NYC canine costume ‘Howloween’ party hosted by animalfair.com Oct. 27th aims to fetch funds for local animal rescue shelters. (Oct. 25)
Continue reading …NYC canine costume ‘Howloween’ party hosted by animalfair.com Oct. 27th aims to fetch funds for local animal rescue shelters. (Oct. 25)
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Sunday evening, Eric Meyers – an emergency management coordinator in Navarro County, Texas, videotaped his incredibly close encounter with a powerful tornado. (Oct. 25)
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In Illinois, police are trying to identify human remains found in a park. Police say they have recovered items consistent with property belonging to NIU student Antinette ‘Toni’ Keller, who disappeared while walking toward a park. (Oct. 25)
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Continue reading …Kindle books outselling print 2 to 1 for Amazon’s top 10 bestsellers, and other relatively positive sales figures
October 25, 2010 No Comment
Amazon has its own applied theory of special relativity, in the sense that we never really know definitive sales figures and instead have to rely on the occasional ratio and comparative figure (based upon aforementioned unknown variables) to glean any sense of success. Jeff Bezos and company are happy to announce the latest Kindle has, in its three months or so since release, surpassed sales of the previous device in its 2009 holiday season (the shopping-heavy October through December period) — in other words, it expects even greater sales for this year’s equivalent quarter, but it can’t exactly time travel to report on the future (yet). Ready for more? Amazon’s also boasting that, for its top 10 bestselling books, Kindle digital books are outselling print (both hardcover and paperback combined) at a rate “great than 2 to 1.” We’re going to guess those are better figures than its tipping point back in July, but Mass-Sales Equivalence was never our strong suit in college. More fun factoids and artistic displays of applied statistics can be found in the press release after the break. Continue reading Kindle books outselling print 2 to 1 for Amazon’s top 10 bestsellers, and other relatively positive sales figures Kindle books outselling print 2 to 1 for Amazon’s top 10 bestsellers, and other relatively positive sales figures originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Photo: Groasis, Waterboxx It’s often the case that areas wracked by deforestation or degradation, whether as a result of logging, mining, or clear-cutting, can be tricky to replant. Getting trees to grow after the soil has been dug-up, altered, or covered in rubble often seems like a lost cause — and is treated as such by companies responsible for the mess. Dutch inventor Pieter Hoff, however, believes he’s come up with a solution for reforesting degraded, eroded, and water-scarce areas. Called the
Continue reading …Hannity, Bozell Pummel Lesley Stahl, Chris Matthews for Media Bias in October 22 ‘Media Mash’
October 25, 2010 No Comment
MSNBC's Chris Matthews and CBS's Lesley Stahl were two of the targets in the latest “Media Mash” segment on Fox News Channel's “Hannity” program. NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell appeared on the October 22 edition of the program
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The Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) has urged Washington to investigate alleged “crimes against humanity” in Iraq after Wikileaks published…
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So, here’s what we know: a Windows Phone from HTC just earned its FCC wings, it’s production (meaning non-prototype) hardware… and it’s a CDMA device. That alone is notable considering that Microsoft has said that CDMA won’t be available until the first half of next year , and here we are in October with an FCC-approved, production-ready device waiting in the wings already. We’re not the type to be floating conspiracy theories, but could it be that we’re dealing with an artificial delay here, or is the CDMA software stack really that far away from being solid? Anyhow, if we had to guess, this is probably the tilt-sliding 7 Pro , seeing how that’s the only CDMA Windows Phone 7 device to bow so far, equipped with 802.11b / g / n alongside Bluetooth + EDR. Sprint, let’s make this happen. HTC 7 Pro squares away its FCC approval? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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