One of the greatest treats a human can know is to visit Google’s home page only to discover that the company has decided to celebrate some obscure birthday, anniversary, or special event by dressing up its logo in a creative way. Google takes these so-called doodles very, very seriously — so seriously, in fact, that it has taken the time to let us know that those doodles will now be available on your phone. No longer will you need to see a Google logo fashioned from meat, vegetables, and pie on your desktop, only to suffer through the normal array of colored letters when you go mobile. You’re welcome, America. Google doodles go mobile at long last originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Dec 2010 08:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Eminem leads Grammy nominations with ten; Snipes ordered to prison for tax evasion; Prayer vigil held for ailing Aretha Franklin. (Dec. 2)
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) – Armed men attacked a presidential candidate’s office in Ivory Coast overnight, provoking fear and uncertainty on Thursday, the day after the electoral commission missed a deadline to issue results from a tight presidential runoff. Unidentified men armed with automatic weapons attacked an office of presidential challenger Alassane Ouattara overnight despite a curfew, killing four people and wounding 14 others in the Abidjan district of Yopougon, said local party security chief Coulibaly Diomande. Ouattara’s party accuses incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo – whose mandate expired five years ago – of trying…
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NBC’s Williams Hits Bowles and Simpson from the Left, Deficit Cutting an ‘Assault’ on Middle Class and Poor
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NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams on Wednesday evening hit presidential deficit commission co-chairs Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles from the left, the New York Times left. Without ever raising conservative criticism of proposals to raise taxes, Williams charged: It seems to me there's two arguments. There's what you're trying to accomplish and then there's how you're trying to accomplish, and there are, as you know, critics of what you're trying to do.
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Plan for 625 new homes in Pisgat Ze’ev near east Jerusalem shows Jewish state ‘not willing and not ready for any deal in order to resume the negotiations,’ Palestinian President Abbas’ spokesman says
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When’s the last time you said “Crank up the netbook , I love this song!” Yeah, probably never, but if you had a Toshiba mini NB520 you might — or at least that’s what Toshiba would like to envision you would do. It packs stereo Harman Kardon speakers that can crack the foundation and wake the dead with an amazing two watts each , apparently the smallest tweeters H/K has ever put on a laptop. That’s paired with an Atom N550 processor, 2GB of DDR3 memory, a 250GB HDD, 10 hours of battery life, and a 10.1-inch 1024 x 600 LED-backlit display. If that’s too loud or you’re too old, there’s also the “no frills” NB500, offering the same specs but minus the petite sound system and stepping down to an Atom N455, though doing so at a lower price. What price? That we don’t know, but we’ll find out when both ship in the first quarter of 2011, which starts in a month. Yikes. Gallery: Toshiba NB500 and NB520 Continue reading Toshiba launches NB520 and NB500 netbooks, one with Harman Kardon sound, one without Toshiba launches NB520 and NB500 netbooks, one with Harman Kardon sound, one without originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Dec 2010 08:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Blaze breaks out in Carmel, forcing authorities to evacuate Damon Prison, Beit Oren near Haifa
Continue reading …White Ibises Become Homosexual Because Of Mercury – Scientists in Florida and Sri Lanka studied the effect of mercury in the birds’ diet. Their goal is to find out why it reduced the ibises’ breeding.Mercury affects the behavior of white ibises by turning them into homosexual. It is because of the higher doses resulting in White Ibises Become Homosexual Because Of Mercury is a post from: Daily World Buzz
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This is not a joke, in fact it’s quite official. Research In Motion has just confirmed the acquisition of Swedish UI design company TAT, which will soon be “bringing their talent to the BlackBerry PlayBook and smartphone platforms.” You’ll be familiar with TAT as the team behind the original Android interface on the T-Mobile G1 as well as from more recent UI design projects — the important thing is that these guys have shown they know what they’re doing. [Thanks, Rasmus] RIM buys TAT, BlackBerry UI in danger of becoming awesome originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Dec 2010 07:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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