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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
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OPINION

 I Hate Facebook; 
 You Should Too 




Mar 9, 09 6:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - Facebook is a soul-sucking enterprise that can steal away your dependable wife and connect you with people you'd rather avoid—or happily forget, Matt Labash writes in the Weekly Standard. Users of the “stultifying” and “mind-numbing” site have “a reality-show star's unquenchable thirst for broadcasting all... More »

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social networking • Internet • Facebook • Weekly Standard • time • opinion • boring

Time Will Stand Still at Midnight New Year's Eve

Timekeepers make 2008 a second longer to compensate for Earth's wonky rotation

Dec 27, 08 7:05 AM CST
(Newser) - The last minute of the last hour of the last day of 2008 is getting an extension, LiveScience reports. The world's timekeepers are tacking an extra "leap second" onto the end of the year to allow super-accurate clocks to get back in synch with the planet's irregular but gradually... More »

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clock • time • atomic clock • New Year's Eve

 New Addictions 
 for Election Junkies 

Games and Google Trends, Webisodes and Weaving, there's lots to choose from

Nov 6, 08 7:45 PM CST
(Newser) - With the election finally over, Web-surfing news junkies are in need of a new fix. Slate offers a few ways to fritter away the hours:
  • Follow the financial crisis: Exciting, depressing, full of numbers—the best way to keep that election high going just a little longer. Sites such
... More »

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games • politics • web • time • diversions • boredom

 How the Rich Can Buy Time 

Why do anything if you can hire someone to do it for you?

May 4, 08 2:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Time is truly the currency of the rich, and W offers tips on today's ultimate luxury. How to save a few of those grains in the hourglass:
  1. Delegate: Outsourcing isn’t just for heartless CEOs—pay people to break in your smoking jackets
... More »

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wealth • lifestyle • time • luxury • rich

 Mecca Time Plugged 
 for World Standard 

Muslim scholars say British-imposed GMT due for a change

Apr 21, 08 4:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - A group of Muslim scholars wants Mecca time to replace Greenwich Mean Time as the world's default setting, the BBC reports. As Islam’s holiest city lies in perfect longitudinal alignment to magnetic north, scientists told a Qatar conference that Mecca was the “true” center of the earth. GMT,... More »

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Islam • Saudi Arabia • England • Qatar • Mecca • scientists • Greenwich Mean Time • time

Spring Ahead, Fall Back; Repeat

Some may have changed clocks a week early

Oct 30, 07 9:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Spring ahead, fall back. And fall back again, for many whose clocks wrongly reset themselves last weekend—1 week ahead of the schedule Congress set when it extended Daylight Saving Time. Most cell phones and computers, which get time and date information from networks, weren't affected, but many alarm clocks... More »

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Congress • cell phones • BlackBerry • clock • time • Halloween • Daylight Saving Time • Palm Pilot • computer

Timing Is All

Tips on the right
time to do everything from buying veggies
to picking up prescriptions

Oct 13, 07 10:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - ABC News offers these tips on the best time to:
  • Work out: The afternoon, when you’ve eaten and muscles are warmed up.
  • Get groceries: Tuesdays and Fridays, when produce is freshest.
  • Pick up a prescription: Play it safe and pick your pills up in the second
... More »

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consumer • exercise • time • chores

AT&T Stops Time (of Day)

Americans no longer calling in to hear the right time

Aug 29, 07 6:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Californians are saying goodbye to a more genteel era, a time when they used to set clocks by calling in to AT&T for the correct hour. Cell phones and computers have made the service outdated, the company says. “Times change,” says a spokesman. “There are just... More »

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California • telecom • AT and T • Nevada • Jane Barbe • time

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