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 Burma warned over cyclone delays The UN's humanitarian chief urges Burma to reconsider its attitude towards allowing aid teams into the country.
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| The Most Ridiculous Beer Pong Table Ever Automatically Washes Your Balls [College] A group of electrical engineering students at West Virginia University has built the most insane beer pong table ever. It's got lights all around that react to the music playing as well as a pair of built-in swirling ball washers. It's incredible. They're taking orders for them now if you want one o...
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| iPhone World Map Charts Jobs' Giant Game Of Risk [Apple] The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.It's tough to keep track of the iPhone's slow global release, so one Apple fan assembled all the data into one easy to read map. If the country is red, then they either have the iPhone or will be getting it this summer. (Note: Switze...
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| HTC Touch Diamond Lands on FCC, Puts Up Mission Accomplished Banner [Touch Diamond] The Touch Diamond, HTC's 2008 flagship phone, just hit the FCC. This means that it's well on its way to one of the four carriers, most likely either AT&T or Sprint first, judging from the way the original HTC Touch played out. As Addy said in the hands-on, it's the most iPhoney of Windows Mobile pho...
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| Toshiba Bringing PS3 Innards to Notebooks, TVs [Cell Processor] Toshiba recently announced they're planning to use Sony PS3 technology in its upcoming TVs and Notebooks. The OC Register's Gadgetress got her hands on the Toshiba's Qosimo notebook (shown above), which will use the SpursEngine chip, jointly developed between Toshiba and Sony around the Cell. The pr...
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 Citigroup to shed $400bn assets US bank giant Citigroup aims to sell $400bn of assets over the next three years to bolster its financial position.
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| HTC Touch Diamond Hits Lands on FCC, Puts Up Mission Accomplished Banner [Touch Diamond] The Touch Diamond, HTC's 2008 flagship phone, just hit the FCC. This means that it's well on its way to one of the four carriers, most likely either AT&T or Sprint first, judging from the way the original HTC Touch played out. As Addy said in the hands-on, it's the most iPhoney of Windows Mobile pho...
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| Toshiba Bringing PS3 Innards to TVs, Notebooks [Cell Processor] Toshiba is planning to use Sony PS3 technology in its upcoming TVs and Notebooks, beginning in Fall 2009. The TV will make use of Sony's Cell microprocessor for realtime HD upscaling, recording of multiple channels, and "displaying video as if it is being viewed through opera glasses" (whatever that...
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| Alley House Brings Luxury Living to Cockroach Cracks [Architecture] There's plenty of room left to build in the world's major cities; we just have to be MacGyver about it. Because when one group of architects looked at an alley, they saw the perfect lot for a five-story building that's less then eight feet wide. Built on a steel frame, this home office took only a...
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| Dems Launch Net Neutrality Bill, GOP Says "Hands Off the Poor ISPs!" [Net Neutrality] Yesterday on Capitol Hill, two Democratic representatives introduced a House bill that would require broadband ISPs to "interconnect with the facilities of other network providers on a reasonable and nondiscriminatory basis." It also requires them to treat all content, applications and services as t...
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| Interview with Mark Anielski Hassan Masum: We recently had a chance to talk with Mark Anielski, Albertan and author of The Economics of Happiness: Building Genuine Wealth. Mark has been working...
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| Giant working NES controller/coffee table Kyle Downes of the aptly named "Ultra Awesome" blog built this genius coffee table that's an enormous, working NES controller! It opens to reveal storage space for tons of game-carts . Link (via Wonderland)...
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| Kids' game adds 500-1000 words to its forbidden list every day The kid-centric online game Club Penguin (acquired by Disney last year) adds 500-1000 words a day to its list of forbidden chat-words in an effort to keep things clean. Wanna bet that kids come up with 2000-4000 new variant spellings a day? Merrifield also thinks that there is an over-reliance on te...
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| Batman in Vietnamese Ethan Persoff of Comics With Problems says, This fantastic new item comes to us from Saigon, 1966. A truly one-of-a-kind sort of surviving Batman and Boy Wonder knockoff bootleg. For you psychologists in the crowd, Robin becomes invisible and there's a submarine. Link to 32 pg comic....
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 Gaza mortar attack kills Israeli A mortar attack from the Gaza Strip kills an Israeli, police and medical officials say.
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 Federer suffers early Rome exit World number one Roger Federer falls to a surprise quarter-final defeat at the hands of Radek Stepanek at the Rome Masters.
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 Burma's emergency telecoms delay Foreign aid workers dedicated to delivering emergency telecoms are prevented from going into Burma.
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| Dealzmodo: 91% Off Microsoft Office Ultimate [Deals] Here's how you take money from Microsoft's pockets and put it into your own. First, you need to want to buy Microsoft Office Ultimate. Second, you need a .edu email address. It doesn't matter that you graduated in 1994 and the last time you stepped foot in a classroom was 1993, all you need is an .e...
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| Gold Farmers Regine Debatty: The documentary i was dying to see at the Homo Ludens Ludens exhibition at LABoral in Gijon was Gold Farmers, by Ge Jin. Image courtesy...
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 Bombing on eve of Sri Lanka polls A bomb in a cafe in eastern Sri Lanka kills at least 11 people on the eve of the first elections there for years.
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