the Past We'd seen this shirt in yellow. And we liked it. But generally ...

T-Shirts & Apparel : Bring Out Your Undead
Monty Python + Zombies = WIN When I started at ThinkGeek, all there was was swamp. ...

Hero Complex blog earns recognition
Hero Complex, the Los Angeles Times blog devoted to caped crusaders, zombies, wizards ...

A Cambridge crash course
There's so much to see and do at the country's first college town -- Harvard, MIT, ...

Baseball is caught in Web
You heard all about it, in this newspaper and others, on talk radio and television ...

Using algae to make fuels, he's thinking beyond pond scum
Sapphire Energy CEO Jason Pyle, who has had a hand in start-ups in medical engineering ...

YourTour.com helps plan your French trip
France, anyone? Airfares are becoming more affordable after summer highs, and new ...

With information galore, we need news judgment
In the Web age, consumers could drown in a sea of media ...

Thousands of cellphones confiscated in California prisons
Crimes committed with them include the planning of escapes, restraining order violations, ...