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A never-shipped 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 AGP graphics card has popped up on eBay to tempt fans of historical GPUs. Speaking of fans, this boy has four of ’em, one each for the four VSA-100 graphics chips the board sports – along with 128MB of frame-buffer memory. More: continued here

Driven by a painful mix of layoffs and rising food and fuel prices, the number of Americans receiving food stamps is projected to reach 28 million in the coming year, the highest level since the aid program began in the 1960s. More: continued here

Staff Reporter Q-Post yesterday launched its latest version of stamps, which it labelled as “traditional perfume”. The stamps, released in a set of four, each of which priced at QR1.50, ooze fragrance of four traditional perfumes produced in Qatar. More: continued here

Hell Mail Royal Mail Pension Reforms Begin TodayHell Mail, UK –3 minutes agoRoyal Mail introduces the new 'career average' pension scheme tomorrow – the present scheme is now closed to new entrants as of today, The reforms, … More: continued here

Qtel opens coupon vending machine at head post officeGulf Times, Qatar –4 hours agoQ-Post has set up a vending machine at General Post Office to issue Qtel’s telephone and mobile recharge coupons of different denominations. … More: continued here

Drawing on his experience as a foreign correspondent Mr. Healey mixed straight-up news with social commentary to explore philately in his column, ?Stamps.? More: continued here

Barth Healey, 68, Times Editor and Stamp Columnist, DiesNew York Times, United States –27 minutes agoBy FERNANDA SANTOS Barth Healey, an editor at The New York Times for three decades who also wrote the newspaper’s stamp column from 1988 to 1993, … More: continued here

Gulf Times Q-Post releases ‘perfume’ stampsGulf Times, Qatar –4 hours agoQ-Post yesterday launched its latest version of stamps, which it labelled as “traditional perfume”. The stamps, released in a set of four, each of which … More: continued here

More Americans than ever before expected to receive food stampsMinneapolis Star Tribune (subscription), MN –31 minutes agoDriven by a painful mix of layoffs and rising food and fuel prices, the number of Americans receiving food stamps is projected to reach 28 million in the … More: continued here

No takers for post office saving planTimes of India, India –57 minutes agoNAGPUR: Common investors seem to be fast discarding the traditional post office savings schemes – which once were the popular mode of parking funds, … More: continued here