Texas Department of Transportation officials are trying to explain how they made a budget blunder of more than $1,000,000,000 for 2008 construction projects. ... TxDot thought they had $4.2 billion, but that included $585.5 million in future gas tax funds and $487.8 million fro …
Yesterday, at a family restaurant I frequent, I watched a bright and personable little girl, probably four or five years old, playing and generally just being a cute kid.
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Since the dot-bomb days, I've been on a nonstop contracting roller coaster: six years of constant job searching as I'm simultaneously trying to find "permanent" work while also beating the bushes for the next gig to pay the bills for a another couple of months.
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The proposal, which Sen. John McCain is planning to introduce on Wednesday, also would require ISPs and perhaps some Web sites to alert the government of any illegal images of real or "cartoon" minors.
"What conscience cannot contain, and institutional secrecy unjustly conceals, Wikileaks can broadcast to the world," reads the answer to one of its frequently asked questions.
We've all heard the news by now: a female astronaut turned rabid stalker from hell.
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Best-selling author and columnist Molly Ivins, the sharp-witted liberal who skewered the political establishment and referred to President Bush as "Shrub," died Wednesday after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 62.
The Event On Saturday, January 27, 2007, Austin Texas radio station KLBJ held Talkfest 2007, hosted by local on-air personality and program director, Mark Caesar and featuring live broadcasts by four nationally syndicated talk radio hosts, Neal Boortz, Clark Howard, George Noory, …
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Jeremy Allison asks "What if they released an operating system and nobody cared?"
It all started this morning with a pre-caffeine accidental right click on a banner ad in that popup Yahoo Messenger displays on startup.
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"The American Bar Association claims President Bush has violated that oath by issuing hundreds of "signing statements" to disregard selected provisions of the laws that Congress passed and he signed."
A sensor implanted in a paralysed man's brain has enabled him to control objects through just the power thought.
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"ERCOT, the entity that manages the statewide electric grid, has cancelled the emergency load shedding exercise. ... This area of town has been without power for about an hour and a half. Crews are working to resolve the problem. ...
A light source that could put the traditional light bulb in the shade has been invented by US scientists.
Former President Theodore Roosevelt wrote, apparently in a letter written on January 3, 1919 (shortly before his death) to the president of the American Defense Society:
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"Up until now, everyone working on RFID technology has tacitly assumed that the mere act of scanning an RFID tag cannot modify back-end software, and certainly not in a malicious way. Unfortunately, they are wrong.
Article describes multiple banks affected, ways the PIN security might have been breached, and what to do if you are affected.
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