Ticketmaster is planning to launch two new features that will let users resell unused tickets and bid for tickets online, rather than waiting in line at retail outlets, according to published reports.

One feature, called “Ticketmaster Marketplace,” will serve as an online venue for season ticket holders to sell unused tickets. But we still think they plan to fleece everyone that uses their service.

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Yamaha has designed this next generation guitar for all those people living next to a ravid guitar player. A common dilemma faced by musicians is how to practice without breaking the landlord’s rules, or disturbing family members and neighbors. Yamaha has been solving this problem in part with a line of “silent” products which incorporate cutting-edge technology into a growing family of traditional musical instruments—including strings, brass and percussion. Yamaha Guitars enters the silent family with the introduction of the SLG100N Silent Guitar.

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The Phoenix 1000 is a luxury class submarine that will easily out class anyone else at the marina.

The total interior area of the submarine is in excess of 5000 square feet. The overall spaciousness, coupled with very large acrylic viewports, and the potential for relatively comfortable living, results in a vehicle as luxurious as the finest of motor yachts.

At $78 million, you might have to work two jobs for a while before you can afford this one.
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Shelling out $4 or so for a bag of soil might seem lunacy, but in this age of bottled water and boutique coffees, the green industry is counting on dirt becoming the next product fad. Designer dirt, that is.

The hunch seems to be paying off: The largest player in this field, the Scotts Company of Marysville, Ohio, reports a vigorous consumer response to its national brands of potting mixes, garden soil mixes and mixes to repair lawns.

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An Italian researcher is claiming ground-breaking progress, and has successfully cloned a human, and the mother is now 8 weeks pregnant, according to this article. Now how long until I can buy my own clone?

It’s worth noting that the Roman medical associations bioethicists denied Dr. Antinori permission to proceed with these experiments last month.
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Space Daily reports: Participants of an international conference on disarmament in Beijing called for the international community to act immediately to prevent the potential danger of arms being used in outer space.

Participants from 20 countries had in-depth discussions on major topics including the role of the UN in the sphere of disarmament, the prevention of the arms race in outer space, missile proliferation, nuclear disarmament, military revolution and conventional arms disarmament
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