del.icio.us links for December 05, 2007

Archive of del.icio.us links

1. Design students shoehorn 85cc engine into mental mountainbike – TheBikerGene.Com

   A couple of Industrial Design students from Colorado have come up with this little beastie, which combines the feisty Kwaka KX85 engine with the geometry, suspension and light weight of a mountainbike. It’s just under 57 kilos.

2. Peter Nalitch ‘Gitar’ video – Russia’s answer to Borat – SiberianLight.Net

   Filmed by a friend on a handheld camera, Gitar sat relatively un-noticed on Youtube until it spotted by Russia’s bloggers who couldn’t resist the catchy tune, cheesy lyrics and naked cartoon women scrawled across the screen.

3. LiveJournal sold to Russian company for million – SiberianLight.Net

   LiveJournal, the most popular blog platform in Russia has sold to a Russian company for $30 million. Although LiveJournal is a global brand, almost 30% of its users are based in Russia, which made it a natural choice for SUP.

4. Driver’s ed teacher sues ‘Borat’ producers, says they tricked him – Jerusalem Post – JPost.Com

   The lawsuit was brought by lawyers for Michael Psenicska, a Baltimore high school mathematics teacher who has owned a driving school in Perry Hall, Maryland. The suit, filed in US District Court in Manhattan, seeks $100,000.

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1. ‘Missing man’ arrested – UK man missing for 5 years arrested – News24.Com

   His wife Anne said she believed her husband was dead and claimed on his life insurance policy in good faith. A photo of the Darwins on the ‘Move to Panama’ website was taken when they rented an apartment through the firm.

2. Shower vehicles added to Chinese army’s arsenal – Mail & Guardian – mg.co.za

   The camouflaged vehicle can be set up in five minutes and allows 20 men to shower simultaneously within a narrow 10-square-metre space, China’s men and women in uniform can now get a hot shower once a week while out in the field.

3. Britain calls for more commitment to Darfur – Reuters.Com

   Britain criticized a lack of action by the international community on Darfur and said unless political will was strong, peace prospects were slim in the western Sudanese region. Hundreds of thousands of people have so far been killed.

4. ‘India has capability to send spacecraft to Mars’ – ExpressIndia.Com

   “India has the capability to send a spacecraft to Mars at an approximate cost of Rs 500 crore (US$113 million appox – March 2007 rates), the Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday.” So how come its costing the US $billions to do this?

5. Google lifts the lid on our love for US celebrities – NZHerald.Co.NZ

   The survey was compiled by looking at the aggregation of the most popular and fast-rising search queries being typed into the Google.co.nz search box. The 10 fastest-rising New Zealand searches of 2007 were: No1 – Facebook

6. Engineer battles spam first, then rare blood cancer – TaipeiTimes.Com

   Twenty-five years ago Steven Kirsch built a better mouse. Now he believes he has found a way to create a better trap for spam. His approach to beating cancer, however, is listed as the third of his current projects.

7. Future cars to send e-mail, flash monthly ‘health report’ – ExpressIndia.Com

   “Your car could send an `e-mail’ telling you that its time to drop in for a health check up at your nearest service centre,” said Dr Alan Taub, executive director, GM Research and Development in Warren Michigan.

8. The World’s Most Polluted Places – ChannelNewsAsia.Com

   Take Norilsk, Russia. A Siberian industrial city founded in 1935, Norilsk contains the world’s largest heavy-metals smelting complex. It releases nearly 500 tons each of copper and nickel oxides and 2 million tons of sulfur dioxide into the air.

9. ‘Touchdown London’ to help Indian cos – ndtvprofit.com

   The new service was announced at the ‘Indian Business Reception’ held last night at the Lords’ hosted by ‘Think London’, which celebrates the importance of London and the UK’s economic and cultural links with India, and city Mayor Ken Livingstone.

10. iPhone tops list of 2007 Google searches – ExpressIndia.Com

    Technology and entertainment topped Google Inc’s searches in 2007, iPhone grabbing the No 1 slot on a list of the fastest-rising search terms in the United States, No2 – Webkinz, No3 – TMZ, No4 – transformer toys, YouTube was 5th.

11. Fans sell Beckham leftovers through Internet auction – ChannelNewsAsia.Com

    Among the items put up for sale on New Zealand website Trade Me are a half eaten corn cob, a nearly empty bottle of Coca-Cola and a single French fry, which the seller said Beckham had dropped while eating on a Wellington street.

12. Activists warn Japan and Canada blocking UN climate talks – Channelnewsasia.com

    Key industrial nations Japan and Canada appear to be moving away from binding emissions targets for rich nations in early talks at a key climate change conference. Nearly 190 countries have gathered at the UN meeting in Bali.

13. Sinking islands deride climate change inaction – ChannelNewsAsia.Com

    As the world tries to hammer out a future plan to tackle climate change, tiny islands say it is too late, the islanders used music, song and slide shows to tell their story to a tearful audience in a luxury hotel on the Indonesian island of Bali.