Subway Surpasses McDonald’s In Worldwide Locations [Factoid]

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McDonald's is still the largest fast food chain in terms of money, but Subway just overpowered Ronald in restaurant count. 33,749 to 32,737 is the current score. And did you know Subway passed up McD in the US nine years ago

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iTunes Home Sharing Can Now Update Play Counts [ITunes]

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iTunes 10.2 just snuck in a very cool feature for Home Sharing —which iOS 4.3 devices now support. If you go into preferences, you can check the box that says "Home Sharing computers and devices update play counts," which means that when you stream music to your other computers, Apple TV, or iOS devices, the play counts in the iTunes that you're streaming from will go up by one.

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Fly Your Bike Across the World with This Tough Case [Desired]

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The problem of packing up your bicycle and loading it onto an airplane isn't likely an issue many of us face regularly, if ever. But if you do—and you've got $1,400—the AeroTech Evolution looks like a killer way to safely ferry your ride.

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Kinect Makes For Easy Motion Capture For Animated Series [Video]

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Xbox Kinect homebrew hacks have been neat so far, but using it as an incredibly cheap way to motion capture for an animated series ? That is incredibly amazing to me. If someone eventually, using the Kinect SDK , makes a program so users can easily do this without having any 3D modeling experience, I would totally make a web series as well

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It’s Not Downloads Harming DVD Sales, it’s Facebook/Twitter/Sex/Gaming/Sleeping [Verbatim]

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Disney CEO Bob Iger : "I look at my kids' generation and it is not just about watching a TV show or a movie any more, it is about doing other things." Do we have more varied interests than every before? [ CharlieRoseShow via HCC via TechRadar ] More

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How We Spent Time Before the Internet [Humor]

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When I harken back to the days before the internet , I can't help but think how true this is: we know so much more now, but boy do we do less with it. Although instead of going to make the world a better place, I generally just went to kill time at the baseball card store

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Secret Space Plane Has Solar Stowaway [Space]

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The US air force launched the second un-piloted X-37B space plane into low-Earth orbit on Saturday. While the nine-metre-long drone's mission is mysterious, a trawl of the patents filed by its maker, Boeing, before the plane became a secret "black" programme of the Department of Defense in 2004, throws some light on the technology it is packing.

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Organization Freaks Will Love This Venn Diagram Clock [Design]

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Do you make lists for everything? Color coordinate your tupperware according to food groups? Plan what you're going to wear weeks in advance

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This Custom Made Laser Gun Will Definitely Shoot Your Eye Out [Video]

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There are laser guns , and then there are homemade laser guns that look like they belong in a stormtrooper's holster.

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gHome Replaces Your Landline with Google Voice for Only $5 a Month [Video]

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Replacing your landline with Google Voice is light years mo' better than paying monthly dues to a telco, we already know that . But there's always been a certain tradeoff in whether you're paying too much money or doing too much work for a Google Voice landline

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