I just got a letter from IHC notifying me of the following changes to my family's health insurance:

50% increase in family medical deductable

50% increase in family out of pocket maximum

60% increase in prescription deductable

166% increase in cost of non-participating emergency room treatment

400% increase in cost of participating emergency room treatment...
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Advocates of protecting endangered species often assert that the species may be the source of a discovery or a chemical or something else that saves millions of lives. Well, what if the existance of a species is suppressing the rise or evolution of another species that would be the source of a chemical or something...
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Sometimes having a lot of people working on Atom is great, because we get a much wider variety of experience and insight than a smaller group would have available to it. But all too often, it feels like trying to get the US government to move--too many checks and balances keep the status quo entrenched,...
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One quick tip for getting the maximum value from your mail client's SPAM filter. Once you've got it configured or trained so that it's not getting many if any false positives, be sure to have it automatically file new SPAM messages in their own folder rather than leaving them tagged as SPAM, but sitting in...
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Q: What's the difference between the internet and American Idol?

A: On the internet, nobody knows if you're a dog. On American Idol, everybody knows if you're Randy's dawg.

A million monkeys pounding away on a million typewriters would eventually produce an award-worthy screenplay for Jurrasic Park IV.

A million monkeys pounding away on a million web terminals would get really bad karma on Slashdot.

A million monkeys pounding away on a million typewriters would run out of paper and ink before producing the entire works of William Shakespeare.

A million monkeys pounding away on a million typewriters would die out before producing the entire works of William Shakespeare unless they periodically took time out to reproduce and could be...
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Our VoIP adapter from Vonage arrived today, and I placed my first VoIP call...which I answered myself on our Qwest line. Next, I talked to my wife with her on the Vonage phone and me on the Qwest cordless. Then I called my mom to invite her to dinner (and got her voice mail). So...
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The new H.264 codec in QuickTime 7 offers two to three times better compression than MPEG-2 video, enabling HD video to be encoded at about the same bitrate as today's DVDs. This should be a huge benefit for online video applications such as iChat and online movie watching.

Macworld: Feature: Sharpening the picture

I don't spend nearly enough time in iMovie. I have Adobe Premier and After Effects, but they're not what keep me away. If I were to do a complex movie, I'm sure I'd use them, but for anything that's not too fancy, iMovie is just easier. Maybe having an iMovie-related blog will remind me of...
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