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Trick or Tweet on Twitter Changes Your Background

Twitter has a neat little trick (or treat) depending how you look at it, today to celebrate Halloween! It's a bit specific though so listen up... If you tweet #trick or #treat from your Twitter homepage, but just...

A history of Halloween, Devil's Night

October 31 is Halloween, or All Hallows Eve - it's a night for fun, mischief, pranks, ghouls and goblins. It's when people dress up, in most often ridiculous costumes, go out, treat their way to something yummy,...

Stanford's 'autonomous' helicopters teach themselves to fly

Scratch another one off the list of "things only humans can do". This is not even a full artificial "intelligence"; it just learns how to compute data and algorithyms to fly a remote control helicopter, beaming instructions by radio signal 20 times a second. However, that...

Barack "Trickster" Obama

To hear it from supporters of Obama you would think he was a new type of politician; even post-partisan. But the problem with supporters is that you don't get the whole truth and nothing but. Instead, you get an idealized version of a vision and this version is more idealized...

Ultimatum issued over Clayoquot Sound

The media is now reporting every other day on this issue.  August 2nd in Tofino is the first demonstration planned.  I still cannot believe we are in 2008 and still dealing with these issues.  Sad...

Election Day T-100 and Counting / Nader Interview

Iron Mil Interactive Media, Inc Ironmill.com /Politisite.com / Politisite.wordpress.com / Politisite.blogspot.com/ Politisite.livejournal.com / NowPublic.com Election Day T- 100 Days and Counting July 25, 2008...

Director General of MI5 humiliated in whistleblower battle against journalist

"Having been left with no option other than to resign from the Security Department of the Home Office, John Francis Smith soon found another job in the NHS and though not as well paid, he survived comfortably...

Tips and Tricks to Improve Computer Speed

"A Little Bit of My HistoryThe very first time I have my hands on computer was almost 18 years back or so. It was an Apple computer given by my uncle who thought that I might be interested in it. The computer had no hard drive but with two 5 and a half inches floppy drive....

7 Medical Myths

1. Drink at least 8 glasses of water a day: The researchers who conducted the study could find no clinical evidence to support this notion. But they did dig up an article from the November 2002 American Journal of Physiology that documented the lack of evidence behind this...

Keep an Eye on Your Router: It May Lead You On a Wrong Way!

"If you thought that malware has made an obsession out of Windows-based operating systems only, you're wrong. A new type of criminal attack is committed to take over one of the most common hardwarein a computer network: the router. According to the latest security reports, a...

Teen caller tricks White House

You gotta laugh at this one. From Reuters: REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - A teen-ager says he convinced the White House he was Iceland's president and managed to schedule a call with George W. Bush but was found out before he got to talk to the U.S. president. "My call was...

Treats no Tricks on New York's Chocolate Week website...Now Live

If you want to find out the details of what's on offer in stores, online and in restaurants around the Big Apple for New York first ever Chocolate Week, check the Program Page on Chocolate Week NY, their newly launched website.  I think the London Chocolate Week site is...

How to make a coin disappear

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Big tent ban for elderly elephant

"Big tent ban for elderly elephantThe last touring elephant in Britain has been banned from the big tent in Ayrshire after animal campaigners raised objections. Anne, who is aged 54 and suffers from arthritis, is...

Mugabe Targets Zimbabwe Mines

Apparently not grasping the concept of inflation, Zimbabwe's president threatened the mining industry:"Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe threatened on Wednesday to seize mining firms and other companies if they persist with "dirty tricks" and keep raising prices in the face of...

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