January 2010
17 posts
Hundreds of Passengers Stranded on Ferry Stuck in...
Nearly 850 passengers are stranded on an Eckerö Line ferry that got stuck in the ice half an hour after leaving Helsinki Friday morning. The vessel, which was heading to Tallinn, is waiting for an icebreaker to dislodge it. Officials say they can’t predict when the ferry will be freed. The ferry was scheduled to arrive in Tallinn at 11 am. The vessel is still waiting for an icebreaker from...
Romanian's orphans - 20 years on...
How can we tolerate this happening in Europe? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8425001.stm The images are not only shocking, they are dramatically similar to those shot right after the fall of Ceausescu’s regime 20 years ago. Wasn’t one of the conditions of accession to the European Union that Romania had to provide better conditions to its state orphanages? Hasn’t the EU sent...
Video of freezing Ice in a small Estonian Island
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The Estonian e-learning center a reply to...
Download now or preview on posterous strat_final_en_web.pdf (188 KB) This is basically a reply to Christopher Dawson’s post on his implementation of a Learning Management System in his district in the U.S. He’s in charge of implementing (by yesterday as he says). Chris, I tried to reply on ZDnet but it required registration, and I’m too...
[Google Fast Flip] German government warns against...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: German government warns against using MS Explorer By Daniel Emery The German government has warned web users to find an alternative browser to Internet Explorer to protect security. The warning from the Federal Office for Information Security comes after Microsoft admitted IE was the weak link in recent attacks on Google’s systems. Microsoft...
[Google Fast Flip] Facebook Now Running Virus...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: Facebook Now Running Virus Scans on Users’ PCs Facebook Now Running Virus Scans on Users’ PCs Earlier this week, Facebook and security company McAfee which offers Facebook’s 350 million users a free six-month subscription to McAfee’s security software. Interested parties can visit the on Facebook to sign up for the deal....
[Google Fast Flip] Spanish MP's photo used for...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: Spanish MP’s photo used for Osama Bin Laden poster A Spanish politician has said he was shocked to find out the FBI had used his photo for a digitally-altered image showing how Osama Bin Laden might look. Gaspar Llamazares said he would no longer feel safe travelling to the US after his hair and parts of his face appeared on a most-wanted...
[Google Fast Flip] Media Criticism - Salon.com
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: Media Criticism - Salon.com It’s not 1984, but Newspeak lives on in the media’s skewing of the terms of our political debate Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper and Sen. Bernard Sanders, I-Vt. “War is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength” — more than a quarter-century after those oxymorons were supposed to...
[Google Fast Flip] Jobs of 2030: Memory...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: Jobs of 2030: Memory Augmentation Surgeon, Waste Data Handler, Narrowcaster BY Ariel Schwartz Today We’ve given you a preview of some of the best green jobs of the next decade, but what will the job market look like a bit further into the future? That’s the question that research company Fast Future and the UK Department of Business,...
[Google Fast Flip] Pixel Qi: The LCD Screen That...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: Pixel Qi: The LCD Screen That Could Finally Kill Paper For Good Mary Lou Jepsen has created massive holograms and cheap laptops for the developing world. Now she’s rethinking the LCD screen, leading the way to the next great gadget: an e-reader to replace your laptop By Lauren Aaronson Posted 01.12.2010 at 1:01 pm 0 Comments Pixel Qi :...
Terrorists with a sense of humour
He was on to something…
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[Google Fast Flip] Europe slapping rich with...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: Europe slapping rich with massive traffic fines By FRANK JORDANS AP GENEVA — European countries are increasingly pegging speeding fines to income as a way to punish wealthy scofflaws who would otherwise ignore tickets. Advocates say a $290,000 (euro203,180.83) speeding ticket slapped on a millionaire Ferrari driver in Switzerland was a fair and...
[Google Fast Flip] DivX launches new Internet TV...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: DivX launches new Internet TV platform | Topics | Playlist | Macworld The new service from DivX, best known for a popular film file format, will eliminate the need for a computer or a separate, dedicated box under the TV insists the company. DivX TV will support virtually any kind of Internet-connected consumer electronics device according to the...
[Google Fast Flip] Google Seeks License to Buy and...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: Google Seeks License to Buy and Sell Energy | Popular Science Google previously launched its Powermeter product to help monitor energy usage. Google has broadened its horizons beyond the average Internet search company by launching its own smart-charging electric cars Google Working on “Smart Charging” Software for Electric Cars The Future...
Play the Piano right on Youtube
A very clever way of using the timeline on youtube videos Posted via email from Joao Rei’s ramblings | Comment »
[Google Fast Flip] How Google (or Apple) Can Win...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: How Google (or Apple) Can Win the Great Super Phone War of 2010 | Design 4 Impact | Fast Company How Google (or Apple) Can Win the Great Super Phone War of 2010 ? Yes, it’s a SUPER PHONE Smackdown! The battle is heating up with Google (finally) firing on all cylinders with the release of its . Nice to see a worthy competitor to Apple emerge...
[Google Fast Flip] 2 Million Downloads and...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: 2 Million Downloads and Counting: Why Such Loyalty for Microsoft Office? In the past seven weeks, more than 2 million people have downloaded the beta for Microsoft Office 2010. That’s a whopping 40,000 downloads per day. It’s a record breaking pace, surpassing the beta release for Microsoft Office 2007. It begs the question: In the face of...