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Doctors’ sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually. It’s a shocking statistic, and, according to a July, 2006 report from the National Academies of Science’s Institute of Medicine (IOM), preventable medication mistakes also injure more than 1.5 million Americans annually.

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Via BoingBoing: “Flickr is publishing an amazing concordance of stats about the cameras used by its members: which cameras are popular, which are gaining, and so on. You can also browse photos by camera to see which ones please you most: this is the world’s best consumer-guide for cameras. “

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80% of the US population lives in a metropolitan area. This map graphically shows where we live…

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“…My assignment in Monaco was to lead a panel in defining Web 3.0–this when people are struggling to get their heads around Web 2.0. I wouldn’t say we emerged from the session with a clear picture of this third generation…”

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“…we decided to a little ‘geeky license plate’ spotting of our own and tag our favorites. So, with out any wait, we present our favorites geek license plates starting from the obvious (via Flickr and thanks to all those who spotted them):…”

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The father of one has left other motorists stunned after shelling out £14,000 on a 1974 Sabre light reconnaissance tank. Now 42-year old Stephen uses the military vehicle instead of a car for shopping trips - zooming round at up to 40mph near his home in Winsford, Cheshire, drawing astonished looks from fellow motorists and passers-by.

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Wether you are in Doha, Dubai, Manama, Salalah, Jiddah or an obscure country village, when you step into an herbal medicine shop or wander through the traditional suqs (markets), you will find vendors of herbs, spices, bark, twigs, rocks salt intended for culinary, cosmetic or medicinal purposes. What are these products? Where do they come from?

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A group of illegal immigrants who worked for Wendy’s International Inc. is suing the restaurant chain because the company fired them after discovering it had missed a deadline for joining a federal program that would have helped them attain legal status. The immigrants, who worked for Cafe Express, are seeking unspecified damages.

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What certain technologies looked like when they were first introduced and what they look like today.

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A possible Google acquisition of YouTube that may be in the final stages before closing. Rumored price is $1.6 billion. We know that YouTube has had informal talks with a number of companies about acquisition in the $1.5 - $2 billion range. And we suspect Google won’t be daunted by the prospect of dealing with a ton of pissed off copyright holders.

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