It’s that time of year again; Monday, November 15 is America Recycles Day. Even the EPA is into it this year, telling us that “By teaching our children the importance of recycling, they can take lessons of environmental consciousness with them throughout their lives..” But what is the lesson and who wrote the lesson plan? It’s brought to you by these sponsors:… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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33 pilot whales like this one were found dead on the shores of northwest Ireland earlier this week. Photo: Barney Moss under a Creative Commons License Last Saturday, 33 pilot whales were found dead, beached on the northwest coast of Ireland. Mostly females and calves, the whales either died before washing ashore, or shortly thereafter. Now, scientists are looking to discover what caused the tragedy- and the British Royal Navy is one of the prime suspects. A… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Apple contributing to OpenJDK project, ensures continued Java availability on OS X
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As of just a few weeks ago, Java ‘s legacy of write once, debug everywhere was looking in doubt. Apple ‘s flavor of the Java 6 runtime was deprecated and all those .class and .jar files on Macs were looking like they’d swirl to a lingering death in the great coffee pot in the sky. That all changes today with an announcement from both Apple and Oracle that Cupertino developers will “contribute most of the key components” for OpenJDK Java SE 7 implementations on 32- and 64-bit flavors of OS X, with runtime virtual machines set to cover both Snow Leopard and the upcoming Lion release. Additionally, Apple will continue to make the SE 6 version of Java available, while Oracle will take over responsibility for ownership and distribution of version 7 and those to come. You know what this means, developers: time to dust off those debuggers and get ready to flood the Mac App Store . Continue reading Apple contributing to OpenJDK project, ensures continued Java availability on OS X Apple contributing to OpenJDK project, ensures continued Java availability on OS X originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Leaders at the G20 Summit met Friday in Seoul, South Korea. The leaders agreed a trade war would be disastrous to the global economy, but disagree on how to prevent one. (Nov. 12)
Continue reading …Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime dishes cumulative sales numbers for current console generation
November 12, 2010 No Comment
Rather like Nokia and its market share obsession, Nintendo just can’t seem to stop talking about its hardware sales lead. The company’s US chief, Reggie Fils-Aime, recently dished some NPD data detailing the specific advantage that the Wii has over its competitors in the US since the current console generation launched: Mario’s team has managed to sell 30.4 million units of its hardware, followed by Microsoft’s Xbox 360 at 21.9 million and Sony’s PS3, which lags somewhere far behind with 13.5 million total sales. On the more mobile front, DS sales have ratcheted up to 43.1 million, more than doubling the PSP’s 17.7 million shipments to the US of A. Nothing we haven’t heard before, really, but it’s always good to get a statistical update for the sake of keeping flamewars as informed as possible. Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime dishes cumulative sales numbers for current console generation originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …The Vision of the 16th Asian Games, a “Thrilling Games, Harmonious Asia”, is a dream and a promise, that the Games will uphold the spirit of the Olympics and the Asian Games – which is to promote unity, friendship and further exchanges between different countries and regions. The core goal of the Asian Games is 16th Asian Games Opening Ceremony in China Begins is a post from: Daily World Buzz
Continue reading …Watch 16th Asian Games Opening Ceremony in Guangzhou, China The Vision of the 16th Asian Games The Vision of the 16th Asian Games, a “Thrilling Games, Harmonious Asia”, is a dream and a promise, that the Games will uphold the spirit of the Olympics and the Asian Games – which is to promote unity, friendship Watch 16th Asian Games Opening Ceremony in Guangzhou, China is a post from: Daily World Buzz
Continue reading …New York Times Celebrates FDA’s Graphic War on Cigarettes, Modeled on Ghastly ‘Halloween’ Images
November 12, 2010 No CommentHere's one obvious demonstration of what happens when liberals gave the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate tobacco: prominent, gruesome warnings of death on boxes of cigarettes. Apparently, mere text saying smoking can be fatal isn't enough “telling truth to power.” New York Times reporter Gardiner Harris celebrated this development on the front page of the Times Thursday. The headline was “U.S. Wants Smoking's Costs to Stare You in the Face.” Left out of this nanny-state story: the sinking feeling that the FDA could follow San Francisco's war-on-McDonald's example and start putting toe-tag photos (or maybe just obese-kid photos) on Happy Meal boxes. Anthony Hemsley of Commonwealth Brands tobacco gets a brief chance to suggest the graphic warnings add nothing and only serve “to stigmatize smokers and denormalize smoking.” (In other words, “smokers: the new alternative-lifestyle practitioners it's safe to hate.”) But Harris and the Times offer a parade of Obama government officials and public-health experts to explain their gruesome graphics campaign: read more
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What’s that, the greatest Android tablet of the moment caught without its pants on again ? Oh, no, it’s just another iFixit special, tearing down a Samsung Galaxy Tab into its requisite bits, bobs, and a slab of Gorilla Glass . The removal of that pane turned out to be the trickiest part, requiring a lot of heat and a little “nervous prying” before it yielded. But, yield it did, and you can see the piece-by-piece teardown on the other end of the source link below. Samsung Galaxy Tab torn down, is indeed not full of stars originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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A man wants to build a coop for his racing pigeons at his son’s home in a New York City suburb. But his neighbors, who also happen to be distant relatives, are waging a bird battle. (Nov. 12)
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