Archive for October, 2009

Button edges out Hamilton in final session (Pitpass)

2009 World Champion Jenson Button finishes 0.002s ahead of Lewis Hamilton in final practice session, with Barrichello third ahead of Buemi, Heidfeld, Kovalainen, Trulli, Kubica, Sutil and Raikkonen.

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Storm is both bad and good for Weld agriculture (Greeley Tribune)

Storm is both bad and good for Weld agriculture Bill Jackson Sugar beet farmers will be able to get back into the fields in the next day or two and harvest what crop is left, but this week’s storm put the corn harvest back once again. And the moisture the storm brought was ideal for Weld County’s winter wheat farmers, who planted next year’s crop earlier this fall. They depend on Mother Nature …

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Green Berets get wearable combat smartphones (The Register)

Monocle-vid computing for the rest of the best It would seem that the American Land Warrior wearable war-smartphone system, once reviled by troops and cancelled by top brass, is now firmly on the road to military fashionability. The ultimate kit accolade - used by special forces - now appears to have been bestowed on the digi-trooper gear.… The power of collaboration within unified communications

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Light’s origin unknown (The Rhinelander Daily News)

For decades, residents in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula have witnessed a truly unexplainable phenomenon.

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Simple Data Center Best Practices Can Cut Energy Use by 20 Percent (GreenBiz)

As part of a partnership with The Green Grid, the U.S. EPA made a number of small tweaks to how it managed one of its data centers, and ended up saving $15,000 per year in energy costs as a result.

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