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In case you had not heard about this planned reality show in the Netherlands feauturing a terminally ill woman selecting a recipient for her kidneys. It was a hoax all along, the producers now say: "In staging this programme our goal has been to prompt a debate about this crisis [organ donations] in the Netherlands." [...]
Check out the Discovery Channel blog for the “Everest : Beyond the Limit” program. On the sidebar is a “latest headlines” widget built on their RSS feed, provided by Newsgator. The widget on the Everest blog is itself simply an instantiation of the widget that Newsgator is making available for embedding in your blog, the [...]
Over at TCS is this lengthy review of an interesting new book on the Great Depression of the 1930′s. If you are into history, as am I, then this will be a worthy read but I would encourage you to read this book with the context of current affairs in mind. The country, he [Roosevelt] [...]
With Google’s MyMaps mashup tool we saw that Google wasn’t going to be content to just focus on APIs for developers. While most of the commentary focused on the location-based services aspect of this, there was something else telling about the tool, namely that Google sees integration of services at the end point to be [...]