An analysis of voter records by the Chicago Tribune newspaper suggests that more than 181,000 dead people were listed on the rolls in the six swing states in last month’s US election.
Category: Surrealpolitik
English as a second language students star in spelling bee
Two children aged eight and eleven, with parents from BANGLADESH, VIETNAM and MALAYSIA, yesterday (wedn) took out the NEW SOUTH WALES Premier’s Spelling Bee state finals.
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China extinguishes 130-year-old fire
China’s official Xinhua news agency reports that a fire that broke out 130 years ago at a Chinese coalfield has finally been extinguished, stopping 100,000 tons of harmful gases – including carbon monoxide and sulphur dioxide – and 40,000 tons of ash from polluting the atmosphere every year.
Aus faces first troop losses in Iraq
The Australian Defence Force is taking stock after the first Australian casualties in IRAQ.
Jeepers Creepers, How Did We Get These Peepers? | That Magazine
We like to watch. But while we sometimes may not like to be watched, which wanton watching are we worried with?
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The Plastic Fantastic | South China Morning Post
The banks and their cards are feeling the pinch, but the rise and mutation of their smart plastic cousins means you don’t have to wince every time you reach into your pocket.
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That Sinking Feeling | That Magazine
You are lying in bed, reading, and the light bulb blows overhead. Why not just float up and fix it? And unite the world’s religions at the same time. Hang on! I think you just might be asleep already.
Send in the Clones | That Magazine
Eh, a quick, 800-word rant which could have easily been blown out to many, many more words and justifiers, but word limits are word limits son, and thanks to That I was able to gloss over the full implications – but it’s funny :P
First Asia-Pacific digital cable TV rollout for Taiwan, led by major local media, tech firms
Press release; Adam Connors, DigiTimes.com [Wednesday 17 April 2002]
Taiwan-based digital STB (set-top box) supplier Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB) announced that it has signed an agreement with China Network Systems (CNS) a Koos Group (Taiwan) and News Corp STAR TV joint venture in wiring its Taiwan cable-subscriber households to digital TV by 2005.
UMC, Trident Microsystems release samples of fastest 3D graphics processor for notebooks
Press release; Adam Connors, DigiTimes.com [Tuesday 16 April 2002]
Trident Microsystems, a US-based graphics chip maker, and its Taiwanese foundry partner United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) have released samples of Trident’s new XP4, a 3D graphics processor with a performance of one billion pixels/second with consumption of a maximum of three watts performance-per-watt twice that of products from Nvidia and ATI Technologies, the companies claim.
