bloglog » Tuesday 08 July 2008
08 July 2008
la cops in immigration rally clash face discipline
08-07-08
21:16
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Nineteen Los Angeles police officers face discipline over the use of batons and other force on peaceful demonstrators and journalists at an immigration rights rally last year.
mount shasta glaciers growing, despite warming
08-07-08
21:16
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Global warming is shrinking glaciers all over the world, but the seven tongues of ice creeping down Mount Shasta's flanks are a rare exception: They are the only long-established glaciers in the continental U.S. that are growing.
support grows for un sanctions against zimbabwe
08-07-08
21:16
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A majority of U.N. Security Council member countries support a proposal to sanction Zimbabwe and freeze the assets of President Robert Mugabe, French and U.S. officials said Tuesday, but Russia warned it might veto the plan.
it's her party: queen has 8,000 subjects to tea
08-07-08
21:16
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The times they aren't a changing. Not at Buckingham Palace, at least.
golden gate suicide barrier would cost up to $50m
08-07-08
21:16
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A new report says installing a suicide barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge would alter the view and cost as much as $50 million.
uk woman can sue rapist who won lottery millions
08-07-08
21:16
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A British woman assaulted by a serial rapist has won the right to sue the attacker who became a millionaire by winning the lottery while in prison.
faa says bird not to blame for dent in plane nose
08-07-08
21:16
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Federal officials say a bird did not cause a large dent in the nose of a Northwest Airlines plane that landed in Tampa.
british woman can sue rapist who won lottery
08-07-08
21:16
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A British woman assaulted by a serial rapist in 1998 has won the right to sue the attacker who became a millionaire by winning the lottery while in prison.
mitchell bard: hey bush and mccain: is al-maliki a defeato-shiite?
08-07-08
21:16
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bruce wilson: lieberman ally claims "jewish banking plot" sermon copyright protected. senator to speak at july hagee event
08-07-08
21:16
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samsung?s use your instinct haiku contest
08-07-08
21:16
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Just got word from Samsung that we’re good to go on our “Use Your Instinct” Haiku contest. Every week we’ll be giving away a cool Samsung phone culminating in the Samsung Instinct!
We begin our contest this week gunning for the M520. The haiku should focus on hearing and must be tweeted to UseYourInstinct. We [...]
google launches virtual world called lively
08-07-08
21:16
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Well, this sucks for Second Life. Google is launching a new service today called Lively, a browser based virtual world add-on that lets users create and customize avatars and worlds, interact with other users, and generally have a richer social interaction than is offered by GTalk today.
Worlds can be embedded int web pages, although only [...]
plot to destroy iemma: costa
08-07-08
21:15
GMTCosta accuses Labor Party's head office and general secretary of underhanded campaign.
digger 'killed' in attack
08-07-08
21:15
GMTSeveral Australian soldiers have been wounded after roadside bomb in Afghanistan, with reports that one soldier has been killed.





