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Romney’s ‘Women in Binders’ Gaffe Launches Hysterically Funny, and Pointed, Reviews for Avery Binders on Amazon

Mitt Romney’s “Binders full of women” comment is continuing to make waves as the Avery Durable View Binder on Amazon.com is gaining reviews, not so much for their organizing ability, but for their ability to keep women.

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7-Eleven 7-Election Website: Accurate Presidential Election Prediction One Coffee Cup at a Time

If only the real presidential election came with a free cup of 7-Eleven coffee, but the 7-Election coffee cup election campaign promises to be just as accurate as it has been for the last three presidential elections. And if you hit up your local 7-Eleven between 6-10 a.m. today, National Coffee Day, 7-Eleven you can cast your vote for free with large coffees, cappuccinos, lattes, or tea, in one of their two new custom coffee cups, and then check how your candidate is doing over at the 7-Election website.

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Old Spice Guy Terry Crews Makes Beautiful Muscle Music in Interactive Old Spice Video

If you liked Old Spice guy Isaiah Mustafa and his “I’m on a horse” commercial (and hey, who didn’t?), you may like the new interactive video from Old Spice in which you get to make music with new Old Spice guy Terry Crews.

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Ad Hawk and Super PAC Apps Tell You Who Is Behind All Those Annoying Political Ads

The Ad Hawk App has made a timely and welcome appearance. After all, it’s that time of year when political ads are on just about every TV and radio in America and Adhawk (there is both Ad Hawk for iPhone and Ad Hawk for Android) has answered our political prayers. Ok, ok, probably not the exact political prayers you had, but the app, a sort of Shazam for political ads, certainly helps decipher these ads that are playing everywhere. And not just your cheerful, “Vote for me, I’m great” ads, but those nasty, mud-slinging political attack ads.

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Silicon Valley Venture Firm In-Q-Tel: Venture Fund to the CIA

Next time you use that iPad or iPhone, give a silent thanks to In-Q-Tel (pronounced “in q tel” or “incutel”), the CIA-run venture capital fund that has been integral in many technologies commonly used today, such as the touch screen. In q tel, also responsible for investing in what was the beginnings of the technology that became Google Earth, began in the late 90s and was born out of the CIA’s need to manage their huge mountain of data.

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The Whole “Flaming Pole” and “Magic Brownies” and “Magic Brownie Adventure Movie” Thing – What That’s About

You may start hearing this week about “Flaming Pole”, and “Magic Brownies” and a Magic Brownie Adventure Movie starring Cheech and Chong. It probably won’t surprise you to know that Cheech (Richard ‘Cheech’ Marin) and Chong (Tommy Chong) are in a movie about magic brownies, or that they are going to a “Flaming Pole” festival in the desert where people party and ‘get naked’ (clearly a nod to “Burning Man”) with a van full of magic brownies. But it may surprise you to learn what puts the “magic” in the magic brownies, and that the Magic Brownie Adventure Movie is actually a commerical.

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Screen Reading Software for the Visually Impaired

One of the more helpful computer items for the blind is the current generation of text to speech software. Making use of voice synthesizer technology, a “talking computer” which runs software for the vision impaired, such as screen readers, is an incredible help for the blind and the vision impaired. A text to voice converter for Windows, the JAWS screen reading software for the visually impaired aids the sight impaired as well as completely blind people with many popular Windows programs. And the native text to audio speech synthesizer that is included with all new Macs is equally helpful to those with impaired vision and those who are completely blind. (Those who are legally blind may also qualify for assistance in acquiring either computer or software.)

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How to Search All of Craigslist at Once

Now that Craigslist no longer has “adult services” listings, people can get back to the business of using Craigslist for things like buying stuff, selling stuff, and finding rentals. This is all well and good, but Craigslist separates all of their listings by geographic location, in fact often by very localized location. What if you want to expand your search? What if you want to search all of Craigslist at once? Fortunately for us all, there are three different ways that allow you to quickly and easily search all of Craigslist, so that you can search all Craigslist listings at once. So here’s how to search all of Craigslist at once.

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Looking for Streaming Christmas Music? Check Out These Free Online Christmas Music Sites!

Are you looking for a way to stream Christmas music, so that you can have an endless stream of holiday music to get you in the holiday mood? One of the best options for streaming Christmas music is to stream it from the Internet, and you can do that easily by going to one of the online sites (such as Internet radio stations) that are offering free Christmas music 24/7! Voila! All streaming Christmas music, all the time, for free!

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Yes, Virginia, You Really Can Control This Huge Outdoor Christmas Lights Display Over the Internet!

Some of you will remember that a few years ago, we featured the massive outside Christmas lights display created by Alek Komarnitsky that you could control over the Internet. It included Christmas lighted outdoor decorations, Christmas inflatables, Christmas yard decorations, and all other fashion of outside Christmas decorations and Christmas yard decor – and even a few not-so Christmas outdoor decorations, such as the Incredible Hulk. Then, it turned out that all of this Christmas yard art was a fake – that is, the outdoor Christmas decorations did exist, but it was a hoax that you could turn this outside Christmas lights display on and off with your computer from across the Internet. This time, however, it’s real!

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Free Online Christmas Music on the Internet with Online Radio Stations Playing Christmas Music

Free Christmas music onilne is always nice. And free online Christmas music is just what you need to get yourself into that holiday spirit – or at least to make work go by more quickly! So if you’ve been asking yourself “where can I listen to Christmas music on the Internet?”, here is a list of some great places offering streaming Christmas music so that you can listen to Christmas music online! Just jingle while you work!

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Why You Should Have Redundant Backups of Your Computer Data

You may have noticed that there was no new article on The Internet Patrol yesterday.

That’s because my hard drive crashed, which meant that a) I had no way to write and post an article, and b) I spent all day dealing with a dead computer. Long-time readers will remember that the same thing happened to me last year, and may wonder if I’d learned my lesson. You bet I did. And now I’m going to talk to you about why you need a redundant backup system, with a portable backup device as well as an online backup solution.

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What Is Your Starbucks Name? The Original Starbucks Name Generator

Back in 2005, we created the original Starbucks Name Generator. This was to help people asking that burning question, “What is your Starbucks name?” So, here is the link to the Starbucks name generator.

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Library of Congress Puts Thousands of Photos on Flickr

Think only the young and hip are on Flickr? Think again!

The US National Library, the Library of Congress, should be towards the top of anyone’s list of cherished institutions. The Prints and Photographs Division maintains and manages the almost 14 million images in the Library, including architectural and engineering drawings, posters, as well as fine prints and photographs. and now thousands of them are available on Flicker.

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Make Online Comics Featuring Yourself and Others with the Bitstrips Free Online Comics Maker!

It’s pretty cool to be able to read comics online for free – but it’s very cool to be able to make online comics for free, and that’s just what you get to do with the Bitstrips free online comics maker! It’s especially cool when the free online comics feature you! The next time your friends read online comics, won’t they be surprised! And it’s really easy to make online comics with the Bitstrips interface! Read on!