Be it Iran or North Korea, economic sanctions are a well-used weapon in the diplomatic arsenal for dealing with international disputes. But do they work?
Reigning hot dog-guzzling champ Joey Chestnut and nemesis Takeru Kobayashi of Japan attempted to psych each other out Thursday at the weigh-in for the 94th annual Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog-Eating Contest.
Changing winter conditions are causing Scotland's wild Soay sheep to get smaller, according to a study that suggests climate change can trump natural selection.
meketrefi writes "It's been quite a while since I got interested in the idea of using html (instead of .doc. or .odf) as a standard for saving documents — including the more official ones like academic papers. The problem is using HTML to create pages with a stable size that would deal with bibliographical references, page breaks, different printers, etc. Does anyone think it is possible to develop a decent tag like 'div,' but called 'page,' specially for this? Something that would make no use of CSS? Maybe something with attributes as follows: {page size="A4" borders="2.5cm,2.5cm,2cm,2cm" page_numbering="bottomleft,startfrom0"} — You get the idea... { /page} I guess you would not be able to tell when the page would be full, so the browser would have to be in charge of breaking the content into multiple pages when needed. Bibliographical references would probably need a special tag as well, positioned inside the tag ..." Is this such a crazy idea? What would you advise?Read more of this storyat Slashdot.
BabyDuckHat writes "Cnet's Dennis O'Reilly caught 'Windows Search Helper' trying to change his default Firefox search from Google to Bing. This isn't the first time the software company has been caught quietly changing user's preferences to benefit its own products."Read more of this storyat Slashdot.
An anonymous reader points to Digital Daily, writing "Looks like the fireworks have begun early in Mountain View. On Thursday afternoon, the Department of Justice officially notified Google that it is investigating its book deal for violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act."Read more of this storyat Slashdot.
Players leaving Tigers Season 08/09Martin Corry, MBE Cozza waved goodbye to his Homecrowd at the end Bath GP Semi-Final ending, temporally hopefully, a twelve year association with the Tigers and bring the curtain down on playing career that included:
Warrior LimericksMany thanks to Lawrence and Rosemary Threadgold for sending these, there are more but I am sure some of you can come up with a few of your own!!A faithful scrum-half name of Powell,Decided to throw in the towel.Now hes hung up his hat,Well all miss our Matt, But well still cheer a nine, name of Powell.
South African Springboks v British &Irish Lions3rd Test - Saturday 4 July Start: 1400 BSTVenue Coca-Cola Park (Formerly Ellis Park) JohannesburgCoverage: Live on Sky Sports,
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