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Tracking stolen people

In a recent post, I recounted how the National Park Service implanted microchips in a bunch of cacti in Arizona so that they could be tracked if stolen. In Mexico the trouble tends to be less with stolen vegetation than with kidnappings.

| Opinion | Offbeat | 08/28/08 at 11:37 am |

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12 Sly Web Tricks That Put You in Control

So it's Friday afternoon, the weekend is just around the corner, and you're up to no good. Rather than waste your time turning monitors upside down around the office, why not update your tech arsenal? If you have a computer or cell phone on hand, you're more than ready to beef up your weapons and spy kit with these 12 sly tricks. We'll teach you why and how (and with what) to do them, and tell you how well you can expect them to work. And you will forget where you heard this information...

| Opinion | Offbeat | 08/27/08 at 3:57 pm |

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Hitting it big on eBay: New extinct species, futuristic toilets

Richard Harrington, an officer in the UK's Royal Entomological Society, probably thought that chunk of amber with an insect trapped inside that he bid for on eBay would make a nice paperweight -- but he didn't expect that the dead critter would be a representative of a previously unknown species, one that would end up being named for him.

| News | Offbeat | 08/26/08 at 10:01 pm |

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Park rangers create cactus cyborgs

The majestic saguaro cactus is a striking, internationally known, and now microchip-implanted symbol of Arizona -- the better to thwart cactus thieves, you know.

| News | Offbeat | 08/26/08 at 11:16 am |

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