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Today is Memorial Day here in the United States.
Memorial Day is a day where we acknowledge those who have paid the ultimate price for us.
Honoring our dead is not an affirmation of war, rather, it’s providing respect for those who never came back to their families and friends.
It began first to honor Union [...]

Today is Mother’s Day here in the United States, so being the cute, clever and fun company that Google is known for, as expected we’ve been graced with a Mother’s Day tribute Google logo:

And now, a little bit of Mother’s Day trivia thanks to Wikipedia:
In the United States, Mother’s Day was copied from England by [...]

Cisco introduced a High-Speed WAN Interface Card this week that adds 3G capabilities to its integrated services routers to enable small enterprises to flip over to wireless backup when their wired network goes down.
With the WAN high-speed 3G wireless card, the Cisco integrated services routers will connect to the Internet via carrier EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized) [...]

I’ve always been into extreme sports and today I went on the search for some different but extreme sports videos on Google Video.
I started my search by typing in random phrases like extreme jumps, hot fire and super flying.
I did find a few interesting videos but the video that takes the cake is the [...]

On August 8, 2005, President George W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
This Act changed the time change dates for Daylight Saving Time in the United States.
That’s right, it’s daylight savings time again… you know, spring forward, fall back and as an added bonus, one less hour of sleep. Thanks Bush.
Make sure that [...]

Have you ever wondered how to fold things like a pro?
Well thanks to Ben Zweig, self proclaimed folding expert, we learn how to perform both the “simple fold” (the industry standard) and the “Japanese fold” (folding magic!).
Ben also shows us how to make an automatic folding machine from a few pieces of cardboard.

I’m really [...]