Google vs Jimmy Wales & Open Source Search

"Jimmy Wales, the founder of not-for profit Wikipedia and for-profit, San Mateo, Calif.-based Wikia is part of a growing number of people who are discomforted by the growing control Google over search. And he is doing something about it. His company, Wikia, last week bought...

Max Blumenthal: Generation Chickenhawk: the Unauthorized College Republican C...

Need any more proof that American-style republicanism is populated by cowards of the most punkish sort?  View this new mini-documentary on the young college republicans who love colonialist North America so...

Shoshone spiritual leader Corbin Harney passes

The entire Fourth World marks the passing of a great leader.  May he pass into the next life with the vigour he exemplified in this life.  - The Angryindian---------------------------------"July 10, 2007...

Saving our digital heritage

"It is commonly agreed that the destruction of the ancient Library of Alexandria in Egypt was one of the most devastating losses of knowledge in all of civilization. Today, however, the digital information that drives our world and powers our economy is in many ways more...

RIP Mr. Wizard

Don Herbert, the famously inspiring Mr. Wizard, has died. Herbert, who was a precursor to other pro-science TV hosts like Bill Nye the Science Guy, was 89. All in all, the scientist, teacher, and actor's career...

Belgian ePassports a Security Liability: Experts

RFID: angel to some, demon to others*. For hackers, all of you who use a Radio-Frequency ID-enabled passport are just walking  along the concourse with your personal info on a flash-card stapled to your...

The Black Dog Syndrome

The” Black Dog Syndrome”- The Depression Anthony Field, of the Blue Wiggle's group, has revealed that he is suffering from depression. The illness began during...

The New Recruit

"In a lot of ways, young people today are much more adaptable and better able to deal with complicated situations with a lot of data coming at them from different directions. That’s what enables them to listen to an iPod and text message and do something on the computer all...

The Trouble With Palm OS :: Symblogogy

"The trouble isn’t that the operating system doesn’t work, or is reliable, or even that it isn’t even owned by the company that had originally developed it. The trouble with the Palm OS is that everyone...

Decarbonised Energy projects with BP and Rio Tinto?

"hydrogen energy logo * Home * Press release * Hydrogen Energy * BP * Rio Tinto Rio Tinto and BP join forces to develop clean energy worldwide May 17, 2007 BP and Rio Tinto today announced the formation of a new jointly-owned company, Hydrogen Energy,...

Retiring in BC

"British Columbia’s climate, lifestyle and recreation properties are attracting increasing numbers of baby boomers, the generation born between 1946 and 1965, from across Canada, says the BC chapter of...

An explosion of creativity, arts, performances, the world's largest celebrat...

The world's largest celebration of creativity and imagination. The World Children Festival will show-case children's talent, equip them with communication and...

Wi-Fi Alliance to Certify 802.11n in June

Okay, this isn't the sexiest news item of the day, but it is big news for wireless Internet fans... We love wandering around town with our laptops, but we arent' so crazy about how relatively slow it is. The 802.11n standard will mean that new wireless cards and routers will...

chi-comms are nucking futs

"In an eminent domain move that would make even David Souter blush, the Chinese government is relocating some 250,000 Tibetans from their remote Himalayan villages to new “socialist villages.” "The project, which got under way last year, is formally titled the...

Companies seek green light for 8 nuclear reactors

"The companies that operate nuclear power plants in Ontario are seeking environmental approvals to build eight reactors, four times the number in the province's plans. Energy Minister Dwight Duncan, however,...

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