“The Australian magazineSmarthouse quotes the Marketing Manager of Acer Australia as saying 'The decision to delay Vista into the consumer market will have an impact on hardware sales particularly in the Media Centre market. We have been told that Microsoft has bought in programmers from the Xbox team to work on the problems. We have also been told that up to 60 per cent of the code will have some form of re writing or changes made.' Microsoft has since vehemently denied the story.”

“Rockbox for the iriver iHP100 series, H100 series, and H300 series features a very wide range of codec support and sound configuration! Supported formats include MP3, OGG, FLAC, AAC, ALAC, AC3 and WavPack. Rockbox for these irivers also features gapless playback and crossfading! A five-band parametric equalizer allows fine-tuning output, ReplayGain support allows you to normalize your volume levels, and a large amount of plugins (games - many in full color on the H300 series - applications, and "demos" allow you to have some fun when you're bored, or put one of our multiple applications to use: open files with the text viewer, time yourself with the stopwatch, view some JPEG photos, or turn your iriver into a desktop clock with the clock plugin. On-The-Go playlist creation and adjustment, full file bookmarking support, Recording and FM Recording with a variety of settings and features are more key points of Rockbox for the iriver iHP-1x0, H1x0 and H3x0 series.”

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“The complaint accuses Google, as the dominant provider of Web searches, of violating KinderStart's constitutional right to free speech by blocking search engine results showing Web site content and other communications.”

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“Wallace was worth more because of his moving parts, facial expressions and clothes, meaning it takes longer to make a new one. The pie-making machine from Chicken Run was so complicated it was valued at £100,000. A total of more than £500,000 was received for all the damage.”

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“The schools standards minister, Jacqui Smith, said in a parliamentary answer that pupils were encouraged to explore different views, theories and beliefs in many different subjects, including science.

"Creationism is one of many differing beliefs which pupils might discuss and consider, perhaps when they learn about another aspect of science: 'ways in which scientific work may be affected by the contexts in which it takes place... and how these contexts may affect whether or not ideas are accepted'," she said.”

“It's not clear from the decay, but you think it may have once been a whisk.”

“Tony Blair's government was defeated by the House of Lords on Monday over the controversial issue of national identity cards.

The peers voted by a majority of 61 to overturn the government's plan and make the cards voluntary. The bill will now return to the House of Commons for further debate.”

“The Dereth Museum was founded in Morninthaw 25, 67 P.Y. by Damien Sarin, the original author of The Aerlinthe Report. Its goal is to promote understanding through the arts, natural history and science. Since its inception, the Dereth Museum has been guided by three important principles: the collections are to be held in perpetuity in their entirety; they are a community enterprise available to all, down to the newest inhabitants of Dereth; they are cared for by full-time specialists.”

“The bunnies humbly present their 30-second rendition of Brokeback Mountain. Graciously hosted by Starz!”

“The long-awaited merger between NTL and Telewest, Britain's two largest cable operators, was completed on Friday.”