Links for 25-08-2007
Noise kills, Jupiter not a comet catcher after all, big hole in the universe (OMG!), IBM employees planning virtual strike …
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1 – Noise of modern life blamed for thousands of heart deaths
“Thousands of people in Britain and around the world are dying prematurely from heart disease triggered by long-term exposure to excessive noise, according to research by the World Health Organisation.”
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2 – Jupiter: Protection from Incoming Comets?
“Jupiter’s protective role for Earth has long been assumed, the theory being that the giant planet deflects asteroids and comets away from the inner Solar System.” Seems that theory may be bunk.
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3 – Huge Hole Found in the Universe
“It is not a black hole, which is a small sphere of densely packed matter. Rather, this one is mostly devoid of stars, gas and other normal matter, and it’s also strangely empty of the mysterious “dark matter” that permeates the cosmos.”
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4 – Electronic books with musty book smell launched
“By placing these stickers on their computers they can give their e-books the same musty book smell they know and love from used textbooks …” WTF?! This has to be a spoof.
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5 – IBM faces Second Life strike
“Details of what form the industrial action will take in this virtual world are scant at the moment, except that a Union spokesman has hinted that they are hoping Second Life avatars from around the world will participate.”
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6 – 20+ Free And Fresh Icon Sets
Does what it says on the tin.
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7 – The Scene Break
“… suddenly it became very easy to reject many of them, as they had a tell that let us know that we as readers were not in sure hands. Many many stories we’ve seen recently abuse the scene break.” Uncle Nick speaks wisdom.
