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Hot trends for June 24, 2008

Creativity and Innovation vs. Predictability

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:08:23 PDT
Web design is a creative art. We’ve all experienced situations where we’ve been wowed by a site with an exceptionally creativity design or functionality. However, we’ve also had frustrating experiences with sites that try too hard to buck the trends and wound up being very unusable.

2008 WWE Draft - Reviews, News and More

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:53:35 PDT
Find out the latest news from the WWE Draft, Why Jim Ross almost quit, and the future of the WWE.Shop WWE is also the internets largest WWE Merchandise Store

The Bernardo Interview: Why CBC won’t air it

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:01:42 PDT
As you might have read in recent days, an Ontario Superior Court judge has released copies of a videotaped interview between Toronto police and convicted murderer Paul Bernardo. Bernardo was interviewed at the Kingston penitentiary in June 2007 about whether he had any involvement in the disappearance of University of Toronto student Elizabeth Bain, who has not been seen since June 1990. Media, including the CBC, petitioned the court to permit the release of the tape (the tape doesn’t show any

24 June Afghanistan Update

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:06:36 PDT
Major General Jeffrey Schlosser, Commander of Combined Joint Task Force-101, and Commanding General, 101st Airborne Division, 24 June 2008. General Cites Security, Development, Governance Gains in Afghanistan By Gerry J. Gilmore American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, June 24, 2008 – U.S., coalition and Afghan security forces are hunting down the Taliban and other insurgents operating in Afghanistan, while vital reconstruction and governance programs continue to spread across the country, a s

At Google, Slow Growth in News Site (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:38:20 PDT
Six years after its start, Google News is far from achieving the kind of dominant position in news that the company has in other areas.

Talking about the Blade.org Symposium

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:10:32 PDT
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/061908-bladeorg-predicts-trends.html A blade server industry group founded by IBM and Intel is predicting three key trends that will reshape the data center: network convergence with Ethernet technology; advanced energy efficiency techniques such as water cooling; and “hyper consolidation” involving both virtualization and blade servers. Blade.org, which is hosting a technology symposium in New York Thursday, predicted the disappearance of separate I/O la

Pew Religious Survey 2008: Breakdown of Hindus in the US

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:09:13 PDT
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life came out with its 2008 landscape survey of the breakdown of various religions in the United States among various criteria. Pew 2008 Survey] Based on numbers of adults (18+), Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and other minority religious groups constitute a negligible portion of the population to be considered a electoral force. Note: Eight traditions (Buddhist, Hindu, Jehovah’s Witness, Muslim, Orthodox, Other Christian, Other Faiths and Other World Religions)

Quentin Tarantino Talks Inglorious Bastards

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:49:41 PDT
BBC News attended the Provincetown Film Festival last weekend where Quentin Tarantino talked about his now finished script for Inglorious Bastards, a “modern, in-your-face” World War II epic.

Lesbos islanders in court over use of word 'lesbians'

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:24:05 PDT
Lesbos islanders in court over use of word 'lesbians' A court hearing begins in Athens today that is set to add to the debates about gay rights in one of Europe's more conservative countries. Ugandan bishop attacks European attitude towards gays An Anglican bishop has urged the government of Uganda to keep homosexuality illegal. Eria Paul Luzinda said that "not all that comes from Europe is superior and must be taken up." Gay MEP slams Daily Mail report as "inaccurate and highly mi

ACU Giving Away iPhones and iPods to Incoming Freshman

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:09:15 PDT
Abilene Christian University announced that starting with the incoming 2008 Freshman class all student will receive an iPhone o iPod touch. Not so much giving them away (because nothing is free) but the cost of these…

A proposed bill to amend Canada’s Copyright Act

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:37:20 PDT
A week ago the minority federal government of Canada, and Industry Minister Jim Prentice, tabled an amendment to the Copyright Act. Entitled Bill C-61, its purpose is to bring Canadian copyright law into compliance with the current WIPO treaty (this despite their being no international legal obligation to implement WIPO - it hasn’t been ratified by Canada). Prentice states in a Toronto Star letter to the editor that C-61 will allow… “…the recording of webcasts I think he means podcasts and


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