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February 16, 2009

When 100% is not enough

Sometimes your software apps need just a little bit more juice to get the job done. Note the spontaneous overclocking Norton manages on the CPU meter with this antivirus update.
Thanks to Roger Curl for the pic.

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February 3, 2009

Google Maps car records roadkill

Oh deer. Google Maps has managed to decrease biodiversity by the sum of at least one startled young deer. Gizmodo reports below.

Google Maps Car Hits a Deer, Records Entire Ordeal on Google Maps

http://i.gizmodo.com/5141974/google-maps-car-hits-a-deer-records-entire-ordeal-on-google-maps

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If you try going to the location on google maps you just see a message that it’s unavailable due to high demand:

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=42.953557,-77.663247&panoid=6vAkor2kYZz3m5_1iSkMrw&cbp=12,181.53727377395012,,0,21.75107339062427&ll=42.953463,-77.663242&spn=0.027766,0.22316&t=h&z=13


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