Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Headlines below the fold

Arms dealer upset his guns were used for killing...
"I thought I was on the side of the good guys"
Guess he never heard of "extrajudicial killings"...


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Anti HIV gel, like condoms doesn't work in Africa to lower HIV rates...
CWN questions if it was ethical to have a placebo used in the study...since earlier studies hinted the gel cut the HIV rate down by 30percent.


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Audi Executive says electric cars are a sham, and diesel engines are the way to go.
In the States, the Audi A3 TDI is one of two clean diesels sold by the company. The A3 TDI won green car of the year honors at the 2009 LA Auto Show.


Well, that is true here, at least...and if worse comes to worse, biodiesel could be made locally.
and I worry about the ecological implications of throwing away all those batteries...

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MP3 players will soon have legal limits to how loud they can be played.
Actually, my MP3 players already only can go to 100 db...so Lolo can't use them to listen to music.


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Simbang Gabi starts today...
I persuaded Lolo that getting up every day at 3 am was too much, but our church has a 5 pm mass for those who want to make the novena but can't get up early.

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