Man Sentenced for Stealing, Cleaning Cars (AP)

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Two held for stealing cars, computers

Two held for stealing cars, computers 09/06/2004 07:55 PM
The Hindu Sep 6 2004 11:52PM GMT

Cross-dressers accused of stealing cars,
driving them to pageants

Cross-dressers accused of stealing cars,
driving them to pageants 05/05/2004 06:47 AM
Drag queens steal cars for travel to pageants

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Cleaning Utilities: Spring Cleaning 6.0
And Internet Cleanup 1.0 Are Hampered By
Overzealous Decluttering Efforts

Cleaning Utilities: Spring Cleaning 6.0
And Internet Cleanup 1.0 Are Hampered By
Overzealous Decluttering Efforts 12/19/2003 11:33 AM
Spring Cleaning is a good choice for managing the digital junk you've created, such as documents and QuickTime movies. But some of Spring Cleaning's features make it potentially dangerous for people who may not know what they're deleting. As for Internet Cleanup, if you use Internet Explorer, you may find it useful. Fans of other browsers should look elsewhere. By T. Patrick Henebry (Macworld via MyAppleMenu)

Tow Truck Drivers Push Cars into
Tow-Away Zone then hold cars for ransom

Tow Truck Drivers Push Cars into
Tow-Away Zone then hold cars for ransom 03/22/2005 04:59 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: Tian says: "On March 7th, I took photos of a tow truck driver that damages a vehicle then tries to get away in Phoenix.

Sunday night (March 20th), Phoenix news channel 15 used a bait car and discovered that local tow truck company(s) would actually push cars into tow-away zone first, then held the cars as "hostages" for ransom."

I just watched it. The TV crew set up a white SUV as a bait car, and parked it legally. Time and time again, tow trucks would push the car into a red zone, snap a photo, and tow it away. Of course, when the TV crew showed the owner of the tow truck company how his drivers had pushed the car into the red lane, the owner denied responsibility. "I didn't push it," he said.

Arizona lawmakers have been half-heartedly writing legislation to stop this (isn't it illegal to do this already) but the tow truck has so far been able to convince them not to ruin the good thing they've got going. Link to RealMedia file. The segment starts about 20:15 into the broadcast.

"technology makes new cars too expensive
to repair, which may lead to disposable
cars"

"technology makes new cars too expensive
to repair, which may lead to disposable
cars" 04/21/2004 10:19 AM

Cleaning Up After Ourselves

Cleaning Up After Ourselves 09/03/2004 06:24 AM
Though banned in the 1970s, toxic PCBs persist in high concentrations around the world. Now a Stanford team says it may have the solution: carbon. By Amit Asaravala.

Cleaning

Cleaning 12/17/2002 11:55 PM
I did some cleaning today and found my 25 feet of cat-5e cable that has been missing for years.

PPC Tip: Cleaning the Screen

PPC Tip: Cleaning the Screen 07/22/2004 11:45 AM

Self-cleaning nanofabric

Self-cleaning nanofabric 07/23/2004 02:41 PM
CNN reports on the recently-announced invention of self-cleaning nano-coated fabric that's a leap beyond stain-resistant Dockers. The materials scientists at Hong Kong Polytechnic University coated cotton with nanoparticles of titanium dioxide. When subjected to ultraviolet light, the titanium dioxide produces an oxidizing agent that can break down dirt and other organic substances. According to researcher Walid A. Daoud, several companies have already come knocking.

"(The fabric will be useful for) military people, or travelers, people who go hiking, who don't have a lot of water and time to wash their clothes," he said. "This is a very good idea because then if the clothes get dirty, the dirt can be decomposed by the fabric itself. So after a few days in the sunshine, or even indoor light, the dirt will disappear."

As both BioED Online and CNN point out, the technology was prophesized in the 1951 film The Man in the White Suit starring Alec Guinness. Link< /a>

Spring Cleaning For Your PC

Spring Cleaning For Your PC 03/27/2005 06:26 PM
Time Mar 27 2005 9:35PM GMT

New Cleaning Tool Available

New Cleaning Tool Available 02/11/2004 04:21 PM
After years of suffering from the dust that slips behind my monitor's bezel, I finally discovered a way to clean the other side of my screen. WARNING: this internal scrubber is not work safe. If you'd like to give the thing a whirl, I will not be held responsible for any subsequent damage. Janet Jackson has already pre-apologized for having nothing to do with it....

Cleaning Up Whitehouse.com 's Act

Cleaning Up Whitehouse.com 's Act 02/10/2004 10:38 AM
CBS News Feb 10 2004 2:14PM GMT

Cleaning up Windows

Cleaning up Windows 01/30/2004 07:06 AM
Everyone wants their PC's to run faster and with less clutter. Great article on cleaning up Windows and speeding up...

Cleaning Your Windows

Cleaning Your Windows 01/28/2004 10:17 AM
If you're stuck in the rut of the default settings that Microsoft applies to its software, you're missing out: Here's as guide to customizing your system to strip away annoying "features" and enhance usability.

Cleaning House

Cleaning House 01/06/2005 05:35 PM
In a secret ballot Wednesday afternoon, the House Republican leadership ousted Veterans' Affairs Committee Chairman Christopher Smith, R-N.J., and replaced him with Rep. Steve Buyer of Indiana. At first glance, dumping Smith in favor of one of his colleagues might seem out of keeping for the Republicans, who normally avoid infighting. But Wednesday's vote wasn't so much a fight as a takedown.

Spring Cleaning My Mac

Spring Cleaning My Mac 09/12/2004 08:01 PM

Spring Cleaning 6.0.1

Spring Cleaning 6.0.1 07/09/2004 10:27 AM
The safe and easy way to clean up your hard drive to regain disk space, boost performance, and protect privacy.

Self-Cleaning Glass

Self-Cleaning Glass 06/08/2004 09:07 AM

They've been developing it for years, so it's good news to see that the Pilkington Activ glass -- the self-cleaning "eco glass" coated with a film of titanium dioxide -- is finally being put to use in commercial development. If you hadn't see it before, the Activ glass has two advantages over normal glass: the first is the photocatalytic effect that reacts to sunlight to break down organic dirt, and the second is an enhanced hydrophilic tendency of water running on the glass to form sheets instead of droplets (like Rain-X, for instance). The combination of the two effects means that every time it rains (as I hear it does a lot in UK, where the technology was developed), the outside of the windows clean themselves.
Read [BBC via WorldChanging ]

Cleaning directions

Cleaning directions 06/27/2004 03:58 PM
A guy on a mailing list sent this around saying that it came from a friend of a friend of an n degree friend. It's supposedly the clothing label from a small American company that sells its product in France. Translation: Wash with warm water. Use mild soap. Dry flat. Do not use bleach. Do not dry in the dryer. Do not iron. We are sorry that Our President is an idiot. We did not vote for him....

Spring Cleaning

Spring Cleaning 04/08/2005 05:48 PM
It's that time of year again. Get out of yard work with some OS X cleaning applications. More fun, less calluses.

This week we'll take a look at some free utilities that take the work out of Mac cleaning.

GE's Spring Cleaning

GE's Spring Cleaning 04/15/2005 06:05 PM
Wave goodbye to General Electric's insurance unit -- an albatross in an otherwise strong quarter.

A problem with NLMs not cleaning up
after themselves

A problem with NLMs not cleaning up
after themselves 09/16/2004 05:37 AM
Ever since Windows NT was first released (strangely enough as Version 3.5 - Microsoft never did get the hang of proper numbering), NetWare aficionados have swapped stories about uptime - how long a server goes between bootups. Windows servers used to have uptime numbers that were measured in hours or days, while NetWare uptime was measured in months or even years. With older versions of NT, starting or stopping a service often meant you needed to reboot while recent versions of NetWare haven't needed a reboot even to upgrade the operating system.

Cleaning Word HTML

Cleaning Word HTML 11/10/2003 11:12 PM

I took a weekend off from scowling and screaming at the content management system that refuses to be born in order to luxuriate in code that has to work on only one server, and has to be legible only to me. The bliss, I tell you, the bliss!

The result is a rather if-I-may skookum rewrite of this site’s Word HTML Cleaner. The markup it now produces is tidier and easier to read, and the selection of tags and attributes that make it through the cleaning process is somewhat more sensible.

Access to the Word Cleaner continues to be free for files up to 20 kilobytes, though I’ve added an option to subscribe at the ROCK BOTTOM INTRODUCTORY PRICE of $20 per year.

Subscribers can, in addition to working with documents larger than 20 Kb, customise how the cleaner deals with tag attributes, as well as have access to other future improvements. Thanks to a bit of hacking through Paypal’s rather suave Instant Payment Notification API, access to the Word cleaner’s new bells and whistles is nearly instant.

Whether this will slow down the instances of people firing up 2 megabyte quarterly reports overflowing with WordArt and Excel charts – then sniffily demanding why this free service didn’t work (‘oh was I supposed to save it as HTML?’) – remains to be seen.

Cleaning Up Whitehouse.com's Act

Cleaning Up Whitehouse.com's Act 02/10/2004 10:38 AM
CBS News Feb 10 2004 2:08PM GMT

Telecom spring cleaning

Telecom spring cleaning 04/28/2004 01:07 PM
USA Today Apr 28 2004 5:08PM GMT

Feel like doing a little spring
cleaning?

Feel like doing a little spring
cleaning? 01/04/2005 03:36 PM
Feel like doing a little spring cleaning? Remember that horrid olestra stuff that gave you "leakage"? Or didn't, because you stuck to the fatty doritos because of the diarrhea stories? Apparently there's some evidence that it clears a series of toxins, including dioxin, from the bloodstream. Would've come in handy for Yushenko. Via Number One Hit Song.

Macworld review: Cleaning utilities

Macworld review: Cleaning utilities 01/17/2004 10:43 PM
Browser cache files, duplicate documents, and unneeded programs waste space, and Spring Cleaning 6.0 and Internet Cleanup 1.0, both from Aladdin Systems, offer ways to sort through your files and toss the trash. Spring Cleaning can find and remove almost any file, while Internet Cleanup specializes in removing browser-related files and blocking pop-up browser windows. These tools are handy starting points for cleaning up your machine, but be sure to study the file list before you press delete -- both programs occasionally target needed files.

'Something' Cleaning Mars Rover

'Something' Cleaning Mars Rover 12/24/2004 12:44 PM
Slashdot Dec 23 2004 10:19PM GMT

Cleaning Up Windows Update Files

Cleaning Up Windows Update Files 05/02/2004 02:01 PM

Hammacher Schlemmer Air-Cleaning Windows
Fan

Hammacher Schlemmer Air-Cleaning Windows
Fan 06/18/2004 12:38 PM

These fans may not be new -- I mean, it's a fan -- but I just noticed them for the first time today. The Hammacher Schlemmer Air-Cleaning Windows Fan is just a box fan, basically, except on the intake side (or "back") is a pleated cotton/poly filter that also happens to be impregnated with baking soda to neutralize odors. Unfortunately it shares the curse of all air cleaners -- the fan is only $50, but the three-month filters are $40 each.

Can you tell it's hot in our neck of the woods today?
Read [Hammacher]

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Shark Tank: Cleaning up in more ways
than one

Shark Tank: Cleaning up in more ways
than one 06/02/2004 11:11 PM
This IT pilot fish has been on assignment at a silicon wafer plant for several weeks when he hears some other workers talking about a special clean-room bonus -- and they're excited.

Cleaning Up the Software Metering
Database

Cleaning Up the Software Metering
Database 12/31/2003 10:53 AM

"Cleaning Pennies with taco sauce"

"Cleaning Pennies with taco sauce" 09/25/2004 09:51 PM

Allume announces Spring Cleaning 7.0

Allume announces Spring Cleaning 7.0 08/17/2004 03:00 PM
Allume Systems today announced Spring Cleaning 7.0, a new version of its Mac clean-up tool that "boosts performance and enables users to take control and protect their privacy."...

Ten Steps for Cleaning Up Information
Pollution

Ten Steps for Cleaning Up Information
Pollution 01/05/2004 09:39 AM

Cleaning spam from swapping networks

Cleaning spam from swapping networks 03/19/2005 03:07 AM
ZDNet Mar 18 2005 12:04PM GMT

Pilkington perfects self-cleaning window

Pilkington perfects self-cleaning window 06/08/2004 07:33 AM
Cue sobbing bloke up ladder with chamois leather

phpGuru.org: Cleaning Input Data

phpGuru.org: Cleaning Input Data 03/19/2005 03:26 AM
From phpguru.org today, there is a new posting that I think every beginning PHP developer out there could stand reading - Cleaning Input Data.

FAQ | Cleaning out System Configuration
Utility

FAQ | Cleaning out System Configuration
Utility 04/18/2004 03:01 AM
Philadelphia Inquirer Apr 18 2004 7:38AM GMT
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