GENEVA (AFP) – Post-election violence in Ivory Coast has left more than 50 people dead and more than 200 injured, the UN high commissioner for human rights said Sunday, deploring “massive violations of human rights.” As UN peacekeepers in Ivory Coast refused a demand by leader Laurent Gbagbo that they pack its bags and go, Navi Pillay said in a statement that “in the past three days there has…
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Following bereaved parents’ appeal, army clarifies exercise will not include firing of real missile at manned tank
Continue reading …XBMC 10.0 ‘Dharma’ now available to download with improvements galore, add-on manager and Apple TV support
December 19, 2010 No Comment
You may have gifts for every family member under your Yuletide tree, but we’re willing to bet you haven’t given much thought to your trusty media center PC. Thankfully, the open-source community once again has a ready-made present, ready to be loaded right now — the 10.0 release of XBMC , filled with goodies and toys. It’s available for Windows, Linux, Mac and even the original Apple TV, and brings a brand-new add-on manager that lets you extend functionality and improve appearance right from the UI. There’s also hardware acceleration for every platform, including special consideration for nettops sporting NVIDIA ION 2 or Broadcom Crystal HD chips, and even the underpinnings of support for Windows 7 touchscreens, ARM processors and OpenGL ES 2.0. The catalog of improvements is honestly rather staggering, so rather than read them all here, you can follow our source links to the full changelog and download pages, while we try to spread the Christmahanukwanzaakah cheer. [Thanks to everyone who sent this in] XBMC 10.0 ‘Dharma’ now available to download with improvements galore, add-on manager and Apple TV support originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 19 Dec 2010 13:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Organizer of demonstration to take place Monday says ‘public sick of Arabs hitting on Jewish girls.’ Participants include right-wing activist Baruch Marzel
Continue reading …Jim Pinkerton Claims Tea Party Had a Bigger Effect on the World Than Facebook
December 19, 2010 No Comment
Click here to view this media And we are reminded yet again of just why Fox’s viewers are the most misinformed “news” consumers in the United States. h/t Media Matters — Jim Pinkerton gets laughed at when he claims tea party had a bigger effect on world than Facebook And they have more at their research blog. Apparently Pinkerton isn’t the only conservative bitching that Time Magazine, that evil librul publication, didn’t make the Tea Party their Person of the Year. Déjà Vu: Right-wing Media Up In Arms Over Time’s Supposed Tea Party Snub : For the second year in a row, right-wing media have complained that Time magazine did not choose the Tea Party as Person of the Year, despite the fact that the Tea Party was chosen as one of four “Runners-Up.” Read on…
Continue reading …New Report Judges Video Game Consoles on Energy Consumption; Wii Comes Out on Top
December 19, 2010 No Comment
Photo: ginnerobot under a Creative Commons license. If you’re looking into getting a new video game console this holiday season, here’s one more criterion to take into consideration: energy consumption. The Electric Power Research Institute this week released a report comparing the Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3. After an hour of playing Madden NFL 11 on each… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Frank Rich: The Left Doesn’t Have As Strong A Media Megaphone As The Right
December 19, 2010 No CommentNew York Times columnist Frank Rich has said some astonishingly stupid things throughout his career, but a comment in Sunday's ” The Bipartisanship Racket ” might get on his top ten list. In the eyes of this liberal writer working for the most powerful liberal newspaper in the country, the Left in this nation doesn't have as strong a media megaphone as the Right: read more
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Photo: Jack Duval Folly Beach, a South Carolina Beach just outside of Charleston, needs another renourishment project just five years after the last one, according to a recent article in The State …. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The body of a female American tourist, bound and with multiple stab wounds, was found Sunday near a road outside Jerusalem, police said. They identified the slain woman as Christine Logan, but had no further details on her age or hometown. (Dec. 19)
Continue reading …UK voice choir sings Please Retweet Me song for charity, probably has no idea what it means (video)
December 19, 2010 No Comment
So here’s the deal: the UK Meningitis Trust wants to help raise awareness about the disease it’s dedicated to battling and has a 30-strong male voice choir at its disposal to do it with. How does it reach the widest possible audience? If your ideas include namedropping every major social media site set up over the last decade, a nod to the iPhone versus Android dichotomy, and the use of Yahoo as a bad pun, then you must be the guy responsible for putting together the video after the break. Congratulations, it’s awesome. The behind-the-scenes footage with these old crooners isn’t too terrible either. Continue reading UK voice choir sings Please Retweet Me song for charity, probably has no idea what it means (video) UK voice choir sings Please Retweet Me song for charity, probably has no idea what it means (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 19 Dec 2010 12:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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