HP Slate Tablet PC Unveiled at Consumer Electronics Show 2010

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer unveiled Hewlet Packard's (HP) new Slate Tablet PC at the Consumer Electronics Show 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada today. The unveiling seems to be a pre-emptive strike on Apple,...

1,500 Runners Missing in Mountain Floods - All Safe at Home Tonight

ALL 2,500 runners taking part in the OMM Marathon, in the Lake District this year, are safe and have been accounted for tonight.  Some hardy souls even completed the course, completely oblivious of the alerts...

Downwardly: Olivia, Bill, Joe and Tammy

Good on Salon.com - they're profiling people who are caught up with the deep financial slide.  In this article meet Olivia, once an accountant, now trying to support her kids on fewer working hours as the...

A video game that kills real people

The use of unmanned aircrafts in modern combat has the future of warfare looking eerily close to a video game, as this recent column from Slate Magazine points out.There are already more than 1,000 unmanned...

The Bush administration fails to stop al-Qaida in Pakistan - By Arthur Delan...

" The New York Times leads with a big story on the growth of al-Qaida in Pakistan and the Bush administration's waffling over plans to give commandos greater latitude to operate in the country's tribal areas. The Washington Post leads locally with the surprise death of a...

Wine under $150 or Wine under $10 (and in between)

With the weak dollar and transportation costs skyrocketing it is getting harder to find $10 and under wines. Here are a few options for the Consumed to Thrifty. In Good Imported Wines Under $10, Roxanne Webber (Chow) offers ways to as she puts it 'save money and drink...

Is your Meat 'Green'? from Chow and Andrew Sullivan to Slate

In my first visit to Chow in a while, I browsed the list of Tips for responsible carnivores offered in Your Meat Is Green by Roxanne Webber.Learn to cook (number 1) is a no-brainer, I do not have to worry about that or using leftovers (number 4) as I do not like to waste...

Long-range campaigning: Clinton and Obama battle for Guam

"HAGATNA, Guam — Barack Obama was leading Hillary Rodham Clinton by just 203 votes out of more than 3,500 cast in Democratic presidential caucuses on Guam as counting continued early Sunday.Obama-pledged...

17 Iraq Vets are Running for Congress in 2008

"Seventeen Iraq combat veterans are running for House seats as Republicans, pledging to continue the war once in Congress and linking themselves to Sen. John McCain's candidacy for president.As Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, prepares to go to Capitol...

Looking for sexual partner in the bathroom?

Look no further, just follow the Idaho Statesman path of Larry Craig. How does one do just that? Simple, tap your foot. " Is tapping your foot really code for public sex? Yes. The signal has been around for...

Stealing The 2008 Vote

More shenanigans:"If you thought Tom DeLay's Texas gerrymandering scam in 2003 was bad, just wait. Now partisans are seeking to steal the 2008 presidential election. It's that serious. Taking advantage of the frustration their supporters understandably feel about their...

Student dig unearths ancient gum

"A 5,000-year-old piece of chewing gum has been discovered by an archaeology student from the University of Derby. Sarah Pickin, 23, found the lump of birch bark tar while on a dig in western Finland. Neolithic...

North shore businesses struggle to find workers

"North shore businesses struggle to find workers Posted by By Cindy Chang, St. Tammany bureau May 12, 2007 9:45PM Categories: Breaking News In the post-Katrina scramble to recruit workers and reopen as soon as possible, Times Grill was among the many businesses in St. Tammany...

Election circus comes to town

"Movie stars, divided families, failed coup plotters and friends turning against each other make the May midterm elections in the Philippines seem more like a gaudy soap opera than an exercise in democracy."It would come as no surprise that in the Philippines, the citizen are...

Taking Actions/Treehugger

Some suggestions from the Treehugger online blog/e newsletter.USA focussed."Category: take action :: ::The Slate Green Challenge: Week 7 - Water December 8, 2006 9:30 AM - Brittany Jacobs, Seattle 061023_green_water.jpg Struggling with high energy bills? Your home water...

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