The Lumpen Proletarian

Media Outlets Losing Money From a Lack of Auto Ads - NYTimes.com

The flight of advertising dollars to the Internet is one explanation for the pain felt by traditional media. Another culprit that is increasingly to blame is Detroit.

Tropical Warming Tied to Flooding Rains - NYTimes.com

Rising temperatures around the globe are linked to extreme downpours and flooding, researchers said on Thursday.

Fingerprint Test Tells What a Person Has Touched - NYTimes.com

A new analytical technique could be used to identify substances like drugs, explosives or poisons on fingerprints.

A Tall, Cool Drink of ... Sewage? - NYTimes.com
In the world’s driest places, the future of drinking water may flow from a wastewater-recycling plant.

Who Lives There - Clingstone - The Old House and the Sea - NYTimes.com

Clingstone, a faded, shingled, 103-year-old mansion set on a rock in Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay, is one family’s labor of love.

Dutch town tests 'air-purifying' concrete (Update)

PhysOrg.com: A road in the small Dutch town of Hengelo is to be paved with air-purifying concrete in a trial that could lead to a breakthrough in the fight against rising pollution, scientists said Wednesday.

Compressor-free refrigerator may loom in the future

PhysOrg.com: Refrigerators and other cooling devices may one day lose their compressors and coils of piping and become solid state, according to Penn State researchers who are investigating electrically induced heat effects of some ferroelectric polymers.

Iconic stone arch collapses in southern Utah park

PhysOrg.com: (AP) -- One of the largest and most photographed arches in Arches National Park has collapsed.

Researchers Crack Medeco High-Security Locks With Plastic Keys | Threat Level from Wired.com

Marc Weber Tobias and two colleagues discovered that they could create plastic keys to open Medeco's M3 high-security locks, despite key control measures designed to thwart key duplication. Photo: Dave

What bandwidth addiction will cost
Tim Wu, guest columnist: Americans today spend almost as much on bandwidth – the capacity to move information – as we do on energy. A family of four likely spends several hundred dollars a month on cell phones, cable television and Internet connections, which is about what we spend on gas and heating oil.

Amazon.com: loosenut's review of Playmobil Security Check Point

Spanish shopkeeper finds Homer Simpson euro | Oddly Enough | Reuters

MADRID (Reuters) - A one euro coin has turned up in Spain bearing the face of cartoon couch potato Homer Simpson instead of that of the country's king, a sweetshop owner told Reuters on Friday.

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