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In the new Google Search Interface each comment has an up or down vote feature as well, and Google is using thumbs up and down icons that are exactly the same as those on Digg. The comments show the username of the person leaving it, and clicking on it shows their Google account profile.

Given all the news coverage about the rise of the Chinese economy, you could be forgiven for thinking that the world’s most populous country is hogging all the world’s resources, while the developed nations are fighting for scraps. But, at least with transport fuel, you’d be wrong. California alone uses more gasoline than any country in the world.

The 300-strong group use one term to quantify things between one and four and another for five or above, researchers found. ‘It is often assumed counting is an inn­ate part of human cognition,’ said Prof Edward Gibson, of US university MIT.

A half-dozen of the dumbest doomsday devices the studios have ever expected us to accept without blinking, simply because a lifelong love of nerd culture has left us with crippling self-esteem issues that turn us into mindless drones anytime we hear the words “Daily Planet” or “Cerebro” from the mouths of glamorous movie stars and/or Sam Raimi.

When watching a movie even without knowing anything about it, I can usually tell right away if the screenplay was written by a woman. Chick flicks pretty easy to spot. They are pretty much the same story over and over again. Here’s how it plays out. Let’s call the two characters ManX and WomanY.

In all the years of horror movies, there have been many great characters invented. It had to happen sooner or later.

I’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5.

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