Thai and Cambodian troops have clashed for a fourth straight day – with hours of shelling and machine gun fire. The soldiers are battling along a disputed border area surrounding a 900-year-old mountaintop temple. The fighting has shocked residents in what are normally quiet rural villages, as Wayne Hay reports.
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New Pornographers Music Video of the Day: “Moves” Off Together . Tom Scharpling directs Jon Wurster, Julie Klausner, Kevin Corrigan, Wyatt Cenac, Horatio Sanz, Ted Leo, John Hodgman, and a whole mess of other awesome people in a New Pornographers biopic that will never, ever be real no matter how much it needs to be. Bonus: Check out the website for Expectant Dads . [ vevo .] Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Daily What Discovery Date : 07/02/2011 16:30 Number of articles : 6
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Photo: courtesy Parsons The New School for Design Tomorrow, Parsons The New School for Design will unveil its most recent exhibition: Zero Waste Denim, in collaboration with Loomstate . On view through February 23, 2011 at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, the multimedia exhibition gives visitors a behind the scenes look at zero wast fashion and sustainable design–click through for a sneak peak!… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Energy Companies Insist Arkansas Earthquakes Have Nothing To Do With Fracking
February 7, 2011 No CommentEnergy company representatives are, of course, skeptical of any relation between their hydraulic fracking and the recent swarms of earthquakes in Arkansas. They call the reports “anecdotal” — hey, what could go wrong, right? GUY, Ark. — Everybody around here is getting used to the earthquakes, and that does not sit well with Dirk DeTurck. Dirk DeTurck pointed to drilling equipment from his home. “I think people are getting comfortable” with earthquakes, he said. He sent out 600 fliers and made, well, had to be around 100 phone calls, trying to attract people to his meeting on earthquake preparedness. And yet on a recent Tuesday night, he stood in the local school cafeteria and looked out at only a dozen or so people, including two women from the local extension homemakers club who had scheduled their own meeting on the topic a couple of weeks later. “I think people are getting comfortable,” said Mr. DeTurck, a former Navy mechanic. “I mean, they have in California. They’ve become real comfortable with the shaking.” Whether they have become comfortable is debatable, but the people of Guy, a town of 563 about an hour north of Little Rock, have had to learn to live with earthquakes. Mr. DeTurck and many others described a boom followed by a quick, alarming shift, a sensation one man compared to watching the camera dive off a cliff in an Imax movie. Some say they have felt dozens, others only four or five, and still others say they have only heard them. They do, however, have similar suspicions about the cause. Several years ago, the gas companies arrived, part of a sort of rush in Arkansas to drill for gas in a geological formation called the Fayetteville shale .
Continue reading …O2 UK says it’s getting the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play (update: Vodafone, too)
February 7, 2011 No Comment
Now that the Xperia Play is finally official ahead of a full unveiling at MWC next week, carriers are ready to hop on the bandwagon — or at least one is: O2 in the UK. Other than a brief tweet, no other details are given at this point, though the quick support of a major European carrier has to be good news for Sony Ericsson considering that device subsidies are no longer a sure thing… and without question, the Play represents something of a Hail Mary for one of the most badly bruised and beaten titans of the wireless industry. Pricing on contract is, of course, a huge open question — as is North American support — but hopefully all will be revealed on the 13th. [Thanks, Ed] Update: Pocket-lint says it can “exclusively confirm” that Vodafone will be getting the phone as well, suggesting that Sony Ericsson may not be pursuing exclusivity periods here — at least, not in the UK. O2 UK says it’s getting the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play (update: Vodafone, too) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Large fire consuming part of Rio’s Carnival Center in Brazil – A huge fire broken out through the center of Carnival preparations in Rio de Janeiro, destroying warehouses where costumes and floats are made for the preparation of Brazil’s annual festival. Four Samba schools and a carnival museum have been damaged in the blaze. No Large fire consuming part of Rio’s Carnival Center in Brazil is a post from: Daily World Buzz
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Image credit: Elana Centor , used under Creative Commons license. Lloyd asked the other day whether we should show more big green houses on TreeHugger . After all, while we may like to talk about living simply as an alternative American Dream and tiny homes being t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Are you a green-minded person with a green thumb? You might want to check out the job listings at Buckingham Palace. “The £15,000-a-year post entails maintaining the 42-acre garden ‘to the highest standards’ and recycling 99 per cent of the waste – even from the Royal Mews stables. The successful applicant must also be able to maintain shrub, herbaceous and rose borders in line with ‘good organic horticultural practices’ and ‘to assist in the development of the wildlife in the gardens’,” reports
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I’ve asked before whether cycling drunk is as bad as drunk driving , but what about talking on your cell phone? Given that cyclists are one of the most vulnerable road users out there, and given that both hearing and balance are crucial to keeping you alive, it makes sense that the Guardian’s bike blog is asking whether you should be allowed to bike and phone at the same time . I am sure there will be those who argue that cyclists do not represent the sa… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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AOL News announced Monday that it has chugged the Kool Aid and put Arianna Huffington in charge of the new Huffington Post Media Group. AOL will pay $315 million for the site, making it the blogosphere's largest ever acquisition. Decisions to name Huffington president and editor in chief and to brand the new company with the Huffington Post name suggest that AOL has fully embraced a leftist spin on the news. The Associated Press reported Monday morning: The acquisition announced early Monday puts a high-profile exclamation mark on a series of acquisitions and strategic moves engineered by AOL CEO Tim Armstrong in an effort to reshape a fallen Internet icon. AOL was once the king of dial-up online access known for its ubiquitous CD-ROMs and “You've got mail” greeting in its inboxes. Perhaps just as important as picking up a news site that ranks as one of the top 10 current events and global news sites, AOL will be adding Huffington Post co-founder and media star Arianna Huffington to its management team as part of the deal. After the acquisition closes later this year, Huffington will be put in charge of AOL's growing array of content, which includes popular technology sites Endgadget and TechCrunch, local news sites Patch.com and online mapping service Mapquest… In a blog post about the deal, Arianna Huffington praised Armstrong's vision for AOL and said they were on the same page as they discussed their ambitions for online news. “We were practically finishing each other's sentences,” Huffington wrote about their discussions. She wrote that the deal was signed at the Super Bowl in Dallas, which she and Armstrong attended. If it wins expected regulatory approval without any hitches, the deal will likely close in late March or early April. So will Arianna's views and those of her site spill over into AOL's content? It seems likely. Ed Morrissey shares some of the concerns mentioned above the break: The editorial arrangement seems like a strange decision. AOL has been careful to give the impression of political balance in their news and opinion offerings on line. Putting a political activist like Arianna Huffington in charge of all AOL content will upend that balance, and might have a significant number of subscribers and readers heading for the door. The end result might be less a combination of the two readerships and more of a replacement of AOL’s community with that of the HuffPo. Another strange decision, related to the first, is to rebrand AOL’s content with the Huffington label. Arianna has done a great job over the last few years in building her brand in the blogosphere, but AOL has one of the oldest and most widely known brands in computing. Perhaps renaming the content group with the Huffington label was an attempt to keep the partisan direction of HuffPo from damaging AOL’s brand, but if the content shifts under Arianna’s leadership, that won’t help at all. Huffington is not known for her subtlety. It's hard to see how a news operation with her at the helm would be anything but stridently leftist.
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