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Nov
23rd

Mon

Apple and Microsoft began decades ago with “the PC,” and they’re currently involved in a slow and painful process of trying to stretch and push “the PC” out towards the Internet and towards a more useful and integrated relationship with the cloud as a new type of server. Google, on the other hand, began with the Internet, and it presumes the cloud in everything it does. With Chrome OS, the company is now trying to push and stretch the Internet back down onto “the PC” as just one of a growing range of cloud clients. Google acknowledged that it will eventually move Chrome OS to laptops and conventional PCs, so the Chrome OS portable is just Google’s first battle in a long, ambitious campaign to thoroughly cloudify the entire computing experience.

— Chrome OS: Internet failing at PC > PC failing at Internet

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http://link.live.philips.com/services/player/bcpid23188062001?bctid=25240201001

Philips Design Probe

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As ships get bigger, the pollution is getting worse. The most staggering statistic of all is that just 16 of the world’s largest ships can produce as much lung-clogging sulphur pollution as all the world’s cars.

Because of their colossal engines, each as heavy as a small ship, these super-vessels use as much fuel as small power stations.

But, unlike power stations or cars, they can burn the cheapest, filthiest, high-sulphur fuel: the thick residues left behind in refineries after the lighter liquids have been taken. The stuff nobody on land is allowed to use.

— How 16 ships create as much pollution as all the cars in the world | Mail Online

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‘I screamed, but there was nothing to hear’: Man trapped in 23-year ‘coma’ reveals horror of being unable to tell doctors he was conscious

— Patient trapped in a 23-year ‘coma’ was conscious all along | Mail Online

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Quiz (senza usare Google):

Daniel Waterhouse, an English natural philosopher and Dissenter.
Jack Shaftoe, an illiterate adventurer of great resourcefulness and charisma.
Eliza, a Qwghlmian girl abducted into slavery, and later freed, who becomes a spy and a financier.
Enoch Root, a mysterious personage who flickers about Europe and who never ages.
Bob Shaftoe, a soldier in the service of John Churchill, and brother of Jack Shaftoe.

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E’ una domanda che contiene in se’ una illogica fiducia. Quella che lo strumento o la piattaforma, ci abilitino domani ad essere migliori di quello che siamo o che per lo meno siano in grado di svelare parti di noi di cui fatichiamo a riconoscere l’esistenza.

— Molli come la blogosfera - manteblog

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Bing can’t buy all the news, it can only buy certain brands. If Bing can somehow become the only place you can find news results and working links to the Wall Street Journal and other top papers such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the LA Times, for instance, that would be a big reason to switch for a lot of folks. But it’s not clear how much Bing would have to pay the news companies of the world for them to give up all the traffic Google sends them in return for a fraction of that traffic and some cash.
Even Google couldn’t afford to strike such deals. (…)

In order to actually make a dent in Google’s market share, Bing would have to pay such exorbitant sums to so many different news companies that it would be difficult to recoup its investment. Bing certainly get some marketing buzz out of any such move, but that’s about it.

The big problem with a search engine trying to buy market share by buying parts of the news is that information spreads so quickly these days, exclusives last about 30 seconds. That information will end up on a site that is indexed by Google. Or the same news will be broken by someone else on the Web before the WSJ.com even gets to it.

— Bing Tries To Buy The News

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Nov
22nd

Sun

Android and Chrome will likely converge over time

— Brin: Google’s OSes likely to converge | Relevant Results - CNET News

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Modern turkeys are not bred for longevity. To the contrary, they’re genetically manipulated to fatten as quickly as possible and die. Breeding for commercially desirable traits—mainly large breasts—has created turkeys that are so top-heavy they can hardly walk. Sex is equally out of the question, as distortions make it physically impossible for the birds to mate (all commercial turkeys are artificially inseminated). And what’s been done to them externally has an internal counterpart. Heart attacks, for example, are common in young turkeys, something that never happens in the wild.

— The Fate of Obama’s Turkey Pardons - The Atlantic Food Channel

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Nov
20th

Fri

Scientists in Norway have identified a mutated form of the swine flu virus that is raising concern because it was found in two patients who died of the flu and a third who was severely ill with the disease, officials announced Friday.

In a statement, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health said the mutation “could possibly make the virus more prone to infect deeper in the airways and thus cause more severe disease.”

“Based on what we know so far, it seems that the mutated virus does not circulate in the population, but might be a result of spontaneous changes which have occurred in these three patients,” the statement said.

— Norwegian scientists raise concerns about mutated form of swine flu - washingtonpost.com

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