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Senator’s Trial Won’t Move to Alaska

New York Times - 1 hour 37 min ago
A federal judge says he will not move Sen. Ted Stevens' corruption trial to his home state of Alaska.

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45 Dead in Madrid Plane Crash

New York Times - 1 hour 41 min ago
A Spanair jet on route to the Canary Islands carrying 178 people swerved off the end of a runway, Spanish officials said.

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Bolt Breaks World Record and Wins Gold Again

New York Times - 1 hour 41 min ago
Jamaica’s Usain Bolt became the first man to win both the 100 and 200 meters at the same Olympics since Carl Lewis in 1984.

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Magazine Preview: How Obama Reconciles Dueling Views on Economy

New York Times - 2 hours 12 min ago
Barack Obama seems both more left-wing and more right-wing than many people realize. A 15-year debate among economics experts in the Democratic Party helps explain why.

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Some Say Bailout of Housing Giants Is Inevitable

New York Times - 2 hours 14 min ago
As Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s financial conditions continue to decline, their options are narrowing.

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My Job Went To India

Slashdot.org - 2 hours 20 min ago
Josh Skillings writes "The author, Chad Fowler, draws upon his experiences as a software engineer, a team leader over a group of Indian developers, and as a jazz musician, to describe 52 ways or tips that will help you to become a more valuable employee. These tips are described in two or three pages each, and are usually illustrated by a practical example or story. The tips are well thought-out, well-explained and make sense. Chad draws upon the open source movement as well, highlighting ways that contributing to and learning from open source can improve your career. These tips gave me greater respect and appreciation for the open source movement in general." Read on for the rest of Josh's review.

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Bombings in Algeria Kill 11

New York Times - 2 hours 33 min ago
Two car bombs killed at least 11 people and wounded 31 others a day after a suicide bombing killed 43 people, according to the Algerian Interior Ministry.

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Tropical Storm Fay on Florida’s Coast

New York Times - 2 hours 41 min ago
Tropical Storm Fay moved north along the Florida coast on Wednesday, as residents in Florida and Georgia prepared to endure the storm.

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FancyZoom

New modules - 2 hours 47 min ago

FancyZoom is a simple, clean image zoomer with a drop shadow and close box meant to emulate the visual style of Mac OS X. It is based on FancyZoom 1.1 created by Cabel Sasser of Panic, Inc. The original Javascript has been rewritten with JQuery and compressed for speed.

Usage

Once the module has been enabled, FancyZoom automatically applies throughout the entire website. Any link (text or image) that points directly to an image file will zoom that image in-place instead of opening it in a separate browser window. For improved responsiveness, the zoomed image begins loading as soon as the user hovers over the link. To prevent a particular image link from zooming simply add rel="nozoom" to the link's attributes.

The settings form (admin/settings/fancyzoom) includes customizable options for speed and appearance, and uses the Colorpicker module if installed.

License Fee

Although free for non-commercial use, Cabel Sasser requests a one-time license fee for use on commercial websites. Please visit the FancyZoom web site for more details.

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Higher Costs Are Taking a Toll on Business

New York Times - 2 hours 59 min ago
Businesses have been passing the costs on to consumers, just as joblessness expands and spending power shrinks.

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The Evidence Gap: Drug Makers’ Push Leads to Cancer Vaccines’ Fast Rise

New York Times - 3 hours 7 min ago
Drug makers call the rapid deployment of a vaccine against cervical cancer education, but their critics call it marketing.

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NASA Installing Shocks On Orion

Slashdot.org - 3 hours 9 min ago
caffiend666 writes "In order to abate the massive vibration issues of their new Ares I spacecraft, NASA is installing shock absorbers. "The plan is to install 16 canisters in the bottom of the rocket with 100-pound weights attached to springs. Battery-powered motors will move the weights up and down to stop vibrations. Those are essentially remote-controlled shock absorbers, said Garry Lyles, who headed the team of NASA engineers tackling the shaking problem." So, when the spaceship is a rocking, don't come a knocking?"

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Rice Signs Missile Deal With Poland

New York Times - 3 hours 29 min ago
The agreement to place an American missile defense base on Polish territory is fiercely opposed by Russia.

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Hua Guofeng, Mao’s Successor, Dies

New York Times - 3 hours 29 min ago
Hua Guofeng, who briefly ruled China as communist founder Mao Zedong’s successor, died Wednesday, state-run media reported.

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Foresight Linux: Two out of three's not bad

news Forge - 3 hours 31 min ago

According to its past and present marketing, Foresight Linux has three claims to fame: Its user-friendliness, its use of the Conary package management system, and its role as a showcase for the latest in GNOME. In practice, its latest 2.0.4 version is not more user-friendly than any other GNOME-based distribution -- if anything, it is slightly less so because of its limited software selection and package management -- but its other claims are enough to make Foresight one of the more distinctive modern distributions.

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Obama’s Ads in Key States Go on Attack

New York Times - 3 hours 37 min ago
Barack Obama has started a hard-hitting ad campaign against John McCain in vital states, painting Mr. McCain as disconnected from middle-class struggles.

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Deadly Plane Accident in Madrid

New York Times - 3 hours 51 min ago
An airliner bound for the Canary Islands swerved off the runway while departing from Madrid airport Wednesday, Spain's national airport authority said.

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Apple's IPhone 3G Firmware Update Bombs

Slashdot.org - 3 hours 54 min ago
JagsLive writes "After lots of complaints about iPhone 3G connection issues, Apple released a firmware update Monday with hopes it would fix the issues. But early reports suggest it didn't work as planned. Complaints have included dropped calls, abrupt network switches, poor reception, and service interruptions. Apple declined to offer details about its iPhone 2.0.1 update, other than saying it included "bug fixes." However, comments in Apple's support forum say plenty about the latest attempt to rectify poor user experiences. In fact, the update seems to be causing new issues, apparently interfering with the GPS function, among others."

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Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud

Slashdot.org - 4 hours 43 min ago
SkeptOlympics writes "A new chapter in the ongoing controversy surrounding China's women's gymnastics team opened today, as search engine hacker stryde.hax found surviving copies of official registration documents issued by China's General Administration of Sport of China. The incriminating documents, expunged by censors from the official site and from Google's document cache, still appear in the document translation cache of Chinese search giant Baidu, here and here, showing the age of one of China's gold medal winning gymnasts to be 14 instead of 16, the minimum age for competition presented on her government issued passport. Now that official government documentation is available, how long will the IOC be able to keep a lid on this scandal?" I imagine the answer is "Forever".

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Watchmen Delayed, Or Worse

Slashdot.org - 5 hours 31 min ago
whisper_jeff writes "Due to some potential copyright issues, The Watchmen might be delayed, or worse. It seems that Fox claims it still owns copyrights which would prevent Warner Bros from releasing the movie. US District Court Judge Gary Feess decided that Fox had enough of a case that he's willing to hear things out. The geek in me hopes that it will be resolved quickly and the movie will hit theaters on time."

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