OOF – Out of Food

Shelling out those rather expensive cars to entice buyers for the properties, I think is reason enough to suggest the ditch property sellers have managed to find themselves in. While Duncan Jones hasn’t found takers for his mansion and a free Ferrari, a seller in San Diego has tried to better him by offering a 2007 Bentley Continental GT and the furniture along with a house with an ocean view. Now, with a car costing somewhere between $169,000 and $189,000 coming free with a $1,799,900, 4,371 square foot house might just find luck.

The greatest of all time, Michael Jackson. R.I.P.

NEWARK, NJ—The mayors of Hoboken, Secaucus and Ridgefield, the Jersey City deputy mayor and council president, two state assemblymen, numerous other public officials and political figures and five rabbis from New York and New Jersey were among 44 individuals charged today in a two-track federal investigation of public corruption and a high-volume, international money laundering conspiracy, Acting U.S. Attorney Ralph J. Marra, Jr., announced.

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Cities grow organically, and while some areas thrive and prosper, others parts undoubtedly deteriorate over time as industry evolves, social dynamics shift and economies fluctuate. Many accomplished urban designers look at the multi-dimensionality of any city within which they work regardless of where a project is sited.

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Outsmart your local speed and red-light cameras with the Cheetah GPSmirror ($250). Packing a built-in GPS that checks through a massive database of enforcement cameras throughout the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia, the GPSmirror also offers voice, tone, and visual alerts, advisory speed limit announcements, a GPS-based speedometer display with compass, and the ability to give you your GPS coordinates should you need to call for help.

Another iconic vehicle is about to be reborn and brought into the 21st century. This time it is the Mercedes-Benz 300SL that is getting the make-over treatment (that’s the car with the batman-esque doors to you and me, or Gull-wings as they are known in the car business).

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For those who didn’t quite catch it: 127.0.0.1 is the standard IP address used for a loopback network connection. In other words, it is where your PC resides on a network, i.e. home.