Archive for December, 2007

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Singer Dan Fogelberg dies

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

Dan Fogelberg, 56, the singer and songwriter whose hits “Leader of the Band” and “Same Old Lang Syne” helped define the soft-rock era, died Sunday at his home in Maine after battling prostate cancer.
Tags: Dan+Fogelberg, Entertainment, Small+News

UK troops handover Basra to Iraqis

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

British forces transfer control of Basra province to the Iraqi authorities, four-and-a-half years after the invasion.

Encouraging people to contribute knowledge

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

The web contains an enormous amount of information, and Google has helped to make that information more easily accessible by providing pretty good search facilities. But not everything is written nor is everything well organized to make it easily discoverable. There are millions of people who possess useful knowledge that they would love to share, [...]

Pakistan lifts emergency rule

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

President Pervez Musharraf lifted the six-week old state of emergency and restored the Constitution on Saturday, after passing a flurry of constitutional amendments and decrees to ensure that his recent actions would not be challenged by any court.

Drama as inquest sees Diana letters

Friday, December 14th, 2007

“Diana was deeply and blissfully in love with Dodi”. This could have been a headline in a gossip magazine. In fact it was uttered in a court of law.
BBC NEWS | UK | Drama as inquest sees Diana letters.

Liza Minnelli collapsed

Friday, December 14th, 2007

US showbiz diva Liza Minnelli 61-year-old collapsed during a performance in Sweden and was rushed back to the United States on Thursday for medical treatment, her spokeswoman said.

New legal challenge issued on Explorer, Windows

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

Regulators were asked Thursday to investigate the possibility of anti-competitive conduct in Microsoft Corp.’s bundling of the Internet Explorer Web browser with its dominant Windows operating system.
No, this isn’t a flashback to the 1990s. It might sound like the landmark U.S. case over Microsoft’s tactics against Netscape, but Norwegian browser maker Opera Software is now [...]

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

The life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one of us, and, more or less, of those who are connected with us, do depend upon our knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess. It is a game which has been played for untold ages, every man [...]

Friday, December 7th, 2007

The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is. ~ Marcel Proust

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. ~ Dag Hammarskjöld

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the single stroke of the pickaxe, or of one [...]

German iPhones Locked Again

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

A Hamburg court decided Tuesday that T-Mobile, a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG could lock its iPhone customers into an exclusive, two-year contract in Germany.
Tags: German+iPhones+Locked+Again, iPhones, Apple, small+News, Technology

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story — a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the [...]

Microsoft Removes Windows Vista ‘Kill Switch’

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Microsoft is to withdraw an anti-piracy tool so-called “kill switch” from Windows Vista, which disables the operating system when invoked, following customer complaints.
Tags: Microsoft, Vista, Technology, Small+News

Chimps Beat Humans on Memory Tasks

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Chimpanzee memory has been extensively studied [1, 2]. The general assumption is that, as with many other cognitive functions, it is inferior to that of humans [3]; some data, however, suggest that, in some circumstances, chimpanzee memory may indeed be superior to human memory [4]. Here we report that young chimpanzees have an extraordinary working [...]

Woman with Alzheimer’s shot dead in hospital by husband

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

A 77-year-old man Vitangelo Bini was in custody yesterday after walking into a hospital and shooting dead his 82-year-old wife, who had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease for 12 years.
Tags: Vitangelo+Bini, Small+News, News, Italia, Alzheimer

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