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30 Seconds coming soon to Node.L

keep them peeled as EGA is bringing 30 Seconds to Node.L

It is always amazing what kind of compression ratios you are able to obtain these days, so it is with great surprise to find that the humble iPod music player now plays videos but also doubles as your... MP3 player.

But hot on the heals of this device is the small but friendly IPod wikipedia, it has all the punch, but none of the size, so you can now access wikipedia on the move.

Encyclopodia is a free software project that brings you the Wikipedia, which is one of the largest encyclopedias on the world, on the Apple iPod MP3-Player. It has been successfully tested on a third-generation iPod and on an iPod mini, but it should also work on other iPod generations. Best of all it's free.

Bolivia's foreign minister says coca leaves, the raw material for cocaine, are so nutritious they should be included on school breakfast menus.

"Coca has more calcium than milk. It should be part of the school breakfast," Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca was quoted as saying in Friday's edition of La Razon.

The new leftist government of Evo Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous president, has vowed to promote the legal uses of coca, the plant used to make cocaine, which is revered in Andean culture and is commonly chewed or made into tea.

It's always amazing how we always imitate nature.

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I found these lights which I think are realy cool

Firefly Lights that have been developed to accurately recreate the life-like flashing, flickering, and fading of real fireflies in your garden, all year long. So special and realistic are these patent pending firefly lights that they're used by Universities for conduct their firefly research. In addition, Firefly Magicâ„¢ Firefly Lights are used in theme parks, natural science museums, hotels, restaurants, on stage, and in movies to accurately replicate the look and feel of real fireflies.

http://www.fireflymagic.com

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Hmm today was intresting I sent an email to the Sth London Press, to see If I could get an article published... Shhhhh lets wait and see what the response is.

Having food allergy, or being the parent of a food allergic child is a bit like being an anesthesiologist or airplane pilot: 99% calm punctuated by 1% sheer terror. Asthma, in contrast, is much more up and down, with less explosive onset of symptoms.

Its really kool for gaming. BlueGene/L's top speed of 280.6 teraflops (1 teraflop is one trillion calculations in 1 second). This is more than three times faster than its closest rival, another IBM-built machine called Watson Blue Gene.

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newscientist