It's official: Google has just announced Google Buzz, its newest push into the social media foray. This confirms earlier reports of Gmail integrating a social status feature.
The Xinchun sisters wear thousands of bees in Jingmen, eastern China's Hubei province, to attract a Queen bee. Their father Liu said that as bee keepers they all have developed antibodies to bee stings, so bee stings no longer affect them
A Polish newspaper mistakenly identified "Pedobear", a notorious internet meme, as one of the mascots of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Climate scientists who worked on the UN panel on global warming have hit out at "sloppy" colleagues from other disciplines who introduced a mistake about melting glaciers into the landmark 2007 report.
Exit polls from Ukraine indicate that the pro-Moscow opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych has narrowly won the country's presidential election. They say Mr Yanukovych has a lead of several percentage points over opponent Yulia Tymoshenko, the Prime Minister.
Microsoft has issued Security Advisory (980088) to address a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer that may allow information disclosure for Windows XP users or for users who have disabled Internet Explorer Protected Mode.
The FBI is putting the pressure on ISPs to keep logs of what user do online, and then to keep these records for at least two years. FBI Director Robert Mueller is calling for the retention of user "origin and destination information."
Romania's supreme defence council has approved a US proposal to place anti-ballistic missile interceptors in the country as part of Washington's revamped missile shield.
Scientists have discovered the female sex hormone progesterone in a walnut tree, shaking up what's known about the different between plants and animals.
Nine years ago the destruction of the World Trade Centre led George Bush with the fanatical support of Tony Blair into the bombing of Afghanistan and pursuit of Osama bin Laden, wanted "dead or alive."
House haunted? Then move it.
Tony Blair's cabinet was "misled" into thinking the war with Iraq was legal, ex-International Development Secretary Clare Short has told the UK's inquiry. She said Attorney General Lord Goldsmith had been "leaned on" to change his advice before the invasion.
Colombia said on Tuesday that seven intelligence officials would stand trial, charged with wiretapping human right workers, journalists and opposition politicians in a scandal that has hurt the government's image.
Colombian politicians on Wednesday blasted President Alvaro Uribe's proposal that students be paid to spy on violent gangs in the city of Medellin, saying the plan would put young people in danger.
Miami's El Nuevo Herald and Spain's Público have run stories in the past two days about a shocking find in La Macarena, about 200 miles south of Bogotá.
The Inter-American Human Rights Court says Colombia's government has acknowledged responsibility in the 1994 killing of a communist senator and asked forgiveness. The revelation came in a statement Thursday involving the assassination of Sen. Manuel Cepeda.
Workers have organised committees to ensure locked-out colleagues have food and basic necessities after London-based transnational Rio Tinto shuttered a borax mine in southern California.
Tony Blair has been dealt a devastating verdict on his appearance at the Iraq War Inquiry. Eight out of ten people believe that the former Prime Minister lied in his evidence.
The new release of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, is better than the previous release Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope distribution.
Porfirio Lobo's government may have won some recognition, but the June coup has had terrible consequences for Hondurans
A group of G20 protesters who have had charges of impersonating police officers against them dropped have launched a legal case for compensation against Scotland Yard.
Today, Pepe Lobo will be inaugurated as the new president of Honduras in what many consider to be an institutionalization of the coup d'état, which took place seven months ago.
Lady Thatcher was eating up to 28 eggs a week as part of a high-protein diet in the run-up to the 1979 general election, newly-released files suggest. Intended to help her shed 20lb (9kg) in two weeks, the diet is outlined in a note found in a diary from that year.
"Blair lied, thousands died." That was the chant which reverberated around Parliament Square on Friday as former prime minister Tony Blair gave evidence to the Iraq inquiry.
Former French PM Dominique de Villepin has been cleared of plotting to discredit President Nicolas Sarkozy when he was the interior minister.
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Tee Hee Hee. Making Homeless Jokes is absolutely hilarious. I laughed until I threw up thinking about losing my home, job, food, animals and car.
What fun.
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"............a new report is generated based upon the current report request and then stored. .oOSourceOo. What about the sanity clause? "
I don't believe it's an option. It comes standard, or you do without. :)
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Ill catch you later, DJD
— DSMc2gal
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HEY! You cannot fool me! I know there is NO Sanatie Clause! I met my (now) ex-wife at a MENSA meeting. She impressed me in that she was the first female (out of a plethora of 'em) that I'd met who was smarter and more eclectically educated than I was! (AT THAT POINT IN MY LIFE)
— DSMc2gal
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i like your Word Play.please continue.i want to participate and learn.thank you,djd...
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Thanks for posting the Chomsky article. What can I add to Noam? I'm getting too old and lazy to hunt down the good stuff. You find the articles, I'll get the beer.
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well, its 2 degrees F right now. maybe I should walk the dogs down on the Susquehanna tonight. It is interesting how so many things in nature love a good circle. Thanks for showing us those amazing pictures. I was browsing your seeds and they all make me want to spend too much time on my little square laptop as well, but with the low tonight in the negative universe here, inside seems like a good time for some reading,
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djd is one of the finest writers on Newsvine. He is masterful with a pen..er, keyboard. He has a razor sharp wit and matching intellect. I am making it a point to visit his column more often, because it makes me smarter. Keep fighting the good fight, sir. :)
— lauhal
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I've just noticed your new picture, djd! Very dignified you are! :)
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Thanks for seeding a hour's worth of quality reading material today. Great seeds, bro.
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Thanks for the update on venezuelanalysis. I read it fairly often for a counter view from the US view that Chavez is an anti democratic dictator. Georgy boy stole his first election with less than 50% of the vote. Chavez in his last election won with 63% of the vote. Who is really anti democratic?
Please keep us updated with the new URLThanks Barry
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djd owes me a new keyboard and a new screen because he's made me blurt tea all over them on numerous occasions.
Great seeds, great comments...witty bloke. Now...if I could only unstick my function key....
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Union Jacks on his sunglasses, funny cracks on his news-pages. That's DJD. Coool dude.
— Oluseye
djd spends far too much of his time around computers. Newsvine isn't helping.djd -- You nailed that right on the head! Keep up the good seeds and comments.
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Russian police break up protests, scores detained
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Russian police break up protests, scores detained