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Amazon Takes On Netflix with Unlimited Video Streaming

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Amazon has announced it will stream movies for free to people who subscribe to the e-tailer’s Prime service.

For years, Amazon appeared to be a big pushover when it came to delivering Web entertainment.

During the early part of the Internet Age, Amazon shipped CDs and DVDs to customers who ordered them via the Web and CEO Jeff Bezos’ company was synonymous with Web music and movies. Then Apple’s iTunes, and Netflix, laid waste to physical discs by delivering digital downloads or streaming video and Amazon quietly drifted to the back of the pack.

 

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Bury These Comic Books in the Ground, And They’ll Grow Plants

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Sprout your own super hero plants.

A company called Sprout Home sells superhero comic books that, if you plant them in the ground, grow herbs. Each is sold in a plastic sleeve in mint condition should you choose not to bury yours…

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Solowheel Reinvents the Wheel with Next-Gen Segway Unicycle

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I’m going solo on my Solowheel!

If you can’t afford a Segway, what about half of one? While the two-wheeled personal transporter can set you back by $5,000 or more, a new one-wheel, Segway-inspired model called the Solowheel is due to go on sale for a mere $1,500 in the U.S., starting in March. Impress your friends, work on your balance, and most of all, watch out for bikes and people that still walk.

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The Noob’s Guide to Tumblr

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Get rolling on Tumblr!

If you’re new to Tumblr and wondering how to become a POWER USER, this handy guide should get you started. It’s full of general advice as well as handy html tricks to pull off slick moves like reblogging yourself and embedding GIFs the right way.

Before long Topherchris will be reblogging all your posts, you’ll get featured on the radar once a week, and you’ll be up to your neck in Likes.

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Robo Dancing Grover

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Grooving with Grover!

Before that little red punk Elmo showed up and started scoring all the big interviews and plum assignments, Grover was the top fuzzy monster on Sesame Street. Times change, and any monster will tell you, life out on the Street can be hard. Out-hustled and out-cuted, Grover’s just another monster on the block. That didn’t stop a California Grover fan from making this sweet Dancing Grover Robot…

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1 in 4 U.S. Counties Are Dying

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A coal truck drives through an railroad tressel near downtown Welch, W.Va.

Nestled within America’s once-thriving coal country, 87-year-old Ed Shepard laments a prosperous era gone by, when shoppers lined the streets and government lent a helping hand. Now, here as in one-fourth of all U.S. counties, West Virginia’s graying residents are slowly dying off.

 

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6 Ways to Design Your Own Jewelry Online

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Customize Your Jewelry Online.

Why buy standard department store jewelry when you can customize your own pieces online for around the same price?

Jewelry is one of the hottest categories in the growing design-it-yourself market because it is extremely personal and highly configurable. Jewelry is the perfect fit for an online design tool that lets you mix and match colorful jewels and precious metals.

Each piece that you design is built to order and is likely a one-of-a-kind. Custom jewelry is a great way to express your individuality and style. Thanks to online shops that offer online design tools, you can start getting creative right away. Here are six sites worth checking out…

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