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Michelangelo was a religious man, but he was also a scientist. http://inventorspot.com/articles/michaelangelo_painted_brain_gods_head

Neurologists Discover Michelangelo's Paintings Of God With A Brain

Why I'm returning my new iPad and buying a Kindle Fire | iPad Atlas

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-31747_7-57407090-243/why-im-returning-my-new-ipad-and-buying-a-kindle-fire/ The new iPad's screen is nice, but the greatest thing since sliced bread?
http://chrome.blogspot.com/2012/03/new-way-to-multitask.html

A new way to multitask

On December 9, 1968, Douglas Engelbart rocked the computing world with The Mother of All Demos . One of the many advancements Engelbart discussed was the creation of a simple, intuitive pointing device that would allow you to manipulate a cursor on a screen with the movement of your hand. The world met the mouse .
An ad agency in New York has recently planned to pay homeless people $20 a day to act as travelling Wi-Fi Internet hot spots. The homeless people would wear t-shirts as part of the position, stating that they are a Wi-Fi hotspot. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-big-questions/201203/person-or-object-the-case-homelessness

Person or Object? The Case of Homelessness

I am very real

In October of 1973, Bruce Severy — a 26-year-old English teacher at Drake High School, North Dakota — decided to use Kurt Vonnegut 's novel, Slaughterhouse-Five , as a teaching aid in his classroom. http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/i-am-very-real.html
http://io9.com/5896669/when-opium-was-for-newborns-and-bayer-sold-heroin Absinthe did not cause hallucinations! Absinthe in the 1800's was & is as safe as any other alchohol.

When Opium Was For Newborns And Bayer Sold Heroin

http://www.androidauthority.com/apple-samsung-patent-war-69575/ It’s hard to believe that someone envisioned tablet PCs 18 years ago, but a dusty video clip from 1994 shows us that there were , in fact, technology visionaries before Steve Jobs (insert “ironic grin” here). The video shows how newspaper company Knight Ridder saw the news of the future and, darn it, I must say that those guys were spot on with their assumptions.

Apple's legal war with Android receives major blow due to a 1994 video

With Google’s long awaited file-synchronisation service Google Drive set to launch within the coming weeks, details are already starting to emerge over what it will provide for users.

Google Drive May Launch With 5GB Free, In-App Document Editing

http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/03/30/google-drive-tipped-to-launch-with-with-5gb-free-storage-mobile-app-document-editing-capabilities/

Understanding aside

Please note aside has been redefined since this post was written, please read the updated article . http://html5doctor.com/understanding-aside/
http://www.startribune.com/business/144875875.html Faced with a stubborn slide in sales at its U.S. stores, Best Buy Co.

Best Buy says it will close 50 big box stores, cut 400 jobs

Millionaire Is Worried it Will Be Awkward When She Demands Money from Homeless Man

In January, 30-year-old Emily Leach won $1,000,000 on a scratch-off ticket she bought at a California Liquor & Tobacco store.

Erik Martin - The 2012 TIME 100 Poll

Age: 33 Occupation: General manager, Reddit Reddit, the self-proclaimed "front page of the Internet," hit a pretty huge milestone in December: 2 billion page views in a single month, more than any but a handful of sites worldwide.
Cloud storage powerhouse Dropbox has redesigned its website and main interface with welcome new features including an all-powerful “action bar”, a Lightbox photo viewer, better search, and more, the company announced Thursday evening.

Dropbox redesign adds action bar, photo viewer, and more