<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : meter : ATOM 0.3</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><entry><title><![CDATA[Sex by the meter costly]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/sex/l/133285/1/" /><id>133285</id><summary><![CDATA[Sex by the meter costly]]></summary><issued>2009-09-19T18:18:44+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-19T18:18:44+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A DRUNK footballer's loudly simulated sex with a parking meter has been recounted in Cairns Magistrates' Court.<br/>He then made racial slur against a passerby - the final straw for police.<br/>*alcohol may have been involved*]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Look-alike meter]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37536/1/" /><id>37536</id><summary><![CDATA[Look-alike meter]]></summary><issued>2007-10-06T13:01:35+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-06T13:01:35+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[From the people that brought you celebrity look alike, comes the look-alike meter. Do you always argue who your child looks like,you or your wife, well now there is a solution. Browse through your photos find one of you, your wife and your child and wham! the meter finds who the child looks like.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Politifact Truth-O-Meter]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/131544/1/" /><id>131544</id><summary><![CDATA[Politifact Truth-O-Meter]]></summary><issued>2009-08-24T19:23:31+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-24T19:23:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Look at what politicians are currently lying about. There's also an Obama Meter and a Flip Meter.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Phony meter used to steal 350,000 gallons of fuel]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/89170/1/" /><id>89170</id><summary><![CDATA[Phony meter used to steal 350,000 gallons of fuel]]></summary><issued>2009-01-13T16:39:58+01:00</issued><modified>2009-01-13T16:39:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Seattle police say someone installed a phony meter on a fuel-delivery system at the BP distribution center on Harbor Island, resulting in the theft of 350,000 gallons of diesel fuel over nearly a year.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Crazy but True Laws from All 50 States]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/110054/1/" /><id>110054</id><summary><![CDATA[Crazy but True Laws from All 50 States]]></summary><issued>2009-04-27T14:31:02+01:00</issued><modified>2009-04-27T14:31:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In Florida, if you tie an elephant to a parking meter, you must insert money into the meter as you would with a car. (Write it down so you don't forget.)]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Ultimate BBQ with 40 Meter Grill]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/23725/1/" /><id>23725</id><summary><![CDATA[Ultimate BBQ with 40 Meter Grill]]></summary><issued>2007-06-13T17:18:25+01:00</issued><modified>2007-06-13T17:18:25+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Mr. Jiang is the King of BBQ in Guangxi, China. Last Sunday, he BBQ&#8217;d 128 whole lambs with a 40 meter long grill all by himself and it only took him 2 hours to cook them.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Scheming Homeless, Parking Mafia, and Pink Tutued Meter Fairy....]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135480/1/" /><id>135480</id><summary><![CDATA[Scheming Homeless, Parking Mafia, and Pink Tutued Meter Fairy....]]></summary><issued>2009-11-07T15:54:53+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-07T15:54:53+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[....Just Another Day in Miami's Parking Hell.<br/><br/>One thing I like about the &#8216;burbs is not having to fight for cheap parking or pay through the nose for expensive spots. Not so for people in Miami. Apparently, the scarcity of parking there has created much violence, a cottage industry involving the homeless, parking mafia and even a &quot;magical meter fairy.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Collapsed Man's Car Cited]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41887/1/" /><id>41887</id><summary><![CDATA[Collapsed Man's Car Cited]]></summary><issued>2007-11-17T13:45:31+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-17T13:45:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A diabetic man rushes to the hospital. He manages to pull in and collapses outside his car. Nurses rush to render aid. A meter-maid ignores the frantic life-saving attempt and tries to give the car a ticket for pulling into a ambulance bay, ignoring the nurses and even the ambulance men explanations. Unbelievable]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[God-o-Meter:How Does Your Candidate Measure Up?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/37371/1/" /><id>37371</id><summary><![CDATA[God-o-Meter:How Does Your Candidate Measure Up?]]></summary><issued>2007-10-04T21:12:10+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-04T21:12:10+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The God-o-Meter (pronounced Gah-DOM-meter) scientifically measures factors such as rate of God-talk, effectiveness&#8212;saying God wants a capital gains tax cut doesn't guarantee a high rating&#8212;and other top-secret criteria.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Looking For A Mansion, But Don't Have Any Money?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/107988/1/" /><id>107988</id><summary><![CDATA[Looking For A Mansion, But Don't Have Any Money?]]></summary><issued>2009-04-18T09:13:27+01:00</issued><modified>2009-04-18T09:13:27+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A man found his own silver lining in all the vacant foreclosed homes and moved into an empty mansion for over 8 months, even bringing in living room furniture and two large televisions. But, he wasn't caught trespassing...]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Peering into the micro world]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/120169/1/" /><id>120169</id><summary><![CDATA[Peering into the micro world]]></summary><issued>2009-06-04T09:01:31+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-04T09:01:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A team of University of Michigan researchers has recently created an attempt to draw attention to what is possible these days with nanotechnology, and imaging at the very small scale. I'll take him up on this invitation and share with you some other images of very tiny things in our world. For visualizing the scale, most measurements below are in microns - one micron is a millionth of a meter - human hair is approximately 100 microns thick. (32 photos total)]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Greatest Parking Meter Your City Will Never Install]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/30973/1/" /><id>30973</id><summary><![CDATA[The Greatest Parking Meter Your City Will Never Install]]></summary><issued>2007-08-10T12:17:14+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-10T12:17:14+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Why? Because it's smart. It's convenient. It's fair. And it's designed to eliminate parking tickets. So basically it runs contradictory to everything city governments were built on.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Neighbors rally to pay off man's $3,000 water bill]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/83344/1/" /><id>83344</id><summary><![CDATA[Neighbors rally to pay off man's $3,000 water bill]]></summary><issued>2008-12-02T10:46:48+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-02T10:46:48+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[84-year-old Norman Beckman was hit with a $3,000 water bill after his pipes burst and allowed a free flow of water to pass through the meter for a 3 month period, when Beckman was away due to health problems. <br/><br/>Neighbor's have raised more than $4,000 to pay off the bill, and Beckman plans to donate the excess.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Sculptors erect monument to yeti in Russian town]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/106856/1/" /><id>106856</id><summary><![CDATA[Sculptors erect monument to yeti in Russian town]]></summary><issued>2009-04-13T17:20:09+01:00</issued><modified>2009-04-13T17:20:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The sculptors, inspirited by locals&#8217; stories about the yeti, have brought a touch of humor to the sculpture. The two and a half meter Bigfoot is holding a snowboard under his arm.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Can Sunshine Power the U.S.?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/77112/1/" /><id>77112</id><summary><![CDATA[Can Sunshine Power the U.S.?]]></summary><issued>2008-09-22T04:06:22+01:00</issued><modified>2008-09-22T04:06:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[With few clouds, the American Southwest sun pours more than eight kilowatt-hours per square meter of its energy onto the landscape. Physicist David Mills says that by concentrating the sun's power, we could provide all of the electricity needs of the U.S., including a switch to electric cars feeding off the grid.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Retail me Not - print coupons when you need them!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/126498/1/" /><id>126498</id><summary><![CDATA[Retail me Not - print coupons when you need them!]]></summary><issued>2009-07-02T17:08:58+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-02T17:08:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[No doubt, searching in the deepest, darkest crevasses of the internet gets tiring, especially if it&#8217;s for a measly $1 off coupon. This site does the heavy lifting for you. Enter the Web site you are shopping, then coupon codes will pop out that other people are using. Next to the coupon code is a &#8220;success&#8221; meter that lets you know if it&#8217;s working for other shoppers and if it&#8217;s worth trying. It is hit or miss sometimes, but a worthy first stop in your shopping expedition.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[China building new Great Wall]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/31415/1/" /><id>31415</id><summary><![CDATA[China building new Great Wall]]></summary><issued>2007-08-13T17:16:38+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-13T17:16:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[New wall is a relative miniature at 1 meter (3.3 feet) high -- to guard against hordes of pillaging mice. ``The wall is a symbolic gesture to quiet public concern,'' Wen said. ``It's not going to work in the long run.'']]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Net speed around the world monitoring and report]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133589/1/" /><id>133589</id><summary><![CDATA[Net speed around the world monitoring and report]]></summary><issued>2009-09-24T06:39:30+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-24T06:39:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[monitors the flow of data around the world. It then displays a value between zero and 100. Higher values indicate faster and more reliable connections.<br/><br/>useful like a download / upload meter this one tells you health of net as a whole in different areas]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Swimming Naked With 500 Watermelons in the Dead Sea]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/arts/l/83864/1/" /><id>83864</id><summary><![CDATA[Swimming Naked With 500 Watermelons in the Dead Sea]]></summary><issued>2008-12-07T23:48:55+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-07T23:48:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A cord of two hundred and fifty meters penetrates five hundred water melons forming a six meter spiral raft in the saturated salt waters of the Dead Sea. The spiral turns as a whirlpool reversed from its normal direction.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Plans for the World&#8217;s Tallest Wooden Building]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/131792/1/" /><id>131792</id><summary><![CDATA[Plans for the World&#8217;s Tallest Wooden Building]]></summary><issued>2009-08-27T16:21:35+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-27T16:21:35+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Norway plans to construct a wooden building 16-17 stories tall with carbon neutral construction techniques. It will house a library, a theatre, and art studios in its approximately 10,000 square meter interior space and will highlight sustainable development.<br/><br/>The idea is to construct a building which will be CO2-neutral, where the concept of the cycles of nature will be preserved.]]></content></entry></items></xml>