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Earthquake-Proof a Wine Cellar

A good Napa wine is priceless, but a Napa earthquake can potentially crush your wine collection like a grape. The nature of storing glass bottles suggests natural disaster undertones. It's an oenophiliac's nightmare. With a little DIY preparation, you can prevent a disaster by earthquake-proof...

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Wired Science — 1 hour ago

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Songbird Beta: Like iTunes, But it Goes to 11

It looks like iTunes, but with less ads and tie-ins to the iTunes store. It plays like iTunes, but it enjoys support from Last.fm and other plug-ins. It manages your iPod like iTunes, but it supports more music file formats. It even has its own version of CoverFlow. It even runs on Linux. Sure, i...

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Wired Science — 1 hour ago

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Meet Leland Chee, the Star Wars Franchise Continuity Cop

On the wall behind Leland Chee's desk is a portrait of an Ithorian, an alien with a hammer-shaped head that you glimpse briefly in the famous Star Wars cantina scene. In its leathery, foot-long fingers, the Ithorian holds a cube decorated with elaborate metallic tracings, a device known as a ...

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Wired Science — 1 hour ago

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Spy Shots: Porsche Panamera still ugly

Filed under: Spy Photos, Sedans/Saloons, Sports/GTs, PorscheMore spy shots of the Porsche Panamera have emerged, and in addition to wearing almost no camo, it is missing one other thing: any hint of beauty, anywhere. In fact, we can now definitively say that Porsche has one of the world's greates...

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Autoblog — 1 hour ago

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2009 Corvette ZR1 First Drive: The Greatest Car Ever Made!

Jalopnik's got their first drive review up of the newest super car with a 0-to-60 in 3.3 seconds and a 205 MPH top speed -- the 2009 Corvette ZR1. Their verdict? Better than any other car ever made. ...

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digg — 5 hours ago

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John Mashey on how to learn about science [Deltoid]

Another post on John Mashey's virtual blog. Everything that follows is from comments posted here by Mashey, lightly edited. This long essay grew from a dialog in this thread into something that may be a more general resource than just some answers to Mr Manny. There are 3 parts so far: P...

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ScienceBlogs — 1 hour ago