iTunes is a famous application

But Apple single-handedly dominates the global market with its iPod family, which store media on built-in hard disk drive (HDD) with some exceptions.

Now the biggest storage-incorporated model available is a 60GB item.

Samsung has now caught wind of the global trend and jumped onto the HDD bandwagon.

During the press conference, Samsung also unveiled its research and development center for digital products for the first time, a mammoth 36-story building in Suwon, Kyonggi Province.

Samsung announced earlier this year it will catch up with Apple and become one of three leading MP3 player manufacturers in 2007 by securing a 25-30 percent global market share

"I promise you a police car on every sidewalk."

Last week we noted an Associated Press report that Secretary-General Kofi Annan had said that "he is determined to keep an upcoming report into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri from fanning tensions between Syria and Lebanon." Thanks to Bill Gates, now we know how far Annan was willing to go to protect the Syrian dictatorship.

Rosa Louise Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American seamstress and figure in the American Civil Rights Movement, most famous for her refusal in 1955 to give up a bus seat to a white man when ordered to do so by the bus driver.

Sen. Edward Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat, said in a statement: "The nation lost a courageous woman and a true American hero. A half century ago, Rosa Parks stood up not only for herself, but for generations upon generations of Americans."

Monica Trapaga, singer, entertainer, former ABC Play School presenter, mother of two and all-round nice person, has suddenly become the bete noir of the fascist food movement.

The Parents Jury issued a media release last week about the Coco Pops ad, quoting angry unnamed parents.
"My opinion of Kellogg's and Monica Trapaga has taken a nosedive," says one.
"I was incensed when I saw the ad with Monica and Coco Pops . . . Of course any child seeing Monica say it's good to eat Coco Pops is going to think that it is OK," says another.
"I am disappointed in her [Monica] as she has achieved a lot in the entertainment of children . . . yet now she is not showing the same regard to their health," says another.

Salt levels in bacon twice as high as seawater
Daily Mail ( UK )
11/10/05
by FIONA MACRAE and ROBIN YAPP
It may look more appetising than seawater. But having a bacon sandwich for breakfast is hardly better for your health.
A study has found that, gram for gram, bacon contains twice as much salt as the Atlantic Ocean.

Legend also has it, that in the time of early primitive man, before paper or scissors were invented, the play was always rock, thus inevitably a tie. [Read on...]

THE TV remote control carries more germs than the bathroom door, a US study has found.

It's easy to make fun of this kind of thing, and people are. One blogger observes: "Soon enough, governments will force these guys to wear a suit and tie in front of their personal computers."
But even though North Dakota's proposal is being targeted for mockery, it's also being targeted for emulation, as quite a few other states are considering similar proposals. This seems like a dreadful idea to me.

There were too few well-off business people prepared to slash their salary to "give back to society" and work in universities, he said.
Mr Hilmer, 60, chief executive officer of John Fairfax Holdings for seven years, starts as vice-chancellor next June on a $750,000 annual salary package.
He leaves Fairfax, publisher of the Herald, next month with a $4.5 million retirement allowance on top of a $1.5 million salary for the year to June.

Something begotten in the State of Denmark

I'm so glad I am not an ecofundamentalist. To be a 'Green Bunny' is to doom oneself to perpetual unhappiness, frustration, and anger with your fellow human beings and the state of the world. The reason is simple. Ecofundamentalism is utopian (and remember "utopia" means "nowhere"). People will just not do what you demand. You are never going to achieve even a smidgen of your desires, and whatever you do manage to squeeze from a reluctant and unconvinced populace, you will always, like Oliver Twist, be left wanting more.

THE Queen was just one step short of getting a Hills hoist for the Buckingham Palace backyard

"Drink, sir, Missa Williamson-san?"
"Absinthe, if you please."
"¿Que?"
"Absinthe! Surely you know of it, or at least of Edouard Manet's "The Absinthe Drinker", the first major painting of his career, yet cruelly rejected by le Salon in 1859.

US PRESIDENT George Bush has said that he was instructed by God to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a new BBC series.

President George Bush has claimed he was told by God to invade Iraq and attack Osama bin Laden's stronghold of Afghanistan as part of a divine mission to bring peace to the Middle East, security for Israel, and a state for the Palestinians.

Will there be repercussions for this baldfaced lie by the spokesliar for an entire society of deathcultist, bloodthirsty liars?
Doubtful.
Will there be repercussions for the BBC's distribution of this blatant lie for the sole purpose of attacking the President of the United States?
Doubtful.

LIMA -- The Amazon River, South America's largest, has hit its lowest level in the 36 years since records have been kept near its source in Peru.
Peru's National Port Company has recorded the river's level at the river port of Iquitos, in northeastern Peru, since 1969.

"It is quite clear that low levels have been more frequent in the past 10 years," said French researcher Jean-Loup Guyot.

WHAT do you get when you take a naked artist, country music and big names from the Australian stage?
According to actor David Bradshaw, "anything goes".

Bradshaw plays Tam, an eccentric Kalgoorlie artist and real-life character. "I've actually spoken to this bloke a few times. He lives up in the Top End".

Really, in this wonderful age of ours, when almost all the information in the world is never more than a few keystrokes away, it really shouldn't matter that a dying newspaper sends to Washington someone who still thinks the old rule applies: I distort, you swallow. As promised in an earlier post, what we're talking about here is Michael Gawenda's summation of the state of play with the Bush administration, which he claims "now faces problems that could destroy his presidency".
Well it's a good line, but in a country where the chief executive is elected for a fixed, four-year term, what could Gawenda possibly mean? That Bush, like Nixon, stands a fair chance of being driven early from office? That he will be dragged from the White House and hanged from a lamp post on Pennsylvania Avenue?

Other than noting that Blair visited the White House, Gawenda has managed to get ever single important fact wrong.

The charge by Bush haters that he was dumb and ignorant was always a dumb and ignorant charge, the result of hatred overwhelming rationality. Bush was smart, politically canny, had the ability to laugh at himself, and in the words of his former speechwriter David Frum, was a "risk-taker", a man with few self-doubts who was seen by a majority of Americans as a decisive leader.

Little Penguins (Eudyptula minor) have several common names. In Australia they are often referred to as Fairy Penguins due to their small size, in New Zealand they are called Little Blue Penguins or just Blue Penguins owing to their plumage color, the New Zealand Maori call them Korora, in Chile they are known as Pingüino pequeño or Pingüino azul.

amazing penguin facts
...

• The name 'Little Penguin' is now used instead of 'Fairy Penguin' as it is a more accurate translation of their scientific name, Eudyptula minor.

... ANDREW was stopped from boarding a Qantas jet to New Zealand after refusing to be screened by security guards at Melbourne Airport.
After a tense stand-off, the Duke of York reluctantly agreed to be searched with a hand-held detector.

Bless the ‘taters, bless the chooks
Bless the waiters, bless the cooks
Jesus Christ, most divine
He who turned water into wine
Please bless these simple men
Who are about to turn it back again

The secret to enjoying a good wine is:

1 - Open the bottle to allow it to breathe.
2 - When it does not breathe, give it mouth-to-mouth.

If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?

Super Caley go ballistic, Celtic are atrocious