Defense minister says peace process stalled in part because Washington immersed in Korean crisis, WikiLeaks affair. Adds: Turkey acted admirably during Carmel blaze
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Another day, another annoying distraction when you turn on your PlayStation 3 . Prepare to be prompted to update your machine, version 3.55 hitting the internets and offering a single thing: “a security patch.” No word on exactly which holes are being spackled over or how long it’ll take for modders to drill them back out again, but be sure to pledge your allegiance and update today, so that you can be better prepared to update again tomorrow. PS3 update v3.55 adds ‘a security patch,’ nothing else originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Photo: Warren McLaren / Inov8 Patagonia Footwear took part in a challenge issued by Backpacker Magazine* to see if it was possible to create a ‘Zero Impact’ boot for the haul of backpack loads up to 14 kg (30lb). Patagonia’s response was the P26, which Backpacker considered had resulted in a 25-35% reduction in environmental impact over business as usual. For the past six months we’ve been thrashing about in a pre-production sample of the P26, which has since become available as part of Patagonia’s Fall 2010 line. How do they hold up in the real world? … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …New York Times Style Mag ‘T’ Treats Wikileaker Julian Assange As Pop Icon, a Santa Claus of Information
December 7, 2010 No CommentThis Christmas, give the gift of…secret diplomatic cables? There were several surprisingly slanted articles in the Holiday edition of “T,” the New York Times style magazine published 15 Sundays a year and put together by writers and reporters from outside the paper. Most newsworthy (if almost as shallow as the other pieces) was British writer Misha Glenny’s profile of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange ( arrested in a sex inquiry in London Tuesday morning ), presenting his damaging, illegal leaks of secret diplomatic cables as a Christmas gift, treating the controversial figure as just another one of the hip icons celebrated in T Magazine in a story with the galling title “ The Gift of Information .” read more
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LONDON (Reuters) – NATO has drawn up secret plans to defend the Baltic states against any Russian threat, Britain’s Guardian newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing U.S. diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks. The decision to draft contingency plans for the former Soviet states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania was taken secretly earlier this year at the urging of the United States and Germany, ending years of division within the alliance over how to view Russia, the Guardian said. Photo illustration shows a…
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250 foreign team members receive honors from president, PM for courageously coming to Israel’s rescue during deadly Carmel fire. Greek rep: Surprised Israel has no extinguishing plane
Continue reading …Toshiba planning trio of tablets for CES: one each for Android, Chrome OS and Windows 7
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So what if the Libretto exited the common consciousness almost as quickly as it entered it while the Folio 100 was bad enough to get its major UK retailer to discontinue it ? Toshiba promised it’d have a family of tablets for us by the end of 2011′s first quarter and the plan apparently hasn’t changed. DigiTimes is reporting today that three new Toshiba slates are set for their debut at CES in a month’s time, two of them equipped with 10.1-inch screens and a third sized at 11.6 inches. Microsoft’s Windows 7 and Google’s Chrome OS and Android will each be responsible for providing the operating environment on one of these new tablets, indicating that Toshiba — much like the rest of the world — has yet to make up its mind about what the best tablet OS out there is. We should know more in just a few short weeks. Toshiba planning trio of tablets for CES: one each for Android, Chrome OS and Windows 7 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …China’s Walk More Drive Less Road Graffiti Campaign Wins Green Award Grand Prix (Video)
December 7, 2010 No Comment
An ingenious piece of artwork created by Chinese pedestrians as they crossed the streets of Shanghai won the Grand Prix at the Green Awards in London last week. The awards, which also honoured Sir David Attenborough with a Life Time Achievement Award and
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By Juan Cole Iran is winning and Israel is losing. That is the startling conclusion we reach if we consider how things have changed in the Middle East in the two years since most of the WikiLeaks State Department cables about Iran’s regional difficulties were written. Related Entries December 6, 2010 Obama’s Tax Cave Is Worse Than Expected December 6, 2010 Global Stature
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Photo Catholic Westminster via flickr and Creative Commons license . Pope Benedictus XVI wants to replace his gas-driven ‘Popemobile’ (the ‘Papamobile’ in Italian) with a solar-powered version, according to a cardinal of the Vatican. Benedictus wants to show his concern for the environment. But that’s not all. The Vatican has unveiled a book of the Catholic city-state’s other eco-projects, including the installation of 2,700 solar panels on an ‘audience hall’ in 2008, a solar cooling unit in the cafeteria, and other smaller pr… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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