Tunisian leaders plan to announce a new unity government today following the ousting of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the Daily Telegraph reports. It will include ministers from the former leadership and opposition as well as independents, said an opposition leader. Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi will remain, with presidential…
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Last year Mike wrote: Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States. To celebrate the legacy of this great man, TreeHugger would like to encourage all of you to watch or read his famous “I have a Dream” speech (there’s more to it than the title, which seems to be the only thing that pop culture references…) and be inspired by this inclusive and forward-lo… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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BlackBerry maker RIM says it will make a Jan. 21 deadline to filter pornographic content from its smart phones in Indonesia. Company executives met with Indonesian officials and mobile phone operators Monday. (Jan. 17)
Continue reading …A young Martin Luther King Jr. might have gone on to any number of careers, but for one inspiring summer in Connecticut. He was there as a teenager, earning money for college by working on a tobacco farm, and he was shocked by the lack of segregation he found. “After…
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Samantha gives a demonstration of boiling water evaporating as it is thrown into the air during -30C weather in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. via Viral Viral Videos Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Laughing Squid Discovery Date : 17/01/2011 15:21 Number of articles : 7
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We’ve seen fancy augmented reality projection before, but we’ve rarely been able to take it home — now, it seems Microsoft’s hack-friendly Kinect can bring the same trick to the consumer realm. Elliot Woods took the idea that Kinect can map a three-dimensional space and twisted it to his own devious ends — that is, throwing traditional Street Fighter fireball blasts, complete with the sound effect. What’s impressive here, though, isn’t the size of his hadouken , but rather the light it’s made of — each is a virtual dynamic light source casting light on the room’s real objects to create virtual shadows on the surfaces that stick out. Sounds lovely, but if you can’t wrap your head around all that, you’ll find all the hot fireball action you need in the video after the break at roughly the five minute mark. Continue reading Kinect + projector = augmented reality fireballs (video) Kinect + projector = augmented reality fireballs (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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"Globalized Consumer Society Without Oil is Nonsense" – the Findhorn Film
January 17, 2011 No Comment
Image credit: LJMead66 I have posted a video before that explored the ecovillage at Findhorn , now there is a whole DVD based around this pioneering sustainable community. Only this DVD isn’t just about the community—it’s also about lessons we may all need to learn in the face of the impending ecological and resource challenges we face. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Remember when the UK started distributing free laptops to poor schoolchildren in order to encourage them to get online? Well, a new, more frugal government is now in charge, and while the original scheme has been scrapped, today we’re hearing of alternative plans to help economically disadvantaged people leap onto the worldwide surfer’s web. The coalition government intends to offer
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