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  1. -- Daily Brief, March 10th 2010, Morning Edition

    If you bicycle as much as I do, Google Maps’s new bicycling directions are awesome Maersk built six of the fastest cargo container ships ever but they can’t sell them and instead the ships are being used to host a children’s TV game show If you haven’t watched the new Tron movie trailer yet, here it is in HD My favorite […]

  2. -- Daily Brief, March 1st 2010, Afternoon Edition

    Game publishers Activision send a cease and desist to a fan produced non-commercial sequel to King’s Quest. King’s Quest: Mask of Eternity, released 12 years ago in 1998, was the eighth and last official sequel in the series SFgate.com readers discuss the issue of children in restaurants Vancouver, Canada has an “almost perfect” transit environment due to its grid […]

  3. -- Daily Brief, February 26th 2010, Weekend Edition

    Factory farming of salmon in Chile led to a virus that will reduce their salmon exports by 78% this year BusinessWeek reminds us of the 50 ugliest cars produced in the last 50 years Wired tries to convince us that doing anything but what you are suppose to be will make you more productive  You can now tour the “Boneyard”, […]

  4. -- Daily Brief, February 24th 2010, Afternoon Edition

    Peter Gabriel’s new album of cover material, Scratch My Back, is “mesmerizingly awful” Wired’s Clive Thompson reminds those dangerous folks who text while driving that they could just take mass transit instead Warren Ellis reminds us that a bunker is a still bunker What YouTube taketh away it giveth back in 30 minutes. Internet still goes crazy A Bill Gates funded projects finds […]

  5. -- Daily Brief, February 23rd 2010, Afternoon Edition

    Grateful Dead & Academia Previously rumored, now confirmed: Starbucks rolls out single-cup “pour-over” coffee on March 9th, nationwide” Web-wizard Shaun Inman is branching out out into iPhone video games Mozilla Thunderbird’s plans for 2010 include becoming a self-sustainable business Federal government hands Ohio money for new trains, tracks and passenger service stations but the state legislature doesn’t seem to want it How marketers use data […]

  6. -- Daily Brief, February 18th 2010, Afternoon Edition

    HTML5 is doing just fine. Maybe Cholesterol-busting wonder drugs, those that supposedly help prevent a heart attacks, increase chances diabetes The Plastic Ono Band reunites for Yoko Ono’s birthday Two-time Olympic gold metal winner, Shaun White, on how he chooses which companies to lend his likeness too The “godfather of rap” is back and it probably will be televised.

  7. -- Review of Hey Mercedes - Hey Mercedes EP

    EPs are simply the best album length for rock music mostly due repetitive tempos found amongst modern rock bands. Hey Mercedes doesn’t even attempt to side-step this issue with their first EP and instead sticks to what they do best - subdued, percussion focused, punk rock.

    The consistency of rhythm in this album makes it a great […]

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