New iPod external battery pack - Engadget - www.engadget.com A new external battery pack out for the iPod that runs on AA batteries and will even charge up your iPod while it’s connected.

Motorola makes an honest handset out of the MPx - Engadget - www.engadget.com The specs are exactly as expected: a 2.8-inch LCD touchscreen, a 1.2 megapixel digital camera, built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, and quad-band GSM, but there’s no official word on when it’ll be out. A Motorola rep we spoke to told us off the record that they were aiming for September, but that it could be a little later than that.

Wired News: Speedy, Tiny and Troublesome Popular in European racing circles for years, pocket bikes have recently exploded on the scene in California. From Wal-Mart and Kragen Auto Parts stores to eBay and bulletin board mecca craigslist, gas-powered and electric versions of the tiny bikes are being bought, sold and ridden all over the San Francisco Bay Area. Though the top pocket bikes can cost up to about $3,000 and are made by Italian companies like Polini and Pasini, low-end Chinese bikes start at under $200 -- affordable for many teens, like Walstra, who want a cheap feel of what it's like to ride a motorcycle.

BBC NEWS | Europe | EU criticises Vatican's condom 'bigotry' He condemned the Vatican's "lack of love for human beings" and "unwillingness to take their situation seriously".
Mr Nielsen said it forced people into "a terrible choice of abstinence or lose the blessing of the Church".

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BBC NEWS | Europe | Pigeons find hidden Spain fresco The fresco angels are seen again after more than 300 years


A Renaissance fresco hidden for 300 years has been rediscovered in Spain - thanks to nesting pigeons.

Art restorers working in Valencia's cathedral spotted the birds flying through a hole in what turned out to be a false ceiling and were intrigued.

They stuck a digital camera in the gap and shot pictures that showed a well-preserved 15th century Italian fresco.

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Hotmail counters Google e-mail Hotmail is boosting the amount of storage space for users of both its free and paid e-mail service.

From July the basic Hotmail allowance will be boosted to 250MB and paying customers will get two gigabytes.

The move is widely seen as a response to Google's GMail service which gives all users a gigabyte of storage to keep all their messages.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Net pioneer predicts web future

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Vietnam man hopes for hair record: "A Vietnamese man who has not had a hair cut in 31 years hopes to get into the Guinness Book of World Records for having the longest hair in the world."

Float Bed: "Suspended by four stainless steel cords, the Float bed by German mathematician Max Longin tries not to 'inhibit or obstruct the movements of lying or loving'"

BBC NEWS | Americas | Castro asked US president for $10

Wired News: Virtual City of Smut Now Online Taking a page from multiplayer gaming, a porn site has created an interactive virtual world based on Amsterdam's famed red light district. Subscribers can check out local clubs or trade pick up lines with fellow members.

The Peddie School - Alumni News Perez Picked by Tampa Bay in Draft

Fernando Perez ’01, former standout soccer and baseball player at Peddie, was selected by Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the seventh round of the Major League Baseball draft, the 195th pick overall. He becomes the highest-ever draft pick in Columbia history.

NPR : Dog Prodigy Gives New Meaning to Language If you think your dog understands you, scientists say you may be right. New research shows that some dogs have a remarkable capacity to comprehend human speech.

American Constitution Society Download the U.S. Constitution to Your iPod.

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BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Reagan: Simplicity was his strength Communism would have collapsed even without Ronald Reagan but he will be remembered because he put into words what very few dared to say - that something was rotten in the system.

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Reagonomics or 'voodoo economics'?

HOW TO Tuesday: Make digital movies the easy way - Engadget - www.engadget.com According to some estimates there are about 60 million (if not more) of you out there with Digital Video Camcorders, just about all DV cameras have Firewire (IEEE 1394) output/input and there are hundreds of millions of DV tapes being shipped per year. The bad news is, we know exactly what happens — you record a lot of stuff to DV tape and never do anything with it. It’s a bit of a hassle to sit and edit for hours when all you want is a 2 minute clip from that birthday party or event. And the truth is, most of the stuff we all shoot is crap since we just aim and record everything. So in this week’s HOW TO Tuesday we show you how to make use of that footage to quickly and easily make movies and automatically add a soundtrack.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Eco glass cleans itself with Sun A revolutionary kind of glass that needs little cleaning could mean soap and chamois are binned for good.
The Pilkington Activ glass has a special nano-scale - extremely thin - coating of microcrystalline titanium oxide which reacts to daylight.
This reaction breaks down filth on the glass, with no need for detergent. When water hits it, a hydrophilic effect is created, so water and dirt slides off.

AirPort Express with AirTunes Apple just unveiled the Airport Express with AirTunes, a plug-mounted mini version of their popular Airport Extreme 802.11g base station that ups the digital hub ante with the simple addition of an eighth-inch stereo out that turns the Airport Express into a streaming music outlet that interfaces seamlessly with iTunes.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Venus set to dive in front of Sun: "The planet Venus is the focus of major interest on Tuesday as it passes across the face of the Sun as seen from Earth."

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Moore's 9/11 trailer goes online "I want to make sure if I do nothing else for the rest of this year that those who died in Iraq have not died in vain."

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BBC NEWS | Health | Genes may to blame for infidelity: "Some people may be genetically programmed to be unfaithful to their partner, a scientist has claimed."

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Fossils hint at early complexity The animals are less than a fifth of a millimetre long and have a two-sided body plan previously thought to have existed much later in Earth's history.

POE News: Rumsfeld Fighting Technique You may have defeated my Southern Hook Palm technique, but can you defeat the 1000 Fighting Styles of Rumsfeld?

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BBC NEWS | In Depth | Shooting D-Day through a lens: "As a man who has spent a lifetime - and then some - as a press photographer, American Marty Lederhandler is in no doubt as to which event has had the most profound effect on his long and colourful life."

Wired 12.06: How Can I Sex Up This Blog Business? Hot gossip! Cool gadgets! Gawker & Gizmodo, Fleshbot & Wonkette! Inside Nick Denton's plan to become the nanopublishing media mogul.

Build your own gaming PC for under a $1,000 - Engadget - www.engadget.com

Pentax quitting the film camera business? - Engadget - www.engadget.com Imaging Resource reports on some news items which appeared on the website of Pentax’s Russian distributor that indicate that Pentax is quitting the film camera business (well, apart from medium format cameras) to focus entirely on digital cameras. It could be that the move is limited only to the Russian market, which is why it hasn’t been announced anywhere else, but c’mon, with sales of regular film cameras flat or falling, you know it’s only a matter of time until all of the big five (which besides Pentax also includes Canon, Konica Minolta, Nikon, and Olympus) kill their consumer film camera lines in favor of digital, leaving film the domain of the professional.

Hacking Canon’s Digital Rebel to make it into an EOS 10D Apart from few small differences in the software and body, the Digital Rebel, Canon’s entry-level digital SLR, and the EOS 10D, their professional digital SLR, are basically the same camera. It’s just that the EOS 10D costs five hundred bucks more. So are hacking the firmware on their Digital Rebels so that they can get access to all of the special features that are disabled on the camera that aren’t on the EOS 10D. Which has got to annoy Canon.

iPod = Good, Auto-Sync = Bad. - The Unofficial Apple Weblog - apple.weblogsinc.com Bill Palmer makes the best case against auto-sync yet and explains why he, and everyone else should turn the feature off the moment they buy an iPod.

Gmail to support mobile devices? Looking good! - Engadget - www.engadget.com

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