Chavez: U.S. Plans to Invade Venezuela: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday he has documentary evidence that the United States plans to invade his country. Chavez, interviewed on ABC’s “Nightline,” said the plan is called “Balboa” and involves aircraft carriers and planes.
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Sep 05
Mice Infected With Bubonic Plague Missing
Mice Infected With Bubonic Plague Missing. According to the article, no biggie.
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Sep 05
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TOMMY WESTPHALL’S MIND – A MULTIVERSE EXPLORED: “If “St Elsewhere” exists only within Tommy Westphall’s mind, then so does every other series set within the same fictional sphere.”
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Sep 05
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Text-to-speech to a telephone number with PhoneNotify provided by CDYNE. There are probably a million applications for this. (via)
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Sep 05
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Italian composer uses Google Earth to unearth ancient Roman villa.
Onion: F*ck Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades
The Hawaiian bobtail squid beams light from its belly to camouflage its dark shadow from predatory fish on the sea floor.
“Yeah, go Link, yeah. Wiki-wiki-wig.” Legend of Zelda commercial video.
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Sep 05
Nokia as the new Blackberry
This will help launch Nokia into markets less dependent upon their hardware where they are seeing lots of competition and pricing pressure from rivals like Motorola:
Nokia Business Center, as the new e-mail system is to be known, seeks to bridge the gap between the world’s 650 million corporate e-mail accounts and the elite of about 10 million who have mobile access to their business e-mail inboxes.
The Finnish group, long expected to push into a market which brought success to Research in Motion’s (RIM) Blackberry devices, said it wanted to make e-mail more cost-effective and available on a wider range of phones.
“We are trying to bring e-mail to the masses by taking it out of the realm of just CEOs and the highly paid sales force,” said Dave Grannan, head of Nokia’s e-mail business. …
“Nokia’s focus is much broader than that of RIM … it has intelligent networks which understand handsets, delivering services the user wants.
“Smartphones are not smartphones without the services from the network side,” he added.
Thirteen Nokia mobile devices will be certified to work on the e-mail system by the end of the year. But it would fall flat if it only worked on Nokia devices.
Grannan said Nokia planned to certify rival handsets to work with its e-mail system and in principle, any smartphone that runs Java technology can qualify.
Nokia would focus on certifying other high-volume Java mobile phones first, including models from Motorola Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
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Sep 05
Now with Gravatar support!
If you leave a comment you’ll notice I have gravatars enabled. What is a gravatar?
A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an 80×80 pixel avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on weblogs?
Get a gravatar then leave a comment and try it out.
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Sep 05
A Good Use for Camera phones
I’ve started using my Nokia camera phone to keep track of books I’m interested in. I’ll go to Border’s or Barnes and Nobles and just browse around like usual. The only difference is instead of buying anything impulsively I’ll take a photo of each book I’m interested in with my camera phone as I look. When I get back home I’ll head to Amazon.com or half.com and read the reviews and compare the amazon new / used price to the list price. If you make this a habit you will save 40-50% every time, and you may even avoid buying bad books. When you’re finished with the book you could even sell it back online. I’m sure publishers love to hear advice like that.
What do you use your camera phone for?