Capcom has finally offered a date for the Resident Evil 5 demo, though PlayStation 3 owners may be a bit miffed to learn that it’s scheduled for an “exclusive premiere” on the Xbox 360.
The House of Representatives have launched their own official channel on YouTube called HouseHub. Nancy Pelosi has uploaded the first video to the channel, giving a behind the scenes view of the Speaker’s Office on the Capitol Cat Cam. They’re so cute!
Coke stages a grand opening for the world’s largest bottle-to-bottle recycling plant in South Carolina this week. The plant will have the capacity, when fully operational, to produce 100 million pounds of recycled PET plastic chips—enough to produce 2 billion 20-ounce bottles of Coke or Dasani or whatever.
Israeli troops have fired on Gaza residents trying to escape the conflict area
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Fire service given 'poor' rating
BBC News – 12 Jan 2009 Cornwall's fire service and the body that oversees it have been labelled as "poor" by a government watchdog. A report by the Audit Commission said the brigade and its fire authority were underperforming, and lowered their rating from fair, … Fire fighters praised for improvements Grantham Today Cornish fire bosses 'poor' Western Morning News Northampton Chronicle & Echo – This Is The Westcountry – Lincolnshire Echo – Peterborough Today all 8 news articles |
Marcus Schrenker, the financial manager who officials say faked his own death in a plane crash after scamming his customers, has been found after an apparent suicide attempt, Florida
Windows Vista isn’t a bad OS – now. But it’s had its problems. Third parties didn’t make drivers fast enough, bugs affected obscure features such as, er, copying and deleting files, and Vista Capable PCs were nothing of the sort.
jbrodkin writes “Wikipedia is gearing up for an explosion in digital content with new servers and storage designed to handle larger photo and video uploads. Until early 2008, the user-generated encyclopedia’s primary media file server had just 2TB of total space, which was not enough to hold growing amounts of video, audio and picture files, says CTO Brian Vibber. ‘For a long time, we just did not have the capacity [to handle very large media files],’ he says. Wikipedia has raised media storage from 2TB to 48TB and the limit on file uploads from 20MB to 100MB. Ultimately, Wikipedia wants to eliminate any practical size limits on uploads, potentially allowing users to post feature length, high-quality videos. ‘The limits will get bigger and bigger to where it will be relatively easy for someone who has a legitimate need to upload a two-hour video of good quality,’ Vibber says.”
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Research Ties Human Acts to Harmful Rates of Species Evolution
New York Times – 12 Jan 2009 Atlantic cod and Bighorn sheep are generally harvested by humans as mature adults, whereas predators would target the smaller or weaker. Natural selection gives way to human selection Globe and Mail Human consumption speeding up evolutionary change: study CBC.ca Telegraph.co.uk – Calgary Herald – FOXNews – National Post all 42 news articles |
If you’re going to go through the trouble of creating and paying for a Facebook ad that capitalizes on BSG’s popularity, can’t you at least SPELL the show’s name right? Spell check is your friend. Creepy cartoon characters are not.
