Winter F00l

说实话，我对这个变了味儿的奥运本来就没啥好感，太假，一切都是为了面子，“运动”本身倒成了其次，一切都是为了“啊，全世界快看啊，在中国***的英明领导下，中国人民终于奔小康了！”(热泪盈眶中。。。)至于这个"暴发富"到底有没有富起来还得打个问号。人都跟疯了一样，不是正常的态度，有点像得了非典型奥运疯牛病。

不过其间的一些闹剧倒还有些看头，一时间，生旦净末丑全都粉墨登场了，唱得好不热闹。一会是死屁儿博格，一会是台湾，一会儿是西藏，一会儿是剽窃，一会儿是GFW，现在又是嘿嘿。。。真是好戏连台。

PARIS (Published: March 18, 2008): Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner of France said Tuesday that the European Union should consider punishing China's crackdown in Tibet with a boycott of the opening ceremony of this summer's Olympic Games in Beijing...

并且Nine Inch Nails早在07年就公开承认自己也是BT的使用者。。。太有个性了。。。。

the band says in the torrent release notes:

"Now that we’re no longer constrained by a record label, we’ve decided to personally upload Ghosts I, the first of the four volumes, to various torrent sites, because we believe BitTorrent is a revolutionary digital distribution method, and we believe in finding ways to utilize new technologies instead of fighting them."

"I steal music too, I'm not gonna say I don't. But it's tough not to resent people for doing it when you're the guy making the music, that would like to reap a benefit from that."

关于NIN的新专辑：

Nine Inch Nails has released its new album, Ghosts I-IV, online and in a somewhat Radiohead-eque way. You'll recall Radiohead released its In Rainbows album with "you" naming the price. Nine Inch Nails doesn't go quite that far, but it's still the sort of experimentation more bands

好可爱啊，XD
Feb,26,2008,BERLIN (Reuters) - Police dogs in the German city of Duesseldorf are being fitted out with blue rubber shoes to protect their paws while walking the beat."The dogs aren't too keen yet, but with a few weeks' training they should be used to them," Andre Hartwich, a spokesman for police in the western city, said Monday.
Hartwich said shards of glass and sharp objects get stuck between the cobbles of Duesseldorf's old town and are dangerous for the canine squad.
"The shoes will protect their paws on patrol," he said.
Some 20 German shepherds are being taught to walk and work with their new footwear in time for a police fashion show in March.
The blue synthetic rubber shoes, modeled on a design made for sled-pulling Canadian huskies, will cost about 15 euros ($22.22) each, he said.
(Reporting by Sarah Roberts, editing by Dave Graham and Mary Gabriel)

Predicting the death of a patient, even an elderly, demented one, is an inexact science, even for a doctor with decades of medical experience.

But a cat in a Providence, R.I., nursing home, an animal shelter refugee named Oscar, seems to have a sixth sense about when residents in the home's advanced dementia unit are about to pass away. And his actions can sometimes
help alert the staff to notify family members in time for them to get to the nursing home to tell their loved ones goodbye.

Three animal behavior experts say the explanation about Oscar sensing a smell associated with dying is a plausible one.

"I suspect he is smelling some chemical released just before dying," says Margie Scherk, DVM, president of the American Association of Feline Practitioners, an organization devoted to improving the health and well-being of cats, and a veterinarian in Vancouver, British Columbia. "Cats can smell a lot of things we can't," she says. "And cats can certainly detect
illness."

"Cats have a superb sense of smell," adds Jill Goldman, PhD, a certified applied animal behaviorist in Laguna Beach, Calif. In Oscar's case, she says, keeping a dying resident company may also be learned behavior. "There has been ample opportunity for him to make an association between 'that' smell [and death]," she says.

While the sense of smell may be one explanation, there could be another, says Daniel Estep, PhD, a certified applied animal behaviorist in Littleton, Colo. "One of the things that happen with people who are dying is that they are not moving around much. Maybe the cat is picking up on the fact that the person on the bed is very quiet. It may not be smell or sounds, but just the lack of movement."

原文：CBS News

flickr管理者的回复

bbc的报道...

仅管投资这个网站对于小比来说无疑是出于商业考虑，但我还是要说God bless you,Bill!this world will be a better place without stupid discrimination towards race,religion or sex.

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Bill Gates, operating through his Cascade Investment arm, is among the investors participating in the $26.2 million funding of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender online community PlanetOut.

PlanetOut, which trades on the Nasdaq under the ticker LGBT and also operates the Web site Gay.com, went public at $9 per share in October 2004.

But since that time, the stock has been in free fall. It closed today at $1.59, up 15 percent.

Last year, PlanetOut reported revenue of $68.6 million --up 93 percent over 2005. But it also reported a net loss of $3.7 million last year.

Gates is not really known for investing in money-losing Internet companies, with some of the Microsoft co-founder's bets including companies such as Six Flags, Four Seasons Hotels, Pacific Ethanol and others.

所以不管再怎么不满自己的政府也比国家落在外人手中要强，再怎么样，至少自己的姐妹，女儿，妻子不会沦落到这种地步。我都没能看完，太压抑。。。

The New York Times 05-29-2007

MARABA, Syria — Back home in Iraq, Umm Hiba’s daughter was a devout schoolgirl, modest in her dress and serious about her studies. Hiba, who is now 16, wore the hijab, or Islamic head scarf, and rose early each day to say the dawn prayer before classes.
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