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Posted: May 12th, 2009, 7:00pm PDT

Tuesday, May. 12 at 9pm on PBS (Check local listings). FRONTLINE unravels the story behind the world's first truly global Ponzi scheme, interviewing former investors and colleagues. Who saw the warning signs? Why were they ignored for so long?

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Did Mark Zuckerberg's Inspiration for Facebook Come Before Harvard?

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 8:00pm PDT

pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/thefacebooklogo.jpg" width="150" height="49" /By now, we are all familiar with Mark Zuckerberg's success story. The explosive international growth of Facebook to a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_big_is_facebook.php" target="_blank"over 200 million users/a continues to land the young founder and CEO in top news stories worldwide. Recently, Time Magazine a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1733748_1733754_1735207,00.html"named Zuckerberg/a one of the world's most influential people of 2008, and Fast Company named Facebook a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/list/facebook"number 15/a in its list of the world's 50 most innovative companies of 2009. At just 23 years of age, Zuckerberg even briefly made a href="http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/54/400list08_Mark-Zuckerberg_I9UB.html"Forbes' 400/a richest Americans list, temporarily giving him the title of World's Youngest Billionaire./p pInterestingly, the a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/115/open_features-hacker-dropout-ceo.html"stories we hear/a these days about Zuckerberg in popular media tend to follow a common sensationalist pattern: "super-smart kid invents a tech phenomenon from his Harvard dorm room, drops out, and changes the world." It's a classically framed, Bill Gates-esque story of success driven by intelligence and ambition. What's most intriguing about the Zuckerberg story we all know, however, isn't that he dropped out of Harvard and became a billionaire at 23. The most intriguing thing is that we have heard very few stories about Zuckerberg and the inspiration behind Facebook during the period prior to February 4th, 2004, the day he launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d1.openx.org/ck.php?n=14955amp;cb=14955' target='_blank'img src='http://d1.openx.org/avw.php?zoneid=11205amp;cb=14955amp;n=14955' border='0' alt='' align="right" //a/p pThe reason we hear so little about Zuckerberg's pre-launch vision for Facebook (which was a href="http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=1stamp;navby=caseamp;no=071796"originally called thefacebook.com/a) is likely because he has been a controversial target over the true origins of his business. In 2007, several of Zuckerberg's classmates came forward and claimed rights to the Facebook idea after reports surfaced that Yahoo had offered $900 million to purchase Facebook just two years after the founding of the company. Even though the suit against Zuckerberg was settled last year, given the nature of the proceedings, we'll likely never get an official answer from Zuckerberg himself about the true origins of his inspiration. But maybe we don't need one after all?/p pIt turns out that Zuckerberg's academic history offers a great deal of insight into the inspiration for Facebook and why it was so wildly successful when it first launched. February 4th, 2004 may mark a major milestone in Facebook's history, but the story of Mark Zuckerberg's rise to fame in fact starts years before he stepped foot on the Harvard campus, and is much more complex and interesting than is usually portrayed./p h2Pre-Zuckerberg: Tracing the Roots of Facebook Culture/h2 pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/facebook_harvard_may09a.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="267" /You may be surprised to hear that while Harvard was fertile ground for the launch of Facebook, the seed of the concept was likely planted in Zuckerberg in high school. You never hear about Zuckerberg's alma mater Phillips Exeter Academy in stories because Harvard was where the action really started (and the Harvard name, to some extent, validates Zuckerberg's smarts and makes for a more sensational story). But in fact, the time that Zuckerberg spent at the academy from 2000 to 2002 likely had more influence on the name and initial concept of Facebook than any of his classmates at Harvard./p pPhillips Exeter Academy (or "Exeter") is a private boarding school for grades 9 to 12, located in Exeter, New Hampshire. The prestigious prep school is a member of the Ten Schools Admission Organization, which includes such famous boarding schools as Phillips Andover, Deerfield Academy, St. Paul's, and Choate Rosemary Hall. Like the other "Big Tens," Exeter has a tight-knit boarding community that lives on campus full time. Students refer to themselves as "Exonians" and have a strong group identity rooted in a rich culture of customs and tradition./p pAn Exonian for two years, Zuckerberg had plenty of time to observe and participate in the social culture and rhythms ingrained in Exeter's boarding lifestyle. Every year, the school says goodbye to a few hundred students and welcomes a few hundred more. Zuckerberg enrolled in the fall of his junior year and, like every new and returning student, received his own copy of Exeter's student directory, "The Photo Address Book," which students affectionately referred to as (you guessed it!) "The Facebook."/p pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/facebook_harvard_may09b.jpg" width="400" height="483" //p pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/facebook_harvard_may09c.jpg" width="500" height="666" //p pWe interviewed several of Zuckerberg's peers this week, and they all confirmed what David W. Farrant (class of 2000) had to say:/p blockquote p"The front cover says "The Photo Address Book," but we all called it "The Facebook" all the time because "The Photo Address Book" was such a mouthful. Everybody called it that."/p /blockquote p"Facebook" photo directories were (and still are) a huge part of the students' social experience and culture at prep schools such as Exeter. Every school in the Big Ten prints and distributes one for its students annually. When students arrive on campus each fall, the rhythm of their social lives is predominantly set by their dormitories, their class year (i.e. seniority), and their proximity to friends in other houses. Because students aren't allowed cell phones on campus and living accommodations are in such flux from year to year (they change houses and phone numbers annually), these "Facebooks" are a valuable resource for students./p pOf course, not only do students need the directory to find and contact their peers, but the books become part of the culture of bonding between classmates and friends, as students use it to see where their peers live, who's hot and who's not, who lives with who, and who the new kids are. Sounds an awful lot like how people use Facebook online now, right? Of course, it also describes an early pre-Internet social culture, facilitated by photo directories, that students enjoyed long before Zuckerberg even made it to high school, a culture he happened upon and got to participate in by a stroke of pure luck and glorious opportunity./p pBut the story doesn't end there. In Zuckerberg's senior year, the student council, headed by student body president Kris Tillery, successfully lobbied the administration to have the school's IT department put the full contents of Exeter's Photo Address Book online. By the time Zuckerberg graduated, the website was put up at http://student.exeter.edu/facebook, with the URL directory (i.e. "facebook") named after the students' pet name for the physical book and effectively shortened to something useful. Tillery was unavailable for comment./p pIn our interviews, some of Zuckerberg's peers pointed us to this screenshot of the original website hosted on the school's .edu domain. The screenshot was posted in the public Facebook group "Exonians" in 2006 and is still there. Some of the comments about the screenshot (which date back to 2007) refer to it as "the original Facebook" and refer to the Photo Address Book as "the physical Facebook."/p pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/facebook_harvard_may09d.jpg" width="600" height="427" //p pOf course, the school's student.exeter.edu/facebook website is no longer online, and none of our sources were able to confirm whether Zuckerberg himself was involved in, or responsible for, the student council initiative that got the directory online in the first place. All we know is that students were enthusiastic enough about an online version of the physical directory that the student council made an effort to lobby the administration, that the online directory was created during Zuckerberg's senior year, and that he was likely aware of its existence./p h2A More Complete Picture of the Facebook Success Story/h2 pNow that Facebook has graduated from its academic roots and been released to the world for free, its continued growth has many experts saying it will likely be the dominant social platform for the foreseeable future. At 200 million users (and counting), Facebook makes it hard to doubt that it will have considerable influence in the way we all connect and communicate in the future, both locally and across borders. While we may never know the true origins of Mark Zuckerberg's inspiration for Facebook, looking at the social culture of the prep school he attended and his experiences as a boarding student there offer us insight into where the explosion of global Facebook culture may have begun, why it was so successful when it launched at Harvard, and how luck and opportunity may have led one of the world's youngest visionaries to start coding in his college dorm room./p pemSteffan Antonas is a technology anthropologist, writer, and blogger who currently lives in San Diego, CA. He began studying human behavior in virtual communities as a graduate student in Georgetown University's Communication Culture and Technology (CCT) Program in 2003. He has worked in Southern California as an IT Professional for the past three years. You can contact Steffan at a href="mailto:steffanantonas@gmail.com"steffanantonas@gmail.com/a and on Twitter a href="http://twitter.com/steffanantonas"@steffanantonas/a./em/p pemImage credits: Phillips Exeter Academy by a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/etnobofin/2380093442/"etnobofin/a. Book cover and Mark Zuckerberg photos by Alex Demas and Mark Flores./em/p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mark_zuckerberg_inspiration_for_facebook_before_harvard.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rUjC76Q0yRxkfIiea0hHdMSfrLo/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rUjC76Q0yRxkfIiea0hHdMSfrLo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rUjC76Q0yRxkfIiea0hHdMSfrLo/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rUjC76Q0yRxkfIiea0hHdMSfrLo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=LJYoiyvyTjg:6YlRu6e2RmU:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=LJYoiyvyTjg:6YlRu6e2RmU:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=LJYoiyvyTjg:6YlRu6e2RmU:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=LJYoiyvyTjg:6YlRu6e2RmU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=LJYoiyvyTjg:6YlRu6e2RmU:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=LJYoiyvyTjg:6YlRu6e2RmU:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=LJYoiyvyTjg:6YlRu6e2RmU:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=LJYoiyvyTjg:6YlRu6e2RmU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=LJYoiyvyTjg:6YlRu6e2RmU:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=LJYoiyvyTjg:6YlRu6e2RmU:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/LJYoiyvyTjg" height="1" width="1"/

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Build a Facebook application with Zend Framework

Fetched: May 10th, 2009, 7:12pm PDT

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京都移動?達人

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 7:11pm PDT by MemDB

p京都景點眾多，但四散各處，令好多初到貴境的遊人「頭暈暈」﹗我之前就在日本買了「るるぶ」，是當地很受歡迎的旅遊天書，入面的移動達人，提供了多個最迅速MOVE的方法，教你輕鬆省錢兼有效率地「穿云」各個京都景點，包保「移很招積，觀得出色」﹗　/ppa href="http://krisjapanplus.mysinablog.com/resserver.php?blogId=90333resource=2001112-391978384_dff4bcc87c.jpg"img src="http://krisjapanplus.mysinablog.com/resserver.php?blogId=90333resource=2001112-391978384_dff4bcc87c.jpgmode=medium" border="0" alt="Picture" hspace="5" vspace="5" //aa href="http://krisjapanplus.mysinablog.com/resserver.php?blogId=90333resource=2001113-2291701062_258f5f0661.jpg"/a/ppa href="http://krisjapanplus.mysinablog.com/index.php?op=ViewArticlearticleId=1717305" target="_blank"(閱讀全文)/a/p P 文章由a href=http://www.memdb.com target=_blankMemDB/a的a href=http://rank.memdb.com target=_blank聯播系統/a轉載, 原文請a href=http://krisjapanplus.mysinablog.com/index.php?op=ViewArticlearticleId=1717305 target=_blank按此閱讀/a div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/22751441-2742912705161839259?l=memdb.blogspot.com'//div

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感．化

Fetched: May 10th, 2009, 7:04pm PDT by kcchan

來自: 景山學園前站作者: kcchan 發信站: HKIBBS 香港網站時間: 2009-05-10 23:03:27 自小就已經多愁善感，這幾天感受更深。星期五回到母校的晚宴，感受已詳述。在宴會中也看出了自己在母校執教鞭八年那所謂的存在價值。當然是正面的，有人掛念我，我已經覺得自己做得不錯，最少有人會覺得如果我還在是件好事。人在擁有時，不會想到這些，只有在失去時，才會思考它的存在意義。******昨日帶隊到將軍澳參加活動，送走學生後，跟同事在將市閒逛。其實已經數年沒有去過將軍澳了，這次還從寶琳走到調景嶺。02年9月，那年我24歲，跟相識不夠三個月的P君在寶琳漫步到將軍澳市中心。那時將市還未開發，沿路靜靜地走，只在閒聊。還記得之後也有幾次約會、甚至在ICQ上吵過架，最後不了了之。昨日帶著同事走著舊路，已找不到當年的一點點痕跡。將市的高樓大廈矗立在原本的荒土之中，身處其中，實在已想不起那時為什麼沒有抓緊機會，好好跟她發展。「那種氣氛，怎麼不好好拖住她的手？」我也想不起當時我顧慮的是什麼了。巧合的是，我和同事四人之中，竟有3個在曾經在將軍澳留下過故事，同事甲重遊舊地，可憐地給我們嘲弄一番，雖然只是玩笑，但不難看出笑容後的那種希冀、渴望。與同事乙回程時，更是無言以對。對的，因為我們都曾經放不下……科技實在太先進，資訊實在太發達，從網絡上得知，P君已為人婦，還育有一子。跟同事乙不同的是：我已沒有遺憾，留在將軍澳的只有祝福。******回到現實，今日跟母親品茗，遇到一位在初中時期心儀過的女生K君。還記得那時候，她在我讀的中學旁的女校讀書，小時候已經亭亭玉立，雖不算國色天香，可是離沉魚落雁之流亦不遠矣。小弟自是癩蛤蟆遠眺着湖裏千嬌百媚的小天鵝，只有看的份兒了。升讀高中之後已無聯絡，只記得某年在巴士的怒訴（roADshow）上看過她的廣告，現在看過去，鉛華盡洗是談不上，卻不知怎的臉上多了幾分滄桑。不知她最近過得如何？******23君的事，有時還會想起。她們一個一個的在我生命中出現，卻又無聲無色地消失。想起了岩崎良美的《思秋期》，在這一個人喝着紅茶的時刻，很想寄一張明信片給妳們……妳們近況可好？或者妳們從不在乎，不過我想說，託賴，我還過得不錯。謝謝妳們潤飾了我的人生。 (瀏覽全文發表評論) Blog地址：http://bbs.org.hk/pc/rss.php?userid=kcchan
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來自: 茄糞男作者: KevinLam 發信站: HKIBBS 香港網站時間: 2009-05-10 23:14:13 原文:http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/crazykevin/~3/yXi18dsm07c/

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周一嶽：索取內地個案資料[09:33]

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 7:01pm PDT

食物及衛生局長周一嶽表示，他們聯絡內地，了解內地首宗甲型H1N1流感疑似個案，希望獲得更多資料。

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VIDEO: Gary Vaynerchuk on Conferences, Consulting, Books, and Impending Fatherhood

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 7:00pm PDT

pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/GARYV1.jpg"/At the May 8 a href="http://bigomaha.com"BIGOmaha/a conference in Nebraska, web celebrity a href="http://garyvaynerchuk.com/"Gary Vaynerchuk/a took a few moments to talk to us about his experience at the small-town show, his new consultancy with his brother, and the expected arrival of a new Vaynerchuk./p p"People on the coasts get spoiled," Vaynerchuk said. "There's always things going on in LA, San Fran, New York. Not to say 'Omaha's lucky to have us.' Please. I'm not going in that direction. But there was definitely a great spirit in the room. People drove from two or three hours to be here. It was a very uplifting aspect."/p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d1.openx.org/ck.php?n=14993amp;cb=14993' target='_blank'img src='http://d1.openx.org/avw.php?zoneid=11205amp;cb=14993amp;n=14993' border='0' alt='' align="right" //a/p pobject width="610" height="494"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_YfpC0W1FVohl=enfs=1"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramparam name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_YfpC0W1FVohl=enfs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="610" height="494"/embed/object/p pVaynerchuk also chatted about his recent 10-book publishing deal, which might even include a title on parenting./p p"This new experience that I have coming soon [Vaynerchuk is expecting a new addition to his family in three weeks], for someone who really wants to crush it and be the biggest entrepreneur ever, I think it would be kind of interesting to look at fatherhood and balancing all that. I feel like other people are struggling with that."/p pHis first book, emCrush It/em, will be available in stores mid-October./p pVaynerchuk also talks about his work with a href="http://ObsessedTV.com"ObsessedTV.com/a and his latest endeavor, Vayner Media, a consulting service for celebrities, big brands, or anyone who needs to rule their niche./p pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/garyv.jpg"/ emPhoto credit a href="http://www.firesidemedia.net/"Jonathan Dingman/a./em/p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/gary_vaynerchuk_on_conferences_consulting_and_impe.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AQx9Law_ULaVCfH3XxpRGXApGVE/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AQx9Law_ULaVCfH3XxpRGXApGVE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AQx9Law_ULaVCfH3XxpRGXApGVE/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AQx9Law_ULaVCfH3XxpRGXApGVE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=2b-g0u5as34:oB8dGaTOHKE:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=2b-g0u5as34:oB8dGaTOHKE:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=2b-g0u5as34:oB8dGaTOHKE:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=2b-g0u5as34:oB8dGaTOHKE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=2b-g0u5as34:oB8dGaTOHKE:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=2b-g0u5as34:oB8dGaTOHKE:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=2b-g0u5as34:oB8dGaTOHKE:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=2b-g0u5as34:oB8dGaTOHKE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=2b-g0u5as34:oB8dGaTOHKE:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=2b-g0u5as34:oB8dGaTOHKE:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/2b-g0u5as34" height="1" width="1"/

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Micro-payments considered for WSJ website (Financial Times)

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 6:50pm PDT

Financial Times: Micro-payments considered for WSJ website — News Corp is planning to introduce micro-payments for individual articles and premium subscriptions to the Wall Street Journal's website this year, in a milestone in the news industry's race to find better online business models.

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Why We Need to Reach the Stars (and We Will)

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 6:50pm PDT

Yes, I know what you are thinking: "It's impossible." And right now, you are right. Our current propulsion engines are, simply put, pathetic. We are still in the Stone Age of space travel. As cool as they are, rocket engines—which eject gas at high speeds through a nozzle on the back of a spacecraft—are extremely inefficient, requiring huge... pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FHaD7_29Udjnz3Gp4amwXy5LHFM/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FHaD7_29Udjnz3Gp4amwXy5LHFM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FHaD7_29Udjnz3Gp4amwXy5LHFM/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FHaD7_29Udjnz3Gp4amwXy5LHFM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/digg/popular/~4/en1GPUjEzyU" height="1" width="1"/

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衛蘭6月推出英文專輯

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 6:49pm PDT by 3cmusic

衛蘭Janice於6月推出英文專輯，日前已完成錄音。碟內將會有爵士、R&B到pop-rock種類。以下是衛蘭於其論壇的留言︰ lots of traditional smooth jazz style , french jazz style , one or two r&b tracks some pop-rock songs that’s almost like avril lavigne’s style . don’t forget to pick up the album once its out sometime within this month or the next 資料來源︰Janice Forum Related Posts:香港歌手Twitter風出力！來派對！Monogel觀賞黃義達【完整演出】潘迪華at17音樂會6月23日日落搖滾，Sunset Rock Concert

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Obama: The Republican Party Does Not Qualify For A Bailout

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 6:40pm PDT

The White House Correspondents' Association's annual dinner got underway Saturday night. It's a chance for President Barack Obama to jab at the Washington establishment and perhaps chide his critics. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/odOkYVRiMgpiHReroLMDLaeTqaA/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/odOkYVRiMgpiHReroLMDLaeTqaA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/odOkYVRiMgpiHReroLMDLaeTqaA/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/odOkYVRiMgpiHReroLMDLaeTqaA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/digg/popular/~4/skGMgzzPjTQ" height="1" width="1"/
Top 25 Star Trek Characters

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 6:40pm PDT

The characters were chosen based on overall fan reaction, impact on the franchise, character relevance to the best moments in the films/series, and significance in the Trek universe. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4NckpDLnIrbdJoArgXhzUphzqEE/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4NckpDLnIrbdJoArgXhzUphzqEE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4NckpDLnIrbdJoArgXhzUphzqEE/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4NckpDLnIrbdJoArgXhzUphzqEE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/digg/popular/~4/vjmv-WHvvrc" height="1" width="1"/

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Ten Features To Love About Android 1.5

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 6:39pm PDT by kdawson

An anonymous reader writes "Last month, Google officially announced the Android 1.5 update, dubbed 'cupcake.' The new software is apparently ready to roll out to Android-powered devices beginning tomorrow. Make no mistake, Android 1.5 is a major upgrade mdash; they could have called it 2.0. The software brings a host of new capabilities, some of which can't be found on rival mobile platforms, including video recording and sharing."pa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/11/0057209amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/05/11/0057209"/a/ppa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/11/0057209amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zprQIvFevNVIbNAQ3qfsG9kdbuA/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zprQIvFevNVIbNAQ3qfsG9kdbuA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zprQIvFevNVIbNAQ3qfsG9kdbuA/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zprQIvFevNVIbNAQ3qfsG9kdbuA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/-xGnZcrk0ac" height="1" width="1"/

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Music Industry’s Plea for Pirate Bay Damages Backfires

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 6:30pm PDT

Ever since the the Pirate Bay verdict was announced, the poor record labels have been waiting to collect their share of the damages. The law firm representing several record labels has now filed a request at the Swedish Enforcement Authority, to claim anything of value from the Pirate Bay defendants. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MtWLeG-coP9FW5eQSp5rjy0Ckj4/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MtWLeG-coP9FW5eQSp5rjy0Ckj4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MtWLeG-coP9FW5eQSp5rjy0Ckj4/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MtWLeG-coP9FW5eQSp5rjy0Ckj4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/digg/popular/~4/g7iC22vfO7M" height="1" width="1"/
It's Happening: Humans on Mars by 2020

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 6:30pm PDT

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, says that humans will be on Mars by 2020. He may just be the person who makes it happen. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Y8DdT97ZHGPNkWYu2TtfXzezdJA/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Y8DdT97ZHGPNkWYu2TtfXzezdJA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Y8DdT97ZHGPNkWYu2TtfXzezdJA/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Y8DdT97ZHGPNkWYu2TtfXzezdJA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/digg/popular/~4/Xqn2Mkx8a1s" height="1" width="1"/

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愛爾蘭大學生，找到了維基百科與全球記者（永遠修不好）的大弱點！

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 6:27pm PDT by Mr. 6

上星期爆出一則很有趣的新聞（其他報導如這裡、這裡、這裡），法國作曲家Maurice Jarre在三月去世，全球哀悼，許多報紙紛紛開始報導他的事，講他講的東西，沒想到，過了一個月，有報紙發現事態不對── 大家發現，很多關於這位作曲家的報導都曾經提到他說過的一句名言：「大家可以說我的生命本身就像一首很長的歌曲。音樂就是我的人生，音樂讓我快樂活著，音樂也是我離世之後會記得的唯一。當我死的時候，會有一首最後的華爾滋在我腦中作最後的哼唱－－只有我才聽得到。」嘩，這句話，真的令人震憾，可不是嘛！讓人想到竟然有這麼一位音樂家如此喜愛音樂，認定了音樂不但是一時的靈感，還是一生的興趣，而且一直到死後！然後他現在真的死了，真的離世了，當然就是這句格言，令人最想拿來引用了，不是嘛？問題來了，這句名言，並不是Maurice Jarre說的。可怕的是明明不是這位作曲家說的，除非他真的從墳墓裡爬出來，不然，就算他最親密的學徒，也不敢保證他「沒說過」這句話，是吧？畢竟一位名人說的話有這麼多，隨便一句被記者抄起來就名留千史了。但，在四月的下旬，有好幾間報紙都收到一位叫做Shane Fitzgerald的人的信，告訴他們：「你們報錯了。」這傢伙其實是來「自首」，他想告訴這些大報，你們上當了，上我的當！原來，這位Shane Fitzgerald，其實是一位22歲的愛爾蘭大學生，這位學生主修社會學與經濟學，他是在做關於全球化的研究，他想證明記者們到底多仰賴網路上的資訊，到底全球的人是如何的連在一起……。這小子裝作一個熱情的Web 2.0網友，在大作曲家死掉的那個晚上，立刻「幫忙」修改了維基百科裡的「Maurice Jarre」內容，加了那一句自己假造的名言。他說當時他不想等到隔天早上，一定要趕快改，也還好他沒有等到隔天早上。據報導，由於這句話並沒有引述來源，因此維基百科管理員很快就將此段取下，然而這位大學生當晚再契而不捨放上去幾次，終於成功的讓這段話在維基百科放了至少24小時，這麼多時間，已經足夠讓全球的記者都跑上來看一看，在第一時間學到「誰是Maurice Jarre」，在第一時間學到這大作曲家的那句感人的名言。仔細看，誤報的報紙，至少竟然還包括英國的《The Guardian》、《The London Independent》，還有英國國家廣播電台的音樂雜誌，還有印度與澳洲的報紙。若再加入其他語言的報紙誤報的，可能為數更多！是的，維基百科雖然是全體共製，且有著不鬆散的審核程序，但它竟然有這麼一個「漏洞」，被這麼一個小子挖出來了── 一個小改，竟然能讓好幾位記者、好幾個媒體跟風了，這位大學生說，連他自己自己都覺得非常訝異，媒體竟這麼容易上勾！這個案例告訴我們，原來，全球媒體最脆弱的地方，就是在維基百科，而且是在某一則最新的新聞爆發出來的當天晚上！因為，有些記者本能的去找維基百科，這時候很容易「引到餌」，像這位大學生很聰明，已經知道記者肯定是針對作曲家的「死訊」而來，所以，他就巧妙的加了一句「關於死亡」的名言，記者在維基百科這麼多資訊中，當然就獨鍾這一則了，全部都乖乖的吃了這顆「餌」！意思是說，如果今天是發生某型號的小飛機墜機事件，那這型號小飛機以往的墜機記錄就是釣記者最好的「餌」；如果今天是某國家的漁船被海盜挾持到某港口，那以前該港口關於海盜的新聞也是釣記者最好的「餌」……。以此類推，我們在每次新聞爆出時，都可以在維基百科趕快加入什麼，維基百科平常要應付的事情這麼多，根本無法特別去注意這些問題，維基百科就算再厲害也無法緊跟著全球發生的這麼多新聞來解決這件事，而維基百科永遠都無藥可救的繼續是全球媒體最迅速的解藥！有多少篇報導曾經誤服了這解藥呢？從維基百科開始到現在的八年間，已經不可考了，但至少，現在，有些明眼人會有樣學樣了，只要維基百科依然存在，這樣的事情依然有可能發生在以後的任何事情上！我們可以如何利用這個漏洞呢？大家可以想一想。

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Blackberry Driftwood “Confirmed” For T-mobile In September

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 6:25pm PDT by David

While this isn’t the first time we’ve gotten wind of a Blackberry codenamed “Driftwood,” our friends at Boygenius are running with two “sources” who are “confirming” this device for T-mobile in September. Hopefully, rumored to be the first 3G Blackberry device, this should hopefully introduce a little more excitement than the Gemini and its lacking feature set. Rumored specs include the much appreciated 3G, 3.2 megapixel camera, wi-fi with UMA, optical trackpad and GPS. While we’re still going to hold this in the rumored category, we hope to be able to use the words, Blackberry, 3G and T-mobile in more sentences in our postings! Via Boygenius

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Thousands of civilians flee Pakistani offensive (AFP)

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 6:20pm PDT

AFP - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari denied his nuclear-armed nation was on the verge of collapse as top US officials Sunday welcomed his government's bloody military offensive against the Taliban.

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6 People Who Made A Living Playing Retarded 'Sports'

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 6:20pm PDT

Quick: what's the dumbest way a person can make a living? Personal shopper? Doggie day care? Reality show star? Well, we can top all of those. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4b8IXlD4EBQD4Gdm6Q5qwd3wd8c/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4b8IXlD4EBQD4Gdm6Q5qwd3wd8c/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4b8IXlD4EBQD4Gdm6Q5qwd3wd8c/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4b8IXlD4EBQD4Gdm6Q5qwd3wd8c/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/digg/popular/~4/tdFTQN1LMVg" height="1" width="1"/

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難做的電影發行

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 6:19pm PDT by hongkongfilms

電影發行這一門一向都不算好做，近年情況更加嚴峻。當中較小規模的發行隨著相關戲院結業空間減少，可是即使是大院線簽了荷里活相關的大製作公司，又有其困難之處。(閱讀全文)

Mr. 6 - 趨勢．創業．網路．生活

宗教比較網站Patheos開站立刻引起注意，「因異而同」原來也是一種分眾？

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 6:12pm PDT by Mr. 6

上周在《時代雜誌》看到一則有趣的新聞，上周二，有個新網站剛剛開站了，而且輕鬆就上了主流媒體，引起注意！它叫做「Patheos」，這是一個關於「宗教」的網站。宗教的網站？什麼啊？首先，報導先提到據Pew Research Center的統計，竟然有高達50%的美國民眾，在一生中的某個階段轉換了他們的宗教，大部份的人在何時轉換宗教呢？26歲。也就是網路目前最首重的年紀。如果26歲前的美國人對宗教都還在「shopping」的階段，那這個網站就有意義了── Patheos基本上提供了高達50種世界宗教的「內容」，它好像百貨公司的櫃台，將一個宗教一個宗教的教義，用簡單的語言陳列出來。它的初衷是，人們本來就各有信一種宗教，不過人們太「害羞」，對於其他宗教不敢去一窺真面目，除了一些百科全書以外，沒有一個網站是「跨宗教」的，大家各有各的主觀意識，若要開一個網站，當然是開自己宗教的，除了自己的宗教外，其他所有宗教都是睡覺。美國還另外有個和Patheos類似的網站「Beliefnet」，目前是全世界最大的宗教資訊網站，每個月不重覆拜訪者高達300萬人，兩年前才剛被News Corp買走，但，Beliefnet的出發點仍然比較像是「各掃門前雪」，「你看你的宗教，我看我的宗教」，Beliefnet只是將所有宗教的使用者放在同個域名下，各看各的，但，Patheos卻大膽的探索宗教之間的「差異」。差異？在網路上，這兩個字，幾乎可以打開一個藍海新市場。怎麼說呢？因為，「差異」一向不是好的網站題材！網站總是在找尋「相同興趣」的，就算是小眾興趣也會成功。此外，專挖「差異」的網站往往流於理論，一開出來，馬上變成戰場，引來全世界最熱情的戳樂(troller、又名戳客)、惡搞者，搞到這個網站已經沒人在講人話。因此，Patheos可說是相當特別，竟然去尋求宗教間的「差異」？假設Patheos真的能做到「公平」，那真令人好奇，Patheos到底是「哪一種人」創辦的？原來，Patheos的創辦人是一對夫妻叫Leo和Cathie，他們篤信不同的宗教，之前卻各有一段不愉快婚姻，各帶著兩個小孩過來結婚。由於他們小孩都大了，一來突然要和其他小孩生活在一起，二來對方的生活卻是完全不同的宗教，在「融合」上很是困難，於是，這位新婚夫妻努力的找尋彼此相同的地方，解釋彼此不同的地方，覺得好累！好煩！而且沒人可幫忙！（因為大家都各管各的宗教，對其他沒有包容力）。這對夫妻發願，他們也想幫助其他和他們有一樣困擾的人！於是，就設立了這麼一個Patheos網站，希望幫幫這樣跨宗教家庭的忙，找到宗教間的差異、雷同、與融合的「點」。事實上，其實要做一個像Patheos的網站，也不是太難，百科全書、各類文獻，應該都有記載到這些宗教的點點滴滴，收集起來就好了。Patheos目前已收集了高達50個全球各種的宗教（不過，有好幾個大宗教卻都是「Coming Soon」，不知道創辦人是故意的還是真的還沒準備好而已……）有趣的是，在網路上提供這樣一個「宗教大全」，只要一開，做法就馬上不同，看，他們可以很輕鬆的找來YouTube影片關於這些宗教相關的，也可以用Google Maps來顯示那些宗教的起源，然後還可導到Amazon去購買這些宗教相關的書籍。是的，沒錯，靠這樣賺錢，很容易了！它從Amazon那邊弄來一個旋轉型的線上商品陳列架，碰到印度教就賣印度教的書，碰到猶太教就賣猶太教的書，創辦人只要將以上這些網路上的內容全部擺在同一張頁面上，就成了一個很有趣的Patheos網站，所有對宗教差異有興趣的，通通都來這邊「搞定」他想知道的所有入門資訊！有趣的是，這個網站也有一個叫「Public Square」的Web 2.0討論空間，但，既然是一堆差異者在此，他們對「討論」很是小心。Patheos其實很敢「玩火」，它每周都會提出一場「辯論」(debate)，關於一個很可能「踩線」的宗教議題，譬如這周與下周是「同性結婚」，下下周是「存在的意義」，都是一討論就會吵架、打架的。但Patheos除了有專人在控管，且版規嚴格外，他們也夠聰明，竟然和哈佛大學與南加大的教授合作，幫忙出這些「題目」，今年九月的新學期也有一整班的大一學生要以Patheos為主要討論工具。換句話說，這個站一開始出發就是充滿「學術味」，有了「維基百科的高度」，而這些教授與學者，還真的是一個網站想快速收集智慧，最好的來源（大家怎麼沒想到呢？），只要輕鬆繞一圈校園，就可以為Patheos得到一些超棒的資料。據時代雜誌提到Patheos它甚至研究「科學教」之所以有許多名人加人，其中一個原因或許是因為它說個人的成功可以讓他超越人的界限？ Patheos的立意很讚，它提醒了我們，現在網路上所重視的，都是把「相同的人」找在一起，成為一個共同興趣的網站。不過，有小部份的人，雖然把守自己的性質，卻仍然喜歡「看看別人都在想什麼？」，他們信一個教，也喜歡看看其他宗教在做什麼，他們喜歡「全部一起看」，看得愈全面，愈感受到世界的全貌！這樣的一撮人，雖然站在不同的觀點，其實也是同一種人，他們相同的特質，就是他們對對方的「差異」有興趣！這樣，不也是某一種「同」嗎？這叫做「因異而同」。還有沒有像Patheos這樣，讓一群「因異而同」的人在上面交流的網站？除了宗教外，還有哪些東西，是我們個人有個人的信念，卻可以輕鬆的「跨領域」，在上面瀟灑的說話的？有沒有這樣的網站，讓他們可以去？例：收集所有性別主義者的網站，讓女性主義、男性主義、以及所有的中間人都可以在此處做個和平的聊天與相處，發掘彼此更多的不同的地方？例：收集所有華語地方的方言的網站，或住在全世界的華人的網站，在此處做一個和平的聊天與相處，發掘彼此世界共同的美好？ Patheos還是太靜態了些。如果有哪個新網站想要挑戰「因異而同」，那接下來的挑戰，就是如何讓這些同樣喜歡找尋「異資訊」的人，能心平氣和的做一些高品質的互動，或許是給他們版主、大學生小學生之類的「階級」之類的，如果世上有這麼多小眾網站，那麼，「因異而同」的網站又有多少？我們不必再找小眾了，有這麼另一個叫做「因異而同」的大眾，還在那邊等著呢！

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T-mobile To Launch “Many” Android Devices In 2009!

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 6:10pm PDT by David

Well this is the exact kind of news that brightens up the day for me when I blog! Cole Brodman, T-mobile USA CTO recently spoke to Om Malik at his blog GigaOM and had this to say about Android and T-mobile: “We are looking to launch multiple Android-based devices in the second half of this year with three partners.” Ok, that sounds good to me, anyone else have a complaint about multiple manufacturers producing Android equipment?! Didn’t think so. We can take a pretty good guess at at least two of the partners, the obvious being HTC MyTouch and Samsung, with the third possibly, in the guess of this writer, Huawei, having heard rumblings/rumors of their desire to bring Android to the United States. Aside from all the phone talk, Brodman continued to hint at Android coming to Netbooks, going so far as saying he has even seen demo versions of devices running the Android platform. Hmmmmm, interesting!! GigaOM via Engadget

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US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,287 (AP)

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 6:10pm PDT

AP - As of Sunday, May 10, 2009, at least 4,287 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

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Force Behind BlackBerry Makes N.H.L. His New Challenge

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 6:10pm PDT

A chief executive of BlackBerry is on a mission to bring the bankrupt Phoenix Coyotes back to Canada — which put him on a path to national sainthood of sorts. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rtmQNSQ-ISp0lKAHOyJHMWK5FmY/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rtmQNSQ-ISp0lKAHOyJHMWK5FmY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rtmQNSQ-ISp0lKAHOyJHMWK5FmY/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rtmQNSQ-ISp0lKAHOyJHMWK5FmY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/digg/popular/~4/FF8uNd2h7mI" height="1" width="1"/

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It’s Not the Data, But What You Do With It

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 6:09pm PDT by Om Malik

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For the longest time, I have had an unshaken belief in the Internet’s core truth: It is a vast repository of data that can be tapped to build interesting, and perhaps exciting, experiences. In other words, it is not just the data, but what you really do with it — something that was brought home [...]

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Goin back to Westfordzeusville » Technology

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 6:08pm PDT by jmrodri

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The iPhone's secret silicon: A need to know?

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 6:00pm PDT

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Brain surgery patient left in OR after doc no-show

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 6:00pm PDT

One of the highest-paid doctors in New York refused to perform brain surgery on an already-anesthetized patient whose scheduled surgeon had failed to show up, and the state health department is investigating. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ICsTLIAAO-wA24_-Nd2Net03IKM/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ICsTLIAAO-wA24_-Nd2Net03IKM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ICsTLIAAO-wA24_-Nd2Net03IKM/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ICsTLIAAO-wA24_-Nd2Net03IKM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/digg/popular/~4/pYIJFkcI44g" height="1" width="1"/

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MyTmobile To Get Makeover On May 24th!

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 5:51pm PDT by David

I think its a safe to say that all of us are fairly familiar with the standard My-Tmobile homescreen and the various features and services it can provide. With that in mind, change is coming in the form of the above screenshot showing the revamped MyTmobile page set to launch May 24th. Details are limited on what if any “real” improvements this page will offer other than aesthetic changes but employees have gone through a training so hopefully they can pipe in via the comments!

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Overcome the GFC: 30 Days to Become a Freelancer

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 5:50pm PDT

If you’ve ever thought about freelancing part-time but never done it, this post may help you. Most people never follow through on those thoughts because they are overwhelmed and confused by the process of starting a freelance business. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7yZCOLFg5d-EsO01d87i0c-4JFo/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7yZCOLFg5d-EsO01d87i0c-4JFo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7yZCOLFg5d-EsO01d87i0c-4JFo/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7yZCOLFg5d-EsO01d87i0c-4JFo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/digg/popular/~4/kHkvZouGe5c" height="1" width="1"/
8 Simple Free Photoshop Alternatives that are under 2 MB

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 5:40pm PDT

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深水埗客貨車被縱火無人傷

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 5:38pm PDT

深水埗一輛客貨車懷疑被縱火，無人受傷。

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Lois Whitman Now An Unwilling Case Study In How Not To Do PR

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 5:33pm PDT by Michael Arrington

The Lois Whitman how-not-to-do-PR saga continues. She was called out by us and others in December for verbally abusing bloggers and spamming Wall Street Journal and New York Times reporters. Things quieted down when she issued an apology, saying “Official Apology to Rich Brome And All Offended Bloggers -Just posted this on Twitter. Received over 100 emails, most of them angry. They are right. I was wrong. Thank you for the support emails but this is the right thing to do. Amazed by the power of viral marketing and learned a lot. I should take the heat. I love the blogger community and I did them wrong. I apologize.” But now the PRSA, always willing to eat their own, is holding a seminar called Social Media for Skeptics: The Care and Feeding of Bloggers in Colorado. The description: “Pitching a blogger is like pitching a reporter — a reporter who can and will publicize and criticize and rationalize your every word. So, can you pitch a blogger to cover a story for your company or client? Yes! But do it wrong, and you might just end up like Lois Whitman (we’ll tell you who Lois Whitman is and what she did at the session!).” Whitman isn’t pleased and has commented a couple of times in the blog post. Screen shot is below. I completely understand Whitman’s desire to leave this whole mess in the past and not to have PR seminars dedicated to avoiding her situation. But her new comments also make it clear that she was never really that sorry for her actions. Rather, she was just sorry she got slammed for it - an important distinction. This is how she now characterizes what happened last December: “The bottom line of my story is that I emailed press releases to a list of high profile bloggers signed up for a trade show. They didnt know their names were being issued to publicists. So I took the heat for an entire industry. Many of them are now closefriends.” Read our post for the real story. We don’t quite see her as the defender of the PR industry. Rather the opposite. I feel sorry for Doyle Albee, who now has to face Whitman’s potent wrath. Crunch Network: CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0

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Ruthless Chelsea demolish Arsenal (AFP)

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 5:33pm PDT

AFP - Chelsea manager Guus Hiddink delivered a damning verdict on the gap between Arsenal and the rest of the 'big-four' after his side handed the Gunners their heaviest home league defeat for 32 years.

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龔如心爭產案今正式揭幕

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 5:30pm PDT

為期40天的龔如心爭產案審訊今午正式揭幕，龔如心的500億元遺產最後花落誰家，難以預測。
廉署首季貪污舉報增2成

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 5:30pm PDT

廉署表示，今年首季收到超過500宗私營機構的貪污舉報，較去年增加2成，以製造業及飲食業的舉報最多。

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Do Your Hugs Suck? [Geek School Projects]

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 5:30pm PDT by matt buchanan

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龔如心爭產案今正式揭幕[08:16]

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 5:27pm PDT

為期40天的龔如心爭產案審訊今午正式揭幕，龔如心的500億元遺產最後花落誰家，難以預測。

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Lenovo On the Future of the Netbook

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 5:26pm PDT by kdawson

thefickler touts an interview in tech.blorge with Lenovo's Worldwide Competitive Analyst, Matt Kohut, who spoke about his vision of the future of netbooks, which involves Windows 7, bigger screens, built-in 3G, touch integration, and lower prices. Linux fans will be disappointed to hear that Kohut thinks Windows 7 will dominate future generations of netbooks because it offers a better, more familiar solution, with the benefits of touch. Quoting Kohut: "The other challenge has been, in order to keep the price points down, a lot of people thought that Linux would be the savior of all of these netbooks. You know, there were a lot of netbooks loaded with Linux, which saves $50 or $100 or whatever it happens to be, based on Microsoft's pricing and, again, from an industry standpoint, there were a lot of returns because people didn't know what to do with it. Linux, even if you've got a great distribution and you can argue which one is better or not, still requires a lot more hands-on than somebody who is using Windows. So, we've seen overwhelmingly people wanting to stay with Windows because it just makes more sense: you just take it out of the box and it's ready to go."pa href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/10/2147256amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/05/10/2147256"/a/ppa href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/10/2147256amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nrt2FANYmsA4BeN2QpVAK9LnFv4/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nrt2FANYmsA4BeN2QpVAK9LnFv4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nrt2FANYmsA4BeN2QpVAK9LnFv4/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nrt2FANYmsA4BeN2QpVAK9LnFv4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/BAUNwffZkWc" height="1" width="1"/

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北角店舖疑遭人縱火

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 5:25pm PDT

北角艇街4號一間店舖，凌晨懷疑遭人縱火，消防員到場，將火救熄，幸沒有人受傷。

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Mexico out of China trade fair amid swine flu flap (AP)

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 5:20pm PDT

AP - Mexico's government on Sunday called China's treatment of its citizens unacceptable and said it would not participate in a Shanghai trade fair in a bitter dispute over anti-swine flu measures adopted by the Asian giant.

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Why Education Matters

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 5:20pm PDT

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北角店舖疑遭人縱火[08:12]

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 5:18pm PDT

北角艇街4號一間店舖，凌晨懷疑遭人縱火，消防員到場，將火救熄，幸沒有人受傷。

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SmartQ 7 Internet Tablet spotted in the wild, priced

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 5:15pm PDT by Laura June

We just caught our first glimpse of the SmartQ 7 Internet Tablet a few days ago, and now it's already showing up out and about on display. A few more of the tablet's specs have emerged since our initial gander, including the fact that it'll house a 667MHz Samsung ARM S3C6410 CPU, 128MB of RAM, and 1GB of flash memory. Apparently, a limited number of these bad boys will be available in China in the next two months, and it's expected to run CNY1,289 (about $190). [Via Pocketables] Filed under: Handhelds, Portable Audio, Portable VideoSmartQ 7 Internet Tablet spotted in the wild, priced originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 10 May 2009 19:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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SNL: STAR TREK Stars Plead With Hardcore Trekkies (vid)

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 5:10pm PDT

Last night, Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto of the new Trek movie, along with veteran cast member Leonard Nimoy, stopped by Weekend Update for a fresh spin on an old gag. Only this time, Captain Kirk took on longtime Trek fans who don't appreciate J.J. Abrams' revamp. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rZ3EcB-RSG3Md8Pwb6CgLhy2wmc/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rZ3EcB-RSG3Md8Pwb6CgLhy2wmc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rZ3EcB-RSG3Md8Pwb6CgLhy2wmc/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rZ3EcB-RSG3Md8Pwb6CgLhy2wmc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/digg/popular/~4/qAwdxD2a1Ro" height="1" width="1"/

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Best of SPE, 10 May 2009

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 5:08pm PDT by Dieter Bohn

p align="center"img src="http://images.crackberry.com/files/u24272/aroundspe2.png" class="lightbox2" alt="Around SPE" //p pEach week we bring you the best of SPE. This week, The iPhone Blog brings you a gigantic a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/category/contests/birthdaybash09" title="Birthday Bash Contest"Birthday Bash Contest/a with a grand prize of a a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/05/06/tipb-birthday-bash-09-win-unlocked-colorware-iphone-3g/" title="Factory Unlocked iPhone 3G done up, Colorware-style"Factory Unlocked iPhone 3G done up, Colorware-style/a. Crackberry.com had the a href="http://crackberry.com/wes2009" title="WES 2009 Conference covered six ways from Sunday"WES 2009 Conference covered six ways from Sunday/a, too. Meanwhile, Nokia Experts stood out as the single best place to find out all there is know about the just-released a href="http://nokiaexperts.com/good-bad-ugly-att-nokia-e71x/" title="Nokia E71x"Nokia E71x/a. There's much more, so read on!/p lt;!--break-- h2a href="http://www.androidcentral.com" title="Android Central"Android Central/a/h2 pWe're pretty excited that a href="http://www.androidcentral.com/t-mobile-officially-rolling-out-android-15-cupcake-update-next-week" title="Android 1.5 is getting pushed out to T-Mobile G1s"Android 1.5 is getting pushed out to T-Mobile G1s/a this week and took a look at the a href="http://www.androidcentral.com/android-15-cupcake-update-gets-official-video-tour" title="official tour"official tour/a. Rumors of a href="http://www.androidcentral.com/dell-making-android-netbook" title="Android-powered netbooks persist"Android-powered netbooks persist/a but aren't quite enough to take our eyes off this a href="http://www.androidcentral.com/updated-g1-one-sexy-slider" title="sexy update to the G1"sexy update to the G1/a./p h2a href="http://crackberry.com" title="CrackBerry.com"CrackBerry.com/a/h2 pIf you've missed our stupendous WES 2009 coverage, a href="http://crackberry.com/wes2009" title="we have you covered right here"we have you covered right here/a. The big news of the conference was clearly the a href="http://www.crackberry.com/wes-2009-bes-5-0-goes-live" title="BES 5.0 announcement"BES 5.0 announcement/a, but the fact that the a href="http://www.crackberry.com/t-confirms-8900-launch" title="BlackBerry Curve 8900 is coming to ATamp;T"BlackBerry Curve 8900 is coming to ATamp;T/a is nothing to sniff at either. Not enough? How about the a href="http://crackberry.com/first-look-blackberry-onyx-spotted-wild" title="BlackBerry Onyx in the wild"BlackBerry Onyx in the wild/a and confirmation that a a href="http://crackberry.com/jim-baisillie-confirms-storm-2-reuters" title="Storm 2 is in the works"Storm 2 is in the works/a?/p h2a href="http://www.nokiaexperts.com" title="Nokia Experts"Nokia Experts/a/h2 pA big big week at Nokia Experts! The Nokia E71x is out on ATamp;T and, well, there's some a href="http://nokiaexperts.com/good-bad-ugly-att-nokia-e71x/" title="bad news to impart: ATamp;T locked it down pretty tight"bad news to impart: ATamp;T locked it down pretty tight/a. The hardware is as good as ever, though. Fortunately for everybody, Nokia Experts is on the case with a href="http://nokiaexperts.com/att-nokia-e71x-tips/" title="Tips for improving your Nokia E71x experience"Tips for improving your Nokia E71x experience/a, walkthroughs for a href="http://nokiaexperts.com/nokia-email-roadsync-4-work-att-nokia-e71x/" title="installing RoadSync 4, Nokia Maps, and Nokia Email"installing RoadSync 4, Nokia Maps, and Nokia Email/a, a href="http://nokiaexperts.com/recommended-accessories-att-nokia-e71x/" title="recommended E71x accessories"recommended E71x accessories/a, and a look at a href="http://nokiaexperts.com/att-nokia-e71x-att-navigator-pocketable-gps-assistant/" title="ATamp;T Navigator"ATamp;T Navigator/a. On top of all that, a full review of a href="http://nokiaexperts.com/review-myphone-21-turns-nokia-5800-xm-iphone-clone/" title="MyPhone 2.1 shows you how to iPhonify your Nokia 5800"MyPhone 2.1 shows you how to iPhonify your Nokia 5800/a and the 8-hour-talk-time a href="http://nokiaexperts.com/nokia-announces-e52-8-hour-talk-time/" title="Nokia E52 was released."Nokia E52 was released./a/p h2a href="http://precentral.net" title="PreCentral.net"PreCentral.net/a/h2 pAs a href="http://www.precentral.net/todays-rumor-roundup-june-7th-still-table" title="the rumors zero in on June 7th as the most likely launch date of the Pre"the rumors zero in on June 7th as the most likely launch date of the Pre/a, we saw somebody (likely Palm) release a href="http://www.precentral.net/pre-release-date-desperation-setting" title="some sort of Pre hostage spoof"some sort of Pre hostage spoof/a and internal a href="http://www.precentral.net/palm-pre-training-vid" title="Sprint training videos"Sprint training videos/a surface. We learned that the a href="http://www.precentral.net/palm-pre-be-released-canadas-bell-network-exclusively" title="Pre is heading to Canada"Pre is heading to Canada/a and also a href="http://www.precentral.net/pre-landing-down-under-august" title="Australia"Australia/a too. Meanwhile Best Buy continues to be a a href="http://www.precentral.net/best-buy-and-pre-take-ii" title="rich vein of Pre rumors"rich vein of Pre rumors/a as a href="http://www.precentral.net/pre-accessories-show-best-buys-system" title="Palm Pre Accessories and Cases"Palm Pre Accessories and Cases/a appeared on their systems./p h2a href="http://www.tipb.com" title="The iPhone Blog"The iPhone Blog/a/h2 pa href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/category/contests/birthdaybash09" title="TiPb Birthday Bash!"TiPb Birthday Bash!/a That's right, to celebrate our first anniversary, we're giving away an a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/category/contests/birthdaybash09" title="UNLOCKED ColorWare iPhone 3G"UNLOCKED ColorWare iPhone 3G/a all decked out in your choice of custom finishes. We're also giving away a bunch of accessories like a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/05/07/tipb-birthday-bash-win-mophie-juice-pack-battery-packcase-iphone-3g/" title="battery packs"battery packs/a, a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/05/08/tipb-birthday-bash-slacker-radio-iharmonix-platinum-iseries-stereo-earphones/" title="earphones"earphones/a, a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/05/09/tipb-birthday-bash-win-rolando-topple-2-wordfu-jabra-bt530-bluetooth-headset/" title="Bluetooth headsets"Bluetooth headsets/a, and a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/05/09/tipb-birthday-bash-mothers-day-special-appigo-apps-griffin-clarifi-case/" title="cases"cases/a, a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/05/08/tipb-birthday-bash-video-win-100-itunes-gift-card/" title="iTunes gift cards"iTunes gift cards/a, and a whole a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/category/contests/birthdaybash09" title="ton of apps"ton of apps/a. Contests end Tuesday, so go a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/category/contests/birthdaybash09/" title="enter now"enter now/a and win, win, WIN!/p pOh, yeah, and Apple released a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/05/06/iphone-30-beta-develpers/" title="iPhone 3.0 Beta 5"iPhone 3.0 Beta 5/a, with confirmation of a a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/05/07/iphone-30-beta-5-digital-compass-settings-debug-menu/" title="digital compass"digital compass/a for the a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/tag/iphone-hd/" title="next generation iPhone hardware"next generation iPhone hardware/a, a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/05/07/iphone-30-beta-5-app-store-agebased-restrictions-parental-control/" title="age-based parental controls for the App Store"age-based parental controls for the App Store/a, a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/05/07/iphone-30-beta-5-email-podcast-links-ipod-app/" title="email podcast links from iPod app"email podcast links from iPod app/a, and a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/05/06/iphone-30-beta-5-mms-hidden-att-devs/" title="MMS"MMS/a and a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/05/06/itunes-82-prerelease-2-blocks-carrier-file-change/" title="Tethering now locked out on ATamp;T"Tethering now locked out on ATamp;T/a?! We've updated our now-even-more massive a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/03/23/preview-iphone-os-30-beta-software-walkthrough/" title="iPhone 3.0 Walkthrough"iPhone 3.0 Walkthrough/a with all that and more, check it out!/p h2a href="http://www.treocentral.com" title="TreoCentral"TreoCentral/a/h2 pOur Treo Forums have been active with talk about one of the perennial problems with Treos: ROMs. In this case, there are a lot of Sprint Treo Pros out in the wild featuring pre-release 1.03 ROMs instead of the official 1.04. We a href="http://treocentral.com/content/Stories/2543-1.htm" title="covered the topic and issued a buyer-beware"covered the topic and issued a buyer-beware/a to let you know that you shouldn't buy Sprint Treo Pros with the older ROM. Fortunately, if you're stuck on a 1.03 Sprint Treo Pro, these a href="http://discussion.treocentral.com/treo-pro/179488-collective-effort-upgrading-1-03-1-04-sprint-1-03-owners.html#post1597384" title="instructions in our forums should be enough for a Sprint employee to upgrade your phone"instructions in our forums should be enough for a Sprint employee to upgrade your phone/a./p h2a href="http://www.wmexperts.com" title="WMExperts"WMExperts/a/h2 pA relatively random smattering of news last week. 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links for 2009-05-10

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 5:06pm PDT by mdoeff

CEOs Who Use Twitter: Tweets from the Chiefs - BusinessWeek "…we bring you nearly 50 CEOs who find tweeting a personal and professional delight… So read on to learn how Virgin Group's Richard Branson, Zappos.com's Tony Hsieh, and dozens more CEOs harness the simple powers of Twitter. (tags: twitter)

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Man-Wearable Control Units for Military Robotics

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 5:00pm PDT by Lt-Col A. Tack

Man-Wearable Control Units for Military Robotics Sunday, February 01 2009 It is no secret that robots are rapidly asserting themselves in todays military applications. For the duration of the Iraq War, robots have roamed the streets of Baghdad, Fallujah, and other Iraqi cities. And, last summer, we saw the introduction of the first-ever armed robots being deployed into battle the special weapons observation remote reconnaissance direct action system (SWORDS) robots come equipped with M249 machine guns and were designed not just for reconnaissance, but also warfare. These robots, however, have yet to fire their weapons because of concerns over friendly fire and civilian casualties. The Army, interested in the ways that robots could aid in fighting, has yet to become comfortable with the security of using robots in more than a support and reconnaissance capacity. Part of the reason for this concern has to do with the way that robots are being controlled on the battlefield today. Historically, robots have been controlled from afar, by a pelicancase- based controller. In this scenario, robot operators are stationed remotely and control the robot using cameras, audio feedback from a fire team, and other cues. While this method has the advantage of keeping the human operator away from the dangers of the battlefield, it severely limits the operators ability to understand what is happening on the ground and make rapid tactical decisions. It is this disconnect, at least in part, that is responsible for much of the concern the Army has regarding robots being used for shooting or other quick-action tasks. A better option for robotic control and one that has gained traction in recent military tests is for the operator control unit to be worn by a member of the fire team. This approach, though not without limitations, provides the operator with a more up - front perspective and the ability to make safer and more accurate decisions than the remotely-positioned operator. Test Case for Man-Wearable Control Units Last summer, the Army Robotic Systems Joint Project Office (RSJPO) hosted an event at Fort Benning that was instructive regarding the future of military robotics. Formed as a joint venture between the Army and Marine Corps, the RSJPO showcased a pair of armed robots and explored their usefulness as assets to an assault fire team. Figure 1. The Armys MAARS robot, developed by Foster Miller. The first robot was the Armys MAARS robot (Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System), developed by Foster Miller (see Figure 1). The MAARS robot leveraged the traditional approach to operator control, stationing a remote controller away from the fire team. While the robot was effective in achieving many of its objectives, the remotely stationed pelican- case controller revealed a couple of limitations. First, one member of the fire team had to be stationed remotely. This meant that this fire team member could not be on the ground to coordinate mission specifics and work with his team. It also meant that the controller was stranded in another location theoretically, if not practically, alone and in danger as the rest of his fire team was completing a mission. The second issue was the communication lag that existed between the fire team members close to the robot and the operator stationed remotely. Like an elementary school game of telephone in which students struggle to maintain the meaning of a message as it is passed from one student to the next, the operator had to interpret the suggestions and comments from other fire team members on the ground. These two problems signaled not a problem with the MAARS robot, but rather, the manner in which it was being controlled. Figure 2. The Marine Corpss Gladiator robot, developed by Carnegie Mellon. The second robot being evaluated was the Marine Corpss Gladiator robot (developed by Carnegie Mellon), shown in Figure 2. This robot leveraged a man-wearable control unit in which a member of the fire team was able to directly control the robot via a system worn on his vest. Not only did this improve the speed and accuracy with which the robot could be controlled, but it also improved the cohesiveness and effectiveness of the fire team. The controller, no longer stationed remotely, could perform other duties as part of the fire team when not busy controlling the Gladiator robot. The Role of a Robotic Squad Member The advantages of having a man-wearable control unit only apply insofar as the robotic squad member provides a certain level of service, safety, and advantage. As is alluded to above, a man-wearable control unit offers an embedded fire team a number of advantages over a remotely positioned pelican-case controller. Soldiers are free to remain as part of a cohesive fire team, the cadence of operations is not impeded by communications back to a remote operator, firepower is im proved because of the local operators improved perspective, and the setup and movement of the control unit is considerably easier when it is appended to a soldier in the field. However, these advantages come with a few detractions; namely, increased risk to the operator in the field, operator loading, and the increased burden of protecting the operator while the robot is being controlled. Thus, while the man-wearable control unit is proving to be a superior choice than a pelican-casebased control unit, there are several key characteristics that the controller must adhere to. For the robot to be beneficial to a fire team, it must provide the team with an advantage without handicapping the fire team or compromising the mission. There are potential conflicting levels of importance on freeing up the soldiers and enabling the robot to take an increased role in surveillance and firepower. In one way, the man-wearable control unit frees up the operator when compared to a pelican-case-based controller. No longer stranded remotely, the operator is a more effective participant; but, controlling from the field means that, when controlling, the operator is somewhat distracted. This leads to handicapping: With all of the value of a manwearable control unit, care must be taken to ensure that the benefits (improved effectiveness of both the robot and operator) are not outweighed by negative consequences (increased danger due to operator distraction). Beyond these elements, the concerns pertaining to the robotic squad member are the same as they would be for a remotely controlled unit. Servicing, transport, and reliability are likely to be similar in both man-wearable and remote-location control scenarios. While the argument could be made that man-wearable control could provide efficiencies in these areas because of the ability to directly communicate with the robot, these advantages are likely to be few. The primary concern regarding robotic control in theater, then, remains the safety and effectiveness of the fire team. Requirements for a Man-Wearable Control Unit In order to minimize danger to the fire team and improve effectiveness, the robotic control unit should be easy and natural to use, thus minimally burdening the operator both physically and mentally. Weight is a key concern. Pelican case controllers are impractical for manwearable scenarios because of their excessive weight; such a controller would literally weigh down the fire team member to an unacceptable extent. The ideal control unit, then, should weigh no more than a couple of pounds. At this weight, the soldier can easily wear the system on his or her vest without negatively impacting mobility. Figure 3. (Left) iRobots Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle (SUGV) leverages Quantum3Ds Thermite Tactical Visual Computer for command and control (right). Reliability is another key concern. Identifying a lightweight processor that is sufficiently ruggedized can be a difficult proposition. Not only should the processor be enclosed in an indestructible casing (to prevent it from being damaged as the soldier crawls or drops to the ground), but it also needs to be sufficiently protected from the elements. This means that the unit should be rated for extreme temperatures, be sand- and dirt-proof, and be capable of running in wet conditions. This balance of ruggedness and weight requires a different approach. Even traditional tough laptop computing solutions are insufficient. Robotic control requires an embedded system that is specifically designed for deployed military applications, such as the Thermite Tactical Visual Computer shown in Figure 3. Such a computer is necessary for reliability. All of the graphics capability in the world is worthless if the processor is incapable of performing in the field. No less important for the control unit is a long battery life. The objective is to ensure continued operation for prolonged periods of time. And, finally, the system must deliver clear graphics and video capabilities, without which the systems convenience would be made irrelevant. At the beginning of the article, we noted that the only armed robots in Iraq the SWORDS have yet to fire their weapons in battle. This has to do with the fact that it is difficult to make fire/no fire decisions from a remote location. The rounds from a submachine gun will travel through multiple bodies or walls, making the decision to fire a potentially devastating incident. The decision to fire is something that soldiers are trained for, and something that a remote operator, with limited information, is under-qualified to determine. The soldier on the ground, however, has been trained to make these decisions and has a more accurate perspective of the robots position. The operator with the man-wearable control unit has not only the training, but also the positioning to make these types of critical determinations. It is these types of situations that ultimately point to the power of a man-wearable system. While caution needs to be exercised and procedures put in place to protect the field-embedded operator, the value derived from having an embedded operator far outweighs the risks. As with the fire/no fire decision, the embedded operator is able to maximize the value of what the robot was initially intended to provide battlefield assistance that improves soldier safety and increases the likelihood of mission success. This article was written by Rick Davis, Principal Application Engineer for Quantum3D, San Jose, CA. For more information, click here. Link

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Air strikes 'drive Afghans to Taliban'

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 5:00pm PDT

Charges that scores of villagers died in US bombings against the Taliban have led to demands for a halt in air strikes amid warnings that civilian casualties are driving Afghans to join the insurgency. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/6_T3xEd4mro_3_mKfvjjb5RgQrM/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/6_T3xEd4mro_3_mKfvjjb5RgQrM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/6_T3xEd4mro_3_mKfvjjb5RgQrM/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/6_T3xEd4mro_3_mKfvjjb5RgQrM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/digg/popular/~4/hN7EbwHqFKc" height="1" width="1"/

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Boeing Goes The Marvel Route With Naming Of New Stealth Drone [Drones]

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 5:00pm PDT by Jack Loftus

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/05/UCASfarnborough_610x405.jpg" width="804" height="533" style="display:block;float:none;" /Boeing's experimental unmanned "a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged PHANTOM RAY" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/phantom-ray/"Phantom Ray/a" drone is scheduled for testing in 2010. Either Boeing is out of military-sounding code names or it, too, is caught up in the comic book craze that's seized Hollywood./p pSurprising no one, the Phantom delMenace/del Ray parent program (X45-C) is funded entirely by DARPA to the tune of $942 million./p pThe Ray is designed to do a number of things all by its lonesome, including bombing runs, surveillance and autonomous mid-air refueling. Top speed? 0.85 Mach. Ceiling is 40,000 feet. It can carry 4,500-lbs., which hopefully does not include any a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_(film)"chips on its shoulder/a for its human designers. Unless Jessica Biel is involved. Then by all means go to town. [a href="http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2009/q2/090508b_nr.html"Boeing/a, a href="http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/gallery/images/military/x-45/dvd-782-1.html"Image/a]/p br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=7cf826cc66a4a59d80f57f3d50eed122p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=7cf826cc66a4a59d80f57f3d50eed122p=1"//adiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=B1Rs4Rm41KU:xj6m49xtPTs:H0mrP-F8Qgo"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=B1Rs4Rm41KU:xj6m49xtPTs:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=B1Rs4Rm41KU:xj6m49xtPTs:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=B1Rs4Rm41KU:xj6m49xtPTs:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=B1Rs4Rm41KU:xj6m49xtPTs:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=B1Rs4Rm41KU:xj6m49xtPTs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/B1Rs4Rm41KU" height="1" width="1"/

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Woman's Rockin' Bod Saves Her During Paragliding Accident

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 4:50pm PDT

Peggy Williams fell on to a rocky outcrop after a freak gust of wind caught the fabric wing of her paraglider. She was catapulted through the air like a "rag doll" before plummeting 20ft and landing on her stomach. Experts said her life was saved by her high level of fitness, as her stomach muscles acted as a "girdle" to protect her vital organs. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5qIIRP8v12UpMOnpeexKSvrZ3Kc/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5qIIRP8v12UpMOnpeexKSvrZ3Kc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5qIIRP8v12UpMOnpeexKSvrZ3Kc/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5qIIRP8v12UpMOnpeexKSvrZ3Kc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/digg/popular/~4/tqoL6cm_Fw4" height="1" width="1"/

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今日報章頭條摘要[07:42]

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 4:49pm PDT

本港報章今日頭條新聞關注中國發現首宗疑似甲型H1N1流感。

TechCrunch

Motherlover: The Hilarious, Wildly Inappropriate Mother’s Day Viral Video

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 4:48pm PDT by MG Siegler

Today is Mother’s Day; have you called your mother yet? Judging from popular topics on Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, etc, you have. So what else is there to do on this fine Sunday? Perhaps watch the latest Lonely Island spoof music video, “Motherlover.” The video, which is the sequel to the viral hit “Dick In A Box,” aired last night on NBC in honor of Mother’s Day. It’s already on the web (NBC, Hulu), making the rounds, certain to be a viral hit. We’ve embedded it below for your viewing pleasure. Warning: This will almost certainly offend some people - so if you’re one of those people, don’t watch. Happy Mother’s Day! And for our international readers, here’s a YouTube embed (sorry for the spammy overlay, you can turn that off in the lower right corner, I’m looking for a better version): Crunch Network: MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily.

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深水埗客貨車遭縱火燒毀

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 4:45pm PDT

深水埗福榮街一輛停泊在路邊的客貨車遭縱火燒毀，幸沒有人受傷。

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With Tiscali, Carphone Is Now UK’s Largest Residential Broadband Provider

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 4:42pm PDT by Om Malik

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Carphone Warehouse, a UK-based company that operates a chain of retail stores selling mobile and telecom services, last week snapped up rival DSL-based broadband provider Tiscali for $355 million. Tiscali was hoping to fetch $900 million, but the current economic downturn had limited its options. Carphone, which is dealing with its own issues, spent the [...]

Fedora People

Soporte Mp3 Beta Fedora 11 (Rawhide)Fedora Venezuela

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 4:33pm PDT by krsloco

img src=http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/3306/fedorave.png alt= style=float: right; pHace poco, me decidí a probar Fedora, luego de que tanto la llame la distro de niñitas, jaja, bueno realmente a diferencia de ubuntu y otras emo-debian-derivadas, Fedora, me ha sorprendido, cuenta con una comunidad activa y cálida, así como una estabilidad sorprendente (y eso que estoy usando una versión beta).br / Así que me dispuse a [...]img src=http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linuxnewbies.wordpress.comamp;blog=3275755amp;post=87amp;subd=linuxnewbiesamp;ref=amp;feed=1 alt= border=0 //p

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10/5/09:感性是一種懦弱?

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 4:31pm PDT by bearredlove

對不起，有時並不是不相信愛情，或許是我內心的懦弱，我知道你有喜歡過我的，我的懦弱不夠膽接受你的愛意，並不是我明白你的愛，只是我真的不明白愛是甚麼？或許我不明瞭愛情是怎麼的玩意？是我愛不起與接受不起嗎？是你不夠浪漫感動不了我嗎？------------------------------------------自從分手後，我想了很多東西：感情與故事之間的發展；商業與將來的發展。就只有這兩樣，以經夠我煩憂了。因為想不通的問題，與將來不是我預計之內的事實在太多了。是我太過天真嗎？經歷得不深嗎！？這１個月來，我真的改變了很多，不是別人改變了我，而是我對愛情觀真的改變了，我開始相信「真愛」難求。我開始明瞭感情與我們的付出是成正比。我放了幾多的真，就只可拿回多少的真；我放了多少的時間，就可以感受得到多少的愛意。最近常常聽著：One more time One more change 、麥浚龍 - 寫得太多, 聽出我的感性嗎？這歌就似我的心情，但你未必會明白！是的：多一秒時間，就會多一份改變；對於感覺寫得太多，會表現得過於自我，未必是好事。我就是太過喜歡用文字自我的教訓了。------------------------------------------今天是雲志的生日！我去了他的生日派對，對於某些事情我發現自己執著得太過火了，在這我是要道歉的，對於看不過眼的事情我總是太過於執著別人多於自己。這是我最不了解自己的地方。

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Geo-Engineering, Altering Earth's Systems, No Longer Sci-Fi

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 4:30pm PDT

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The Pheromone Emitting Seduction Ring [Geek School Projects]

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 4:30pm PDT by matt buchanan

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/05/IMG_4328.jpg" width="804" height="396" style="display:block;float:none;" /Squeeze the side, and the a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged S RING" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/s-ring/"S ring/a emits perfume juiced with phermones. Three scents for each sex, all custom mixed. I liked the citrus one, but wasn't sure if it was for boys or girls./p pYou have to inject the perfumes into the ring with a hypodermic needle which is supposed to invoke the "clinical process" of getting ready for a date. The scent is emitted you squeeze the side, causing the tiny piezo tubes to contract./p pOh, the feather's just for decorationmdash;I'm not sure it'll help you get laid, either.script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" galleryPost('sringitp', 3, ''); /script[a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/"NYU ITP/a]/p br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=9a20a751c8cebbd1d1089e48129ca2a6p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=9a20a751c8cebbd1d1089e48129ca2a6p=1"//adiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=RRe3Q3-tVaY:SFADkVwE9CQ:H0mrP-F8Qgo"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=RRe3Q3-tVaY:SFADkVwE9CQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=RRe3Q3-tVaY:SFADkVwE9CQ:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=RRe3Q3-tVaY:SFADkVwE9CQ:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=RRe3Q3-tVaY:SFADkVwE9CQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=RRe3Q3-tVaY:SFADkVwE9CQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/RRe3Q3-tVaY" height="1" width="1"/

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Detecting Improvised Explosive Devices in Urban Areas

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 4:22pm PDT by Lt-Col A. Tack

Detecting Improvised Explosive Devices in Urban Areas Wednesday, April 01 2009 Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are rudimentary bombs that generally consist of commonly found non-military materials. Although common IED threats include roadside bombs, suicide bombers are another emerging problem in the IED arena. Suicide bombers carrying personal-borne IEDs (PBIEDs) are extremely hard to detect or stop. Because no IED emplacement is necessary, a suicide bomber can quickly strap on an IEDladen vest and move to the kill zone. Placed in the proper urban environment, this weapon is capable of inflicting serious structural damage and killing hundreds of people in mere seconds. Research has been done to detect magnetic materials used in IEDs in urban environments using a wireless sensor network. Using the magnetic detectors in the wireless sensor nodes, magnetic behaviors and patterns are analyzed to differentiate a person carrying an IED and a person possessing magnetic material like jewelry or keychains. Using wireless sensor nodes instead of standard metal detectors enables the detectors to remain hidden to outside observers. The small nodes easily blend into the indigenous environmental settings to provide stealth. All IEDs require a power source to initiate the weapon. Most initiators are battery- operated electrical devices, but there are other means of initiation. Spring-loaded initiators require no electrical power to function. The IED initiator detonates the weapon and begins the bombing sequence. Common initiators are blasting caps and fuse igniters. Electrical initiators can be triggered in various ways, including a button, radio frequency, and optical. The IED switch arms the weapon after the initiator sequence begins. The switch could be an arming switch, fuse, or both for redundancy. Once the IED is armed, the internal circuit is complete and detonation occurs shortly thereafter. One of the first solutions to detect IEDs was to detect the frequency spectrum used by the IED initiator devices. By correctly analyzing the frequency spectrum used by the remote triggers, troops successfully jammed the frequencies and prevented IEDs from being triggered. Electromagnetic pulse jamming also destroyed IED circuitry. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) use mounted cameras to take pictures of probable IED areas and then come back for more images. The Buckeye camera mounted on a UAV uses an electro-optical sensor capable of producing threedimensional images. Using imagery software or the human eye, the pictures are analyzed against pictures from the same area, but taken at a different time. Scrutinizing the images to the nearest pixel, experts can determine if suspicious IED activity has occurred in a region. Magnetic Wireless Sensor Networks A wireless sensor network (WSN) is formed from a series of wireless network nodes or motes, generally in an ad-hoc configuration. Each node contains a small processor to handle sensing duties. Nodes are able to relay information using a predetermined routing protocol such as ZigBee. Due to the wireless constraints, each WSN node needs a self-contained power source such as batteries. A standard WSN uses the nodes for their physical sensing capabilities in conjunction with a base station, which receives information from the nodes and passes it to another source to process the data. Since the base station receives input from the WSN nodes, it has higher power requirements and must always coordinate data delivery out of the network. Each node contains sensing capabilities appropriate for the network application and needs. Nodes cannot process or analyze the information, but can forward information to either another node or the base station. The mesh-networking feature of the motes allows them to communicate with each mote in the network. Additional motes can be added to the network or motes can be removed from the network seamlessly. The magnetic detection capability within the motes uses a twoaxis magnetic field sensor to detect electronic voltage perturbations around the sensor. The passive infrared sensors detect dynamic changes in the thermal radiation environment within immediate vicinity of the sensor. The mote also contains a dormant microphone to detect acoustic changes within its environment. Each mote contains four magnetic and passive infrared sensors placed within a cubicle housing to provide nearly 360-degree coverage. Placing a WSN by entry and exit points of urban buildings provides a stealthy means of detecting IED materials. The accuracy of the mote detectors allows observers to distinguish normal routines from suspicious IED activities. The WSN can be set up to alert security officials of possible IED activity, and used in conjunction with standard surveillance methods to provide a more complete and accurate depiction of actual activities taking place in real time. WSN Deployment In IED detection, the network looks for patterns of activity that appear suspicious and raises alerts when a certain level of confidence has been achieved in the prediction. Ferrous materials compose a large number of IEDs, making magnetic sensors a logical choice for detecting IEDs. However, magnetic sensors alone may not be sufficient in confirming IED presence because the network may be susceptible to false positives (the network falsely detecting IEDs) or false negatives (failure of the network to detect IED). Using a combination of different sensor modalities could mitigate both possibilities. The urban environment presents many challenges. Large crowds provide many variables unbeknownst to the planning process. For example, the presence of a metal shopping cart in a grocery store is a common occurrence; thus, another reason to use metallic sensors in conjunction with other detection characteristics. Another issue is the emplacement of the wireless sensor nodes. Although relatively small, they must be carefully placed to avoid accidental detection. To find the optimum deployment scenario, various tests were conducted using the motes, 18" orange safety cones to elevate the motes from the ground, and steel buckets and staples to simulate metallic IED material. The initial setup kept the metal bucket in a fixed position and the mote was walked along a straight-line path over the bucket. The spacing was too great and the motes had trouble detecting magnetic material unless extremely close to the mote. To test if large amounts of metal at a specified distance would give the same magnetic reading as smaller amounts of metal at a closer distance, a keychain was placed 6" from the mote. The keychain gave readings just as strong as a bucket placed 3' away from the mote. Another test used a basic rectangular configuration of motes placed at fivemeter intervals. A steel bucket was traversed through various paths around the motes. These various paths often produced dead spots. The mote was then placed 1.5' away from a wall. Metal was placed at varying heights of the wall to determine how high the metal could be detected by the sensor mote. Results showed that a 2.5' height was the maximum distance that still provided consistent results. In another test, two motes represented an entrance or doorway to an urban building. The motes were placed at 2' intervals. This interval was later increased to 4, 8, and 12'. A subject carrying a metal bucket traversed the network. Final tests were conducted with two and three subjects traversing the network with differing amounts of metal. The 2 and 4' configurations were tested as a means of providing network redundancy and avoiding blind spots inside the mote area. The motes were able to detect strong magnetic signals from the bucket and provided many data points for detection by the mote software. The mote intervals were then expanded to 8 and 12'. The 8' configuration still provided reliable and consistent results. The 12' configuration showed some readings, but was not consistently able to detect metal from 6' away. So, an 8' interval between motes was optimal for the six-mote network, providing redundancy of motes while avoiding blind spots within the network (see figure). Motes placed at 8' intervals proved optimal for the six-mote network, providing redundancy of motes while avoiding blind spots within the network. Overall, a wireless sensor network using only magnetic detection is not a complete solution for the IED problem. The strengths of a WSN include low power requirements, adaptability, and relative ease of use. For controlling entrances to buildings such as shopping malls, places of worship, or office buildings, a cost-effective WSN implementation would be possible. It would require a configuration that leaves no holes in detection and provides redundancy to prevent network failure. This article was written by Lieutenant Matthew P. H. O’Hara of the United States Navy. For more information on the Navy’s IED detection technologies, click here. Link

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Mothers Day Logos Over the Years from Google

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 4:10pm PDT

But for their first year, Google has been changing its home page logo every Mother's Day in a tribute to mothers everywhere. And although the images for the years 2000 and 2001 don't look very different, take a closer look (images below) and you'll find a small but interesting distinction. pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qQKFH0C9PJvmZpleEjwah8st_aU/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qQKFH0C9PJvmZpleEjwah8st_aU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qQKFH0C9PJvmZpleEjwah8st_aU/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qQKFH0C9PJvmZpleEjwah8st_aU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/digg/popular/~4/_zj-e80pb9s" height="1" width="1"/

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[評深宜論] 港運會開幕禮雜談

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 4:00pm PDT

p筆者之前提到，昨晚有幸出席第二屆全港運動會開幕典禮。據聞那五千個現場觀眾名額當中，公開派發入場券的名額並不算多，並且迅速派清，所以當筆者獲邀出席之時，也抱著「唔執輸」的心態答允，珍惜這次難逢的機會，順便見識香港最新的運動場——將軍澳運動場。 /pspan class="fullpost"p 開幕典禮聲稱於下午七時開始，但筆者與同伴因忙於其他事情，要到下午七時才到達將軍澳站。事實上，將軍澳運動場正好處於將軍澳站與坑口站之間，兩者都要步行好一段路程才可到達。筆者原先還以為大會會安排免費接駁巴士來往將軍澳站至會場，這當然是一個奢想了，最後還要徒步約10分鐘才到達會場入口。其實香港各個大型運動場，交通都不算便利，以香港島的三大運動場為例，鬧市之中的灣仔運動場遠離灣仔站及銅鑼灣站（等到會展站落成後會好些），而小西灣運動場及黃竹坑的香港仔運動場更沒有鐵路直達（後者則有待海洋公園站落成後才有改善）。相比之下，將軍澳運動場又不算是特別不「就腳」了。 /pp 說回入場的那段時間，正當拿出入場券之際，隨即引來幾個早在入口處徘徊的「Walk-in」的市民上前詢問有沒有多餘的入場券，當以為有剩的時候更差點伸手便搶，真是有點猖狂，不過這正代表開幕典禮的吸引力。況且雖然其時已經接近七時十五分，但還有不少人士魚貫入場，使甚少遲到的筆者心中總有點安慰。無論如何，遲了入場並沒有甚麼損失，因為其時只是二三線歌手表演的時間，典禮還未正式開始。至大約七時四五十分，典禮才算正式開始，十八區代表團及啦啦隊列隊進場。在眾多啦啦隊當中，令筆者留下最深刻印象的是屯門區，真是令人嘆為觀止，其次則是元朗區，難道新界西的啦啦隊特別有天份？列隊進場之後是升旗儀式，接著好像就是傳遞及燃點聖火的儀式。所謂燃點聖火並非真的直接點燃聖火盤，而是利用煙火效果模擬引信點燃，效果如何真是見仁見智，只是當晚風向是吹向觀眾席，在場五千名觀眾無可避免感受到真正的「火藥味」。再接下來便是一些文藝表演及歌手獻唱，筆者並沒有甚麼特別意見。至典禮尾聲，所有歌手來個大合唱，最後更大放煙火，此時不少觀眾避免「食煙」，已經急不及待準備離場了。雖然司儀宣佈典禮結束後，那些二三線歌手又出來唱歌，可是筆者在內的很多人選擇在此時離開。 /pp 離場之後，筆者當然盤算著應該怎樣回家。港鐵便一定很多人乘搭，肯定十分擠踴，還有沒有其他途徑呢？幸好筆者發現，新巴準備了796C線的特別班次（車費一樣是$7.9），停在將軍澳運動場對出不遠處的普仁街，待上了一定數量的乘客後便直駛將軍澳隧道，之後跟隨796C的原定路線，第一個落客站便已經是新蒲崗的太子道東，到旺角站（亞皆老街近通菜街）時才用了大約15分鐘而已。筆者留意到，在旺角站之前落車的乘客只有五六個，並不算多。因此，筆者建議新巴大可以將這個特別班次正規化，變成796R（將軍澳運動場 -gt; 南昌站特快），每逢將軍澳運動場有大型活動散場時開出，路線由將軍澳運動場開出後直駛將軍澳隧道，之後跟隨796C的原定路線但不停站，直到旺角站（亞皆老街近通菜街）才是第一個落客站，之後再由亞皆老街經櫻桃街、海輝道、深旺道（跟新巴971號線停站），並以南昌站為終點站。這樣除了可以方便乘客直達旺角，更可方便另一些需要轉乘西鐵線及東涌線的乘客更快轉車。當然，提供這樣特快的服務（到南昌站應該只需不用20分鐘），代價就是高一點的車費（大約$9），但相信乘客應該不會介意。 /pp 筆者也差點兒忘記談論一下將軍澳運動場。這個運動場的最大特色，必然是跑道棄用傳統的紅色而改用綠色了。綠色雖然給人一種與別不同的感覺，可是筆者總覺得這與場地中央草地的草綠色有點不配襯。至於觀眾席方面，筆者未有機會詳加參觀，但至少無論是大樓外觀還是座位舒適程度皆屬滿意的水平。此外，筆者亦覺得現時只得一個大型顯示屏並不足夠，假如突破傳統再加多一個於另一邊，應該會更為理想（雖然筆者昨晚所坐的位置是較接近顯示屏的一方，但想到坐在另一端的觀眾既看不清舞台，又看不清顯示屏，所以才有此建議）。 /p/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/6226037904814334404-5439110607190064537?l=pingsum.blogspot.com'//div pa rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/gzcz_SwrHuBxMLCramWfB4o8M3Y/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/gzcz_SwrHuBxMLCramWfB4o8M3Y/0/di" border="0" ismap/abr/ a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/gzcz_SwrHuBxMLCramWfB4o8M3Y/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/gzcz_SwrHuBxMLCramWfB4o8M3Y/1/di" border="0" ismap/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/pingsum/~4/lTKjN5LbavU" height="1" width="1"/img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/HKBG/~4/lTKjN5LbavU" height="1" width="1"/

Gizmodo

The DIY Cardboard Laptop Stand [Why Not]

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 4:00pm PDT by Jack Loftus

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Techmeme

Wikipedia Grappling with Deletion of IHT.com (Thomas Crampton)

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 3:55pm PDT

Thomas Crampton: Wikipedia Grappling with Deletion of IHT.com — Alerted by my earlier posting about The New York Times deleting links to my (and all) IHT articles, the Wikipedia community has started grappling with the problem. — This was an angle that had not occurred to me until now.

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Posted: May 10th, 2009, 3:50pm PDT

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HP Mini Netbook on Verizon to Launch May 17th

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Fedora People

Scars on HumanityMartin's Chronicles

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 3:48pm PDT by Martin

img src=http://bp3.blogger.com/_lh41g82r7rk/SD2WTIzICcI/AAAAAAAAAAM/8erUc-twIbU/S220/mso-hackergotchi.png alt= style=float: right; Er... I don't usually blog about the what-am-I-thinking stuff (partly because my blog is aggregated on Fedora Planet and I don't want to be like certain others who frequently post about non-linux related stuff...) but somehow I couldn't help it this time. This post is gonna be about mostly about racism and related things so if you consider that topic to much controverse or unfitting, just skip the rest.br /br /You might ask why? Well, I've recently picked up an a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_no_jikaninteresting anime called イヴの時間 (Time of Eve)/a placed in a probably-not-so-distant future and focused on social problems with androids (human looking robots). And it striked me how much the problems depicted there have in common with the various you-are-different-therefore-we-must-lynch-you types of behaviour. In the aforementioned anime the main theme is the striking difference between how the androids feel (yes you read right, there is much more to them than just looking like humans, they also have emotions and such) and how they are treated (as mere machines).br /br /I think this 'treat' is somehow interconected with mankind's whole history. Some of the prominent examples of this behaviour include (to more or less extent) the witch hunt from middle ages, mass Indian murdering when conquering over Americas, black slaves and subseqent hatred towards black people, Hitler's move against Judaism and in the current times I'd mention fear of Arabic people or animosity towards Gipsies. And looking through movies it's pretty much common to depict aliens and/or robots as a threat to mankind (and I think the reasons are pretty much the same as in the previous examples).br /br /Now, I think all this stuff 'is complete balls' (a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C8GWIV4jzAto quote Stephen Fry/a). I mean I laugh at rasist jokes, I laugh at religion-related jokes, I laugh at jokes about physicists (which depicts us as unsociable, being only men or ugly women, totaly impractical...) when I find them funny and I don't care whether they are 'politically correct'. I think the whole political correctness thing is a totally wrong approach. Because it's encouraging precisely what it tries to fight against – discrimination. One of the examples from my country is usage of two different words for Gipsy people – cikáni and romové. Ever since these people came into the Bohemian and Moravian lands they were called by themselves, as well as other people, cikáni (or cigáni) and now this precise word has been labeled as politically incorrect or even racist. Since their official nationality is 'romská' they are to be referred to as 'romové'.br /br /And to what end? To singling them out. And IMHO that's a problem. Well, yes, these people are socially problematic because they are used to different lifestyle, but have you people ever heard of tolerance? I mean it's wrong to force our lifestyle onto them. When I approach these people I try to act without prejudice. I don't care if the person I am talking to is Czech, Slovak, German, Gipsy, Vietnamese, whatever. The things I care about is whether we have something to talk about. Differences are a good thing and especially cultural and lifestyle differences makes the culture of human kind much more rich. We should learn from each other, listen to each other, not clash.br /br /But to draw some conclusion from this random not-much-connected stream of thoughts... The law in most western countries makes it hard to not discriminate precisely because antidiscrimination paragraphs. If you do not accept a Gipsy/woman into a job because you found a better Czech/man for it you are risking you'll be acused from discrimination. With that thought in mind it's not easy to not discriminate. But yet, one should try to. Don't let the outer differences blind your mind. It does not matter if your friend, lover, employee, teacher, ... has black or white skin, whether he's native or foreigner, whether they're man or woman, whether he's Christian, Muslim or atheist, whether he's handsome or ugly, ... Don't think in groups, think in individuals. Black people have nothing in common save the colour of their skin (and some other characteristics in looks) and there's not a single reason to approach them differently span style=font-style: italic;because/span they are black. It's the stuff you don't see that matters. Also, don't discriminte positively – hiring women just to make the female/male ratio in your company 1:1 is an utmost craziness!br /br /Anyway, these are just my thoughts... you are completely free to disagree with them ;-) br /br /Erm... After re-reading what I've written... Arrr... I suck in philosophy and I think this small wandering into that strange land will have been for a long time the only one (luckily for you for not having to read this nonsense as well as for me for not having to embarrass myself)...br /br /span style=font-weight: bold;EDIT/span: Well, to put something linux related... the community around FLOSS is actually a pretty good example of how things would idealy be. We are people from around the whole world, with different nationalities, different beliefs (both in political and religious sense) yet we are able to work and communicate together and produce great things like Fedora. But even there there are times when things go wrong. One of the recent example is one of the negative feedback we received about the Leonidas Beta wallpaper. About the reactions was one of the kind I talk about in the above text – a concern that we have a symbol of worshipping ancient gods (temple) included in the wallpaper. A typical thing I don't give a damn about. Just imagine a world where drawing a temple marks you a public enemy. Indeed a sad imagination.br /br /And now for something completely different:br /The 3 most probable causes for extinction of mankind are IMHO:br /olliSelfdestruction/liliGenetic degeneration combined with global pandemic/liliPollution (mainly of air and water)/li/olbr /br /Have a nice day ;-)div class=blogger-post-footerimg src=http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/4447920200692352023-7004226792300526581?l=mso-chronicles.blogspot.com height=1 width=1 //div

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Imagination (LEGO)

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 3:40pm PDT

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Hong Kong Bloggers

[諾韻寫字日記] 懶貓賴貓

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 3:35pm PDT

近來真的很懶，沒辦法，懶貓懶貓，近得貓多人就會懶的了＾＾上星期confirm了一份freelance工作，其中要為客戶的產品構思一句brand line，我掏出塗鴉簿準備亂寫一下，剛寫了一句放在床上，豆豆就從她的紅色sleepypod裏瞄到有新東西（這簿子沒在她眼前出現過），於是她二話不說便爬出sleeppod，匍匐在簿子上宣示她佔有了這塊新地盤，其實她很睏的了，但她仍然堅持守住簿子不讓我拿走．．．怎也要守住！雖然睏到開始釣魚．．．中埋眼瞓．．．哎呀，索性攤睡在上面！這樣一定沒有人可以搶走啦！！！所以，親愛的客戶，是豆豆不讓我工作啊！！！呃，賴貓，應該就是這個意思囉(~^^~) 同埸加映，由外星降落我和妹妹家的外星貓吉吉 :-) 沒錯，那對玉腿是屬於我的。^^

OSNews

* Episode 8: All Roads Lead to The Finder *

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 3:31pm PDT

Enclosure: [download]

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(星島日報報道)擁有逾四十年歷史的深水埗蘇屋邨，今年中開始將分兩階段清拆，房署計畫清拆時保留邨內「三寶」，包括入口牌匾、昔日用作售賣火水的白色三角屋和記載整個蘇屋邨面貌的一幅大型天花壁畫，並盡量原址保
輔警流失率高今年聘288人

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 3:30pm PDT

(星島日報報道)今年大型活動、集會、遊行接踵而來，像「六四」二十周年、「七一」大遊行以及年底東亞運動會等，輔警隨時需每日調派千人執勤，為應工作需求，以及填補嚴重人手流失，其中尤以五年年資以下人員流失率
的士車保再勁加三成「止血」

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 3:30pm PDT

(星島日報報道)營業車保險早年飽受割喉減價、包攬訴訟及「呃保金」所累，令業界虧蝕嚴重。專營的士車保，過往以低價搶客的星輝保險成首家被惡性競爭「拖垮」的公司。由於的士保險業至今仍處嚴重虧蝕狀態，多家保險
郊野公園變堆填區捱轟

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 3:30pm PDT

(星島日報報道)政府擴建將軍澳垃圾堆填區，「攻佔」清水灣郊野公園的計畫，隨時受法律挑戰。郊野公園及海岸公園委員會，三月底通過修訂後的清水灣郊野公園地圖，把五公頃郊野土地「割讓」為垃圾堆填區，有區議員聲
廉署推指引　防中小型工程貪污

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 3:30pm PDT

(星島日報報道)九七金融風暴後，與中小企營運有關行業的貪污舉報數字四年間飆升近千宗，當中牽涉信貸的銀行業貪污數字升幅更高達六成。事隔十年，金融海嘯席捲全球，本港今年首季錄得涉銀行業貪污舉報數字，按年再
醫生倡治乳癌藥列安全網

Posted: May 10th, 2009, 3:30pm PDT

(星島日報報道)乳癌是本港女性頭號癌症殺手，每年有二千五百宗新增個案。有研究顯示，每四名乳癌患者中，就有一位患上較難對付的HER2型乳癌，本港每年逾四百六十人死於乳癌，發病率不斷上升。威爾斯親王醫院每

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