SAN’A, Yemen – Tens of thousands of Yemenis have taken to the streets in the country’s capital, calling for President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s…
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Revelers braved the weather in the nation’s capital to meet up for a snowball fight organized over social media. (Jan. 27)
Continue reading …A Ugandan gay rights activist whose name appeared on a tabloid “hit list” has been found murdered in his home. David Kato’s name, picture, and address were printed by the newspaper in its list of the country’s “top homos,” which appeared under the headline “Hang Them,” the BBC reports. Kato…
Continue reading …Google adds HTML5 Gmail and Gtalk notifications for the desktop, makes you envy Chrome users
January 27, 2011 No Comment
Oh, come on, Google! If you’re going to give us desktop notifiers for our favorite email and chat clients, you’ve got to play nice and let us have them on more than your own browser, right? To be fair to the Chrome maker, it’s standardizing the code it’s used in its new HTML5 alerts so that other browsers can soon use it too, but as of today, you’ll need to use the Google-sanctioned webscape navigator if you want its sweet new pop-ups on your desktop. We gave them a quick try and they’re delightfully quick, with Gtalk message alerts updating themselves to the latest one received instead of stacking up and threatening your sanity. Hit the source link to learn how to enable the new notifications. Google adds HTML5 Gmail and Gtalk notifications for the desktop, makes you envy Chrome users originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Wildlife officials in Arkansas say that they still have no idea why over 100,000 fish washed up dead along a stretch of river last year, but they have a theory on why thousands of blackbirds fell from the sky . The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission—echoing earlier findings —says…
Continue reading …Today’s threat level is yellow—as it has been since 2006—but it won’t be any color at all by the end of April. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will announce Thursday that the much-maligned five-color advisory code introduced after the September 11 attacks is to be scrapped, ABC reports….
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An explosion likely caused by a methane gas buildup ripped through an underground coal mine in Colombia, killing 21 workers, officials said. A similar blast there killed dozens of miners four years ago. (Jan. 26)
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By Moshe Adler During the Great Depression, high rates of unemployment prevailed for 11 years. The experience of seeing a free market system drive itself into a rut that it cannot pull itself out of is nothing new. And we have long known the solution. Related Entries January 27, 2011 No More Orange Alerts January 26, 2011 Obama Changes the Narrative
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January 27: Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz and Birkenau; Paris Peace Accords signed; Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts; Wolfgang Mozart, Jerome Kerr born.
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