Interesting Interestings, 2008-03-20

  • It started life as the emblem of the British anti-nuclear movement but it has become an international sign for peace, and arguably the most widely used protest symbol in the world. It has also been adapted, attacked and commercialised.
  • Seven people have been charged in connection with a multi-million dollar international art forgery operation.
  • The Vatican rejected on Thursday new accusations by al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden that the publication of cartoons mocking Islam’s Prophet Mohammad was part of a “new crusade” involving Pope Benedict.
  • “I think this is safe house No. 5,” Kurt Westergaard said the other day, and it was clear that he genuinely had lost track.
  • Warning of an economic “tailspin,” Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O: Quote, Profile, Research) outlined long-awaited plans to turn around its U.S. business on Wednesday, but details from new coffee machines to a rewards program for frequent customers failed to…
  • Insects with modified body structures and embedded micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) have survived to adulthood in a US Defense Advanced Reseach Projects Agency (DARPA) programme.
  • Adobe has admitted it can’t bring Flash to the iPhone just because it thinks that would be a neat idea.
  • A six-inch robotic spy plane modeled after a bat would gather data from sights, sounds and smells in urban combat zones and transmit information back to a soldier in real time.
  • Since March 13, customers of two large Internet providers, Cogent Communications Group Inc. (CCOI) (CCOI) and TeliaSonera AB are unable to contact each other through the Internet, unless they have backup connections from other companies.
  • Palestinian militants accidentally set off a large blast at a Hamas training base in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing two members of the violent Islamic group and wounding another, a Palestinian medical official said.
  • Heart surgery patients were more likely to die or suffer problems if they received transfusions of blood that is more than two weeks old rather than fresher blood, according to a new study that adds to the debate about the shelf life of blood.
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