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UPS to Reduce Delivery Time for Packages

UPS Inc., the world's largest shipping carrier, says it is shortening the amount of time it takes to deliver ground packages to major cities across the United States.

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The Change of Winds

By the nature of my business, and the source of power for one of my favorite recreational activities, I think about the wind a lot.

The Fastest R&D; Lab On the Planet

Source: popsci.com

The technology that goes into a 200mph motorcycle. Worth it just for the video at the bottom of the article (Quicktime).

Texas Speeds to 80mph Limit, Nation's Highest

Source: news.yahoo.com

Texas Speeds to 80mph Limit, Nation's Highest

Left turns at red lights proposed

Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Similar to americans being allowed to turn right at red lights, the conservatives have proposed that British drivers should be able to turn left at red lights in an attempt to help congestion. This was put forward as part of a 10-point transport plan.

Left Lane Hogs: Why Not Just Move Over?

I admit, I drive fast. Then again, so does everyone here. I would say that the average speed during my morning commute home (I work nights) is 30kph over the posted speed limit of 90kph.

Video: Bicycle Crash...at 100 MPH!

Source: video.google.com

Now that's a wipeout. 1:30.

ZardozZ OpenWeb - Hyper Tuning Firefox: A Blogger's Guide

Source: zardozz.com

This may be a useful guide to new bloggers who don't have a clue about how to speed up Firefox. There are lots of tips out there on the web but it seems like they have consolidated them all and also included a number of areas not covered in the typical freeware out there.

ShoutWire - Warp Speed, Now!

Source: shoutwire.com

You hear about one of these things every six months or so, some new space-travel drive that's going to bring us to the stars. Let's hope if not this one, another one similar to it will get going and make fast spacetravel common place.

Broadband Speed to 'Quadruple'

Source: news.bbc.co.uk

BT is said to be planning to increase there broadband services from 2Mbps to around 8Mbps. This change is good because most of the UK use BT Broadband, so a lot of people would benifit without having to do anything.

Atlanta drivers actually drive speed limit, and there's a video to prove it.

Source: fastandloud.com

These people tried to make a statement by driving the speed limit, blocking traffic, and actually making the highway more dangerous, as the white van in this video proves.

Speed Economy: the new narco-capitalism?

In 2000 it was reported that the Wa living near the border with Thailand have been producing methamphetamine on an industrial scale and bringing it over the border for sale and distribution in Thailand, China and India.

Free-Fall from Near Space

Source: damninteresting.com

I think this is what "Life on a fast track" is all about.

Ready, Set, Go!

This universe’s fastest motion, assisted by its electromagnetic forces envelope cluster, might not be related to luminous energy dissipation, as in the case of the speed of light, but to some displacements of completely different nature.

The Prime Directives

Short post but a very important one for entrepreneurs… there are lots of things you can do, there are a couple of things that you MUST do…

D.C. speed cameras raise record revenue

Source: The Washington Times

The Metropolitian Police Department collected a record level of fines for its speed camera program last December to cap the most lucrative year in its five-year history.

The Dreaded Double-Click

I always think it impertinent when I'm working faster then my computer.

'Data-in, data-out' signals quantum breakthrough

Source: newscientist.com

A new discovery in a methods of transferring quantum information could lead to a revolution in computing speeds across networks. These amazing networks would also be impermeable to security breaches and hacker attacks. The process involves transferring information between atoms via photons which are induced into a hightened state by way of powerful laser beams.