Jan 28 2009

Video: Holocaust Survivor Shares Her Story In Second Life

With some help from her daughter’s Second Life avatar, Holocaust survivor Fanny Starr met with a group of the virtual world’s citizens to share her personal experience of the horrors of genocide.

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Jan 28 2009

Hines Ward Says He Will Be Ready To Play In Super Bowl

Not playing in the Super Bowl? Ward can’t imagine it, and neither can any of his Pittsburgh Steelers teammates.

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Jan 28 2009

iPhoto’s Faces Recognizes Cats

A huge disappointment for pet owners, was word that iPhoto’s newest feature, Faces, wouldn’t recognize animals according to Apple employees on the show floor. We even did a few tests at Macworld Expo with images they had of the dog Luce. Well, we are happy to say that we were able to get iPhoto to recognize Robbie’s Cat, Lola.

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Jan 28 2009

"Don’t poop" sign?!

This is an actual sign put up by a pastor a few days ago in Edmonton, Canada. Rev. James Holland hoped the sign would draw attention to the problem of public defecation in Edmonton’s inner-city area.

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Jan 28 2009

Apple can now swing +6 mace of multitouch at enemies

Apple has been grated a patent on the iPhone and its collection of touch-interface technologies. The patent could serve as an important weapon for Apple if it decides to go after unnamed competitors that are “ripping off” its IP.

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Jan 28 2009

Court rules cheerleading is contact sport

High school cheerleading is a contact sport and therefore its participants cannot be sued for accidentally causing injuries, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a case being closely watched in the cheerleading world.

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Jan 28 2009

Need Salt? Mini-"Pyramids" from World’s Largest Salt Plain

Salt dug & mounded from salt plain in Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, 1 of the flattest places on Earth.

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Jan 28 2009

What the Web knows about you

How much private information is available about you in cyberspace? Social Security numbers are just the beginning. She had me at hello … or just about. Our conversation had barely started when privacy activist Betty Ostergren interrupted me to say that she had found my full name, address, Social Security number and a digital image of my signature

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Jan 28 2009

Gmail grows up with offline e-mail access

Significantly increasing the utility and competitiveness of its Web-based e-mail service, Google is enabling an experimental ability to read, write, and search Gmail messages even while not connected to the network.

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Jan 28 2009

What Do Men Blow the Most Money On?

Humans have carried some of their ancient, gendered instincts with them when it comes to shopping, at least according to one U Penn study, “Men Buy, Women Shop.” Women tend to browse around, “gathering” up the best from various sources and enjoying the experience, while men tend to buy, going straight in for the “kill.”

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