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Current News for April 22, 2008

70 below recorded in northwest China

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:08:26 PDT
A cold front that killed thousands of livestock swept through northwest China, bringing sandstorms, snow and bitter cold to the region. The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region experienced Siberian-like temperatures of at least 70 below zero, though forecasts predicated a warming trend, China's official Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday.

The American Idol curse of the first

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:35:40 PDT
Filed under: American Idol, Contestants, Predictions and Trends, News and GossipIs there a real disadvantage to going first on American Idol or is it just speculation? I first brought this up when we went from our Top 16 to our Top 12 as all four eliminated contestants were among the first three performers on their respective nights. On the girls side, Asia'h and Kady sang first and second and were eliminated as quickly. Also eliminated were Luke, who sang first, and Danny who sang third. But i

Microsoft Continues to sell Linux in China

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:27:02 PDT
Microsoft Continues to sell Linux in China iTWire; By David Heath (Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Apr 22, 2008 4:21 PM) Groups: SUSE, Microsoft, Novell, Linux; Story Type: News Story As part of the on-going agreement with Novell, Microsoft is identifying and converting unsupported users of Linux to the latest versions of Suse Linux. After a long period of doubt, skepticism and criticism over their agreement, Novell and Microsoft are finally starting to see the benefits of the 5-year alliance origi

Headset and Headphone Review Round Up

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:09:26 PDT
Futurelooks reviews the Saitek Cyborg 5.1 Surround Sound Gaming Headset. Combining surround sound action with a microphone gives the Cyborg skills in the movies and the games. Check out the review. Other related reviews… Techwarelabs - Saitek Cyborg Gaming Headset TweakNews - Zalman ZM-RS6F USB 5.1 Surround Headphones/Headset Review The Tech Lounge - Sennheiser PXC 450 Headphones Reviewed TechPowerUp - Klipsch Image Earphones and Sleek-Audio SA6 Earphones Phoronix - Razer Piranha Gaming

EnVironment Nazis-Global Warming, Fact/Fiction?

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:39:50 PDT
For years, records from surface thermometers showed a global warming trend beginning in the late 70's. But temperatures sensed by satellites and weather ballons displayed no concurrent warming...

CBC to close Calgary unit of Newsworld - Toronto Star


CBC to close Calgary unit of Newsworld
Toronto Star, Canada - Apr 3, 2008
CALGARY–CBC News will close the Calgary unit of its Newsworld channel as of next month. The public broadcaster announced Thursday that the two hours of ...


EnVironment Nazis-Global Warming, Fact/Fiction?

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:39:50 PDT
For years, records from surface thermometers showed a global warming trend beginning in the late 70's. But temperatures sensed by satellites and weather ballons displayed no concurrent warming...

WHO'S EVER BEEN MORE ICONOCLASTIC THAN THE GUY WHO COINED "DEMOCRAT WARS"?:

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:27:24 PDT
Is John McCain Bob Dole?: Or is he Dwight Eisenhower? (Actually, that may depend on whether Barack Obama is Mike Dukakis or John Kennedy.) A handicapping. (John Heilemann, Apr 13, 2008, New York) So if McCain is no longer the bracing iconoclast he was in 2000, who the hell is he? “I’ll tell you,” this person says. “He’s morphed into Bob Dole.” This was not my first encounter with the McCain-is-Dole meme. I had first run across it back in January, on the night of the final Republican debate,

Gore Used Fictional Video to Illustrate ‘Inconvenient Truth’

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:23:28 PDT
On Friday, it was revealed by ABC News that one of the famous shots of supposed Antarctic ice shelves in the film was actually a computer-generated image from the 2004 science fiction blockbuster "The Day After Tomorrow."


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