Asus Eee PC 900 – The updated ultra-portable Internet Appliance has arrived

When Asus launched the Asus EEE PC 701 last year, it started a revolution: the Internet Appliance. Finally there was a very cheap, extremely light (less than 1Kg) and small laptop with great connectivity, solid state memory (no hard drive) and a very simple user interface, so simple in fact that [...]

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43% US Income Tax Dollars goes on Military Spending…

According to the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) a peace lobby group in Washington, the break down for US federal income tax spending for 2007 was as follows:
43% Military Spending
20% Health Care
12% Poverty, housing and income support
11% National Debt interest
7% Government operations police, courts, etc.
3% Education and Jobs
3% Science and the environment
1% Diplomacy
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Olympic Torch a flash point for protest

As was expected, the Olympic torch relay through London was the focus of both peaceful and not so peaceful protest against China’s human rights record in Tibet. As the world looks on, protesters have leveraged huge focus on China and what’s happening in Tibet.
The Olympic Games are a once in a lifetime opportunity for China [...]

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Europe’s new supply ship for the International Space Station

This video simulation and actual footage, shows the ATV, Europe’s new supply space vessel for the international space station. The actual size of the “Jules Verne”, apart from it’s booster rockets, is about the size of a double decker bus. It docked with the space station on 3rd April 2008.
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MacBook Hacked

A MacBook Air was hacked in two minutes by a software engineer at a security conference contest. He exploited an unknown security hole in Apple’s Safari browser and could claim a $10,000 prize. No public disclosure on the bug details will be made until Apple has addressed the issue.
Read more at News.Com

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Testing Muslim Racism in the USA

ABC News Primetime recently ran a test to gauge reaction to Muslim racism in the USA. This video on YouTube.com shows quite surprising results: 15% approved racism, 32% challenged racism, but most surprising is that 53% were silent. Obviously this is just one test so it doesn’t represent the broad US opinion, however [...]

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British National Gallery Painting Was Owned By Hitler

“Venus and the Cupid” a painting by Lucas Cranach, a Reformation artist in the 16th century, was once owned by Hitler. It was bought in the 1960’s by the British National Gallery, however an art historian has traced it back to Hitler’s Munich flat…
Read the full story in the Guardian.

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A nightmare but true

Imagine this, you are on a days outing and you get a phone call asking if you really are giving away all your possessions for free. Rushing back home you pass a truck laden with your possessions, and they refuse to give them back to you. As you arrive at your home its ransacked with [...]

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Heathrow Hell

Heathrow, the world’s busiest airport, is literally bursting at the seams and passengers are paying the price for it by long delays, missing baggage and sometime unbearable conditions. And now it wants to grow more, and the British government has to decide if a third runway and a sixth terminal should be built [...]

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The World’s Most Expensive Violin

A 250 year-old Guarnerius del Gesu is the world’s most expensive violin. It was bought recently for $3.9 million and played for the first time in 70 years, last Saturday. See it in action in the Guardian.

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