1. Driven to Distraction: High-Tech Baby Sitters Get Drivers Off Phone  permalink

Driven to Distraction: High-Tech Baby Sitters Get Drivers Off Phone
SAM GROBART / NYT

Which is safer: technology that disables a cellphone in a moving car, or that makes the conversation completely hands-free?

2. At a Software Powerhouse, the Good Life Is Under Siege  permalink

At a Software Powerhouse, the Good Life Is Under Siege
STEVE LOHR / NYT

SAS, the giant private company that specializes in business intelligence software, is facing new rivals, as well as free alternatives to some of its products.

3. 2010: The Year Android Will Shake Its Money Maker  permalink

2010: The Year Android Will Shake Its Money Maker
Guest Author / TechCrunch

Editor's note : More and more mobile app developers are deciding to make apps for Android, even though it still doesn't have the same reach as the iPhone. In this guest post Kevin Nakao , the VP of Mobile for Whitepages , makes the argument for taking the Android plunge now (as he is preparing to with a new Whitepages Android app launching next ...

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4. LHC: Beams back in business!  permalink

LHC: Beams back in business!
Blogs.discovermagazine.com

Yesterday, the Large Hadron Collider once again had a beam of protons whizzing around its 27 km-long circumference! After a series of setbacks — some devastating, holding up the world’s largest scientific experiment for many months — this milestone achieved shows that the collider is heading back to full operations, which should ...

5. CERN Document Server  permalink

Cdsweb.cern.ch

LHC Restart 2009 (pictures in progress)

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6. Marc Andreessen  permalink

Www.crunchbase.com

Mr. Marc Andreessen is a co-founder and chairman of Ning and an investor in several startups including Digg, Plazes, and Twitter. He is an active member of the blogging community.

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7. Google Calendar Starts Testing “Sneak Preview”  permalink

Google Calendar Starts Testing “Sneak Preview”
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch

Google Calendar is testing out a new feature that should make scheduling events a tad easier than it used to be by allowing you to see at a glance if the event you're creating will conflict with the schedules of the people you're inviting. Dubbed "Sneak Preview", the feature's name is perhaps more exciting than its actual function, but it should ...

8. Bloosky Acquires Tracking202  permalink

Bloosky Acquires Tracking202
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch

Most TechCrunch readers have never heard of Tracking202 . But affiliate advertisers love the service, which manages advertising campaigns on Facebook, MySpace and other platforms. In fact, Tracking202 was at the center of the Facebook click-fraud issue that we reported on earlier this year. Tracking202 users saw a certain number of clicks on ads ...

9. Ping: A Friend’s Tweet Could Be an Ad  permalink

Ping: A Friend’s Tweet Could Be an Ad
BRAD STONE / NYT

A group of start-up marketers see value in getting regular people to send a sentence or two of text to their friends and admirers.

10. Enceladus Rev 121 Flyby Raw Preview  permalink

Enceladus Rev 121 Flyby Raw Preview
Ciclops.org

These raw, unprocessed images were taken during Cassini's close flyby of Enceladus on Nov. 21, 2009. The main objectives of this flyby were to acquire the highest resolution images yet of the jets emanating from the moon's south pole, to image and thermally map the "tiger stripes" on the south polar terrain, and to obtain high resolution mosaics ...

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11. Exquisite rubble  permalink

Exquisite rubble
Blogs.discovermagazine.com

I know, I usually wax lyrical and scientific over this picture or that returned from various astronomical and space observatories. But honestly, I don’t have a whole lot to say about this particular image, from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, showing boulders that have rolled downhill to the bottom of the 45 kilometer-wide Rutherford ...

12. London VC: European Startups Need To Work Much Harder  permalink

London VC: European Startups Need To Work Much Harder
TechCrunch Europe / TechCrunch

This is our third guest post written by a London-based VC. To allow them to speak plainly without jeopardising their fund or their career in the small village that is the London VC scene, I'm allowing them to post anonymously. FYI, LondonVC is a genuine VC and TechCrunch Europe has met them face to face. One of the biggest challenges for any ...

13. For the Volt, How’s Life After 40 ?  permalink

LINDSAY BROOKE / NYT

A reporter test-drove a Chevrolet Volt to see how it performed after its electric power supply was depleted.

14. Creepy Woman - 2009-11-11  permalink

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15. Gift Guide: Peripherals  permalink

Gift Guide: Peripherals
Www.crunchgear.com

Peripherals, they say, are the spice of life. Well, maybe they don’t say that, but they do say it about variety, and peripherals add variety to your computing life. If you’re reading this on a stock HP desktop, clicking on links with the mouse that came with it, and trusting your data to that 512MB USB stick they gave you at work, ...

16. Alfred Hitchcock  permalink

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17. Ambrose Bierce  permalink

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18. This week in search  permalink

This week in search
A Googler / The Official Google Blog

This is part of a regular series of posts on search experience updates that runs on Fridays. Look for the label This week in search and subscribe to the series. - Ed. This week brought a number of new features to the fore. Google Translate The biggest and most visible release this week was our update to Google Translate . New changes to the ...

19. Sirius Stargazing  permalink

Blogs.discovermagazine.com

I have few regrets in life, but if there’s one, it’s that I didn’t have access to all this amazing technology when I was a teenager and figuring out just how I was going to tackle my love for astronomy. How I would have loved podcasts, programmable telescopes, CCDs, websites with satellite pass information…

20. Barnes & Noble's Nook Sold Out for the Holidays  permalink

BRAD STONE / NYT

Customers buying the company's electronic reading device now will receive them next year.