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Cisco has unveiled an amazing new technology that is light years beyond Princess Leia talking to Obi Won Kenobi. TelePresence was shown off in public for the first time recently: Imagine how cool, yet creepy, this will be once we can make phone calls and the other party appears in front of you. Read Full Story

Today's Forgotten History : Americans used to salute the flag during the Pledge of Allegiance until 1942, when Congress banned the practice because it was too similar to the salutes used by Nazi's and fascists during WWII. The salute was called the Bellamy salute , created by Francis Bellamy, who also created the Pledge of Allegiance. When the practice was banned in 1942, it was replaced by the hand over the heart gesture still in practice today. Below is a picture of U.S. school... Read Full Story

Nancy Pelosi claims to know "something" about Newt Gingrich's past that will prevent him from becoming president. CBS News has more : "The Democratic leader, who served on a four-person ethics committee that investigated Gingrich in the 1990s, has said in the past that "I know a lot about" Gingrich, and that "one of these days we'll have a conversation" about him. But when it was suggested that Pelosi was suggesting in those comments to the possibility of leaking private records from... Read Full Story

Mitt Romney's fortune just went from the presumed clear cut GOP presidential nominee to potential footnote in history if Wednesday night's news reports have teeth. First, ABC News reported Mitt Romney is "hiding" up to $33 million in offshore Caribbean accounts , and rumors immediately circulated it was to avoid paying U.S. taxes on the princely sum. Romney's campaign claimed he had paid taxes on all of the money, but Romney continues to refuse to release his tax returns. This latest... Read Full Story

This is a fascinating clip of Martin Luther King Jr. on the Mike Douglas show in November, 1967. I'm almost embarrassed to say that I've never seen any clips of MLK being interviewed before. I've watched his famous "I have a dream" speech, but I have never seen a clip of him in an interview. I can see why people were attracted to him, he sounds move level-headed than any public figure of today. Read Full Story

The GOP presidential nomination appears to be wide open, with Mitt Romney leading the pack but Newt Gingrich of all people starting to gain in the polls. Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Jon Huntsman, and Michelle Bachmann all have either dropped out or seen their support dwindle to single digits. But there is a third candidate who is still a force in the polls, despite getting the shaft from major media, and that is Ron Paul. While I do not agree with everything Ron Paul believes... Read Full Story

We're told we can't just subscribe to only the cable TV channels we actually want because we would only choose channels, and all of the other channels that fewer viewers watch would go out of business. That reasoning is a farce. No other industry is allowed to behave like that. We don't have to subscribe to 87 magazines we'll never read just to get the one car magazine we want to read. We don't have to buy 20 different frozen foods just to get the one pizza we want. Nobody forces me to... Read Full Story

At a 2005 commencement address at Stanford University, Steve Jobs shared the philosophy that drove him. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life,” Jobs said. “Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else... Read Full Story

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Apple OS X Lion is out and a (mostly) huge hit among early adopters. One feature though that some users are not happy with is Restore, which opens windows and websites that were open when an App was last closed. This is a great feature for most users, but some users either prefer a fresh slate when they open an App or do not want their browser to re-open the last websites they were visiting. There is an easy fix. You could just turn off Restore in the System Preferences, under the... Read Full Story