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Sexy Witches, Scary Monsters Detailed for Males Aged 18-35 2008-03-06 05:17:00 And a new genre is born: SPG – Sexy Playing GameBy Calin Ciabai, Games EditorMarch 06, SoftpediaIt was just one or two days ago when I said that sexy girls in video games (with a bonus from nakedness) help these games sell, even if they are not exactly what you could call a good game.I made fun of X-Blades just because it features a heroine wearing thongs and a little bra, together with big weapons. But now I realize it's a trend. We're doomed to get hit from everywhere by games where sexy chicks do all the dirty work. So, bring it on!Witches is a game that brings it on and it's trying to do it for quite a while, having in mind that it's in development since 2007. Its story? Simple: sexy and sensual chicks fighting against ugly males, backed up probably by a futile storyline. It appears Read more:Scary
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Cyber-rebels in Cuba defy state's limits 2008-03-06 04:02:00 By James C. Mckinley Jr.March 06, International Herald TribuneHAVANA: A growing underground network of young people armed with computer memory sticks, digital cameras and clandestine Internet hookups has been mounting some challenges to the Cuban government in recent months, spreading news that the official state media try to suppress.Last month, students at a prestigious computer science university videotaped an ugly confrontation they had with Ricardo Alarcón, the president of the National Assembly.Alarcón seemed flummoxed when students grilled him on why they could not travel abroad, stay at hotels, earn better wages or use search engines like Google. The video spread like wildfire through Havana, passed from person to person, and seriously damaged Alarcón's reputation in some circle Read more:Cyber
'First date' killer Karl Taylor jailed for life 2008-03-05 21:47:00 March 06, News.com.auA LONDON fitness instructor has been jailed
for life after he went on a first date armed with a carving knife and murdered a businesswoman by stabbing her more than 30 times.Karl Taylor
, 27, was told by Old Bailey judge Giles Forrester that he would not be eligible for parole for at least 30 years for Kate Beagley's brutal murder.The 32-year-old, of Walton-on-Thames, was stabbed in the face and neck during her date with Taylor, the court was told.The British Gas sales manager's naked body was found in stinging nettles near Watford, Hertfordshire, almost a week after she was reported missing by her father.Taylor, of Covent Garden, central London, had told police he had only meant to steal the woman's car after they argued during their date.He had denied murder, telling Read more:First
Oil Trades Near Record on OPEC Output, Drop in U.S. Inventories 2008-03-05 20:33:00 By Yuji Okada and Sophie TanMarch 06, BloombergCrude oil traded near a record $104.95 a barrel in New York after surging on OPEC's decision to leave production unchanged, lower U.S. fuel inventories and as Venezuela moved tanks toward its border with Colombia.The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed to maintain output targets at a meeting yesterday in Vienna. U.S. inventories fell for the first time in eight weeks, the Energy Department said. Venezuela activated the country's navy and air force in addition to mobilizing 10 tank battalions.``Those factors encouraged buying here in Asia, extending what we saw in the U.S.,'' said Tetsu Emori, a fund manager at Astmax Ltd. in Tokyo. ``The drop in U.S. inventories, which generated panic-like buying, was a surprise. Crude oil, wh Read more:Record
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Brain Scanner Can Tell What You're Looking At 2008-03-05 19:53:00 By Brandon KeimMarch 05, WiredTell me what you see.On second thought, don't: A computer will soon be able to do it, simply by analyzing the activity of your brain.That's the promise of a decoding system unveiled this week in Nature by neuroscientists from the University of California at Berkeley.The scientists used a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine -- a real-time brain scanner -- to record the mental activity of a person looking at thousands of random pictures: people, animals, landscapes, objects, the stuff of everyday visual life. With those recordings the researchers built a computational model for predicting the mental patterns elicited by looking at any other photograph. When tested with neurological readouts generated by a different set of pictures, the decoder passed w Read more:Brain
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Bill Gates drops to No. 3 on billionaire list 2008-03-05 19:44:00 Buffett rises to top as Microsoft boss’ stock holdings are hit by Yahoo bidBy Matthew MillerMarch 05, MSNBCWarren Buffett is the richest man on the planet.Riding the surging price of Berkshire Hathaway stock, America's most beloved investor has seen his fortune swell to an estimated $62 billion, up $10 billion from a year ago. That massive pile of scratch puts him ahead of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates
, who was the richest man in the world for 13 straight years.Gates is now worth $58 billion and is ranked third in the world. He is up $2 billion from a year ago, but would have been perhaps as rich — or richer — than Buffett had Microsoft not made an unsolicited bid for Yahoo! at the beginning of February.Microsoft shares fell 15 percent between Jan. 31, the day before the company an Read more:Bill Gates
Obama: I'm the one to beat McCain 2008-03-05 19:16:00 March 05, CNNSen. Barack Obama
Wednesday challenged Sen. Hillary Clinton's claim that she was the best candidate to take on Sen. John McCain
in the fall."If the suggestion is somehow that ... she's going to have a better record than I have and will be better able to withstand Republican attacks, I think that's an issue that should be tested," the Illinois Democrat told reporters Wednesday."I think that I am in a much stronger position to run against the Republicans than she is, otherwise I wouldn't be running for president," Obama said.The argument over who would be the best candidate to take on McCain will likely dominate the Democratic race over the next seven weeks as the campaigns turn their attention to the Pennsylvania primary on April 22.The battle between Clinton and Obama took on
A Package That Lights Up the Shelf 2008-03-04 21:17:00 By ANDREW ADAM NEWMANMarch 04, NY TimesABOUT a year ago, when Jamie Leventhal was trying to convince big chain stores to stock his new line of shaving gels for young men, a buyer for Target asked a crucial question: How much would he spend on advertising?“I told him we would not spend a single dollar,” Mr. Leventhal said.The buyer was stunned until Mr. Leventhal pulled a prototype out of his briefcase. The product, called NXT, is sold in an arresting triangular container that lights up from the bottom, illuminating air bubbles suspended in the clear gel. The plastic is tinted blue, and when the AAA batteries in its base are lighted, the whole thing looks like a miniature lava lamp or a tiny fishless aquarium.The novelty of the light-up container worked, and NXT’s shaving gel — as w Read more:Lights
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Sent home in shame, the British commandos who stripped naked for crass stunt in a foreign bar 2008-03-04 03:09:00 By MATTHEW HICKLEY and ALLAN HALLMarch 04, DailyMail.co.ukEight British
Commandos have been flown home in disgrace for stripping naked and engaging in appalling behaviour in a Norwegian bar during an Arctic training exercise.The men disgusted onlookers in the town of Harstad with a drunken game of "naked bar".After whipping off their clothes, they urinated on each other - splashing other customers and furniture - before slurring insults and abuse.Furious senior officers ordered the soldiers, from the Army's 59 Independent Commando Squadron Royal Engineers, back home to face disciplinary action."This is taken extremely seriously," a Ministry of Defence official said.The shame
ful case has been widely covered by the Norwegian media.They highlighted local people complaining that they were fed Read more:stunt
Report: China trying to crack U.S. computers, buy nukes 2008-03-04 02:48:00 By Mike MountMarch 04, CNNWASHINGTON - The Chinese military continues to increase spending on efforts to break into U.S. military computer systems, expand its Navy, and invest in intercontinental nuclear missiles and weapons to destroy satellites, according to the latest U.S report on China
's military power.The annual report from the Pentagon to Congress says China's total military spending in 2007 was between $97 billion and $139 billion, but it is hard to tell exactly how much was spent and on what.In comparison, the U.S. military budget request for 2008 is $481.4 billion, not including war requests.Pentagon officials said a chunk of China's spending went to cyberwarfare, because 2007 saw several "intrusions" believed to be from the Peoples Liberation Army. In the incidents, unclassified Read more:computers
Sexual Revolution Sweeping China? 2008-03-04 02:04:00 By Associated PressMarch 04, FoxnewsBEIJING — The no-tell motels in Beijing's university districts pulsate with sex.Every weekend, lusty college couples make a beeline past greasy spoon restaurants and bootleg video game shops for the dim hotel lobbies to book three-hour blocks of privacy. Students fill half the simple but tidy rooms at the Cheng Lin Ming Guang Hotel, a 10-minute walk from Beijing Normal University.China
is in the midst of a sexual revolution, a byproduct of rising prosperity and looser government restrictions on private life. The relaxed attitudes about sex mark a historic turnaround from the days when love and sex were denounced as bourgeois decadence, and unisex Mao suits and drab austerity were the norm.But the revolution is taking place largely behind closed doors, Read more:Sexual
Nurse guilty of killing patients 2008-03-04 01:46:00 March 04, BBC NewsA nurse has been found guilty of murdering elderly patients
in his care at two Leeds hospitals.Colin Norris, 32, had denied killing the four women at Leeds General Infirmary and St James's Hospital in 2002 by injecting them with insulin.Norris, of Egilsay Terrace, Glasgow, was also convicted of the attempted murder of another patient.The family of one of his victims, Ethel Hall, has called for an inquiry into Norris's killing spree.The trial heard suspicions were raised when Norris predicted the death of Mrs Hall who soon afterwards slipped into a fatal coma.Mrs Hall, 86, from Calverley, Leeds, was recovering after hip surgery at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) at the time of her death.Tests later showed about 12 times the normal level of insulin in her blood, which the pro Read more:Nurse
Remote control works on the blink of an eye 2008-03-03 19:25:00 By Miwa Suzuki in TokyoMarch 04, News.com.auDON'T read too much into it if someone winks at you in Japan – a researcher has developed a system that will soon let people run their iPods with the flick of an eye.The system, comprising a single-chip computer and a couple of infrared sensors, monitors movements of the temple and is so tiny that it can be built into the side of a pair of eyeglasses.Closing both eyes for one second starts an iPod, while blinking again stops the machine. A wink with the right eye makes the machine skip to the next tune while with a wink of the left eye it goes back.As a person does not have to move either hand, the system can serve as "a third hand" for caregivers, rock-climbers, motorbike drivers and astronauts, as well as people with disabilities."You don't h Read more:Remote
Will dams again rise across the West? 2008-03-03 19:22:00 Environmentalists urge conservation instead, but some officials weigh ideaMarch 03, MSNBCSPOKANE, Wash. - The Western states’ era of massive dam construction — which tamed rivers, swallowed towns, and created irrigated agriculture, cheap hydropower and environmental problems — effectively ended in 1966 with the completion of Glen Canyon Dam.But the region’s booming population and growing fears about climate change have governments once again studying construction of dams to capture more winter rain and spring snowmelt for use in dry summer months.“The West and the Northwest are increasing in population growth like never before,” said John Redding, regional spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in Boise. “How do you quench the thirst of the hungry masses?”The populati
Gold hits 4th straight record, silver at 27-year high 2008-03-03 04:48:00 By Lewa PardomuanMarch 03, ReutersSINGAPORE - Gold edged closer to the $1,000 an ounce mark on Monday, setting a record high for the fourth straight day after the dollar tumbled and crude oil held near an all-time high.Silver jumped to $20 an ounce for the first time since November 1980 to track gold. Platinum and palladium held near their recent highs, while a firming yen ignited selling in yen-denominated Japanese precious metals futures.Gold jumped as high as $984.60 an ounce, partly driven by purchases from Japanese speculators who took advantage of the dollar's drop to a three-year low against the yen. Gold was last quoted at $973.30/973.75 in New York on Friday.Gold has gained around 18 percent in 2008 as investors shift some of their money into the precious metal on expectations of
Teaching Boys and Girls Separately 2008-03-03 03:04:00 By ELIZABETH WEILMarch 02, NY TimesOn an unseasonably cold day last November in Foley, Ala., Colby Royster and Michael Peterson, two students in William Bender’s fourth-grade public-school class, informed me that the class corn snake could eat a rat faster than the class boa constrictor. Bender teaches 26 fourth graders, all boys. Down the hall and around the corner, Michelle Gay teaches 26 fourth-grade girls. The boys like being on their own, they say, because girls don’t appreciate their jokes and think boys are too messy, and are also scared of snakes.The walls of the boys’ classroom are painted blue, the light bulbs emit a cool white light and the thermostat is set to 69 degrees. In the girls’ room, by contrast, the walls are yellow, the light bulbs emit a warm yellow light and Read more:Girls
R rating for games dismissed as 'porn' 2008-02-29 04:49:00 By Chloe Lake, Technology EditorFeb 29, News.com.auTHE head of Australia's videogames industry body says there is a way to solve the R18+ videogame rating issue but the South Australian attorney-general has dismissed
it as "pornography".Ron Curry, chief executive of the Interactive Entertainment Association of Australia, said an R18+ rating could still be introduced into federal legislation.The issue will be discussed for the first time since 2005 at the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General (SCAG) next month.South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson has reaffirmed his opposition to an R rating, which would prevent the full consensus required for legislative change.However, Mr Curry said a classification can still be banned in one state even if it is permitted in Australia."In Q
Exploring Small Stories of the Great War 2008-02-29 04:13:00 By MICHIKO KAKUTANIFeb 29, NY TimesWith her new novel, “Life Class,” Pat Barker returns to the subject of World War I — a subject that earned her immense acclaim in the 1990s with her “Regeneration” trilogy (“Regeneration,” “The Eye in the Door” and “The Ghost Road”), an artful improvisation on the lives of the poets Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves and their compatriots, which unfurled into a fierce meditation on the horrors of war and its psychological aftermath.After several intriguing but lumpy novels set in the present or near-present, it becomes clear to the reader that World War I resonates with Ms. Barker with special force, for “Life Class” possesses the organic power and narrative sweep that her recent books with more contemporary settings Read more:Exploring
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Prince Harry: Diana Is Looking Down on Me 2008-02-29 00:36:00 Feb 28, PeopleMore details are emerging about PrinceHarry
's time fighting in Afghanistan – including his heartfelt thoughts about how his mother Diana
would have felt."Hopefully she would be proud," the 23-year-old royal told reporters, including the U.K.'s Press Association, during his time on the front line fighting Taliban forces. "She would be looking down having a giggle about the stupid things that I've been doing, like going left when I should have gone right, finding myself in an awkward position earlier today."His thoughts were echoed by brother William. "William sent me a letter saying how proud he reckons that she would be," Harry adds. "You know, it's one thing that I don't necessarily think about the whole time because I've got the guys to worry about. You worry about yours Read more:Prince Harry
Yao's Injury May Keep China's Favorite Athlete Out of Olympics 2008-02-27 05:29:00 By Wing-Gar ChengFeb 27, BloombergChinese sports fans may spend the next five months tracking medical bulletins after Yao Ming suffered a stress fracture in his left foot that might keep him out of the Beijing Olympics
.The Houston Rockets said yesterday the 7-foot-6 Yao will miss the rest of the National Basketball Association season because of the injury. He'll be sidelined for about four months before beginning his rehabilitation in the weeks leading up to the Aug. 8 opening ceremony in Beijing.Yao's loss would deprive the Olympics host of one of its most recognizable sports stars internationally and most popular domestically. It would also harm China
's chances of winning its first basketball medal and, according to the player, represent the biggest setback of his career.``If I cannot pl Read more:Injury
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Starbucks Takes a 3-Hour Coffee Break 2008-02-27 04:05:00 By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUMFeb 27, NY TimesAt Starbucks
stores across the country on Tuesday night, it was time for the corporate version of re-education camp.In its campaign to revive the intimate, friendly feel of a neighborhood coffee shop, Starbucks orchestrated the closing of 7,100 of its American stores at precisely 5:30 p.m. for a three-hour retraining session for employees.It was an exacting enterprise. At a store on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the drink-making employees, known as baristas, were told to dispense espresso into shot glasses instead of cups. They were urged to check the color of each shot. They were urged to pay more attention to the particularities of steaming milk.A handout labeled “Espresso Excellence” informed them that “without aeration, the milk screams a Read more:Coffee
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Jackson faces Neverland auction 2008-02-27 01:30:00 Feb 27, BBC NewsPop star Michael Jackson
could lose his Neverland
ranch if he fails to pay nearly $25m (£12.5m) that he owes on the sprawling California property.If Mr Jackson does not pay more than three months' arrears on the property it will go to auction on 19 March, a Santa Barbara official told the BBC.The reclusive singer has not lived at the property since his acquittal on child molestation charges in 2005.He bought Neverland in 1987 intending to create a fantasy-land for children.Read more this news quotephoto: Neverland ranch 2003 (Getty Images)
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Google winner as Microsoft and Yahoo face off 2008-02-26 23:54:00 By Daisuke Wakabayashi - AnalysisFeb 27, ReutersSEATTLE - Neither Microsoft
Corp nor Yahoo
Inc wants to blink first in the software giant's proposed $41.7 billion takeover of the Web pioneer but as the gamesmanship drags on, archrival Google
Inc, the merger's raison d'etre, is the biggest beneficiary.Not much has progressed since Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo on February 1, a proposal that was rebuffed by Yahoo's board as undervaluing the company. Microsoft has countered by saying its offer was fair and urged the board to take a second look.The union of its two biggest Web rivals could eventually loosen Google's grip on online search and advertising, but a messy takeover battle followed by a complicated integration could give Google ample time to build on its advantage."Google benefits Read more:winner
Why DVR Viewers Recall Some TV Spots 2008-02-26 04:11:00 NBC Study Tracks What Is Absorbed In Fast ForwardBy STEPHANIE KANGFeb 26, The Wall Street JournalWhat do Matt Damon and an animated piece of phlegm have in common? Viewers seem to remember them especially well, according to a new test that measured what people recall about TV ads, even when they're zapping through them.The test is part of a continuing effort by General Electric's NBC Universal to measure the effectiveness of television ads that viewers skip through with their digital video recorders. The bottom line: Viewers still remember the spots -- or at least some elements of them -- even when they're watching at up to six times the speed of regular live TV.Tracking biometric measurements such as eye movements, heart rate and sweat, the study found that the ads people concentrated on
Woman at the Center of Governor’s Downfall 2008-03-12 21:03:00 By SERGE F. KOVALESKI and IAN URBINAMarch 13, NY TimesShe left a broken home on the Jersey Shore at 17 and came to New York City to work the nightclubs as a rhythm and blues singer. Now, at 22, she is the unwitting, and as yet unseen, star of the seamy drama that is the downfall of Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York.Kristen, prostitute described in a federal affidavit as having had a rendezvous with Mr. Spitzer on Feb. 13 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, has spent the last few days in her ninth-floor apartment in the Flatiron district of Manhattan. On Monday, she made a brief appearance in federal court, where a lawyer was appointed to represent her. She is expected to be a witness in the case against four people charged with operating a prostitution ring called the Emperor’s Club V.I.P Read more:Center
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'Magic is over' for the U.S., says foreign minister of France 2008-03-12 20:36:00 By Alison SmaleMarch 13, International Herald Tribune PARIS: Bernard Kouchner, the foreign minister of France
and a longtime humanitarian, diplomatic and political activist on the international scene, says that whoever succeeds President George W. Bush may restore something of the United States' battered image and standing overseas, but that "the magic is over."In a wide-ranging conversation with Roger Cohen of the International Herald Tribune at the launch of a Forum for New Diplomacy in Paris, Kouchner on Tuesday also held out the hope of talking with Hamas, the Palestinian faction that rules the Gaza Strip but has been ostracized by the West and by its Palestinian rival, Fatah, because it opposes peace talks with Israel and denies that Israel has a right to exist.Asked whether the Unite Read more:Magic
Hong Kong shuts schools amid flu outbreak 2008-03-12 20:23:00 March 13, Channel News Asia Hong Kong
education and health officials on Wednesday ordered all primary schools and kindergartens to close for two weeks amid a flu outbreak
.In an announcement posted on its website, the Hong Kong Education Bureau said: "All kindergartens, kindergartens-cum-child care centres, primary schools and special schools will begin the Easter holiday from March 13 to March 28."Health secretary York Chow said the move was a precautionary measure against the spread of influenza in schools, according to the Government Information Service (GIS).The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) received reports of outbreaks of flu-like illness affecting 23 schools involving a total of 184 people on Wednesday, GIS said.A CHP spokesman said the illnesses could be caused by flu or other
Woman's body kept on ice in hotel 2008-03-12 07:53:00 March 12, News.com.auA WOMAN wanted on drugs charges, whose body was hidden in an upscale hotel room for up to a year, died for "religious reasons", her boyfriend has said from jail.The fully-clothed body of 33-year-old Monique Trepp was discovered wedged into a plastic storage container filled with dry ice when police conducted a drug raid on the Newport Beach hotel room in Southern California.The room was registered to her boyfriend, New Zealander Stephen David Royds, 46, who was arrested for possession of cocaine for sale. He has not been charged in Ms Trepp's death, said prosecutors in Orange County, south of Los Angeles.He has pleaded not guilty on the drugs charges. During a brief court hearing, his bail was set at $US1 million ($A1.08 million).He gave local newspaper, the Orange C
How Do Vegetables Save the Boobs? 2008-03-12 00:11:00 By Stefan Anitei, Science EditorMarch 12, SoftpediaHave you eaten your vegetables? If not, this may be bad news for your breasts. A new research published in the "American Journal of Clinical Nutrition," and carried out by a team at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and the Shanghai Cancer Institute in China, has found a connection between the consume of certain vegetables and a lowered risk for breast cancer."3,035 women diagnosed with breast cancer were identified through the Shanghai Cancer Registry. They were closely matched with 3,037 women randomly chosen from thegeneral population there. The women filled out questionnaires about their diet, including consumption of cruciferous vegetables like Chinese cabbage, bok choi and turnips. Americans typically eat more broccoli, kale and ca Read more:Vegetables
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