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Comment Re:Two words (Score 1) 3709

by mayordont on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @12:17PM (#25643521) Attached to: Barack Obama Wins US Presidency

Probably the most neutral coverage of the US election that I have seen was this morning when Al Jazeera asked their man in the street in Congo how they felt about Obama's victory. The reporter admitted that even though most people in the Congo don't at the moment have the luxury to follow the American election, they would probably still enjoy the fact that a black man had been elected.

Blogger.com Banned In Turkey 262

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 26, 2008 @06:10AM from the no-longer-young-turks dept.

petermp writes "A Turkish court has blocked access to the popular blog hosting service Blogger (Blogger.com and Blogspot.com, owned by Google), since Friday, October 24th, 2008. According to BasBasBas.com, a Dutch blogger based in Istanbul, who alerted readers about the issue: 'It is suspected that the reason for this has something to do with Adnan Oktar, by some considered the leading Muslim advocate for creationism, who has in the past managed to get Wordpress, Google Groups, as well as Richard Dawkins' website [banned].'"

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Spawns Real-Life Car 93

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday October 03, 2008 @03:54PM from the and-i'm-sure-it-will-be-affordable dept.

Car Analogy Please writes to tell us that a new car unveiled at the Paris Auto Show was modeled after the Gran Turismo 5 Prologue car. GTbyCITROËN is the first car that has been designed in tandem with a video game to then spill out onto the actual pavement. "The GTbyCITROËN is the product of a partnership built up during the creation of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. Takumi Yamamoto, from Citroen and Kazunori Yamauchi from Polyphony Digital Inc, the games developer were inspired by each others industries to design a concept car for the game that then flowed further into the real-world. The game version of the car mirrors the real-world performance of the concept."

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