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So do you want to know how tall your son or daughter will be when they grow up and if they’ll be able to play professional basketball? Well now a team of Canadian researchers believe they can tell you. Take a look. Medpage today: How tall will your child be? It’s a question that has…
...Read MoreCongratulations Brent. Welcome back to the land of “people who punch a clock for a living.” Here’s to making NetNewsWire better than ever.*ching ching* Tags: blogging, news, newsaggregator, rss
...Read MoreKermit the Frog, my favorite character from Sesame Street of old, is returning to the spotlight to kick off a tour aimed at reestablishing the Muppets franchise for new owner Disney. Here’ s the scoop. Reuters: “Kermit the Frog, perhaps the world’s most famous amphibian, will embark on a worldwide “tour” next month to celebrate…
...Read MoreNY Times: “With fears mounting that high energy costs will crimp economic growth, President Bush called on Americans yesterday to conserve gasoline by driving less. He also issued a directive for all federal agencies to cut their own energy use and to encourage employees to use public transportation. President Bush said Monday that the government…
...Read MoreWow! How much more stuff can they dig up? Reuters: “Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said late on Monday that it was tripling the number of Web pages that its system can search, seeking to upstage rival Yahoo Inc. (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) in claims to be the world’s widest Web search.” Tags: Google,…
...Read MoreMy Motherlode.com: “Homicide detectives have indentified the body found in a shallow grave on Highway 108 near Strawberry last week as that of a missing Modesto man. Police say 37-year-old Robbie Martin was last seen on June 26th. He was reported missing August 3rd by his brother.” Tags: Sierra Nevada, Stanislaus
...Read MoreSMH.com: “For a time Adrian Lamo lived on the road, travelling between cities in the United States, illegally hacking into high-profile computer networks, including the computers of America Online, Excite@Home, Yahoo, MCI-WorldCom, Microsoft and The New York Times newspaper. His nomadic lifestyle earned him the tag of “the homeless hacker”. Now he’s stuck in Sacramento…
...Read MoreMercury News: “In the latest step toward bringing back North America’s largest bird from near-extinction, three endangered California condors raised in captivity are scheduled to be released Saturday at Pinnacles National Monument, south of Hollister. Over the next several weeks, four other condors also will be released at Pinnacles, an expanse of rocky outcroppings 80…
...Read MoreTake a look at the front page of Konfabulator.com. Looks like they’Ve been planning this for a couple of days. Tags: internet, software, technology, web
...Read MoreHoly crap! Yahoo! bought Konfabulator! Mercury News: “Hoping to pave a new path to its popular Web site, Yahoo Inc. has acquired Konfabulator, a tiny software maker that provides a computer platform for monitoring the weather, stock prices and a wealth of other customized information without opening a Web browser. The deal, finalized late last…
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