The Atlantic: Requiem for Baseball’s Memorial-Day Doubleheader

Source: Baseball Think Factory

To be blunt, holidays are no longer big deals at the ball park. Perhaps the same might be generally said of the shift of Memorial Day from May 30 to the last Monday in May, a triumph of convenience over commemoration ...
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Source: PaperCamp.com

How does a multipoint circuit differ from a point-to-point circuit? Describe three types of guided media. Clearly explain the differences among analog data, analog transmission, digital data, and digital transmissio ...
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Requiem for Baseball's Memorial-Day Doubleheader

Source: The Atlantic

How the economics of modern baseball killed the ultimate fan experience The first baseball game I ever attended was on May 30, 1955, a Memorial Day doubleheader between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Pittsburgh Pirates at Ebbe ...
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Samsung Galaxy S3: Next Galaxy Outshines Rivals in Benchmark Test

Source: International Business Times

A benchmark test of Samsung 's Galaxy S3 suggests the next Galaxy is a performance powerhouse and comfortably beats the HTC One X. The AnTuTu benchmark tests the memory, CPU speed and graphics of a smartphone - the Galaxy S3 scored 12, ...
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Cook app transits the centuries

Source: The Age

WHEN Captain James Cook set sail to observe the transit of Venus in 1769, he was part of a global project to measure the solar system - and he went on to discover something even cooler, Australia. Children at 300 schools throughout Aus ...
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Lake Wales Seeking State Help for Project

Source: The Lakeland Ledger

LAKE WALES | To help build jobs by bringing in a new assisted-living facility, Lake Wales city commissioners have approved asking the state for more money. The city hopes to land a Community Development Block Grant to pay for water and sewer lines for a ...
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What medicine can learn from the Titanic

Source: Kevin, M.D.

April 15th marked the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, yet the mystique surrounding its demise has not faded. When the colossal vessel first collided with the iceberg, eyewitness accounts describe ...
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The Great Armadiller Massacre of 2010

Source: The Idiot Speaketh

** From the Archives. For reference, Armadillo’s love to tear up my yard. I lovingly refer to them as “armored dachsunds” due to their appearance of being a heavily armored weiner dog. When I wrote this, I had bee ...
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Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 14 Notes Essay

Source: Hacker News

Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 14 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s. Alternative energy and cleantech have attracted an enormous amount of investment capital and attention over th ...
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