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An object that brightened intensely and then faded back into obscurity over a period of about seven months is unlike anything astronomers have seen before, a new study reports.

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Nothing had been seen at its location before it started to brighten, and nothing was spotted after it dimmed. That suggests it is normally too faint to observe and that it brightened by at least 120 times during its firefly-like episode.

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The object’s spectrum is also bizarre. It does not match that of anything seen in the mammoth Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which has mapped more than a quarter of the sky.

Space ‘firefly’ resembles no known object – space – 16 September 2008 – New Scientist Space

– cmon Branson et al, send Virgin Galactic out after it!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Yes, Recruitment Agencies haven’t stopped vetting you via Social Networks

From ArsTechnica:

CareerBuilder found that 22 percent of the 3,100 employers it surveyed now use services like MySpace and Facebook to research candidates, up from just 11 percent in 2006. An…

Yes, Recruitment Agencies haven’t stopped vetting you via Social Networks

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Aeroform : Subsidized Urban Living Module

This fusion of the billboard and the house creates an opportunity for inhabitants to generate income from the billboard in turn subsidizing the exorbitant cost of living in a home in a major metropolis.

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Madonna and Michael Jackson both celebrated their 50th birthdays this month, challenging conventional notions of appropriate lifestyles at this age. Now banks are waking up to the fact that baby boomers are demanding customers and big business – for example, Abbey reckons this age group owns more than 90pc of all cash deposits in Britain.

Top returns for material girl generation as Madonna hits 50 – Telegraph
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