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only_human 2010-10-07 13:51

[QUOTE]“Our mission is to have detection capability to protect the people in the field from anything biological,” said Charles H. Wick, a microbiologist at Edgewood. Bees, Dr. Wick said, proved to be a perfect opportunity to see what the Army’s analytic software tool could do. “We brought it to bear on this bee question, which is how we field-tested it,”[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/10/07/130397460/military-and-scientists-find-new-suspects-in-dying-beehives.htm[/url]

ixfd64 2010-10-12 06:40

[url]http://travel.yahoo.com/p-interests-35868704[/url]

99.94 2010-10-18 08:43

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11531398[/url]

retina 2010-10-19 01:03

[url]http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/earth-atmosphere-layers-atmospheric-pressure-infographic-0326/[/url]

Flatlander 2010-10-19 12:19

Boggle, boggle...
 
I just had a spam email entitled:
[QUOTE][SIZE="3"]SAY "NO" TO THE NEWT AX LAW![/SIZE][/QUOTE]
(sic)

retina 2010-10-19 13:09

[url]http://plan28.org/[/url]
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11530905[/url]

cheesehead 2010-10-28 22:50

Blast from the Past: 2006
 
Winner: [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/5314172.stm[/URL]

Finalists: [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/5285236.stm[/URL]

Another view of winner: [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/magazine_unsung_landmarks_vote/html/5.stm[/URL]

Runner-up: [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/magazine_unsung_landmarks_vote/html/8.stm[/URL]

Third place: [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/magazine_unsung_landmarks_vote/html/6.stm[/URL]

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Ineligible because "sung": [URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Eye[/URL]

Xyzzy 2010-10-29 05:15

[URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianhe-1A[/URL]

Flatlander 2010-10-29 20:16

[URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11646933"]Mobile phone usuage in old Chaplin film[/URL] :wink:

mdettweiler 2010-10-29 22:03

[QUOTE=Flatlander;234849][URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11646933"]Mobile phone usuage in old Chaplin film[/URL] :wink:[/QUOTE]
Say, that does look pretty realistic...I thought at first that the lady in question was just adjusting her glasses, but in the close-up shots that seems to not be the case.

Of course, the question remains of where you're going to get a cell phone signal in 1928... :smile:

Uncwilly 2010-10-29 22:10

[QUOTE=mdettweiler;234864]Of course, the question remains of where you're going to get a cell phone signal in 1928... :smile:[/QUOTE]
It wasn't a cell phone....
[url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708412/[/url]


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