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According to Ria Convery, a spokeswoman for the MWRA, a crew discovered diesel spilling onto the plant’s parking lot around 12:15 a.m. yesterday. The site of the spill was an unmanned station on Memorial Drive near the Boston University bridge...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Diesel Spills Into Charles River | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

...system knows how much of a pain it can be to convince the corporate colossus in Redmond that you’re actually not trying to pirate anything—you just want to reinstall your legal copy of Windows. By contrast, when I decided to wipe my hard drive clean and just “start over” with my Mac, the computer didn’t bother me every time it started up about “checking in” with Microsoft—it just worked...

Author: By Eugene Kim | Title: Apple of My Eye | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

...lack of Flash support on the iPod touch, iPad, and iPhone. Nor do they absolve Apple of its failure to adopt industry standards for its desktop hardware—the iMac uses custom parts that make it almost impossible to upgrade anything more specialized than the memory or hard drive, and the Mac Pro’s parts are all flashed with a special BIOS that makes using non-Apple approved hardware extremely difficult...

Author: By Eugene Kim | Title: Apple of My Eye | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

...metropolises. Look beyond the densely populated zones of our country where collectivism is expected and mostly accepted. Get out of Cambridge where 85 percent still voted for Martha Coakley. I hate to perpetuate the Massachusetts-as-foil-for-Texas stereotype, but I’ll take the risk. So drive down through the winding roads of non-urban Texas, where people of modest means have yards the size of parks, where you’ll break a sweat walking to the next door neighbor’s, and where stray cattle wander through neighborhoods...

Author: By Mark A. Isaacson | Title: My Country ’Tis of Tea | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

...Prius. My lovely wife Cassandra has one, and it is an excellent vehicle. Except for its need to constantly tell you how excellent it is. There's a screen in the center of the dashboard with an animation that shows how much energy the car is recycling as you drive it. If one of your employees were really efficient but throughout the day kept standing up in his cubicle and yelling, "I am really efficient!" you would fire him. Or punch him in the steering wheel. The car on Knight Rider wasn't as arrogant as the Prius. You know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joel Stein: My Prius Problem | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

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