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Once Again, The AP Tries To Redefine Fair Use; Goes After Shepard Fairey For Obama Poster
Seeded on Fri Feb 6, 2009 1:42 AM EST (TechCrunch)
The Associated Press is on the wrong of a fair use argument again. It is actually going after artist Shepard Fairey for his iconic Obama poster, which it recently discovered was based on an AP news photograph by Mannie Garcia.
Shelby sets out to build Ultimate Aero EV, the world's fastest electric car
Seeded on Fri Jul 18, 2008 3:11 PM EDT (Engadget)
Who needs to be "green" when you can go really, really fast? Well, Shelby Supercars figures it can have it both ways, with an all-electric version of the Ultimate Aero, the Ultimate Aero EV.
Video of the Moon Passing in Front of the Earth Taken From 31 Million Miles Away
Seeded on Fri Jul 18, 2008 3:02 PM EDT (Gizmodo)
this video is so astounding. It's a video of the moon passing directly in front of the Earth, taken by NASA's EPOXI spacecraft from a whopping 31 million miles away.
Can you turn teeth into sperm?
Seeded on Sat Jul 12, 2008 4:58 AM EDT (NewScientist)
COULD sacrificing a tooth enable some infertile men to father children? That's the goal of researchers in Brazil, who suggest that stem cells from human teeth can be coaxed into becoming sperm by being injected into the testes of mice.
Lunar rocks reveal water on the moon 40 years after they were brought back to Earth
Seeded on Thu Jul 10, 2008 6:42 AM EDT (the Mail online)
Moon rocks brought back during the Apollo missions nearly 40 years ago have revealed water existed there from the very beginning, scientists reported today.
When a vibrating mobile turned out to be a bat in a bra
Seeded on Wed Jul 9, 2008 8:02 AM EDT ()
Bats roost anywhere that appears dark and safe, including inside a bra, a British woman has found from personal experience.
Toddlers saying "yuk" to spicy food maybe branded as racists
Seeded on Wed Jul 9, 2008 12:55 AM EDT ()
Toddlers who dislike spicy food from overseas could soon be branded as racists by the National Children''s Bureau, which receives 12 million pounds a year, mainly from Government funded organisations.
DIY satellites take smaller and smaller steps for mankind
Seeded on Tue Jul 8, 2008 6:29 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
The satellites are each the size of a normal fridge. Once they break away from the ex-Soviet rocket the five will form a constellation but their purpose is far from astrophysical.
For Better or Worse, Sex in Space Is Inevitable
Seeded on Tue Jul 8, 2008 2:26 AM EDT ()
Weddings in space could be right around the corner, and experts figure the inevitable cosmic consummation will be just around the next corner.
UK's most spammed man loves his spam!
Seeded on Sun Jul 6, 2008 2:57 PM EDT (IBN)
A British bus company mechanic relishes the fact that he receives six million junk e-mails a year. Forty years old Colin Wells has revealed that he started to receive 50 spam e-mails a day after signing up with an internet provider in 1999.
EUROPEANS! You have until MONDAY to contact your MEP and save the EU from a three-strikes copyright rule!
Seeded on Sat Jul 5, 2008 2:48 PM EDT (Boing Boing)
Back-room dealings in the European Parliament have resulted in a "three strikes" rule being included in a new telecoms bill -- the rule would force ISPs to kick people who've been thrice accused of copyright infringement off the Internet.
Forget crop circles, this incredible sand drawing spans THREE MILES of desert
Seeded on Sat Jul 5, 2008 7:24 AM EDT (the Mail online)
Spiralling off across the Nevada desert, these huge geometric shapes are an amazing three miles in diameter. Created using only common garden implements and wooden sticks, the stunning creation is the most ambitious of many sand sculptures made by 47-year-old Jim Denevan.
Hitachi working on 5TB hard drives, values human brain at 10TB capacity
Seeded on Fri Jul 4, 2008 9:09 AM EDT (Tech Digest)
Hitachi is continuing to push on the limits of hard disc drive technology, despite the continual threat from solid state memory devices, and expects to have a five terabyte HDD available by 2010.
Scientists create roundest object in the world, may redefine Kilogram
Seeded on Thu Jul 3, 2008 9:42 AM EDT (NewScientist)
The unusual balls, discussed last week at the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation conference in France, were created as an answer to the "kilogram problem".
Reptile that has survived since the dinosaurs is doomed by climate change
Seeded on Thu Jul 3, 2008 4:56 AM EDT (the Mail online)
A unique species of reptiles that has roamed the Earth since the time of the dinosaurs could soon be wiped out due to climate change. Global warming is threatening to turn all the ancient creatures into males by 2085.
And the world's happiest country is...
Seeded on Wed Jul 2, 2008 3:21 PM EDT (Stuff.co.nz)
Denmark, with its democracy, social equality and peaceful atmosphere, is the happiest country in the world, researchers have said. Zimbabwe, torn by political and social strife, is the least happy, while the world's richest nation, the United States, ranks 16th.
First images of solar system's invisible frontier
Seeded on Wed Jul 2, 2008 3:05 PM EDT (PhysOrg.com)
Mapping the region by means of neutral, or uncharged, atoms instead of light "heralds a new kind of astronomy using neutral atoms," said Robert Lin, UC Berkeley professor of physics and lead for the suprathermal electron sensor aboard STEREO.
Shape-shifting 'Chemical Robots' under development
Seeded on Tue Jul 1, 2008 4:17 PM EDT (PhysOrg.com)
Tufts University has received federal funding to develop chemical robots that will be able to squeeze into spaces as tiny as 1 centimeter, then morph into something 10 times larger, and ultimately biodegrade.
Naked getaway for manure bomb makers
Seeded on Mon Jun 30, 2008 3:21 PM EDT (Stuff.co.nz)
A woman trying to make "manure bombs" using stockings, slipped into a slurry tank and fled the scene naked, German police.
Second life helps paralyzed man 'walk again'
Seeded on Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:49 PM EDT ()
How would it feel to walk for the first time in 30 years? One severely paralyzed Japanese man found out this week, courtesy of a team of Japanese scientists.
Indian war hero General Manekshaw dead
Seeded on Fri Jun 27, 2008 12:14 PM EDT (Times of India)
Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw lives on. His exploits in battlefield, as soldier and general, are the stuff of legend. In World War II, in the fighting in Burma, his stomach was ripped by Japanese fire. He did not give up fighting.
A huge crop of new (and strange) domain names coming
Seeded on Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:31 AM EDT (Agence-France Presse )
Web regulators Thursday voted to allow the creation of thousands of new domain names, from .paris to .Pepsi, in one of the biggest shake-ups in Internet history, a French web official said.
Rest in peace Sam Bahadur......
Fri Jun 27, 2008 12:22 AM EDT
Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw MC loving know as "Sam Bahadur" to the troops and to us, passed away today at the age of 94, he was the 8th Cheif of the Indian army.
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No ice at the North Pole
Seeded on Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:56 PM EDT (Independent.co.uk)
It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year.
Rum the remedy for snake bite on penis
Seeded on Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:05 AM EDT (Australian News Network)
A MAN bitten on the penis by a deadly snake has told how he used a cold rum can to soothe the pain while he rang his mother to say a final goodbye.
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