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Free apps: Pandora: Pandora is a music player that takes your favorite songs, and plays songs with similar attributes as streaming audio - l...

An innovative classical music group here in Seattle filmed a kind of performance art piece by playing a concert on a light rail train, with ...

A Good Deal for Carriers, but Consumers? By Roy Furchgott NYT Jan 26'09 http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/verizon-has-anno...

Cooking in a vacuum preserves flavor and prevents overcooking, if done professionally.  I wonder if home vacuum bag systems and an immersion...

As unpolitical as I am, I have never followed politics as closely as now.   I found these quotations from the New York Times particularly re...

A friend stayed at a hotel overlooking the Taj Mahal recently, and said it was the first time a hotel really made him feel like a King.  Eve...

For anyone who takes the bus in Seattle often, here's a really handy $10 application that saves you from standing at the bus stop wonder...

Did you know McDonalds Caesar salad has twice the salt if a large fries? (890 vs 350) -You easily consume an entire day's worth of sodiu...

   I did something today for the first time ever - I used a GPS-enabled iPhone to take a bus ride in a part of town I hardly knew.  A quick ...

I loved the story of this social experiment.  Joshua Bell, a world-class violinist, played for morning passers-by in a subway station.  Desp...

Here's an airstream trailer with a little class - a little help from a few renowned designers. Well, what do you expect for a 50 grand t...

OK, this was so bizarre to me - a tiny expensive fruit that temporarily alters your taste buds so that odd food combinations are suddenly t...

I remember reading a study from Nature in the early 90's where they found by 'morphing' faces with a little asymmetry in speci...

I grew up in this house: click on 'view a larger map' and zoom in on location marked 'A'.  View Larger Map

I had never heard of a miniature horse in place of a guide dog. They live longer, are smarter, and are instinctually natural at reading the ...