bflora
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I'm a Chicago-based freelance journalist who also publishes the Chicago Methods Reporter (MethodsReporter.com). My work has appeared in Slate Magazine, EContent Magazine, The Daily Southtown and several other papers. If you're also located in the Chicago area, friend me and I'll send you an invite to a Chicago Mixxer group that we're organizing.
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Digg to Let Users Create Sub-Diggs... In 6 Months view photo
48 votes- Submitted by greggo
- 4 months ago
- (http://www.windycitizen.com/news/...)
At a recent Digg town hall meetup, CEO Jay Adelson spoke about a new feature in the pipeline that will let users roll their own sub-Diggs. Here at Mixx, it's called a community, and it's already available.
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Online Life Insurance Quotes & Rates Article Info view story
4 votes- Submitted by frankwellis
- 8 months ago
- (http://www.tipstrs.com/tip/2730/O...)
To get online life insurance quotes just go to Ellis Financial, the leader in providing the best life insurance rates online today. Ellis financial provides instant quotes from the top insurance companies out there. http://www.ellisfinancial.net/ Such
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McCain declares himself cancer-free view story
23 votes- Submitted by DiffeeOnline
- 8 months ago
- (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200803...)
John McCain declared Monday he has been cancer-free since a bout with skin cancer 7 1/2 years ago, although the pending Republican presidential nominee underwent a full medical examination including a cancer screening earlier in the day.
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Microsoft's price drop a shot across Sony's bow in Europe view story
32 votes- Submitted by DiffeeOnline
- 8 months ago
- (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/p...)
While the Nintendo Wii is still comfortably outselling both Microsoft and Sony, the war for what could be second place has found a new home: Europe. Yesterday Microsoft announced that it would be cutting prices of the Xbox 360 hardware across the board in
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Minority Report-like interface gets demoed at CeBIT view story
26 votes- Submitted by DiffeeOnline
- 8 months ago
- (http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/1...)
Needless to say, there's no indication as to where this particular bit of technology is headed next, but it seems safe to assume that it'll become a fixture of trade shows for years to come.
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Book: Is Virtual Sex Really Cheating? view story
25 votes- Submitted by DiffeeOnline
- 8 months ago
- (http://kotaku.com/366400/is-virtu...)
The people who get married in Second Life, the idea there seems to be that love is purely a product of the mind, and that just seems insane to me. The body has such a central role in our sexual lives, in our physical lives, that you can't just leave it...
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Copy and Paste on Your iPhone With iCopy view story
19 votes- Submitted by DiffeeOnline
- 8 months ago
- (http://gizmodo.com/366607/copy-an...)
It isn't a perfect solution by any means (all of the text you paste is sent across the internet), but it should tide you over until someone at Apple decides to make an official solution. Videos of iCopy in action are available after the break.
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The Living Museum view story
22 votes- Submitted by DiffeeOnline
- 8 months ago
- (http://www.popsci.com/environment...)
Check out our animated tour, below, and launch our photo gallery of the world's greenest museum here.
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Keep your Wi-Fi signal in your own house by lowering its signal strength view story
28 votes- Submitted by DiffeeOnline
- 8 months ago
- (http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/...)
Sure enough, there is, but not on every router. Hop into your router management system (either through a program you installed when you set up your router initially or by typing the IP address of the router into your web browser), and poke around.
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A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers view story
20 votes- Submitted by DiffeeOnline
- 8 months ago
- (http://io9.com/366675/a-breakthro...)
Now a group of researchers in Wisconsin have discovered the secret of digit growth, and perhaps the key to regrowing severed or stunted fingers.

