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Best of the Rest: Mozilla's 'Raindrop' Messaging, $65M Hovercraft Sale

by Thomas Houston on October 23, 2009 at 07:41 PM

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
  • An Excelsior Dawes military hovercraft, perfect for transporting hundreds of your friends, is on the market from Portland Yacht Sales. The price? A smooth $65 million. [From: DVICE]
  • Feeding the need for even more ways of communicating, Mozilla today released Raindrop, a new messaging service residing in the blurry area between instant messaging and e-mail. [From: Raindrop via: DownloadSquad]
  • Tim Berners-Lee, so-called "Father of the Web," has finally joined Twitter, but he doesn't seem to be getting any respect -- he only has 5,000 followers [From: Twitter via: Mashable]
  • This collection of images will help you end nerd debates like, "Is Godzilla Larger than Mr. Stay Puft?" or "How many TIE Fighters would fit in the space station from '2001.'" [From: io9]
  • Need to free up some room on your Mac but don't know what could be taking up all that space? Find those long lost MP3s and videos you've been squirreling away with OmniDiskSweeper. [From: TUAW]
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