Topic: FUN - on August 22, 2008 at 10:52:00 AM CEST
Winterfell Slip
Did Lola have too much testosterone for breakfast? Or did axel, the small furry animal, sneak in? No matter if “natural mink” or artificially bald, Lola’s hot shirt wins the first price and lets her rivals look green with envy.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 22, 2008 at 10:46:00 AM CEST
Seinfeld and Celebrity Computer Endorsements
Microsoft Corp., weary of being cast as a stodgy oldster by Apple Inc.'s advertising, is turning for help to Jerry Seinfeld.
The software giant's new $300 million advertising campaign, devised by a newly hired ad agency, has been closely guarded. But Mr. Seinfeld will be one of the key celebrity pitchmen, say people close to the situation. He will appear with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates in ads and receive about $10 million for the work, they say.
wsj.com Seinfeld and Celebrity Computer Endorsements [Updated]
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Topic: WEB - on August 22, 2008 at 10:44:00 AM CEST
Web browser to get 'privacy mode'
Microsoft is planning a "privacy mode" for the next release of its Internet Explorer (IE) web browser.
By clicking a button, users of IE8 will be able to limit how much information is recorded about where they go online and what they do.
LOL
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Topic: SCIENCE - on August 22, 2008 at 10:42:00 AM CEST
Solar Cells — Made In a Pizza Oven
The winner of several Eureka Science Awards in Australia is a crafty chick who devised a way to create solar cells cheaply using a pizza oven, nail polish and an inkjet printer. This was developed to address the high cost of cells and in particular for the world's poorest regions. She wanted to give the ~2 billion people around the world who don't have electricity the gift of light and cheap energy. This could have profound (and a good profound) implications for education and health in those in the poorest regions in the world. And it all started with her parents giving her a solar energy kit when she was 10...
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 22, 2008 at 10:38:00 AM CEST
Weed growing on window sills in Geneva
So it’s been about a week that I landed in my birth place of Geneva Switzerland. I realized something funny popping out of a lot of windows and balconies: WEED. A lot of it.
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