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After several beta releases and a planned bid for the Guinness Book of World Records, Firefox 3.0 has arrived. As of 1pm EDT Tuesday, users can download the latest version of the open-source browser, which includes an improved book marking system and drop-down search returns in the URL bar, among other features. Aesthetically, the browser is not drastically different from its predecessor. The forward and back buttons have been altered, while the browser buttons and window frames have also been redesigned to conform to the look of a user’s operating system, but not much else has changed. On the features front, the drop-down URL bar—dubbed the Awesome Bar—offers suggestions of possible Web sites as you type your search query.
Version three offers a three-tier bookmarking system: bookmark stars allow for one-click favorites; bookmark tags allow you to add details to your favorites; and bookmark folders are saved searches that update when you add new items matching that search to your bookmarks, according to Mozilla. Download manager has also been revamped and now includes the ability to pause and resume downloads, search through downloaded files, obtain more detailed file information, and revisit the original download page. Firefox 3.0 also boasts improved color profiles, font and text rendering, and zooming capabilities, as well as malware and phishing protection, Mozilla said. Version 3.0 is three years in the making. Mozilla released the first beta version of Firefox 3.0 in November 2007, with version two debuting a month later. Beta 3.0 version 3 arrived in February with major code rewrites of the page layout, graphics, and font engines and over 350 plugged memory leaks. Most recently, Mozilla on June 5 unveiled the second release candidate for Firefox 3 with several localization updates. That came a little over two weeks after RC1 was made available. When the download goes live on Tuesday, the clock will start ticking on Mozilla’s bid to break a Guinness world record for most downloads in a single day. Mozilla said last week on its blog that it has already received at least one million pledges from users who say they will download Firefox 3 on release day. Update: the final version of Firefox 3 is out now for more than 20 minutes, but it’s basically impossible to get it at the moment - all download servers are overloaded with thousands of requests and the official website for Download day times out for few hours already. We will bring you first mirrors in comments when they’re available, feel free to check 10 Reasons why you should update in the meantime. Source: Thatsweird.net
In 1783 an Icelandic eruption threw up enough dust to temporarily block out the sun over Europe.
About 20 to 30 volcanoes erupt each year, mostly under the sea.
A huge underground river runs underneath the Nile, with six times more water than the river above.
Lake Bosumtwi in Ghana formed in a hollow made by a meteorite.
Beaver Lake, in Yellowstone Park, USA, was artificially created by beaver damming.
Off the coast of Florida there is an underwater hotel. Guests have to dive to the entrance.
Venice in Italy is built on 118 sea islets joined by 400 bridges. It is gradually sinking into the water.
The Ancient Egyptians worshipped a sky goddess called Nut.
The world's windiest place is Commonwealth Bay, Antartica.
In 1934, a gust of wind reached 371 km/h (230 mph) on Mount Washington in New Hampshire, USA.
American Roy Sullivan has been struck by lighting a record seven times.
The desert baobab tree can store up to 1000 litres (264 gallons) of water in its trunk.
The
oldest living tree is a California bristlecone pine name 'Methuselah'.
It is about 4600 years old. The largest tree in the world is a giant
sequoia growing in California. It is 84 meters (276 feet) tall and measures 29
meters (95 feet) round the trunk. The fastest growing tree is the eucalyptus. It
can grow 10 meters a year.
The Antartic notothenia fish has a protein in its blood that acts like antifreeze and stops the fish freezing in icy sea.
The USA uses 29% of the world's petrol and 33% of the world's electricity.
The
industrial complex of Cubatao in Brazil is known as the Valley of Death
because its pollution has destroyed the trees and rivers nearby.
Tibet is the highest country in the world. Its average height above sea level is 4500 meters (14,764 feet).
Some of the oldest mountains in the world are the Highlands in Scotland. They are estimated to be about 400 million years old.
Fresh water from the River Amazon can be found up to 180 km (112 miles) out to sea.
The
White Sea, in Russia, has the lowest temperature, only -2 degrees
centigrade (28 degrees fahrenheit). The Persian Gulf is the warmest sea. In the summer its
temperature reaches 35.6 degrees centigrade (96 degrees fahrenheit) .
There is
no land at all at the North Pole, only ice on top of sea. The Arctic
Ocean has about 12 million sq km of floating ice and has the coldest
winter temperature of -34 degrees centigrade.
The Antarctic ice sheet is 3-4 km thick, covers 13 million sq km and has temperatures as low as -70 degrees centigrade.
Over 4 million cars in Brazil are now running on gasohol instead of petrol. Gasohol is a fuel made from sugar cane.
I recently went to the emergency room at a local private hospital in my area. I had been in a mountain biking accident, where I went end over end, and took a mean one to my face. Today a relative of mine took the initiative to contact the hospital regarding the cost of my visit. They were told that my ct scan (of my head) alone would cost over $12,000 (I have not received the bill yet). As Im not insured I knew I would have to pay more than those with insurance. If there are any sifters out there with any info for me regarding the cost of a ct scan or any other bits of info that could help me, I would of course appreciate it. Im just getting started searching for info, but I thought sift members know just about everything. So, I stopped here first.
Flouride is good for you. Jesus said, "It is not what goes in a man's mouth that makes him unclean, but that which comes out." It is written in the Proverbs of King Solomon, "He who seek good finds goodwill, but evil comes to him who searches for it." I seek good in the flouride, personally. I choose to believe the Bible above, not instead of, Science.
I believe that science would find more good in the world if science sought more good in the world. "As a man thinketh, so is he." Jesus said. "Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and the door shall be opened unto you." If science, instead of asking, "Is there something wromg in the flouride?" would ask different questions,such as "What are some good and viable applications of flouride that we have yet to think of?" perhaps there would be a new answer com out of flouride instead of a new problem. It is doubt that kills. Faith gives life. I have faith in flouride just because of the words of Jesus.His words are Life. He is Messiah. God bless the EPA with new and positive answers instead of potential disasters and dangers, and that in the Name of Jesus Christ. True enough, it may be harder to go that route, but the high road usually is. It is written, "The foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength." Amen. Hallelujah. The LORD is Good. In Him is no evil. Amen and amen. Jesus is Lord. God bless you all. 
“We’re the first in the world to take adult human cells and then document that in fact we were able to clone embryos from them,” lead researcher Dr Samuel Wood told the BBC. He said the embryos were destroyed in the process of verifying they were clones, but they were now working on creating stem cell lines. Dr Lyle Armstrong of Newcastle University is one of a handful of other researchers who have made cloned human embryos using a technique known as nuclear transfer pioneered in Dolly the sheep. Unlike the US team, the Newcastle group used DNA from embryonic rather than mature tissue. Dr Armstrong said the US study showed that the objective of using cells from an adult person to make individual stem cells might one day be possible. Are you ready for Me, Myself v2.0? Source: BBC
PRAGUE- A 21-year-old man who demonstrated in support of imprisoned
German Holocaust denier Ernst Zuendel on October 28, a Czech national
holiday, will be tried in court for the denial of Holocaust, state
attorney Zdenka Galkova said. A British teenager who is accused of possessing material for terrorist purposes has appeared in court.The 17-year-old, who was arrested in the Dewsbury area of West Yorkshire on Monday, was given bail after a hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court.It is alleged he had a copy of the "Anarchists' Cookbook", containing instructions on how to make home-made explosives.His next court hearing has been set for 25 October.The teenager faces two charges under the Terrorism Act 2000.The first charge relates to the possession of material for terrorist purposes in October last year.The second relates to the collection or possession of information useful in the preparation of an act of terrorism. It’s now officially a mindcrime in the United States to violate Islamic law. At Pace University, a man has been arrested and will face “hate crime” charges for throwing a Koran into a toilet, after the university caved in to demands from Muslim students 11 people in Philadelphia were arrested simply for holding signs and reading passages out of the Bible during a gay pride festival downtown.Though by all indications their protests were conducted peaceably, and with proper restraint, these men and women were forcibly detained, unceremoniously dragged down to the police station, and eventually charged with a total of three separate felonies and five misdemeanorsWhat, exactly, was the nature of their crimes? Well, according to the police, their charges included "possession of instruments of crime" (a bullhorn), "ethnic" intimidation (reciting a Biblical passage), and "inciting a riot" (again, reading verses from the Bible). All told, the protesters faced more than $90,000 in fines and court costs, and the very real prospect of facing as many as 47 years in prison.
Blu-ray discs outsold HD DVD by nearly two-to-one in the United States last year, but HD DVD had secured major allies in August when Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc said they would go exclusively with HD DVD. But Paramount is understood to have a clause in its contract with the HD DVD camp that would allow it to change sides if Warner Bros backed Blu-ray, the Financial Times said, citing people familiar with the situation. However, Paramount spokeswoman denied this news as speculative with “Paramount’s current plan is to continue to support the HD DVD format”. Source: Forbes, FT, BloombergNew BitTorrent sites are launched every day, but only a few stand out or have something new to offer. YouTorrent is such a new site; feature-wise it’s just a meta-search engine, but the design and user interface make it one of the best I’ve seen.
BURNING MAN: BEYOND BLACK ROCK goes behind the scenes of a social
revolution to explore the philosophy that fuels it, the social contract that drives it, and the transcendent experience that makes it a worldwide cultural force. Granted unprecedented access to the inner workings of the Burning Man organization, the filmmakers spent 18 months with the founders, organizers, artists and participants to document the full complexity and diversity of the Burning Man community. But, true to its title, the film goes beyond the city they raise in the desert - revealing the Burning Man's plans to bring its unique culture to the rest of the world. BEYOND BLACK ROCK tells, for the first time ever, the real story of Burning Man - from the inside out. Courtroom TestimonyThese are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters who had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place.
ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active?
ATTORNEY: What is your date of birth?
ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?
ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that morning?
ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his
sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning?
ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken?
ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?
ATTORNEY: She had three children, right?
ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated?
ATTORNEY: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition
notice which I sent to your attorney?
ATTORNEY: Doctor, how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead
people?
ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to?
ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?
ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse? 
Each state and D.C. has been colored to represent its most recent straw poll winner. These polls, however, may not be representative of the entire state since many are smaller, local straw polls, and some are several months old. 1. Ron Paul (17) 2. Mitt Romney (9) 3. Fred Thompson (7) 4. Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee (2) 6. Duncan Hunter, John McCain (1) 8. Alan Keyes, Tom Tancredo (0)
STRAW POLLS head-to-head Records of wins, losses, and ties grouped by the Condorcet method. 1. Paul beats Giuliani 42-27, Huckabee 43-20-5, Hunter 40-13-3, Keyes 5-0, McCain 41-21-4, Tancredo 39-11-2, Thompson 33-30-1 (7 wins) 1. Romney beats Giuliani 52-35-3, Huckabee 65-13-5, Hunter 58-6-2, Keyes 5-1, McCain 72-13-2, Paul 36-32-1, Tancredo 56-2-2 (7 wins) 1. Thompson beats Giuliani 48-26-3, Huckabee 52-19, Hunter 46-13-1, Keyes 4-1, McCain 57-18, Romney 41-33-2, Tancredo 45-5-2 (7 wins) 4. Giuliani beats Huckabee 59-21-2, Hunter 49-15-2, Keyes 5-1, McCain 66-20-1, Tancredo 50-8-2 (5 wins) 5. Huckabee beats Hunter 46-17-1, Keyes 4-1-1, McCain 41-36-3, Tancredo 44-9-6 (4 wins) 6. McCain beats Hunter 34-25-5, Keyes 3-2-1, Tancredo 45-11-3 (3 wins) 7. Hunter beats Keyes 3-1, Tancredo 33-11-10 (2 wins) 8. Tancredo beats Keyes 3-2 (1 win) 9. Keyes beats none (0 wins)
Total winsTotal number of first-place finishes. 1. Paul (30) 2. Thompson (24) 3. Romney (23) 4. Giuliani, McCain (6) 6. Huckabee (3) 7. Hunter (2) 8. Tancredo (1) 9. Keyes (0)
Olympic ratingsTop 3 finishes with 3 points for win, 2 for place, 1 for show. 1. Romney 23-19-18 (125) 2. Thompson 24-18-9 (117) 3. Paul 30-9-6 (114) 4. Giuliani 6-27-21 (93) 5. McCain 6-8-8 (42) 6. Huckabee 3-8-9 (34) 7. Hunter 2-2-6 (16) 8. Tancredo 1-0-2 (5) 9. Keyes 0-0-1 (1)
NASCAR ratings100 for win, 98 for place, 96 for show, etc., 0 if absent. This rating gives a high weight to total poll presences. Among 4 polls with no absences: Paul 398, Huckabee 378 (tie), Thompson 378 (tie), Romney 368, Giuliani 362, Hunter 354, Tancredo 348, Keyes 346, McCain 342. Among 45 polls with up to 1 absent: Romney 4324, Thompson 4288, Paul 4242, Giuliani 4234, Huckabee 4130, McCain 4022, Hunter 3990, Tancredo 3872, Keyes 346. Among 62 polls with up to 2 absent: Romney 5962, Giuliani 5866, Huckabee 5676, Thompson 5622, McCain 5484, Paul 5450, Hunter 5254, Tancredo 4768, Keyes 424.
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US scientists say they have produced embryos that are clones of
two men, in an attempt to produce patient-specific stem cells.
Researchers removed DNA from donated human eggs, and replaced it with
DNA from the skin cells of two volunteers. They produced embryos with
genetic material that matched the men’s, but did not go on to
extract stem cells. The team at Stemagen Corporation in La Jolla,
California, says the work could be an important step to developing
embryonic stem cells for patients. They produced five embryos called
blastocysts from 25 donated eggs. DNA fingerprinting proved that at
least one of these was a clone.
Paramount
studios is poised to drop its support of the high-definition DVD (HD
DVD) format after Warner Bros studio said it would back the competing
Blu-ray format, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.The loss of
support from Paramount, which is owned by Viacom Inc, would likely deal
the final blow to the HD DVD format backed by Toshiba Corp and put an
end to the format war, the newspaper said on its Web site. Time Warner
Inc’s Warner Bros studio on Friday said it would exclusively
release high-definition DVDs in Sony Corp’s Blu-ray format,
marking a major setback to the HD DVD camp.
MTV
Networks plans to make every clip from every episode of hit animated
comedy “South Park” available for free online next year as part of a
strategy to reach consumers everywhere. The decision from the biggest
division of media conglomerate Viacom Inc follows on the heels of the
“The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” whose popularity online has helped
boost television viewership. MTV Networks’s Comedy Central network
began offering in October some 13,000 “Daily Show” videos dating back
to 1999. Offering versions of TV shows online has not hurt television
ratings, and may have actually helped. “One does not diminish the other
by any stretch of the imagination. That is kind of our hat trick,” MTV
Networks Chairman and Chief Executive Judy McGrath said at the Reuters
Media Summit in New York on Wednesday.
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