Great British Design Quest
25 British design icons to vote on including the mini-skirt and the Verdana font.

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Thumbthing: I have been wanting one of these ever since! Actually, I would like an adjustable stand that keeps the book in front of my head as I lie on my back.

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11.13 secs: Thats the new Rubik's cube solving record!

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'Doomsday' seed bank to be built
Norway is planning to build a "doomsday vault" inside a mountain on an Arctic island to hold a seed bank of all known varieties of the world's crops.

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$11 billion judgment awarded in spam case
That's a nice chunk of money.

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Queen honors iPod designer
London-born Jonathan Ive, 38, Apple's senior vice president of design, on Friday was awarded the title of Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) by the queen.

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Can You Revive an Extinct Animal?: "The quagga was a horselike animal native to southern Africa that went extinct in 1883. Its head, neck and shoulders and sometimes the forward part of its flank were covered with stripes; the back part of its torso, its rump and legs were unstriped. An old joke among the Dutch, the first Europeans to settle in South Africa, was that the quagga was a zebra that had forgotten its pajama pants. Rau's goal, which he has been working toward for three decades, is to breed the quagga back into existence. His approach is to take zebras that look more quaggalike than the norm and mate them with one another, generation after generation, progressively erasing the stripes from the back part of their bodies."

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