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Comment Re:now the counter argument... ? (Score 2, Informative) 478

by noemore on Sunday April 29, 2007 @09:35AM (#18918245) Attached to: Vitamin D Deficiency Behind Many Western Cancers?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloger's_rule that's my counter arguement.

Feed Device Uses Solar Energy To Convert Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Wednesday April 18, 2007 @11:13AM

Chemists at the University of California, San Diego have demonstrated the feasibility of exploiting sunlight to transform a greenhouse gas into a useful product -- fuel.

Submission + - 'Smart Dust' to explore planets

Submitted by Ollabelle on Wednesday April 18, 2007 @11:07AM

Ollabelle writes: The BBC is reporting how tiny chips with flexible skins could be used to glide through a planet's atmosphere in swarms to gather data and report back. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6566317. stm

Submission + - Top 21 Tech Flops

Submitted by

PetManimal

on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @10:49AM

PetManimal writes: "Whatever happened to Digital Audio Tape? Or Circuit City's DIVX program? Or IBM's PCjr. and the PS/1? Computerworld's list of 21 biggest tech flops is an amusing trip down the memory lane of tech failures. Some are obvious (Apple Newton), while others are obscure (Warner Communications' QUBE). Strangely, Y2K didn't make the list."

Feed A Poison Pen From the RIAA (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @09:12PM

The recording industry debuts a new carrot-and-stick approach for dealing with file-ripping students and the colleges and ISPs who know them. By Eliot Van Buskirk.

Submission + - Simple computation using dominos

Submitted by on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @08:39PM

An anonymous reader writes: When silicon fails to beat Moores law, maybe dominos can help. This guy has created a half adder in dominos as a proof of concept for domino computation. If he intends to make a full domino computer he's going to need an awful lot of dominos...

PSP Ad Draws Charges of Racism 537

Posted by Zonk on Friday July 07, 2006 @10:05AM from the a-little-forethought dept.

Lord Kano writes "The Guardian Unlimited is reporting that a new Sony ad for the upcoming white PSP has caused an uproar because of claims that it carries racist overtones. The ad depicts a white woman, clad all in white, grabbing the face of a black model in a dominating pose." From the article: "It's questionable whether the world is ready to explore themes of race and domination in the context of a videogame console ad. Although not as wilfully controversial as Benetton's infamous 'United Colours' campaign, many viewers will be unwilling or unable to decode the imagery until it becomes about two different colours of plastic." What do you think about this latest in a long line of PSP ads of questionable taste?

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