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Google Shows Blurred Faces in Street View to Protect Privacy
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on May 14, 2008
Google prepares to launch Street View in Europe, Canada and Australia, where local laws regarding privacy in public places are less permissive than in the US. As promised, Google will blur faces for all the Street View imagery not just because of local laws, but also because the purpose of Street View is to show places, not people that happen to be there when Google's Street View cars go...
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Evolving an eye
via Bad Astronomy Blog by The Bad Astronomer on May 07, 2008
The folks at the NSCE and Expelled Exposed have done it again: made a great instructional video about evolution. This one is how an eye can evolve, and is so easy to understand that it should be shown to every single school student in the country, and indeed the world.
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British Airways takes beef off the menu to avoid offending Hindus by This Is London
via RichardDawkins.net : The Latest Updates by (author unknown) on May 11, 2008
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O2 Ireland drops 8GB iPhone to EUR299
via SiliconRepublic.com by (author unknown) on May 10, 2008
The 8GB iPhone is being sold for EUR100 less around O2 stores in Ireland today as part of a promotional campaign which runs until 25 May.
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Habitat axes its Irish operation
via Independent.ie - National News RSS Feed by (author unknown) on May 09, 2008
POPULAR furniture store Habitat suddenly closed its doors in Dublin and Galway for good yesterday citing a severe downturn in sales.
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Gallery of "young me / now me" photos
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on April 17, 2008
Charliekkendo says: "You have to see some of these images. Users duplicate a picture of themselves from when they were younger - same pose, the current "me" by the child "me." The results are fascinating." Link
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Seamus Brennan resigns from Cabinet
via ireland.com Latest Irish News by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
The Minister for Arts, Sports and Tourism, Seamus Brennan, has resigned from the Cabinet.
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Aer Lingus to raise baggage fee to €12
via RTÉ News by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
Shared by Carl Ryanair increased its charge to 10 euro at the end of April.Aer Lingus has announced that it will increase its checked baggage fee on short haul services from Thursday.
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NASA Time Animation of Ionosphere For Google Earth
via Google Earth Blog by Frank Taylor of Google Earth Blog on May 05, 2008
Last week, NASA announced the release of an amazing dynamic Google Earth resource which shows time animated condition of the Earth's Ionosphere. The ionosphere is used to bounce radio signals over the horizon for long distance communication. But, when storms occur on the sun's surface they can mess up parts of the ionosphere and disrupt ionosphere-based communications. The new NASA...
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World's longest sea bridge opened in China
via RTÉ News by (author unknown) on May 01, 2008
China opened the world's longest cross-sea bridge today linking the financial hub of Shanghai with the port city of Ningbo.
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