Wednesdays are IN THE NEWS!!!
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
That's a picture of me and my roommates at Paul's Christmas party. Today was cool cause I got to be the lead at one of the Panache events for some hours. It was cool. 380 people event for some manufacturing distro company. It was my second time and I got to drive the van again! wahoo!
I love reading the news, I would rather read the news with a good record playing and some tea than almost anything! Funny thing though, it is rare when I get that chance. Anyways I have read some interesting things in the news today so Check it out!
POM JUICE INTERNAL DIARRHEA ALERT! or HOAX: Animal-rights terrorists say they've contaminated 487 bottles of trendy Pom pomegranate juice sold in stores all along the East Coast, People who drink the juices will suffer "diarrhea, vomiting and headaches," the Animal Rights Militia promised in a communique. But health officials seemed unconcerned - city, state and federal agencies contacted yesterday said they hadn't heard of the threat, and the company that sells the juice suspects a hoax but is checking stores to see if its product has been tampered with. Animal-rights groups say mice and rabbits are being killed in tests aimed at supporting Pom's advertising claims.
IVERSON'S NEW HOME:One day after losing Carmelo Anthony to a 15-game suspension, the Denver Nuggets took a gamble and added Allen Iverson, a fiercely competitive star whose scoring brilliance comes with controversy.
ONE SMALL STEP FOR GOOGLE: Google is taking more than one small step in formalizing its relationship with a NASA research facility. This week, the search giant announced it signed a Space Act agreement with NASA Ames Research Center.
The two groups said they plan to work jointly on a range of technical problems from large-scale data management and massively distributed computing to human-computer interface. The collaboration will focus on helping NASA put more of its vast store of information on the Internet.
NO KID FOR YOU: People who are obese, single or on antidepressants will soon have no chance of adopting a Chinese child, foreign adoption agencies are reporting. Starting May 1, China is imposing new restrictions on foreign adoptions. The move comes as China is inundated with adoption requests from North America and Europe.
THE NEW FOUNDATION: Today, the first steel beams for Freedom Tower were installed at the World Trade Center site. Governor Pataki said, "Today the steel rises, the Freedom Tower rises from the ashes of Sept. 11, and the people of New York and the people of American can be proud." The first steel beam placed had the words "Freedom Tower" on it.
KOREANS SHOWIN' UP AGAIN!: Samsung on Tuesday released a new cell phone, the SCH-V960, touting its unique "optical joystick," which is used for navigating menus, as a "world's first." The phone also has a 2 megapixel camera, GPS and Bluetooth functionality, and a screen that automatically adjusts its brightness based on ambient light levels to conserve battery life. whoop.
KOMODO DRAGONS PT. 2: Dec. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Komodo dragons, the world's largest lizards, are capable of virgin births, scientists said after two female specimens laid fertile eggs without mating. The dragons, the only two sexually mature females in European zoos, laid fertile eggs within a year of each other, U.K. scientists say in tomorrow's edition of the journal Nature. One of them had never been in contact with a male, and the other hadn't mated for at least 2 1/2 years, they said. WEIRD
CALLING YOUR IPODS:As 2006 draws to a close without an Apple-branded cell phone on the market—an announcement Think Secret stated in March would not happen this year—all eyes are on the first half of 2007 for the phone's release, despite no word from Apple on the subject.
Nonetheless, the prospects of Apple entering the phone market, which includes about two billion active consumers worldwide, has Wall Street and investors licking their lips. Together, they've pushed Apple's stock price up more than 50 percent in the last six months.
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