ONE of two mail bombs sent from Yemen last week was disarmed just 17 minutes before it was set to go off, the French Interior Minister has confirmed. “One of the packages was defused only 17 minutes before the moment that it was set to explode,” Brice Hortefeux said during an interview on France’s state-run France-2 television. Mr Hortefeux did not say where he got the information about the timing, although US and European intelligence officials have been exchanging information on the plot. The French Interior Ministry would not elaborate on Mr…
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Photo: Youtube You Can Use the Sun as a Source of Heat Stirling engines are a type of heat engine. They convert heat into mechanical work (you can find out more about how they work here ), which means that it is possible to use the sun as a source of heat to general clean power. The video below shows a working stirling engine build out of soda cans that spins up to almost a thousand RPM!… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Credit: Neil Chambers In the middle of Time Square on a cold November evening, XBOX launched its new controller-free gaming system Kinect. In NYC fashion, it was a gigantic party with lights, cameras, hundreds of dancers, performances by Ne-Yo and Lady Sovereign , and thousands of people in the crowd. But for the greenies in the audience,… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Well, finally! That’s right, you no longer have to be jealous of your friends who’ve all been group video calling using Skype 5.0 for Windows for months — Skype’s new Beta 5.0 for Mac finally brings the ability to video chat with up to ten of your Skype contacts to OS X client. Obviously, that’s the premiere feature of the new release, but the software has also been retooled to mesh more with the look and feel of the OS — there’s even a cover flow-like contact window — and a new pop-out call control bar that can be moved anywhere on the screen or be kept open while in another program. We just downloaded the beta and it’s certainly a lot better looking than the previous version, but we also noticed that it integrated our Mac address book right into the contacts pane and when we initiated a call it automatically muted the song we were listening to in iTunes. Naturally, we went searching for that Facebook integration that we just saw rolled out in the Windows version , but it’s nowhere to be found at the moment, and Skype tells us it’s focusing on video and UI tweaks for the Mac version. We could go on and on about the new software, but it’s available for download at the source link below, so run along and throw your own virtual cupcake party! Continue reading Skype 5.0 Beta for Mac finally available, includes group video calling Skype 5.0 Beta for Mac finally available, includes group video calling originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …CBS’s Smith: How Can Government ‘Unleash the Economy And Not Spend Any Money’?
November 4, 2010 No Comment
On Thursday's CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith saw Republican goals to limit government spending as antithetical to improving the economy: “How do you unleash the economy and not spend any money, oh, by the way, because that's the other mandate, is don't increase the deficit and don't – don't – 'I don't want one more cent of tax on me.'” Smith put the question to Time magazine Washington deputy bureau chief Michael Crowley, who was equally skeptical: “I think it may be impossible, frankly. What Democrats would like to do is they would say you actually have to spend more money, have the government put money into the economy to get it moving again.” He warned against conservative policies: “Republicans say we're spending too much, maybe cut taxes, but tax cuts aren't free, either, tax cuts increase the deficit. Maybe you could loosen regulations but you saw what happened on Wall Street when things were deregulated. It's really not as simple at this point as doing any of those things without taking a big risk that comes along with it.” read more
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Leaving his election setback behind, President Barack Obama is heading off on a four-country trip to Asia. AP White House Correspondent Mark Smith reports. (Nov. 4)
Continue reading …Did Cap & Trade Supporters Get "Slaughtered" in the Election "Bloodbath"?
November 4, 2010 No Comment
Image: Liberty Pundits At Least, According to Politico If you take Politico’s coverage at face value, then every congressman who supported energy reform suffered an agonizing, violent death — or at least were savagely beaten within an inch of their lives — on election day . In its typically breathless horse-race coverage, the right-leaning news outlet used every wartime cliche in the book to describe how … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Imagine KC from Arnold Imaging on Vimeo . Jonathan Hiskes at Grist describes The Future We Want, a multimedia exhibition, website and IMAX movie that projects a positive, uplifting view of a “clean energy economy that creates jobs, protects the environment and provides a secure and prosperous world for our children.” Hiskes focuses on a short video showing the impact of a light rail system being installed in Kansas City, shown a… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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NEW YORK (CBS) “Storm Chasers” fans were shocked to learn on Wednesday’s episode that meteorologists and storm chaser Matt Hughes had died. Follow this link: xpressnew.blogspot.com
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