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Israeli 'Shooting Video' Causes Outrage
News – An Israeli human rights group has just released graphic video footage obtained during clashes between Israeli troops and demonstrators protesting against the separation barrier on the West Bank. The video has sparked…
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Suicide Epidemic Grips Japan
News – A suicide fad is sweeping Japan: Hundreds of Japanese have killed themselves this year by mixing ordinary household chemicals into a lethal cloud of poison gas that often injures others and forces the evacuation…
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Small suburb fights too-low pants
News – The Chicago suburb of Lynwood is one the latest communities around the nation to address the gaping problem of exposed underwear. Village leaders passed an ordinance last week stating that people caught exposing…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 24 votes / No sinks
On the Farm, A Back-End Solution to an Energy Crisis
News – In the search for a way to deal with the vast quantity of manure his big herd generates and to do something useful with it, Mr. Stanton, a third-generation dairy farmer, had a quirky idea: why not try to turn the…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 16 votes / No sinks
News In Hot Spots Appears To Aid Obama
Politics – Barack Obama's long-awaited and much-hyped trip overseas, in large part intended to overcome a perception that he's not up to the job of commander-in-chief, seems to have come at the perfect time as recent events…
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Man Decides Not to Jump Off Ledge, Then Falls
Do No Evil – The man climbed onto the ledge about 12:15 p.m. and for four hours paced and peered at the ground. He fell just before 4:10 p.m. after trying to climb down. The man lost his footing as he tried to move down the…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 12 votes / No sinks
Hundreds of thousands face job loss in UK, says top economist
Money – Britain's economy is tipping headlong into a recession that could last more than a year and cost hundreds of thousands of jobs, warns Professor David Blanchflower, a member of the Bank of England's interest rate…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 15 votes / No sinks
Obama And McCain To Make First Joint Appearance On 8/16
Politics – Presumed Presidential Nominees McCain and Obama to Make First Joint Campaign Appearance on August 16 at Saddleback Church.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 11 votes / No sinks
Short-sellers bet on stock market crash
Money – More than $1.4tn of equities worldwide are now on loan, about a third more than at the start of 2007, according to Bloomberg. Almost all of that is being used to speculate that shares will fall. Short selling on…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 21 votes / No sinks
Arrest Made After Bronze Horse Statue Stolen
Do No Evil – Police say a bronze horse statue stolen from a now-defunct New Jersey racetrack has been broken up and sold to a salvage yard for a fraction of its value
This story has mostly positive ratings. 11 votes / No sinks
Italian sunbathers not distracted by Gypsy girls' corpses…
Do No Evil – Questions about the attitude of Italians to their Roma minority were again being asked yesterday after photographs were published of sunbathers continuing as normal with a day at the beach despite the bodies of…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 6 votes / No sinks
Microsoft is Paid for Ubuntu-based Dell PCs
Gadgets & Tech – In the case of Dell, you do not get any choice but to pay for proprietary software (preinstalled even) which is costly and essentially pays Microsoft for software patents, probably even in Europe.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 10 votes / No sinks
Today's Al-Aqsa TV has been brought to you by the letter…
Do No Evil – Those gifted storytellers at Hamas television are at it again. The popular Hamas children's television program shows a giant bunny character who steals money and then has the child host sentence him to having his…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 10 votes / No sinks
Powers of persuasion
Do No Evil – Saudi Arabia tackles terrorism with a mixture of tough policing and gentle re-education. What? No torture?
This story has mostly positive ratings. 15 votes / No sinks
Fuel from food waste: bacteria provide power
Science – Researchers have combined the efforts of two kinds of bacteria to produce hydrogen in a bioreactor, with the product from one providing food for the other. This technology has an added bonus: leftover enzymes can…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks
Can you be born a couch potato?
Health & Fitness – The key to good health is to be physically active. The key to being active is- to be born that way?
This story has mostly positive ratings. 7 votes / No sinks
How I got a Windows Vista refund from HP
Gadgets & Tech – Notice that there is no option to not accept their terms - you agree, or else... Or else what? I stared at the screen, and decided it was time to take the leap to Linux.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 8 votes / No sinks
An Interview with Richard Stallman
Gadgets & Tech – This is the most crucial thing for people to realize about software and patents. It's not a matter of patenting a program; it's a matter of patenting the ideas that the developer puts together to make a program.…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 7 votes / No sinks
A first look at Ubuntu 8.10
Gadgets & Tech – In summary, it's early days for Intrepid Ibex but it works well even at this stage. In fact, it is running sufficiently so that I am writing this very post in a Firefox session running on the thing.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 7 votes / No sinks
Ubuntu Kaipidi Thozhargal - Across Tamil Nadu
Gadgets & Tech – Ubuntu Kaippidi Thozhargal has been successfully put into practice from now on. We launched the scheme two months ago calling for volunteers who could hand over Ubuntu CDs in their cities/ town/ village if there…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 6 votes / No sinks
Azingo to raise Rs 200 cr
Gadgets & Tech – Azingo, a US-based company that offers a complete open Mobile Linux stack, will be raising $50 million (approximately Rs 240 crore) in a Series-B funding from US-based private equity firm Garnett Helfrich Capital…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 5 votes / No sinks
Mandriva - Linux 2008 Spring review
Gadgets & Tech – The latest Mandriva Linux distro includes the usual updates to the component parts plus a number of extras such as support for the Asus Eee PC and tools to synchronise data with Windows Mobile 5 and other handheld…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 7 votes / No sinks
Simplis GNU/Linux: A new face in GNU/Linux Town
Gadgets & Tech – For the first public release of Simplis it is almost a perfectly stable distribution with some small issues with package management which I think can be easily fixed.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 5 votes / No sinks
Look for the silver lining
Gadgets & Tech – Clamping down too hard on pirates may also encourage people to switch to free, open-source alternatives. "It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not," Microsoft's…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 5 votes / No sinks
Compiz Fusion - Unmatched 3D Environment in Linux
Gadgets & Tech – Think Aqua interface in Mac OSX and 3D Flip in Windows Vista was the best looking Operating system? Ever thought that the 3D effects on hacker's desktop shown in movies are not for real?
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