The charges against Israel's foreign minister on co-responsibility in war crimes dropped

Frank Aaen yesterday reported the Israeli foreign minister of Israel for warcrimes.
The prosecuter however denied to start a investigation with reference to, the fact that the foreign minister has immunity because of her ministertitle.

Blizzard's goal: Annual WOW expansions

Developer-publisher's "goal" is to add onto its massively popular MMORPG each year; Burning Crusade still set for holiday ship.
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Israeli foreign minister reported to the police by danish politician Frank Aaen

Danish party Enhedslisten's, foreign politics spokesperson Frank Aaen, today reported the israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni to the "state lawyer of special international criminal cases."
The minister is guesting Denmark, today and tomorrow and Frank Aaen hopes that the police will take affair.
Frank Aaen says:

- I think the minister should be held back, while it is investigated wether a charge can be made for co-responsibility in warcrimes.

- Amnesty International has determined that Israel has comitted serious warcrimes in the attack on Libanon and has encouraged for the responsible to be prosecuted.
It should be investigated if the israeli minister as a member of the government is co-responsible for the israeli warcrimes.

- The israeli attack on civil living areas and infrastructure, the use of mortar grenades and the israeli blockade, that stopped emergency help to the area are clear violations of the laws of war. As a fellow member of the Geneve-convention Denmark is obliged to procecute warcriminals if they are in Denmark.
link to original story (in danish)

PlayStation 3 tackles world ills

The spare processing power of Sony's PlayStation 3 will be harnessed by scientists trying to understand the cause of diseases like Alzheimer's.
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See where the Internet lives

Take a tour of the data warehouse for the web - Equinix is responsible for holding massive amounts of data, including storage for popular sites like MySpace.com. Take a tour of the facilities, and see how much energy it takes to keep the Web alive.
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225 pranksters shop in slow motion at Home Depot

Improv Everywhere is at it again! This past Saturday, 225 people descended on Home Depot in Madison Square Park to shop in slow motion. This is the same flash mob group that organized the invasion of Best Buy with lookalike-employees, previously featured here.
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Apple Recalls 1.8m Laptop Batteries

I'm not sure if there is some kind of inside joke running in the industry where companies copy one another's exact behaviour, but after Sony and Nintendo both announced pink versions of their consoles within the space of a few days, Apple has now joined Dell in recalling millions of laptop batteries.
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Gmail Audio Player

Gmail has a built-in player for MP3 attachments. If you receive emails that include MP3 files (maybe a podcast or a public domain recording), you can listen them directly from Gmail.
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Windows Vista's Aero Glass reviewed

Windows Vista provides a host of new features, but the first thing that jumps out is the slick, sleek Aero interface. Here's a look at the advantages and disadvantages of the new interface and what's required to get the most out of it.
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The Mother of All Windows XP Tweaking Guides

The TweakGuides Tweaking Companion Version 3.2 is the complete system optimization guide for Windows XP users. It contains an enormous amount of detailed descriptions and resources together in one free 175 page downloadable PDF file.
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BREAKING NEWS: Company claims to have invented a technology wich creates free energy

Steorn recently put an article in the Economist claiming to have invented free energy, this means energy without consuming anything, redefining our very way of understanding the universe. Until now there was no doubt that the principle stating "energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only change form." was true. Steorn however comes with the following claims:
1. The technology has a coefficient of performance greater than 100%.
2. The operation of the technology (i.e. the creation of energy) is not derived from the degradation of its component parts.
3. There is no identifiable environmental source of the energy (as might be witnessed by a cooling of ambient air temperature). which very clearly would prove the previous principle wrong. Now they know that people will not believe until multiply third party scientists have proved them right; therefore Steorn decided to seek validation from the scientific community in a more public forum, and as a result have published the challenge in The Economist. The company is seeking a jury of twelve qualified experimental physicists to define the tests required, the test centres to be used, monitor the analysis and then publish the results.
If this comes out to be true the world economy would suffer big time; as there's a lot of money in the energy business.
But let's not panic till it's proven right, after all they probably just missed something..
Link to Steorn's statement

Video of the Playstation 3 user interface

IGN Weekly, the video podcast from IGN Entertainment has the first glimpse of the Playstation 3 UI

Too much video game violence?

Attorney/activist Jack Thompson, CEO of Game Daily, Mark Friedler and X-Play's Adam Sessler, debate the effect that violence in video games has on children.
Personally i think that it's up to their parent to decide what content their kids can handle to watch/participate in because all kids are different and can handle different amounts of violence..

Snakes On A Plane's Samuel L. Jackson

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Beautiful subways from around the world

Many operators of metros, subways or underground railways want to attract more passengers with good station design. This often means extra effort and higher costs for the metro operators but it seems to pay when a metro is more than just a means of transport but something the residents can be proud of. I wish they had realised that in copenhagen where i live; we have the ugliest subway ever..
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Apply now to Cardinal Sin - The official Pure Pwnage WoW guild

The Offical Pure Pwnage guild - Cardinal Sin - has been created on Frostmane (US - Alliance) and is now receiving applications for membership and leadership positions.
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Pure Pwnage The Comic update

Popular internet show Pure Pwnage has just updated their comic with page 16
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Comic Con '06: Hollywood Update

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Dell Recalls 4.1 million Notebook Batteries

You may have noticed the coverage Dell’s infamous exploding laptop (below) has garnered in recent weeks. Well, it turns out the incident may not be the horrific one off many believed as the mammoth PC maker has issued the largest product recall in its history.
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Major Blog Update

As you have probably noticed if you have been here before i have changed the design. furthermore i have entered the blogger beta, so expect more cool stuff to come. At this point i can't edit the html manually; but hopefully They'll open that soon. Let me know what you think of the new design by commenting on this post!.
Changelog:
New Design!
"Email this article to a friend" button added
"Links to this post" button added
Labels for new articles letting you find other stories with the same lables (if you think it would be cool if i tagged the old news stories as well let me know.)

Anti-bullying organization bullies Bully

Following “the release of a screenshot in which one youth kicks another” the presumptive group has publicly called for an unreleased, untested computer game to be banned. Its title – aptly enough – is 'Bully' and Bullying Online says its fears were raised the moment it was discovered the project had been dreamt up by Rock Star Games.

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Asus WL-700gE WiFi Router: Built-In 160GB Drive, iTunes, and Bittorrent

It has a built in network iTunes client, so it'll show up as an iTunes client to your PCs. And it has a BitTorrent client that can rip down 7 streams automatically (and 10 FTP or web streams at the same time.) That's with your PC off! All downloads is handled by the router. And there's a lot more.

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The future in gaming graphics

Raytracing is something that many of the 3d and modeling afficionados will be intimately familiar with. Rather than just approximating things, raytracing involves physics calculations of each ray of light from a source through each volume of space, based on the volume's properties of refractivity, reflexivity, transparency, and other things. This technique is the proverbial 'holy grail' of graphics, as it is no longer 'guessing' - things become as real as you want to be, depending on how you control the properties of the textures.

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Quad SLI Drivers Finally Public

Up until now Quad SLI has been the plaything of those rich enough to buy a pre-made system or daring enough to risk their rig with beta software, but now the stabilisers are on.

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Google warns on 'unsafe' websites

Google has started warning users if they are about to visit a webpage that could harm their computer.

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Happy Birthday World Wide Web!

15 years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee publicly released his WWW project onto the Internet.

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Google: We won't sell music

The Internet search giant used a keynote slot at the annual NARM conference to quash rumors of a so-called "Gtunes" store--much to the delight of retailers attending the confab.
"We are not going to be selling music," said Chris Sacca, head of business development for Google.

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Virgin Launches TV Over DAB Handset

For those who didn't know, DAB stands for "Digital Audio Broadcasting". It was designed to enable higher fidelity transmissions with improved noise immunity and greater mobility; it was not designed to send TV. At least that's what I thought...

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Caterpillar Invasion

Pictures of litterally millions of small caterpillars' invasion of this town. Everything covered in their web.

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iPhone To Debut At WWDC?

Leaked onto the web yesterday were yet more pictures of the so called "iChat Mobile". Naturally these could be the work of a 14 year old acne infected computer wizz with too much time on his hands but nevertheless rumours simply won't die that WWDC (7 August) will be the event to mark the iPhone/iChat Mobile's public debut.

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The Ship review

The game itself is actually quite complex and it will take an hour or so before you really get to grips with it. Of all the people on the ship, one of these is your "Quarry" - the person you are targeting to kill. At the same time, you are someone else's target. Kill or be killed? But your Quarry is not the same person who is hunting you.

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