Photo credit: Todd Ryburn / Creative Commons Following a report that 2010 was the worst year on record for rhino poaching in South Africa —with 333 animals, including 10 critically endangered black rhinos, killed illegally—officials there have announced that over the last four days South African police have shot and killed five suspected poachers…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Houston, we have a problem. An addiction. To Facebook. But you already knew that, right? What you may not know is just how serious it is. Onlineschools.org defines our problem by way of a numbers-filled infographic. Some highlights: Everybody’s doing it: One in 13 inhabitants of planet Earth have…
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International jet-set elite, your new phone is here! That’s right, Vertu and Ferrari have teamed up yet again to produce the phone that serves two important purposes: showing the world that you own a Ferrari, and showing the world that you don’t need a phone that does much besides receiving calls from your accountant. Essentially the recently announced Ascent refresh , this bad boy features a 2-inch QVGA sapphire crystal display and quadband 3G. The case itself is constructed from forged titanium with a matte black PVD finish and the same hand stitched leather as the interior of the car it’s inspired by. But you better be fast! Only 2,011 will be made. (Get it?) Hit the source link to order three or four for yourself. [Thanks, James] Vertu Ascent Ti Ferrari is a celebration of extreme self-indulgence originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …NYT’s Nagourney Suggests Gov. Brewer, Opposition to Obama-Care and Illegals Led to Toxic Atmosphere in AZ
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Two days in a row, New York Times reporter Adam Nagourney has suggested that Arizona’s heated conservative rhetoric may have created a toxic atmosphere for gunman Jared Loughner to function in. Yesterday Nagourney commented on a speech by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer the day before addressing the shootings in Tucson, in an article with the leading headline “Governor Strives to Restore Arizona’s Reputation.” As if Arizona bore some blame for anything one of its six million residents may have done. Her remarks, a downstate reprise of the official State of the State address she gave to lawmakers in Phoenix on Monday, illustrate the challenges Ms. Brewer faces. She is eagerly trying to defend a state whose reputation has been battered in recent years, particularly since the massacre here on Saturday. But fairly or not, Arizona’s image has been forged in part because of Ms. Brewer herself, who has been identified with the tough law aimed at illegal immigrants, budget cuts that include denying aid to people who need life-saving transplants and laws permitting people to take concealed guns into bars and banning the teaching of ethnic studies in public schools. read more
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Russian icebreakers set out to aid a group of Russian seamen whose ship is trapped in ice. The two ice breakers had to leave a refrigeration vessel, in a safer part of the Okhotsk Sea and turn back to rescue the much larger fishing vessel. (Jan. 13)
Continue reading …Oprah Winfrey was not happy when her 1998 film Beloved got trounced at the box office by, of all things, Bride of Chucky . “I didn’t even know what ‘Chucky’ was,” she tells Piers Morgan in an outtake from their interview . “So, I asked my chef at the time to make…
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Image credit: Simon James , used under Creative Commons license. So you didn’t bring enough reusable grocery bags to the store? You are starting to feel that gnawing guilt that you are not doing enough? (Maybe a little rap about banning plastic bags is now going around in your head.) It’s time to rediscover that seemingly lost eco-art of cutting yourself some slack. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The Grammys’ reigning best new artist, the Zac Brown Band, are up for four more Grammys this year. They talk about why it’s an honor to be nominated and why big risks pay off for them. (Jan. 13)
Continue reading …Imus Rips ‘Angry,’ ‘Vile,’ ‘Psycho,’ ‘Spittle-spewing’ Chris Matthews for Attacking Mark Levin
January 13, 2011 No Comment
As NewsBusters previously reported , Chris Matthews on Tuesday blamed conservative talk radio hosts Mark Levin and Michael Savage for supposedly creating the climate of hate that led to Saturday's shootings in Tucson, Arizona. On Wednesday, FBN's Don Imus and his sidekick Bernard McGuirk responded to the “angry,” “vile,” “psycho,” “spittle-spewing” MSNBCer (video follows with transcript and commentary): read more
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Samsung has outed three new netbooks , all refreshes to previous models. On offer is the 10.1-inch NC210, which boasts a dual-core, Intel Atom N550 CPU with up to 3GB of DDR3 SDRAM, a 250GB hard drive, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, LAN, and Bluetooth 3.0. It’s also got a VGA port, three USB 2.0 ports, a 4-in-1 card reader, and a 6-cell battery. The company has also trotted out the NC110, which boasts a 1.5GHz, dual-core Atom N570 but seems to be identical to the NC210 other than that. In other, rather less exciting Samsung netbook news, the company also rolled out the NF310, and the NS310, the former one being an LTE -packing 10.1-incher, while the NS310 is yet another netbook of the same size with a metallic chassis. There aren’t full specs, pricing or availability yet for any of these models, but you can hit up the source links for more photos. Samsung refreshes netbooks with dual-core NC210, among others originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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