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Thruvision - a camera that can see under your clothes. Nope, you can’t see what you are thinking about. This camera can be used to see objects under your clothes: guns, knifes, explosives, etc. Who needs Superman now?

Death Star - Real Star Wars Death Star can reach us in 2012. Yes, we can be destroyed by this gammaray explosion. Help us Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re our only hope…

Space, the final frontier, for crips’ ads - The Earth is not enough… now we are selling crisps for Aliens, at least Doritos is. They will send an ad to a solar system 42 light years away from Earth with planets that orbit its star “47 Ursae Majoris”.

Lost in the Time Loop Theory - Yes, another theory for Lost, but this time, although is the craziest theory ever, it makes a lot of sense for me… Am I going crazy?

A book I recommend for your internal nerd redemption: Nerds: Who They Are and Why We Need More of Them- Yes, I am nerd and I’m not ashame of that!

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Pangea Day aims to ‘tap into the power of film to strengthen tolerance and compassion while uniting millions of people to build a better future’.

Twenty films will be selected to be shown on 10th May 2008 all around the world. Each film selected will receive $3,000 and the opportunity to pitch to Participant Productions (Jeff Skoll’s company). The winner will receive $20,000 to develop their treatment. This would be great for Camfed! (Yes, where I work ! )

If you haven’t already joined up to www.youtube.com, then please do so and view and vote for our film - ‘Two Friends: The Promise of Africa’s Future’ - which can be found here: ‘Two Friends‘

The more votes and the more hits, the greater possibility our film will be noticed! And please get your friends to vote too!

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Network neutrality is the principle that Internet users should be in control of what content they view and what applications they use on the Internet. The Internet has operated according to this neutrality principle since its earliest days.

Indeed, it is this neutrality that has allowed many companies, to launch, grow, and innovate. Fundamentally, net neutrality is about equal access to the Internet. In our view, the broadband carriers should not be permitted to use their market power to discriminate against competing applications or content.

Just as telephone companies are not permitted to tell consumers who they can call or what they can say, broadband carriers should not be allowed to use their market power to control activity online.

Today, the neutrality of the Internet is at stake as the broadband carriers want Congress’s permission to determine what content gets to you first and fastest.

How does this threat to Internet freedom affect you?

* Google users — Another search engine could pay dominant Internet providers like AT&T to guarantee the competing search engine opens faster than Google on your computer.

* Innovators with the “next big idea”—Startups and entrepreneurs will be muscled out of the marketplace by big corporations that pay Internet providers for dominant placing on the Web. The little guy will be left in the “slow lane” with inferior Internet service, unable to compete.

* Ipod listeners — A company like Comcast could slow access to iTunes, steering you to a higher-priced music service that it owned.

* Political groups — Political organizing could be slowed by a handful of dominant Internet providers who ask advocacy groups to pay “protection money” for their websites and online features to work correctly.

* Nonprofits — A charity’s website could open at snail-speed, and online contributions could grind to a halt, if nonprofits can’t pay dominant Internet providers for access to “the fast lane” of Internet service.

* Online purchasers — Companies could pay Internet providers to guarantee their online sales process faster than competitors with lower prices—distorting your choice as a consumer.

* Small businesses and tele-commuters — When Internet companies like AT&T favor their own services, you won’t be able to choose more affordable providers for online video, teleconferencing, Internet phone calls, and software that connects your home computer to your office.

* Parents and retirees — Your choices as a consumer could be controlled by your Internet provider, steering you to their preferred services for online banking, health care information, sending photos, planning vacations, etc.

* Bloggers — Costs will skyrocket to post and share video and audio clips — silencing citizen journalists and putting more power in the hands of a few corporate-owned media outlets.

You can help make the internet faster, more open and accessible to all. Tell Congress to preserve Internet freedom and help ensure that America’s communications infrastructure benefits all Americans.

Sign the petition and send a message to Congress

Call your members of Congress

Write a letter to your hometown newspaper

Support the SavetheInternet.com Ad Fund

Promote SavetheInternet on your Blog or site

Tell five friends to join the fight for Internet freedom

Take action today!

Via Google Help Center and Save the Internet

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A postcard sent from the trenches in World War One has just been delivered - 90 years late.

Soldier Walter Butler was 18 and fighting in the trenches in France when he sent the card to his fiancee Amy Hicks, in Colerne, Wiltshire.

The postcard, which is dated 1917, has only just been delivered to his 86-year-old daughter Joyce Hulbert.

It was discovered in the Swindon sorting office, but no-one is sure what happened to it.

“Yes I was surprised, but I’ve had more surprises than that in my life - I’m 86,” said Mrs Hulbert.

Joyce’s husband Arthur said: “It was a surprise, quite interesting really. The poor chap suffered out there in those trenches - they couldn’t send a letter out because of security really.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/6366905.stm

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Antony and Cleopatra, one of history’s most romantic couples, were not the great beauties that Hollywood would have us believe, academics have said.

A study of a 2,000-year-old silver coin found the Egyptian queen, famously portrayed by Elizabeth Taylor, had a pointed chin, thin lips and sharp nose.

Her Roman lover, played by Richard Burton, had bulging eyes, thick neck and a hook nose.

The tiny coin was studied by experts at Newcastle University.

The size of a modern 5p piece, the artefact from 32BC was in a collection belonging to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, which is being researched in preparation for the opening of a new Great North Museum.

See the entire news here.

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