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Game of Votes

Game of Votes

Can John Boehner win enough votes for his debt-ceiling plan? What if he can't?

By David Weigel

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Thomas the Imperialist Tank Engine

Thomas the Imperialist Tank Engine

The not-so-hidden subtexts of the popular children's show.

By Jessica Roake

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How Netflix Is Killing Piracy

How Netflix Is Killing Piracy

It's convenient, it's not that expensive, and the selection is just good enough.

By Farhad Manjoo

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Applebaum: If Breivick Hated Immigrants So Much, Why Did He Target Norwegians?

Applebaum: If Breivick Hated Immigrants So Much, Why Did He Target Norwegians?

Why Amy Winehouse's Music Will Endure

Why Amy Winehouse's Music Will Endure

How Tina Fey Solved Comedy's Supposed "Woman Problem"

How Tina Fey Solved Comedy's Supposed "Woman Problem"

Why Were the Nazis So Obsessed With the Roman Historian Tacitus?

Why Were the Nazis So Obsessed With the Roman Historian Tacitus?

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This Is Lifehacker's Summer Series: Mac OS X Lion Secrets, Faster PC Boot Times, and Drinking Water

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This Is Lifehacker's Summer Series: Mac OS X Lion Secrets, Faster PC Boot Times, and Drinking Water

This Is Lifehacker's Summer Series: Mac OS X Lion Secrets, Faster PC Boot Times, and Drinking Water On this week's episode of Lifehacker, we're looking at some of our favorite hidden features from Mac OS X Lion, speeding up our computer's boot times, setting up network attached storage on the cheap, and more.

This is the sixth episode in Lifehacker's summer series. The format is slightly different from our regular episodes but the content is just as good. This week's episode highlights:

Hungry for a little more? Check out all the episodes in our summer series:

Lastly, if you need to catch up on the first season of Lifehacker, you can find all 13 episodes here:

  1. Learned a little about surviving the urban jungle
  2. Upgraded our office and hid our cords
  3. Hacked our weekends with a few of our favorite outdoorsy tricks
  4. Untangled your wires and boosted your Wi-Fi
  5. Cracked Windows passwords, padlocks, and Wi-Fi
  6. Shared some of our favorite clever repurposing tricks
  7. Supercharged your camera, took better cameraphone pictures, and painted with light
  8. Customized our phones, laptops, apartments, and so on
  9. Made better coffee, cut an onion without crying, and saved time with no-knead bread
  10. Scored free money, made free phone calls, and got free space on Dropbox
  11. Set up remote access to our home computers, remote controlled our BitTorrent downloads, and set up a remote security camera
  12. Saved a soaked gadget, make the ultimate workout playlist, and stay cool this summer
  13. Build the ultimate home theater, make great homemade popcorn, and always go cheap with HDMI cables

Grab it in any format you like: If you don't want to watch it in your browser right now, you can catch the show wherever you want, and in nearly whatever format you like. Visit the episode page on Revision3 to download HD or phone-friendly versions of the show in MP4 or WMV. You can also subscribe in iTunes or via RSS, watch it on YouTube and subscribe to our channel there.

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People Are Worried Uncle Sam Won't Pay Them

In addition to the stock carnage today, the most alarming action was at the short end of the yield curve, where rates have basically hugged the 0%-line for ages.

Here's a look at 2-year Treasury futures (via CME), which fell notably today, before bouncing back (marginally).

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