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China Vows to Stop the Rain 214

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 31, 2008 @03:01PM from the way-ahead-of-the-germ-warfare-division dept.

Since the Olympic stadium doesn't have a roof, the Beijing Meteorological Bureau has been given the task of making sure the games remain dry. According to Zhang Qian, head of weather manipulation (best title to have on a business card ever) at the bureau, they've had success with light rain but heavy rain remains tough to control. I see a hurricane cannon in some lucky country's future.

Comment Re:Most local New Zealand media sickens me (Score 4, Interesting) 282

by michaelnz on Sunday July 29, 2007 @08:30AM (#20031261) Attached to: NZ MPs Outlaw Satire of Parliament

I'm an American who has been living in New Zealand nearly 4 years now. I watch a fair bit of television here and I can say have lived in both the states and here that New Zealand television news is many times better than American TV. There's a bit of fluff and the a few annoying personality driven pieces but compared to American local and national news it's amazingly well done. Both TVNZ and TV3 compete to have news that's informative and entertaining and generally they do well. Stories aren't limited to national concerns and international news is featured prominently, something that never happens in the states.

Things aren't as bad as they could be, trust me, we've got it good here compared to the states.

Feed Clock is ticking on Apple's Boot Camp beta (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @03:13PM

Windows partitions won't disappear once the final version is released, but test users may encounter some headaches.

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