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slashmojo writes:
While some islands are sinking another has just risen from the ocean, formed by volcanic activity and 'caught in the act' by a passing yacht..
"What looked like a brown stain on the South Pacific turned out to be a spectacular drift of floating pumice stones stretching more than 16 km — and an indication an island was being born nearby."
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slashmojo writes:
For nearly four decades, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong has been living under the accusation of mis-stating one of of the most famous phrases in history: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Now, programmer Peter Shann Ford claims to have evidence (derived using the GoldWave software) that Armstrong did not botch the speech, but correctly included the alleged missing syllable. Armstrong, who found the evidence "persuasive", supports the findings.
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slashmojo writes:
Google finally gets their $900M search engine on MySpace which now offers a whole array of search tabs for the various parts of myspace complete with a fancy little 'Powered by Google' icon on every search page. Although Mashable reports that already one myspace user has found a way to remove the google search box from his pages.
Strangely the one search function myspace users have long asked for is still not present — a way to search their very popular forums. Currently BoardTracker provides the only viable solution for searching myspace forums. Perhaps this gap in MySpace search will force Google to build their own forum search engine to complement their blogsearch offering or will Yahoo try to get (another) one over them?
