The Utovsky Bolshevik Show

Airlines Set To Sue Treasury Over Passenger Tax

Seeded on Sat Dec 16, 2006 6:38 PM EST (This is London)

Britain's major airlines and travel operators are preparing to sue Gordon Brown over his controversial 'stealth tax' on air travel which threatens to create chaos at airport check-in desks from February 1.

britain, airline, tax, world-news, gordon-brown

Ipswich Fans Silent For Murder Victims

Seeded on Sat Dec 16, 2006 6:07 PM EST (the Mail online)

A bishop said prayers for the five murdered Ipswich prostitutes before Ipswich Town's game with Leeds United.

football, murder, world-news, serial-killer, ipswich, prostitutes

Subliminal Messages Drive the Mind to Distraction

Seeded on Sat Dec 16, 2006 5:33 PM EST (Sciam)

A new study shows that subconscious signals interfere with concentration, causing people to become easily distracted and falter on even the simplest of tasks.

science, concentration, subconscious

About Face: Soldiers Call For Iraq Withdrawal

Seeded on Sat Dec 16, 2006 5:10 PM EST (The Nation)

For the first time since Vietnam, an organized, robust movement of active-duty US military personnel has publicly surfaced to oppose a war in which they are serving. Those involved plan to petition Congress to withdraw American troops from Iraq.

iraq, politics, military, soldiers

Mishap In Dismantling Nuclear Warhead

Seeded on Sat Dec 16, 2006 4:43 PM EST (United Press International)

A watchdog group charges a nuclear warhead nearly exploded in Texas when it was being dismantled at the government's Pantex facility near Amarillo.

nuclear, government, us-news

Bringing Democracy To America With FOSS Voting

Seeded on Sat Dec 16, 2006 4:35 PM EST (Free Software Magazine)

I propose we start the OVPC (One Voting-machine Per Country) project.

technology, florida, politics, voting, free-software, ovpc

AJAX, Google, and YouTube are forcing venture capitalists to adapt

Seeded on Sat Dec 16, 2006 4:08 PM EST (PBS)

There was a time in Silicon Valley when starting a company meant building something that you wanted to have, then other people came asking to buy one and you were in business.

vc, google, technology, venture-capital, ajax, silicon-valley, venture-capitalists, youtube

Search Is on for 2 American Mountaineers Missing in a Little-Traveled Part of China

Seeded on Sat Dec 16, 2006 3:52 PM EST (The New York Times)

Search efforts are focusing on a remote region near Tibet where the two Americans apparently wanted to climb two isolated mountains.

china, nytimes, tibet, mountain-climbing, rescues, accidents-and-safety

Rome Judge Won't Remove Man's Respirator

Seeded on Sat Dec 16, 2006 3:34 PM EST (Breitbart)

An Italian judge rejected a paralyzed man's request to be removed from a respirator Saturday, ruling that the law does not permit the denial of lifesaving care and urging lawmakers to confront the issue.

italy, suicide, health, euthanasia

Secret Dossier 'Led To Spy Death'

Seeded on Sat Dec 16, 2006 2:07 PM EST (CNN)

Murdered Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was killed because of an eight-page dossier he had compiled on a powerful Russian figure for a British company, a business associate told the BBC on Saturday.

russia, spy, world-news, poison, kgb, litvinenko

Cyclists Angry Over Blocked Route

Seeded on Sat Dec 16, 2006 1:53 AM EST (Kenilworth Today)

Signs left across a Kenilworth cycle lane may cause an accident, cyclists fear.

cycling, warwick, kenilworth, university-of-warwick

England Lose The Plot

Seeded on Sat Dec 16, 2006 1:40 AM EST (BBC News)

England's failure to capitalise on their successful opening day in Perth has probably sealed the fate of the Ashes.

sports, ashes, cricket

Six Prime Suspects In Ipswich Killings

Seeded on Sat Dec 16, 2006 12:42 AM EST (Telegraph)

Police hunting the Ipswich serial killer have a half-dozen prime suspects, police sources said last night.

police, world-news, prostitute, ipswich, muder, serial-murder

Third Microsoft Word Code Execution Exploit Posted

Seeded on Sat Dec 16, 2006 12:36 AM EST (eWeek)

Exploit code for a third, unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Word has been posted on the Internet, adding to the software maker's struggles to keep up with gaping holes in its popular word processing program.

technology, microsoft, computer-security, exploit, microsoft-word

Nintendo To Offer Sturdier Straps For Wii

Seeded on Sat Dec 16, 2006 12:24 AM EST (The New York Times)

Nintendo said Friday that it was taking steps to keep energetic users of its new Wii video game console from breaking their televisions and ceiling fans.

entertainment, video-game, nintendo, wii

Black Man Yells N-Word In Hollywood, Gets Banned

Seeded on Sat Dec 16, 2006 12:20 AM EST (LAist)

Damon Wayans was banned from the Laugh Factory after he dropped the "N-Bomb" sixteen times on Sunday at the infamous comedy club, now known as the stage that killed the career of Michael "Kramer" Richards.

entertainment, african-american, damon-wayans, laugh-factory

Executions halted in 2 states after botched injection

Seeded on Sat Dec 16, 2006 12:15 AM EST (CNN)

Gov. Jeb Bush suspended executions in Florida after a medical examiner said Friday that prison officials botched the insertion of the needles when a convicted killer was put to death earlier this week.

death-penalty, us-news, criminal-justice

Man with no pulse considered a medical breakthrough

Seeded on Sat Dec 16, 2006 12:07 AM EST (The Globe and Mail)

A 65-year-old Quebec man who received a new long-term mechanical heart last month is being described as the only living Canadian without a pulse.

health, heart, heart-transplant, gerard-langevin, mechanical-heart

A Re-Freshers Fair

Seeded on Sat Dec 16, 2006 12:00 AM EST (University of Warwick Students' Union)

A truncated repeat of the Fresher's Fair, the Refreshers Fair, is to be held on the Wednesday of Week 1, Term 2 (10th of January).

entertainment, warwick, societies, students-union

5 days & £2 million in a sandpit could help create a more sustainable future

Seeded on Fri Dec 15, 2006 11:53 PM EST (University of Warwick)

The University of Warwick is to use a "sandpit" full of people to decide to how to spend £2,000,000.

education, warwick, innovative-manufacturing-research-centre

Mozilla commits to collaborating with Linux distros

Seeded on Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:45 AM EST (Linux.Com)

The Mozilla Foundation has agreed to make changes to its development and distribution processes in order to better accommodate the needs of Linux distributors, including considering patchsets from individual distributions.

technology, free-software, mozilla, linux-mozilla

The Dutch Are The World's Tallest People

Seeded on Sat Sep 16, 2006 12:20 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Most of us are taller than our parents, who probably are taller than their parents. But in the Netherlands, the generational progression has reached new heights.

odd-news, dutch, height