Finally, going gently into that good night were location-based networks Loopt, Brightkite, and Gowalla.

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He won a Bafta for his performance as a terminally ill cancer patient in the 1978 play Going Gently.

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And as America emerges gently from last year's recession, the Fed is going to take no chances: the last thing its chairman, Alan Greenspan, wants is blame for choking off recovery in the world's biggest and most important economy.

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So, while other youngins were going six shots deep, our enterprising tinkerer blacked out the windows, forgot about the bikinis and gently transformed this rare relic (of which there are only 6, 000) into a Mac accessory.

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