Homeowner equity is lowest since 1945

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Homeowner equity is lowest since 1945 – Yahoo! News

Homeowners’ portion of equity slipped to downwardly revised 49.6 percent in the second quarter of 2007, the central bank reported in its quarterly U.S. Flow of Funds Accounts, and declined further to 47.9 percent in the fourth quarter — the third straight quarter it was under 50 percent.That marks the first time homeowners’ debt on their houses exceeds their equity since the Fed started tracking the data in 1945.

Streaker Pwned During Cricket Match

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Andrew Symonds collides with a streaker – Yahoo! News Photos

A combination of pictures shows Australia’s Andrew Symonds colliding with a streaker during the second final of the tri-series one-day international cricket match against India…

Complaint Remover Service Gets Rid Of LOLCats

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This made me laugh.

Power Your Haus Mit Poopen!

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Turbine could generate electricity each time you flush

Showcased at the Cleantech Forum in California, this contraption would reportedly generate power from the downward movement of water through pipes in a municipal system. In other words, there’s potential to conjure up energy from simply flushing one’s toilet.

MPAA at it again, spouting messages of doom while lining their pockets with $1000’s

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What piracy crisis? MPAA touts record box office for 2007

Certainly the MPAA has the right to fight illegal downloads of its material, and it certainly has the right to go after those making a profit by ripping off its DVDs. But the rhetoric around “piracy” (a term used far too broadly) simply doesn’t fit with reality. If piracy is killing the movie business, it’s doing so in exactly the same way that home taping killed the music business in the 1980s.

When coat hangers equal monster cable

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Speakers; When is good enough, enough – Audioholics Home Theater Forums

A speaker is only good enough when it can duplicate the original sound it is duplicating with such a high level of accuracy that no measurement device, including the human ear/brain, can detect any difference between the original sound and the speaker’s duplication of the same sound. Of course this is impossible with todays technology. Because of the fact the original sound must, in some manner, be converted to electrons which race down wires at the speed of light, which are resisted and capacitated which will always cause a difference between the original and replicated sound. Therefore, I ask the question, why strive for perfect replication if it is not doable? Further, since it is not currently doable, why should anyone labor over the concern of how accurate or “good” their speakers are, or in this case, when is good, good enough? What matters is if the speaker SATISFIES its owner with the clear understanding that the owner is not hearing anything remotely true to the original sound recorded on the replicating media.

Awesome read!

Build a 100% passively cooled system

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100% passively cooled system enclosure – MetkuMods

I have wanted to build a fully passively cooled computer case since I had my first Athlon Thunderbird 800 MHz. That time the fan noise was amazingly high, and manufacturers didn´t much care about the noise levels, and didn’t offer products for building a quiet PC. Nowadays a quiet PC is not much of a challenge to build, but totally silent? It would require that there were no moving parts at all. But of cource there has to be the compromise of a hard-drive.

Female duo cosplay as Link

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Female duo sets the standard for Link cosplay

The $2 Trillion Nightmare

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The $2 Trillion Nightmare – The True Cost of the War in Iraq

The Bush administration has tried its best to conceal the horrendous costs of the war. It has bypassed the normal budgetary process, financing the war almost entirely through “emergency” appropriations that get far less scrutiny.

The war in Iraq will ultimately cost U.S. taxpayers not hundreds of billions of dollars, but an astonishing $2 trillion, and perhaps more.

Pickle Sickle

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The picture alone is laugh inducing.