BBC News - Technology

• Micron's Appleton dies in crash3 February 2012, 9:30 pm
  Steve Appleton, the chief executive of memory-chip maker Micron, has died in a plane crash near Boise, Idaho....
• Hackers breach FBI-UK police call3 February 2012, 8:54 pm
  Hackers Anonymous release a recording of an intercepted conference call between the FBI and UK police discussing their efforts to fight hacking....
• BT vow fibre optic 'game changer'3 February 2012, 7:20 pm
  Fibre optic connections to at speeds of 300 Mbps will be available 'on demand' in the UK next year, BT says....
• Apple overturns Motorola's ban3 February 2012, 4:10 pm
  Apple is granted a suspension of a sales ban imposed on some of its iPads and iPhones in Germany....
• Google asked to pause rule change3 February 2012, 2:40 pm
  An EU data protection group writes to Google to ask them to suspend changes to their privacy policy....
• VIDEO: 'Flying people' and other tech news3 February 2012, 11:55 am
  Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a remote-controlled man-shaped plane. This and more in this week's tech news....
• Megaupload bail appeal rejected3 February 2012, 11:48 am
  Kim Dotcom's bail appeal is rejected by a New Zealand Court, as US campaigners hint at legal action to prevent files being deleted....
• The internet's secret black market3 February 2012, 10:23 am
  Drugs and guns for sale on the internet's black market...
• VIDEO: The untraceable 'dark web'3 February 2012, 10:21 am
  Out of reach of regular internet searches is the secretive online world known as the 'dark web' where you can shop for illegal goods, and where customers go by code names....
• Largest optical telescope created3 February 2012, 10:15 am
  Astronomers at the Paranal observatory combine four telescope to create the world's largest virtual device with a 130m-mirror....

cleverhack dot com

• I feel like I’ve just won the Internet23 November 2011, 11:33 pm
  *ahem* Bing SERP today showed that my post was at the top 4 or so… Technorati Tags: Microsoft, Bing, Firefox, Winning, Internet...
• Firefox 8.0 User Agent7 November 2011, 1:57 am
  Not yet pushed out the public, but now available if you know where to look, Firefox 8.0… Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0 Technorati Tags: Firefox, Firefox 8.0, User Agent...
• Kyocera User Agent25 September 2011, 8:41 pm
  I’ve had an iPhone since forever and I apparently forgot that the second cell phone I ever owned was a Kyocera but that was back in 2003 or so and I had to procure a certain phone because I was living in Vermont which had a limited cell infrastructure…I do remember the 2003 era Kyocera [...]...
• Spoofed Googlebot User Agent19 September 2011, 4:57 pm
  Well, this visitor caught my eye earlier as the originating IP address is from the technology company Oracle but with a Googlebot user agent. Another clue that this is a spoofed user agent is that they came in off of a Google Search Engine referrer, as Googlebot doesn’t usually do that. Also, their browser [...]...
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 User Agent16 September 2011, 12:34 pm
  IP Address: 96.227.#.# Operating System : Microsoft WinNT User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; Trident/6.0) Monitor : Resolution : 1920 x 1080 Color Depth : 24 bits It’s always sweet when a friend visits you to show off his new user agent (apparently this is why I’ve garnered Internet fame). Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 preview (MSIE 10) on [...]...
• BlackBerry User Agent25 July 2011, 1:35 am
  I had no idea the user agent was…Safari based. Unless this is a BB user with a Safari browser? Can you use multiple browsers on a BB? Host: 74.82.68.# Operating System: Macintosh Unknown Agent: Safari 1.3 Mozilla/5.0 (BlackBerry; U; BlackBerry 9800; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0.0.526 Mobile Safari/534.8 Monitor: Resolution : 360 x 480 Color Depth : 24 bits Technorati Tags: [...]...
• Here’s an IP address you don’t see that often24 May 2011, 11:25 pm
  in your Web site logs…an IP address from the range of 2.102.206.* Wow. That’s an IP4 address starting with a 2. As someone fascinated with the history of the Internet, I find this pretty cool. It’s a RIPE address (European) and assigned to the UK. Technorati Tags: IP4, IP addresses, Internet history...
• RockMelt User Agent2 January 2011, 4:12 pm
  RockMelt, the new browser which takes advantage of your social networks, has a user agent. * /2011/01/01/easy-seo-update-your-copyright-notice/ Http Code: 200 Date: Jan 01 11:02:13 Http Version: HTTP/1.1 Size in Bytes: 10150 Referer: - Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) RockMelt/0.8.36.128 Chrome/7.0.517.44 [...]...
• Easy SEO: Update your copyright notice1 January 2011, 6:32 pm
  Here’s a quick and easy SEO trick for you. We all know that Google indexes freshly updated content on your Web site. Since it’s the New Year, take a moment and check if your Web site copyright notices are updated. Not only do you get that piece of mind from an updated copyright notice, but [...]...
• Droid User Agent19 December 2010, 7:58 pm
  I noticed that some (unhip) person with a Motorola built Droid based phone on Verizon visited cleverhack the other day. I’m too lazy to pull my official logs, so here’s the sitemeter report. I am surprised to notice that the Droid runs a version of mobile Safari according to the User Agent string. Operating System: Linux [...]...

TechCrunch Europe

• Lean-but-mean StylistPick guns for the competition with new war chest3 February 2012, 12:29 pm
  Bringing US business models to Europe might seem an obvious move for some - but it's frequently far harder than it might appear. US incumbents can indeed try to expand, but some fall at the first hurdle. Exactly this happened on January 20 when Shoedazzle announced its closure in the UK. UK head Nigel Whiteoak has since admitted to me that the company was looking to make more of the continued opportunity in the US, versus trying to expand in the UK. Shades of the Romans over-reaching their borde...
• Zendesk rolls out new round of partner programs: Ambassador, Authorised and Incubator3 February 2012, 10:23 am
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• The 16-Year-Old Startup CEO and the Hong Kong Billionaire [TCTV]3 February 2012, 9:11 am
  We covered the launch of Summly an application that summarises text last year, but I recently caught up with Nick D'Aloisio, the16 year year-old programmer who came up with the application for a video interview. Its sounds almost boringly simple but the sheer amount of online content means the eco-system for these apps is rising. Formerly known as Trimit (which we covered back in July), Summly was developed by D'Aloisio from his bedroom in South London over a Summer break from school....
• Media Behemoth Axel Springer Invests In AirBnB2 February 2012, 1:10 pm
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• Wunderkit launches beta for its wunderbar-designed productivity platform1 February 2012, 10:00 am
  Berlin-based startup 6Wunderkinder has just launched their private beta for their productivity suite Wunderkit. This is an extension to their simple, yet well designed task list manager Wunderlist, which was acclaimed both by early adopters and users. With Wunderkit the startup is now taking a next step. They've stuck to the user experience that, while beautifully crafted on the one hand is surely tricky to get used to, and have taken their core task manager several steps further by wrapping a ...
• Videoplaza secures $12 million for ad platform led by Qualcomm, Innovacom1 February 2012, 9:29 am
  With the huge rise in the consumption of online video it follows that services to monetize that video are becoming hot properties. To that end, today Videoplaza, a 'sell side' ad management platform for video, has secured a Series B round of $12million led by Qualcomm Ventures and Innovacom. The company previously received rounds from VCs Creandum and Northzone, which also participated, which means VideoPlaza has received $18 million to date....
• New accelerator launches in Europe offering Valley road trip31 January 2012, 2:53 pm
  Accelerators, Accelerator, Accelerators! There's a rash of them appearing everywhere, and the latest is the Rockstart Accelerator, a new startup program aimed at Europe’s most promising startups that want to hit a global scale (but then don't they all?). However, this one has some credible partners in the shape of Google, Microsoft BizSpark, Mozilla WebFWD and StartupHouse in San Francisco. Oscar Kneppers, founder of Rockstart says the program is for startups from the whole of Europe. Based i...
• GeeknRolla rocks into the London Web Summit, March 1931 January 2012, 11:45 am
  Way back in 2009 there was no large event dedicated to technology startups in the UK. TechCrunch, under Mike Arrington, was busy trying to get its TechCrunch50/Disrupt programme going in the US, and outside of local meetups, the TC event juggernaut still had yet to arrive in Europe. My friend and colleague Robin Wauters was doing Plugg in Brussels, but there wasn't a startup event in London. So I launched a personal project, an event I called GeeknRolla, the name for which I literally dreamt up ...
• Future Simple releases first full-blown CRM app for Android30 January 2012, 1:29 pm
  Chicago-based but Israeli-founded Future Simple, a startup that creates products aimed at small businesses, has released an Android app which hooks into their small business CRM. It's the first Small Business CRM with a true full native Android app and appears to be the first CRM in the Android Market. They already had an iPhone app....
• Podio adds new languages as it scales internationally30 January 2012, 12:51 pm
  We first reviewed online workspace startup Podio on its launch in March last year, and it looked pretty promising. A little like Box.net or 37Signals, Podio is closer to a more sophisticated Yammer, with lots of customising possible via its own internal 'app' store. Today it launches in two new language, Brazilian Portuguese and Italian, adding to its existing English, German, French, Danish and Spanish translations. Spilt between San Francisco and Copenhagen offices, Podio is now in use in 170 ...

Axodys

• Site Progress5 January 2012, 6:42 pm
  Still haven’t finished importing the missing posts, but I did upgrade to 3.3.1. Hopefully I can get them imported in the next couple days. I’ve also noticed some weird issues with axodys.com not loading properly, but that was prior to … Continue reading →...
• Site Migration26 December 2011, 10:43 am
  I’m in the process of finishing up a reimport of the old blog back into a fresh WordPress 3.3 install. Unfortunately something seems to be going awry with the last couple year’s worth of posts. Rather than banging my head … Continue reading →...
• Twitter: Took my front …2 September 2010, 8:26 pm
  Took my front wheel off during lunch and confirmed that my front brake pads are shot. Time to save my wheel and pick up some new ones....
• Twitter: Chrome didn’t pull …1 September 2010, 5:07 pm
  Chrome didn’t pull up the Apple Keynote so I switched to Safari and it just worked. The quality is unbelievable....
• Twitter: The new mac …15 June 2010, 10:22 am
  The new mac minis look like they may have some of that carved from a solid aluminum block unibody action going on. http://apple.com/macmini/...
• Twitter: Watched the first …15 June 2010, 6:32 am
  Watched the first third of High Fidelity tonight while getting in my workout ride. Love that movie. Saving the rest for tomorrow....
• Twitter: Weird server error …14 June 2010, 11:34 pm
  Weird server error just caused me to double tweet. Corrected now hopefully....
• Twitter: Watched the first …14 June 2010, 11:32 pm
  Watched the first third of High Fidelity tonight while getting in my workout ride. Love that movie. Saving the rest for tomorrow....
• Lego Monster Chess13 June 2010, 6:24 am
  No spoilers other than things get crazy at about the 2:40 mark! Awesome work by the team that constructed this. Very, very impressive and one of the coolest Lego projects I have ever seen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THGtbBz1sQo...
• Alien Action Figure11 June 2010, 4:35 pm
  I wasn’t even aware of the Alien movie when it came out in 1979 (being 5 or 6 years old at the time), but I distinctly remember seeing this action figure in a store in Moses Lake, WA (the mid-sized … Continue reading →...

Simon Willison's Weblog

• A quote from Brian Goetz19 August 2011, 12:20 pm
  There is plenty of evidence in the ecosystem to support the hypothesis that, if given the tools to do so easily, object-oriented programmers are ready to embrace functional techniques (such as immutability) and work them into an object-oriented view of the world, and will write better, less error-prone code as a result. Simply put, we believe the best thing we can do for Java developers is to give them a gentle push towards a more functional style of programming. - Brian Goetz ...
• How we use Redis at Bump16 July 2011, 4:37 pm
  How we use Redis at Bump. A couple of neat tricks I hadn’t seen before: using Redis to aggregate log files from multiple servers (they all push in to a Redis queue, then one process pulls from the queue and writes to disk), and using Redis blocking queues for RPC by specifying a different temporary queue to return the result. ...
• A quote from Dan Manges, Braintree30 June 2011, 9:27 pm
  We can deploy new versions of our software, make database schema changes, or even rotate our primary database server, all without failing to respond to a single request. We can accomplish this because we gave ourselves the ability suspend our traffic, which gives us a window of a few seconds to make some changes before letting the requests through. To make this happen, we built a custom HTTP server and application dispatching infrastructure around Python’s Tornado and Redis. - Dan Manges, Brai...
• The New Heroku (Part 4 of 4): Erosion-resistance & Explicit Contracts29 June 2011, 5:26 pm
  The New Heroku (Part 4 of 4): Erosion-resistance & Explicit Contracts. I really like Adam’s description of Software Erosion—I’ve seen that happen to my projects a bunch of times, and it really is an important problem to solve. ...
• Visualizing WebKit's hardware acceleration27 June 2011, 10:31 am
  Visualizing WebKit’s hardware acceleration. Command line flags for launching Safari (and the iOS simulator) in a way that highlights areas of the screen that are being hardware accelerated—particularly useful if you are using the “-webkit-transform: translate3d(0,0,0)” trick. ...
• On HTTP Load Testing18 May 2011, 10:17 am
  On HTTP Load Testing. Mark Nottingham explains that running good HTTP benchmarks means understanding available network bandwidth, using dedicated physical hardware, testing at progressively higher loads and a whole lot more. ...
• We Need to Stop Google's Exploitation of Open Communities22 April 2011, 10:00 am
  We Need to Stop Google’s Exploitation of Open Communities. Mikel Maron from OpenStreetMap is justifiably angry about Google MapMaker, which copies OpenStreetMap’s model of crowdsourcing geographic data (even copying the OSM idea of Mapping Parties) but keeps the data under a much more restrictive license, and uses the Google brand to market itself to African governments. ...
• Why Facebook open-sourced its datacenters9 April 2011, 7:54 am
  Why Facebook open-sourced its datacenters. Jon Stokes speculates that Facebook plan to use open source hardware to compete with Google at datacenter efficiency . This isn’t a new pattern. Years ago when I worked at Yahoo! I was furiously jealous of the secret sauce technologies that allowed Google to build big applications faster than anyone else, such as BigTable and map/reduce. Today, the open source world has created better, free alternatives—sponsored in part by Facebook, Yahoo! and othe...
• Qwery - The Tiny Selector Engine2 April 2011, 8:27 am
  Qwery—The Tiny Selector Engine. A quarter of the size of Sizzle (1K gzipped and minified) due to only supporting ID, class and attribute selectors. Could be useful for things like embeddable widgets and badges, where depending on a larger library is impolite. ...
• Product design at GitHub2 April 2011, 7:51 am
  Product design at GitHub. At GitHub, every employee is a product designer. ...

Tech Digest

• Dropbox Android beta build offers auto camera uploads3 February 2012, 4:08 pm
  If you're anything like me, most of my cameraphone shots never end up anywhere other than on my smartphone's screen as I can't be bothered digging out the cables needed to transfer them. A new experimental build of Dropbox......
• Taiwanese gamer dies in Internet cafe: 9 hours before staff notice3 February 2012, 3:55 pm
  A Taiwanese PC gamer died at his computer in an Internet cafe in Taipei, but none of the 30 other people in attendance noticed his passing for nine hours. Chen Rong-yu, 23, had settled down for a session of online......
• Skype 5.8 Windows update adds 1080p video chat3 February 2012, 1:56 pm
  Skype has been updated to version 5.8 for Windows PCs, bringing 1080p Full HD video chat to the table. So long as you've got a Full HD webcam, an internet connection that can manage consistent 2Mbps upload and download......
• Tech Digest and O2 Recycle raise £500 for Great Ormond Street Hospital!3 February 2012, 1:05 pm
  Back at the end of last year Tech Digest teamed up with the O2 Recycle scheme in order to raise some money for a great cause. Collecting all our old tech gear from the Shiny Media towers, the O2......
• GTA V Xmas 2012 release date hinted at by Take-Two financial projections3 February 2012, 12:32 pm
  Grand Theft Auto V may currently be floating around in the "TBC" netherworld of release dates, but a new report from Take-Two has hinted at a Christmas 2012 release date for the open-world crime sim. Take-Two, parent company of GTA......
• Windows Phone 8 revealed, will hook up with desktop OS3 February 2012, 11:40 am
  Microsoft have lifted the lid on Windows Phone 8, the next major upgrade for their smartphone operating system. Revealed to PocketNow via an internal Microsoft products video, Windows Phone 8 will be the official name of the update initially......
• RIM giving away BlackBerry Playbooks to app developers3 February 2012, 11:16 am
  It seems the major price cuts RIM offered on their BlackBerry Playbook tablets still hasn't been enough to shift the backlog of unsold slates, as today the company revealed they will be giving some units away for free to those......
• BT plan roll out of 300Mbps broadband service3 February 2012, 10:23 am
  BT has held successful trials of "FTTP on demand" broadband, which they state "has the potential to transform the UK broadband landscape" thanks to its maximum 300Mps download speeds. Trialled in St Agnes, Cornwall, the new BT fibre optic system......
• New ASUS Transformer Prime model suggested by picture leak3 February 2012, 10:11 am
  ASUS loo set to be adding a new model to their line of shape-shifting tablets, if this latest batch of leaked images are to be believed. Following in the footsteps of the original Transformer with its model number being......
• Your status updates made Facebook $1 billion in 20112 February 2012, 1:04 pm
  Last night Facebook made good on the rumours that have been flying around the internet for weeks, announcing it had filed for its initial public offering, or IPO. The move sees the world's biggest social network aim to raise $5......

Engadget

• webOS Enyo 1.0 now available to all, just requires patch and patience3 February 2012, 11:18 pm
  HP's Enyo framework is an essential ingredient for allowing new apps to work on webOS devices with different resolutions, but due to some sort of ethnocentric hiccup, v1.0 hasn't officially reached all international webOS phones and tablets. Fortunately, WebOS Internals has prepared a nice little Preware install package that anyone, anywhere can enjoy. At this point, adding Enyo will only provide access to a few extra apps, but at least the world will be reunited in its preparedness for a glist...
• AT&T seeks to impose conditions on Dish LTE network, FCC to settle wireless squabble3 February 2012, 10:44 pm
  You know the saying, second place is the first loser? Well, it looks like AT&T, which recently saw its attempt to absorb T-Mobile thwarted, is living up to that adage by petitioning the FCC to impose an "overly aggressive buildout" of Dish's planned mobile network. In a recent filing to the Commission, the satco countered this request for "LightSquared-like" requirements, defining its operation as a strictly retail endeavor, one that faces entirely different hurdles than that of its wholesal...
• WiFi Kindle Touch gets its passport, now available internationally3 February 2012, 10:21 pm
  Ever since Amazon unveiled its cheap-as-chips Kindle Touch, the thing's been selling like mad here in the US. However, our friends on other continents haven't been able to enjoy swiping and tapping its multitouch E Ink display -- until now, that is. Amazon failed to alert the masses with a press release, but a quick gander at the WiFi Touch's product page shows there's an option to ship one just about anywhere on the globe. Unfortunately, people in parts of the world with country-specific Amazon...
• FCC Fridays: February 3, 20123 February 2012, 10:00 pm
  We here at Engadget tend to spend a lot of way too much time poring over the latest FCC filings, be it on the net or directly on the ol' Federal Communications Commission's site. Since we couldn't possibly (want to) cover all the stuff that goes down there individually, we've gathered up an exhaustive listing of every phone and / or tablet getting the stamp of approval over the last week. Enjoy!Continue reading FCC Fridays: February 3, 2012FCC Fridays: February 3, 2012 originally appeared on En...
• Xbox co-creator brings together Atari 'dream team' for mobile gaming startup3 February 2012, 9:38 pm
  A new mobile gaming startup that's yet to release a single game isn't the sort of thing we'd normally cover 'round here, but the story behind Los Angeles-based Innovative Leisure is anything but ordinary. The man behind the company is the co-creator of the Xbox, Seamus Blackley, and he's brought with him eleven industry veterans that he calls "the dream team from Atari," including the likes of Van Burnham, Ed Logg, Rich Adam, Tim Skelly, Owen Rubin, and Ed Rotberg. While those names may not be ...
• Galaxy Nexus and other CDMA devices removed from Google Support pages3 February 2012, 9:16 pm
  Some of you may have noticed that the Verizon version of the Galaxy Nexus is no longer listed as a supported, official developer device by Google. Despite rumors to the contrary, it doesn't appear this has anything to do with the kerfuffle over Wallet, but instead centers around technical issues relating to the APK files required for CDMA connectivity and the signing of those libraries. Other devices have also disappeared from the support pages, including the Nexus S 4G and the Verizon-branded ...
• Verizon's ZTE Jetpack flies through FCC, arrival time still unknown3 February 2012, 9:01 pm
  Do you wish you had your own personal Jetpack? Well, you may not have to wait much longer for ZTE's version -- the EuFi I890, announced at CES last month -- to come out, if its entry into the records of the FCC are any indication. It may not be the kind that you strap onto your back, but at least this one takes advantage of Verizon's LTE, and it happens to add in CDMA / EVDO and AT&T-compatible 3G radios. We knew the 4G-packing MiFi was going to hit stores in "the coming weeks," so this is...
• All PlayBooks go to heaven: Telus leak points to end-of-life status3 February 2012, 8:39 pm
  This is the end, dear PlayBook-admiring friends. That is to say, it's the end-of-life for RIM's first unsuccessful stab at tablet computing. Unsurprisingly, the marketing blitzkrieg that saw J.Lo and the Flash Gordon theme awkwardly peddle the flailing tab hasn't done much to elevate sales or consumer interest, forcing its Canadian overlords to issue Telus an EOL notice. This not unexpected bit of news comes right on the heels of the BB maker's recently leaked device roadmap, in which a spring ...
• Steve Appleton, CEO of Micron, dies in plane crash at 513 February 2012, 8:18 pm
  Sad news to report this Friday. Steve Appleton, the CEO and Chairman of Micron, died this morning in an airplane crash shortly after takeoff from the Boise, Idaho airport. He was the only one aboard, and was piloting a fixed wing, single engine kit aircraft. Appleton started working at Micron in 1983 shortly after graduating from Boise State University, first working the production line and eventually rising through the ranks to become the company's COO in 1991. He took the reins of Micron in 1...
• Listen to the Engadget Mobile Podcast, live at 5PM ET!3 February 2012, 8:00 pm
  Myriam Joire, Brad Molen, Joseph Volpe and Dante Cesa are all armed with mics this week, and they're ready to use and abuse them. While the podcast could go any direction, we promise one thing: we won't be talking about RIM for a full hour and twenty minutes this week. However, we've heard that Joseph has a very interesting story to tell. Are you on pins and needles? Us too. Join us at the same bat time, same bat channel (that's 5PM ET, and the chat room's under the break) for this week's mobi...

Welcome to Explorations in Science with Dr. Michio Kaku

• Doubleday Books Facebook Sweepstakes (Win Two Books About the Hidden Designs of Our World)2 February 2012, 5:46 am
  Doubleday Books has launched a contest on their Facebook Fanpage for the opportunity to win two books about the hidden designs of our world. The details are simple: Become a Fan of the Doubleday Books fanpage by Clicking LIKE and Enter the Sweepstakes on the landing page. Only persons residing in United States who are at [...]...
• 2012 Paperback Book Tour Dates & Locations for Physics of the Future: How Science will Change Daily Life by 210030 January 2012, 4:16 pm
  Tuesday, February 21 Albany, NY – New York State Writer’s Institute Venue: Campus Center Ballroom Time: 8:00pm 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222 Wednesday, February 22 Louisville, KY – Kentucky Author Forum Venue: Kentucky Author Forum Time: tk 624 West Main, Second Floor, Louisville, Kentucky 40202 Thursday, February 23 Berkeley, CA – KPFA Live Event Venue: Hillside Club Time: tk 2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley, CA Friday, February 24 Seattle, WA – Town Hall Seattle [...]...
• (Holiday Sale - $24) Collaboration T-Shirt (Kaku Official / Imaginary Foundation)9 December 2011, 3:07 am
  “SOMEWHERE SOMETHING INCREDIBLE IS WAITING TO BE KNOWN.” Such are the sage words of the late great Dr. Carl Sagan.  Such is the axiom of  The IMAGINARY FOUNDATION. And such is the life mission of physicist/futurist Dr. Michio Kaku. The big ideas and new frontiers that elevate that statement from the ramblings of mere mortals [...]...
• Last Ten Blog Posts from Dr. Kaku’s Universe (Big Think Blog)21 August 2011, 5:41 am
  For your convenience, here is a list of the last ten blog entries from Dr. Kaku’s blog (Dr. Kaku’s Universe) hosted at Big Think. Be sure to leave your questions in the comment sections below each blog entry as Dr. Kaku will be periodically answering questions from fans. Stay tuned for more updates! MARS Updates Including [...]...
• You’ve Got Michio Kaku - AOL Video12 July 2011, 12:35 am
  The AOL You’ve Got Series: Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku talks about how science fiction will one day become reality — http://aol.it/rbcFMT (7/6/11)...
• Rose-Hulman 2011 Commencement Speech28 May 2011, 5:20 am
  “Boundaries are being broken by technology,” Dr. Michio Kaku told the class of 2011 at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology’s 133rd Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 28, in the Sports and Recreation Center. Dr. Kaku’s Delta flight from Moscow was cancelled due to mechanical difficulties. By burning the midnight oil, and with the help of [...]...
• Science Friday (Office Hours with Michio Kaku)25 May 2011, 4:08 am
  Many of us spend more time at our desks than anywhere else. Theoretical physicist and futurist Michio Kaku takes us on a tour of his office, where he writes his bestsellers and records his radio shows. The futuristic 1950s TV show Flash Gordon jump-started his interest in science. Watching it as a kid, Kaku realized [...]...
• Read and Share the Last 10 Blog Posts on Dr. Kaku’s Universe27 April 2011, 6:01 am
  Read and Share the Last 10 Blog Posts on Dr. Kaku’s Universe and don’t forget to sign up for the Weekly Newsletter. Please also be encouraged the register an account so you can leave comments on each of the blog posts where Dr. Kaku will be answering questions. The Possible Discovery of the Higgs Will Shake [...]...
• 4/15 Appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) to Discuss Nuclear Crisis in Japan15 April 2011, 5:36 am
  4/15 appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) to discuss the ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan and what the utility is doing to combat the issue....
• Appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman (The Nuclear Crisis in Japan)21 March 2011, 6:28 pm
  What are the best-and-worst-case scenarios for the nuclear crisis in Japan? Theoretical physics professor and author Dr. Michio Kaku shares his opinions with David Letterman on The Late Show....

ScienceDaily: Near-Earth Object Impact News

• Sun delivered curveball of powerful radiation at Earth1 February 2012, 7:24 pm
  A potent follow-up solar flare, which occurred Jan. 17, 2012, just days after the Sun launched the biggest coronal mass ejection seen in nearly a decade, delivered a powerful radiation punch to Earth's magnetic field despite the fact that it was aimed away from our planet....
• Waiting for Death Valley's big bang: Volcanic explosion crater may have future potential23 January 2012, 8:25 pm
  In California's Death Valley, death is looking just a bit closer. Geologists have determined that the half-mile-wide Ubehebe Crater, formed by a prehistoric volcanic explosion, was created far more recently than previously thought -- and that conditions for a sequel may exist today....
• Scientists find microbes in lava tube living in conditions like those on Mars15 December 2011, 6:59 pm
  A team of scientists from Oregon has collected microbes from ice within a lava tube in the Cascade Mountains and found that they thrive in cold, Mars-like conditions. They have characteristics that would make the microbes capable of living in the subsurface of Mars and other planetary bodies....
• Large asteroid to pass by Earth Nov. 8, but what if it didn't?1 November 2011, 5:43 pm
  An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier will fly near Earth on Nov. 8, 2011. While there is no danger of it hitting the planet, an asteroid impact expert says a similar-sized object hitting Earth would result in a 4,000-megaton blast, magnitude 7.0 earthquake and, should it strike in the deep ocean, 70-foot-high tsunami waves 60 miles from the splashdown site....
• Fallout of a giant meteorite strike revealed in new model19 October 2011, 9:34 pm
  Seeking to better understand the level of death and destruction that would result from a large meteorite striking Earth, researchers have developed a new model that can not only more accurately simulate the seismic fallout of such an impact, but also help reveal new information about the surface and interior of planets based on past collisions....
• CSI-style investigation of meteorite hits on Earth18 October 2011, 1:51 pm
  Volcanologists have forensically reconstructed the impact of a meteorite on Earth and how debris was hurled from the crater to devastate the surrounding region....
• Space observatory provides clues to creation of Earth's oceans5 October 2011, 6:55 pm
  Astronomers have found a new cosmic source for the same kind of water that appeared on Earth billions of years ago and created the oceans. The findings may help explain how Earth's surface ended up covered in water....
• First comet found with ocean-like water5 October 2011, 5:16 pm
  New evidence supports the theory that comets delivered a significant portion of Earth's oceans, which scientists believe formed about eight million years after the planet itself....
• Salty water and gas sucked into Earth's interior helps unravel planetary evolution26 September 2011, 1:53 pm
  An international team of scientists has provided new insights into the processes behind the evolution of the planet by demonstrating how salty water and gases transfer from the atmosphere into the Earth's interior....
• NASA's WISE raises doubt about asteroid family believed responsible for dinosaur extinction19 September 2011, 6:40 pm
  Observations from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission indicate the family of asteroids some believed was responsible for the demise of the dinosaurs is not likely the culprit, keeping open the case on one of Earth's greatest mysteries....

Quantum Physics

• The Answer By Quantum Physic1 December 2011, 7:05 am
  url='http://www.quantumphysics.tk/the-answer-by-quantum-physic.html';...
• Chaos is a Natural Part of Transformation – Robert Williams on CEC30 November 2011, 6:44 am
  url='http://www.quantumphysics.tk/chaos-is-a-natural-part-of-transformation-robert-williams-on-cec.html';www.CuttingEdgeConsciousness.com Subtle Energy Technology Specialist, Robert O. Williams, joins Barnet Bain and Freeman Michaels on Cutting Edge Consciousness to discuss the process of transformation. Natural law indicates that chaos is part of evolution and transformation in biological systems – this understanding can be applied to virtually ALL aspects of life. This amazing conversati...
• Understanding Consciousness and Human Self ( Questions from you, Answers from Dr Seyed Azmayesh)29 November 2011, 6:23 am
  url='http://www.quantumphysics.tk/understanding-consciousness-and-human-self-questions-from-you-answers-from-dr-seyed-azmayesh.html';Understanding Consciousness: A Challenge for Modern Science Exploring consciousness through psychology, neuroscience, quantum physics and spiritual insight. Question from you and Answers from Dr Seyed Mostafa Azmayesh...
• ET Disclosure, Annunaki, Anu ?=? Ahura Mazda, Atlantis/Toltec, Lemuria, Indigos, Crystals28 November 2011, 6:03 am
  url='http://www.quantumphysics.tk/et-disclosure-annunaki-anu-ahura-mazda-atlantistoltec-lemuria-indigos-crystals.html';FBI opens the ET/ UFO vault: divinecosmos.com Ancient Aliens episode that discusses Ahuru Mazda/ Zoroastrian: www.youtube.com Release date: May 31, 2011- “The Spirit of Zoroastrianism” www.amazon.com Planetary origin (where are you from)?: www.lightconnection.org Indigos/ Crystals: psychedelicadventure.blogspot.com...
• OCCUPY YOUR BRAIN27 November 2011, 5:46 am
  url='http://www.quantumphysics.tk/occupy-your-brain.html';…and find out WHY so many people disagree with each other… This documentary researches the developments in neuroscience and sociology from the past decades that have shed light on many aspects of human psychology that are only now beginning to be discussed in the fields of ’self-help’ and self-development. While there is a lot of [...]...
• The Big Bang Theory Season 4 Episode 22 The Wildebeest Implementation May 5, 2011 s4e22 Full HD26 November 2011, 5:24 am
  url='http://www.quantumphysics.tk/the-big-bang-theory-season-4-episode-22-the-wildebeest-implementation-may-5-2011-s4e22-full-hd.html';ishort.ca Here you can watch The Big Bang Theory full episodes online. streaming episodes, previous seasons, reviews & more. THE BIG BANG THEORY is a comedy from the Emmy Award nominated Co-Creator and Executive Producer of “Two and a Half Men” Chuck Lorre, about brainy best friends Leonard (Johnny Galecki, “Roseanne”) and Sheldon (Ji...
• What The Bleep Do We Know: Down The Rabbit Hole ( Full Length Movie )25 November 2011, 5:05 am
  url='http://www.quantumphysics.tk/what-the-bleep-do-we-know-down-the-rabbit-hole-full-length-movie.html';Interviews with scientists and authors, animated bits, and a storyline involving a deaf photographer are used in this docudrama to illustrate the link between quantum mechanics, neurobiology, human consciousness and day-to-day reality....
• The Big Bang Theory Season 5 Episode 5 The Russian Rocket Reaction s4e5 HD HQ24 November 2011, 4:42 am
  url='http://www.quantumphysics.tk/the-big-bang-theory-season-5-episode-5-the-russian-rocket-reaction-s4e5-hd-hq.html';nolink.us Here you can watch The Big Bang Theory full episodes online. streaming episodes, previous seasons, reviews & more. THE BIG BANG THEORY is a comedy from the Emmy Award nominated Co-Creator and Executive Producer of “Two and a Half Men” Chuck Lorre, about brainy best friends Leonard (Johnny Galecki, “Roseanne”) and Sheldon (Jim Parsons [...]...
• Meta 2.0: Keys to the Kingdom23 November 2011, 4:26 am
  url='http://www.quantumphysics.tk/meta-2-0-keys-to-the-kingdom.html';So many people have contacted me with regard to challenges in relationships. I really recommend chapter 8 of Neale Donald Walsh’s book “Conversations with God”. You probably have to read the rest of the book to accept chapter 8, but once you get that – you’ve got it! And, along the way, so many other [...]...
• Secrets of the Sacred Ark – 221 November 2011, 3:43 am
  url='http://www.quantumphysics.tk/secrets-of-the-sacred-ark-2.html';Laurence Gardner has ascertained that mfkzt(monatomic gold) was the secret of the pharaoh’s rite of passage to Afterlife, and was directly associated with the pyramids and the biblical Ark of the Covenant,as revealed by inscriptions at the Sinai mountain temple of Moses. With the old science now rediscovered,GOLD is fast becoming established as a logistically [...]...

Futurity.org

• Spry robot built to zip like the butterfly3 February 2012, 8:59 pm
  JOHNS HOPKINS (US) — High-speed video of butterflies’ agility in flight may help researchers build tiny robots that mimic the insects’ maneuvers.The Air Force, which funded the research, is supporting the development of bug-size flyers to carry out reconnaissance, search-and-rescue, and environmental monitoring missions without risking human lives. The devices are commonly called micro aerial vehicles (MAVs)....
• For better mammogram readings, direct the gaze3 February 2012, 8:00 pm
  WASHINGTON U.-ST. LOUIS (US) — A new technique called “subtle gaze direction” could lower the learning curve for reading mammograms, researchers say.In 2011—to the consternation of many women—a systematic review of randomized clinical trials showed that routine mammography was of little value to younger women at average or low risk of breast cancer....
• Charge the electric car while you drive3 February 2012, 7:28 pm
  STANFORD (US) — New technology could lead to wireless charging of electric vehicles while they cruise down the highway.The long-term goal of the high-efficiency charging system—that uses magnetic fields to transmit large electric currents between metal coils placed several feet apart—is to dramatically increasing the driving range of electric cars and trucks and develop an all-electric highway....
• Brain directs traffic to stay on task3 February 2012, 6:03 pm
  UC DAVIS (US) — Just like a road sign alerts us to merging traffic ahead, the brain can change its connections to minimize distraction and take advantage of what we know of the situation at hand.“In order to behave efficiently, you want to process relevant sensory information as fast as possible, but relevance is determined by your current situation,” says Joy Geng, assistant professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis Center for Mind and Brain....
• Walnuts may shrink prostate cancer risk3 February 2012, 5:13 pm
  UC DAVIS (US) — Mice genetically programmed to develop prostate cancer had smaller, slower growing tumors when fed a walnut-rich diet, report researchers.University of California, Davis scientists, working with colleagues at the USDA Western Regional Research Center in Albany, California, assessed tumor size in mice fed different diets for 9, 18 and 24 weeks....
• Arthritis risk higher in poor neighborhoods3 February 2012, 4:48 pm
  U. MELBOURNE (AUS) — People living in poor neighborhoods are 42 percent more at risk of getting arthritis than those that live in affluent areas, new research shows.Published in the journal Arthritis Care & Research, a study reveals that more than 30 percent of people living in socially disadvantaged areas reported having arthritis—as opposed to 18.5 percent in wealthier areas....
• When mom nurtures, kids’ brains grow2 February 2012, 10:39 pm
  WASHINGTON U.-ST. LOUIS (US) — Children whose mothers nurture them have brains with a larger hippocampus—a region vital for learning and memory.The research by child psychiatrists and neuroscientists at Washington University in St. Louis is the first to show that changes in this critical region of children’s brain anatomy are linked to a mother’s nurturing....
• Birth control shot risky for the obese?2 February 2012, 10:02 pm
  USC (US) — A small study suggests obese women may increase their risk of developing type 2 diabetes by using the Depo-Provera birth control shot.The first to examine the drug’s effect on obese women, the University of Southern California study suggests that other forms of long-term birth control, namely intrauterine contraception, may be a more effective choice for overweight women....
• Vitamin B6 may beat malaria pathogen2 February 2012, 8:13 pm
  U. SOUTHAMPTON (UK) — New research on vitamin B6 could lead to drugs that target the pathogen that causes malaria.The University of Southampton research will enable scientists to learn more about the nature of the enzymes required for vitamin biosynthesis by the malaria-causing pathogen Plasmodium....
• Plant enzyme works day and night shifts2 February 2012, 8:01 pm
  MICHIGAN STATE (US) — Researchers have discovered a plant enzyme that switches from storing energy during the day to transporting energy in the roots at night.The discovery, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, shows that plants evolved a new function for this enzyme by changing merely one of its protein building blocks....

BBC News - Science & Environment

• Totally tropical at Kew3 February 2012, 4:46 pm
  A tour of Kew's Royal Botanic Gardens' exotic orchids...
• Green void looms after Huhne departure3 February 2012, 4:01 pm
  What Huhne’s departure means to 'the greenest government ever'...
• Largest optical telescope created3 February 2012, 10:15 am
  Astronomers at the Paranal observatory combine four telescope to create the world's largest virtual device with a 130m-mirror....
• Striking galaxy image from Hubble3 February 2012, 9:35 am
  The Hubble space telescope captures an image of a "barred spiral" galaxy that could help us better understand our own Milky Way....
• Olympics shoot for green medal3 February 2012, 9:14 am
  Will London 2012 fulfil its ‘greenest Olympics’ pledge?...
• VIDEO: Lifting the Cutty Sark into place3 February 2012, 12:22 am
  The historic tea clipper will be reopened to the public in spring 2012. Part of the conservation work included lifting her 3m off the ground....
• Malaria toll 'is twice as high'3 February 2012, 12:07 am
  The number of deaths worldwide from malaria has been underestimated, according to data published in the medical journal the Lancet....
• VIDEO: Art by animals goes on show3 February 2012, 12:06 am
  A work of abstract expressionism by a chimp and a still life of a flower by an elephant are part of a new exhibition in London of artworks created by animals....
• VIDEO: 'Green' tour of London Olympics site2 February 2012, 10:55 pm
  A look around the site of what is pledged to be the "greenest ever" Olympic Games....
• In pictures: Science meets art2 February 2012, 7:14 pm
  Winners of science photography contest dazzle...

ScienceBlog.com

• How to Boost the Power of Pain Relief, Without Drugs3 February 2012, 6:07 pm
  Placebos reduce pain by creating an expectation of relief. Distraction—say, doing a puzzle—relieves it by keeping the brain busy. But do they use the same brain processes? Neuromaging suggests they do. When applying a placebo, scientists see activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. That’s the part of the brain that controls high-level cognitive functions like [...]...
• Super-Earth found in habitable zone of nearby cool star3 February 2012, 2:52 pm
  An international team of scientists led by Carnegie’s Guillem Anglada-Escudé and Paul Butler has discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a nearby star. The star is a member of a triple star system and has a different makeup than our Sun, being relatively lacking in metallic elements. This discovery demonstrates that habitable planets could form [...]...
• Millisecond pulsars: the discovery of deceleration3 February 2012, 2:49 pm
  Pulsars are among the most exotic celestial bodies known. They have diameters of about 20 kilometres, but at the same time roughly the mass of our sun. A sugar-cube sized piece of its ultra-compact matter on the Earth would weigh hundreds of millions of tons. A sub-class of them, known as millisecond pulsars, spin up [...]...
• DNA test for Down syndrome IDs two other conditions3 February 2012, 2:46 pm
  A newly available DNA-based prenatal blood test that can identify a pregnancy with Down syndrome can also identify two additional chromosome abnormalities: trisomy 18 (Edwards syndrome) and trisomy 13 (Patau syndrome).The test for all three defects can be offered as early as 10 weeks of pregnancy to women who have been identified as being at [...]...
• What a tangled web Alzheimer’s weaves3 February 2012, 2:45 pm
  One of the most distinctive signs of the development of Alzheimer’s disease is a change in the behavior of a protein that neuroscientists call tau. In normal brains, tau is present in individual units essential to neuron health. In the cells of Alzheimer’s brains, by contrast, tau proteins aggregate into twisted structures known as “neurofibrillary [...]...
• Wildlife treasure trove found in Peru3 February 2012, 2:44 pm
  The Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS) Peru program announced today the discovery of 365 species previously undocumented in Bahuaja Sonene National Park (BSNP) in southeastern Peru. Fifteen researchers participated in the inventory focusing on plant life, insects, birds, mammals, and reptiles. The discovery included: thirty undocumented bird species, including the black-and-white hawk eagle, Wilson’s phalarope, and [...]...
• Saving Dogs with Spinal Cord Injuries3 February 2012, 2:36 pm
  Dogs with spinal cord injuries may soon benefit from an experimental drug being tested by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences — work that they hope will one day help people with similar injuries. Funded through a three-year, $750,000 grant from the [...]...
• Male and Female Behavior Deconstructed3 February 2012, 2:32 pm
  Hormones shape our bodies, make us fertile, excite our most basic urges, and as scientists have known for years, they govern the behaviors that separate men from women. But how? Now a team of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has uncovered many genes influenced by the male and female sex hormones [...]...
• Planets Circling Around Twin Suns3 February 2012, 2:29 pm
  In the last two decades, the study of extrasolar planets — those that lie outside our own solar system — has become one of the most important fields of astrophysics. Now a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) team that includes Prof. Tsevi Mazeh of Tel Aviv University‘s Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the [...]...
• A battle of the vampires, 20 million years ago3 February 2012, 2:24 pm
  They are tiny, ugly, disease-carrying little blood-suckers that most people have never seen or heard of, but a new discovery in a one-of-a-kind fossil shows that “bat flies” have been doing their noxious business with bats for at least 20 million years. For bats, that’s a long time to deal with a parasite doing its [...]...

NASA Breaking News

• NASA Glenn To Host Tweetup Celebrating 50th Anniversary Of First American To Orbit Earth3 February 2012, 5:00 am
  NASA's Glenn Research Center (GRC) in Cleveland will host a special event on March 2 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of John Glenn's first orbital flight by an American....
• NASA Receives Second Highest Number Of Astronaut Applications3 February 2012, 5:00 am
  More than 6,300 individuals applied to become a NASA astronaut between Nov. 15, 2011 and Jan. 27, the second highest number of applications ever received by the agency....
• NASA to Host Media Telecon on Space Station Status2 February 2012, 5:00 am
  NASA will host a media telecon at 2 p.m. CST today to discuss the status of the International Space Station and the progress toward an updated launch schedule, including international partner and commercial space vehicles....
• NASA Administrator Leads Action Session of President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness2 February 2012, 5:00 am
  NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will lead a discussion with business leaders and higher education professionals at a Listening and Action Session of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. PST on Friday, Feb. 3, in Seattle....
• NASA Spacecraft Returns First Video from Far Side Of The Moon1 February 2012, 5:00 am
  A camera aboard one of NASA's twin Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) lunar spacecraft has returned its first unique view of the far side of the moon....
• East Coast Students to Speak Live With Space Station Commander1 February 2012, 5:00 am
  Students participating in a U.S. Coast Guard Academy mentoring program will speak with Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank aboard the International Space Station at 11:15 EST on Thursday, Feb. 2....
• NASA, University Of Maryland Invite Public To Astronauts' Discussion Of Recent International Space Station Missions1 February 2012, 5:00 am
  NASA and the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering invite the public to a discussion with three astronauts from recent International Space Station expedition missions at 5:30 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Feb. 14, in the Hoff Theater inside the Adele H. Stamp Student Union....
• NASA Receives Final NRC Report On Space Technology Roadmaps1 February 2012, 5:00 am
  NASA has received the National Research Council (NRC) report "NASA Space Technology Roadmaps and Priorities," which provides the agency with findings and recommendations on where best to invest in technologies needed to enable NASA's future missions in space....
• Legendary Astronaut Shannon Lucid Retires From NASA31 January 2012, 5:00 am
  Shannon Lucid, a member of NASA's first astronaut class to include women, has retired after more than three decades of service to the agency....
• NASA Spacecraft Reveals New Observations of Interstellar Matter31 January 2012, 5:00 am
  NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) has captured the best and most complete glimpse yet of what lies beyond the solar system....

Blog - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

• A Look Inside Dawn’s Grand Asteroid Adventure2 February 2012, 1:03 am
  By Marc Rayman As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft investigates its first target, the giant asteroid Vesta, Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer, shares a monthly update on the mission’s progress. The south pole of the giant asteroid Vesta, as imaged by the framing camera on NASA’s Dawn spacecraft in September 2011. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA | › Full image and caption [...]...
• Slice of History: Surveyor 3 Camera Returned from the Moon24 January 2012, 8:35 pm
  By Julie Cooper Each month in “Slice of History” we feature a historical photo from the JPL Archives. See more historical photos and explore the JPL Archives at https://beacon.jpl.nasa.gov/. Surveyor 3 Camera Returned from the Moon — Photograph Number P-10709B In November 1969 Apollo 12 astronauts Alan Bean and Pete Conrad landed on the moon less than 600 [...]...
• Dawn Longs to be Closer to Asteroid Vesta12 January 2012, 9:43 pm
  By Marc Rayman As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft investigates its first target, the giant asteroid Vesta, Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer, shares a monthly update on the mission’s progress. This image, one of the first obtained by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft in its low altitude mapping orbit, shows part of the rim of a fresh crater on the giant [...]...
• Viewing Times and Tips for Saturday Morning’s Lunar Eclipse9 December 2011, 8:20 pm
  By Steve Edberg The last lunar eclipse until 2014 will grace the sky on Saturday, Dec. 10. Steve Edberg, an astronomer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, shares the best viewing times and tips. For more lunar eclipse resources and to join NASA/JPL’s “I’m There: Lunar Eclipse” event, visit http://1.usa.gov/uBfAI8. Keith Burns submitted this winning photo of the [...]...
• Getting the Lowdown on Asteroid Vesta5 December 2011, 6:59 pm
  By Marc Rayman As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft investigates its first target, the giant asteroid Vesta, Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer, shares a monthly update on the mission’s progress. This 3-D video incorporates images from the framing camera instrument aboard NASA’s Dawn spacecraft from July to August 2011. The images were obtained as Dawn approached Vesta and circled [...]...
• Mission Control to Mars: Launching the Next Mars Rover28 November 2011, 10:36 pm
  By Rob Manning In the wee morning hours of Nov. 26, 2011, scientists and engineers gathered in the mission control room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to help launch the next Mars rover, Curiosity. The mission’s chief engineer, Rob Manning, shares the developing story from the control room as tensions and excitement for a mission eight [...]...
• Slice of History: Advanced Ocean Technology Development Platform9 November 2011, 6:33 pm
  By Julie Cooper Each month in “Slice of History” we feature a historical photo from the JPL Archives. See more historical photos and explore the JPL Archives at https://beacon.jpl.nasa.gov/. Advanced Ocean Technology Development Platform — Photograph Number P-23298B The Advanced Ocean Technology Development Platform (AOTDP) was developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the late 1970s by the [...]...
• Asteroid Vesta, All in the Details3 November 2011, 8:14 pm
  By Marc Rayman As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft investigates its first target, the giant asteroid Vesta, Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer, shares a monthly update on the mission’s progress. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on September 20, 2011. This image was taken through the camera’s clear filter. The distance to the surface of [...]...
• Slice of History: Freeway Tunnel Simulator6 October 2011, 11:09 pm
  By Julie Cooper Each month in “Slice of History” we feature a historical photo from the JPL Archives. See more historical photos and explore the JPL Archives at https://beacon.jpl.nasa.gov/. Freeway Tunnel Simulator — Photograph Number P-20673A In October 1978, this photo was taken of a freeway tunnel simulator, which was used to study the air quality in freeways [...]...
• The Giant Asteroid, Up Close and Personal29 September 2011, 11:14 pm
  By Marc Rayman As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft investigates its first target, the giant asteroid Vesta, Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer, shares a monthly update on the mission’s progress. This image obtained by the framing camera on NASA’s Dawn spacecraft shows the south pole of the giant asteroid Vesta. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA › Full image and caption | [...]...

Interactive Features Slideshows - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, CalTech.

• The Space We Love14 February 2011, 8:00 am
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• Black Holes: By the Numbers3 February 2011, 8:00 am
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• NEOWISE: A Solar System Safari1 February 2011, 8:00 am
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• The Change of Seasons: Views From Space22 December 2010, 8:00 am
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• WISE - Your Guide to the Infrared Sky2 April 2010, 7:00 am
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• Slide Show: SRTM's 'World Tour'11 February 2010, 8:00 am
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• Interactive: Take the Sea Level Quiz22 October 2009, 7:00 am
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• From the Lab to the Moon21 July 2009, 7:00 am
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• Five Years on Mars29 January 2009, 8:00 am
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• Earthquake Studies29 July 2008, 7:00 am
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Futurity.org

• Spry robot built to zip like the butterfly3 February 2012, 8:59 pm
  JOHNS HOPKINS (US) — High-speed video of butterflies’ agility in flight may help researchers build tiny robots that mimic the insects’ maneuvers.The Air Force, which funded the research, is supporting the development of bug-size flyers to carry out reconnaissance, search-and-rescue, and environmental monitoring missions without risking human lives. The devices are commonly called micro aerial vehicles (MAVs)....
• For better mammogram readings, direct the gaze3 February 2012, 8:00 pm
  WASHINGTON U.-ST. LOUIS (US) — A new technique called “subtle gaze direction” could lower the learning curve for reading mammograms, researchers say.In 2011—to the consternation of many women—a systematic review of randomized clinical trials showed that routine mammography was of little value to younger women at average or low risk of breast cancer....
• Charge the electric car while you drive3 February 2012, 7:28 pm
  STANFORD (US) — New technology could lead to wireless charging of electric vehicles while they cruise down the highway.The long-term goal of the high-efficiency charging system—that uses magnetic fields to transmit large electric currents between metal coils placed several feet apart—is to dramatically increasing the driving range of electric cars and trucks and develop an all-electric highway....
• Brain directs traffic to stay on task3 February 2012, 6:03 pm
  UC DAVIS (US) — Just like a road sign alerts us to merging traffic ahead, the brain can change its connections to minimize distraction and take advantage of what we know of the situation at hand.“In order to behave efficiently, you want to process relevant sensory information as fast as possible, but relevance is determined by your current situation,” says Joy Geng, assistant professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis Center for Mind and Brain....
• Walnuts may shrink prostate cancer risk3 February 2012, 5:13 pm
  UC DAVIS (US) — Mice genetically programmed to develop prostate cancer had smaller, slower growing tumors when fed a walnut-rich diet, report researchers.University of California, Davis scientists, working with colleagues at the USDA Western Regional Research Center in Albany, California, assessed tumor size in mice fed different diets for 9, 18 and 24 weeks....
• Arthritis risk higher in poor neighborhoods3 February 2012, 4:48 pm
  U. MELBOURNE (AUS) — People living in poor neighborhoods are 42 percent more at risk of getting arthritis than those that live in affluent areas, new research shows.Published in the journal Arthritis Care & Research, a study reveals that more than 30 percent of people living in socially disadvantaged areas reported having arthritis—as opposed to 18.5 percent in wealthier areas....
• When mom nurtures, kids’ brains grow2 February 2012, 10:39 pm
  WASHINGTON U.-ST. LOUIS (US) — Children whose mothers nurture them have brains with a larger hippocampus—a region vital for learning and memory.The research by child psychiatrists and neuroscientists at Washington University in St. Louis is the first to show that changes in this critical region of children’s brain anatomy are linked to a mother’s nurturing....
• Birth control shot risky for the obese?2 February 2012, 10:02 pm
  USC (US) — A small study suggests obese women may increase their risk of developing type 2 diabetes by using the Depo-Provera birth control shot.The first to examine the drug’s effect on obese women, the University of Southern California study suggests that other forms of long-term birth control, namely intrauterine contraception, may be a more effective choice for overweight women....
• Vitamin B6 may beat malaria pathogen2 February 2012, 8:13 pm
  U. SOUTHAMPTON (UK) — New research on vitamin B6 could lead to drugs that target the pathogen that causes malaria.The University of Southampton research will enable scientists to learn more about the nature of the enzymes required for vitamin biosynthesis by the malaria-causing pathogen Plasmodium....
• Plant enzyme works day and night shifts2 February 2012, 8:01 pm
  MICHIGAN STATE (US) — Researchers have discovered a plant enzyme that switches from storing energy during the day to transporting energy in the roots at night.The discovery, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, shows that plants evolved a new function for this enzyme by changing merely one of its protein building blocks....

Politics: Politics blog | guardian.co.uk

• Chris Huhne resigns over speeding offence charges – news and reaction3 February 2012, 4:46 pm
  • Energy secretary says CPS decision 'deeply regrettable• Huhne and ex-wife due in court on 16 February• Nick Clegg praises Lib Dem minister's 'trailblazing' work• Ed Davey to take over cabinet post• Read a summary of events so far4.45pm: Ed Davey has made an upbeat statement on the steps of his department.It's a sad day for many people in the department and the Liberal Democrats, because Chris Huhne had a vision for a green economy, and he's done fabulous work as the secretary of stat...
• Mayor essentials3 February 2012, 9:20 am
  They could be just the thing for the north according to Michael Heseltine. And we should listen with respect to the man who gave us the regional offices of government. Sam Sims of the Institute of Government makes the mayoral case.Mayors offer big benefits for Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield, but the bigger prize on offer to the cities of West Yorkshire this year is serious devolution to a proper, city regional government.If the Yorkshire Post is to be believed then the people of Leeds, Bradford a...
• A revolution for northern cities? – The debate over city mayors3 February 2012, 9:15 am
  It seemed to be a great big yawn. But the notion that individuals might bang the local drum more effectively than cabinets or committees is showing signs of catching on. The Guardian Northerner's political columnist Ed Jacobs ponders...3 May 2012. Ring any bells? No? Well it's the date the government has set for a referendums on whether some of the country's largest cities want to see the establishment of Boris Johnson-style elected Mayors. Included will be Bradford, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester...
• Politics live blog: tax row over top civil servants' pay2 February 2012, 6:36 pm
  Hélène Mulholland takes us through today's key events, including the growing row over tax arrangements for top civil servants, and David Miliband's seven-point plan for Labour 9.50am: Good morning, I'm Hélène Mulholland, standing in for Andrew Sparrow today. An essay in this week's New Statesman by the Labour party leader's big brother on the need for Labour to engage in "restless rethinking" of its purpose and its policies if it is to return to power, promises a lively debate both within th...
• David Cameron pays price in India for poor links with Gandhi dynasty2 February 2012, 12:11 pm
  Prime minister's trade mission to India grated with Gandhi family which preferred low key approach of David MilibandDowning Street is, to put it mildly, deeply irritated that Britain has lost out to France in a £10bn defence contract to supply fighter jets to India.Aides said the prime minister would work hard to persuade the Indian government to change its mind after Delhi announced that the French Dassault Rafale jet would be its first choice over the Eurofighter Typhoon.The announcement was ...
• Welfare reform bill - benefit cap Commons live debate1 February 2012, 8:01 pm
  After seven defeats in the Lords, the government's controversial welfare reform proposals return to the Commons for further discussion10.30am: Welcome to Day Twelve of the welfare reform bill live blog. After a possibly unprecedented seven defeats in the Lords, the bill today returns to the House of Commons, where the government has vowed to overturn a raft of amendments passed by peers.Ministers face a tough challenge: they have the Commons majority to push the bill back to the Lords - assuming...
• Alex Salmond regrets backing Goodwin1 February 2012, 7:05 pm
  The first minister has confessed he too failed to foresee the RBS crisis and the banking collapse, adding: 'If we had the benefit of hindsight we'd do things differently'Alex Salmond has become the latest political figure to publicly regret supporting the disgraced RBS head Fred Goodwin, stripped on Tuesday of his knighthood for services to banking.In a BBC Scotland interview, the first minister – once a champion of the Royal Bank of Scotland's buccaneering and all-conquering style – said he...
• Politics live blog: PMQs, Fred Goodwin reaction and Nick Clegg on Lords reform1 February 2012, 4:35 pm
  • Nick Clegg on constitutional reform - summary• PMQs - my verdict• Lunchtime summary• Afternoon summary8.55am: Was it a good idea to strip Fred Goodwin of his knighthood? In the papers and on the airwaves there is quite a backlash against the move today. Sometimes populist gestures turn out to be not that popular, although we won't know what the public think until we see some polling. But we know what Alistair Darling, the Labour former chancellor, thinks. This is what he told the Today...
• Welfare reform bill live blog: government suffers seventh defeat31 January 2012, 7:33 pm
  Peers inflicted more humiliation on the government today. But ministers have vowed to overturn all the amendments in the Commons10.00am: Welcome to day 11 of the welfare reform bill live blog.We are back again for the bill's third reading of the bill in the House of Lords, where peers have the opportunity to "clarify and make further undiscussed amendments" before it is sent back to the House of Commons. The third reading in the chamber is the final chance for the Lords to change the wording of...
• Politics Live blog: David Cameron's Commons statement on EU summit31 January 2012, 6:15 pm
  • Today's agenda• Lunchtime summary• Afternoon summary8.50am: David Cameron has got some explaining to do. He will be makling a statement in the Commons at 3.30pm about yesterday's EU summit and his decision to drop his objection to the eurozone countries using the EU institutions to police their new fiscal union, and he's going to have to find a way of dealing with the Conservative Eurosceptics who feel that he's abandoned the "veto" that he deployed to their delight at the last EU summit...

Epolitix News

• MP backs Manchester's Green Bank bid1 February 2012, 8:18 am
  Tony Lloyd MP explains why he feels the world's first sustainable investment bank should be in Manchester....
• Putting soft power at the heart of foreign policy1 February 2012, 8:00 am
  John Glen MP considers how the UK can develop a foreign policy strategy that better integrates the "different elements of hard and soft power"....
• MP calls for promotion of social mobility31 January 2012, 9:42 am
  Esther McVey MP seeks to promote social mobility, as she warns of the damage for those individuals who were never able, or allowed to fulfil their potential....
• MP urges support for police31 January 2012, 7:32 am
  Susan Elan Jones MP argues that police in North Wales do an excellent job, yet find themselves under threat....
• Future of the Falkland Islands31 January 2012, 7:30 am
  Guy Opperman MP calls for Parliament to unite in support of the Falkland Islands....
• Employment for people with IBD31 January 2012, 7:20 am
  Chris Evans MP says employers, health professionals and policy makers all have a role to play in ensuring IBD does not stop people realising their potential....
• 'Defeating Dementia'25 January 2012, 8:00 am
  To mark the launch of a new report, 'Defeating Dementia', by Alzheimer's Research UK, Julian Huppert MP calls for greater investment in dementia research....
• Micro businesses key to a successful economy25 January 2012, 7:30 am
  Anne Marie Morris MP calls on the government to create conditions in which micro businesses can prosper, to provide stability in the economy....
• Government recognises currently levels of sight loss as 'unacceptable'24 January 2012, 3:13 pm
  Organisations working in the field of eye health have welcomed the government's commitment to preventing of sight loss....
• MP urges action on health inequalities24 January 2012, 7:23 am
  Chi Onwurah MP calls on the government to look again at the "profound consequences" of their failure to properly address health inequalities....

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BBC News - Politics

• Huhne resigns over points charge3 February 2012, 8:10 pm
  Chris Huhne vows to clear his name as he resigns as energy secretary to fight a charge of perverting the course of justice relating to a 2003 speeding case....
• Tories' concern at charity links3 February 2012, 7:27 pm
  The Conservatives demand answers about links between the Labour Party and the chief executive of a charity facing allegations of financial mismanagement....
• Profile: Chris Huhne3 February 2012, 5:38 pm
  The millionaire ex-journalist unafraid of cabinet showdowns...
• Labour: Banks must serve society3 February 2012, 5:34 pm
  Ed Miliband calls for a culture of "one nation banking" in which financial institutions are not "isolated" from the rest of the economy and society....
• Cameron in enterprise zone gaffe3 February 2012, 5:20 pm
  Prime Minister David Cameron is accused of a "hugely embarrassing" gaffe when he refers to a non-existent enterprise zone in Plymouth....
• Green void looms after Huhne departure3 February 2012, 4:01 pm
  What Huhne’s departure means to 'the greenest government ever'...
• Ed Davey is new energy secretary3 February 2012, 3:57 pm
  Lib Dem minister Ed Davey is named the new energy and climate change secretary following Chris Huhne's resignation, while Norman Lamb takes over his role as business minister....
• Health bodies reject NHS reforms3 February 2012, 3:23 pm
  Physiotherapist leaders have joined the Royal College of GPs in calling for the health bill in England to be scrapped, increasing pressure on the government....
• Cameron to make official US visit3 February 2012, 3:21 pm
  Prime Minister David Cameron will make an official visit to the US next month, the White House says....
• VIDEO: Chris 'can rub people up wrong way'3 February 2012, 2:55 pm
  A Lib Dem MEP who worked alongside Chris Huhne in the European Parliament said the former energy and climate secretary could "rub people up the wrong way"....

BBC NEWS | Nick Robinson's Newslog

• Eurozone: UK ready to back IMF bailouts2 November 2011, 11:43 pm
  Britain is standing by to give more money to the IMF so that it can, in turn, lend more money to Eurozone countries like Greece, Italy or Spain who are struggling to service their debts. The government now believes, I'm told, that there are only three ways out of the current crisis - one they hope for, one they fear and a third they are ready to accept. They are: 1. Eurozone leaders succeed in getting last week's deal back on track despite Greece's plan to use a referendum to secure a bett...
• A new look12 May 2011, 12:32 pm
    Thank you for reading my blog. As of today it is moving to a new home, with a fresh format and that old cartoon gets replaced by a photo - which I'm not sure is wise for a bald man with bottle bottom specs but progress is progress. Visit my new page to see all of my reports, analysis and musings in one place - including video, audio and news stories. Oddly, though the first to blog at the BBC, I'm being a little slow to adapt to tweeting - at the moment I just tweet my blog posts but I ...
• Happy anniversary11 May 2011, 12:40 pm
  There were touching messages today from one partner to another on their first anniversary: Nick: We don't like cutting but the Tories do. David: There's only one party you can trust on the NHS. Brings a warm glow to your heart, doesn't it?...
• Who's saving the NHS from who?9 May 2011, 11:40 am
  As you listen to Liberal Democrats declare that they are riding to the rescue of the NHS I can't help recalling a story I heard a while ago. It relates to Nick Clegg's reaction to attending a service at Westminster Abbey to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the NHS. As well as prayers and blessings the service on 2 July 2008 included a speech by Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the reverential playing of a sound recording of a speech by the founder of the NHS, Labour's Aneurin Bevan. Clegg compla...
• Be careful what you wish for6 May 2011, 6:08 pm
  To think that elections used to be boring. Predictable.   Just like the general election held exactly a year ago - today produced results no-one predicted with consequences which are totally unpredictable. Many may have foreseen the drubbing Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats would receive but few foresaw its scale - losing not just to Labour in the Northern cities, not just to the SNP in Scotland but - irony of ironies - to their coalition partners the Conservatives in parts of the South. An...
• Funny old game6 May 2011, 3:09 pm
  As we await the result of the referendum on changing our voting system I can't help noticing that proportional representation has delivered a stable, majority government in Scotland whilst good, old fashioned first past the post produced a hung parliament and a coalition in Westminster....
• Whither the Coalition now?6 May 2011, 9:09 am
  It was inevitable after a night like that. Someone somewhere would call for Nick Clegg to resign. The defeated leader of Nottingham's Lib Dems, Gary Long, was the first to the microphone. If he got the backing of 74 local parties there would have to be a leadership contest. But where are they? And who support such an idea? And who would run against Clegg? What is striking so far is that those councillors who lost in Sheffield and Liverpool and Hull gave their leader and the Coalition their bac...
• Elections - the agony and the ecstasy6 May 2011, 7:16 am
  Elections can bring relief, agony, joy and doubt. David Cameron must scarcely be able to believe his luck this morning. A year after failing to win the general election and having announced deep and painful spending cuts he will be deeply relieved that - so far at least - his party has barely received a scratch from the electorate. Losses may still follow but on nothing like the scale once feared. The reason is clear - it's his coalition partner who has absorbed all the pain. Nick Clegg will...
• Will Bin Laden's death hasten withdrawal from Afghanistan?3 May 2011, 12:15 pm
  Further to my post yesterday I note the prime minister's words on the impact which the death of Bin Laden will have on the withdrawal of British troops from Afghanistan. "It's clearly a helpful development I don't necessarily think it will change any timetables but we should use it as an opportunity to say to the Taliban now is the moment to separate yourself from Al Qaeda to give up violence" More significantly he stressed the possibility of a political deal with the Taliban rather than a m...
• Bin Laden's death2 May 2011, 10:28 am
  America is rejoicing. George Bush promised Bin Laden - dead or alive. President Obama has delivered that promise and, crucially, before America marked the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Others are better placed than me to analyse what this means for Al-Qaeda and for events in the Arab world. The politics of this news, though, seem pretty clear. Obama was elected to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. For many Americans the loss of life there was justified only as a response to th...

BBC NEWS | NEWSNIGHT | Michael Crick's blog

• Now for something completely different...23 May 2011, 1:30 pm
  This is my last blog in this format. I'm getting a new picture and a new biography, but the good news is that you still get me - here....
• The rise of the Dinosaurs' Coalition18 May 2011, 9:45 pm
  There is a new coalition emerging in British politics. Fresh from their resounding success in defeating AV, many Conservative MPs have started talking to Labour backbenchers who also voted No in the referendum trying to form a new alliance to defeat the proposals to reform the House of Lords, announced by Nick Clegg yesterday. The grouping are buoyed by their success on AV, and united by a strong element of hating Liberal Democrats. Critics will no doubt call them the Dinosaurs' Coalition. ...
• The Beast of Bolsover roars once more18 May 2011, 9:07 pm
  An amazing salvo from Dennis Skinner at Prime Minister's Questions today. It was vintage Skinner, of a kind we've not seen for 10 years or more. Many believe the Beast of Bolsover has mellowed in recent years, following his heart troubles and problems in his personal life. But not today. Dressed in red shirt and red tie, he thundered: "In recession-hit Britain, the billionaires have gone up by 20 - an increase of 37% - in this first year of Tory rule. Whilst in the real world, inflation's ...
• Boundary changes boosting Labour membership18 May 2011, 8:21 pm
  Ed Miliband often boasts of how tens of thousands of people have joined the Labour Party since the election - all evidence of his "new generation", he says. I must admit I have always been rather sceptical about the figures, but perhaps they're true. One Labour MP told me tonight that the prospect of serious battles with Westminster colleagues over the reduced number of seats, has prompted the more organised and far-sighted to embark on local membership drives to help their own selection. I c...
• Essex police confident of quick progress on Huhne18 May 2011, 6:56 pm
  Cabinet minister Chris Huhne has contacted Essex Police offering to help them with their inquiry into allegations he tried to evade punishment for speeding, his spokeswoman said tonight. Earlier Essex police announced that they are starting to interview key individuals relating to the claims that Mr Huhne asked his then wife Vicky Pryce to accept penalty points for speeding on his behalf in 2003 - claims Mr Huhne denies. That presumably also includes Mr Huhne's ex-wife Vicky Pryce, and maybe t...
• Was Huhne restricted by M11 road works?18 May 2011, 4:57 pm
  Some of the press speculation about Chris Huhne in recent days has focused on whether he was the victim of a 30 mile an hour speed restriction on the M11 which had been imposed because of road works. On 15 February 2003 the Daily Telegraph reported that extensive road works would cause big delays on the motorway for the next two months - ie. covering the crucial date in the Huhne case, 12 March 2003. In late February resurfacing work was due to start between junction 7 (Harlow), and junction 6...
• Black September for MPs as boundaries scramble begins18 May 2011, 3:22 pm
  Expect MPs to be very nervous this September. That's when the Boundary Commissions are going to make their provisional recommendations for the new, larger, Parliamentary constituencies. The number of seats in the Commons is being cut from 650 to 600, and the size of seats being made more equal, which will require new boundaries to almost every constituency in Britain. I have learnt that at a meeting a few days ago, representatives of the three main parties were told that the proposed new W...
• Was Nick Clegg on Flight 7775 with Chris Huhne?18 May 2011, 12:16 pm
  UPDATE AT 1652BST: A spokesman for Nick Clegg has just told me that he "would not have been on the plane" - Ryanair flight 7775 on 12 March 2003. The spokesman tells me that during the weeks that the European Parliament sat in Strasbourg rather than Brussels, Mr Clegg's routine was to travel back to Brussels where the Clegg family had a home, and then, if necessary, fly to London. ENTRY FROM 1216BST: Was Nick Clegg on Ryanair flight 7775 from Strasbourg to Stansted on the evening of 12 Mar...
• Twins reversed at Daily Telegraph17 May 2011, 4:21 pm
  Yesterday the Daily Telegraph sports section ran an article giving ratings for every Manchester United player this season. For the two Brazilian full-backs, Rafael and Fabio - who are identical twins - the Telegraph merely reversed the photo of one of them. Mind you, the pair do look so alike that I, a keen United follower, couldn't tell you which one it was. ...
• On the Huhne speeding mystery16 May 2011, 2:38 pm
  Two hours ago Newsnight discovered that Vicky Pryce - Chris Huhne's now estranged wife - was due to address a seminar at the LSE on the evening of 12 March 2003. That's the date in contention in the Chris Huhne speeding mystery. And the LSE has just confirmed to me that Vicky Pryce did actually attend the event - a City Alumni seminar, starting at 6.30pm. The organiser of the event, Nat Holtham, confirmed to me that Vicky Pryce spoke that evening, and that the event would have lasted betwee...

Politics News Headlines - Yahoo! News UK

• Banking's SWIFT working with US, EU on Iran measures4 February 2012, 12:15 am
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The organization that provides the world's banks with a system for moving money said on Friday it is working with officials in the United States and European Union to address concerns about the services it provides to blacklisted Iranian banks. The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, better known as SWIFT, issued its statement after the U.S. Senate Banking Committee advanced a new sanctions bill pushing for SWIFT to shut out Iran's central banks an...
• Amid peace bid, U.S. got purported letter from Taliban4 February 2012, 12:03 am
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House received a letter last year purported to come directly from Mullah Omar, the reclusive leader of the Taliban, asking the United States to deliver militant prisoners whose transfer is now at the heart of the Obama administration's bid to broker peace in Afghanistan. The unusual message kicked off a debate within the administration about whether it was truly authored by the mysterious one-eyed preacher believed to be directing the Taliban from hiding in Pakis...
• South Sudan shoot-out kills 37, wounds U.N. policeman3 February 2012, 11:44 pm
  JUBA (Reuters) - A shoot-out among South Sudanese security forces using truck-mounted machineguns killed 37 people and injured a United Nations policeman Wednesday, U.N. and government officials said Friday. The government in South Sudan - formed in July, six years after a peace agreement that ended decades of civil war - is struggling to assert control in a country awash with weapons and whose army is made up of former rival militias. ......
• Employment minister Davey named Energy Secretary3 February 2012, 1:03 pm
  LONDON (Reuters) - Employment minister Ed Davey was appointed Friday as Energy and Climate Change Secretary to replace Chris Huhne who has resigned following news he is to be charged over allegations he tried to cover up a speeding offence. Prime Minister David Cameron's office confirmed the appointment of Davey, 46, the Liberal Democrat MP for Kingston and Surbiton in southwest London. Made chief of staff to then Lib Dem leader Menzies Campbell in 2006, Davey also served in opposition as a Lib ...
• Miliband attacks "corrosive" bank bonuses3 February 2012, 12:06 pm
  LONDON (Reuters) - The opposition Labour Party is calling on banks to exercise restraint in the annual bonus round, warning on Friday that a culture of excessive bonuses has been "corrosive". At a speech hosted by Thomson Reuters, Labour leader Ed Miliband commended Royal Bank of Scotland Chairman Philip Hampton for his decision to waive his bonus at the state-backed bank. "I think all banks should show restraint," Miliband said, adding that "private banks also have an implicit government guaran...
• Miliband Slams 'Bonus, Bust, Bailout' Culture3 February 2012, 11:24 am
  Labour leader Ed Miliband has urged "responsibility and restraint" in banking sector pay, saying the industry cannot continue along a path of "big bonuses, bust, and bailouts"....
• Chris Huhne resigns after being charged with perverting the course of justice3 February 2012, 10:54 am
  Chris Huhne has stepped down as energy secretary after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) brought charges of perverting the course of justice against him....
• Miliband urges bankers to change3 February 2012, 2:59 am
  Ed Miliband is to warn bankers they must embrace change or face social isolation....
• Banks face isolation without change - Miliband2 February 2012, 10:26 pm
  LONDON (Reuters) - Ed Miliband will step up his attacks on extravagant bankers' bonuses on Friday, saying banks face intense public anger and isolation unless they change their ways. In a speech on "The future for banking" hosted by Thomson Reuters on Friday, the leader of the Labour Party will call for an end to a "culture of excessive bonuses." "People who did not cause the financial crisis are paying the price. Too many of those who did cause the financial crisis are not," Miliband will say, ...
• Miliband urges bankers to change2 February 2012, 10:22 pm
  Ed Miliband is to warn bankers they must embrace change or face social isolation....

Coolest Gadgets

• The Descender – Never be “board” again3 February 2012, 2:56 pm
  I am a big fan of Winter, I love the snow and everything that comes with it, like sledding, skiing and skating. Truth be told, I often get a little sad when it becomes obvious that the last flakes have fallen. It means I need to wait another year to feel the wind in my [...]...
• Glofish – Patented Easy to Care for Fun3 February 2012, 2:40 pm
    Last Christmas I was searching for that special gift for my daughter and I was looking for something that would be a little more magical than your average wind up toy, or board game. Of course she wanted a puppy or a rat. I tried to find a compromise and I think I found [...]...
• Scosche flipCHARGE burst and flipCHARGE rogue announced3 February 2012, 1:30 pm
  Scosche has just announced a couple of devices that will help solve the “short of power” issue that plagues many first world societies these days, considering the sheer number of gadgets that they tote around. The Scosche flipCHARGE burst and flipCHARGE rogue will come with a flush folding USB cable that paves the way for [...]...
• Swap-O-Matic vending machine3 February 2012, 1:00 pm
  It is rather encouraging to see society realize that we do not inherit the earth from our parents, but rather, we are just custodians of it for the next generation. After all, there is only one earth, and if it ends up inhabitable, where else are you supposed to go? Having said that, recycling efforts [...]...
• Outback Motion Activated Camera3 February 2012, 12:30 pm
  I do not think that you are going to catch a Pulitzer winning photograph anytime soon with the £99.99 Outback Motion Activated Camera, but at least it will help you nab that pesky fox who seems to like to drop by your backyard and rattle the nerves of your pet rabbits? If you intend on [...]...
• Basic House offers shelter on-the-go3 February 2012, 12:00 pm
  I am not quite sure what to make of the Basic House – yes, it might be able to provide a temporary shelter wherever you go, but it definitely will not do in the long run. After all, the Basic House which was designed by Barcelona-based Martin Azua is actually a lightweight balloon which is [...]...

Latest articles in Crave at CNET UK

• iPhone 5 complete guide3 February 2012, 6:24 pm
  The iPhone 5 might not be due until late 2012, but there are already clues about what it will offer. Keep updated with our rumour round-up....
• DriveSafe tells friends you're driving, stops danger texting3 February 2012, 4:50 pm
  The DriveSafe service from Vodafone automatically replies to incoming texts messages saying not now -- we're driving....
• CNET UK Podcast 273: Has tech ruined real life?3 February 2012, 3:48 pm
  We love our gadgets, but is it time we stopped staring at screens and just enjoyed the view?...
• ADzero is a British Android phone made of bamboo3 February 2012, 2:36 pm
  Fancy saving the planet while enjoying apps, games and web surfing wherever you are? Then say hello to the ADzero....
• Kodak M200 10-megapixel camera for bargain £25 from Asda3 February 2012, 12:32 pm
  Asda is offering the Kodak M200 for the cheap-as-chips price of £25 this weekend. If you're heading to a festival it might be worth a look....
• BT promises epic 330Mbps broadband starting in 20133 February 2012, 12:13 pm
  Next spring, Brits desperately seeking faster broadband will be able to ask BT to supersize their broadband connection to a whopping 330Mbps....
• Android Bouncer boots out 40 per cent of malware3 February 2012, 11:55 am
  Google has confirmed its use of a service named Bouncer that's apparently rid the Android app market of 40 per cent of malware....
• Top toys for 2012 in video from London Toy Fair3 February 2012, 10:00 am
  We tip the top high-tech toys coming to a shelf near you in 2012....
• Windows Phone 8 revealed, will share apps with Windows 83 February 2012, 9:37 am
  The first look at Windows Phone 8 has emerged, revealing close ties with the warmly anticipated Windows 8 desktop software....
• Samsung Galaxy S3 runs Ice Cream Sandwich in, er, fake pic2 February 2012, 6:12 pm
  A leaked shot of a Samsung Galaxy phone running Ice Cream Sandwich has caused a stir among the excitable tech scene. But not all is as it seems....

Latest articles in Gadgets and Gaming at CNET UK

• BT promises epic 330Mbps broadband starting in 20133 February 2012, 12:13 pm
  Next spring, Brits desperately seeking faster broadband will be able to ask BT to supersize their broadband connection to a whopping 330Mbps....
• Top toys for 2012 in video from London Toy Fair3 February 2012, 10:00 am
  We tip the top high-tech toys coming to a shelf near you in 2012....
• PSN down for 18 hours maintenance, back Friday 8am2 February 2012, 2:00 pm
  The PlayStation Network is going down for a mammoth 18 hours of maintenance....
• Far side of the Moon captured on video, sadly no aliens2 February 2012, 1:19 pm
  NASA has captured footage of the far side of the Moon -- check it out here....
• UK broadband speeds jump, rural areas still slow, says Ofcom2 February 2012, 12:01 am
  A new report from Ofcom indicates average British broadband speeds have increased, but rural areas are still suffering with slower speeds....
• Sony boss Howard Stringer steps down1 February 2012, 12:32 pm
  Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer has stepped down as chief, replaced by PlayStation veteran Kazuo Hirai....
• Three reasons PlayStation Vita is no match for iPod touch1 February 2012, 10:06 am
  The PlayStation Vita doesn't do enough to compete with Apple, and it doesn't deserve your cash. Here's why....
• Video: How to use the Large Hadron Collider as a time machine1 February 2012, 9:49 am
  Could the intrepid scientists at CERN have created a machine that could be used to travel into the future? In this video we find out....
• Kinect spotted built into Asus Windows 8 laptops31 January 2012, 3:21 pm
  The first prototype laptops have been spotted with motion-sensing Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect tech built in, made by Asus, running Windows 8....
• Xbox 720 not out this year, says Microsoft exec31 January 2012, 10:40 am
  Microsoft has said there won't be a successor to the Xbox 360 out this year....

Robotics Blog

• Military’s Secret X-37B Robotic Space Shuttle Returns to Earth5 December 2010, 8:10 pm
  Originally a NASA project, the X-37B became the military's secret unmanned space shuttle in 2004. When the X-37B launched last April, no one knew what was really going on. Foreign media saw the launch as a signal of space militarization. Officials say the spacecraft is undergoing testing....
• Robot Box is Facebook for your Robots. Share your robots and make friends.28 November 2010, 9:28 pm
  Robot Box is a community oriented site where users share the robots they have created. Local robotics groups, user created robot showcases, and part reviews are popular features of the site. Robot Box allows you to create relationships with other users, almost like a supped’ up Facebook for your robot creations!...
• Are you looking for a Robotics Job? Get Robotics Jobs Will Help You Get Hired.28 November 2010, 8:41 pm
  Get Robotics Jobs is a great resource for robotics professionals or hiring managers to seek or fill jobs in the robotics industry. Their listings are easy to use and don’t require you to login like other job search sites. One click allows a job hunter to quickly sort listings by country, state, and keyword. Get Robotics Jobs’ listings are up to date and plentiful. This site is an excellent tool for anyone looking for employment in the field of robotics....
• Rat Brain Controls Small Cyborg Robot! With Video!15 November 2010, 9:08 am
  Robot is controlled entirely by lab grown rat brain cells. The team grows neurons on an electrode array, which via wireless (bluetooth) communication receives signals from the robot's ultrasonic sensors....
• Like us on Facebook! Robotics Blog has a Facebook page!14 November 2010, 12:31 am
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• Robotic Deer Helps Officers Thwart Illegal Hunting!13 November 2010, 7:51 pm
  This robotic deer helps protect wildlife and citizens from illegal hunting. The remote controlled deer has a moving head and tail. Officers bust hunters shooting from their cars shortly after the shooters are tricked by this life-like animatronic deer....
• Electroadhesive Gripper Gives Robots Sticky Hands7 November 2010, 6:24 pm
  Using electricity in a robot hand to pick up objects! This new technology is called electroadhesive gripping, and it allows robots to grip a wide array of objects and surfaces. Traditionally, robots have had a hard time gripping objects because there are few good universal grippers. Most objects are very different from each other, with different textures, sizes, and physical properties. Using electroadhesion, grippers may be designed to pick up many more objects than previous robot grippers coul...
• Surgical Robots With Tactile Force Feedback Allow Surgeons to Feel Their Cuts.16 October 2010, 4:27 pm
  Surgical robot 'Sofie' has force feedback to allow surgeons to feel their cuts. An important advancement for medical science and robotic surgery....
• Google Car Drives by Itself In the City, humanless for 1000 Miles.15 October 2010, 1:59 am
  Google's autonomous car, which is a highly modified Toyota Prius, has logged over 1000 miles of humanless driving!...
• Segway RMP 200 Bots Used To Train Snipers as Moving Targets.10 April 2010, 1:31 am
  Check out this video of modified Segway bots being used to simulate human targets in a live fire sniper training exercise. The bots are programmed to react much like real humans would. After a target is hit the bots are programmed to scatter....

Domain Name Blog

• ICANN Should Heed FTC’s Warning Over Overhaul of Domain Name System7 January 2012, 3:00 am
  ICANN should heed the FTC's warnings about the potential dangers of the proposed domain name system and ultimately decide against the proposed free-for-all....
• Premium Domain Name BuyAmmoOnline.com to Be Auctioned On Ebay – Bidding Starts at $800!9 November 2011, 1:00 am
  Domain industry professionals, firearms dealers and sporting goods retailers have a rare opportunity this week to secure the rights to premium domain name BuyAmmoOnline.com for a fraction of its appraised value....
• Beware of 301 Scams When Buying Developed Websites23 October 2011, 3:15 am
  If you decide to buy a developed website, it pays to be very wary sellers who use 301 redirect scams to artificially inflate their site’s toolbar pagerank in hopes the buyer won’t know the difference between an established site and a worthless site that appears to have pagerank. When Buying Developed Websites, How Can I [...]...
• Miami PD, FBI and Crimestoppers Turn Blind Eye to Identity Theft, Credit Card Fraud17 August 2011, 8:55 am
  I am extremely disappointed that I find myself having to write this post today.  The reason is because I’ve experienced a series of events at work over the course of the past week and a half that have uncovered a deeply disconcerting problem with the strategy and approach both federal and local (Miami, to be [...]...
• Panax Ginseng Domain Name (panaxginseng.net) Has Sold11 June 2011, 2:37 am
  I am please to announce on this the evening of the tenth of June, 2011, that the domain name PanaxGinseng.net has been sold in a private transaction. The two-word, keyword-rich, high-quality sub-premium domain name contains the exact term “panax ginseng”. Panax Ginseng is an herb (a root to be specific) that is commonly used in [...]...
• Premium Domain Names Defined15 April 2011, 6:35 pm
  I recently came across a new comment on an older post in which the commenter requested that I provide a working definition of what exactly constitutes a premium domain name. I wrote a post about this very topic some time ago, but re-reading it today, there is very little substantively speaking that I would change [...]...
• 170 Domainers Sick Following DOMAINfest Global Conference15 February 2011, 11:12 am
  As many as 170 people became ill in the days following the DOMAINFest Global Conference, which was held in Santa Monica, California from Feb. 1-3.  This according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, which is investigating the mysterious illnesses. The conference wound up in grand fashion, culminating in a grandiose party/fundraiser at [...]...
• The Death of Mixx.com13 February 2011, 12:31 pm
  I recently came upon a post from Amplify asking for readers takes on what was the biggest social media disappointment from the year 2010.  I didn’t have to think twice about this one, as this past year was none-too-kind to my long-time favorite social media site and community.  I am referring of course to the [...]...
• Domain Name Appraisals and Domain Parking25 January 2011, 10:08 pm
  Domain Appraisals Domain Appraisals are primarily selling tools to help market the domains to the end consumer, as well as to help companies like NameMedia (owner of BuyDomains) low-ball domain sellers.  They aren’t likely to impress anyone with experience or success within the industry.  For the price of the appraisal, one could register several new [...]...
• Les Miles To Remain At LSU (ESPN Gets It Wrong Again)12 January 2011, 10:38 am
  For the second time in the past three years, ESPN erroneously reported that LSU head football coach Les Miles and the University of Michigan had either reached an agreement or were on the verge of one that would have made Miles Michigan’s head coach. LSU announced Tuesday, January 12, that Miles would remain coach at [...]...

Domain names, news and opinions

• Godaddy Domain Auction – My Selection Of PageRank Domains 813 February 2012, 12:10 pm
  The following 28 domain names are available to bid on at the Godaddy auctions at the time of writing this. All names are linked to the Godaddy auction bid screen for quick access. I have tried to confirm all PRs to make sure they are not fake but you still have to do your own [...]...
• 120 Expired Domains3 February 2012, 12:07 pm
  The following 120 domain names are expired and available to register at the time of writing this. As usual, all names are linked to the Godaddy, Moniker and Network Solutions buy screens for quick access as the names are usually gone quickly. youthpicks.com Godaddy Moniker NetSol prosperitypyramids.com Godaddy Moniker NetSol pastelstars.com Godaddy Moniker NetSol sportinghope.com [...]...
• Godaddy Domain Auction – My Selection Of PageRank Domains 802 February 2012, 1:53 pm
  The following 35 domain names are available to bid on at the Godaddy auctions at the time of writing this. All names are linked to the Godaddy auction bid screen for quick access. I have tried to confirm all PRs to make sure they are not fake but you still have to do your own [...]...
• 131 Expired Domains2 February 2012, 1:46 pm
  The following 131 domain names are expired and available to register at the time of writing this. As usual, all names are linked to the Godaddy, Moniker and Network Solutions buy screens for quick access as the names are usually gone quickly. astrologyspeak.com Godaddy Moniker NetSol disgracelist.com Godaddy Moniker NetSol proxyupdate.com Godaddy Moniker NetSol intimacyportal.com [...]...
• Godaddy Domain Auction – My Selection Of PageRank Domains 791 February 2012, 11:32 am
  The following 39 domain names are available to bid on at the Godaddy auctions at the time of writing this. All names are linked to the Godaddy auction bid screen for quick access. I have tried to confirm all PRs to make sure they are not fake but you still have to do your own [...]...
• 117 Expired Domains1 February 2012, 11:26 am
  The following 117 domain names are expired and available to register at the time of writing this. As usual, all names are linked to the Godaddy, Moniker and Network Solutions buy screens for quick access as the names are usually gone quickly. medievalcraftworks.com Godaddy Moniker NetSol tubesurveys.com Godaddy Moniker NetSol leisuredirections.com Godaddy Moniker NetSol alternativeleague.com [...]...
• Godaddy Domain Auction – My Selection Of PageRank Domains 7830 January 2012, 11:25 am
  The following 22 domain names are available to bid on at the Godaddy auctions at the time of writing this. All names are linked to the Godaddy auction bid screen for quick access. I have tried to confirm all PRs to make sure they are not fake but you still have to do your own [...]...
• 114 Expired Domains30 January 2012, 11:22 am
  The following 114 domain names are expired and available to register at the time of writing this. As usual, all names are linked to the Godaddy, Moniker and Network Solutions buy screens for quick access as the names are usually gone quickly. dialoverseas.com Godaddy Moniker NetSol wipevirus.com Godaddy Moniker NetSol propertyrealms.com Godaddy Moniker NetSol homeshrines.com [...]...
• Godaddy Domain Auction – My Selection Of PageRank Domains 7726 January 2012, 1:00 pm
  The following 34 domain names are available to bid on at the Godaddy auctions at the time of writing this. All names are linked to the Godaddy auction bid screen for quick access. I have tried to confirm all PRs to make sure they are not fake but you still have to do your own [...]...
• 111 Expired Domains26 January 2012, 12:56 pm
  The following 111 domain names are expired and available to register at the time of writing this. As usual, all names are linked to the Godaddy, Moniker and Network Solutions buy screens for quick access as the names are usually gone quickly. potatolove.com Godaddy Moniker NetSol vocalcitizens.com Godaddy Moniker NetSol furyhoods.com Godaddy Moniker NetSol feedspout.com [...]...

• The SEO effect of 1&1 A Year On24 January 2012, 11:33 am
  It has been a year since I had my issues with 1&1 Internet and decided to express my dissatisfaction at their service publicly and what I have learned from this saga is that “joe public” also like to get involved when they feel that they have been treated in an unfair manner or experienced poor [...]Post from: Domain NamesThe SEO effect of 1&1 A Year On...
• How to Choose a Good Business Domain Name6 January 2012, 11:01 am
  Because there are so many domain name providers, we can get let our domain name management slip into a messy situation. This article looks at some of the main issues related to choosing your business domain name. Securing your web identity is an important issue for any business. If you do not actually have the [...]Post from: Domain NamesHow to Choose a Good Business Domain Name...
• Online Marketing and SEO in 20122 January 2012, 11:03 pm
  I have been posting on 3ac.co.uk now for three years and I am disappointed with myself that I have been silent for the last couple of months and to be honest I am annoyed about it. I don’t like having genuine gaps in my archive of posts, but let’s not dwell on the past as [...]Post from: Domain NamesOnline Marketing and SEO in 2012...
• Domain names, SEO and SAScon30 October 2011, 9:49 pm
  So I haven’t written a post for a while, and looking the back over the last couple of months I am ashamed to say I have neglected my blog, but not having missed a month since January 2009 I could not let October be the same…Good job the clocks went back today, it’s given me [...]Post from: Domain NamesDomain names, SEO and SAScon...
• Mobile Development: Droidcon 20118 September 2011, 10:03 am
  Droidcon London 2011 is Europe’s largest conference that exclusively covers Android development and applications. The conference will take place in London on 6th-7th October 2011. Droidcon London 2011 has grown tremendously since last year, in line with the exponential interest in the Android platform. This year, upward of 600 Android enthusiasts will rub shoulders with [...]Post from: Domain NamesMobile Development: Droidcon 2011...

DNSblogs.com

• Why FR domain registry Afnic has a long road ahead18 July 2011, 12:10 pm
  I am just back from a two-week in Southern France (Provinces of Langdoc Roussillon and Cote d’Ázur). Whereas I like France, I was surprised by the sheer number of local businesses promoting themselves using generic top level domain names (gTLDs) such as .com, .net and .info rather than the FR domain extension. For your information:  [ Read More ]...
• Roboform v6 Toolbar does not Work on Mozilla Firefox 4 and Chrome 1022 June 2011, 12:30 pm
  Today I would like to share with you my frustration with my password manager: Roboform v6/ Roboform Toolbar. Although I don’t have the time, I am going to describe the problem for everyone to judge for themselves. Background I have been using a copy of Roboform Desktop v6 that I purchased back in 2007.  But  [ Read More ]...
• ICANN approves New gTLDs Program21 June 2011, 12:11 am
  As i predicted in post from last month, ICANN just voted to approve the new gTLDs program during a meeting in Singapore. What this means is that i can now apply for .dnsblogs as a TLD!! Of course i am not going to apply for it for many reasons. First blog.dnsblogs doesn’t make any symantic  [ Read More ]...
• Number of Available Domain Names to Skyrocket: A take on ICANN’s New gTLD Program31 May 2011, 12:54 pm
  In my last post I discussed about how to best work towards attaining the right mix of money sites using management consultant’s BCG concept. Well this month we are dealing with a controversial ICANN policy that’s about to introduce new costs to your business. Internet on the brink of massive address explosion The landscape for  [ Read More ]...

IGN Xbox 360

• Game of Thrones RPG Launches in May3 February 2012, 12:01 am
  Publisher Atlus announced that Game of Thrones, a new role-playing game from Cyanide Studios based on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy fiction, will launch on May 15 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC......
• Spec Ops: The Line's Breakdown of a Soldier2 February 2012, 11:20 pm
  "Walker, at the beginning of the game, is specifically meant to invoke other military shooters," says Walt Williams, the lead writer on 2K Games' Spec Ops: The Line. "We want the player to feel that they're walking into a situation that they know what it's going to be. Like, 'I know this guy, I know......
• EA's Syndicate Will Not Use Online Pass2 February 2012, 6:45 pm
  It is now common practice for Electronic Arts (EA) to include an online pass in new copies of its games that must be activated in order to access online features. However, Syndicate, which EA will publish later this month, will arrive free of any online pass. A producer at EA tells Eurogamer that the online co-op in Syndicate is equal in substance to the single-player campaign and everyone should have access to the entire game......
• Prototype 2: The Grunts2 February 2012, 5:59 pm
  In just a few months, Prototype 2 will be upon us and we'll all be running through New York City tearing bad guys apart with arm blades and disgusting tendril moves. When that happens, you're not going to have time to sit down and ponder how the cast of this title let their world get into this sicke......
• The First 90 Minutes of Mass Effect 32 February 2012, 4:59 pm
  When I first started playing Mass Effect, I set out to behave like a stony-hearted space-bitch. I was going to take the universe for everything it had: credits, loot, fame, blue ladies, the lot. It didn't last long. By the beginning of Mass Effect 2, my red-headed Shepard whom I'd designed to loo......
• Mass Effect 3 Offers Temporary Xbox Gold Access2 February 2012, 2:09 pm
  Mass Effect 3's demo will allow players temporary access to Xbox Live's Gold service, allowing them to experience the game's new online mode......
• Podcast Unlocked Ep. 44: Soul Doubt2 February 2012, 12:20 am
  If you're a proud owner of an Xbox 360, you've come to the right place. Podcast Unlocked is IGN's best (see: only) 360-centric podcast. If you want more insight into what's going on with Xbox Live, Kinect and other things in the 360 universe, download our show and revel in its magnificence. Or send us angry emails......
• Bungie.net Transitioning All Halo Services to 343i1 February 2012, 7:46 pm
  It's nearly the very end for Bungie's involvement with the Halo franchise. In a post on Bungie.net, the company confirmed yesterday that it would be transitioning all Halo services from their website to 343 Industries by the end of next month. By March 31, Bungie will no longer update stats or service records, host user generated content, or operate Bungie Pro through Bungie.net......
• Report: Halo 4 Reveal Coming This Month1 February 2012, 6:55 pm
  A new Halo 4 reveal may be coming later this month. Finnish magazine Pelaaja is reporting that Microsoft will hold a Spring Showcase on February 29th and that a Halo 4 reveal is coming......
• Street Fighter X Tekken - Diamonds are Forever1 February 2012, 2:58 pm
  Since its unveiling, Street Fighter X Tekken's gem system has drawn the ire of devout fight-fans who have decried its inclusion as an unnecessary gimmick that can only damage the game's delicate balance and a sign that the series has at last sold its soul in order to appeal to the masses......

GameSpy Xbox 360

• Preview: War of the Worlds Looks, Sounds Great21 October 2011, 4:00 pm
  The War of the Worlds (X360)We take a look at the upcoming side-scrolling adventure based on a literary classic....

Xbox 360 and Xbox Game Reviews - TeamXbox

• Choplifter HD Review (Xbox 360)16 January 2012, 6:20 pm
  Does this 2.5D twin stick shooter reach great heights or stall on the landing pad?...
• NFL Blitz Review (Xbox 360)11 January 2012, 11:58 pm
  NFL Blitz is EA Sports' answer to the constant demand of a return for the longloved arcade football series. Is it a triumphant return for the famed series?...
• Marvel Pinball Vengeance And Virtue (Pinball FX 2) Review (Xbox 360)5 January 2012, 3:03 am
  An expansion set for Marvel Pinball, Marvel Pinball Vengeance and Virtue offers a series of brand new tables centered around wellknown Marvel characters....
• Trine 2 Review (Xbox 360)4 January 2012, 4:41 am
  Trine 2 worth your Microsoft Points, or no?...
• Need for Speed The Run Review (Xbox 360)23 December 2011, 2:55 am
  Find out why you should run away from this one. Plain and simple this game isnt very good....
• Gears of War 3 RAAM's Shadow Review (Xbox 360)20 December 2011, 11:35 pm
  RAAM's Shadow is worth the $15 investment. Find out why it doesn't live in the shadow of the main game....
• Duke Nukem Forever The Doctor Who Cloned Me Review (Xbox 360)15 December 2011, 1:07 am
  Should you bet your 800 Microsoft points on Duke's latest?...
• Voltron Defender Of The Universe Review (Xbox 360)14 December 2011, 6:06 am
  Voltron gets his first appearance on a video game console, but was it worth the wait?...
• Tropico 4 Review (Xbox 360)8 December 2011, 9:52 pm
  It isnt easy being an allpowerful dictator....
• Assassin's Creed Revelations Review (Xbox 360)7 December 2011, 3:50 pm
  Come to Constantinople with us, Brother. Let us show you the way of the Assassin....

BBC News - UK

• Prince optimistic for fisheries4 February 2012, 12:44 am
  Prince Charles says there is a reason to be optimistic about the state of the world's oceans, but it is "critically urgent" to tackle overfishing....
• Briton 'seen falling from liner'3 February 2012, 11:42 pm
  A British cruise ship passenger has fallen overboard in waters near Mexico, the owner of the vessel says....
• VIDEO: Hackers breach FBI-UK police call3 February 2012, 10:57 pm
  The FBI and the Metropolitan police have launched a criminal investigation after computer hackers intercepted a conference call....
• Man kills himself in hairdressers3 February 2012, 9:43 pm
  A man in his 20s has shot himself in a hairdressers in Dungannon, County Tyrone....
• Leeds 34-16 Hull KR3 February 2012, 9:42 pm
  Kallum Watkins records a second-half hat-trick as Leeds begin the defence of their Super League title by beating Hull KR at Headingley....
• VIDEO: Temperatures 'set to reach -12'3 February 2012, 8:58 pm
  The UK is set for another bitterly cold night with temperatures possibly reaching -12C, say weather forecasters....
• Hackers breach FBI-UK police call3 February 2012, 8:54 pm
  Hackers Anonymous release a recording of an intercepted conference call between the FBI and UK police discussing their efforts to fight hacking....
• Two men held over shooting death3 February 2012, 8:30 pm
  Two men are arrested in connection with the death of a man who was shot in an East Renfrewshire street last year....
• Huhne resigns over points charge3 February 2012, 8:10 pm
  Chris Huhne vows to clear his name as he resigns as energy secretary to fight a charge of perverting the course of justice relating to a 2003 speeding case....
• Robshaw relishing Scotland battle3 February 2012, 8:04 pm
  Chris Robshaw says England's young side will not be daunted by Saturday's Six Nations opener at Murrayfield....

BBC News - World

• VIDEO: One-minute World News4 February 2012, 12:43 am
  Watch the latest news summary from BBC World News. International news updated 24 hours a day....
• Do the dead outnumber the living?4 February 2012, 12:42 am
  Do the dead outnumber the living - or is it the other way round?...
• Cuban blogger denied travel visa4 February 2012, 12:33 am
  A Cuban woman who writes a blog critical of the Communist authorities says she will not be able to travel to Brazil after Cuba refused her an exit visa....
• Wikileaks suspect to face trial4 February 2012, 12:24 am
  Alleged Wikileaks suspect Bradley Manning, charged with leaking thousands of classified documents, will face a court martial, says US Army....
• Lance Armstrong team probe closed4 February 2012, 12:04 am
  US prosecutors close an investigation into allegations of criminal conduct over doping claims in a cycle team partly owned by Lance Armstrong....
• New Virgin staff must pay fees3 February 2012, 11:53 pm
  Virgin Atlantic is forcing successful job applicants to pay for their own criminal record checks, Radio 4's Money Box reveals....
• FBI probes Anonymous phone hack3 February 2012, 11:45 pm
  The FBI investigates how activists linked to Anonymous obtained a recording of a phone call between US and UK police on their operations against hacking....
• Cairo clashes over football anger3 February 2012, 11:11 pm
  At least four people are killed in clashes between Egyptian protesters and police, amid ongoing anger over deaths after a football match....
• French air workers to hold strike3 February 2012, 10:40 pm
  Unions representing French pilots and aircrew plan to strike from Monday to Thursday....
• VIDEO: More demonstrations expected in Moscow3 February 2012, 10:07 pm
  More demonstrations are expected in Moscow on Saturday as part of ongoing protest against fraud in December's parliamentary elections in Russia....

UK News Headlines - Yahoo! News UK

• Terry loses England armband but remains Chelsea skipper3 February 2012, 10:20 pm
  LONDON (Reuters) - John Terry has been stripped of the England captaincy by the FA but will continue to captain Chelsea, his club manager Andre Villas-Boas said on Friday. The 31-year-old Chelsea centre back is awaiting trial after pleading not guilty on Wednesday to a charge of racially abusing Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand during a Premier League match at Loftus Road in October. The trial date is set for July 9 - eight days after the end of the European Championship in Poland an...
• Heavy Snow Due As Icy Snap Bites Britain3 February 2012, 9:55 pm
  Heavy snow is predicted to hit parts of Britain as bitterly cold weather continues to grip the country....
• British passenger 'fell from liner'3 February 2012, 9:35 pm
  A British passenger on the world's biggest cruise ship has apparently gone overboard in waters near Mexico....
• About 10,000 attend first Olympics volunteer training session3 February 2012, 8:26 pm
  LONDON (Reuters) - About 10,000 London Olympics' volunteers and employees who will work during the Games attended the first orientation training event at Wembley arena on Friday. The session at the venue which hosted the 1948 Olympics was the first of six national orientation events before the Games open on July 27. A statement from the organisers said around 70 percent of the trainees at each session would come from the estimated 70,000 Games' volunteers. (Reporting by John Mehaffey; Editing by...
• Paedophile jailed over porn seizure3 February 2012, 7:42 pm
  A paedophile who hoarded so much obscene material in his home it took a seven-tonne lorry to remove it all has been jailed....
• Man shoots himself at hairdresser's3 February 2012, 7:40 pm
  A man has shot himself dead at a hairdresser's salon in Co Tyrone....
• Met and FBI call 'taped by hackers'3 February 2012, 7:30 pm
  A conference call between Scotland Yard and the FBI was intercepted and published by hackers, the group Anonymous has claimed....
• Cabinet reshuffle as Huhne quits3 February 2012, 7:30 pm
  David Cameron and Nick Clegg have been forced into a mini-reshuffle of their ministerial team after the dramatic resignation of Chris Huhne from the Cabinet....
• PM picks up shopping on way home3 February 2012, 7:14 pm
  He might have been any other shopper, popping into the supermarket after a busy day in the office to pick up a few bits for dinner....
• Girl Cuts Cancer Mum's Hair In Emotional Clip3 February 2012, 6:21 pm
  A video posted online of a young girl cutting her mother's hair to help her understand the trauma of breast cancer treatment has attracted thousands of viewers....

BBC iPlayer - BBC News Channel programmes

• BBC World News: 03/02/20123 February 2012, 4:00 pm
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• World Business Report: 03/02/20123 February 2012, 8:50 am
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• HARDtalk: Jacek Rostowski - Minister of Finance, Poland3 February 2012, 8:43 am
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• World Business Report: 02/02/20122 February 2012, 8:22 am
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• HARDtalk: Responsible Capitalism1 February 2012, 3:59 pm
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• World Business Report: 01/02/20121 February 2012, 8:55 am
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• HARDtalk: Gene Sharp - Political theorist31 January 2012, 8:34 am
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• World Business Report: 31/01/201231 January 2012, 7:58 am
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• Dateline London: 28/01/201230 January 2012, 3:05 pm
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• The Bottom Line: Series 10: Episode 130 January 2012, 3:04 pm
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What's On TV

• BBC shows criticised for 'token women' guests3 February 2012, 6:39 am
  Hit television shows including QI and Mock the Week have been singled out for having 'token women' guests in a BBC-commissioned report.The report on how age is portrayed in the media was drawn up…...
• Nancy finalist to star in film with Russell Crowe3 February 2012, 6:39 am
  A finalist in TV talent show I'd Do Anything has landed a leading role in the screen version of Les Miserables, opposite Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe.Shocked Samantha Barks learned she had won…...
• Letitia Dean returning to EastEnders3 February 2012, 6:39 am
  Original EastEnder Sharon Watts is to make a return to Albert Square after an absence of six years.Actress Letitia Dean, 44, will head back to Walford later this year - her third major stint on…...
• Katherine Kelly takes National Theatre by storm3 February 2012, 6:39 am
  Former Coronation Street star Katherine Kelly has been praised by the critics for her 'superb' performance in She Stoops To Conquer at the National Theatre.The actress, who quit the cobbles of…...
• Hollyoaks' Jorgie: 'I don't know how I'm alive!'3 February 2012, 6:39 am
  Jorgie Porter says she doesn't know how she's still alive given her hectic Hollyoaks and Dancing On Ice schedule.The actress, who plays Theresa McQueen, films the Channel 4 soap from 7am to 7pm…...
• Coronation St's William: 'Fans should get online'3 February 2012, 6:39 am
  Coronation Street star William Roache has said he doesn't think enough of the soap's viewers use the internet to vote for the show to win awards.The 79-year-old actor has starred as Ken Barlow…...
• Saunders, Spall for BBC Wodehouse comedy3 February 2012, 6:39 am
  Jennifer Saunders and Timothy Spall have signed up for a new BBC One comedy celebrating the stories of PG Wodehouse.Blandings - a co-production with Mammoth Screen and the BBC - is written by Guy…...
• Natasha Giggs 'disturbed' by death threat tweet3 February 2012, 6:39 am
  Natasha Giggs has admitted she was a 'little disturbed' after receiving death threats on Twitter.The 29-year-old sister-in-law of footballer Ryan Giggs was contacted by police after she was…...
• Terry Duckworth to make Coronation Street comeback3 February 2012, 6:39 am
  Coronation Street bad boy Terry Duckworth is coming back to Weatherfield.Terry, played by Nigel Pivaro, will return to the long-running show in spring for around a month.Viewers will see him…...
• Could Lloyd Webber's Superstar be a woman3 February 2012, 6:39 am
  TV bosses have not ruled out casting a woman in the lead role of Jesus Christ Superstar after launching a search for a new musical star.Impresario Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber will lead the hunt for…...

BBC iPlayer - TV Highlights

• Room 101: Episode 33 February 2012, 10:28 pm
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• Hustle: Series 8: Episode 43 February 2012, 9:43 pm
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• Britain's Gay Footballers3 February 2012, 10:35 am
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• The Royal Bodyguard: A Watery Grave3 February 2012, 3:13 am
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• Inside Men: Episode 12 February 2012, 11:33 pm
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• The Last Explorers: William Speirs Bruce31 January 2012, 6:32 pm
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• Prisoners' Wives: Episode 131 January 2012, 12:56 pm
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• Mrs Brown's Boys: Series 2: Mammy's Going31 January 2012, 11:00 am
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• Young Talent of the Year: 2011: Young Baker of the Year31 January 2012, 10:26 am
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• Young Soldiers: The Homecoming30 January 2012, 4:38 pm
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BBC iPlayer - Radio Highlights

• Friday Night is Music Night: BBC Concert Orchestra Celebrating 603 February 2012, 10:40 pm
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• Woman's Hour Drama: The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 3: Episode 53 February 2012, 8:43 pm
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• The Brian Matthew Story3 February 2012, 11:59 am
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• The Chris Moyles Show: Friday - with Radio 1's Hackney Weekend line-up3 February 2012, 11:18 am
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• Sounds of the 20th Century: 19932 February 2012, 11:44 pm
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• Radcliffe and Maconie: Thursday - Beth Jeans Houghton2 February 2012, 4:49 pm
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• Radio 3 Live in Concert: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich2 February 2012, 11:21 am
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• Tina C's Global Depression Tour: Europe1 February 2012, 11:43 pm
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• TX: New Order: Episode 21 February 2012, 5:41 pm
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• Richard Bacon: 01/02/20121 February 2012, 4:49 pm
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BBC iPlayer - Comedy programmes on Radio

• Old Harry's Game: Series 2: Episode 14 February 2012, 12:14 am
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• Elvenquest: Series 2: Episode 43 February 2012, 11:39 pm
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• What's So Funny?: Series 2: Episode 183 February 2012, 11:21 pm
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• Steptoe and Son: Come Dancing3 February 2012, 8:46 pm
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• The TV Lark: Z Ambulances3 February 2012, 8:14 pm
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• Elis James' Pantheon of Heroes: Adventurers3 February 2012, 8:12 pm
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• The News Quiz: Series 76: Episode 73 February 2012, 7:37 pm
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• Smelling of Roses: Series 1: A Good Cause3 February 2012, 6:41 pm
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• Desmond Olivier Dingle's Compleat Life and Works of William Shakespeare: Episode 63 February 2012, 6:18 pm
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• Tales From the Backbench: Tales From the Backbench - Series 2: The Campaign3 February 2012, 3:17 pm
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The Mozilla Blog

• Firefox Adds Powerful New Developer Tools31 January 2012, 5:49 pm
  Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux adds powerful built-in developer tools and delivers smoother updates by making add-ons compatible by default. Firefox adds a number of new built-in developer tools that let developers change the look and feel of websites in real-time. With Page Inspector, developers can peek into a page’s structure and layout without… Read more...
• Crowdsourcing the State of the Union23 January 2012, 4:31 pm
    Mozilla partners with public media to empower citizen engagement in U.S. election coverage Tuesday’s State of the Union Address from U.S. President Barack Obama will include something special: crowdsourced captions and subtitles provided by everyday citizens around the world. Using new web tools from the Participatory Culture Foundation, supported by Mozilla, participants will transcribe… Read more...
• Firefox Users Engage Congress: SOPA Strike Stats19 January 2012, 10:22 pm
  Yesterday, we blacked out the default start page in Firefox and redirected visitors to the Mozilla sites to a special action page. We also sent direct messages to members of the Mozilla community through multiple online channels. All these steps were aimed at informing and mobilizing millions of people on the poorly drafted anti-piracy legislation… Read more...
• Mozilla to Join Tomorrow’s Virtual Protests of PIPA/SOPA18 January 2012, 5:02 am
  Starting at 8:00 am Eastern tomorrow, Mozilla will join with other sites in a virtual strike to protest the Protect IP Act (PIPA) and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). These bills protect content at all costs, creating the opportunity for abuse and damaging the Web for all of us. We will be blacking out the… Read more...
• More Than Half-a-Million Dollars Raised for Charity in the Mozilla Firefox Challenge12 January 2012, 8:38 pm
  Celebrity team lead by Sophia Bush is the winner of $25,000 prize for F Cancer Mozilla is pleased to announce that the Mozilla Firefox Challenge, powered by CrowdRise, wrapped up last night and raised more than $680,000 by thousands of people around the world for social and humanitarian causes, turning individual action into global impact.… Read more...
• Delivering a Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release10 January 2012, 4:40 pm
  We are pleased to announce that the proposal for an Extended Support Release (ESR) of Firefox is now a plan of action. The ESR version of Firefox is for use by enterprises, public institutions, universities and other organizations that centrally manage their Firefox deployments. Releases of the ESR will occur once a year, providing these… Read more...
• Mozilla seeks designers to supercharge learning in digital badges competition6 January 2012, 7:08 pm
    Design digital badges for NASA, Intel, Disney-Pixar, the U.S. Department of Education and other leading organizations in the “Badges for Learning” competition. Deadline for entries is January 17. Help the world level up with NASA, the MacArthur Foundation and Mozilla. Mozilla is seeking designers and developers to participate in the $2 million “Badges for… Read more...
• Firefox: 201121 December 2011, 4:26 pm
  Firefox helped make the Web more awesome in 2011. We released Firefox 4 with Sync to hundreds of millions of people worldwide; we launched Firefox for Android; added the new Firefox Aurora development channel; adopted a faster release cycle; and introduced Do Not Track to the industry. Now we’re excited to share some of the… Read more...
• New Firefox for Android Experience Optimized for Tablets21 December 2011, 1:37 am
  Firefox for Android introduces a completely redesigned experience that is optimized for tablets and makes mobile browsing more intuitive. New tools in Firefox enable developers to create interactive mobile Web experiences. Firefox for Android leverages large tablet screen sizes and optimizes popular features for tablets. The Awesome Screen integrates Firefox Sync and makes it easy… Read more...
• Major JavaScript Enhancements Make Firefox Speedy – up to 30% Faster21 December 2011, 1:34 am
  Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux has new JavaScript enhancements that make Web browsing significantly faster. The latest update to Firefox includes Type Inference which boosts JavaScript performance and allow rich websites and Web apps with lots of pictures, videos, games and 3D graphics to load and run much faster. Type Inference is a feature… Read more...

IEBlog

• CSS3 3D Transforms in IE102 February 2012, 6:07 pm
  CSS3 features make it easier to build rich and immersive Web experiences. A recent post described how Web developers add personality to their sites with CSS3 Transitions and Animations. CSS3 3D Transforms add another dimension (literally) for developers to enhance their sites. For example, the Windows 8 Metro style Start page uses subtle 3D transforms to highlight pressed tiles, as shown below. Internet Explorer 10 tile shown not pressed (left) and pressed (ri...
• Web Sites and a Plug-in Free Web31 January 2012, 5:12 pm
  The transition to a plug-in free Web is happening today. Any site that uses plug-ins needs to understand what their customers experience when browsing plug-in free. Lots of Web browsing today happens on devices that simply don’t support plug-ins. Even browsers that do support plug-ins offer many ways to run plug-in free. Metro style IE runs plug-in free to improve battery life as well as security, reliability, and privacy for consumers. Previously, we wrote about how ...
• Creating Files through BlobBuilder27 January 2012, 9:38 pm
  As Web sites transition more and more into Web applications, working with files in meaningful ways is becoming increasingly important. Starting with Platform Preview 2, IE10 includes support for the File API, enabling developers to read and slice files on the client. Platform Preview 4 adds support for BlobBuilder, a way for developers to create new files. IE10 also has two new methods that allow the user to save blobs to their computer, enabling great end-to-end experiences when working w...
• Debugging IndexedDB Applications26 January 2012, 12:51 am
  IndexedDB is a W3C Working Draft that enables JavaScript developers to store, search, and retrieve data on the user's local client, even when Internet connectivity is disabled. This blog post describes IDBExplorer, a tool we use internally to debug IndexedDB applications. IDBExplorer lets you view database schemas, object store content, and index details. Exploring the tool with an example IndexedDB App To illustrate, I created an application that tracks my New Year’s resolutions usi...
• This Week in Privacy24 January 2012, 6:53 am
  In the last ten years Microsoft has invested heavily in user privacy. Just like security, privacy considerations are baked into every Microsoft product. It is almost a year since the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international community that develops open standards to ensure the long-term growth of the Web, accepted and published Microsoft’s member submission for an Internet Standard to help protect consumer privacy. Last September I...
• IE10 Compat Inspector20 January 2012, 8:34 pm
  Compat Inspector is now available for IE10. Use Compat Inspector to quickly identify if Internet Explorer platform changes affect your site. Whether you're preparing for IE10 or still updating for IE9, run Compat Inspector on any page experiencing problems. Then watch for messages explaining potential issues and steps you can take to resolve them. About Compat Inspector Compat Inspector is a JavaScript-based testing tool that analyzes your site while it runs. Co...
• Under the Covers: Let It Snow…18 January 2012, 5:27 pm
  With one of those rare Seattle snowstorms underway today, I feel this is a great time to publish this description of our Holiday 2011 Test Drive demo “Let It Snow.” —Editor When a browser effectively uses the underlying hardware, the possibilities are limitless. Over the holidays we released a demo that helps showcase the advantages of a fully hardware-accelerated, touch first browsing experience with Internet Explorer 10. This post takes a closer look at how the Let It Snow demo was creat...
• Staying Safe Online in the New Year17 January 2012, 6:21 pm
  The bad guys didn’t take a holiday vacation: Internet Explorer’s SmartScreen service blocked nearly 2 million malware downloads per day on average from mid-December through New Year’s. December 25 saw a 30% spike in malware blocks— successfully preventing users from being tricked into giving their PCs an unwanted “present.” January is a great time to resolve to stay safer online. Microsoft works around the clock, year-round, to help. By following a few simple best practices, includi...
• Introducing Seven More IEBlogs17 January 2012, 12:52 am
  Today we introduce seven new language versions of IEBlog—French, German, Portuguese (Brazil), Korean, Japanese, Chinese (PRC), and Russian. Links to these appear in the new “Languages” block at the top of the right column. We plan to publish translated versions five to ten days after their appearance on the English language IEBlog. We’ve worked hard to localize most of the language elements on the page and in the posts themselves. Text within images will remain in English though we trans...
• Controlling Selection with CSS user-select11 January 2012, 5:18 pm
  IE10 Platform Preview 4 includes support for a new CSS property, -ms-user-select, which makes it easier for Web developers to control exactly what text can be selected on their Web sites. If you were to watch me all day at my workstation, you would notice that as I read on the computer, I select text. I’m not the only one who reads like this; selecting text on the Internet is important in many other scenarios. Consider a typical news Web site. Most pages will inc...

Browsers Blog

• Colorful GMAIL: Fabulous Themes20 November 2008, 7:05 pm
  This morning I woke up and fire up my browser to check email I got some nice notification when I log on. Gmail got themes!! Gmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their inboxes for a while, but up til now themes haven’t been an integral part of Gmail. We wanted to go beyond [...]...
• Google Chrome v0.3.154.9 Beta3 November 2008, 9:27 pm
  On the last 29 October 2008 Google Chrome Release Blog announce a new beta version of Google Chrome. According to the blog this new version 0.3.154.9 will be rolling out to user in the next few days. If you have Google Updater running on the background then you will automatically will be updated. For those power user [...]...
• Validate Rapidshare Links Automatically Inside Firefox2 November 2008, 9:51 am
  How many times this has happen to you. You go surf the web, found something really nice to download but the user share it using Rapidshare. Ok, no problem. You just right away click the link and now you just noticed the file doesn’t exist anymore. Very annoying situation indeed. And now you just learned whenever you [...]...
• The Browser Blog: An Introduction2 November 2008, 9:01 am
  Welcome to The Browsers Blog, my personal web log sharing my experience using all kind of web browsers. Starting from using Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator in the late 1998 until the most current cutting edge browser Google Chrome. So what you will expect from this blog? Here is the what I will present for you from [...]...

Google Chrome Blog

• German Federal Office of Information Security recommends Chrome3 February 2012, 11:15 am
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• Bringing Chromebooks to every classroom25 January 2012, 1:40 pm
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• Speed and Security5 January 2012, 5:00 pm
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• Let the games begin!20 December 2011, 2:30 pm
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• Google Cloud Print picks up steam14 December 2011, 6:08 pm
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• New ways to discover apps in the Chrome Web Store13 December 2011, 8:32 pm
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• Get your personal Chrome experience on all your devices13 December 2011, 1:30 pm
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• Eggnog, mistletoe and... pigs?1 December 2011, 3:58 pm
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• ‘Tis the season for Chromebooks21 November 2011, 1:25 pm
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• Take your Chrome stuff with you in the new Chrome Beta3 November 2011, 12:00 pm
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BBC Internet blog

• Supporting Accessibility: Betsie, Text Only, and the Semantic Web3 February 2012, 12:00 pm
  On the Autumn open post, Russ asked: When did the BBC drop the 'Text only' option for the homepage? Whether or not to provide a Text Only version of a webpage is an interesting Accessibility question. I established the Accessibility Team for public facing BBC digital services back in 2005, and we have been discussing that question since then. At the time the BBC had two Text Only solutions which enabled users of early screen reader technologies and mobile browsers better access to BBC con...
• Launching the new BBC Sport website1 February 2012, 7:05 am
  Mock-ups of the new BBC Sport site My name is Cait O’Riordan and I am responsible within Future Media for the development of the BBC Sport Website, including our Olympic coverage. Today we have rolled out some major changes to how the site looks and works and I wanted to explain those changes and why we have carried them out. This redesign is the first major launch of many this year as we get ready to cover the Olympic Games this summer. We are working on some really exciting development...
• Winter 2012 Open Post31 January 2012, 10:56 am
  Plaque on the door of the Russell T Davies era TARDIS As one season closes, another one opens; welcome to the Winter 2012 Open Post. This is a chance for you to talk about topics that are on-topic for the BBC Internet Blog, but aren’t covered by any other posts currently open for comment. The Autumn open post covered a lot of ground; we had answers to questions about the use of video on the News website, the blogs platform and postcodes. Liz Brown, product manager for News, updated Keith...
• What's On BBC Red Button 28th January - 5th February28 January 2012, 6:00 am
  BBC Introducing Masterclass This is the second Masterclass for music makers, from the most famous recording studios in the world - Abbey Road and BBC Maida Vale studios. The Masterclass focuses on inspiring bands and musicians about the music industry. BBC Introducing invited music producers, promoters, publishers, record label execs, managers, agents, musicians, remixers, DJs, and BBC talent together with two hundred bands and musicians. Available on all platforms Freesat/Sk...
• BBC News App on Android Tablets26 January 2012, 3:24 pm
  Mock up of the BBC News App on a generic Android tablet I’m delighted to announce that BBC News app for Android is now available for large tablet devices. The app is available to download from the Android Market in the UK. BBC Worldwide will soon be launching an international version of the app for audiences around the world. This follows the success of the BBC News app for Android smartphones, which has been downloaded more than three million times globally since launching last year&nbs...
• BBC Homepage: Localisation & Accessibility Updates25 January 2012, 11:00 am
  The BBC Homepage was relaunched on 30th November last year and as we approach the end of January we have now completed our first two updates for 2012. You might have noticed that regional television and local radio stations are now available from the drop down menus in the What's On area of the page. To ensure you received the relevant TV and Radio stations for your area, click on the location name at the top of the page, next to the clock, select your postcode or town name, and then click 'Con...
• What's On BBC Red Button 21st - 29th January21 January 2012, 6:00 am
  Asian Network Gold The BBC Asian Network dives into the BBC Archive to present iconic Asian music from over four decades. Presenter Sonia Deol, pulls together some iconic performances from the biggest Asian artists ever to have recorded at the BBC, through programming including the BBC's dedicated Asian television shows, 'Nai Zindagi, Naya Jeevan', 'Gharbar', 'Asian Magazine' and 'Network East'. Viewers can enjoy footage from artists such as Bollywood singer, Kishore Kumar, Qawwal Maestro, ...
• Five Interesting Stories: January 201220 January 2012, 10:11 am
  A screen shot of the new 2012 portal It's been a dark, dank, cold, grimy, drab and frankly 'orrible start to the year. However there have been some interesting stories about BBC Online. Here are five to tickle your jaded palate. 1. BBC Sport has announced that its website will be relaunced in February. (If you were lucky enough to be at the BBC Online Industry Briefing in November you would have seen a tiny taster). The new year has brought a new look for the BBC Olympic 2012 site. Roger ...
• The BBC 2012 site redesign17 January 2012, 12:41 pm
  The 2012 team have refreshed the BBC's homepage for London 2012. It now has a similar large carousel to the BBC Homepage. Mark Coyle, Editor 2012 Portal, writes on Roger Mosey's blog about the new page: The main section is made up of three rotating panels in which we'll highlight a wide range of items drawn from right across the BBC. That means news, sport, drama, arts, culture, comedy, will all find its way onto the site. You might come looking for a story about the Olympic torch relay and be ...
• What's On BBC Red Button 14th - 22nd January14 January 2012, 6:00 am
  Stargazing LIVE This month BBC Two turns off a town's lights (live on air) to showcase the wonders of the UK night sky. Over the course of the three nights, the Stargazing LIVE team will be switching off lights across the country (at venues including the Eden Project) to demonstrate just how magical UK landmarks can look when light pollution is removed. Following the series, school children across the country will get the chance to put their astronomy questions directly to one of the nation...

Internetblog

• Closing Down a Server30 July 2010, 6:15 pm
  Everything comes to an end, and there are times when shutting down a server for the last time may just be the right thing to do. Whether the hardware is old and the websites need to be moved to a new server, or you have just decided to move on, there are certain steps you [...]...
• Anticipation Builds for ARM-Powered Servers30 July 2010, 6:06 pm
  Yesterday, the popular tech blog GigaOM posted a story about Ian Drew, executive vice president of marketing at ARM Holdings. ARM is known for its low-powered processors that have cornered the market on smartphones, tablets, and many other devices. Lately, Drew has become quite popular with the announcement that ARM is bringing their chips to [...]...
• World's smallest-waist woman wins domain dispute30 July 2010, 6:05 pm
  Cathie Jung may have the world’s smallest waist, but that didn’t stop her from filing a court lawsuit over the domain CathieJung.com. Jung, who has worn a corset every day for the last 12 years, wanted to transfer the name’s ownership away from a corset company. The owner was using it to redirect visitors to [...]...
• Server OS Tips29 July 2010, 11:18 pm
  Getting the right hardware and network setup for your server is difficult enough. Choosing the right operating system, configuring it, and then maintaining it can be overwhelming. Here are a few tips to get you through the process. 1. If you are on a limited budget, you should definitely consider a free and open source [...]...
• Server Backup Tips29 July 2010, 11:13 pm
  Backing up your server may be the single most important thing you ever do. It could save your websites, your clients, and your business. We have covered quite a few backup issues on this blog. Here is a summary of some important points. 1. Always use a remote backup server. Although there are some benefits [...]...
• ICANN adds terrorism background checks29 July 2010, 9:37 pm
  Never failing to draw criticism, ICANN has included a controversial new step to the gTLD application process: a terrorism background check. The new policy is listed in the latest edition of the gTLD handbook under “Section 1.2.1 Eligibility and 2.1 Background Check.” Background checks at both the entity level and the individual level will be [...]...
• Why it never hurts to double-check your hotlink protection29 July 2010, 9:22 pm
  If you’ve owned a website for any period of time, chances are good you understand the importance of hotlink protection. Thousands of leechers hotlinking can take down the fastest of servers and rack up huge bandwidth bills. I’ve always made sure to set up hotlink protection of my sites, but was surprised yesterday to find [...]...
• 029.com sells for $110,00029 July 2010, 8:59 pm
  Don’t ask me what’s so special about the number sequence 029, but it must be important to someone because 029.com just sold for $110,000 USD at auction. Two more number domains, 980.com and 123123.com, fetched $40,000 and $20,000 each. There were a number of other miscellaneous odd sales. RandomActsOfKindness.org sold for $25,000, which is quite [...]...
• ICANN hands out keys to global cyber guardians28 July 2010, 8:56 pm
  As a part of a security measure to save the Internet from complete and utter destruction in the event of a Dooms Day scenario, ICANN has handed out seven “guardian keys” to secret individuals from the following countries: Britain, the U.S., Burkina Faso, Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, China and the Czech Republic. In the event [...]...
• CreditCards.com and NetQuote acquired for $350 million28 July 2010, 8:13 pm
  CreditCards.com and NetQuote announced this week an upcoming acquisition of sites CreditCards.com and NetQuote for $350 million USD. The former contributed $145 million to the deal, while the latter made up $2205 million of the sales price. The sites sold for so much because of their high traffic and revenue, but the sites’ enormous success [...]...

Internet Psychologist » Graham Jones » Blog

• Twitter users prefer information to being social3 February 2012, 7:07 am
  Twitter is a great social network – after all, you can have quick conversations with people, sharing your thoughts about a TV programme “live”, or commenting on a soccer player’s mishaps on the field with other Tweeters in the stadium. You can even tell people you are eating a cheese sandwich, if you wish. However, [...]...
• Don’t be too honest on Facebook1 February 2012, 9:06 am
  Facebook users are nothing if not honest. Several studies have shown that we are frequently more truthful online than we are in the flesh. Want to know the “real person” you meet? Take a look at what they say on Facebook and other social networks and you’ll glimpse parts of their personality they keep hidden [...]...
• Profile pictures online should be baby-faced31 January 2012, 9:01 am
  What is the first thing you look at when you land on someone’s social network profile page? When you look at an “About Us” web page, where do your eyes go? If you are like the bulk of Internet users you will focus your attention on the eyes of the person pictured. And, according to [...]...
• Princess Diana and Bin Laden are both alive and well…! Really?30 January 2012, 9:25 am
  Princess Diana shares something with Osama Bin Laden apparently – like him, she is alive…! Trust me, it must be true because several people believe it and say so online. Yes, they are conspiracy theorists, admittedly. But there are plenty of people chatting away on the Internet who suggest, for instance, that Princess Diana faked [...]...
• Stephen Hester cannot help it – you should blame his Mum and Dad27 January 2012, 3:36 pm
  Stephen Hester, the embattled boss of the Royal Bank of Scotland, cannot help being the current most-disliked man in Britain. It is not his fault that his employers decided to pay him £1.2m a year. Neither is he to blame that they decided to give him a bonus worth almost as much. But would he [...]...
• Your Internet Marketing Could Be Boosted With A Cardboard Box26 January 2012, 4:40 pm
  Internet marketers are nothing if not creative. There hardly seems to be a day that goes by without some new idea from an Internet Marketing brainbox. And each time you think there can’t be any new ideas to market your business online, along comes another creative thinker who has developed an amazing way to promote [...]...
• Twitter can manipulate your behaviour25 January 2012, 10:13 pm
  Twitter is not necessarily doing what you think it does. Rather than being the place where you send out short messages to your friends and colleagues it may be the place where your behaviour is manipulated by software. Researchers in Boston, USA, have discovered that “Twitter bots” can change our behaviour. The “bots” are automated [...]...
• Do not ignore your website visitors24 January 2012, 10:23 pm
  Hello, how are you? Hope you are well and that you have had a good day so far. Now, tell me, isn’t it nice to be asked, to be recognised, to be noticed? I am writing this from the Rudding Park Hotel, near Harrogate, where I am speaking tomorrow morning. I arrived to be met [...]...
• Online success could be boosted by crossword puzzles23 January 2012, 8:43 am
  Internet business success depends upon website owners being open to new ideas and change. However, many people have fixed ideas and find they are not easily swayed by new online features. Research shows that simple things like crossword puzzles can increase your openness to new ideas and therefore improve your ability to undertake new internet business ideas and suggestions....
• Increase search accuracy by using longer words20 January 2012, 8:14 am
  Search engines can only present the right results for users if they do not use ambiguous words. Using longer words increases search accuracy....

PCWorld

• Facebook Malware Scam Takes Hold3 February 2012, 9:44 pm
  A "worrying number" of Facebook users are sharing a link to a malware-laden fake CNN news page reporting the U.S. has attacked Iran and Saudi Arabia, security firm Sophos said Friday. ...
• FBI Admits Anonymous Snooped Conference Call3 February 2012, 9:20 pm
  Anonymous secretly recorded a conference call between the FBI and foreign law enforcement and then posted the results online. ...
• Systems Management, Cloud Services Likely in Dell's Software Acquisition Plans3 February 2012, 7:20 pm
  Dell's formation of a new software group, which was announced Thursday, could be the forerunner to a string of acquisitions by the vendor, with some observers... ...
• Who Really Was Behind the SOPA Protests?3 February 2012, 6:10 pm
  Some critics have blamed Silicon Valley tech firms for the massive online protests last month against two controversial copyright bills. Other groups have... ...
• VeriSign Hack: Few Details Seep Out3 February 2012, 5:20 pm
  It's still not clear exactly what was compromised when Internet giant VeriSign suffered a series of data breaches in 2010. ...
• Will Europe Upend Google's New Privacy Plan?3 February 2012, 4:38 pm
  The European Union asks Google to delay implementing its new privacy policy for closer scrutiny with stricter European privacy law. ...
• MegaUpload's Kim DotCom Denied Bail Again: Third Time's a Charm?3 February 2012, 4:08 pm
  MegaUpload founder Kim DotCom, allegedly worth more than $200 million, looks to be stuck in a New Zealand prison cell over fears he's a flight risk. ...
• Facebook Members Get More Than They Give3 February 2012, 4:06 pm
  Typical users of the social network are "friended" more than they "friend," a Pew Internet and American Life Project reports. ...
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• The Curse of 'Don’t Be Evil'3 February 2012, 3:46 pm
  Google is definitely evil! Or is it? The critics weigh in. ...

Official jQuery Blog

• jQuery 1.7.2 Beta 1 Released1 February 2012, 1:33 am
  Hey there Internets, it’s the jQuery Core team! We haven’t talked in a while, but over the holidays we were busy fixing the bugs you reported. The result of that hard work is jQuery 1.7.2 Beta 1. We decided to get a beta out by Groundhog Day so you wouldn’t be in the shadow of [...]...
• Plugins Site Update: The Old Is New Again13 December 2011, 4:44 pm
  We’ve gotten a lot of feedback since last week’s announcement about the plugins site’s unfortunate tumble into oblivion, and I’d like to address a few of the most important concerns that have surfaced since. “Could you make the old backup available for posterity?” Yes. We can — and have. Over the weekend, we restored the [...]...
• What Is Happening To The jQuery Plugins Site?8 December 2011, 9:20 pm
  For about a week, instead of hosting several hundred jQuery plugins and several thousand advertisements for laptop batteries, our plugins repository has been serving up a pretty pathetic message about spam and an allusion to some “new submission process.” This happened very suddenly, and we’re sorry to everyone who’s been inconvenienced. Please allow me a few minutes to explain [...]...
• jQuery Conference 2012: UK – Training Workshops Announced29 November 2011, 3:56 pm
  We are very happy to announce two training workshops for this years United Kingdom conference. The trainings will be given by Doug Neiner, Ralph Whitbeck and Mike Hostetler of appendTo. The general admission tickets for the conference are now sold out but you can buy conference/training bundles and still attend the conference. appendTo will be [...]...
• Call for jQuery 1.8 Ideas22 November 2011, 6:28 pm
  We’re ready for our next round of community input, this time for version 1.8! This is your chance to suggest things we can fix, add, change, or remove in jQuery to make it better. You can add a suggestion using this form; whenever possible provide links to a bug report, a page with a detailed [...]...
• jQuery 1.7.1 Released22 November 2011, 2:39 am
  Here in the United States, we’re celebrating Thanksgiving this week. For those of you living elsewhere in the world, it’s a time when we install and test new versions of Javascript libraries while feasting on Mom’s homemade goodies. Kind of like a code sprint, but with better food. We invite everyone worldwide to join us [...]...
• Getting Board of jQuery18 November 2011, 10:11 pm
  TL;DR The body responsible for overseeing jQuery’s finances and administration, which was until today known as the jQuery Team, is now called the jQuery Board. The jQuery Team is for anyone who invests a significant amount of time contributing to jQuery and its related projects. As jQuery has grown from a cool idea in 2005 [...]...
• jQuery 1.7.1 RC1 Released18 November 2011, 12:35 am
  Just to let you know we’re not asleep at the switch around jQuery Central, we’ve got a new preview release of jQuery. It fixes the problems reported by the community since the original 1.7 release. Please test the code in your applications, making sure that there are no major problems. If you tried jQuery 1.7 [...]...
• Upcoming jQuery Events11 November 2011, 6:08 pm
  jQuery Summit 2011 It’s that time of the year again (no, not Christmas!, something almost better!) – the annual (online) jQuery Summit. This year Environment For Humans (E4H) have a terrific line-up including sessions on jQuery plugin authoring best practices, creating interactive experiences with HTML5 and Popcorn.js and best practices for testing your jQuery code [...]...
• Building a Slimmer jQuery8 November 2011, 8:42 pm
  jQuery is more than five years old now! Over that time it has evolved along with the browsers, web sites, devices, developers, and users that it serves. It has also, um, grown quite a bit over that time. jQuery has added a lot of useful features, but it’s also accumulated cruft that we’d prefer not [...]...

JQuery HowTo

• Add jQuery to your Greasemonkey script5 August 2011, 1:07 pm
  Greasemonkey is a Firefox add-on that lets you run JavaScript on web pages you specify. Using Greasemonkey you can improve and change the way websites look and behave (see examples of what is possible here). To learn more about it see it's official site, to learn how to include and write your own custom scripts (aka "user scripts") visit coder's manual. Usually Greasemonkey scripts work with the...
• HTML: The difference between attribute and property13 June 2011, 11:37 am
  In this short post I will explain the difference between attributes and properties in HTML. The .prop() function introduced in jQuery 1.6 raised a lot of questions about the difference and I hope this post will help you to understand it. What is an attribute? Attributes carry additional information about an HTML element and come in name=”value” pairs. Example: <div class=”my-class”></div>. Here...
• Check if a language file is loaded for jQuery Globalization plugin15 October 2010, 8:23 pm
  Recently, I wrote my first jQuery Globalization plugin introductory post. I mentioned that I will write a tutorial for Globalization plugin and I am. While writing the tutorial I thought I’ll write one of my short Friday jQuery tips. In this post you will learn how to check if a specific jQuery Globalization plugin language file is loaded or not. Globalization plugin saves localization data and ...
• JavaScript to detect iPad visitors6 October 2010, 8:15 pm
  This post gives you a short JavaScript function to detect your iPad users. Without any further ado, a javascript code to detect iPad users: function isiPad(){ return (navigator.platform.indexOf("iPad") != -1); } You can also detect browser version and some other stuff by parsing user agent string. Here is an iPad Safari’s user agent string for your reference: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3...
• jQuery Globalization plugin — jquery.glob.js5 October 2010, 10:17 pm
  This is the first post of a series that are dedicated to jQuery’s new Microsoft contributed Globalization plugin or shortly jquery.glob.js. In this first post I will try to cover the very basics like library licensing, “the good & the bad” and some thoughts on how it could be improved (IMO). I will be post some jQuery globalization plugin tutorials in coming days, so bare with me. Before we ...
• Russian CDN for jQuery25 September 2010, 5:19 pm
  I recently discovered that the biggest Russian search engine Yandex (yeah, it’s bigger than Google in Russia) is using jQuery on its home page. It also hosts all previous jQuery versions on it’s fast gzip enabled servers just like Google and MIcrosoft do. Because most of the Russian internet users have visited Yandex already, they already have it in their browser cache. I also did route tracing ...
• iPhone / iPod detection using jQuery & JavaScript24 September 2010, 5:36 pm
  In this post you will learn how to detect iPhone/iPod using javascript/jQuery, redirect your iPhone users to mobile version of your site using javascript and alternative and better way to redirect your visitors using server-side PHP code snippet. The latest buzz around jQuery is upcoming jQuery mobile – support for mobile devices. Current jQuery core work fine on iPhone and iPod touch browsers ...
• jQuery mobile source code22 September 2010, 5:30 pm
  If you want to download jQuery Mobile source code and look into it just like everybody else, we are all out of luck :(  As I mentioned in my previous post jQuery mobile facts, the source code will be available in October this year. The jQuery Mobile source will not be in a separate jquery.mobile.js file. It will be right in the jQuery core. This means that jQuery team is fixing and improving ...
• jQuery & Cookies (get/set/delete & a plugin)21 September 2010, 10:04 pm
  In this post I would like to share javascript functions that will help you easily get, set, delete and basically manage your cookies. Also, link to jQuery Cookie plugin, it’s improved version with more functions and of course easy to read and short examples on how to use these functions. I will try to keep this post short and will not explain what cookies are and how to eat them. There are ...
• jQuery Mobile29 August 2010, 4:38 pm
  jQuery Mobile is an attempt to create a javascript framework that would work on all major mobile browsers. In this post I will try to lay down all the facts that I could find about jQuery Mobile, so that you are up to date. jQuery team has mentioned that they were planning and started to work on jQuery for Mobile devices when they announced jQuery 1.4. John Resig said that they already had ...

The JavaScript Blog

• jQuery UI Close Dialog on Overlay Click9 July 2011, 7:16 pm
  I have seen a lot of overly complex solutions for this simple problem and none of them have been valid solutions, here is a snippet that accomplishes it in an unambiguous manner. $('#el').dialog({ open: function(e){ var self = this; $('.ui-widget-overlay').bind('click', function(){ $(self).dialog('close'); }); }, close: function(){ $('.ui-widget-overlay').unbind('click'); } });...
• When Percents Just Don’t Cut It2 March 2011, 4:46 pm
  The Code $.fn.fill = function(options){ var settings, container, el, calculateHeight, calculateWidth; settings = { fill: window, margins: { x: 0, y: 0 } }; if(options){ $.extend(settings, options); } container = $(settings.fill); el = $(this); calculateWidth = function(){ return (container.width() - settings.margins.x); }; calculateHeight = function(){ return (container.height() - settings.margins.y); } el.css({ width: calculateWidth(), height: calculateHeight() [...]...
• Remove jQuery From Your WordPress Theme27 November 2010, 8:44 pm
  WordPress will generally inject jQuery into your front-end theme which in my opinion is a huge fail. Often times plugins will do it, fortunately there is a simple fix......
• Grid Bookmarklets23 August 2010, 10:29 pm
  This morning I was seeking after a sweet bookmarklet to overlay a grid to the current website. Andy Budd had a pretty cool one but there was no way to turn it off, also the image was a little busy. So with the help of Jacob O’Neal for the images I created a modified version [...]...
• Confirmootion – MooTools Class For HTML5 – Rails 3 Inspired Confirmations25 February 2010, 10:56 pm
  With Rails 3 Comes The End Of Obtrusive JavaScript (please!) Ruby on Rails 3 makes huge use of custom attributes using the data-* from the HTML 5 spec. This is a miniature class that will grab all anchor tags with “data-confirm”, pull that attributes value and stop the default event from firing till after they [...]...
• Developer Tools In Safari7 February 2010, 12:15 am
  For a long time I was using Firefox just for Firebug. You know, sort of like when two people stay married for the kid. I was sick and tired of how Firefox rendering looked, hard to explain just not quite as smooth. When Chrome for Mac was released in the beta phases I was stoked… [...]...
• WTFramework – Detect Which Framework A Site Is Using, The Easy Way27 December 2009, 8:20 pm
  WTFramework Summary WTFramework is a dead simple, and well designed way to detect which framework a site is using as well as version. Being primarily a JavaScript developer I was always looking through the source to find which framework a certain site was using. Or to see if the developer had done something particularly cool [...]...
• Making Every Specified Link Send Via Ajax Using MooTools17 December 2009, 5:44 am
  This is a relatively simple concept and is nothing to elaborate but I wanted to share a small piece of code that will take every link with the class of “ajax” and access it using AJAX instead of actually going to that page. This using the same Request instance which will keep it optimized and [...]...
• MooTools – It’s Worth It!7 November 2009, 11:25 pm
  In my attempt to use MooTools on new projects with other developers, share MooTools with other developers, or just releasing a MooTools class; I’ve come across the same complaints about this incredible framework. MooTools Complaints Poor Documentation While its true MooTools is poorly documented compared to other frameworks it is still worth learning and with [...]...
• MooTools Grapher Class4 November 2009, 8:50 pm
  Let it be known. This class doesn’t have a lot of options but it is fairly dynamic. If people actually use this class I will make it more customizable to the options and not just the class itself. While this is nothing special and there are plenty of great MooTools graphing systems out there I [...]...

Learning jQuery

• Using jQuery’s .pushStack() for reusable DOM traversing methods20 December 2011, 6:51 pm
  The .pushStack() method has been in jQuery since before version 1.0, but it hasn't received a whole lot of attention outside of core developers and plugin authors. While its usefulness may not be immediately apparent, it can come in really handy in some situations, so I'd like to take a quick look at what it [...]...
• Using jQuery’s Data APIs2 September 2011, 4:52 pm
  In the beginning (well, beginning with jQuery 1.2.3 in early 2008) there was the jQuery.data() API. It offers a way to associate JavaScript data — strings, numbers, or any object — with a DOM element. As long as you manipulate the DOM element with jQuery, the library ensures that when the DOM element goes away, [...]...
• jQuery.map() in 1.63 May 2011, 8:39 pm
  Among all of the great fixes and additions to jQuery 1.6, I'm happy to say that jQuery.map() now supports objects! The previous map only supported arrays. With other libraries already offering object support for map, it was a nice addition. Let's say you want to collect an array of object keys from a JSON object. [...]...
• Merging jQuery Deferreds and .animate()17 February 2011, 12:46 pm
  Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on danheberden.com. jQuery’s .animate() method, and the shorthand methods that use it, are fantastic tools to create animations. Creating animations that link together to achieve a particular effect, and do something specific at the end of the animation, can be a painful, messy task. Luckily, we have .queue() for [...]...
• Introducing jQuery API Search10 September 2010, 11:28 am
  Half-baked tutorials and plugins have been stacking up for months in my virtual kitchen, waiting for me to fire up the oven, finish the cooking, and spread them out on the table. For some reason, though, I've become less and less sure about whether I've put all the right ingredients into the mix. It's irritating, [...]...
• Great Ways to Learn jQuery7 July 2010, 3:11 pm
  These jQuery resources will set you on the path towards mastering jQuery. Written Articles Getting Started with jQuery - this is the official jQuery getting started guide. jQuery for JavaScript Programmers - Simon Willison (creator of django) gives you an introduction to jQuery for people who already understand JavaScript. jQuery Crash Course - Nathan Smith [...]...
• Autocomplete Migration Guide23 June 2010, 1:28 pm
  The jQuery Autocomplete plugin got a successor recently, the jQuery UI Autocomplete. In this guide we'll look at the old plugin API step-by-step, and how to migrate to the new API. At first it may look like the new plugin supports barely any of the old options. We'll see how all the old options can [...]...
• A jQuery UI Combobox: Under the hood8 June 2010, 10:00 am
  Update on 2010-08-17: This article was updated to reflect the changes to the combobox code in jQuery UI 1.8.4 The jQuery UI 1.8 release brings along the new autocomplete widget. An autocomplete adds a list of suggestions to an input field, displayed and filtered while the user is typing. This could be attached to a [...]...
• Now you see me… show/hide performance4 May 2010, 12:51 pm
  I just got back from the jQuery conference in San Francisco. Wow, what an event. In addition to some incredible talks, I had the opportunity to speak with Rey Bango, Johnathon Sharp, and, of course, John Resig. Any conference where you get to talk to some of the most influential people in jQuery is a [...]...
• Accessible Showing and Hiding23 April 2010, 1:42 pm
  Editor's Note: When I started this blog nearly three years ago, one of the first things I did was write a series on showing and hiding elements on a page. The posts were very basic, as was my knowledge at the time. At best, they demonstrated an incomplete answer to the question of how to [...]...

Official jQuery Blog

• jQuery 1.7.2 Beta 1 Released1 February 2012, 1:33 am
  Hey there Internets, it’s the jQuery Core team! We haven’t talked in a while, but over the holidays we were busy fixing the bugs you reported. The result of that hard work is jQuery 1.7.2 Beta 1. We decided to get a beta out by Groundhog Day so you wouldn’t be in the shadow of [...]...
• Plugins Site Update: The Old Is New Again13 December 2011, 4:44 pm
  We’ve gotten a lot of feedback since last week’s announcement about the plugins site’s unfortunate tumble into oblivion, and I’d like to address a few of the most important concerns that have surfaced since. “Could you make the old backup available for posterity?” Yes. We can — and have. Over the weekend, we restored the [...]...
• What Is Happening To The jQuery Plugins Site?8 December 2011, 9:20 pm
  For about a week, instead of hosting several hundred jQuery plugins and several thousand advertisements for laptop batteries, our plugins repository has been serving up a pretty pathetic message about spam and an allusion to some “new submission process.” This happened very suddenly, and we’re sorry to everyone who’s been inconvenienced. Please allow me a few minutes to explain [...]...
• jQuery Conference 2012: UK – Training Workshops Announced29 November 2011, 3:56 pm
  We are very happy to announce two training workshops for this years United Kingdom conference. The trainings will be given by Doug Neiner, Ralph Whitbeck and Mike Hostetler of appendTo. The general admission tickets for the conference are now sold out but you can buy conference/training bundles and still attend the conference. appendTo will be [...]...
• Call for jQuery 1.8 Ideas22 November 2011, 6:28 pm
  We’re ready for our next round of community input, this time for version 1.8! This is your chance to suggest things we can fix, add, change, or remove in jQuery to make it better. You can add a suggestion using this form; whenever possible provide links to a bug report, a page with a detailed [...]...
• jQuery 1.7.1 Released22 November 2011, 2:39 am
  Here in the United States, we’re celebrating Thanksgiving this week. For those of you living elsewhere in the world, it’s a time when we install and test new versions of Javascript libraries while feasting on Mom’s homemade goodies. Kind of like a code sprint, but with better food. We invite everyone worldwide to join us [...]...
• Getting Board of jQuery18 November 2011, 10:11 pm
  TL;DR The body responsible for overseeing jQuery’s finances and administration, which was until today known as the jQuery Team, is now called the jQuery Board. The jQuery Team is for anyone who invests a significant amount of time contributing to jQuery and its related projects. As jQuery has grown from a cool idea in 2005 [...]...
• jQuery 1.7.1 RC1 Released18 November 2011, 12:35 am
  Just to let you know we’re not asleep at the switch around jQuery Central, we’ve got a new preview release of jQuery. It fixes the problems reported by the community since the original 1.7 release. Please test the code in your applications, making sure that there are no major problems. If you tried jQuery 1.7 [...]...
• Upcoming jQuery Events11 November 2011, 6:08 pm
  jQuery Summit 2011 It’s that time of the year again (no, not Christmas!, something almost better!) – the annual (online) jQuery Summit. This year Environment For Humans (E4H) have a terrific line-up including sessions on jQuery plugin authoring best practices, creating interactive experiences with HTML5 and Popcorn.js and best practices for testing your jQuery code [...]...
• Building a Slimmer jQuery8 November 2011, 8:42 pm
  jQuery is more than five years old now! Over that time it has evolved along with the browsers, web sites, devices, developers, and users that it serves. It has also, um, grown quite a bit over that time. jQuery has added a lot of useful features, but it’s also accumulated cruft that we’d prefer not [...]...

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Formula1.com - Latest News

• Technical director Key leaves Sauber3 February 2012, 2:48 pm
  Just three days before the launch of their 2012 car, Sauber have announced that technical director James Key is to leave the company. His role will instead be covered by the Swiss team's department heads for aerodynamics, design, performance and operations. Englishman Key joined Sauber from Force India midway through 2010, taking over from Sauber stalwart Willy Rampf...
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• Di Resta Q&A: Force India must have a strong start3 February 2012, 12:31 pm
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• Hulkenberg Q&A: I can't wait to race again3 February 2012, 12:30 pm
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• Technical Q&A - Force India's Andrew Green on the VJM053 February 2012, 12:19 pm
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• Ferrari confident aggressive approach will yield results3 February 2012, 11:28 am
  After spending the last few seasons playing catch-up to Red Bull and McLaren, Ferrari were under pressure to pull something special out of the bag for 2012. And after revolutionising the way they approach the design of their cars, the Italian team are certain the newly-launched F2012 is capable of returning them to their championship-winning heydays. The Scuderia endured a miserable 2011, winning just one race and finishing the year 275 points behind eventual champions Red Bull and 122 behind l...
• Force India take wraps off the VJM053 February 2012, 9:54 am
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• Ferrari present the F2012 online3 February 2012, 9:30 am
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• Karthikeyan completes HRT's 2012 line-up3 February 2012, 9:06 am
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PHPDeveloper.org

• Etsy Code as Craft: Rasmus Lerdorf - PHP in 20123 February 2012, 6:38 pm
  In case you weren't able to make it (or missed the live stream) Rasmus Lerdorf gave a presentation last night at Etsy as a part of their "Code as Craft" series. They recorded the session and you can watch it here. He talks about a few things: the history of the PHP language the state of PHP currently what's coming up in 2012 and touches some on the upcoming PHP 5.4 features. You can find more about their "Code as Craft" series (and other videos) on the Etsy page. ...
• Henrik Bjørnskov's Blog: Symfony2: Using the validator symfony1 style3 February 2012, 5:15 pm
  In this quick new post to his blog Henrik Bjørnskov shows how to use the validators in Symfony2 in a more traditional Symfony 1 style for a form. Two of the more complicated components in Symfony2 is the Form and Validator component. The Validator is created in such a way it "always" need an Domain Object with Constraints associated through metadata. This is explained in detail here. But there is another way. A way that resemble's the symfony1 forms. Where you could specify the val...
• Artur Ejsmont's Blog: How to build mongodb pecl extension in 32bit for PHP 5.2 on OSX Snow Leaopard3 February 2012, 4:35 pm
  Artur Ejsmont has a recent post to his blog showing how to get a MongoDB PECL extension to compile in a 32bit OSX environment (Snow Leopard). Here is a quick step by step guide on how to get mongodb and PHP5.2 mongo pecl extension going on your MacOSX in 32bit mode! NOTE: 32 bit mongodb binaries have 2GB address space limit so you wont be able to process too much on your laptop. You will still be able to code and connect to remote instances just fine. His process includes five steps ...
• Freek Lijten's Blog: Currently on PHP's internals - Property Accessors3 February 2012, 3:39 pm
  Freek Lijten has posted another "Currently on PHP's internals..." post to his blog today (here's the previous one) with a look at the discussions around the idea of having "property accessors" in PHP - a standardized way of defining getters/setters in objects. Today I will be discussing a feature that at this moment is called "Property Accessor". It is a method of defining getters and setters. Originally an RFC was defined as early as september 2009, but recently new discussion took plac...
• PHP.net: PHP 5.3.10 Released (Security Fix - Recommended Upgrade)3 February 2012, 2:01 pm
  The PHP development team has officially announced the release of the latest version of PHP in the 5.3.x series - PHP 5.3.10: The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.3.10. This release delivers a critical security fix. [...] Fixed arbitrary remote code execution vulnerability reported by Stefan Esser, CVE-2012-0830. It is highly recommended that users upgrade to this latest version to avoid falling victim to this recently introduced bug rela...
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• Jeremy Cook's Blog: Implementing the ArrayAccess Interface2 February 2012, 7:56 pm
  Jeremy Cook is back with the next part of his series looking at the handy features PHP's SPL provides. In this new post he looks at the ArrayAccess interface and how it can make your data more accessible to PHP's own array handing functions. ArrayAccess allows you to treat an object that implements it as if it is an array for the purposes of setting, unsetting and retrieving data from it. Please note the emphasis in the last sentence! ArrayAccess does not make an object behave like an arr...
• Leaseweb Labs Blog: POC: Flexible PHP Output Caching2 February 2012, 6:10 pm
  On the Leaseweb Labs blog there's a recent post looking at using the POC framework to work with flexible output caching. The tool makes it easy to create a new object and push cache content into it, automatically caching the data to sources like the file system, a Redis instance or a MongoDB database. Last year at the Symfony conference in Paris I have heard a really good quote: "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things" - Phil Karlton. I ag...
• LearnComputer.com: PHP Training: Online vs. Classroom2 February 2012, 5:22 pm
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• Mobile Site20 December 2011, 6:52 pm
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• Trying To Create A New Snippet14 December 2011, 6:24 pm
  Hello, I am a newbie here, so please bare with me. I am trying to create a new snippet that calls a php page located on a different location on the same server. I realize I could just use a wrapper, but I'm trying to embed the code because I believe that this would be great way to create simple as well as sophisticated contact forms using the a nifty little program. Anyway, here is the code I am using: //Embed form // Usage: [[contact-form]] $contact_form = 1; // set desired...
• Custom field in database?13 December 2011, 12:08 pm
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• Right Click Menu Bug In Firefox 85 December 2011, 5:37 pm
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• TellaFriend9 March 2011, 9:36 am
  This is a Snippet that generates a dynamic form for sending emails to a FriendList It makes use of the "prototype" javascript framework for convenient DOM manipulation. INSTALL : 1) copy the content of the "TellaFriend.txt" file into a new snippet and name it "TellaFriend" 2) copy the content of the "TellaFriend_Chunk.txt" into a new Chunk and name it "TellaFriend" 3) add the "Add.png" and "Remove.png" files to your etomite "assets/images/" directory 4) download the "scriptaculous" javascript...
• Finding Peace2 March 2011, 2:50 pm
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• ZanorgPlayer30 January 2011, 1:42 pm
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• SearchForm11 September 2010, 7:38 pm
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• Corruption, Gravity & Litter3 February 2012, 7:08 pm
  The Daily Show recently featured an interesting interview with Yale Law School professor Jonathan Macey. One part of the interview that I found especially interesting was Macey’s “defense” of capital firms like Bain in terms of what seemed to be the necessity …...
• Language Games: An Appeal On Behalf of Dave31 January 2012, 10:23 am
  “I’m going out with my pal Rick for a beer tonight, he’s got himself into a spot of bother with the police again. Fighting.” said Dave. I think for a minute: “Rick, I don’t think I know him do I?”. …...
• Don’t blame me, I didn’t want anything to do with this book…31 January 2012, 4:20 am
  This is the second in my very occasional series about amusing Prefaces (the first is here). I came across this one while browsing John Walker’s 1847 translation of and commentary on Murray’s Compendium of Logic. It seems he wasn’t a …...
• The Media, Gotcha Questions and Tacos30 January 2012, 3:49 pm
  It has long been a common practice on the right to accuse the media of having a liberal bias. Sarah Palin added a new spin on this approach by popularizing the notion of the “gotcha” question. As might be imagined, …...
• Education & Unions25 January 2012, 10:12 pm
  While there are many excellent schools, there are also serious problems plaguing American and other education systems. People are, of course, eager to point fingers and these fingers are often pointed at teachers’ unions. Being a professor at a state …...
• Disclosure. Deception. Duplicity. Defamation.25 January 2012, 6:07 am
  Here in Australia there is an interesting debate going on around the views of Melinda Tankard Reist (“MTR”), a high-profile anti-abortion and anti-pornography activist, and Jennifer Wilson, a relatively obscure (at least until now) blogger and occasional online op.ed writer. …...
• Religion for Atheists: An Interview With Alain de Botton24 January 2012, 6:29 pm
  Alain de Botton, co-founder of London’s School of Life and author of The Consolations of Philosophy, has been kind enough to provide an interview for Talking Philosophy about his new book Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer’s Guide to the Uses …...
• Warbots20 January 2012, 5:05 pm
  The United States and many other nations currently operate military remote operated vehicles (ROVs) that are more commonly known as drones. While the ROVs began as surveillance devices, the United States found that they make excellent weapon platforms. The use …...
• Freedom of Religion and the Secular State now published17 January 2012, 12:04 am
  If we use Amazon’s date for it, at least the date that is there this morning, today is the publication date for Freedom of Religion and the Secular State. In practice, the book will be available at slightly different times …...
• Remote Controled Assassination16 January 2012, 8:38 pm
  Assassination was, obviously enough, not invented by Americans. While we were rather late to the game in this regard (being a young country, we deserve to be cut some slack) we have added our own American touch to the practice. …...

Philosophy Bites

• Nicola Lacey on Criminal Responsibilityhttp27 January 2012, 3:05 pm
  What is criminal responsibility? Is it a timeless concept, or does it have a historical aspect? Nicola Lacey addresses these questions in conversation with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Philosophy Bites is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy....
• Alain de Botton on Atheism 2.016 January 2012, 7:36 am
  Some atheists despise religion and ridicule it as absurd. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Alain de Botton, author of Religion for Atheists, takes a more pragmatic line, arguing that atheists can learn a great deal from religion. Philosophy Bites is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy....
• Kit Fine on What is Metaphysics?http1 January 2012, 10:17 pm
  Metaphysics is the philosophical study of reality. But what does that mean in pratice, and what are the limits of what it can reveal? Kit Fine addresses the question 'What is Metaphysics?' in discussion with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Philosophy Bites is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy....
• Brian Leiter on the Analytic/Continental Distinction18 December 2011, 1:29 pm
  Is there a useful distinction to be made between analytic and continental philosophy? Brian Leiter thinks not. Listen to him in conversation with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Philosophy Bites is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy....
• Melissa Lane on Plato and Sustainability3 December 2011, 3:43 pm
  What can Plato teach us about sustainability? According to Princeton's Melissa Lane, author of Eco-Republic, quite a lot. Melissa discusses this topic with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Philosophy Bites is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy....
• Tim Crane on Animal Minds20 November 2011, 10:25 pm
  What sort of minds do other animals have? Tim Crane discusses this intriguing question with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Philosophy Bites is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy....
• Sean Kelly on Homer and Philosophy5 November 2011, 4:07 pm
  Homer is a great poet, but is he relevant to philosopy? Harvard University's Sean Kelly believes that he is and that we can glean important insights from studying Homer's work, insights about what it is to be human that might otherwise be overlooked. Philosophy Bites is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy....
• Paul Boghossian on Moral Relativism23 October 2011, 5:41 pm
  Are moral judgements simply relative to culture? Are moral relativists in the grip of a fundamental confusion, or is that just the view of a philosophical subculture? Paul Boghossian suggests that moral relativism is an untenable position in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Philosophy Bites is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy. ...
• Jonathan Glover on Systems of Belief9 October 2011, 7:41 am
  Beliefs are important. Wars are fought over conflicting belief systems. Philosophers ask 'What is it reasonable to believe?' Can philosophers, then, give us any insights into what is going on when belief systems clash? Jonathan Glover discusses this issue with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Philosophy Bites is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy...
• Dan Sperber on the Enigma of Reasonhthttp://www.dan.sperber.fr/25 September 2011, 1:40 pm
  Our reasoning capacity sets us apart from other animals. But reason is frequently prone to error. Why then did we evolve with a capacity for reason at all?  This is a question that has vexed Dan Sperber - with Hugo Mercier he has been researching the topic. Dan Sperber discusses their research and conclusions with Nigel Warburton for this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Philosophy Bites is made in assocation with the Institute of Philosophy....

Thoughts Arguments and Rants

• Lewis on causation and biff11 January 2012, 6:47 pm
  I’ve been reading Lewis’s late papers on causation, and I can’t figure out how to make consistent some of the things he says in ‘Void and Object’ and some of the things he says in ‘Causation as Influence’. Here is one of the objections to applying the Canberra plan to causation that he offers in [...]...
• Three Bits of News9 January 2012, 5:52 pm
  The Annual Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference (aka the greatest conference on the annual calendar) has been announced for 2012. The deadline for submissions to this year’s Formal Epistemology Workshop (which will be in Munich in early summer) is in a few days. I’ve been using, and loving, John MacFarlane’s excellent program Pandoc. It is a [...]...
• Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Prize19 December 2011, 4:55 pm
  Sponsored by the Ammonius Foundation and administered by the editorial board of Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, the 2012 Younger Scholar Prize annual essay competition is open to scholars who are within ten years of receiving a Ph.D. or students who are currently enrolled in a graduate program. (Independent scholars should enquire of the editor to [...]...
• Where are the philosophical baby boomers?8 December 2011, 11:23 pm
  Eric Schwitzgebel has a fascinating post about how little influence baby boomers have had in philosophy. He uses a nice objective measure; looking at which philosophers are most cited in the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy. He finds that of the 25 most cited philosophers, 15 were born between 1931 and 1945, and just 2 were [...]...
• Games and Knowledge11 November 2011, 8:54 pm
  I’ve been interested recently in defending a particular norm relating knowledge and decision problems. To set out the norm, it will be useful to have some terminology. A decision problem is a triple (S, A, U) consisting of a set of states, a set of actions, and a utility function that maps state-action pairs to [...]...
• Lecture Notes31 August 2011, 8:34 pm
  I’ve created a lecture notes page on my webpage. On that page, I’ve posted the notes I’ll be using for my decision theory class this fall. Philosophy 424 – Logic of Decision Notes These notes are something of a merger of the game theory notes I used over the summer, with the decision theory notes [...]...
• Wolverine!15 August 2011, 4:42 am
  Starting January 1, Ishani Maitra and I will be starting new positions in the University of Michigan philosophy department. I’m going to be the inaugural Marshall M. Weinberg Professor of Philosophy, which is an incredible honour. I’m really looking forward to being part of (another) great philosophy program. I’ve been incredibly impressed with the way [...]...
• Lecture Notes on Game Theory15 July 2011, 8:46 pm
  Over the summer I did a short seminar series on game theory at Arché. I thought it would be worthwhile to post my notes from that seminar. The notes need some revising, particularly to take account of the points made in the previous post, but I hope that even in this form they’ll be of [...]...
• Game Theory as Epistemology15 July 2011, 8:12 pm
  I taught a series of classes on game theory over the last few weeks at Arché. And one of the things that has always puzzled me about game theory is that it seems so hard to reduce orthodox views in game theory to orthodox views in decision theory. The puzzle is easy enough to state. [...]...
• Knowing How, Regresses and Frames11 July 2011, 7:13 pm
  I’m just back from my annual trip to St Andrews to work at Arché. It was lots of fun, as always. The highlight of the trip was taking the baby overseas for the first time, and letting her meet so many great people, especially the other babies. And there was lots of other fun besides. [...]...

Experimental Philosophy

• 1 February 2012, 4:30 pm
  CFA: Moral Psychology and Poverty Alleviation Matthew Lindauer, Gilad Tanay, Thomas Pogge, Josha Knobe and I are organizing a conference on the topic of what motivates people to act on their moral duties to aid the global poor. Our hope......
• Factive Verbs and Protagonist Projection31 January 2012, 12:58 am
  Throughout most of the 20th century, the medical community knew that large amounts of stress causes stomach ulcers—or at least they though they did. In the 80s Dr. Barry Marshall, convinced that the medical community had it all wrong, infected......
• Society for Philosophy of Agency22 January 2012, 12:44 pm
  The new website for the recently formed Society for Philosophy of Agency is now up here. The Society is now accepting applications for membership. Membership is free and open to graduate students, professional philosophers, and researchers working on issues about......
• Doctoral or PostDoc position of interest19 January 2012, 2:33 pm
  Dr. Niki Pfeifer (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich) offers under the usual equal opportunity conditions one doctoral researcher position OR one early postdoctorial researcher position (i.e., if the PhD is obtained after January 1, 2011) to work in......
• CFP: Computational Models of Mindreading9 January 2012, 3:35 pm
  Hi everyone, I wanted to distribute another CFP on behalf of some friends for a special issue that looks to be of interest to lots of folks in this group! Enjoy, Fiery ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Journal of COGNITIVE SYSTEMS RESEARCH Call......
• CFA: Intuitions, Experiments and Philosophy7 January 2012, 3:22 pm
  3rd Workshop of the Experimental Philosophy Group UK, 8-9th September 2012, University of Nottingham Deadline for Submission: 7th July 2012 Experimental Philosophy Group UK invites the submission of 500-word abstracts for 45-minute presentations or poster presentations on the subject of......
• Response to Devitt and to Ichikawa, Maitra, and Weatherson5 January 2012, 7:15 pm
  Our response is on line on PPR's website....
• NEH Institute in Experimental Philosophy, Summer 20124 January 2012, 6:11 pm
  Shaun Nichols and I are happy to be reprising the NEH Summer Institute in Experimental Philosophy this July in Tucson. Details are here: http://epi.arizona.edu/ Applications are due March 1st. Institutes are designed for teachers of American undergraduate students. Because of......
• Carruthers is not Impressed by Experimental Philosophy3 January 2012, 11:08 pm
  Carruthers is interviewed in 3am: "It requires a long apprenticeship to design and implement experiments effectively. While there has been some good work done by people in the experimental philosophy movement, whenever I talk to psychologists about this stuff I......
• CFP: 2012 Meeting of SPP, Boulder CO2 January 2012, 4:37 pm
  Hi everyone, just wanted to send out a quick reminder about the upcoming submission deadline for the annual meeting of the Society for Philosphy and Psychology, June 21-23 in Boulder, CO. Download a PDF copy here. Hope to see you......

Education: Teaching | guardian.co.uk

• I'll ensure our schools have no excuses for failure | Michael Wilshaw2 February 2012, 7:36 pm
  Last year's riots proved that the schools in our most deprived areas need leaders with drive and high expectationsThose who took part in the riots last August were overwhelmingly young and from disadvantaged backgrounds. Half of those who appeared in court were under 21, and three times more likely to be entitled to free meals when they were at school.The sad truth is that these are the very young people most likely to attend a weak school and receive a substandard education. This is not accepta...
• Blanche Berryman obituary31 January 2012, 5:02 pm
  Blanche Berryman, who has died aged 91, was an extraordinarily gifted teacher who made history into everyone's best-loved subject at our stuffy grammar school, Tiffin in Surrey, in the 1950s and 1960s. Never boring, never condescending, sometimes attractively risque, she was the only teacher who kept perfect order in her classroom purely by her inspiration and personality, without the heavy weaponry of detention – a pointless punishment she openly derided. A sharp dresser, she marched click-he...
• Teaching unions accept pension deal30 January 2012, 1:56 pm
  ATL members vote in favour of government's offer, while ASCL accepts outline agreementA teaching union has decided to accept the government's pension reforms after members voted in favour of the proposals.The Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), which represents 160,000 teachers, said the results of the poll showed that 91.6% of respondents had voted in favour.A second union, the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), announced it had accepted the outline "heads of agreement" ...
• Pat Brookes obituary26 January 2012, 5:28 pm
  My wife, Pat Brookes, who has died of cancer aged 68, spent much of her life helping others. She was born in Stocksbridge, near Sheffield, and from the age of two she lived in childcare homes run by her parents, John and Margaret Gaskell, in Devon and then Cheshire, ending up in Kilrie in Knutsford. Being brought up as an only child, alongside deprived and often abused "transient siblings", had a profound impact on Pat.This showed throughout the rest of her life, during which she remained a comm...
• Bill Harris obituary26 January 2012, 5:15 pm
  My father, Bill Harris, who has died of cancer aged 83, was a committed socialist who worked as a teacher in Brighton from 1959 until 1985 – at Middle Street, Patcham Junior and Hertford Road schools, serving as head at the last two. Many of his former pupils remember him as an inspirational teacher. He was also an active member of the National Union of Teachers and secretary of his local branch.Bill was born in Shepherds Bush, west London, into a working-class family and left school at 14 for...
• Nigel Leat school 'failed on every level' to prevent his sexual abuse of pupils26 January 2012, 3:04 pm
  Serious case review finds Hillside school grossly negligent in failing to stop Nigel Leat's sexual abuse of pupils over 14 yearsA school "failed on every level" to prevent a teacher from sexually abusing pupils in his classroom despite concerns about his behaviour being raised for 14 years, a serious case review has concluded.Nigel Leat was jailed indefinitely last year for abusing children he taught, often when other pupils were present, and sometimes filming his attacks.A review of the case pu...
• Unions debate more pensions strikes24 January 2012, 7:11 pm
  Teaching and civil service unions join talks to discuss further industrial action over public sector reform plansTrade unions opposed to proposed government reforms of public sector pensions are to meet to discuss further industrial action.The National Union of Teachers, the Public and Commercial Services Union and Unite will be among the organisations at talks on Wednesday representing hundreds of thousands of workers across education, health, local government and the civil service.A union sour...
• Letters: Happiness at the heart of the classroom23 January 2012, 9:00 pm
  We were interested to read about the importance of children's happiness to their development and wellbeing (Whatever happened to happiness?, Education, 17 January). Our school was designed with children's contentment at its heart, for they learn best when they feel comfortable and safe. Good personal habits, including cleanliness and tidiness, are stressed. Inside, we have a colourful, stimulating and cheerful environment to excite very young children. Periods of work alternate with recreation. ...
• Reworking the national curriculum23 January 2012, 7:45 pm
  Jonathan Wolff has some ideas for how he would rethink the curriculum – starting with drama, design and daydreamingI'm not saying that I want a new job, but I have found a job title I'd rather like: Commissar of Enlightenment. Apparently, this was the name given to the Soviet minister of education and culture.I can see myself settling in to the role quite comfortably. What would I do? Well, obviously, after I'd decided how many stars to have on my epaulettes, my main task would be to rethink t...
• How to teach … Holocaust Memorial Day23 January 2012, 5:29 pm
  This week the Guardian Teacher Network has excellent resources to help teachers approach the subject of the HolocaustHolocaust Memorial Day on Friday marks the 67th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the largest of the Nazi concentration camps, where more than one million men, women and children were murdered during the second world war. Teaching pupils about the events of the Holocaust may seem a daunting task, but if you would like to mark the anniversary with your class, the Guardian...

Education News - News in school and higher education

• Outrage as yob pupils 'allowed back into lessons on appeal'3 February 2012, 6:16 pm
  Pupils expelled from school for dealing drugs, attacking other children and carrying weapons are being allowed back into lessons against teachers' wishes, it emerged today....
• Academy schools 'inflate results with easy qualifications'3 February 2012, 2:32 pm
  The Government's flagship academy schools have been accused of shifting pupils onto inferior courses to dramatically inflate their GCSE results....
• Free childcare 'has limited impact on early education'3 February 2012, 6:00 am
  A £2bn a year programme to provide free childcare is failing to have a long-term impact on education standards, according to the spending watchdog....
• Block pay rises for poor teachers, says Ofsted chief2 February 2012, 6:52 pm
  Poor teachers should be denied pay rises to stop underperformance being "rewarded", the head of the schools watchdog said today....
• University access tsar threatens to impose 'nuclear' penalty2 February 2012, 6:26 pm
  Universities should be hit with the "nuclear" option of huge financial penalties for failing to recruit enough poor students....
• Scottish universities facing 'politicisation by SNP'2 February 2012, 6:00 am
  The running of Scotland's universities will become politicised under SNP proposals to introduce elections and quotas for key officials, experts have warned....
• MPs attack 'national scandal' of asbestos in schools1 February 2012, 5:48 pm
  Urgent action is needed to protect children and teachers from exposure to deadly asbestos in schools, MPs warned today....
• Ofqual calls for more multiple choice questions in A-levels1 February 2012, 4:32 pm
  Pupils should be assessed using multiple choice questions, project work and oral tests as part of a shake-up of A-levels, the qualifications regulator has suggested....
• Pushy middle-class parents 'don't trust schools'1 February 2012, 7:00 am
  Middle-class parents do not trust schools to educate their children properly, according to an academic....
• Exam boards accused of marketing 'easy' GCSEs to schools31 January 2012, 4:11 pm
  Examiners are effectively competing with each other to market their qualifications as the easiest, according to the Government's former education standards chief....

Secondary education news, A level results, GCSE results, SATs, schools, universities, degree courses and clearing

• Outrage as yob pupils 'allowed back into lessons on appeal'3 February 2012, 6:16 pm
  Pupils expelled from school for dealing drugs, attacking other children and carrying weapons are being allowed back into lessons against teachers' wishes, it emerged today....
• Academy schools 'inflate results with easy qualifications'3 February 2012, 2:32 pm
  The Government's flagship academy schools have been accused of shifting pupils onto inferior courses to dramatically inflate their GCSE results....
• Block pay rises for poor teachers, says Ofsted chief2 February 2012, 6:52 pm
  Poor teachers should be denied pay rises to stop underperformance being "rewarded", the head of the schools watchdog said today....
• MPs attack 'national scandal' of asbestos in schools1 February 2012, 5:48 pm
  Urgent action is needed to protect children and teachers from exposure to deadly asbestos in schools, MPs warned today....
• Ofqual calls for more multiple choice questions in A-levels1 February 2012, 4:32 pm
  Pupils should be assessed using multiple choice questions, project work and oral tests as part of a shake-up of A-levels, the qualifications regulator has suggested....
• Exam boards accused of marketing 'easy' GCSEs to schools31 January 2012, 4:11 pm
  Examiners are effectively competing with each other to market their qualifications as the easiest, according to the Government's former education standards chief....
• Thousands of 'dead end' courses axed from school tables31 January 2012, 6:00 am
  More than 3,000 "Mickey Mouse" qualifications are being slashed from official league tables to stop schools playing the system to boost rankings, it is announced today....
• A brave and honest step30 January 2012, 9:05 pm
  Telegraph View: Michael Gove's plan means that courses in subjects such as a diploma in horse care, customer service and nail technology will no longer be listed as 'equivalent' to GCSEs....
• Children consigned to scrapheap in education 'holding pens'30 January 2012, 7:23 pm
  Schools set up to teach badly behaved pupils are often little more than "holding pens" where children spend time playing pool and searching Facebook, a Government advisor has warned....
• Competitive parents 'taking joy out of childhood'27 January 2012, 10:00 pm
  Competitive parents are taking the joy out of childhood by subjecting sons and daughters to regular tutoring at a young age, a leading headmistress has warned....

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• The low-level nuclear threat1 February 2012, 12:00 am
  Europe is making a good start on learning about the health risks of low-dose radiation with a programme to share cold-war data and set research priorities. But the effort needs to be global....
• Poles apart1 February 2012, 12:00 am
  Protecting the Arctic from pollution requires a binding agreement like the Antarctic Treaty....
• Damage limitation1 February 2012, 12:00 am
  Spider webs are designed to cope with stress and disruption, favouring repair over rebuilding....
• Global health hits crisis point1 February 2012, 12:00 am
  The Global Fund's drive to ensure sustainability and efficiency means that it may not be able to meet its commitments to combat disease, says Laurie Garrett....
• Restoration ecology: New wetlands don't measure up1 February 2012, 12:00 am
  Wetland restoration may be falling short of its goals, with restored or created wetlands lagging behind reference ones in terms of carbon storage and native species richness and abundance.In many parts of the world, humans have destroyed more than half of the wetlands and...
• Cancer genetics: Genome shatters in brain cancer1 February 2012, 12:00 am
  Cancer is usually attributed to a slow accumulation of genomic changes, but a few cancers result instead from a single catastrophic event that causes massive reshuffling of the genome. Researchers have discovered these major changes, called chromothripsis, in a type of medulloblastoma — a common...
• Psychology: 'Brightness' fools the eye1 February 2012, 12:00 am
  The pupils of the human eye shrink in response to brightness, even when the glow is merely an optical illusion.Bruno Laeng and Tor Endestad at the University of Oslo used infrared eye trackers to monitor the pupils of participants looking at illusions of lightness...
• Evolution: Why animals get bigger over time1 February 2012, 12:00 am
  In palaeontology, Cope's rule holds that species evolve larger body sizes over geological time. One possible explanation has been that competition favours bigger bodies. To test this, Pasquale Raia at the University of Naples Federico II in Italy and his colleagues compiled a species tree...
• Gene therapy: An eye for gene repair1 February 2012, 12:00 am
  Gene therapy in dogs can reverse retinal defects that lead to blindness in humans.William Beltran and Gustavo Aguirre at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and their group targeted a form of retinitis pigmentosa. This is a common cause of blindness in which mutations...
• Physics: Quantum motion captured1 February 2012, 12:00 am
  Even if cooled to a temperature of absolute zero, all objects will retain a fundamental jitter in their physical positions due to quantum 'zero-point' fluctuations. Oskar Painter and his colleagues at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena have, for the first time, detected this...

High-Tech Bridge SA Corporate News

• High-Tech Bridge partners with LODH’s E-MERGING Platform1 December 2011, 8:14 am
  High-Tech Bridge is proud to announce partnership with Lombard Odier’s E-MERGING....
• High-Tech Bridge joins Online Trust Alliance1 November 2011, 11:11 am
  High-Tech Bridge joins Online Trust Alliance (OTA) as a General Member....
• High-Tech Bridge joins OWASP as Supporter Organization19 October 2011, 9:25 am
  High-Tech Bridge joins Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) as Supporter Organization....
• High-Tech Bridge joins PCI Security Standards Council26 September 2011, 3:48 pm
  High-Tech Bridge joins PCI Security Standards Council (SSC) as a Participating Organization....
• New Members at Advisory Board6 September 2011, 12:39 pm
  High-Tech Bridge has elected the official legal representative and new Advisory Board members....
• High-Tech Bridge invests in R&D16 March 2011, 12:51 am
  High-Tech Bridge increases equity capital to CHF 2m and announces expansion on Swiss and International IT Security markets....
• New Board member at High-Tech Bridge2 February 2011, 9:44 pm
  High-Tech Bridge Board of Directors has elected a new member for 2011....
• New Expert Services of High-Tech Bridge11 January 2011, 3:28 pm
  Malware Analysis and Reverse Engineering expert services are now available for our customers....
• High-Tech Bridge obtains ISO 27001 certification20 December 2010, 11:00 pm
  After capital increase and reinforcement of Management High-Tech Bridge has successfully obtained ISO 27001 certification....
• High-Tech Bridge increases Equity Capital and reinforces Management Team28 September 2010, 9:12 am
  Due to successful expansion on Swiss Ethical Hacking market in 2010 High-Tech Bridge increases equity capital and introduces new members of the Management team....

High-Tech Bridge SA Media Publications

• Le Matin, Tribune de Genève: Entre manif et révolution, Anonymous multiplie les attaques.23 January 2012, 5:32 pm
  Entre manif et révolution, Anonymous multiplie les attaques....
• Handelszeitung: Wirtschaftsinformationen - Wer die Konkurrenzschlagen will, muss wissen, was diese vorhat. Dafürsetzen auch Schweizer Firmen zunehmend auf Experten.23 January 2012, 9:33 am
  Wirtschaftsinformationen - Wer die Konkurrenzschlagen will, muss wissen, was diese vorhat. Dafürsetzen auch Schweizer Firmen zunehmend auf Experten....
• PenTest Magazine: XSS & CSRF: Practical exploitation of post-authentication vulnerabilities in web applications.18 January 2012, 11:40 am
  XSS & CSRF: Practical exploitation of post-authentication vulnerabilities in web applications....
• Swiss Banking YearBook 2011-2012: Investing into your corporate security is like paying your insurance.29 December 2011, 12:35 pm
  Investing into your corporate security is like paying your insurance....
• Market: High-Tech Bridge et la Sécurité Informatique.20 December 2011, 2:57 pm
  High-Tech Bridge et la Sécurité Informatique....
• Yahoo! News: High-Tech Bridge Nominates Marsel Nizamutdinov as Head of R&D.6 December 2011, 1:11 pm
  High-Tech Bridge Nominates Marsel Nizamutdinov as Head of R&D....
• AGEFI: Partenariat avec les plateformes E-Merging.1 December 2011, 8:19 am
  Partenariat avec les plateformes E-Merging....
• Leman Bleu Télévision: Genève Aujourd'hui: Frédéric Bourla l'invité du jour rubrique "Economie".9 November 2011, 8:05 am
  Genève Aujourd'hui: Frédéric Bourla l'invité du jour rubrique "Economie"....
• AGEFI: Intégration à l’Online Trust Alliance.2 November 2011, 9:11 am
  Intégration à l’Online Trust Alliance....
• Yahoo! Finance: High-Tech Bridge Joins Online Trust Alliance With the Goal of Improving Online Trust and Worldwide Security.2 November 2011, 9:08 am
  High-Tech Bridge Joins Online Trust Alliance With the Goal of Improving Online Trust and Worldwide Security....

High-Tech Bridge Security Advisories

• [HTB23073]: Multiple XSS in Chyrp1 February 2012, 12:05 pm
  Product: Chyrp v2.5b1Vulnerability Type: Cross Site Scripting (XSS)Risk level: Medium Creater: ChyrpVendor Notification: 2012-02-01 13:05:09Public Disclosure: 22 February 2012 Vulnerability Details: To be disclosed on 22 February 2012...
• [HTB23069]: Multiple vulnerabilities in OpenEMR31 January 2012, 11:00 pm
  Product: OpenEMR v4.1.0Vulnerability Type: Local File Inclusion, Arbitrary Command ExecutionRisk level: High Creater: OEMRVendor Notification: 2012-01-11 11:08:05Public Disclosure: 01 February 2012 Vulnerability Details: High-Tech Bridge SA Security Research Lab has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in OpenEMR, which can be exploited to perform local file inclusion and arbitrary command execution attacks. 1) Multiple Local File Inclusion vulnerabilities in OpenEMR: CVE-2012-0991 1.1 Input pa...
• [HTB23072]: Multiple vulnerabilities in LEPTON25 January 2012, 12:48 pm
  Product: LEPTON v1.1.3Vulnerability Type: Local File Inclusion, SQL Injection, Cross Site Scripting (XSS)Risk level: High Creater: LEPTON ProjectVendor Notification: 2012-01-25 13:48:34Public Disclosure: 15 February 2012 Vulnerability Details: To be disclosed on 15 February 2012...
• [HTB23071]: Multiple vulnerabilities in 11in125 January 2012, 12:48 pm
  Product: 11in1 v1.2.1 stable 12-31-2011Vulnerability Type: Local File Inclusion, Сross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)Risk level: High Creater: www.11in1.orgVendor Notification: 2012-01-25 13:48:26Public Disclosure: 15 February 2012 Vulnerability Details: To be disclosed on 15 February 2012...
• [HTB23068]: Multiple vulnerabilities in OSclass24 January 2012, 11:00 pm
  Product: OSclass v2.3.3Vulnerability Type: SQL Injection, XSS (Cross Site Scripting)Risk level: High Creater: osclass.orgVendor Notification: 2012-01-04 14:53:54Public Disclosure: 25 January 2012 Vulnerability Details: High-Tech Bridge SA Security Research Lab has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in OSclass, which can be exploited to perform cross-site scripting and sql injection attacks. 1) SQL Injection in OSclass: CVE-2012-0973. Input passed via the "sCategory" GET parameter to /index.ph...
• [HTB23067]: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) in DClassifieds24 January 2012, 11:00 pm
  Product: DClassifieds v0.1 finalVulnerability Type: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)Risk level: Low Creater: www.dclassifieds.euVendor Notification: 2012-01-04 14:53:48Public Disclosure: 25 January 2012 Vulnerability Details: High-Tech Bridge SA Security Research Lab has discovered vulnerability in DClassifieds, which can be exploited to perform Сross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. The application allows authorized users to perform certain actions via HTTP requests without making proper...
• [HTB23070]: Multiple vulnerabilities in ZENphoto18 January 2012, 11:23 am
  Product: ZENphoto v1.4.2Vulnerability Type: PHP Code Execution, SQL Injection, XSSRisk level: High Creater: www.zenphoto.orgVendor Notification: 2012-01-18 12:23:20Public Disclosure: 08 February 2012 Vulnerability Details: To be disclosed on 08 February 2012...
• [HTB23066]: XSS in OneOrZero AIMS17 January 2012, 11:00 pm
  Product: OneOrZero AIMS v2.8.0 Trial build231211Vulnerability Type: XSS (Cross Site Scripting)Risk level: Medium Creater: www.oneorzero.comVendor Notification: 2011-12-28 12:02:46Public Disclosure: 18 January 2012 Vulnerability Details: High-Tech Bridge SA Security Research Lab has discovered vulnerability in OneOrZero AIMS, which can be exploited to perform cross-site scripting attacks. Input appended to the URL after index.php is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This...
• [HTB23065]: Multiple XSS in KnowledgeTree Community Edition10 January 2012, 11:00 pm
  Product: KnowledgeTree Commercial and Community Editions v3.7.0.2Vulnerability Type: XSSRisk level: Medium Creater: KnowledgeTree Inc.Vendor Notification: 2011-12-21 14:32:32Public Disclosure: 11 January 2012 Vulnerability Details: High-Tech Bridge SA Security Research Lab has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in KnowledgeTree Community Edition, which can be exploited to perform cross-site scripting attacks. Input appended to the URL after multiple files is not properly sanitised before being...
• [HTB23064]: Multiple vulnerabilities in ImpressCMS3 January 2012, 11:00 pm
  Product: ImpressCMS v1.3 Final Vulnerability Type: XSS, Local file inclusionRisk level: High Creater: The ImpressCMS ProjectVendor Notification: 2011-12-14 14:43:13Public Disclosure: 04 January 2012 Vulnerability Details: High-Tech Bridge SA Security Research Lab has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in ImpressCMS, which can be exploited to perform cross-site scripting and local file inclusion attacks. 1) Multiple Arbitrary XSS vulnerabilities in ImpressCMS: CVE-2012-0986 1.1 Input appended...

Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk

• Save Our Libraries: Readers' reports3 February 2012, 12:29 pm
  We catch up with campaigners working hard to keep their local services goingWith National Libraries Day taking place on Saturday 4 February, we invited readers to tell us in their own words, how their campaigns to save their local library have progressed in the 12 months since Save Our Libraries Day, 2011. Several have managed to stay open, but others are still battling. We had many contributions, thank you to everyone who emailed us.Mar Dixon, started #savelibraries Twitter hashtagThis time las...
• The power of paper in a digital era | Robert McCrum2 February 2012, 11:33 am
  As more and more archives are digitised, with many benefits, it's worth being reminded of the value of traditional recordsThis was supposed to be the paper-free generation. But what do we find? Sometimes, it seems as if we are like Shakespeare's schoolmaster Holofernes (in Love's Labours Lost) who is said, scornfully, to have eaten paper and "drunk ink". Wherever you look, you find paper eaters and ink drinkers.The other day I was in Cambridge to host a Wordfest (aka Cambridge Literary Festival)...
• Edinburgh book festival chief wants authors, not celebrities1 February 2012, 10:19 am
  Some literature festivals focus on stars first and books second, says Nick Barley, director of the Edinburgh international book festivalA book festival is about books, and should not be driven by stars and celebrities, Scotland's leading literary festival director has said. Nick Barley, the director of the Edinburgh international book festival, chided the Cheltenham and Hay festivals, saying they're too celebrity-driven, allowing people to appear that don't have new books out and paying large su...
• The Costa short story prize is not enough31 January 2012, 4:02 pm
  We are overdue a high-profile award for this neglected form, but we need more than a token, niche gong for a single storyThe news that the Costa prize is to give an award to the short story came suddenly, and unexpectedly. For those publishers that invest heavily in collections – the wondrous Salt, for example, or Bloomsbury, which has unilaterally declared 2012 the year of the short story – it looked like a godsend. Finally, a level playing field! A real opportunity to show the varied bread...
• Save Our Libraries campaign: one year on31 January 2012, 11:07 am
  Have you taken part in a save the library campaign? Tell us how it's goingIt's been a year since readers and authors organised Save Our Libraries Day. Across the UK, thousands of people disregarded the freezing temperatures and strong winds to show their support for their library and express anger towards proposed cuts to services.On the day, we live blogged the protests and with readers, created a map showing where all the library protests were taking place. Throughout the day people kept us up...
• Oscars' big winners will be books27 January 2012, 2:06 pm
  Literary adaptations look set to sweep the board in Hollywood this yearSix of the nine nominations announced this week for Best Picture are based on books, reflecting a recent pattern in which the Oscar lists have consistently and gratifyingly affirmed cinema's dependence on literature. Apart from a modest lurch towards originality in 2010, the previous five years saw line-ups in which half or more of the shortlistees were adaptations, including the winners No Country for Old Men (2008), Slumdog...
• Scottish independence won't cut off British literature27 January 2012, 12:29 pm
  English and Scottish literature have always been complicated hybrids, and separating the nations won't change thatJust before Alex Salmond gave the Hugo Young lecture, I received an email from the Scottish government announcing their plan to make it compulsory for every schoolchild doing "English" in Scotland to study at least one "Scottish text". Although Robert McCrum wrote, a propos of the lecture, that "if the politics of the United Kingdom become fragmented, then culture will surely follow"...
• What are you reading today?27 January 2012, 10:22 am
  It's an endlessly interesting conversation-starter, and we'd like to record your answers on a Flickr galleryWhat are you reading? is often the start of a great conversation. We swap book recommendations and write about the books we've just read on the site, but now we'd like to invite you to answer the question in pictures – don't tell us, show us.To do this we have started a Flickr group called What are you reading today? where we invite you to upload your photos and share with us what you ar...
• The future of books, today26 January 2012, 5:06 pm
  There is much talk of bright tomorrows for publishing at New York's Digital Book World expo, but how optimistic are readers?While we've all been thinking about Andrew Miller and the Costa's new enthusiasm short stories and Rushdie's troubles in Jaipur, in New York, publishers have been looking to the future.Many reports from the Digital Book World conference are brimming with positivity, with the independent publisher Dominique Raccah singing the praises of books created "at the end of a communi...
• François Hollande's Shakespearean faux pas26 January 2012, 4:11 pm
  The French presidential hopeful has been busy quoting Shakespeare. Question is: which Shakespeare?Had to post this in case anyone has yet to see it (in which case: you're welcome!). Attempting to sum up his anti-Sarkozy message in a speech to his party faithful yesterday, France's presidential frontrunner François Hollande decided to reach for Shakespeare to bolster his rhetoric. The bard, he told his supporters, put it best when he said "They failed because they did not start with a dream."Oh...

FilmFinger.com

• One of Life's Players
  Description: This is an experimental short which was shot on Super8, it is based around a prose I wrote a few years ago. Written in the prose are a number of quite upfront and powerful statements. "in the circle of life we co-exist with an assemblage of unadulterated attractions and fascinations". Through the diverse and haunting beauty of film we wanted to depict images that an audience can relate to events in there lives and the surrounding world we live in. It has not plot and perhaps ...
• Whittle On
  Description: A community based documentary that explores the influential history of the English market town, of Lutterworth, in Leicestershire. The intention of the film was to create an awareness and to celebrate the influential past of the town, exploring the folk that have worked and resided in Lutterworth. In doing this film takes a look at the how the town has in the past shaped the world we live in today. Whittle On talks about Sir Frank Whittle who worked tirelessly at Lutterworth'...
• Crocus
  Description: an experimental sequence by DANIEL G HUGHES © 2009 an experimental sequence by DANIEL G HUGHES © 2009 During the Spring I came across beautiful Crocus spread accross the ground in St Mary's Church, Lutterworth. I just had to capture them on camera, be it still or moving image. I basicly shot this footage and made a short sequence out of it. Duration: 00:00:10 / Uploaded: 2010-12-06 07:17:43...
• The Seat of Knowledge
  Description: This project was produced whilst on an educational programme whilst studying on the ND in Media Production course at NWHC. Duration: 00:07:48 / Uploaded: 2010-11-20 19:52:46...
• Matutinus
  Description: Matutinus (early in the morning) is an experimental short, which I wrote to depict the start of a day and how it can start off really well and can go onto to turn out bad. Images of people going about their daily business go into the not so 'fluffy bunny' images of graveyards, domestic arguments and civilised madness. At this time of the day the landscape can be transformed into a somewhat mesmerising atmosphere and can in a way it can be the calm before storms ahead. As the ...
• War is Peace
  Description: War is Peace was a title sequence that I produced a number of years ago. Although a bit rough I still really like it and hope you do too. Duration: 00:00:51 / Uploaded: 2010-11-20 19:29:48...
• Strawberry Stone Intro
  Description: This is a simple flash flv video that is used on the Strawberry Stone website. It was made with After Dark, an Adobe animation package. Duration: 00:00:30 / Uploaded: 2010-11-19 19:23:48...
• Hobo
  Description: Hobo; a thought provoking drama short about an abusive home-life that can often lead to homelessness. Duration: 00:04:36 / Uploaded: 2010-11-20 19:43:49...