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Saturday, October 11th, 2008
- DNA “fingerprints” may allow authorities to tie down suspect’s surname
A study of 2,500 men found that on average there was a 24 percent chance of two men with the same surname sharing a common ancestor but this increased to nearly 50 percent when the surname was rare.
- For those of you who both enjoy eating fungal stuff AND who live in or will be traveling to England, a rare truffle has been found in Britain which hasn’t been seen there in 100 years
It is so rare the exact details of where it was found and by who will never be revealed to stop truffle hunters digging up the neighbourhood.
- Rumors of Kindle 2 on the way from Amazon, for those of you that like to buy books in a format you don’t own so the distributor can disable your right to read it any time they want to switch the DRM settings
- School bus racing (with video)
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
- (video) - Government officials are building a dog DNA database to help in tracking owners who don’t clean up after their pets
- Bringing Linux tools to Windows
Evolution, the default office suite installed on most GNOME-based Linux systems, has a working port available for Windows systems. As its Linux fans know, Evolution has a serious focus on supporting and adapting to open standards: Full iCal support, IMAP access (I got a Gmail account working in minutes), integration with Pidgin’s IM client, and support for GPG encryption. The big news for non-Outlook acolytes, however, is that Evolution can hook up to Exchange servers
- Recycling information for CFL bulbs
- (video) - Themesong from Shaft as done by a ukulele performance group
- Arctic ice shelf growing instead of shrinking - reverse of 30 year trend?
At the end of the 2008 melting season, much first year ice remains, which means that next year it will be two year ice. And we’ll have to wait until the end of next September to see how well the ice survived the global warming of 2009.
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
- HIV may be over 100 years old (via Neatorama)
They concluded the strains evolved from a common ancestor that emerged in Africa near the beginning of the twentieth century around 80 years before the disease appeared in western populations.
- 7 year old breaks in to zoo, feeds a baker’s dozen zoo animals to the crocodile
- Prince, the Jehovah’s Witness, goes door-to-door now to share with others (excerpted from USA Today story)
After being introduced to Jehovah’s Witnesses by friend and bass player Larry Graham, Prince converted in 2001. The onetime voracious womanizer who crooned Scandalous, Do It All Night, Sexy MF and Dirty Mind has purged his lyrics of naughty lingo and spends more time proselytizing than partying.
- Get your very own miniature spy-copter in the GPS-enabled, swappable camera-toting (HD capable), 10 inch tall, 36 in. by 39 in. Draganflyer X6 for the remarkable price of about $15K (via boingboing gadgets)
The Draganflyer X6 is a remotely operated, unmanned, miniature helicopter designed to carry wireless video cameras and still cameras. Operate the Draganflyer X6 helicopter with the easy to use handheld controller while viewing what the helicopter sees through video glasses.
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
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