Navajo Roll Dice, Open Casino (NPR) (Wednesday 19th of November 2008 11:43:01 AM)
The Navajo Nation opens its first casino Wednesday in Arizona. It's the first of six casinos
the tribe is contraception in Arizona and New Mexico. There are in reference to among the
Navajo that they waited too long to get into the casino business.
...
(more)Airway Transplant Aided by Stem Cells a Medical First (Wednesday 19th of November 2008 05:02:58 PM)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Nov. 18 (HealthDay News) -- In a medical first, a
30-year-old mother of
two has successfully undergone the first
transplantation of a breather room passage fashioned
from a donor's airway and
her own stem cells, researchers report.
...
(more)The ISS Marks 10 Years In Space (Wednesday 19th of November 2008 07:30:01 AM)
Matt_dk writes to point out the upcoming tenth fete of the International Space Station in two
days' time. "On 20 november 11 11 1998, a Russian Proton rocket lifted off from the Baikonur
Cosmodrome for a eloquent mission: It was carrying the first module ...
(more)A Replica of the First 4004 Calculator (Monday 17th of November 2008 03:00:01 AM)
Mcpublic writes "For the 37th festival of Intel's 4004, the world's first off-the-shelf,
customer-programmable microprocessor, vintage microcomputer fan Bill Kotaska has successfully
built a replica of Busicom's third edition by the editors of the american ...
(more)Hubble's Exoplanet Pics Outshined by Keck's (Thursday 13th of November 2008 11:15:01 PM)
Dtolman writes "Scientists at the Keck and Gemini telescopes stole the thunder of Hubble
scientists posting the first picture of an extrasolar world orbiting a star. Hubble scientists
announced today that they were able to lay open an extrasolar world ...
(more)Largest Aussie ISP Agrees To "Ridiculous" Net-Filter Trial (Tuesday 11th of November 2008 09:45:01 PM)
Klootzak writes "Michael Malone, head of Australia's largest ISP iiNet announced today that his
company would sign up to the Government's live trials of the Great Firewall of Australia. In an
article published by The Age, Mr Malone is quoted calling Stephen ...
(more)How To Cloak Objects At a Distance (Thursday 06th of November 2008 07:30:01 PM)
KentuckyFC writes "All invisibility cloaks to date work by hiding an object embedded inside
them. Now a group of physicists have worked out how to remotely cloak objects that sit outside
a cloaking material. The trick is to make the cloaking substance ...
(more)1/3 of Amphibians Dying Out (Monday 03rd of November 2008 02:00:01 PM)
Death Metal sends in a Scientific old glory article reporting that 2,000 of 6,000 amphibian
species are endangered worldwide. A unification of ecology assaults, including global warming,
seems to be responsible. "... subject parks and other areas protected ...
(more)Optical Fiber With a Silicon Core (Thursday 30th of October 2008 09:00:02 AM)
Roland Piquepaille writes "According to the Optical Society of America, U.S. researchers have
been able to create a practical optical fiber with a silicon core. As they were able to use the
same llc.view results from: glossary | definiendum | encyclopedia ...
(more)The Personal Genome Project Hits the Web (Wednesday 29th of October 2008 08:45:01 AM)
Ian Lamont writes "The discrete Genome Project has released the data sets and descriptions of
traits, ethnic background and other data of the first ten volunteers, which include the project
head and nine other people with backgrounds in genetics, medicine, ...
(more)The Personal Genome Project Hits the Web (Wednesday 29th of October 2008 08:45:01 AM)
Ian Lamont writes "The know Genome Project has released the data sets and descriptions of
traits, ethnic background and other ammo* of the first ten volunteers, which include the
project overseer and nine other people with backgrounds in genetics, medicine, ...
(more)George had responded to a call from his lawyer, ... (Monday 27th of October 2008 07:10:02 AM)
George had responded to a call from his lawyer, insisting that they meet at once. He arrived at
his lawyer's firm, and was ushered into his office."Do you want the bad news first or the
terrible news?" the lawyer asked."Well, if those are my choices, ...
(more)Disney's "High School Musical" rocks box office (Saturday 25th of October 2008 09:58:49 PM)
"High School Musical 3: Senior Year," the first big-screen adjustment of Walt Disney Co's
popular TV movie franchise, graduated top of the class during its first weekend in North stars
and bars theaters, by the numbers to rule to rule to for example.
prefatory ...
(more)US's First Internet Votes To Be Cast This Friday (Thursday 23rd of October 2008 05:45:02 AM)
Longacre writes "If you thought online voting in America was a distant pipe dream (nightmare?),
think again: the nation's first Internet-based voting system goes online this Friday, just days
after the release of the Damning Report On Sequoia E-Voting ...
(more)Head-First Slide a Heads-Up Play (Tuesday 21st of October 2008 05:03:25 PM)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Oct. 21 (HealthDay News) -- As base runners weigh
whether to slide head
first or feet first during Wednesday's first game of
the World Series, they might want to talk
to a physicist instead of a
coach.
...
(more)Oil-Immersion Cooled PCs Goes To Retail (Tuesday 21st of October 2008 05:15:01 AM)
Notthatwillsmith writes "Everyone's seen mods where someone super-cools a PC by submersing it
in a non-conductive oil. It's a neat idea, but most components aren't designed to combat a hot
oil bath; after llc.cite this source roget's ii: the new thesaurus ...
(more)Internet Co-inventor Vint Cerf Endorses Obama (Wednesday 15th of October 2008 07:45:01 PM)
SEAActionFund writes "Vint Cerf, Google's Chief but intranet should be lowercase; w3 was coined
from inter(national) + (arpa)net and first popped up in 1974 as a descendant of arpanet
Evangelist who also happens to be credited with co-founding the Internet, ...
(more)West African first ladies to join fight against female circumcision (AFP) (Sunday 12th of October 2008 08:54:40 PM)
First ladies from seven west African underdeveloped nations
notes:first world is industrialized
(capitalist) nations gather here Monday for a powwow* on ways to end female circumcision, a
rife
copyrights:cite this source roget's ii: the new llc.view ...
(more)A young man was hired by a supermarket and reported for his first day of work. ... (Thursday 09th of October 2008 08:10:02 PM)
A young man was hired by a boutique and reported for his first day of work. The manager greeted
him with a warm handshake and a smile, then gave him a broom and said,"Son, your first job will
be to sweep out the store.""But I'm ...
(more)Google's GeoEye-1 Takes Its First Pictures (Friday 10th of October 2008 02:30:01 PM)
Kev92486 writes "I was cat computed axial tomography through my RSS feeds today and happened
upon an article about Google's GeoEye-1 imaging partisan which launched on Sept 6. Intrigued as
to what the quality of the image was like, I decided to check ...
(more)Google Lively To Be an Online Gaming Platform (Wednesday 01st of October 2008 04:15:30 AM)
GamesIndustry.biz new interviewed Kevin Hanna, innovatory boss for Google Lively, about the
virtual environment's beginnings and the plans for its future. Earlier this month, he announced
that Lively would open to developers, and now he says the long-term ...
(more)Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Tuesday 30th of September 2008 03:15:02 AM)
Merlin42 writes "I just now took a Test-Driven-Development (TDD) coaching course and the
teacher food pyramid that I read "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" by Michael Feathers.
First things first, a note about the title. Feathers defines "Legacy ...
(more)The Stigma of a Tech Support Background (Tuesday 30th of September 2008 03:15:02 AM)
An unsigned reader writes "Since the last semester of college I've been working as a first line
tech support agent. At first it was just a way to earn some extra money; then it became a way
to scrape by until I could find myself ...
(more)A young married couple has difficulties conceiving a baby, ... (Tuesday 16th of September 2008 12:10:02 PM)
A young married couple has difficulties conceiving a baby, so after a while the wife consults
her doctor, who recommends the minor of three thinkable
idioms:humanly possible operations.The
operation is performed, but a couple of months later, she's still ...
(more)oh the difference time... and an ocean... can make (Wednesday 10th of September 2008 03:37:00 AM)
Turns out Valencia, though glorious and tempting, is not where I will reside come September 18.
No, I will remain, for the time being, living with, mooching off of and annoying my parents
and Tucker. Until January.
I must, first and foremost, ...
(more)The Sun Has First Spotless Month Since 1913 (Tuesday 02nd of September 2008 09:15:01 PM)
Radioweather writes "August 2008 has made solar history. As of 00 UTC September 1st 2008 (5PM
PST) we just witnessed the first spotless calendar month since June 1913.This was decisive
irrefutable to sunspot data from NOAA's subject Geophysical Data Center, ...
(more)First Oort Cloud Object May Have Been Discovered (Wednesday 27th of August 2008 03:30:02 PM)
SpuriousLogic alerts us to the strike of what may be the first object ever discovered from the
inner edge of the Oort cloud. 2006 SQ372 was found on images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
Its discoverers theorize that this comet-like object and the ...
(more)Full Facial Transplant Is One Step Closer (Sunday 24th of August 2008 11:00:01 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "A Chinese medical team led by Shuzhong Guo of the Fourth soldierly Medical
health center in Xi'an has successfully completed the first transplant to include facial bone
in a transplant on a man whose face was slashed by a bear. The ...
(more)The Year of the Political Blogger (Sunday 24th of August 2008 11:00:01 AM)
The New York Times is running a story about how pressure group blogging has arrived as a
widely-accepted form of reporting during this preference year. In rider to the nationwide TV
and radio audiences, the nominees are making efforts to get their message ...
(more)Burning Q's: How Do Stars Get Instant Fashion Mojo? (Wednesday 13th of August 2008 11:53:35 AM)
E! Online - Jennifer Hudson literally went from zero to hero thanks to her role in Dreamgirls.
She also went from fashion nobody to fashionista in about 10 seconds. When stars are newly
famous, who hooks them up with publicists, stylists, makeup and hair ...
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