Excess In Moderation

Brits attack rogue Iraqi police - World - smh.com.au

Seeded on Mon Dec 25, 2006 6:07 PM EST (The Sydney Morning Herald)

British forces killed seven gunmen and blew up the headquarters of the police serious crimes unit in southern Basra in a raid to rescue prisoners who were about to be killed, the British military said.

iraq, british, middle-east, us-news, basra-iraq, siite-militias

Litvinenko 'killed over dossier' on senior Putin ally

Seeded on Sun Dec 17, 2006 12:25 PM EST (Independent.co.uk)

Alexander Litvinenko was murdered by radioactive poisoning because of a dossier he had compiled on a high-ranking Russian figure close to President Vladimir Putin, another former agent claimed yesterday.

russia, world-news, poisoning, vladimir-putin, moscow, scotland-yard, kgb, british-government, mr-putin, litvinenko

Convert or Die

Seeded on Tue Dec 12, 2006 8:56 PM EST (The San Francisco Chronicle)

My question is, who would Jesus shoot?

odd-news, god, left-behind, video-games, the-rapture

Celebrity Atheist List

Seeded on Sun Dec 10, 2006 2:39 PM EST (celebatheists.com)

Find out if your favorite celebrity is enlightened.

angels, religion, god, ghosts, atheism, demons, celebrity-atheist-list-discuss

Is Battlestar Galactica Doomed?

Seeded on Tue Dec 5, 2006 6:26 PM EST (Wired News)

Someone else feels as I do. "It is with a heavy heart that I am forced to confront the possibility that the once-great show Battlestar Galactica may be heading to fraktown.

entertainment, television, battlestar-galactica, sci-fi

Radioactivity on British Planes Tied to Spy's Death - New York Times

Seeded on Wed Nov 29, 2006 9:12 PM EST (The New York Times)

LONDON, Nov. 29 — In yet another new and menacing twist in the suspected radiation poisoning of a former Russian K.G.B.

world-news

Israeli army says it has withdrawn all troops from Gaza

Seeded on Sun Nov 26, 2006 1:12 AM EST (xinhuanet)

The Israeli army said on Sunday that it had withdrawn all of its troops from the Gaza Strip overnight before the truce took effect.

middle-east, gaza-strip, palestine, israeli, world-news, president-mahmoud-abbas

Damn Interesting » The Relics of Mu

Seeded on Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:46 AM EST (damninteresting.com)

It seems that most every culture has a legend of a great society, ripe with wealth and wisdom, which is lost to the sea. To westerners these are the stories of Atlantis or Thule. To many of the peoples of the South Pacific it is Lemuria or Menehune.

history, scuba, atlantis, mu, lost-civilisations, yonaguni-jima

Watch Cosmo Krammer (Micheal Richards) have a nervous breakdown

Seeded on Mon Nov 20, 2006 12:30 PM EST (AOL)

Someone was video taping the whole event when Micheal Richards decided the best way to deal with hecklers is to drop the N-bomb.

entertainment, nbc, comedy, seinfeld, cosmo-krammer, micheal-richards

Tech Czar: More IT Workers Needed

Seeded on Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:53 AM EST (eweek.com)

Following a time of mass avoidance in the aftermath of the dot-com bust, the U.S. IT work force is facing a shortage of people, according to the Commerce Department's technology czar.

technology, it, out-sourcing, information-technologies, tech-czar

Ubuntu spinoff distro adds codecs, plugins, more

Seeded on Thu Nov 16, 2006 2:04 PM EST (desktoplinux.com)

A new name has joined SimplyMEPIS as one of the first Ubuntu-derived Linux distributions: Linux Mint, which features a 2.6.17 kernel and the GNOME 2.16.1 desktop. Ubuntu, itself based on Debian Linux code, has only been in production use since October of 2004.

flash, technology, java, linux, debian, ubuntu, open-office, codecs, realplayer, linux-mint

Microsoft's splintered DRM will kill Zune

Seeded on Tue Nov 14, 2006 11:26 PM EST (blogs.zdnet.com)

"I really don't get how the biggest software co. in the world - sets up a huge network of partners to trumpet their own technology: "plays for sure" - then when it itself enters the market - refuses to use it." George Ou

technology, microsoft, mp3, drm, zdnet, plays-for-sure, zune

Google Code - Updates: Google Sponsors the LinuxBIOS project

Seeded on Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:56 PM EST (Google)

The LinuxBIOS project aims to take down the last barrier in Open Source systems by providing a free firmware (BIOS) implementation. LinuxBIOS celebrates its Sixth anniversary this year, and has an installed base of over 1 million LinuxBIOS systems.

google, technology, linux, one-laptop-per-child, linuxbios, oplc

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Food crisis looms in North Korea

Seeded on Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:01 PM EST (BBC News)

Millions of North Koreans are at risk of starvation this winter as humanitarian aid levels drop amid an international furore over the country's nuclear bomb test.

human-rights-watch, world-news, north-koreas, food-crisis-north-korea

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Japan bans luxuries for N Korea

Seeded on Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:59 PM EST (BBC News)

The Japanese cabinet has approved a ban on the export of luxury goods to North Korea.

japan, north-korea, world-news, export, shinzo

Iraq hostages 'freed by police'

Seeded on Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:54 PM EST (BBC News)

All of the hostages seized in a raid by gunmen on a Baghdad higher education facility have been released, Iraqi officials say.

iraq, hostages, world-news, freed, iraq-police, karrada-district

'Best Bond ever' vanquishes his greatest foe - the critics - Britain - Times Online

Seeded on Tue Nov 14, 2006 8:12 PM EST (The Times)

'Best Bond ever' vanquishes his greatest foe - the critics Once derided as a pasty, ugly wimp with none of the debonair charm required for the part, he arrived last night at the Odeon Leicester Square buoyed by rapturous reviews.

entertainment, daniel-craig, bond, casino-royale

Intel's quad-core processors go live | CNET News.com

Seeded on Tue Nov 14, 2006 8:02 PM EST (CNET)

"Intel will cap off a turnaround year on Tuesday with the expected introduction of its first quad-core processors, beating rival Advanced Micro Devices to the punch by several months." Yeah but AMD will end up doing it better.

technology, intel, computers, ibm, dell, amd, hardware, processors, quad-core, gateway

FDA adds 'abnormal behavior' warning for Tamiflu label - CNN.com

Seeded on Mon Nov 13, 2006 10:16 PM EST (CNN)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Patients who take Tamiflu should be closely monitored for signs of abnormal behavior, health officials said Monday in announcing an updated label for the flu drug.

washington, fda, flu, health, roche, tamiflu

Red meat link to breast cancers

Seeded on Mon Nov 13, 2006 9:42 PM EST (BBC News)

Eating large amounts of red meat may double young women's breast cancer risk, a study suggests.

study, health, meat, breast-cancer, internal-medicine

Sanitation worker's honesty doesn't pay

Seeded on Mon Nov 13, 2006 9:35 PM EST (Yahoo! News)

NEENAH, Wis. - A sanitation worker who found $1,900 attached to a discarded desk at a city scrap heap says he's followed the rules and now deserves the money — but the city won't give it up.

odd-news

Cat Stevens releases first album since embracing Islam in 1970s - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Mon Nov 13, 2006 9:27 PM EST (Yahoo! News)

LONDON (AFP) - Yusuf Islam, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens before he became a Muslim in the 1970s, has released his first commercial album for nearly three decades.

entertainment, muslim, album, islam, cat-stevens, 1970s

Google 'aids doctors' diagnoses'

Seeded on Sun Nov 12, 2006 9:38 PM EST (BBC News)

A team of Australian doctors Googled the symptoms of 26 cases for a study in the New England Journal of Medicine. In 15 cases, the web search came up with the right diagnosis, the paper published on the British Medical Journal website reports.

google, health, australia, doctor, brisbane, princess-alexandra-hospital

The Top Ten Free Mac Applications

Seeded on Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:15 PM EST (alej745.tripod.com)

Top 10 free OS X applications

technology, apple, computers, mac, os-x, steve-jobs

Studio gambles with "Casino Royale" and the new Bond

Seeded on Sun Nov 12, 2006 2:28 PM EST (Yahoo! News)

LONDON (Reuters) - James Bond's producers have taken a gamble worthy of the Casino Royale with the super-spy's latest film, and will find out this week if it will pay off.

entertainment, bond, casino-royale, movies, cinema, cinemas

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Teeth study shows big dinosaurs trekked for food
What did giant plant-munching dinosaurs do when they couldn't find enough to eat in the parched American West? They hit the road. An analysis of fossilized teeth adds further evidence that the long-necked dinosaurs called sauropods — the largest land creatures — went on road trips to fill their gargantuan appetites.
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