The sky is falling

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:18:51 PDT
(or, an alternate title: ‘inferring trends from a single data point’ :) Last night I had a look at the W3Schools.com browser data and saw that they had put up the July numbers… and I was SHOCKED to see that the IE7 numbers were DOWN: Assuming for a moment that this is not an error, what is the cause? After the June numbers were posted, I commented “With the release of the final FF3 in mid-June it will be interesting to watch to see if this causes a significant bump in the July numbers.”

Spam Masks Itself as News To Evade Filters

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:37:51 PDT
The e-mails can carry a wide variety of headlines, usually something sensationalistic. Examples include “Negotiations between USA and Iran end in war,” “Dog digs grave for owner” and “Will Smith found dead in bathtub.” But the contents are either an ad, a link to pornography, or a link trying to trick people into downloading spyware or a worm.

FDA Good Move! 50K cap on advisory hearings

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:17:44 PDT
I like this. This is a good step by the FDA to reduce conflicts of interest by its committees of expert advisers. For complete details, read this FDA news release, "FDA Announces Improved Policies Regarding Transparency, Public Disclosure for Advisory Committees." Here's what I like about the changes…

Hydroponics System

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:00:18 PDT
This Application describes how Each system functions. If you would like to place it on your website simply copy the code in the text field below and insert it within the tags within your web page. We are continually updating it with New Calculators and features as well as the latest in Hydroponic News!

What You Should Know about The Associated Press

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:03:56 PDT
Too many people in the world are fooled by AP’s self-styled image of being the most trustworthy source for world news. Sure, it is the world’s largest and most widely-distributed news service; but in light of certain patterns of shoddy and sometimes blatantly fraudulent reporting, this only makes it the most dangerous and subversive.

Trends in Ethical and Sustainable Packaging: Innovation by Product Category (Centre Daily Times)

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:45:47 PDT
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/f9c3e4/trends_in_ethical) has announced the addition of the "Trends in Ethical and Sustainable Packaging: Innovation by Product Category" report to their offering.

CBC's Olympic broadcast a 'statement' (Slam! Sports)

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:38:32 PDT
All Olympics, all the time, pretty much all of August.

CBS News Poll: Obama 45% McCain 39%

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:56:01 PDT
A new CBS News national poll released this evening shows the 2008 presidential race unchanged from last month. Barack Obama leads John McCain 45%-39% with 13% undecided. All in all these results are the same as last month's poll.

Man murdered on Greyhound bus

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:22:21 PDT
Wednesday night 36 passengers on a Greyhound bus were traveling peacefully from Edmonton, Alberta to Winnipeg, Manitoba. No one on the bus were prepared for the horror they were about to witness. Passengers that witnessed the murder said that the two men were sitting in the back of the bus and the victim appeared to either be sleeping or listening to music through his headphones. They say the attack appeared to be unprovoked. An elderly woman said that, “The first thing I heard was something

PAX Announces Fatal1ty Not Welcome

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:23:19 PDT
In response to the news from earlier today where E For All announced that Johnathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendel would be returning to E For All this October, Gabe from Penny Arcade has issued a release stating that Fatal1ty would not be appearing at PAX this year and...


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Source: Washington Post

Mauritania forces stage coup after officers sacked

NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Presidential guardsmen seized Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi in a coup on Wednesday after he sacked several top army officers, and announced that he had been deposed.

Soldiers gathered at the presidential palace after Abdallahi replaced senior army officers during a political crisis in the northwest African country, one of the continent's newest oil producers which also mines iron, copper and gold.

A "State Council" led by one of the sacked officers, former presidential guard chief Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, said Abdallahi was now "former president" and annulled his previous decree sacking Abdelaziz and the heads of the army and Gendarmerie.

The communique, described as the council's "Statement No. 1," was broadcast by Gulf-based al-Arabiya television. State television and radio in Nouakchott had both ceased broadcasting earlier in the day.

Abdallahi won elections last year and took over from a military junta that had ruled since it toppled President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya in a bloodless coup in 2005.

"The security agents of the BASEP (Presidential Security Battalion) came to our home around 9.20 (5:20 a.m. EDT) and took away my father," Amal Mint Cheikh Abdallahi, the president's daughter, told Reuters.

A presidency official who declined to be named said the president, prime minister and interior minister had been arrested and taken to an unknown destination.

Largely desert Mauritania, a former French colony of more than 3 million people, straddles black and Arab Africa.

Abdallahi replaced one government in May following criticism over the government's response to soaring food prices and to attacks over the last year carried out by al Qaeda's north African arm.

But the new government resigned last month in the face of a proposed no-confidence vote.

A new one was formed but without the opposition Union of Forces for Progress (UFP) and Islamist Tawassoul parties which had formed part of the previous government.

This week most of the members of parliament belonging to Abdallahi's PNDD-ADIL party walked out from the party en masse, in a move some political sources said were supported by senior military officials.

 

 

 

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