A study appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences states that the past five years, the majority of staph infections that go through schools, day-cares, and prisons in the United States, all come from the same bacterial strain.
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Wednesday, 23 January 2008
Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Pownce Launches!
Pownce has lifted their invite-only status and added a ton of new features. Sign up to send files, links, events and messages to your friends :)
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Stock Markets Plunge Worldwide
LONDON (AP) -- Stocks fell sharply worldwide Monday following declines on Wall Street last week amid investor pessimism over the U.S. government's stimulus plan to prevent a recession.
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Monday, 21 January 2008
100-Year-Old Monster Fish Weighing Over 35-Stone
Nick Calleya, 36, from Cubert in Cornwall and George Carstairs from Scotland landed the 500lb white Sturgeon while angling from a boat in the Fraser River in British Columbia in Canada.
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Sunday, 20 January 2008
A Practical Guide
They're older. They're more experienced. And, according to the current trend, they're dating younger. They're MILFs and Cougars.
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Hardest game ever?
My Japanese is a little rusty, but I think that says "HAHA WATCH SILLY ROUND EYE TRY THIS!"
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Why Not Compiz?
KWin developer, Luboš Luňák, explains why not using compiz instead of developing KWin compositing support on KDE 4.
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Who Raped His Daughter
The daughter was 8 years old. His stepson is 18. The mom posts bond for the jerk, but the dad offers to pick him up from jail. After getting his stepson from jail, the man drove to an abandoned house in Fort Worth, beat his stepson with a baseball bat and sodomized him with a metal tool, police said.
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MacBook Air Is World's Thinnest
It's real and I want to buy one and lick it. The fabled MacBook Air actually exists. It's ultra-thin, has a solid state drive and, except for a couple ports, it's all about wireless connectivity.
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Scientology's secret documents hacked
Hackers from the /i/nsurgency, a splinter group of anonymous raided scientology's secret, even sacred documents this morning. Documents were leaked. Splongcat, after raiding replied with "For the /i/nsurgency! Oh and, we did it for lulz." www.xanga.com/lordxenu
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My Daughter
When my daughter Alison was born, in the tradition of a new parent, I began to photograph her, initially in a separate and private body of work. However, in the process of documenting Alison's growth, I developed a passionate interest in human relationships and capturing intimate moments in the lives of family and friends.
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Friday, 18 January 2008
Do P2P Blocklists Keep you Safe?
Recent findings by researchers from the University of California, Riverside, show that 15% of the IPs people connect to on the Gnutella P2P network are blocked by blocklist applications such as PeerGuardian. Statistics like this do not prove anything about the effectiveness of these lists, however, according to an insider...
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Starcraft 2, Blizzard's New Game
Link to Blizzard Sitehttp://pc.ign.com/articles/788/788627p1.html for live updates of the convention.
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Massacre at Virginia Tech: 25 Confirmed Dead
At least 25 people are dead in what may be the biggest mass killing on a college campus in American history — and the death toll may rise. Police at Virginia Tech say that the shootings happened at a dormitory and a classroom on opposite sides of the university campus in Blacksburg, Va.
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Huge Indian face spotted on Google Earth
Somewhere in Canada there are mountains that look like the face of an Indian. Pretty cool :)
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BREAKING: All PS1 Games (discs included) Now Playable on PSP
With today's PS3 firmware 2.10 update and PSP firmware 3.80 update, Sony has secretly updated the Remote Play functionality to allow playing of all PSone downloadable games AS WELL AS PS1 ORIGINAL DISCS! Straight to the source on the Playstation Forums. This is really interesting tech news!
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BREAKING ANNOUNCEMENT: The new Microsoft Surface
The launch of Microsoft Surface marks the beginning of a new technology category and a user-interface revolution. Surface, Microsoft’s first surface computer, provides effortless interaction with digital content through natural hand gestures, touch and physical objects. Surface computing breaks down traditional barriers between people and technolog
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MILFs and Cougars: A Practical Guide
They're older. They're more experienced. And, according to the current trend, they're dating younger. They're MILFs and Cougars.
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Colin McRae dies in helicopter crash!!
Former rally driving champion Colin McRae was killed and his five year-old son feared dead in a helicopter crash yesterday afternoon
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Pownce - Send Stuff To Your Friends
This is the new project from Leah Culver, Kevin Rose, Daniel Burka, and Shawn Allen. The app (built using Adobe AIR) allows you to send messages, links, files, and events to groups of friends. Check it!
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Saturday, 5 January 2008
Blogger Andrew Olmsted dies in Iraq
"I'm dead. That sucks, at least for me and my family and friends. But all the tears in the world aren't going to bring me back, so I would prefer that people remember the good things about me rather than mourning my loss. (If it turns out a specific number of tears will, in fact, bring me back to life, then by all means, break out the onions.)"
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Friday, 4 January 2008
24000 Iraqi civilians killed in 2007
US-LED coalition and paramilitary forces in Iraq were responsible for some 24,000 violent civilian deaths in 2007, according to an independent group monitoring casualties in the war-ravaged country.The Iraq Body Count (IBC) whose figures are tallied from media reports, morgue and hospital data, non-governmental and other sources, said in a report that there were between 22,586 and 24,159 violent civilian deaths in Iraq during the past year."Perhaps the most accurate description of the security situation for Iraqi civilians in the past year is that it was less bad than if the worst of the late 2006 levels had been sustained throughout 2007," the group said in a statement.The IBC lamented security that "remains at an abysmally low level" in much of the country."For some 24,000 Iraqi civilians, and their families and friends, the year was one of devastating and irreparable tragedy," the IBC said.The body count project was founded in January 2003 by volunteers from Britain and the United States who sought to quantify the human consequences of the US-led military intervention in Iraq.The group said that as of January 1 2008, the total for violent civilian deaths to the end of 2007 in Iraq was between 81,174 and 88,585.
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Iraq War Opposition At Record High
Opposition to the war in Iraq has reached an all-time high, according to the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll released Thursday morning.
Support for the war in Iraq has dropped to 31 percent and the 68 percent who oppose the war is a new record.
Despite the drop in violence in Iraq, only one quarter of Americans believes the U.S. is winning the war. There has been virtually no change in the past month in the number of Americans who believe that things are going badly for the U.S. in the war in Iraq.
The public also opposes U.S. military action against Iran. Sixty-three percent oppose air strikes on Iran, while 73 percent oppose using ground troops as well as air strikes in that country.
Overall, 56 percent, of Americans are dissatisfied with progress in the war on terrorism.
The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation telephone poll of 1,024 American adults was carried out over the weekend. The sampling error for the full sample was plus-or-minus 3 percentage points; some questions were asked of a half sample of approximately 500 respondents and carry a sampling error of plus-or-minus 4.5 percentage point.
Support for the war in Iraq has dropped to 31 percent and the 68 percent who oppose the war is a new record.
Despite the drop in violence in Iraq, only one quarter of Americans believes the U.S. is winning the war. There has been virtually no change in the past month in the number of Americans who believe that things are going badly for the U.S. in the war in Iraq.
The public also opposes U.S. military action against Iran. Sixty-three percent oppose air strikes on Iran, while 73 percent oppose using ground troops as well as air strikes in that country.
Overall, 56 percent, of Americans are dissatisfied with progress in the war on terrorism.
The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation telephone poll of 1,024 American adults was carried out over the weekend. The sampling error for the full sample was plus-or-minus 3 percentage points; some questions were asked of a half sample of approximately 500 respondents and carry a sampling error of plus-or-minus 4.5 percentage point.
Walter Cronkite: Our Troops Must Leave Iraq
Walter Cronkite: The great American journalist speaks out on the Iraq war... Via Common Dreams: The American people no longer support the war in Iraq. The war is being carried on by a stubborn president who, like Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon during the Vietnam War, does not want to lose. But from the beginning this has been an ill-considered and poorly prosecuted war that, like the Vietnam War, has diminished respect for America. We believe Mr. Bush would like to drag the war on long enough to hand it off to another president. The war in Iraq reminds us of the tragedy of the Vietnam War. Both wars began with false assertions by the president to the American people and the Congress. Like Vietnam, the Iraq War has introduced a new vocabulary: “shock and awe,” “mission accomplished,” “the surge.” Like Vietnam, we have destroyed cities in order to save them. It is not a strategy for success. This war has had only limited body counts. There are reports that more than one million Iraqis have died in the war. These reports cannot be corroborated because the US military does not make public the number of the Iraqi dead and injured. There are also reports that some four million Iraqis have been displaced and are refugees either abroad or within their own country. Iraqis with the resources to leave the country have left. They are frightened. They don’t trust the US, its allies or its mercenaries to protect them and their interests. Read on…The continued deaths of thousands of Iraqis and the enormous humanitarian crisis goes on despite the propaganda of victory from the right. Cronkite hit this one out of the park and it’s encouraging to see him still engaged…
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