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Trick or Treatment

brothke writes "The recent collapse of financial companies occurred in part because their operations were run like a black box. For many years, alternative medicine has similarly operated in the shadows with its own set of black boxes. In Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine, Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst, MD, break open that box, and show with devastating clarity and accuracy, that the box is for the most part empty." Keep reading for the rest of Ben's review.

Hackers trick Internet users with fake advanced Microsoft IE 8 offer

BOCHUM, Germany -- Before downloading an advance version of Internet Explorer 8, computer users should make sure the offer really comes from Microsoft and not from a hacker.

Quantum Trick Makes Metals Become Insulators

The investigation of complex materials such as high-temperature superconductors is problematic because of the presence of disorder and many competing interactions in real crystalline materials. "This makes it difficult to identify the role of specific interactions and, in particular, to decide whether repulsive interactions between electrons alone can explain high-temperature superconductivity," says Dr. Theodoulos Costi from the Institute of Solid State Research, Forschungszentrum Jülich, which is a member of the Helmholtz Association.

One-Trick Pony No More, Roku Adds Amazon Content

Roku Inc. announced today that it is giving consumers even more reason to purchase its digital set-top box, with the addition of pay-per-view video content from Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN).

Why Mr Hat Trick do you never post anything positive about home video?...

Oh boy....here we go again...more doom and gloom for Sony and the PS3. This is getting so friggin old!!! How come no one can write about the whole sales picture for 2008. 1)The 19% sales drop was for the month of Nov only 2)Sales are up 60% overall this year 3)PS3 outsold the 360 for most of 2008 before MS dropped the price on the 360 4)If you comparing sales month for month since launch the PS3 has sold more units, faster than 360 did. 5)Without PS3 Blu-Ray would not have won the format war. I'm all for personal observation but at least give all the facts.

Kadima's latest election trick: Computer game targeting Netanyahu

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Digital retailers missing a trick with analytics

UK online retailers are disturbingly uninformed about the effectiveness of their digital marketing mix, despite facing one of the most frugal consumer Christmases on record, research from Coremetrics has revealed.

Cunning Callaghan's plot to trick Thatcher with phoney election

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iPhone Lie Detector Fun Parlour Trick

Doesn’t really detect anything more than which way you tilt it before asking a question. You pre-determine the result to embarrass whomever has been foolish enough to put their finger on your phone.

A Better E-Commerce Site: Is a Little Lipstick the Trick?

Sometimes, all it takes to boost performance on your e-commerce site is a little tidying up -- snappier pictures and graphics, maybe some new features. Consider, however, that what your site might really need is a full platform makeover, writes Scott Todaro of Demandware.

Jordanian duped into paying $1.2 mln in 'magic' gold trick

A file picture of people handling gold bars. Three Jordanians duped a man into paying them more than one million dollars to extract gold from his Amman farm by "using magic", police said on Wednesday.

Jordanian duped into paying $1.2 mln in 'magic' gold trick

AMMAN (AFP) - Three Jordanians duped a man into paying them more than one million dollars to extract gold from his Amman farm by "using magic", police said on Wednesday.

Ubuntu + IBM = Choice Corporate Linux Desktop?

"IBM pulls this trick up by using the old thin-client approach. Instead of having a full-out desktop on every desk, users have computers that pick up their desktop applications using Virtual Bridges' VERDE (Virtual Enterprise Remote Desktop Environment) virtualization software.

Fed Refuses to Trade Secrets

Jim Willie of the Hat Trick Letter notes that Bloomberg has filed a lawsuit against the Federal Reserve to force the Fed to give some details about where in the hell $700 billion went after disbursement from the TARP funds, a request and a lawsuit that the Fed is steadfastly fighting, tooth and nail.

Horse Sells His Abstract Paintings and Has His Own Art Exhibit

Cholla, the painting horse, is no one-trick pony. He is after all, a horse, but his paintings sell for quite a bit of money and he is slated to have his own exhibition in the spring. Read on, and Jackson Pollack, move over!

Businesses rage at ICANN domain plans

The are plenty of network monitoring tools around, the trick is finding out which one works best for you. SolarWinds has always made much of its being designed intuitively for network engineers and, as we find, this is not a hollow boast.

Facebook and Google launch data portability

The are plenty of network monitoring tools around, the trick is finding out which one works best for you. SolarWinds has always made much of its being designed intuitively for network engineers and, as we find, this is not a hollow boast.

Ind's approach surprises Broad

Mohali: Convinced that a good morning session on Tuesday would do the trick for England, seamer Stuart Broad said he was surprised to see India not really pushing for a win in the second Test here on Monday.

Young Seddon Painters are Treble Tops

J&S Seddon apprentice Craig Martin helped his company complete a prestigious hat trick by taking first place in the Johnstone’s Paints Young Painter of the Year contest.

Tania's national chess title quest suffers a blow

New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) Top seed Tania Sachdev's quest for a hat-trick of national women's titles was seriously dented as seasoned campaigner Nisha Mohota forced her to a draw in the penultimate round of 35th Parsvnath National Women Chess Championship at Russian Centre for Science and Culture here Saturday.

Hahnel HWC 433 transmitter and receiver

Using a device to remotely trigger your camera shutter has long been a favourite trick of photographers, but whereas in the beginning a cable was needed to attach the camera to the remote device, now wireless is king.

Proteas signed pact to succeed in Aus

SYDNEY: South Africa coach Micky Arthur revealed that besides meticulous planning that did the trick against Australia, an official document was also signed by the players guaranteeing success against Ricky Ponting's men in the ongoing three-Test series.

Secretive EEStor Granted Patent for Ultracapacitor Technology

eestor-patent-fig1.jpg Not So Secret Anymore EEStor has been playing the reverse psychology trick on most of us; the less they tell us about their supposedly revolutionary EESU (electrical energy storage unit) based on ultracapacitors, the more we want to know about it. But recently, part of the veil has been lifted when the company was granted a fairly detailed patent. Read on for more....

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