December 2009
e-IR » The politics of climate change
The Copenhagen Summit typifies the paradox of the globalised age in which we now live. One the one hand, it is a crucial global event; the very fact that the summit is taking place, with the successive rounds of negotiation that buttress it, has further served to illuminate the political, economic, and moral, let alone climactic, imperative of radical emissions reductions...
Pictures of the Decade
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This New Years Eve Brings the Rarest Blue Moon of...
Magical things happen once upon a blue Moon. And this Thursday we get a chance to find out just what those magical things as we watch the rare lunar event coincide with all the beautiful fireworks of New Years Eve. Blue Moon is the term applied to the second full Moon in a calendar month. It’s an event that occurs roughly every two and a half years. This...
Magnetic North Pole Moving [End of the World?]
The north magnetic pole is moving at 37 miles-a-year toward Russia, which means they’re stealing it. Or the Earth’s core is fluxing. Actually, nobody really knows what’s happening. I just hope it’s not a prelude to a catastrophic magnetic shift. Arnaud Chulliat—geophysicist at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris—says that there’s a...
Untitled
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Pope Knocked Down at Christmas Mass
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YouTube - Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford...
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The Secret Lives of Amazon's Elves
If Amazon is Santa, 400 folks living in RVs outside the Coffeyville, Kansas fulfillment center this winter are the elves. A few years back Chris Dunphy and Cherie Ve Ard flipped the bird to their desk jobs, packed their belongings in a custom 17-foot solar-powered fiberglass camper, and hit the road to live “at the intersection of Epic and...
2009 - The Year in Pictures - New York Times
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Osama bin Laden came within minutes of killing...
By Tom Leonard in New York Published: 7:00PM GMT 22 Dec 2009 The US leader was saved shortly before his car was due to drive over a bridge in Manila where a bomb had been planted. The foiled attack came during Mr Clinton’s visit to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in the city in 1996. At one point during his stay, he was...
Release of O Level Results
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Ian choking during Chubby Bunny!
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Epic shows off Unreal Engine 3 running on iPhone /...
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Obama IAEA nuclear sites declaration for the...
From Wikileaks Jump to: navigation, search Released June 2, 2009 Summary States that are signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty are required to confidentially provide the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) with a description of the location and purpose of each of their nuclear sites. The document presents a sensitive 5 May, 2009 draft of all US...
Michael Jackson's FBI Files (FOIA)
Michael Joseph Jackson, a celebrity pop star, was born on August 29, 1958. He died unexpectedly on June 25, 2009 at the age of 50. Between 1993 and 1994 and separately between 2004 and 2005, Mr. Jackson was investigated by California law enforcement agencies for possible child molestation. He was acquitted of all such charges. The FBI provided technical and investigative assistance to these...
MythBuster Adam Savage + SBU Video - Focus...
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YouTube - 6A/B chubby bunnies
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Book 99 Years Overdue Returned to Library –...
75-year-old Stanley Dudek found a book entitled “Facts I Ought to Know about the Government of My Country” among his mother’s possessions when she died in 1998. He didn’t know it was a library book at the time. Last year, he noticed the book was due back on May 2, 1910. On Monday, he finally returned the book to the New Bedford Public Library in Massachusetts. “I didn’t feel I should keep...
Holy smokes
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Peter Nguyen's hilarious essay
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Another one!
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Hilarious Essay (Biography: Walt Whitman)
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Good Progress Award
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$1.73 Singtel Bill
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First Video of a Volcanic Eruption 4,000 Feet...
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British soldiers died to save lives
Rifleman James Brown and L/Cpl David Kirkness died on Tuesday Two UK soldiers killed in Afghanistan sacrificed their lives to stop suicide bombers attacking a packed marketplace, their commanding officer has said. L/Cpl David Kirkness, 24, of West Yorkshire, and Rifleman James Brown, 18, from Hampshire, both of 3rd Battalion The Rifles, died on Tuesday. They were...
Anti-rich feelings spike in China
SHANGHAI: AMID a widening wealth gap between rich and poor, a survey has found that a startling 96 per cent of people in China now feel resentful towards the wealthy, a result that could portend trouble for the ruling Communist Party’s modernising strategy. News reports have found that the bulk of those at the higher echelons of the new rich are scions of party stalwarts. The survey,...
Diva - Ris Low named CNN's 25 most influential...
Singaporean beauty queen Ris Low has been named as one of Asia’s 25 most influential people by Cable News Network (CNN). According to a Shin Min report, the international news network pointed out that while there were many big events in 2009, there were also many “unusual” and very influential people. In CNN’s list of 25 most influential people, the people who have...
Views from inside the machine
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Taliban allows Red Cross to visit detainees for...
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) - For the first time, the Taliban has allowed Red Cross workers to check the conditions of its detainees in Afghanistan. The International Committee of the Red Cross announced today that its team recently visited three Afghan security forces being held by the Taliban in the northwestern province of Badghis. A small Red Cross team visited the detained Afghan security...
Heavy rain, strong winds expected in Singapore...
Heavy rain, strong winds expected in Singapore from Dec 18-20 By Lynda Hong, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 17 December 2009 2125 hrs Photos 1 of 1 Flooding seen at Delta Avenue. (File pic by CNA viewer) ...
Talks still on in SingTel-StarHub bid to air 2010...
Talks still on in SingTel-StarHub bid to air 2010 FIFA World Cup By Jeremy Koh, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 15 December 2009 2133 hrs Photos 1 of 1 Zakumi, the mascot of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. ...
'I'm Sorry, But We Blew Up Your Laptop' [Travel]
Lily was traveling to Tel Aviv. For some reason, the Israeli security officers thought she was suspicious. So they put three bullets through her MacBook. Then they asked me to wait. Since they had asked for friends and families phone numbers I assumed they...
Chinese Couple Sells Baby for Cellphone Money...
Faced with the prospect of raising a child they couldn’t support, a pair of young, unmarried lovers in China decided to sell their little baby boy for just enough money to buy a cellphone. It sounds like the couple sought support from their parents before handing their child to a stranger for 2,500 yuan (roughly $366), but it’s unclear if that was what pushed their decision. No...
Joojoo tablet hands-on (video) -- Engadget
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Dragon Dictation comes to the iPhone. Wow.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, iPhone, App ReviewDragon Dictation comes to the iPhone. Wow. by Mel Martin (RSS feed) on Dec 8th 2009 at 12:00AMPut this into the ‘I didn’t think they could ever get this to work on an iPhone’ category. I’m talking about Dragon Dictation [iTunes link] from Nuance, the developers of the very popular Dragon Naturally...
Gen Z more rooted here
SINGAPORE youths feel rooted to the country and do not desire to leave, a series of surveys by social networking website Habbo has found. Furthermore, despite being well travelled, this ‘Generation Z’ (Gen Z) - made up of 12- to 18-year-olds - does not appear to have as strong a desire as their predecessors, Generation Y, to have a go...
Pager Data from 9/11 - Phrase Cloud Visualization
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9/11 Pager data
From 3AM on Wednesday November 25, 2009, until 3AM the following day (US east coast time), WikiLeaks released half a million US national text pager intercepts. The intercepts cover a 24 hour period surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington. The messages were broadcasted “live” to the global community — sychronized to the time of day they were sent....
Gordon Brown on global ethic vs. national interest
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Mary Roach: 10 things you didn't know about orgasm
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'Skinniest house in Britain' for sale at £550,000...
Published: 8:00AM GMT 05 Dec 2009 A thin house in Shepherds Bush for sale for £550,000 Photo: NATIONAL PICTURES Estate agents are using the property’s unusual size as its selling point, and have put it on the market at £549,950. The house on Goldhawk Road in Shepherd’s Bush, west London, has five levels - a...
Ian Fisher : Journey of an American Soldier
This is how an American soldier is made. For 27 months, Ian Fisher, his parents and friends, and the U.S. Army allowed Denver Post reporters and a photographer to watch and chronicle his recruitment, induction, training, deployment, and, finally, his return from combat. A selection of photos from Ian’s journey are posted below. The story was written by Kevin Simpson with Michael Riley,...
Airlock Review: Magically Lock your Mac with your...
Home > Applications > Home & Personal > Airlock Review: Magically Lock your Mac with your iPhone Airlock Review: Magically Lock your Mac with your iPhone Posted by Jack Amick on 12/04/09 in Applications, Home & Personal, Mac Apps, Utilities, iPhone Apps B Airlock Cost: $7.77...
Google Gets Into The DNS Business. Here’s What...
Google just announced Google Public DNS, a new service that lets consumers use Google as their DNS service provider. The benefits to users are a theoretically faster and more stable browsing experience, and some additional security against malware type sites. The benefit to Google – tons more data, and some potential revenue. Here are the basic instructions on how to use it (and Google...
Changes to NS Basic Military Training and medical...
Changes to NS Basic Military Training and medical classification from 2010 Posted: 04 December 2009 1252 hrs Photos 1 of 2 National Service recruits Video Changes to NS Basic Military Training and medical...
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I’m sitting at home, bleary eyed, slightly shell shocked, just taken the children to school. There is a strange sound of ‘quiet’ in the house. So quiet I can hear the kettle boiling. Mary our 2 year old is completely unaware of this pivotal moment in our family’s history and is happy just bouncing on my un-opened suitcase. Last night was the end of an era. The last Delirious? Show. What...
Site Statistics
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France unseeded for World Cup
The stage where 32 nation’s World Cup destiny will be decided on Friday. STORY HIGHLIGHTS FIFA announce seedings for Friday’s 2010 World Cup draw Hosts South Africa are in Pot One with current holders Italy France miss out on the seedings, based on October world rankings RELATED TOPICS Soccer World Cup Soccer FIFA South Africa (CNN) — FIFA...
Steve Jobs Approves Knocking Live Video App...
Normally whingeing gets you nowhere, but in a heartening turn of events, a developer’s late-night email shot off to Steve Jobs yielded some surprising results. Apple didn’t approve of the use of a private API in Pointy Heads Software’s Knocking Live Video app, which allows iPhone users to stream live video to each other over 3G and Wi-Fi. After pleading...