Getting into the spirit of things a little too much, Christopher begins to reference himself in the third person

Afghan Women Protest Anti-Islam Film

Wed Apr 2, 2008 9:26 AM EDT

About 70 Afghan women burned the Dutch and Danish flags during a demonstration Wednesday in the capital against an anti-Islam film and the reprinting of a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad.

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world-news, film, afghan, quran, prophet-muhammad

Afghan Power Plant Explosion Kills 2

Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:09 AM EDT

A policeman says a bomb has exploded near a power plant in southern Afghanistan, killing two employees.

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world-news, afghanistan

The Generational Divide in Copyright Morality

Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 6:29 PM EST (The New York Times)

The TV, movie and record companies' problems have only just begun. Right now, the customers who can't even see why file sharing might be wrong are still young.

technology, nytimes, personaltech

What's in store for us in 2007? Or, my resolution

Mon Jan 1, 2007 3:09 AM EST

As the cordite from the amazing fireworks drifts out over the Thames in London (the fireworks reportedly costing over $1m, according to CNN), the ball drops in Times Square and people stagger to their beds after a night's heavy drinking and celebrating, the rolling news channels …

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politics, us, iraq, world, uk, war-on-terror, poverty, aids, crisis, darfur

Man, 58, must prove Britishness

Seeded on Sun Nov 26, 2006 6:14 AM EST (BBC News)

Although Len Sutera has lived in the UK for 57 years, as he was born in the US after his mother married a US soldier following World War II he is technically a foreigner by the new rules laid out by the Home Office earlier this year.

politics, odd-news, citizenship, home-office, britishness, political-correctness-gone-mad, len-suteras

Map Ransom: $1600 or the USGS maps get it

Seeded on Tue Aug 29, 2006 11:01 PM EDT (Good Morning Silicon Valley blog)

One day, a man named Jared wanted to find all of the (public domain) USGS high-quality maps of the US, partly so he could use them, but partly because he wanted to.

technology, maps, map, ransom, usgs, internet-archive, jared, libre-map-project, redjar-org

Blow to BBC as violence results in a pulled plug for World Cup Big Screens

Seeded on Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:25 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

It's a damn shame that this had to happen - why is it always beered-up Sun and Mirror-reading idiots (the two most notorious tabloids here in the UK for all Americans) who end up kicking off and instigating this kind of trouble? I'm in Birmingham myself, where you have to pay …

sports, germany, violence, london, world-cup, bbc, liverpool, fans, manchester, world-cup-2006

British WC2006 Fantasy Football players unite!

Mon Jun 5, 2006 9:09 PM EDT

Having just assembled my pick of the teams involved in this year's World Cup (which is, apparently, ™ FIFA... nice to know that capitalism hasn't found its way into global sport then), I nipped off and made a group for all the British Viners.

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sports, britain, england, fun, world-cup, british, fantasy-football

On this day in 1994: Mandela becomes SA's first black president

Seeded on Wed May 10, 2006 11:10 AM EDT (BBC News)

On this day (March the 10th) in 1994, Nelson Mandela became South Africa's first black president after more than three centuries of white rule.

world-news, south-africa, nelson-mandela, anc, first-black-president

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Baby girl for Cruise and Holmes

Seeded on Wed Apr 19, 2006 9:04 AM EDT (barneystephens.com)

Let's see how many people get this. ;)

odd-news, los-angeles, comedy, daughter, humour, tom-cruise, parody, katie-holmes, entertainment-news, couch-jumper

The microphone shrinks to a single chip

Seeded on Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:29 PM EST (CNET)

The Carnegie Mellon spinoff chipmaker Akustica has managed to bypass the problems of analogue-to-digital conversion associated with traditional condenser microphones... By shrinking the design of the microphone right down onto one chip - including the diaphragm!

technology, carnegie-mellon, microphones, miniaturisation

Gamecaster, finally a revolution in game broadcasts?

Seeded on Sat Feb 4, 2006 12:11 PM EST (CBS News)

A system which lets you create a professionally-produced, professionally-presented tournament, either in realtime via the web or to a live audience in the same room, this promises to provide spectators with a whole new level of immersion for large lan tournaments, especially at ev

technology, san-diego, professional, broadcasting, cbs-news, online-gaming, video-gaming, webcasting, lan-gaming, gamecast

Infographics - Newsvine and Google Maps working in beautiful synchronicity

Seeded on Thu Feb 2, 2006 5:04 PM EST (Google)

This looks like another quality mashup - one of the things which you think, "Hey... Why didn't I think of that?"

technology, newsvine, web-2-0, mashup, duplicate

Newsvine quietly improves; audience quietly pleased

Wed Feb 1, 2006 1:16 PM EST

Interest builds in the mysterious green web site promising users the chance to 'get smarter here'

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technology, newsvine, not-news, suggestions, future-proofing, personal-thoughts

Toshiba turns 90° to boost 0.85in HDDs to 10GB

Seeded on Sun Jan 8, 2006 7:22 AM EST (The Register (UK))

Perpendicular recording is the way forward, it seems...

technology, japan, las-vegas, toshiba, ces, hard-drive, new-technology, hdd, emerging-technology, 4gb

Toddler, 4, denied air travel after being named on Terror Watch List

Seeded on Fri Jan 6, 2006 10:25 PM EST (ABC Local Affiliates)

This is just plain bizarre. Perhaps it gives us a small insight into the somewhat random workings of the Dept. for Homeland Security... Even more oddly, the child's mother wasn't on the list - just the kid.

odd-news, odd, texas, bizarre, houston, tsa, no-fly-list, terror-watch-list, department-for-homeland-security

Handheld PC runs two OSes on two CPUs, launches March

Seeded on Fri Jan 6, 2006 9:58 PM EST (The Register)

Fresh from CES: DualCor's cPC is a Windows Mobile 5-based device running on a 400MHz Intel PXA263 (the same breed of processor my XDA runs on!) - but what makes it unique is that you can flick from Windows Mobile to XP instantaneously at the touch of a button.

technology, las-vegas, xp, ces, windows-mobile, mobile-computing, product-launch, cpc, emerging-technology, dualcor

Windows Updates users still waiting for WMF exploit fix

Seeded on Fri Jan 6, 2006 8:48 PM EST (The Register (UK))

Aside from the two unofficial patches, including one released by the company itself today, Microsoft is waiting until January the 10th to officially roll out the WMF exploit fix as part of their scheduled Security Update.

technology, microsoft, security, windows, xp, vulnerabilities, exploits, bug-fixes, wmf-exploit

A newcomer to Newsvine takes an objective look at how it works

Seeded on Fri Jan 6, 2006 4:03 AM EST (Christopher Woods (myself!))

... For all those who are curious, and are reading this article as a guest, without a Newsvine membership (membership is by invitation only at the moment as the site rolls out as a Private Beta), I've written a full review of the rather curious social news site, Newsvine.com.

technology, newsvine, review, web-2-0, seattle, startup, newsvine-beta, emerging-technology, webtrends

This should be fun!

Fri Jan 6, 2006 12:26 AM EST

Greatly looking forward to sticking with this site as it grows and flourishes into one of the web's premier community-based collaborative news sources.

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world-news, newsvine, webtrends

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