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Archive for November, 2007

24 Nov

Facebook Has Seen My Face For The Last Time! ~ Windows Fanatics

Facebook Has Seen My Face For The Last Time!
by Bill Webb on November 22, 2007 at 12:45 pm · CommentsCategorized by Bill’s Web / More Information
I just quit Facebook.
Here’s why. They have just activated a feature called “Beacon,” that allows participating merchants to automatically tell members’ friends what they have bought, rented, or auctioned. Facebook [...]

24 Nov

Give One Get One (On Laptop Per Child)

One learning child. One connected child. One laptop at a time.
Since November 12th, OLPC has been offering a limited-time Give One Get One program in the United States and Canada. During Give One Get One, you can donate the revolutionary XO laptop to a child in a developing nation, and also receive one for the [...]

21 Nov

Christian Parents Are Not Comfortable With Media But Buy Them for Their Kids Anyway

Christian Parents Are Not Comfortable With Media But Buy Them for Their Kids Anyway

 
 
 
 
 
Barna Update: November 19, 2007
With the Christmas gift-buying season about to open with a vengeance, one of the most popular types of presents will be media-related gifts: CDs, DVDs, video games, and the like. A new Barna Group study shows that most [...]

21 Nov

Stem cell breakthrough defuses debate - Yahoo! News

By MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer 1 hour, 33 minutes ago
NEW YORK - Scientists have created the equivalent of embryonic stem cells from ordinary skin cells, a breakthrough that could someday produce new treatments for disease without the explosive moral questions of embyro cloning.
Research teams in the United States and Japan showed that a [...]