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Fresh Oil Leaks From Damaged BP Well Spotted In Gulf Of Mexico
14 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
New oil leakage has been spotted in the Gulf of Mexico, near the BP well that burst 15 months ago; the oil currently covers an area about seven kilometres long and 50 metres wide. It’s not clear if the oil is coming from the reservoir itself, or if’s been trapped in last year’s damaged rigging.
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Gingers Hold Massive Confidence-Boosting Weekend Conference
13 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
More than 1 000 gingers held a massive confidence-boosting weekend in Breda, Holland, to celebrate International Redhead Day this last weekend. News reports coming out of the area have been slow because national news agencies were weighing up whether or not such distressing information would serve the public interest.
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‘Half-Arab, Half-Jewish Housewife’ Detained On 9/11 Anniversary For Being Dark-Skinned
13 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Really not exaggerating in that headline. Two days ago, blogger Shoshana Hebshi, a self-described “half-Arab, half-Jewish housewife,” found herself cuffed and thrown off a Frontier Airlines flight and strip-searched – because she was seated next to two Indian guys she didn’t know, and another passenger had found that suspicious.
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Huge, Potentially Life-Supporting Exo-Planet Discovered
13 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Screw climate change, we’ve found a new home. Well, I mean that’s my attitude whenever astronomers says they’ve found new planets within the “Goldiclocks zone” of core temperature – like the one European astronomers announced yesterday, the catchy-sounding HD85512b, which fits life support parameters, and is a little over three times the size of Earth.
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Here Are The Real Numbers And Consequences If Greece Goes Bang
13 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
European stocks have bounced back slightly (well, leveled, more than anything) on news that China and Italy are in discussions about “significant” purchases of Italian bonds and investments in strategic companies. Greece will probably get that next round of funding, but Europe still needs to approve it. Here are some interesting numbers if Greece does go bang.
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130Kg Man Sues Restaurant Because He Can’t Fit Into Their Seating
13 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
A 130kg man has sued a popular American fast-food giant, because the sitting booths in their restaurants are apparently “too small”. He is claiming that the uncomfortable booths violate the civil rights of fat people. In all fairness, this guy probably has a point. It is, after all, guys like him that spend the most money there.
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Risk Of Radioactive Leakage After Explosion At French Nuclear Plant
12 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There are reports of a blast at the southern French nuclear plant of Marcoule, in the Gard region – with further claims that there is a risk of radioactive leakage. The explosion followed a fire in a radioactive waste storage sight, killing one person and injuring three more.
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Vodacom To Cap Internet Speeds For High-End Blackberry Users
12 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Vodacom has popped a cap in the bandwidth of Blackberry Internet Service (BIS) subscribers who exceed a monthly data limit of 100mb – cutting the speeds from 3G to 2G. Vodacom claims that this should only affect around 5% of the user base, as the rest are all using the service “fairly”.
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Scientists Produce Glow-In-The-Dark Kittens For AIDS Research
12 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This really has nothing to do with making your pet cat fluorescent so that you can see it in the dark and not stand on it when you get up to go the toilet at night. It has, however, everything to do with the similarities between human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV).
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Animators Help Families Retell Moving Stories Of Loved Ones Lost In 9/11
12 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
StoryCorps is an American non-profit organization that records and shares stories of average Americans. With the tenth anniversary of September 11th this weekend, they have released three animated shorts documenting the stories of four people who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center. It left a very teary-eyed writer this side.
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Let’s Drink Tonight Helps You Find People To Drink With
12 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
If people keep telling you that drinking alone is a sign of alcoholism, then you either need to drink less, or find a way to make sure that there are people to drink with all the time. The geniuses behind the social network app ‘Let’s Drink Tonight’ figured the latter choice made more sense too.
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Is Germany Giving Up On Greece?
12 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Reports coming out of the East and Europe this morning paint a dismal picture for Greece. The Euro had already slipped to a 10 year low against the Yen and a six month low against the dollar in overnight trading. Bloomberg thinks Germany might give up on Greece because a Greek default is probably inevitable.
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Meet Mexico’s Version Of Josef Fritzl [PICS]
09 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Remember Josef Fritzl? The Austrian who imprisoned his daughter in an underground chamber for 24 years and fathered her seven children? It would seem he has a Mexican counterpart by the name of Jorge Iniestra Salas – one very loco ese! He kept the teenage daughters of his girlfriend captive for five years and fathered five children with one of the girls.
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Greenpeace Commissioned Giant Vitruvian Man On Arctic Iceberg [PICS]
09 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Greenpeace! What a dumb idea. That giant recreation of da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man is going to disappear as soon as that iceberg melts – OH. Oh gosh. You’re trying to put together some sort of heavy-handed metaphor about ‘mankind,’ ‘melting,’ like some sort of iceberg, because of ‘climate change.’
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Apple Wins: Samsung Galaxy Stays Banned In Germany For Copying iPad
09 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
A German court on Friday upheld an injunction requested by Apple barring the sales of Samsung Galaxy tablets in Germany. In what is surely another groundbreaking ruling against Samsung and the Galaxy Tab, the German court ruled that Samsung had basically copied Apple’s iPad.
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Radvertising? Warner Bros. Promotes ‘Contagion’ Film With Bacteria Billboard
09 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming film, ‘Contagion,’ needed some promotion because apparently Marion Cotillard’s presence isn’t enough. So, reasonably, Warner Bros hired a couple of microbiologist and immunologists to create billboards filled with growing bacteria and fungi that would spell out promotional messages. Please save your ‘viral marketing’ comments for after class.
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Think TV Has Hit Rock Bottom? Just Wait…
09 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The NBC network in the States has greenlit a pilot for a series about a straight woman and her gay female best friend who are “navigating life and love in Los Angeles” called… wait for it… ‘My Best Friend Is A Lesbo’.
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Washington DC And NYC Police Prepare For “Possible Terrorist Attacks” On 9/11 Anniversary
09 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
With this Sunday marking the ten year anniversary of 9/11, police say they are beefing up their presence in Washington DC and New York City. Rumours of possible repeat terrorist activity abound, and Homeland Security officials are investigating an “al-Quaida car bomb plot aimed at bridges or tunnels” in one of the two major US cities.
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Lacoste Wants Anders Breivik To Stop Wearing Their Clothes
08 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Lacoste is having a bit of an Abercrombie and Fitch moment and has asked the Norwegian police to prohibit terrorist and mass murderer, Anders Behring Breivik, from wearing their clothes during his court appearances. Breivik seems to consistently wear his red Lacoste sweater with the distinctive crocodile logo on his trips out of prison.
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NASA’s Satellite Is Going To Fall To Earth. They Just Don’t Know When Or Where
08 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
Awesome. The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), NASA’s defunct, 60 000 kg baby, will be re-entering Earth’s atmosphere sometime later this month or in early October, and NASA doesn’t really know when or where it’s going to happen. What they do know is that it’s going to leave a 800km-wide debris footprint, somewhere. Heads up.
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Old Spice’s Sea Captain [VIDEO]
08 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It looks as if 2oceansVibe was right when we thought that Old Spice was going to start using multiple spokespersons for the continuation of their viral campaign. Isaiah Mustafa versus Fabio came and went, but the show must go on for how ordinary guys can be transformed by the brand’s scents. Introducing: Sea Captain.
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‘Find My iPhone’ App Helps Locate Wreckage Of Chilean Plane Crash
08 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
In the aftermath of last Friday’s plane crash off the island of Robinson Crusoe, Chile, officials have stated that no effort would be spared in the rescue/recovery of the 17 passengers. This apparently includes using the Find My iPhone app to isolate the coordinates of one of the passenger’s last known whereabouts before the crash.
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Bollywood’s First Sci-Fi Film Unearthed [VIDEO]
08 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Film geeks have unearthed India’s first sci-fi film, Hindi space adventure Trip to Moon, made in 1967. And, since it’s unlikely to take Netflix by storm anytime soon (though I fully expect an American re-make by end 2012) they’ve uploaded it to YouTube in full.
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New 9/11 Photos By James Nachtwey Surface
07 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
American documentary photographer James Nachtwey happened to be in New York on 11 September 2001. The images Nachtwey captured on that fateful day were published by TIME immediately following 9/11, and have become iconic. As the ten year anniversary of the Twin Towers tragedy looms, a number of previously unpublished photos by Nachtwey have just been released.
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Lab Chimps Laugh And Hug As They See Daylight For First Time In 30 Years [VIDEO]
07 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
OK, so, this is a pretty horrific story, but it has a happy ending. After a 14-year battle, these Chimpanzees have been set free from captivity after being taken from their mothers shortly after their births. They’d been kept in a research facility in Austria, undergone medical testing, been injected with HIV and hepatitis. But, at least they’re happy now.
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Liberate Your Data With Google Takeout
07 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hello, internet people. Google Takeout has been launched for you – a “data liberation platform” that lets users export their data from a number of Google products. It’s an importance service! If all your information is on Google without a backup, then you don’t have much control over it. Click through and learn things.
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Watch The Wildfire Spread In Texas [VIDEO]
07 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
To demonstrate the lethal speed at which the Texan wildfires are spreading, the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department have released footage of the wildfire consuming the 6 000 acre Bastrop State Park – 84% of which has been burnt down as of today, in spite of firefighters’ efforts to save a number of historic Civilian Conservation Corps cabins.
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The US Army Wants Their Gear To Be Powered By Android
06 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
‘Nett Warrior,’ the military program that aims to give soldiers the tools for communications and mapping with each has been put on ice. It seems the US army have decided to cut a couple of kilograms in the solider’s kit and go with civilian technology. And they’re going Google.
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One Tonne Mega-Croc Caught In Phillippines [PIC]
06 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Ain’t Mother Nature grand? Especially when one of her chunkier children gets loose near your village. One of her 6.5-meter long, one tonne, man-eating children…
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Amazon’s Tablet Will Probably Be The Only Real Challenger To The iPad
06 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Amazon’s tablet is coming soon. Very soon, according to some of the rumours doing the rounds. We could even see the new device in the next few weeks. Supposedly, it will be in the seven-inch region, run a tweaked version of Android and be quite affordable too. But what’s going to make it special, and better than any Google attempt?
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