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20 Oct 08

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19 Oct 08

Woman walks through market holding severed head of man who tried to rape her | Mail Online

  • Crowds in a busy market fled in terror as a woman walked among them holding aloft the severed head of a man who had attacked her.

    Covered in blood, she held the head high like a trophy, said police - her way of showing that she had delivered her own kind of justice to her attacker.

    The gruesome scene was played out in Makkapurva village, 170 miles south east of the Indian city of Lucknow

    • Crowds in a busy market fled in terror as a woman walked among them holding aloft the severed head of a man who had attacked her. Covered in blood, she held the head high like a trophy, said police - her way of showing that she had delivered her own kind of justice to her attacker. The gruesome scene was played out in Makkapurva village, 170 miles south east of the Indian city of Lucknow - on 2008-10-19
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24 Jun 08

Yoono pulls in $4M to shoot down Flock, misses the mark » VentureBeat

  • Ever find yourself surfing the web and wishing you could update your Twitter or Facebook status, keep tabs on FriendFeed, chat with your buddies over any instant-messenger and spontaneously discover and share an endless stream of new videos, photos, and websites — all from a sidebar on your browser?
17 Apr 08

Six Things in Expelled That Ben Stein Doesn't Want You to Know...: Scientific American

  • In the film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, narrator Ben Stein poses as a "rebel" willing to stand up to the scientific establishment in defense of freedom and honest, open discussion of controversial ideas like intelligent design (ID). But Expelled has some problems of its own with honest, open presentations of the facts about evolution, ID—and with its own agenda.
14 Apr 08

The 8 Most Striking Newspaper Front Pages | Hubdub

  • Nothing has yet replaced the newspaper front page as a means to convey powerful messages. Here are some of the most striking of the past 40 years.
08 Apr 08

Hemingway haunt gives discounts to "poor Americans" - Yahoo! News

  • Harry's Bar, the famed Venice watering
    hole where Ernest Hemingway held court over hearty food and
    stiff martinis, is offering a discount to "poor" Americans
    suffering from a weak dollar and subprime blues.
07 Apr 08

Chinese openness to Wikipedia fleeting at best

  • Many Chinese Internet users have found themselves suddenly being able to access the English version of Wikipedia over the last several days, in addition to blogs hosted at Blogspot. Both sites were previously blocked by the Chinese government, although like most sites that have been filtered by the Great Firewall, both have been accessible within China off and on for some time now. Although users are pleased with being able to access the sites once again, they are not optimistic that the change will stick.

Europeans Show Off Possibly Useful, Definitely Bizarre Inventions | Wired Science from Wired.com

  • This week, the 36th International Exhibition of Inventions has flooded Geneva with tinkerers, hackers, and other weirdos who like to make stuff. One of the largest gatherings of its kind, the organizers explain (pdf) in delightfully weird English that "1,000 completely new inventions in all areas of human activity are presented by companies, researchers and inventors, universities and private and State organisms."

Watch Higher Quality YouTube Videos - Wired How-To Wiki

  • Some the videos are identified on the site with a little link offering to take you to a higher res version, but if you want to see the high quality version by default here are a few ways to pull that off
06 Apr 08

New Lifestreaming Service Lifestream.fm Launches Under the Radar | Lifestream Blog

  • I think I’ve stumbled on to a new Lifestreaming service at Lifestream.fm. It appears to be in development  and I haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere. Nothing fancy or new here, but it has a nice clean look. It also has a lot of similarities in UI & design to Twitter.

ImageShack Starts Free BitTorrent Download Service | TorrentFreak

  • The popular media hosting website ImageShack just launched a new service that lets you download torrent files onto their servers. When the download is complete, you can download the files from ImageShack via an http link.

Hate the Game, Not the Player | The Media | The American Scene

  • I almost never get to see movies in theaters anymore, but while staying over in New York on business last night I made a point of going to see 21 – the fictionalized account of a group of highly mathematical MIT card counters. It was an irresistible draw to me, as I was both a theoretical math major at MIT and a card counter.

Conversational Reading: Book Piracy

  • the Society of Authors thinks that book piracy is going to kill authorhship.

    Book piracy on the internet will ultimately drive authors to stop writing unless radical methods are devised to compensate them for lost sales.

Video chat startup Seesmic acquires Twitter client Twhirl | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone

  • Seesmic (review), which is working towards the public release of its video nanoblogging and chat service, has acquired Twhirl, an AIR-based Twitter client. Twhirl is the most popular third-party client according to ReadWriteWeb, accounting for about 7% of messages sent on the service.
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