Isolated tribe spotted in Brazil

The tribe was photographed as its members pointed bows and arrows at an aeroplane flying overhead. Image: Gleison Miranda, Funai.
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Japanese woman caught living in man's closet

He became suspicious when the food started disappearing. But she lived there FOR A YEAR.

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Think Gas is High? Try Europe

American motorists are understandably grumbling over skyrocketing gas prices as the summer travel season approaches. But their pain hardly registers against the rage afoot in Europe these days. Fishermen, truck drivers and farmers are threatening to bring entire economic sectors to a halt with protests against crippling fuel costs...

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A Tiny Fruit That Tricks the Tongue

A small red berry called miracle fruit temporarily rewires the way the palate perceives sour flavors, rendering lemons as sweet as candy.

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Child abuse by peacekeepers and aid workers

"Accusations of sexual abuse by U.N. peacekeepers and aid workers around the world have increased in recent years and the United Nations is investigating claims against its soldiers in hot spots such as Haiti, Liberia, Ivory Coast and the Democratic Republic of Congo.".

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Leaked Screen Shots of Windows 7

If you’ve been waiting to see what Windows 7 will look like then you may want to head over to CrunchGear to check out a bevy of screen shots that hit our inbox earlier today.

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Teen figures out how to decompose plastic bags in 3 months

Ontario high school junior Daniel Burd wanted to try to figure out if there was a way to get plastic bags to decompose faster. As it stands, it takes thousands of years for the wasteful objects to disintegrate. But by using bacteria, he figured out how to make it happen in a mere three months.

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China Drops 1-Child Rule for Quake Victims

Chinese officials announced Monday that the country's strict one-child policy will make some exceptions for certain families affected by the devastating earthquake two weeks ago.

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The Biggest Drawing in The World: Created Using GPS and DHL

 

The concept was simple but brilliant: place a GPS device in a briefcase and mail it via DHL with precise travel instructions over the course of a 55 day period. When all was said and done, the GPS data formed a virtual self-portrait of the artist that spread over 6 continents and 62 countries covering nearly 70,000 miles.

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How do you put a whole fruit inside a bottle? [TUT]

If you can figure it out right away with no need of further explanation, congratulations! You're smarter than 90% of the other geeks.

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Fox News Jokes About Killing Obama

While commenting on Hillary's RFK gaffe, Liz Trotta on Fox News Channel first referred to Barack Obama as "Osama" and then laughed that they should both be killed.

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Banned Youtube Videos come from the dead!

Ever wondered what happened to those youtube videos that were removed for alleged copyright violation?

Youtomb is a research project by the MIT Free Culture. You cannot see the videos, but info like when the video was posted, when it was taken down is provided.

Take a look at Youtomb.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Internet Users

 

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SAAB used humam cadavers in crash tests

According to thelocal.se humam cadavers were used in auto crash tests by General Motors (father company of Saab).

It seems that a total of 10 dead bodies were used and that Saab automobiles were likely involved an account of the brand’s association with safety.

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Orangutans Extinct in 3 Years?

"The world's largest group of orangutans in Indonesia may face extinction by 2011 because of palm oil plantation expansion, which is destroying habitat, experts say."

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Blog with Windows Live Writer

Found this usefull blog that enables you to setup blogger.com on Windows Live Writer.

Email From Steve Ballmer To All Microsoft Employees

The following e-mail was sent to all Microsoft employees .

From: Steve Ballmer
Date: May 3, 2008 5:17:30 PM PDT
To: “Microsoft - All Employees (QBDG)”
Subject: Withdrawal of Offer to Acquire Yahoo!

This afternoon I sent the attached letter [see update 2 here for letter to Yahoo] to Jerry Yang announcing that Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal to acquire Yahoo. We proposed the deal in the belief that a Microsoft-Yahoo merger would create a combined company with the resources and assets to win in the fast-growing market for advertising and online services.

Although the acquisition of Yahoo would have accelerated our ability to deliver on our strategy in advertising and online services, I remain confident that we can achieve our goals without Yahoo. We have a strategy in place to do so and we will continue to expand on this strategy and accelerate our progress.

Our strategy has three components:

· Deliver on the basics. We will continue to improve search relevance and build out our ad platform.

· Change the game through innovation. We will expand investments in engineering and deliver transformative tools and Web experiences.

· Expand our global scale and focus. We will pursue partnerships and investments to realize the competitive advantages that come with scale.

At the heart of our strategy is a commitment to bring the benefits of competition, choice, and innovation to everyone who uses the Internet—from consumers to content creators to advertisers.

We are 100 percent focused on executing on this strategy and we have made good progress in a very short time. We’ve improved search relevance dramatically, introduced compelling new search verticals, successfully integrated aQuantive, and added nearly 100 new publishers to our ad platform. In the last couple of months we’ve rolled out new versions of key products including Internet Explorer and Silverlight, and introduced new technologies like Live Mesh. We now have over 430 million active users of our Windows Live services worldwide. And we continue to add new technologies with acquisitions such as YaData, which brings leading-edge behavioral targeting technology, and Caligari, which gives us advanced 3D modeling capabilities that will help us continue to improve Virtual Earth.

Ultimately, our goal is to build the industry-leading business in search, online advertising, media, and social networking.

We are absolutely committed to being the leader in each of these areas. Now is the time to do what we have always done best—be tenacious, focus on the long term, innovate, and keep working hard.

I want to thank all of you for your patience during this process and for your dedication and hard work across all of our businesses. We asked that you remain focused on our goals through these cycles, and you have done this extremely well. We are committed to making the investments that will enable us to compete and, ultimately, lead in the online services and advertising businesses. Together, I know we will succeed.

Steve