Millions of baby sardines shock old timer

San Carlos, Mexico -Millions of baby sardines have emerged around the sailing vessel Sol Mate whilst she is at anchor in Bahia San Carlos, just south of the busy fishing port of Guaymas, on the mainland side of the...

US rushes icebreaker to counter Ruskie threat to North Pole

News that the US government is rushing a Coast Guard icebreaker to the north to coutner Russia's claim to the North Pole will surely annoy Canadians.The Healy icebreaker of the U.S. Coast Guard Service leaves Seattle...

CSIS suspected U.S. would deport Arar to be tortured: documents

For those who have been following the case of Maher Arar, it has now been revealed that  Canadian intelligence officials knew that Arar was likely to be tortured if he was deported to Jordan. ""I think the U.S. would like to get Arar to Jordan where they can have their...

Remember Google Mail's promise of endless storage? Forget it.

Tod Maffin is a smart guy and when he reports on something largely ignored elsewhere I pay attention.Today he reveals how Google is welching (sorry Welshmen everywhere) on its implicit promise to store your email...

Earthquake in Northern Argentina (or maybe Chile)

Reports are coming in of a 5.3 magnitude earthquake in the northern city of Santiago Del Estero in Argentina. While much smaller than the 7.3 tremblor that hit Java earlier today, this one is only 20 km below the surface of the earth.USGS reports a similar quake at the same...

UPDATE: Big, deep earthquake in Java

Yes, a very large earthquake has struck near the Indonesian island of Java but it is extremely deep - it is not yet known whether  there were any surface effects of this very large seismic event.UPDATE:...

McDonalds "tastes better" when kids can see packaging: study

It now official:  McDonalds fast food tastes better when presented in its original packaging than when in generic packaging. At least according to this Stanford University study  "where 63 preschool...

Divisions in Sikh community derail Komagata Maru redress

I've just received a press release that requires one or more of our crowd-sorcerers to make sense of it. Apparently, a citizen group that has been campaigning for a historical redress to the racist actions of the...

"Garage Sale" Facebook app launches today, takes on eBay

Is Buy.com's Garage Sale application for Facebook the first one with the ability to break down the rigid architecture of Facebook? At the recent MESH conference it was clear to most attendees that Facebook...

WHO confirms Ebola-type outbreak in Uganda

OK, it's not ebola but Marburg haemorrhagic fever, which is just about as  bad. Correction: only 25% as bad, according to this article in Slate. But you really don't want to get Marburg either."Marburg...

Bridge collapse reveals YouTube realities

Russell Shaw is a writer and commentator for ZDNet, a leading tech mag, and you can take his comments for whatever they are worth.But his musings about what the Minneapolis bridge collapse says about the YouTube...

Activist Sent To Psychiatric Unit After Exposing Mental Institutions

Larisa Arap is an opposition critic allied with Gary Kasparov, and had mounted strong attacks on what she felt was an  inadequate mental health system in Russia. To her husband's horror, he discovered when she...

BC website sells for $350 million to Disney

When my friend Graham Hill sold his TreeHugger.com for $10 million, I thought he had done pretty well. I mean - ten million smackeroos! By any standards that's a fortune on this planet.  But today another BC boy...

TreeHugger acquisition confirmed

Graham Hill is one of those true visionaries who creates brilliant projects one after another. I've watched him grow Treehugger.com from an idea that grew out of an image he created in Photoshop, to a highly trafficked website that had a very tight focus on the "green...

Crowd-powering the news with SpinVox and Skype

Now here's something that might be a brilliant conduit for mobile news sourcerers to file their stories: a new deal just announced  that allows any phone call to be converted into text, and then processed to...
 

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