Chinese Dino Dam

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Reuters UK => China builds 1.5 km dam to protect dinosaur site Representative democracy is too difficult for the Chinese to build, but they sure can build dams. BEIJING (Reuters) – China has built a large earth dam to protect a dinosaur fossil site from being washed away by floods, state media said on Tuesday. … Read more

BBC for the rest of us?

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BBC => BBC Trust approves bbc.com proposal The BBC Trust has approved proposals for the BBC to establish bbc.com, a commercial venture to offer advertising on the BBC’s international online service for users outside the UK. UK users’ experience of bbc.co.uk will not be affected. bbc.com will deliver a new flow of income from international … Read more

If Macs were pizzas, they wouldn’t be Pizza Hut

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New York Post => GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT, MAC? Reviewing the new book, Options by Fake Steve Jobs, the New York Post quotes this poem from the book… Sometimes I feel like a great chef who has devoted his entire life to monastic study of the art of cooking & gathered the finest ingredients … Read more

This isn’t promising

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Apart from the obvious screw-up on this sign, I hope this restriction prediction on Indian School is a little more accurate than the one on Osborn was. Last year, in about November or December, they put this same sign up on Osborn, with a note that the restriction would last until 1/31/07. The restriction was … Read more

How silly

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Sometimes you use software all the time and never know what it can do. I see that Ecto, which is my blog editor of choice, can insert the current track I’m listening to in iTunes right into my blog. Why? A Shot in the Dark by Henry Mancini Technorati Tags: Blog, Music

Five and Ten

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Doctor Who => BBC – Doctor Who – News – Who Needs Another Doctor? avid Tennant’s Tenth Doctor is set to meet Peter Davison’s Fifth Doctor in a special scene commissioned for BBC One’s Children in Need. The scene, entitled Time Crash, was written by award winning Doctor Who writer Steven Moffatt, and will transmit … Read more

Dragonfly

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Here’s something I don’t see too often in Phoenix. Usually it’s just flies, bees and the occasional West Nile carrying mosquito. Technorati Tags: Blog, Natural Sciences, Insects

Tesco is coming – and it’s green

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I’m not sure what the logic is behind it, but Tesco has decided to try to crack the US market. They bombed miserably in Taiwan and sold out to Carrefour, a French equivalent. Now, I suppose I could understand wanting to move into the US market. There’s money to be made, but why oh why … Read more