Wired: Top Stories (6 unread)
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What's Inside: For a Refreshing Hint of Tear Gas, Light Up a Cigarette
Posted: April 24th, 2008, 9:00pm EDT by Patrick di Justo
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Find out the delightful components that make up your typical cigarette: castoreum, culled from secretions in glands located near a beaver's genitals; acetophenone, a prime component of tear gas; and, gamma-heptalactone, which efficiently keeps nicotine in your bloodstream longer.
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Sex Drive: 7 Reasons Your Boss Should Send You to Sex Conferences
Posted: April 24th, 2008, 9:00pm EDT by Regina Lynn
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Geek get-togethers like Web 2.0 Expo draw technologists in droves. But if you really want to get ahead of the curve when it comes to developing for Web 3.0, head to a sex conference.
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How Good Lighting Can Make Digital Renders Look Real
Posted: April 24th, 2008, 9:00pm EDT by Sonia Zjawinski
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See how designers at Nokia, Ford, Apple and Microsoft create ultra-realistic 3-D models of their product concepts using HyperShot, developed by award-winning Henrik Wann Jensen.
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Court: Government Must Reveal Watch-List Status to Constantly Detained Americans
Posted: April 24th, 2008, 9:00pm EDT by Threat Level
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Eight Americans suing the government over repeated stops at the border can see whether they have been put on the government's terror watch list, a court ruled last week. The court ruled against the government's invocation of national security and the plaintiffs will be the first to learn whether their names are on the 800,000-name list.
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April 25, 1859: Big Dig Starts for Suez Canal
Posted: April 24th, 2008, 9:00pm EDT by Randy Alfred
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Dig like an Egyptian: The Suez Canal made the world significantly smaller.
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Microsoft 3Q Profit Falls From Vista-Heavy '07 Quarter
Posted: April 24th, 2008, 5:27pm EDT by Associate Press
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Microsoft's Q3 falls 11 percent from a year earlier, when Vista pre-sales pushed up revenues. Net profit is 47 cents per share vs 50 cents; analysts had forecast 44 cents.