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Audible.com offers great audiobooks, lousy player applications
2015-02-14 22:28:12| IT Services - Topix.net
Audible has a great selection of audiobook downloads, and reasonable prices-especially if you buy during one of their frequent sales, using the discount offer for buying them together with certain Kindle e-books, or using one of their monthly credits. But since Audible's books contain DRM, in some respect they are only as good as their player-which, sadly, is not all that great.
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'Pause' in Global Warming Blamed on Lousy Data
2014-06-14 00:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A widely reported "pause" in global warming may be an artefact of scientists looking at the wrong data, says a climate scientist at the European Space Agency. Global average sea surface temperatures rose rapidly from the 1970s but have been relatively flat for the past 15 years. This has prompted speculation from some quarters that global warming has stalled. Now, Stephen Briggs from the European Space Agency's Directorate of Earth Observation says that sea surface temperature data is the worst...
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IPCC chairman: Are we prepared to "pass on a lousy, spoilt and defiled planet"
2013-11-09 19:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The chairman of the United Nations' climate panel has warned the world to act on global warming to avoid passing "on a lousy, spoilt and defiled planet" to future generations. Rajendra K Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), spoke out as typhoon Haiyan slammed into the Phillipines causing hundreds of deaths and widespread destruction. While Pachauri said it was not possible to blame any single disaster on the steep rise in carbon emissions, the increased...
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BabyPing Monitor: Ace Gadget, Lousy App
2013-08-25 04:46:21| Wireless - Topix.net
The BabyPing baby monitor is a great high-quality video and audio monitor. Unfortunately the app you need to use it isn't up to speed.
'I raced a train and all I got was this lousy full-body cast'...
2013-05-30 17:30:11| Railroads - Topix.net
These billboards remind drivers never to race a train. The impact of a train hitting an automobile is the same as the impact of automobile flattening a soda can.