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Taxi Cab Confessions

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While traveling you want the cheapest flight and the best price on a hotel room. But what about getting a good deal on a cab driver?

In case you’re wondering where to get the most bang for your buck when it comes to being transported around you next destination, a new survey has some answers. The website hotels dot com polled more than nineteen hundred people who traveled in May of this year.  read more »

Unmanned Aircraft

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London’s Ministery of Defence is going stealth at the rate of over $200 million a pop.

Earlier this week the Ministery unveiled Raranis. An unmanned jet capable of striking long range targets. The jet, named for the Celtic God of Thunder is now being called the combat aircraft of the future. The prototype is the size of a light aircraft and is virtually undetectable. The press release reports that the jet was designed to carry out intelligence, surveillance and recon missions while the crew remains safely on the ground and out of site.  read more »

A Royal Spread

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The memory of the late Princess Diana has been preserved through her children and her charity work. And now she's being preserved as a preserve.

Sam Bompas is founder of the London based catering company Bompas and Parr. And he has a new product for your next event. Bompas is selling five pound jars of "occult jam" at London's Barbican Art Gallery and the $8 jars of jam contain the hair of Princess Diana.

Bompas says the spread is made by infusing a tiny piece of the Princess's hair with gin. That is then combined with milk and sugar to create a product that tastes like condensed milk. Bombas says he bought the hair on Ebay for $10 from a U.S. dealer who collects celebrity hair and sells it in extremely tiny parts.  read more »