Saturday, September 30, 2006

Amercan's Worst City For Sleeping Is Atlanta

    A survey funded by Sanofi-Aventis, the world's 3rd largest pharmaceutical company found.
    The Big Peach was the pits in a ranking based on survey data and on factors that deprived people of sleep like commute times, divorce and unemployment rates.

    Atlanta residents reported an average of 9.7 days of poor sleep each month, more than the 8.4 average reported for the 50 metropolitan areas studied. The commute time was about 34 minutes in Atlanta, above the 30 minute average. Divorce and unemployment rates were slightly above average as well.

    Nashville, Houston, New York and St. Louis followed Atlanta at the top of the list of worst places to snooze.

    The best cities for sleep were in California — Anaheim and Los Angeles were No. 1 and No. 2. Raleigh-Durham, N.C., Minneapolis and Chicago rounded out the best list.

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Videos From Yahoo Hackday

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Video: Funeral For A Pet Fish

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Friday, September 29, 2006

Video: Oops, Turtles Mate In The Middle Of Road

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Video: Angry Professor

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Video: Painter Sketch

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Thursday, September 28, 2006

All You Need Is Ubuntu

    Ubuntu does not only mean the open-source operating system, but more than that.
    Ubuntu. That was what Bill Clinton told the Labour party conference it needed to remember this week. "Society is important because of Ubuntu."

    But what is it? Left-leaning sudoku? U2's latest album? Fish-friendly sushi?

    No, it's a word describing an African worldview, which translates as "I am because you are," and which means that individuals need other people to be fulfilled.

    The former president, husky-voiced and down-home with the delegates, gave it a folksy flavour, describing it in terms of needing to be around others to enjoy being ourselves.

    "If we were the most beautiful, the most intelligent, the most wealthy, the most powerful person - and then found all of a sudden that we were alone on the planet, it wouldn't amount to a hill of beans," said Mr Clinton.

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Video: My Cubicle

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3-Years-Old Jack Neal Bought Vintage Nissan Car On eBay

    Jack Neal briefly became the proud owner of a pink convertible car after he managed to buy it for 9,000 pounds ($17,000) on the Internet despite being only three years old.

    Jack's mother told the BBC she had left her password for the eBay auction site in her computer and her son used the "buy it now" option to complete the purchase.

    "Jack's a whiz on the PC and just pressed all the right buttons," Rachel Neal said.

    The seller of the second-hand car, a dealer from Worcestershire, central England, was amused by the bid and agreed not to force the sale through.

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4 Is The Unlucky Number In China

    I bought a phone number in Beijing several days ago. It’s surprising that they are differently priced depending on whether certain number is ncluded. The one including “four” costs 40 yuan, and those without “four” is much higher. It’s said that “four” is unlucky number in China.. But I bought the cheapest one including “four” because I didn’t believe in that. However, misfortune came one after another since I got this phone number. My purse lost; my cell phone broke; my bike was stolen…

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Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Anna Nicole Smith's Daughter Fathered By Her Mother's Attorney?


    Anna Nicole Smith's daughter, named Dannie Lynn Hope, was born on Sept. 7 at a hospital in Nassau, Bahamas. If not her brother's sudden death, the girl not known who fathered at the time would be most probably not well-known by the world. Howard K. Stern, the personal attorney of former Playboy Playmate and reality television star confessed on CNN's Larry King Live that he is Dannie's father.
    "Anna and I have been in a relationship and we love each other, and it's been going on for a very long time, and because of my relationship as her lawyer, we felt that it was best to keep everything hidden," Stern said, "I think based on the timing of it, there shouldn't be a doubt."

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Secrets Of Mona Lisa Revealed, She Was A New Mother !

    Bruno Mottin of the French [Louvre] Museums' Centre for Research and Restoration said that on very close examination of the painting it became clear that the Mona Lisa's dress was covered in a thin transparent gauze veil.

    "This type of gauze dress ... was typical of the kind worn in early 16th century Italy by women who were pregnant or who had just given birth. This is something that had never been seen up to now because the painting was always judged to be dark and difficult to examine," he told a news conference.

    "We can now say that this painting by Leonardo da Vinci was painted to commemorate the birth of the second son of the Mona Lisa, which helps us to date it more precisely to around 1503."

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Wild Man With 2-M-Long Hair & 1.5-M-Long Beard

    80-year-old Luo Shiyuan wears his 2-meter-long hair over head at a wild animal zoo in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality Wednesday, September 27, 2006. Luo, who lives in a remote mountain in Chongqing, has been growing his hair and beard for 30 years, which stand at 2 meters and 1.5 meters long respectively. With his grey and unkempt hair, Luo is hailed as a wild man.
    Update: Finally Mr. Luo washed his hair and beard, the resultant washed dirty water may make you vomit!

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Apple Does Not Fall

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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

One-Thousand-Hands Bodhisattva

    Wonderful!
    Members of the Chinese Disabled Persons' Art Performing Troupe perform their best know work 'Bodhisattva with 1,000 hands' dance to celebrate the first anniversary of Aichi Expo opening in Nagoya, central Japan Monday night, Sept. 25, 2006.

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Weird Japanese Transparent Mini Skirt


    More on Sohu Forum. Actually these bottom pictures cycled online quite long time ago (I think, it should be two years ago), it's weird that nowadays a phrase of 全透明裙子 (totally transparent skirt) re-surfaced among the top popular searched phrases in a Chinese search engine SoSo. Actually the skirt is just impressed the lingerie pantyhose, while not genuinely transparent.

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World's Most Expensive Freehold Island Sale For $75 million

    [Sale for $75 million] Vatu Vara island is claimed to be the most expensive freehold island in the world.

    It is often nicknamed Hat Island because of its unusual shape — the top of its peak is flat because it was once at sea level. It is part of the Lau group of islands and its peak dominates the surrounding skyline. It is said to be one of the last four freehold islands to come on to the market in Fiji.
    via BornRich

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Carl Mertens' Table Top Fireplace

    From Unicahome.com
    The table top fireplace by carl mertens is nothing short of beautiful. unlike any other oil lamps around, this faux fireplace creates a focal point and radiates light and warmth for the table top. the 18/10 stainless steel logs are sleek and contemporary and are further highlighted by the natural feel of the slate base. base dimensions are 10 by 14 inches.

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Monday, September 25, 2006

Video: Bill Clinton Smacks Down Fox News

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Giant Drum

    I saw this picture on China Daily website some days ago, but did not post it here until at least two blogs have blogged or constructed the link to it.
    Liu Zhibin and his wife sit atop the "First Drum under Heaven" Tuesday in Shangchuankou Village in Yangling, northwest China's Shannxi Province. The drum, with a diameter of 3.68 meters and a height of 1.98 meters, took the couple and 12 other drum makers 108 days to finish. The drum makers plan to apply for Guinness World Record for the drum.
    Anyone one notice something amuzing about this picute? Heh, doesn't the woman in the picture look like Furong Jiejie (芙蓉姐姐, Sister Lotus)?

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Kate Hudson's Left Foot Has Six Toes!

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World's Most Expensive Jam

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Howler Monkey

    A howler monkey, a species in risk of extinction, is seen at the zoo of Asuncion, 22 September 2006. The animal was found in Guayaibi, 450km north from the Paraguayan capital and taken to the zoo to be cured from injuries. It will later be freed as it cannot live in captivity. Howler monkeys range in size from 56 to 92cm, excluding their tail which can be just as long. They have a lifespan of 15 to 20 years and are native to South and Central American forests.

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Shanghai Leader Chen Liangyu Sacked!

    When living in Shanghai for quite some years, I did have a positive impress at Mr. Chen Liangyu (陈良宇), then vice-Mayor, mayor & later the city General Secretary of Party. Now when I am reading news titles from the subscribed RSS, I learned he was dismissed by being accused of violating discipline and law [links to Xinhua (in Chinese) or to BBC (in English)]. Snips of AP report seemly have other aspects of the case.
    Shanghai is a bastion of Hu's predecessor, Jiang Zemin, and Chen's removal could be part of a strategy to weaken rivals in the collective leadership for Hu to better position himself and the allies he wants to maneuver into place.

    Chen was viewed as a Jiang protege and therefore an ally in the former leader's attempts to wield influence even in retirement. He reportedly clashed with Premier Wen Jiabao over Beijing's efforts to cool economic growth, lobbying instead for ambitious infrastructure projects for China's wealthiest and most populous city.

    "It's a serious warning to corrupt officials and to those who don't toe the party line," said Joseph Cheng, director of the Contemporary China Research Center at Hong Kong's City University.

    Major reshuffles of local leaders are planned for many areas ahead of the congress, the Beijing-linked Hong Kong newspaper Wei Wei Po reported Monday. It said local leaders who have defied Beijing's economic policies would be singled out.

    With his protector Jiang now descending into political obscurity, Chen could face a lengthy jail term or other harsh punishments.

    "Sacking Chen shows that Jiang has no power to protect his proteges and is in no position to affect the choice of new leaders," said City University's Cheng.

    Chen was last seen in public on Friday at a meeting of chief justices from China, Russia and four Central Asian states. Mayor Han also attended, but neither man spoke in public.

    It was unclear what impact, if any, the scandal may have on Vice Premier Huang Ju, the most senior leader in the Shanghai faction and sixth-highest ranking Communist Party official.

    Huang disappeared from the political scene early this year amid reports that he had cancer. But in recent months he has made a number of public appearances.
    Read also A Bit of Facts Behind Disposing Cheng Liangyu?

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Saturday, September 23, 2006

Video: Thief Hacked ATM Machine And Get Cash Notes Bigger Than Expected

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Friday, September 22, 2006

Astronaut Collapses

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Video: Psycho Throws A Hand Grenade At Cops

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Korea's Most Popular Names Mirrors Changing Times

    Korea’s most popular names during the last 30 years include Jeong-hun and Min-joon for boys and Mi-young and Seo-yeon for girls; 60 years ago, they were Young-soo and Young-ja. The Chosun Ilbo with the help of the Supreme Court surveyed the names of babies born in 30-year intervals -- in 1945, 1975 and 2005 -- to discover the 10 most popular names in each generation. In proof that naming of children reflects the times, no single name from one generation made it into the top 10 of the next. Experts in onomastics (the study of naming) say that names reflect the state of things in the era when they were used.

    Boys born in 1945, when Korea had just been liberated from Japanese colonial rule, were often given names with the chinese character “young (永)” - which means long-- such as Young-soo, Young-ho and Young-shik. Onomastician Lee Dong-woo says this is because parents at the time wished that their sons should live a long life. In fact, the average life span of Korean men at the time stood at only 35 years because of disease and the military draft. For women, Japanese-style names that included the Chinese character “ja (子)” (equivalent to the Japanese “ko” as in Yoko) at the end were popular, such as Young-ja, Jeong-ja and Soon-ja. Jeong-soon in ninth place was the only one that did not include “ja” in the top 10, showing how Japanese rule still heavily affected Korean society. However, some say that “ja,” which also means “son,” was so popular because people at the time preferred sons to daughters and wanted to ease their disappointment at having a girl.

    In 1975 when they became parents in turn, the ja’s and Young’s chose Jeong-hun, Seong-ho, Seong-hun, Seong-jin and Jeong-ho for their sons. The names mostly have the Chinese characters “seong (成)” and “hun (勳), which mean success and achievement, reflecting parents’ wish for their children’s social success and career achievement at a time when the country was experiencing rapid economic growth. For girls, feminine names like Mi-young, Eun-jeong, Eun-ju, Eun-young and Hyun-ju were popular. But in 2005 children of both sexes were often given androgynous names, like Ji-won and Su-min -- a break from the past, when the sexes could be clearly distinguished by their names.
    Interesting!

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The Death Of Adsense

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Claude Presbyterian Church Google Billboard

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10G Gmail?

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Thursday, September 21, 2006

Shark That Walks On Its Fins

    Beautiful!
    BANGKOK, Thailand -- Scientists combing through undersea fauna off Indonesia's Papua province said Monday they had discovered dozens of new species, including a shark that walks on its fins and a shrimp that looks like a praying mantis.

    The team from U.S.-based Conservation International also warned that the area _ known as Bird's Head Seascape _ is under danger from fishermen who use dynamite and cyanide to net their catches and called on Indonesia's government to do more to protect it.

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Atlantis Shuttle Safely Back To Earth

    The shuttle made a perfect landing on runway 33 at Nasa's Kennedy Space Center just after 0621 EDT (1021 GMT), ending a 12-day mission to re-start construction of the International Space Station (ISS).

    "Nice to be back. It was a great team effort. Assembly is off to a good start," said Atlantis' commander Brent Jett after the landing.

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Flora Bush: The Child Left Behind

    On November 25th, 1981, George W. Bush became the loving father of twins. Unfortunately, Mom gave birth to triplets.

    Hello, America. I'm Flora Bush, the daughter the President doesn't want you to know about. I'm a Democrat! I'm a punk!
    via Ratner Gazette

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Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Video: Rotoscoped Anime Mashup The Race

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Video: 4-Years-Old Igor Falecki Is A Drummer!

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Oregon Crater Lake

    With an average depth of 350 meters or 1,148 feet, Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States.
    Crater Lake is formed from the caldera of Mount Mazama. Part of the Cascades volcanic chain, Mount Mazama sits between the Three Sisters volcanoes to the north and Mount Shasta to the south. The catastrophic eruption of Mount Mazama that occurred approximately 7,700 years ago destroyed the volcano while simultaneously forming the basin for Crater Lake. Eruptive activity continued in the region for perhaps a few hundred years after the major eruption. Evidence of this activity lingers in volcanic rocks, lava flows, and domes beneath the lake surface; the small cone of Wizard Island is the only visible portion of these younger rocks.

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Blog--My Father's Hand

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Monday, September 18, 2006

Crabfu Steamworks

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German Art Student Wannabe Terra Cotta Warrior

    From Neatorama:
    This is odd. Very odd - A german student made a dusty brown suit of armor, a tunic and a helmet, and jumped into an open pit to join the famous terra cotta army in Xian, China.
    When approached by a security staff, the man stayed "in character" and refused to utter a word! But finally, they dragged him out.

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Sunday, September 17, 2006

Video: Lindsay Lohan Beach Boxing

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Free Video Editing Softwares For Various OS

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Video: Male Restroom Etiquette

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Friday, September 15, 2006

Teenage Heroism Not Couraged Now In China

    A dozen years ago, Chinese teenagers were besieged in a nation-wide wave to learn from a late juvenile hero, Lai Ning (1974-1988). The native of the southwestern province of Sichuan died trying to put out a forest fire when he was only 14 years old.

    In November 1988, Lai was named a 'revolutionary martyr' and held up as an example for other teenagers to follow.

    However, in today's China, Lai has been replaced by stylish pop stars from Taiwan or Hong Kong, such as Jay Chou and S.H.E (A three-member pop music group comprised of Taiwanese native Selina Ren, Hebe Tian and Ella Chen), in teenagers minds, and people are struggling to find an answer to whether it's right or not.

    Terms in China's Conduct Code of Pupils, such as 'Do not be scared to fight' and 'Try to save others in danger' have been replaced by 'Reporting the danger to others' and 'Learning to protect oneself.'

    What's more, China's Ministry of Education discourages teenage heroism in the Measures for Primary School, Middle School and Kindergartens on safety management, which came to effect September 1, saying schools are not allowed to deploy under-age students for emergency rescue work.

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Japanese Doomsday Cult Leader Sentenced To Be Hung


    Shoko Asahara (麻原 彰晃), the founder of Aum Shinrikyo, whose real name is Chizuo Matsumoto (松本智津夫), was ultimately responsible for ordering cult members to release the nerve gas into Tokyo subway trains.

    From Japanese Times
    The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a special appeal filed by lawyers for Aum Shinrikyo founder Shoko Asahara, finalizing the death sentence for the man who masterminded the cult's horrific nerve gas attacks on the Tokyo subway system in 1995.

    The decision by the top court's Third Petty Bench, led by Justice Yukio Horigome, concludes the trial of the 51-year-old mass murderer that ran for more than a decade. Asahara was initially sentenced to death in 2004 for his role in 13 crimes, including the subway sarin attacks, which killed 12 people and injured some 5,500.

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Video: Mr. Bean's Fujifilm Ads

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Video: Kid thinks he's falling from ride. Stepmom is laughing hysterically!

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Canadian Gunman Killed By Himself, Not Police

    Kimveer Gill fullfilled his ambition to die in a hail of bullets.
    The man who went on a shooting spree at a college in the Canadian city of Montreal died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, police say.

    The police had said 25-year-old Kimveer Gill, who killed a young woman and injured 19 other people at Dawson College, was gunned down by officers.

    But a post-mortem examination revealed that a wound in his arm from a police bullet was not fatal.
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Thursday, September 14, 2006

Astronomers Renamed Xena As Eris

    The distant world whose discovery prompted leading astronomers to demote Pluto from the rank of "planet" has now been given its own official name.

    Having caused so much consternation in the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the object has been called Eris, after the Greek goddess of discord. Eris' discoverer, Michael Brown of the California Institute of Technology, called it "too perfect to resist".

    Eris [wiki] is larger than Pluto, which put scientists in the fix of having to call them both planets - or neither. Both bodies have now been put in the new classification of "dwarf planets".

    In mythology, Eris caused a quarrel among goddesses that sparked the Trojan War. In real life, Eris also caused strife, forcing scientists to produce a strict definition of the term planet - and that eventually led to Pluto losing the status it had held since its discovery in 1930.

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After 30 Years, Mao's Glory Still Shines

    However, the world's fourth-largest economy with an annual economic growth of 10.3 per cent is witnessing changes in the way people perceive Mao, who was once painted as the savior of the most populous nation in the world.

    Where before people carried Mao's red book with them as a source of inspiration, now Chinese entrepreneurs are turning to Mao's warfare tactics to earn profits.

    Naobaijin, a popular tonic medicine sweeping across China, earned its profits and fame from using the ideas behind Mao's 'countryside surrounding city' and 'mass warfare' tactics in its advertising and sales campaigns, Zhou Dajiang, the author of Dang Shi Shang Jian, which turns Mao's tactics into business transactions, told the magazine.

    But for China, which had gone through the agony of a civil war and the Japanese invasion from 1937 to 1945, Mao's glory will never fade from the public consciousness, even though people are becoming more practical in the way they use his teachings. Mao is the leader who helped relieve the suffering of the Chinese people.

    A statue in Nanjie, a small village in central China's Henan Province is imprinted with the phrase, 'Chairman Mao is not a god, but his thoughts are better than god."

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Angel of Death

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Angel of Death


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Solartrike

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Solartrike


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Video: Top Gear Fab 1, the Big, Pinky Ford Vechile

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Video:The Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever Taken

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Video:The Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever Taken


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Linday Lohan Exposed

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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Gunman Rampage In Dawson College

    Horrific!
    Dawson College students described how the shooting began at about 1245 local time, and how a total of 20 shots were heard over a half-hour period.

    One witness described how the gunman, dressed in a black trench coat and military boots and with a Mohawk haircut, appeared emotionless as he fired his weapons.

    "He said nothing. He had a stone cold face... He just started opening fire," said student Soher Marous.

    Others told of how he pursued terrified students along corridors and up stairwells.

    Those who could not escape barricaded the doors to classrooms and hid themselves under their desks.
    The man was shot dead and no one knows why he did such rampage.

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Gunman Rampage In Dawson College


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Video: Funny Old Dude Bitching About Coffee At Starbucks

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New Multicolored Bird Discovered In India

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The War Over Salt

    Salt is not as safe as we think it.
    Sprinkled into everything from bread to cheese, soups and breakfast cereal, just about every fast-food restaurant meal and now even fresh cuts of meat, salt is ubiquitous in the American food supply. And according to government data, Americans eat far too much of it.

    Now the nation’s largest doctors’ group, the American Medical Association, is going after the government and the food industry to reduce what it sees as a persistently high level of salt in many processed foods. At its annual meeting in late June, the medical association recommended that the Food and Drug Administration limit the amount of salt that food companies are allowed to add to products.

    Specifically, the medical association, which had never before called for regulation of a food ingredient, asked the F.D.A. to revoke salt’s long-time status as a substance that is “generally recognized as safe,” a classification that warrants little oversight. Instead, the F.D.A. should regulate salt as a food additive, the medical group said.

    If the recommendation were adopted, packaged-food companies would have to adhere to limits on allowable sodium levels for various categories of food, and speed up the search for an alternative to salt as a preservative and flavor enhancer.

    The initiative has thrust salt into the limelight as a public health concern and raised questions over how attentive the F.D.A. has been to the problem of excess sodium consumption.

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Video: Monkey Loves Cat

    David Pescovitz writes
    In this video, a monkey [on a chain] protects his cat pal from a chicken poking around. The soundtrack is the sweet song "J'Taime" as sung by Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg.

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Wooden Flash Memory

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Ultralight Panasonic Toughbook T5 Laptop Has An Armstrap

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Top Five Strangest Japanese USB Gadgets

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Video: Ads For 2nd-Generation iPod Nano

    Before viewing the short clip (via TechEblog), below is a brief review of Apple's new iPod Nano by Gizmodo:

    Battery life increased from 15 to 24 hours, gapless playback, instant search like the big iPod, and quick scrolling. Comes with the new headphones.

    Comes in three models, 2GB model in silver, 4GB in silver, pink, green, blue, and 8GB in black. $149 for 2GB, $199 for 4GB, $249 for 8GB model. Double the storage for the same price. New packaging is 52% less volume than the old iPod nano. It's more "environmentally friendly".

    The new nano works with the charger, the armband, lanyard, and works with the Nike Shoe.




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Video: Ads For 2nd-Generation iPod Nano


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Cute Baby Spacecraft

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42 Most Famous Banned Book On Google Book Search

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42 Most Famous Banned Book On Google Book Search


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