First rain in mumbai picture

"First rain On the last day of the May we had quite a decent rain accompanied by strong winds and lightning. It was quite nice to feel the breeze after a very long spell of extreme heat. Although I enjoyed the...

Energy-efficient affordable housing

June 2, 2007 -- What's being heralded by experts as "the first of its kind in the state, and possibly the nation" is Solara: "a green-built, government-financed, affordable-housing complex that's virtually climate...

The Sims Coming to the Big Screen

No, not The Simpsons. The Sims. When I think "video game-based movie", I think Resident Evil, or maybe even Doom. Or the still-in-preproduction Splinter Cell. I do not think of The Sims, in which the player...

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Halo 3 Enters Public Beta... Master Chief Reporting for Duty

Halo, the flagship title for Microsoft's Xbox gaming platform, is back. The third title in the series is entering public beta as gamers check to see if the Master Chief is ready for prime time. UPDATE: our own...

Rapspace in XXL

I'm sitting here with Mike Tippett and he is showing me Highlight..."With social networks like MySpace and Friendster running at full capacity, it's no surprise that Web sites have started turning separate forming separate cliques. Lately the Internet has seen the spin-off of...

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...

Working Up a Black Search: Google's Energy-Friendly Homepage

UPDATE: This is looking pretty hoaxey... hence the "fishy" flag...This is one for the never-would-have-thought-of-this department, but here it is: since activating the pixels in a computer's display uses...

Chicago Spire Will Be Nations's Tallest Building (Can You Spare $2.4 Billion?)

Chicago officials have given the green light for the construction of the Chicago Spire, which will be the United States' tallest building. The next step will be funding, as the proposed budget for the project...

Ulster Volunteer Force to Lay Down Arms?

The Ulster Volunteer Force, an anti-Catholic terror group in Ireland, has annuonced that it is laying down its arms and renouncing violence. Nice to know that the War on Terror is making headway...

Military order "Fire!" 1970 Kent State audio tape released

April 30, 1970 President Nixon announced to the American public "We take these actions not for the purpose of expanding the war into Cambodia, but for the purpose of ending the war in Vietnam, and winning the just...

Scientists Create Google Supermap to Track Avian Flu Virus

"COLUMBUS, Ohio – Scientists here have designed a new, interactive map of the spread of the avian flu virus (H5N1) that for the first time incorporates genetic, geographic and evolutionary information that may...

NowPublic - Highlight 0.12.12.20 Homepage

"NowPublic - Highlight 0.12.12.20 Homepage by NowPublic Development Team Highlight anything on the web you think is newsworthy and connect to eye witnesses at the scene of the story. NowPublic Highlight lets you grab anything on the web you think is news. One click connects...

Cannes lineup announced

I just saw Grindhouse, and although I enjoyed it, I can't imagine Tarantino's half as a nearly two hour standalone piece. That's a lot of ladies talking in cars... "Other highlights in competition include Joel and...

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