These are recent postings from selected news feeds
 UK boat crew held by Iranian navy Five Britons who were sailing from Bahrain to Dubai have been detained by the Iranian navy, the Foreign Office says.
| |
 Greece acknowledges debt concerns Greece's new government is working to correct a "lack of credibility" amid concerns about the country's debt.
| |
 Blair 'pressed UN case to Bush' Tony Blair told President Bush the UK could only back action against Iraq if the issue went to the UN first, the Iraq inquiry is told.
| |
| Dance Review | 'The Nutcracker': Visions of Sugar Plums The construction of Balanchine’s “Nutcracker” and its dramatic particulars are so masterly that you can watch it dozens of times and still see new details.
| |
| Scientists Grow Pork Meat in a Lab, Annoying PETA People To Disappear Soon [Food] Scientists in the Netherlands have successfully synthesized some real-deal pork meat without having to kill any pigs. Sure, it's not quite edible yet, but they predict you'll be eating labmeat in a mere five years. What they made this time is what they're calling "soggy pork," which is fake pig musc...
| |
| The iPhone Is an Affront to Language [IPhone] I dislike capital letters. I dislike exceptional capital letters even more. The iPhone, and indeed most Apple products, suffer from "camel case," as the NYT's On Language calls it. "Steep is the descent into orthographic antinomianism." He's right. There's a historical reason in tech for products wi...
| |
| Dolphin Browser Gives Droid the Multitouch It Should've Had From the Start [Android Apps] As far as phones go, the Droid is an olympian. A supermodel. A movie star. But without multitouch, it's a movie star with rickets, and awkward inflection. That is: mildly disappointing! That's where the Dolphin browser comes in. At first glance the browser is a bit of a mess: its Android Market list...
| |
| You Can Buy RocketFish's $600 1080p Wireless Kit Now, But You Shouldn't [Wireless HD] Belkin's Flywire 1080p HD streamer was canceled, so if you want a device to stream 1080p from one side of the room to another side of the room (up to 33 feet away), Rocketfish has one today. But, no. Here are a few reasons why you shouldn't spend $600 on this now. One, it's too early a technology to...
| |
| Spectacular Wave Door Is Deceptively Complex [Architecture] If you're going to have a door as elaborate and beautiful as this, you'd better have a damned impressive house for it to open into. Otherwise, it's all disappointment once you cross the threshold. This door, created by Matharoo Associates for a diamond merchant in India, is flat-out crazy. It's 17 f...
| |
| How to Mix Oil and Water Oil and water don't mix, unless you violently shake them, in which case they form into a blob known to researchers as "the mayonnaise droplet."
| |
| British Motorcycle Racing Goes Electric The TTXGP electric motorcycle grand prix launches a championship series in the U.K.
| |
| Demjanjuk lawyer denounces Nazi deaths trial A lawyer for John Demjanjuk, on trial in Germany for mass murder at a Nazi death camp, accuses prosecutors of double standards.
| |
 Thanksgiving spending hits $41bn US shoppers shrug off economic worries and spend $41.2bn (£25bn) over the Thanksgiving weekend.
| |
 Bono: U2 'humbled' to play Glasto Bono says U2 are "delighted and humbled" to be headlining at next year's Glastonbury Festival over its 40th anniversary weekend.
| |
| Open Source as a Model for Business Is Elusive European Commission reaction to Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems has stoked a tricky debate: Can open-source software live up to its populist traditions?
| |
| Opere Sonore Speakers Look Like a $263,000 Ode To Spawn [Speakers] Put a small speaker on a crazy looking modern sculpture and bam! That will be $263,000 please. I'm not sure whether or not the sound quality of the Opere Sonore speakers justify such a price tag, but it does bring back priceless memories of reading comic books in the early '90s for some reason. [W3s...
| |
| The Best Cyber Monday HDTV Deals [Cyber Monday] Before you confirm that Cyber Monday HDTV purchase, make sure to check out HD Guru's list of the best deals going. According to the list, if you are looking for a 1080p HDTV over 40-inches, you definitely have some options: like a 42-inch Panasonic VIERA plasma for $712 (with coupon code and price ...
| |
| A Stoplight for the Progress Bar Generation [Image Cache] Progress bars aren't always accurate, but at least they're there, giving us hope, curing our angst, and mostly, diverting our attention from the fact that whatever it is, it isn't done. And soon, they will invade the meatspace. We already crane our necks to see the perpendicular streets' lights cycl...
| |
| Concept design for gun-shaped camera This design for a gun-shaped camera is unlikely to be mass-produced. It looks easy enough to make one with a 3D printer, though....
| |
| Report: US to order 30 - 35,000 more troops to Afghanistan President Obama is expected to order 30-35,000 more troops into Afghanistan, to "finish the job," over the next twelve to eighteen months. If the plan is implemented, US troop levels in that country will have tripled under his presidency....
|