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Dick and Rick Hoyt are a father-and-son team from Massachusetts who together compete just about continuously in marathon races. And if they’re not in a marathon they are in a triathlon — that daunting, almost superhuman, combination of 26.2 miles of running, 112 miles of bicycling, and 2.4 miles of swimming. Together they have climbed mountains, and once trekked 3,735 miles across America.
It’s a remarkable record of exertion — all the more so when you consider that Rick can't walk or talk.
Quite possibly one of the most inspirational stories that I've ever encountered --
Team Hoyt.
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at 10:53 AM on October 19, 2006
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Street Cents, a staple on The
CBC for 17 years, has been
canceled. The Emmy award-winning show focused on consumer and media awareness for teens and pre-teens.
Street Cents is filmed in
Halifax, NS and airs without commercial interruption in order to avoid potential conflict with advertisers who were regularly taken to task on the show. The last episode will air on October 1st, 2006.
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at 6:26 PM on August 18, 2006
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"
Desktop Earth 2.0 is a wallpaper generator for Windows. It runs whenever you're logged on and updates your wallpaper with an accurate representation of the Earth as it would be seen from space at that precise moment."
The images are
fantastic. Oh, and it's free.
(See similar - via digg).
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at 7:37 PM on March 10, 2006
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Sex in an online game? It's about time.
Naughty America: The Game is the first of its kind: A massively multiplayer online world that allows players to do what they've always wanted to: be naughty. Check out the
trailer.
All links NSFW. Site contains cartoon nudity. Oh, Flash and crappy music abound. You have been warned.
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at 11:17 AM on March 2, 2006
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The ongoing
patent dispute between the patent firm NTP and BlackBerry-maker
Research in Motion (RIM) reached a new low
today when a U.S. appellate court judge named
James Spencer ruled that an earlier settlement of $450M payable to NTP was
not valid as it was not finalized properly. Even though the USPO has re-opened the NTP patents and has subsequently
rejected most of the patents used in the patent infringement case, RIM was seeking to uphold the
earlier settlement in order to avert the possibility of all sales and services from being
halted in the United States.
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at 12:37 PM on November 30, 2005
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