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The Large Hadron Collider has been busy destroying protons by the billions. But now it's set to do something completely different: generate miniature Big Bangs.

Business Week: "Google uses a complicated structure to send most of its overseas profits to tax havens, keeping its corporate rate at a super-low 2.4 percent"

Always interesting economist Tyler Cowen has a story in the NY Times discussing the "cost" of free parking.

It's based on the book The High Cost of Free Parking, which spent an astounding 733 pages to delve into the subject.

OStatic: "Over the past decade, the enormous reach of technologies from The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) make them among the most ubiquitous in open source, with billions of users each day.

The ASF's first project also happens to be its most popular: the Apache HTTP Server..."

OSNews: "Mike Rayfield, the company's general manager for the mobile business unit, has stated that NVIDIA prefers Windows CE over Android because CE is more mature.

Windows CE "is a rock-solid operating system that has been shipped billions of times.""