March 9, 2007

UNEP (UN Enviromental Program) released finding of the study that shows that Israel did not use depleted uranium during its anti-Hizbollah offensive in summer of 2006. You'll find more detailed reporting here: The Press' Blood Libel Against Israel Disproved The UN news release date is a week ago, and yet nothing in the MSM. . The Independent article dated today that is the usual non-apology.  My favorite part is: The findings conflict with a report by Chris Busby, a Green Party activist, and his colleague Dai Williams, an occupational psychologist, who claimed to have found evidence of enriched uranium in a sample collected from a bomb site in southern Lebanon. The sample was sent for analysis at the Harwell Laboratory in Oxfordshire, which is used by the Ministry of Defence. "We are concerned that UNEP don't know what they are doing. Earlier [in 2001] they were useless at finding depleted uranium in Kosovo due to wrong choice of instrumentation," Dr Busby said. What Independent's "reporter" fails to report is that, according to UNEP news release linked above, samples collected by UN were independently examined by 3 "recognized laboratories in Europe".  I suppose all of them don't know what they are doing. 1:01:38 PM

Hole in pyjamas reveals Internet plagiarism (Reuters). Reuters - Candidates for British universities have been caught red-handed copying their applications from the Internet after hundreds mentioned "burning a hole in pyjamas at age eight" on their online entrance forms. [Yahoo! News: Technology News] 8:14:01 AM

Microsoft's HD Photo Challenges JPEG HD Photo, Microsoft's new photo format that is a direct competitor to the JPEG standard, has already garnered support from Adobe. HD Photo plug-ins for Photoshop, which will allow HD Photo formats to be read and written, are now available in beta at the Microsoft Download Center. 7:32:32 AM

Samsung's New Hybrid Drive Promises Quick Vista Boots Samsung says that what is especially notable about the new 2.5-inch MH80 hybrid hard drive is that it offers as much as a 50 percent reduction in boot or resume times for Windows Vista, and consumes 70 percent to 90 percent less power than a standard hard drive. For laptop users, these figures could mean as much as 30 minutes more of battery life. 7:30:02 AM