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"Mutated fish" and green group rejection cranks up oil sands pressure
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:13:27 CEST
Danny Bradbury, BusinessGreen, Wednesday 20 August 2008 at 09:07:00 As a "mutated fish" is reportedly found at a site downstream of one of Canada's controversial oil sands development, leading green groups walk away from project approval initiative The Canadian Government's efforts to soothe concern over oil sands developments in the north of the country took a hit yesterday when three environment... Read more
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EMI Loses Lawsuit To Prevent John Lennon's Imagine From Appearing In Expelled
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:44:23 CEST
Larry Lessig points us to news of another good court decision, tossing out EMI's attempt to stop Ben Stein's movie Expelled from using John Lennon's song Imagine. If this sounds somewhat familiar, it's because Yoko Ono had filed a similar lawsuit -- which she lost. In both cases, the courts have recognized that Stein's use of the song is pretty clearly fair use. As the link above points out, th... Read more
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Silent PSUs: Fortron Versus Silverstone
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:40:26 CEST
Home theater PCs should be as quiet as possible. Since most of the noise is caused by the fans on the CPU and power supply, we tested two passive power supplies that use no fans.... Read more
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Gmail Superstars and Quick Links Make a Killer To-Do List
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:38:10 CEST
"Now reader Alex McRoberts details how he uses the two excellent features to turn his Gmail account into a killer to-do list manager. Here's how he did it..."... Read more
