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The Spicegirls website has created a vote-poll style thing to vote for a city for them to play in. Everyone vote for Baghdad, Iraq (make sure the B is upper-case), you have to input an email, but don’t worry you can just put a fake one as you do not need to confirm it.
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For two years, Canadian photojournalist Lana Šlezi? crisscrossed Afghanistan—from Mazar-e-Sharif in the north to Kandahar in the south—to document these largely hidden realities.
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A vaccine that is capable of delivering a double whammy against AIDS-causing human immunodeficiency virus by both providing immunity against the infection while at the same time destroying cells infected by the virus is ready for clinical trials, a group of Russian researchers announced today…
I for one welcome our HIV eating overlords…
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Britain and France said on Friday they would push for the U.N. Security Council to quickly authorise thousands of troops and police for Darfur and told Khartoum to act fast on the crisis or face more sanctions.
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In Asia, scaffolding is made from bamboo because it’s strong, lightweight, and very flexible. It also looks ridiculously scary. Would you climb on any of this?
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The father of a Kurdish woman tortured, raped and murdered in a “barbaric and callous” honour killing was jailed for at least 20 years on Friday. Banaz Mahmod’s father Mahmod Mahmod, 52, and her uncle Ari Mahmod, 51, who received a 23-year minimum sentence, were found guilty of murder last month.
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In early June, Asustek Computer and Intel announced at Computex Taipei that they would soon be releasing a low-end $199 subnotebook PC, the Asus Eee PC 701. It appears to be on schedule, and when it arrives in customers’ hands in late August or early September it will be running a variation of Xandros Desktop Linux.
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Starting at the end of 2009, these trains should be running at speeds of up to 250 km/h on a line connecting Moscow and St. Petersburg.
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In a brilliant lobbying move, the search company promises the government loads of cash in return for a better wireless Web.
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A flying car resembling what the Jetsons drove could show up soon at a dealership near you. Moller International, a company founded by a UC Davis professor devoted to developing a flying car, announced in a statement recently that it has begun production for its “Jetsons-like M200G Volantor, a small airborne, two passenger, saucer-shaped vehicle.
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Try to find all the services if you can!
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The GIMP has the power to bring more people to Open Source. First it will need to clean up it’s tarnished image to attract serous users. I’ve never been a Photoshop user but I find even the change from any photo editing software frustrating with it’s strange interface that doesn’t seem to be based on standard computer interface design at all.
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Firefox supporters, take note. A bare-bones Firefox will get the browser into more houses, increasing the Fox’s market share and keeps it in novice users’ eyes for when they get a new PC. From the article: “Give the Celerons and the K6s some of the power back and let light users rediscover what it’s really like to rediscover the Web with Firefox.”
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Over 21,000 members per month… and not everyone who uses it signs up! Could they be leader in taking out Microsoft?
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will expand nearly sixfold to $2.5 billion in 2011 and reach $8.5 billion in 2016. Despite the small size of fuel cell technology’s current commercial footprint, a number of viable markets are expected to develop over the next ten years as technological advances and economies of scale help drive costs down to competitive levels. High energy prices
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Welsh biochemist and engineers have developed a device they believe can capture greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, so they can be fed to algae, who in turn help produce a biodiesel. Capture rates is said to be up to 95% effective. The Greenbox device would get exchanged about once every full tank of fuel.
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Air New Zealand and airliner manufacturer Boeing are secretly working with Blenheim-based biofuel developer Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation to create the world’s first environmentally friendly aviation fuel, made of wild algae.
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Hoping to stabilize a $150 million annual electricity bill, Houston officials have negotiated
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The state of Georgia just granted Range Fuels a permit to create the first cellulosic
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Using plastics to harvest the energy of the sun just got a significant boost in efficiency thanks to a discovery made at the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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OpenMoko.com has just launched and are now selling their Neo1973 phone. It is a fully open device running a full GNU/Linux stack. Cell phone, GPS, 480×640 screen, Quadband GSM, Bluetooth 2.0, completely hackable, not locked to any network. This is the start of a new cell phone revolution.
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It’s an all-electric motorcycle built in the U.S. by Brammo…
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India is hard at work building a series of solar power generation stations that it plans on sending into space to
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Great pics and conceptual drawings of some of the latest alternative-energy projects around the world - floating wind farms and off-shore turbines, solar thermal power plants, tidal power stations…
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“Know some of you saw this in last week’s post, but I wanted to be clear that Dell does have plans to offer Linux to more consumers in additional locations outside the United States. More details to come later this summer. We will also offer Ubuntu to small business customers in the future. As soon as we have more details to share, I’ll blog it.”
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Norwegian energy group is to place giant floating wind turbines in the North Sea that will provide an environmentally-friendly and economically feasible alternative to standard energy generation processes. “It’s attractive to have windmills out at sea, out of sight of land, away from birds’ migration routes.”
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I converted from Vista to Ubuntu a little over 2 months ago and am soooooo happy with it, best decision of my life. I am going to tell you my top 10 advantages of it over Windows Vista.
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All my years in studying Urban Planning helped me grow a greater appreciation for the dense downtown skyline of the big city. Don’t forget to click the images to enlarge them for a better view.
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You know that little box of baking soda that has been sitting in your cupboard for ages? It happens to be a very versatile product that has endless home applications and can be used for some very surprising tasks. Take a look here to find more about the many extraordinary uses for baking soda.
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Researchers have linked nicotine exposure from second hand smoke to serious psychological problems in children.
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