24. november 2005

A Party Girl Leads China's Online Revolution. Chinese Web logs are giving flesh to the kind of free-spoken civil society the government is determined to prevent. By HOWARD W. FRENCH. [NYT > Technology] 3:27:13 PM    comment [] Bank 'keeping eye' on gas prices. Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, tells MPs the bank will closely monitor the impact of gas prices on inflation. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 3:25:26 PM    comment [] Car Bomb South of Baghdad Kills At Least 30 People. By EDWARD WONG. By EDWARD WONG. [NYT > Home Page] 3:24:26 PM    comment [] Microsoft loses money on each Xbox (Reuters). Reuters - The cost of building a Microsoft Corp. Xbox 360 video game console is nearly 40 percent higher than the retail price, technology and microchip research company iSuppli said on Wednesday. [Yahoo! News: Technology News] 3:23:44 PM    comment [] Internet gains more ground in holiday shopping (AFP). Yahoo! News: Technology News] 3:22:37 PM    comment [] Weekend 'will test new pub law'. Police say there has been little disorder so far after licensing hours were increased in England and Wales. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 3:21:49 PM    comment [] Gamers Seeing Glitches in New Xbox . Microsoft's Xbox 360, the much-anticipated video game system that made its debut earlier this week, is apparently experiencing some technical glitches -- screens freezing only minutes into a game, for example -- and that has left some users pretty upset. By Mike Musgrove. [washingtonpost.com - Business] 3:20:26 PM    comment [] Fake FBI virus catches net users. Many net users have been caught out by a virus posing as a warning about illegal net use from the FBI. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 3:17:12 PM    comment [] Xbox 360 costs third more to make than it sells for. And that's just the price of the parts [The Register] 3:15:05 PM    comment [] Who's Afraid of Google? Everyone. From TV to telecom, Google seems bent on world domination. No wonder everyone is running scared. By Kevin Kelleher of Wired magazine. [Wired News] 3:12:43 PM    comment [] Hang Up and Drive. Riding a motorcycle is dangerous enough without some SUV-driving idiot drifting between lanes while he yaps away on a cell phone. Yo! Moron! Pay attention to the road. Commentary by Tony Long. [Wired News] 3:11:49 PM    comment [] Bath Journal: A Prison Makes the Illicit and Dangerous Legal and Safe. A medium-security Canadian prison allows inmates to keep the keys to their cells. Condoms are readily available and a tattoo parlor has recently opened. By CLIFFORD KRAUSS. [NYT > Home Page] 3:10:33 PM    comment [] Toxic Flow Reaches Chinese City, Cutting Water Supply to Millions. The decision to cut potentially contaminated supplies of fresh water has highlighted the threat that industrial pollution poses to public health across China. [NYT > Home Page] 3:09:51 PM    comment [] Drunken moose terrorizes family 2:49:53 PM    comment []

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