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Super Rare Asian "Unicorn" Captured, Dies in Captivity

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image Credit: AP Photo/World Wide Fund for Nature As far as endangered species go, it’s mostly bad news , with the occasional positive story . Well this news seems to fall somewhere in the middle: in late August, a group of Laotian villagers in the Annamite Mountains captured a saola, one of the rarest animals on the planet. The Bolikhamxay Provincial Agriculture and Forestry Office, advised by the IUCN Saola Working Group and the Lao Programme of the Wildlife Conservation Societ… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Prince on The Internet: It’s Over!

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Well, World Wide Web. You had a good run while it lasted. According to a music legend, the computer age has already passed us up. Indeed, Prince is coming out with a new album (“20Ten”), which will be available as a free insert in various magazine and newspapers in Europe this week. A release date in America has not yet been announced, but one thing is for certain: fans will NOT be able to purchase it from iTunes. “The Internet’s completely over,” Prince told The Daily Mirror . “The Internet’s like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can’t be good for you.” Hmmm… if the Internet is over, how are you reading this right now? We just blew your mind, didn’t we? It’s time to take a side in this feud. Vote now:

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World Wide Web creator sorry for the ‘//’ and other things that don’t matter

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with creating the World Wide Web, recently said that his only real regret about the whole shebang is forcing people to type out the (essentially unnecessary) double slash before the 'http' in URLs. Speaking at a symposium on the future of technology, he noted (in reference to the dreaded marks) the paper and trees people could have saved from writing out the marks, as well as the human labor spent in the typing of them. Hey Tim: don't sweat it! You've done us enough good turns that we're willing to overlook it.

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