<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : technology : Popular Links : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://technology.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>135706</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/technology/l/135706/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Meat Band-Aids and Mass Production of Living Tissue]]></title><description><![CDATA[I'm touching a wet slab of protein, what feels like a paper-thin slice of bologna. It's supple, slimy, but unlike meat, if you were to slice it down the center today, tomorrow the wound would heal. It's factory-grown living tissue.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>281</score><crdate>11/14/2009 5:36:55 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-11-14T17:36:55+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135647</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/technology/l/135647/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Dear Prudence, I'm a mac, and he's a pc]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;I recently married my dream husband. We have incredible chemistry and a shared commitment to each other. When we disagree, we settle our differences by balancing logic and gut feelings. That is, until we came to our disagreement on which laptop I should buy to replace my Mac PowerBook...&quot;]]></description><comments>12</comments><score>227</score><crdate>11/12/2009 1:31:46 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-11-12T13:31:46+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135628</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/technology/l/135628/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Facebook is an Alibi]]></title><description><![CDATA[Imagine if the most important sentence you ever wrote was a Facebook status update that goes something like this: &quot;ON THE PHONE WITH THIS FAT CHICK......WHERER MY IHOP.&quot; Now you know how it feels to be 19-year-old Rodney Bradford, who used that all-caps message to keep himself out of prison.]]></description><comments>9</comments><score>532</score><crdate>11/11/2009 7:36:39 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-11-11T19:36:39+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135529</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/technology/l/135529/1/</url><title><![CDATA[On the Internet, nobody  knows you're a dog]]></title><description><![CDATA[Posting online comments under multiple aliases is apparently against the law, at least in the case of Raphael Haim Golb, 49, who is suspected of using 50 different e-mail addresses and monikers &#8212; some of the names belonging to academic rivals &#8212; to bolster his arguments about the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>345</score><crdate>11/9/2009 7:56:43 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-11-09T07:56:43+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>134889</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/technology/l/134889/1/</url><title><![CDATA[How To Use Your Hand As A Ruler]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve ever needed to measure the width of a box but have no ruler, here&#8217;s a handy (literally) tip.]]></description><comments>12</comments><score>276</score><crdate>10/20/2009 9:58:17 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-20T09:58:17+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>134721</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/technology/l/134721/1/</url><title><![CDATA[ The Internet is about to die. Literally die!]]></title><description><![CDATA[One research group continues to claim that the &quot;sky is falling&quot; on the Internet thanks to high data growth rates and that network neutrality means the whole Internet could just &quot;go away.&quot; Ars sifts through the hyperbole looking for a kernel of truth.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>176</score><crdate>10/15/2009 6:33:22 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-15T18:33:22+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>134614</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/technology/l/134614/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Sky Tran]]></title><description><![CDATA[Possibly the coolest new mode of public transportation.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>238</score><crdate>10/13/2009 10:50:17 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-13T22:50:17+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>134558</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/technology/l/134558/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Introducing the Blade-Free Fan]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome to the future.<br/>f**k Jetpacks.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>775</score><crdate>10/12/2009 8:12:29 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-12T20:12:29+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>134331</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/technology/l/134331/1/</url><title><![CDATA[NASA Returns to the Moon- and doesn't Stop There!*]]></title><description><![CDATA[*Because they're planning to crash into it.<br/><br/>This is happening Friday, 6:15am EST; you're supposed to be able to see it with a telescope!]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>299</score><crdate>10/8/2009 9:07:49 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-08T21:07:49+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>134189</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/technology/l/134189/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Robo-pop]]></title><description><![CDATA[This Robot's Got Talent!<br/><br/>The amazing humanoid can sing songs by using brilliant new electronic voice technology.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>160</score><crdate>10/6/2009 11:29:48 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-06T11:29:48+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>134132</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/technology/l/134132/1/</url><title><![CDATA[US spontaneous human combustion raygun ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Flying frying machine gives car a nasty burn.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>232</score><crdate>10/5/2009 12:50:27 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-05T00:50:27+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>134004</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/technology/l/134004/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The 150,000 Dollar Homework]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon settled a lawsuit over a teenager's homework, which was lost during the infamous <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/128311/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">deletion</a> of Orwell's <i>1984</i> e-book from all Kindle&#8482; devices, by paying a ridiculous amount of money.<br/>Personally, I think even in college I never submitted any homework that was worth more than 50 bucks.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>262</score><crdate>10/2/2009 7:39:07 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-02T07:39:07+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>133689</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/technology/l/133689/1/</url><title><![CDATA[A judge saves thousands by allowing someone to testify via Skype instead of flying to New York.]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Queens judge solved the problem of a civil trial that involved a plaintiff in India by simply having the man testify yesterday using the Internet telephone/video provider Skype, saving thousands in costs and days of people's time.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>492</score><crdate>9/25/2009 11:27:20 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-25T23:27:20+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>133616</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/technology/l/133616/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Asteroid attack: Putting Earth's defences to the test]]></title><description><![CDATA[IT LOOKS inconsequential enough, the faint little spot moving leisurely across the sky. The mountain-top telescope that just detected it is taking it very seriously, though. It is an asteroid, one never seen before.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>219</score><crdate>9/24/2009 4:37:01 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-24T16:37:01+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>133438</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/technology/l/133438/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Russian Billionaire Installs Anti-Photo Shield on Giant Yacht]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 557-foot boat Eclipse, the price tag of almost $1.2 billion, set sail this week with a slew of show-off features, from two helipads, two swimming pools and six-foot movie screens in all guest cabins, to a mini-submarine and missile-proof windows to combat piracy and, an anti-paparazzi &#8220;shield&#8221;]]></description><comments>9</comments><score>420</score><crdate>9/21/2009 7:12:42 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-21T19:12:42+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>133371</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/technology/l/133371/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Electric superbike smashes speed record by breaking through 150mph mark]]></title><description><![CDATA[An electric superbike has broken a land speed record by bursting though the 150mph mark .<br/>The zero-emissions Mission One ridden by Jeremy Cleland became the fastest electric-powered vehicle when it hit an average speed of 150.059mph over two miles.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>305</score><crdate>9/20/2009 8:02:55 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-20T20:02:55+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>133343</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/technology/l/133343/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Court OK's use of secret GPS tracking devices ]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the first time, the state's highest court ruled today that the state Declaration of Rights allows police to break into a suspect&#8217;s car to secretly install GPS tracking devices, provided they have a warrant before they act.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>355</score><crdate>9/20/2009 1:28:12 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-20T13:28:12+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>133230</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/technology/l/133230/1/</url><title><![CDATA[1,000 MPH car]]></title><description><![CDATA[Britain&#8217;s Richard Noble, the reigning king of land speed, is building a rocket on wheels to shatter his own record. The only problem: A ragtag American team might beat him to it]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>275</score><crdate>9/18/2009 6:24:38 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-18T18:24:38+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>133217</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/technology/l/133217/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Nano-technology vs Kevlar]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nanocomp Technologies, is the first in the world to make sheets of carbon nanotubes -- microscopic tubes stronger than steel but lighter than plastic.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>207</score><crdate>9/18/2009 12:39:34 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-18T12:39:34+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>133161</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/technology/l/133161/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Garlic farm wards off high-speed internet]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Nova Scotia garlic farmer has put the brakes on high-speed internet coming to Victoria Harbour, a rural community on the Bay of Fundy, fearing radiation from microwave towers will affect his crops.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>298</score><crdate>9/17/2009 4:43:21 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-17T16:43:21+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>132950</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/technology/l/132950/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Two MIT Students Take Pictures From Space On a $150 Budget]]></title><description><![CDATA[Perhaps more significantly, they managed to accomplish this feat using components available off-the-shelf to the average layperson.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>395</score><crdate>9/14/2009 12:41:10 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-14T00:41:10+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>132865</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/technology/l/132865/1/</url><title><![CDATA[9/11 Google Doodle]]></title><description><![CDATA[Well, more like there was none.  Not earth-shattering but it was surprising to me.  Did you guys think so too?  Just curious..]]></description><comments>18</comments><score>465</score><crdate>9/12/2009 12:36:41 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-12T12:36:41+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>132777</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/technology/l/132777/1/</url><title><![CDATA[You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unlike traditional browser cookies, Flash cookies are relatively unknown to web users, and they are not controlled through the cookie privacy controls in a browser. That means even if a user thinks they have cleared their computer of tracking objects, they most likely have not.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>279</score><crdate>9/10/2009 8:02:51 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-10T20:02:51+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>132587</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/technology/l/132587/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Gone With The Wind]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Full Scale Tunnel, at Langley AFB, is where researchers have spent the past 78 years readying many of the nation's airplanes for flight. Aviation pioneers, including Charles Lindbergh and Howard Hughes, walked its halls. But it is old, inefficient and not designed for the computer age. It also sits in a flood path.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>246</score><crdate>9/7/2009 8:23:29 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-07T20:23:29+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>132523</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/technology/l/132523/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Inventions That Will End Work As We Know It]]></title><description><![CDATA[In America, we like to celebrate Labor Day by ditching work. But one day you may never have to labor again. Here are four inventions that will eliminate working-class and professional jobs in the next 50 years.<br/><br/>*warning:contains video that may bend the rules of...Plime*(this is a poor sarcastic remark, no harm intended)]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>242</score><crdate>9/6/2009 11:18:39 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-06T23:18:39+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>