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Wired has an awesome top story today on the world of startups utilizing scraped documents from big companies to offer new layers of value for their own users. It’s a roughly objective piece that I highly recommend reading but it was plus inspiration for me to finally record a screencast on the subject (see below).

I love RSS, probably more than anything on the web. whether you’re not familiar with the concept, see my very old definition of RSS and my almost-as-old post on teaching humans about RSS.

Not every page on the web publishes an RSS feed, though. Thus the need for these wonderful screen scraping tools. [...]

Orginal post by Marshall Kirkpatrick

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Filed under: Home Entertainment

We didn’t have to wait lengthy to hear more about Mark Levinson’s partnership with LG, resulting in two new home theater systems to launch at CES 2008. No longer limited to audiophiles searching eBay auctions for discontinued equipment, the AP3133 and LHT888 promise a high end AV experience at “astonishing” — albeit TBA — prices. The AP3133 HTIB puts LG’s Super Blu BH200 dual-format player at the heart of a 7.1-channel system with 150 watts

x 7 ICEpower output, multi-input HDMI switching, Burr-Brown PCM and Audessey Auto Room Multi EQ adjustment. The LHT888 fulfills our [...]

Orginal post by Richard Lawler

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Filed under: Announcements

It’s (still) New Year’s Eve out here in the States, meaning in a few more hours you’ll not only see what it’s like to live in the future (i.e. 2008), but you’ll additionally lose your last chance to enter to win two round trip tickets on JetBlue (and some

noise canceling headphones, to boot). Check out the rules, and to the young’ns out there, remember: whether someone tells you that you’re going to a “key party” tonight, we recommend you politely bow out.

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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Transportation, Wireless

So to be clear right off the bat, that is not the type of hovercraft that you might commute to work or class in, but rather a small RC version more suitable for transporting babies or adorable pets. That being said, Instructables user bradpowers has posted step-by-step guide for the ambitious modder to build his or her very own remotely-controlled or autonomous ‘craft, from constructing the frame to assembling the lift and propulsion systems to setting up the onboard PIC. Definitely not a project for the easily distracted, however, a successful build will surely produce you the delight of neighborhood children for blocks in every direction. Check out a video of the little guy in action after the break.

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Orginal post by Evan Blass