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Quick info, September 06

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  • Day in pictures 6 September 2006
  • Japan princess gives birth to boy  6 September 2006

    Japan's Princess Kiko has given birth to a baby boy, potentially resolving the royal family's succession crisis.

  • 'Virtually untreatable' TB found   6 September 2006

    Extreme drug resistant TB (XDR TB) has been seen worldwide, including in the US, Eastern Europe and Africa, although Western Europe has had no cases. TB presently causes about 1.7 million deaths a year worldwide, but researchers are worried about the emergence of strains that are resistant to drugs.

  • Google opens up 200 years of news   6 September 2006

    Partners in the project include the websites of US newspaper the New York Times and the Guardian from the UK. Other sources include news aggregators, websites which collect and display news stories from multiple sources.

  • Creative Future - BBC addresses creative challenges of on-demand  25.04.2006

    The BBC today unveiled Creative Future, a new editorial blueprint designed to deliver more value to audiences over the next six years and turn the BBC's public purposes laid out in the recent Government White Paper into quality content for the on-demand world.

  • Microsoft Expression Web (beta)  Sept. 5

    Expression Web is the first major Web editor designed from the ground up to create code based on CSS and XML. Even when you drag an image or text box to resize it, the program inserts CSS-based layout code rather than the old-style HTML tags created by FrontPage or DreamWeaver.

  • Telephone telepathy - I was just thinking about you  Sep 5, 2006

    Rupert Sheldrake, whose research is funded by the respected Trinity College, Cambridge, said on Tuesday he had conducted experiments that proved that such precognition existed for telephone calls and even e-mails. [...] "The hit rate was 45 percent, well above the 25 percent you would have expected"

  • Man Admits To Hacking USC's Application System  September 5, 2006

    Eric McCarty, a 24-year-old San Diego resident, indicated he was unhappy with USC for not admitting him to the university, according to court papers. [...] Shortly after the hack, McCarty posted a comment on his blog where he admitted that "USC Got Hacked, I was involved, I'm sorry, my bad, so all the hot USC Girls, I got your phone number ladies."

    *Cracking
  • Catch out a liar with 'cognitive overload'   06/09/2006

    This innovative approach involves giving suspects secondary tasks such as giving their version of events in reverse order, or recalling information relayed through a set of headphones. As lying takes up more brain power than telling the truth, a guilty suspect is unlikely to be able to perform other tasks as well.

  • Just An Online Minute... Google Rolls Over  Sep 5, 2006

    Google this weekend decided to turn over records to the Brazilian government about users of Orkut, the company's social-networking service that has found a large fan base in Brazil.

  • Transcript: Natascha Kampusch TV interview  September 06, 2006

    “Every once in a while he even in some way suggested how I could escape and get away from him. As if he wanted that I get free some day. That it all falls apart. That somehow justice prevails, or something like that. I think I was stronger, he had an unstable personality. He had insecurity issues.”



Words
  • wind·fall (wĭnd'fôl')  -n.- A sudden, unexpected piece of good fortune or personal gain.
  • fell (fĕl)  -tr.v.- To cause to fall by striking; cut or knock down
  • com·pos men·tis (kŏm'pəs mĕn'tĭs)  -adj.- Of sound mind; sane.
  • ex·pound (ĭk-spound')  -v.tr.- To explain in detail; elucidate
  • at / in one fell swoop


Comics
  • Hypochondriacs fill their water bed with chicken soup.