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May 05
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technology
OLED
'organic light-emitting diode' screens emit their own light of electroluminence. brighter, sharper and faster refresh than LCD screens.
3am LABS LogMelnPro
remote access software enables you to connect to your desktop from anywhere in the world for free as if you were sat in front of it. www.logmein.com
use VOB 'voice over broadband'
SKYPE: calls other skype users for free
SkypeOut: calls anyone anywhere for cheep ie: 1.2p/min,
with a single click on the computer. uses a telephone like handset instead of headset and microphone.
or Vonage: free calls to other vonage users or for £9.99 per month it's free to anyone anywhere. you don't even need a computer

www.skype.com   www.vonage.co.uk
headlines
Nuclear Waste
site dumping of britain's most dangerous radio-active waste is to be published - after 16 years of being kept quiet. ministers refused to publish it for fear of local protests and blighting property values.
the waste will remain deadly for millions of years.
Paul Gascoigne
has told how his failure to cope with the end of his career has turned him into a trembling, suicidal wreck.
Gazza is now on medication for clinical depression and getting psychiatric treatment in america.
gossip
Mariah Carey
a GMTV host was astonished when Mariah wanted to get rid of her chewing gum, somebody put their hand out to take it: and that appeared to be their only job!
Britney Spears
Britney is expected to take the star role in a £29 million movie about motor racing called Traiding Paint
what hasn't made the headlines
LOO
a disused public loo block is to reopen as a new police station for community beat officers in Derbishire.

CV in DVD
Jason, 19, got fired from a movie rental shop for slipping his CV in DVD cases hoping for a job.

Victory for Donkeys
donkeys on Blackpool beach have improved their working conditions. the council has ordered a maximum 48 hour week, 1 hour lunch break and fridays off.
'for far too long people have been taking them for a ride'.
National Health Service
thousand of patients wait in pain for up to two years for scans to diagnose their illness. like Sarah who died waiting for a scan that would have enabled doctors to treat her epilepsy.
from the UK about the SA
Tourists Targeted
a security task force has been launched in Table Mountain, now a 'no-go' zone:
a japanese tourist was raped in Platteklip Gorge.
a british doctor escaped a knife attack on Signal Hill, only to find his car stolen in the car park.
a german tourist's mountain bike was stolen, she was stabbed in the stomach and raped by a 'good samaritan' who claimed he knew the thieves hideout.
what I call news

Statistics
If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following.
There would be:
° 57 Asians
°21 Europeans
°14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
°8 would be Africans
°52 would be female
°48 would be male
°30 would be white
°70 would be non-white
°70 would be non-Christian
°30 would be Christian
°89 would be heterosexual
°11 would be homosexual
°6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States.
°80 would live in substandard housing
°70 would be unable to read
°50 would suffer from malnutrition
°1 would be near death
°1 would be near birth
°1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
°1 (yes, only1) would own computer.
And, therefore . . .
•If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of this world.
•If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
•If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.
•If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death, you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.
•If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
•If you can read this message you are more blessed than the over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all.


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