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Here are some interesting links from the past couple days:

• Top 10 Smart Ways to Save Your Workday
  If you leave the office most nights feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and behind on everything you've got to get done at work—even though you just spent 10 hours there—you're letting your workday get away from you. It's too easy to let the hours you spe
• Government admits to 200 more laptop thefts
  The government has admitted almost 200 laptops have been stolen from various departments, including the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), since 2001.

  The figures for phone, laptop and PDA loss and theft across government departments reveal the MoJ has had 135

Here are some interesting links from today:

• Burger King charges couple $2,243.00 for meal
  Ouch! – Bryan Sampson’s wife picked up food for the family Saturday – totaling $22.43. But a whopper of a mistake left the couple’s account overdrawn. A clerk at the Burger King charged them $2,243.00 – with the decimal point in the wrong spot!
• It’s official: Toshiba announces HD DVD surrender
  The two-year war between HD DVD and Blu-ray officially ended today as Toshiba waved the white flag and declared it would stop producing HD DVD products.

I recently found these to be interesting:

• Robot Interprets, Plays Back Dreams
  Digital artists have created a humanoid robot which uses brainwave activity recorded during sleep to playback an interpretation of your dreams.
• How to Stop Checking Email on the Evenings and Weekends
  Why would you not want to check email 24/7? No seriously, there’s some good tips in this post.
• Do Not Call Registry saved from mandatory reset
  This Presidents’ Day, if you’re an American, you can thank George W. Bush for at least one thing: on Friday, the President signed into law new legislation which will make the national Do Not Call registry even better…
• Ditch Your Cable Company With Free, Legal Alternatives 
  Ditching your cable company has never been more viable than it is today. The rise of online, streaming TV shows allows you to save on one of the most expensive household bills if you are willing to sacrifice a bit of the convenience of having either a cab
• Australian Government Considers Copying UK Copyright Law Ideas 
  “Under the three-strikes policy, a warning would be first issued to offenders who illegally share files using peer-to-peer technology to access music, TV shows and movies free of charge. The second strike would lead to the offender’s internet access being
• Analog cellular networks, R.I.P
  Marking the end of a remarkable era in cellular technology, the FCC is officially letting American carriers decommission their legacy analog networks as of today, February 18, 2008.
• Cool face detection software 
  Our forerunner product called faceLAB® provides head and face tracking, eye, eyelid and gaze tracking for human subjects within a 3-dimensional volume using a completely non-contact, video-based sensor.
• R.I.P. HD DVD: Toshiba reportedly ends the war 
  Well, that’s it. Toshiba appears to be pulling the plug on HD DVD. Toshiba has not commented publicly, but a report on Japan’s NHK says Toshiba has made the decision to withdraw from next generation high-definition DVD production.

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• 2 – Crashing Las Vegas

• 3 – Boingo customers get WiFi at McDonald’s

• 4 – LG struts TVs on London runway

• 5 – It’s Time for Your Dream Office!