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Mozilla Thunderbird 3 Released 272

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @06:48PM from the hot-bits dept.

supersloshy writes Today Mozilla released Thunderbird 3. Many new features are available, including Tabs and enhanced search features, a message archive for emails you don't want to delete but still want to keep, Firefox 3's improved Add-ons Manager, Personas support, and many other improvements. Download here."

Canadian Blood Services Promotes Pseudoscience 219

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @07:49PM from the type-A-negative-personality dept.

trianglecat writes "The not-for-profit agency Canadian Blood Services has a section of their website based on the Japanese cultural belief of ketsueki-gata, which claims that a person's blood group determines or predicts their personality type. Disappointing for a self-proclaimed 'science-based' organization. The Ottawa Skeptics, based in the nation's capital, appear to be taking some action."

Hippies Say WiFi Network Is Harming Their Chakras 432

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 08, 2009 @01:58AM from the what's-with-all-the-negative-waves dept.

Anti-Globalism writes "A group of hippies is complaining that a recently installed WiFi mesh network in the UK village of Glastonbury is causing health problems. To combat the signals from the Wi-Fi hotspots, the hippies have placed orgone generators around the antennae." Although there have been many studies that show no correlation between WiFi and health issues the hippies say, "Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man."

Comment Try before you buy (Score 1) 201

by choward on Monday November 18, 2002 @03:24PM (#4699731) Attached to: Klaus Knopper, Creator of Knoppix Talks to DistroWatch

From the article:

Some people (including me) are using Knoppix when shopping for a new computer. If the hardware is working fine and is all detected by Knoppix, the computer should be ready to run any brand of Linux.

What a wonderful idea! I can see that this would make choosing a laptop much easier. No more guessing if the manufacturer added any weird proprietary stuff that Linux won't recognize. How many stores out there would let you do this though?

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