Posts Tagged ‘News’
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Helping Greece after the fires…
Saturday, September 1st, 2007
Over the past couple of weeks, shortly before the end of Summer, Greece caught on fire. The entire country fell victim to what some have called an organized arsonist attack. Raging wildfires which still burn today, have turned more than 2500 sq kilometers (965 sq miles) into ashes. 73 people died in the fires, and [...]
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The end of the Baiji river dolphins
Thursday, August 9th, 2007
A little over a year ago I blogged this angry post about the then “almost extinct” Baiji dolphins of the Yangtze river in China.
Today, I read this article on BBC News, which announced the results of a six-week survey by researchers who failed to find any remaining dolphins. They are now extinct. Aren’t we doing [...] -
Live Earth, a better world through music
Saturday, June 30th, 2007
Live Earth is right around the corner, so I thought I should mention what it is all about in the unlikely case you haven’t heard of it or you’re not as informed about it. The event is described on the official website like so:
“Live Earth is a 24-hour, 7-continent concert series taking place on 7/7/07 [...] -
Keeping Paris Hilton off the news!?
Saturday, June 30th, 2007
The amount of news coverage on celebrity heiress Paris Hilton lately, especially since the entire “Paris does time” situation, has apparently gone too far. MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski had enough of it, and tried everything possible to keep the socialite - jailbird, off from being the lead story. You can watch her trying to burn and [...]
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New Opera Mini, for better mobile web browsing
Friday, June 22nd, 2007
Have you ever used your mobile phone to surf the web? Web browsing on mobile phones has been made better and easier since the launch of the Opera Mini web browser in 2006 for the many users who use it. Opera Mini is a lightweight browser which in my honest opinion stands above and beyond [...]
