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NewsXperiment Combines All Your News
Are you tired of constantly monitoring hundreds of news feeds? NewsXperiment, a Google App Engine application, provides you with articles that combine all the news you need in just a few stories. Let them read through 200 different RSS feeds!
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This kind of experimental site makes me think of all those science-fictional efforts to force-feed information into people with advanced alien technology. Like when Dr. McCoy gained centuries of medical knowledge in a single episode (Spock's Brain [TOS]).
(McCoy goes to super advanced alien med school)
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