Police Close Muslim Quarter in Lhasa

Fri Mar 21, 2008 6:53 AM EDT

Police closed off Lhasa's Muslim quarter on Friday, two weeks after Tibetan rioters burned down the city's mosque amid the largest anti-Chinese protests in nearly two decades.

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California wildfires cause San Diego alert infrastructure to crumble

Mon Oct 22, 2007 1:12 AM EDT

Currently, fires are raging across Southern California and thousands of residents are trying to access the latest updated news about evacuations, weather conditions, and active firelines. On any normal day, this would be a simple task.

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fire, california, emergency, wildfire, los-angeles, san-diego, us-news, santa-ana, firestorm

No more editable profiles?

Thu May 25, 2006 7:21 PM EDT

I haven't used NV for a while now and basically just left my initial account as it initially was. Now I'm finding that subdomain and more importantly display name are no longer editable. Subdomain I understand, but display name? What gives?

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Groundswell of Protests Back Illegal Immigrants

Seeded on Sun Mar 26, 2006 11:29 PM EST (The New York Times)

"The Republican party made a decision to use illegal immigration as the wedge issue of 2006, and the Mexican community was profoundly offended."

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Photos : Gran Marcha 2006

Seeded on Sun Mar 26, 2006 12:09 PM EST (blogging.la)

The peaceful protest today was the largest ever in LA's history, with over half a million people in attendance.

immigration, protest, los-angeles, us-news, activism, gran-marcha, immigration-bill

Disney closes Pirates ride for movie additions

Seeded on Mon Feb 6, 2006 7:13 PM EST (Boing Boing)

Without a doubt, the ride will be stripped of all things that make it enjoyable: the cheesy effects, cheap animatronics, and lack of advertisements.

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New web crawler behaves like human

Seeded on Sat Jan 14, 2006 11:55 AM EST (Wired News)

Billy Hoffman, an SPI Dynamics engineer, unveiled a new, smarter web-crawling application that behaves like a person using a browser.

technology, security, spam, web-crawlers, turing-test, spambots

Nikon abandons film

Seeded on Thu Jan 12, 2006 2:21 AM EST (nikon.co.uk)

Nikon will discontinue production of all lenses for large format cameras and enlarging lenses with sales of these products ceasing as soon as they run out of stock.

technology, film, photography, digital-photography, nikon, 35mm

EURid Opens Registration For .eu Domains

Seeded on Wed Dec 7, 2005 2:10 PM EST (EURid)

Today at 11:00, EURid opened its systems to receive applications for .eu domain names. The "Land Rush" period will commence April 7, 2006.

technology, eu, registrars, eurid, domain-names

Growing pains for Wikipedia

Seeded on Mon Dec 5, 2005 1:12 PM EST (CNET)

For Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, last week was a tough one. And he's going to change the ground rules for the popular anyone-can-contribute encyclopedia because of it.

technology, wikipedia