A recent study found that poor folks – households earning under $13,000 per year – spend about 9% of all their income on lottery tickets. Jonah Lehrer:
The study neatly illuminates the sad…

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Poor People Spend 9% Of Income On Lottery Tickets

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The people of England may need to upgrade their plumbing — Taco Bell is coming to the UK later this summer. As part of parent company Yum Brands’ plan to increase their foothold in Jolly Ol’…

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Taco Bell To Begin Plaguing The Bowels Of England This Summer

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Only days after the Center for Science in the Public Interest ruined everyone’s dinner plans with their list of the worst meals available at U.S. restaurants, the muscle-bound dudes over at…

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2,010 Calorie Cold Stone Shake Named Worst Drink In America

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lastcallwithchris: Possibly the new TechBuzz button.

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Tech site CNET’s posted a great interview with teen-hacker-turned-paid-security-expert Marc Maiffret about his history hacking and the state of security in the current OS ecosystem. Apart from…

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Famous Hacker Calls Windows More Secure than Mac [Operating Systems]

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Last week during Apple’s iPhone 4.0 Preview, Steve Jobs announced iAd, a product that could help turn the mobile ad industry on its head. The new product lets developers quickly integrate…

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Sprout Now Lets You Simultaneously Build Rich Ads In Both HTML5 And Flash

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Postmaster General John Potter appeared before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to make his case for scrapping service on Saturdays, and what he had to say about the USPS…

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Postmaster: USPS "On Brink Of Financial Insolvency"

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Twitter has just announced that it acquired Tweetie, the very popular and highly polished Twitter application for the iPhone . The application will now be called “Twitter for iPhone” and…

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Twitter Acquires Tweetie

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All the big music sellers may have moved to non-DRM MP3 files long ago, but the watermarking of files with your personal information continues. Most users who buy music don’t know about…

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How “Dirty” MP3 Files Are A Back Door Into Cloud DRM

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Last summer we’d heard that the Digg board of directors was considering terminating Digg cofounder and CEO Jay Adelson. But everything was fine, said senior Digg employees, and the fact…

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Digg’s Kevin Rose: “One Of Us Has To Leave”

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