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    • Is A "Fully-Cooked" Turkey Supposed To Be Hot? November 24, 2009
      Wendy was in charge of planning the at-work Thanksgiving feast for her colleagues at her new job, and was happy to take on the task. A series of misunderstandings at the grocery store deli meant that she nearly had to serve her colleagues a fully cooked but entirely cold turkey. Today Publix made me look like an idiot to my new boss at my new job. I left a j […]
      Laura Northrup
    • 2.1 Million Cribs Recalled, Including 150,000 From Fisher Price November 24, 2009
      Following four deaths, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced one of the largest recalls of cribs in the agency's history: 2.1 million cribs manufactured by Stork Craft, including roughly 150,000 sold under the Fisher Price brand. As in other recent recalls, this one is based on problems with drop-side cribs entrapping babies and seriously […]
      Marc Perton
    • Wachovia Froze My Checking Account For Nearly A Month November 24, 2009
      Kate and her husband knew they had to settle a big debt to Capital One, but elected to wait until the bank came to them to pay up. The move ended up costing them, because Capital One got Wachovia to freeze their checking account with the assurance that it would release the funds once the couple paid up. Except Kate and her husband did pay up in late November […]
      Phil Villarreal
    • Will This Vaccine Cure Smoking? November 24, 2009
      Meet NicVax, the opposite of the cool kids at the bus stop in 7th grade who got you to try a cigarette for the first time. The Washington Post reports the would-be wonder vaccine from Nabi Biopharmaceuticals is close to being picked up by pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline. Reporter Mike Musgrove writes: For many years, the standard treatment for breaking […]
      Phil Villarreal
    • Microsoft Trying To Buy Its Way To Search Supremacy November 24, 2009
      Microsoft wants to pay Newscorp to de-index its stories from Google, giving Bing a leg-up in searches. The story says: One website publisher approached by Microsoft said that the plan “puts enormous value on content if search engines are prepared to pay us to index with them”. Microsoft’s interest is being interpreted as a direct assault on […]
      Phil Villarreal

The Green Grid

A website called GreenGrid.OrgThe Green Grid is an “unprecedented opportunity to “Get Connected to Efficient IT.”
I get the impression that they are hoping to have this be a standard with which to determine an electronic product’s energy efficiency. It will be something along the lines of energystar.
They hold symposiums and have comprised their board with [...]