Comment Date? (Score 1) 133
Shook head, looked at calendar....
Nope. Wrong date...
Got to be true!
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Science Unlocks The Mystery Of Belly Button Lint 161
After three years of research, including examining 503 pieces of fluff from his own belly button, Georg Steinhauser has discovered a type of body hair that traps stray pieces of lint and draws them into the navel. Dr Steinhauser's observations showed that "small pieces of fluff first form in the hair and then end up in the navel at the end of the day." Chemical analysis revealed the pieces of fluff were not just made up of cotton from clothing. Wrapped up in the lint were also flecks of dead skin, fat, sweat and dust. Unfortunately, further study has failed to yield a hair or fiber that would give Dr. Steinhauser the last three years of his life back.
Attempt To "Digitalize" Beatles Goes Sour 434
An anonymous reader points to this article at exclaim.ca, which begins "Just when Beatles fans thought the band were finally going digital, the Norwegian national broadcaster has been forced to call off the deal. Broadcasting company NRK has had to remove a series of 212 podcasts, each of which featured a different Beatles song and would have effectively allowed fans to legally download the entire Fab Four catalogue for free."
Comment 120 Hz (Score 1) 261
Sure,
I and a multitude of others will be replacing all our monitors with more expensive models just to accommodate an expensive toy.
This will suffer the same fate as countless other niche devices.
Comment Re:beach erosion/movement (Score 3, Informative) 249
Lots of bad guys in the UAE and more specifically in Dubai. Lots of good guys too. However the area (both Dubai and Abu Dabi) is a financial centre for the bad guys. They will not do anything to jeopardize that as they know the instant they raise trouble they will lose that privilege.
So, in the end everyone is looking at each other in the white of the eyes, restraining themselves (and just collecting Int).
Actually quite safe for a middle eastern country as long as you do not try to stick out like a sore thumb.
Journal Journal: Not So Global Warming
A new report on climate over the world's southernmost continent shows that temperatures during the late 20th century did not climb as had been predicted by many global climate models. This comes soon after the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that strongly supports the conclusion that the Earth's climate as a whole is warming, largely due to human acti
