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Gang 'picks up penguin' from Dublin city zoo

Seeded on Thu Jul 8, 2010 12:34 PM EDT (BBC News)

A penguin has been found wandering the streets of Dublin after she was stolen from the zoo in a suspected prank.

animals, zoo, theft, odd-news, penguin, dublin

Tapulous Acquired By Disney

Seeded on Thu Jul 1, 2010 6:28 PM EDT (TechCrunch)

Tapulous has been acquired by Disney.

technology, disney, iphone, tapulous

O2, Vodafone and Orange Partner Up to Improve Data Intensive Services on the Mobile

Seeded on Fri Jun 25, 2010 2:07 PM EDT (thenextweb.com)

O2, Vodafone and Orange have today announced a significant move towards improving the delivery of data intensive services to and from the mobile.

technology, mobile-phones, vodafone, o2, networks, orange

Project Canvas approved by BBC Trust

Seeded on Fri Jun 25, 2010 2:05 PM EDT (thinkbroadband.com)

The BBC trust has today approved Project Canvas following a regulatory process which started in February 2009.

technology, tv, bbc, freeview, bbc-trust, bbc-iplayer, project-canvas

Olympics 2012: Fans must use Visa for tickets

Seeded on Thu Jun 24, 2010 4:41 AM EDT (BBC News)

Sports fans who want to buy tickets by card for the London 2012 Olympics will only be able to use the Visa payments system. The restrictions are part of the sponsorship deal struck between Visa and the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

business, olympics, visa, sponsorship

Pirates 4: On Stranger Tides rolls camera

Seeded on Fri Jun 18, 2010 9:20 AM EDT (thedisneyblog.com)

Planning for the fourth movie in the huge success that has been the Pirates of the Caribbean movie series began almost immediately after the third film debuted on the screen. Now, with everything finally lined up and in place, filming has actually begun.

entertainment, disney, movies, johnny-depp, pirates-of-the-caribbean, jerry-bruckheimer

Sky Sports News pulled from Freeview

Seeded on Fri Jun 18, 2010 5:37 AM EDT (BBC News)

BSkyB has announced that Sky Sports News is to become a pay-TV channel, after eight years of being available on Freeview.

entertainment, bskyb, sky, freeview, sky-sports

How and why Gardner was shot

Seeded on Fri Jun 18, 2010 4:20 AM EDT (BBC News)

After a last-minute stay of execution was refused, five anonymous marksmen bearing rifles took their places late on Thursday in a prison room to carry out the request of death row inmate Ronnie Lee Gardner: execution by firing squad.

execution, death-sentence, us-news, ronnie-lee-gardener

Google reportedly building a paid news content system.

Seeded on Fri Jun 18, 2010 4:14 AM EDT (thenextweb.com)

With all of the recent pay walls springing up, it's no wonder that it has come to this. In fact, Google had talked about building a paid content system as far back as nearly a year ago.

google, technology, news, paid-content, pay-wall

WordPress 3.0 Has Arrived

Seeded on Thu Jun 17, 2010 3:41 PM EDT (Mashable!)

WordPress 3.0 has just arrived on the scene — the thirteenth major release of the popular blogging software. It's the result of six months of work from a total of 218 different contributors. You can download it now or upgrade from within your WordPress dashboard.

technology, blog, wordpress

Getty taps into Flickr snappers

Seeded on Thu Jun 17, 2010 3:14 PM EDT (BBC News)

Flickr's 40 million registered users are being given the chance to make money out of their snaps. Now the doors are being opened to all Flickr users as Getty takes advantage of a library of four billion pictures.

technology, getty, photography, flickr

Can painting a mountain restore a glacier?

Seeded on Thu Jun 17, 2010 2:59 PM EDT (BBC News)

Slowly but surely an extinct glacier in a remote corner of the Peruvian Andes is being returned to its former colour, not by falling snow or regenerated ice sheets, but by whitewash.

nature, science, glaciers

iPad MiFi Conversion for Verizon

Seeded on Thu Jun 17, 2010 10:44 AM EDT (dishtvhdstore.com)

Why put up with using AT&T when you can build a MiFi into your iPad and use Verizon instead. Full guide of how it was done.

technology, ipad, mifi

And the first Twitter paid trending topic? Disney/Pixar.

Seeded on Thu Jun 17, 2010 10:36 AM EDT (thenextweb.com)

We've heard a lot about promoted tweets coming to twitter and it looks like Pixar have got there first to promote Toy Story 3.

technology, disney, pixar, toy-story, twitter

Child-Shaped Bollards To Slow Fast Drivers

Seeded on Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:02 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Bollards shaped as children have been erected outside a primary school in Leicester to try slow down speeding drivers. The 3ft-high statues are meant to fool motorists into thinking the bollards are children about to cross the road.

school, driving, odd-news, uk, bollards

Blue Peter's falling star moment

Seeded on Wed Dec 17, 2008 4:18 PM EST (BBC News)

Blue Peter presenter Andy Akinwolere was asked to place the star on top of the Christmas tree in London's Trafalgar Square, which is brought to the UK from Norway each year.

entertainment, star, christmas, christmas-tree

Australian doctors use vodka drip to save tourist

Seeded on Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:32 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Australian doctors revealed Wednesday that they drip-fed an Italian tourist a steady dose of vodka over three days to save his life after he poisoned himself.

odd-news, vodka, alcohol, poison

The wiki is dead, long live the wiki!

Seeded on Fri Aug 31, 2007 5:44 AM EDT (web2what.blogspot.com)

I have just watched a promo from IBM introducing the QED (quick and easily done) wiki. Basically, it allows the user to create a 'mash up' (collection of services) and tie or wire them together within the wiki.

technology, ibm, wiki, api, mash-up, qed, virtual-desktop

Nokia's iPhone -- no, seriously

Seeded on Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:36 PM EDT (Engadget)

Oh come on, what the hell is that? A Nokia branded iPhone? It was presented during Nokia's GoPlay event this morning as a glimpse into the future of Nokia interface design. Oh, and it's due out next year.

technology, nokia, mobile-phone, iphone

Walt Disney World renaming Disney-MGM Studios

Seeded on Sat Aug 11, 2007 4:12 AM EDT (The Orlando Sentinel)

So long, Disney-MGM Studios. In a widely anticipated move, Walt Disney World is renaming its movies-oriented theme park, dropping the "MGM" name from the brand. But unlike much of what has been anticipated in Disney-gossip circles, the new name will contain neither Pixar nor ABC.

entertainment, disney, disney-world, walt-disney-world, theme-park, disney-mgm-studios, mgm-studios, hollywood-studios

Girl Falls From Ride At Six Flags

Seeded on Sun Aug 5, 2007 11:07 AM EDT (nbc4.com)

The Prince George's County Fire Department responded to a report of a child injured at Six Flags in Largo Friday afternoon. Fire officials said that after 3:30 p.m., a 6-year-old girl fell off the Octopus ride.

accident, odd-news, six-flags, theme-park

A Social-Networking Service With a Velvet Rope

Seeded on Sun Jul 29, 2007 4:59 AM EDT (The New York Times)

The hottest startup in Silicon Valley — minutely examined by bloggers, panted after by investors — is Pownce, but only a chosen few can try out its Web site. I've managed to get an invite into Pownce and although it looks and works quite nicely, I can't find much use for it …

business, social-networking, nytimes, kevin-rose, digg-com, yourmoney, computers-and-the-internet, pownce

Dollywood Announces $5 Million River Battle Ride for 2008

Seeded on Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:10 AM EDT (Yahoo! Finance)

A battle is brewing in Dollywood's Timber Canyon area as work begins on River Battle, the theme park's new water adventure ride set to open in 2008.

entertainment, water, theme-park, rafting, dollywood

Tube train set off the wrong way down tunnel

Seeded on Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:56 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

A London tube driver took a train in the wrong direction through a tunnel and nearly ran head-on into another one on the same line, it was revealed on Thursday. An investigation has been launched into the incident on Sunday afternoon, London Underground said in a statement.

underground, london, train, world-news

Apple To Integrate iTunes Into Bebo

Seeded on Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:10 PM EDT (TechCrunch)

Apple has announced a deal that will see the its popular iTunes service embedded into Bebo.

technology, apple, itunes, social-networking, bebo

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