People are looking for a good freelancer more and more

Fri Feb 26, 2010 6:00 AM EST

A good freelancer, bee it a general designer or an individual with particular talent in coding or some other area, is difficult to find. There is even a new Facebook group asking that exact question.

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Maximum Overdriver announces that it will take a short hiatus

Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:51 AM EDT

The members of the experimental post power pop band Maximum Overdriver have announced that they will begin creating new material after a short hiatus. The bend recently returned after a very successful three year tour of Europe, Scandinavia and the sub continent

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entertainment, music, pop, post, bend, maximum, powerpop, power-pop, maximum-overdriver, overdriver

Google: more Macs mean higher IPv6 usage in US

Seeded on Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:01 AM EST (Ars Technica)

Google has been checking to see who's using IPv6. According to the company's tracking, half of all IPv6-capable systems seen by Google are Macs, helping the US land in fifth place in percentage of IPv6 users world wide, ahead of China and Japan.

google, technology, us, ip, ipv6

The Biggest Losers [video]

Seeded on Thu Nov 13, 2008 3:59 AM EST (Video: Q & O | The Daily Show | Comedy Central)

Sarah Palin launches a PR blitz to show voters all they missed by not electing her queen of America.

politics, daily-show, sarah-palin, pr-blitz

In pictures: New pyramid found

Seeded on Wed Nov 12, 2008 6:36 AM EST (BBC News)

Archaeologists in Egypt say they have discovered another pyramid - the country's 118th so far - from the sands at Saqqara, just south of the capital Cairo.

history, egypt, pyramid

Paterson Says Schools and Medicaid Will Face Cuts

Seeded on Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:27 AM EST (The New York Times)

Gov. David A. Paterson said in an interview on Sunday that he would almost certainly seek billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, as well as midyear reductions in school aid, to address New York's worsening fiscal condition.

new-york, cuts, religion, medicaid, fiscal-condition

China's Stimulus Plan Buoys Markets in Asia and Europe

Seeded on Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:24 AM EST (The New York Times)

PARIS — Stocks gained in Europe and Asia on Monday, a day after the Chinese government announced an extensive economic stimulus plan.

business, china, stimulus-plan

Deported in Coma, Saved Back in U.S.

Seeded on Sun Nov 9, 2008 9:26 AM EST (The New York Times)

GILA BEND, Ariz. — Soon after Antonio Torres, a husky 19-year-old farmworker, suffered catastrophic injuries in a car accident last June, a Phoenix hospital began making plans for his repatriation to Mexico.

health, injuries, hospital, immigrant, heltcare

Dutch city kept warm by hot-water mines

Seeded on Sat Nov 8, 2008 3:18 PM EST (The Times)

In an age of rapidly rising fuel bills the discovery of vast supplies of free hot water sounds too good to be true. But that is exactly what one Dutch city has found to run the radiators of hundreds of homes, shops and offices.

world-news, mines, ecology, hot-water

Recycling waste piles up as prices collapse

Seeded on Sat Nov 8, 2008 3:16 PM EST (The Times)

Thousands of tonnes of rubbish collected from household recycling bins may have to be stored in warehouses and former military bases to save them from being dumped after a collapse in prices.

economy, world-news, recycling

Setec Astronomy

Seeded on Sat Nov 8, 2008 3:13 PM EST (Ars Technica)

Will an Obama White House revisit classification policy?

white-house, obama, us-news, national-security, classification, classification-policy, setec-astronomy

Too important to lose: telco appeals city's fiber-optic win

Seeded on Sat Nov 8, 2008 3:11 PM EST (Ars Technica)

Minnesota for months now, since it represents in microcosm a larger struggle around the country between private ISPs and municipalities that want to begin offering high-speed Internet (often fiber) as a public utility.

technology, internet, high-speed, isp, fiber-optic

Windows 7 post-PDC roundup, links galore!

Seeded on Sat Nov 8, 2008 3:10 PM EST (Ars Technica)

After our coverage of PDC 2008, we thought that Windows 7 news would slow down for a bit. Not so. Instead, PDC was only the tip of the iceberg; the PDC build leaked onto the web, Microsoft gurus started digging, and, of course, Microsoft revealed more information at WinHEC 2008.

technology, microsoft, windows-7, os-winhec

Election season resembles 'West Wing'

Seeded on Sat Nov 8, 2008 3:51 AM EST (International Herald Tribune)

When Eli Attie, a writer for "The West Wing," prepared to plot some episodes about a young Democratic congressman's unlikely presidential bid, he picked up the phone and called David Axelrod.

politics, obama, tv-show, election-west-wing

Senate: 60 is still possible

Seeded on Fri Nov 7, 2008 4:37 PM EST (msnbc.com)

The Democrats' road to 60 Senate seats isn't dead yet. Yes, it's a long road, with a lot of twists and turns and "ifs," but it's still possible.

elections, senate, democrats, politics, 60

After the Imperial Presidency

Seeded on Fri Nov 7, 2008 1:58 PM EST (The New York Times)

Will the new president and Congress undo the executive-power plays of the Bush administration?

bush, politics, obama, presidency

Obama administration should change the voting system and they should start immediately

Fri Nov 7, 2008 1:49 PM EST

First of all I would just like to note that these comments come from a very European perspective…. In my opinion, one of the imperatives of Obama presidency's first (and I do hope, not the only) term in office, is to at least start some sort of election reform.

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election, politics, vote, obama, election-fraud, registration

Minerals on Mars Point to More Recent Presence of Water

Seeded on Fri Nov 7, 2008 12:50 PM EST (The New York Times)

Still puzzling over how warm and wet Mars may have once been, scientists are now seeing global mineralogical signs that the planet was at least occasionally wet for the first two billion years of its existence.

mars, water, science, minerals

Summit demands action on DR Congo

Seeded on Fri Nov 7, 2008 12:48 PM EST (BBC News)

African leaders have called for an immediate ceasefire in the Democratic Republic of Congo and for UN peacekeepers to get greater powers.

africa, congo, world-news, nairobi, ceasefire

North Korea 'is being run by Kim Jong Il's brother-in-law'

Seeded on Fri Nov 7, 2008 12:46 PM EST (The Times)

The nuclear armed dictatorship of North Korea is being governed by the brother-in-law of the country's leader, Kim Jong Il, who succumbed to serious ill health three months ago, South Korean experts have concluded.

north-korea, kim-jong-il, world-news

Ségolène Royal savours revenge on former partner in Socialist leadership election

Seeded on Fri Nov 7, 2008 12:43 PM EST (The Times)

Ségolène Royal, the runner-up for the French presidency last year, savoured revenge today when she took a surprise lead in a bitter race for leadership of the battered Socialist party.

france, world-news, socialist-party, segolene-royal

Virtual gladiators and tigers to feature in Disney-style Rewind Rome

Seeded on Fri Nov 7, 2008 12:42 PM EST (The Times)

A €10 million (£8 million) "virtual reality" show featuring 3D gladiators and wild animals is to open this month next to the Colosseum in what Gianni Alemanno, the centre-right Mayor of Rome, described as a "dress rehearsal" for a Disney-style Ancient Rome theme park

entertainment, show, rome, 3d, gladiator

BBC suffers DDOS attack

Seeded on Fri Nov 7, 2008 12:39 PM EST (The Inquirer)

For a while the BBC home page was either not responding or opening extremely slowly. In a statement to the INQ, the BBC said the attack originated in a number of different countries but didn't specify which

technology, bbc, ddos-atack

Boffins make diamonds from tequila

Seeded on Fri Nov 7, 2008 12:37 PM EST (The Inquirer)

RESEARCHERS at a Mexican university have discovered that tequila can be turned into diamonds.

science, diamonds, tequila

Bush Study Favors Bigger Afghan Army

Seeded on Fri Nov 7, 2008 12:35 PM EST (TIME)

The Bush administration, in the midst of a wide review of its war strategy in Afghanistan, is likely to recommend soon to the incoming Obama administration that the U.S. push for further expansion of the Afghan army as the surest path to an eventual U.S.

bush, afghanistan, us-news, withdrawal, afghan-army

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