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Really sad news. Col. Edward Shames, the last surviving officer of Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division died December 3rd. Easy company was of course made famous by the band of brothers miniseries. Bradford Freeman is now the only living member of easy company.

Dutch parliament elections of march 17th leads to a parliament with 17 different parties. The VVD (center right) led by prime minister Mark Rutte gains seats, D66 (center or aruably center left) also gains seats and could form a coalition goverment with CDA (christian democrats) which lost...

I thought these can use a XCOM for discussions about these games. For the XCOM games by Firaxis but also others (original/xenonauts). - XCOM enemy unknown and enemy within expension: Briljant games. Enemy unknown has great tactical gameplay and enemy within expands up that with new strategic...

I want to build a new PC (first time builder here). I saw this build from Tom's hardware but I have a bit more budget. They've spend 700 dollars on hardware I can spend about 200 dollars more (dollar to euro conversion taken into account). They use an i3 I'm considering upgrading to an i5, so...

The US (goverment) is under frequent online attack. China is suspected to be behind many of those attacks but there is not a lot of hard evidence for it. Now f-secure has appeared to have found such evidence. Ironically it's from the Chinese themselves, in a 20 documentary there is: An...

Kansas news 9 is reporting a new phenomenon, called I-dosing. It involves listening with headphones to music (more accurately described as noise) which can get you high. According to Kansas news 9 kids from all over the US go to sites which offer MP3's which can get you high. Perhaps most...

During the downtime today I tried to access civfanatics.net. In hope to find out when the down would be gone. When I went to the site my virus scan blocked the site to prevent infection with follow trojan: Trojan-Clicker.JS.Agent.ma. I have Kaspersky Internet Security 2010. info about the...

Miep Gies, the person who helped hiding Anne Frank and her family has died at the age of 100. After the Frank family was arrested she collected the (diary) papers and kept them save. She didn't read them and she might had destroyed the diary if she did because Anne Frank named all of the helpers...

France narrowly won against Ireland in the SA 2010 qualifications but only after Hnery made hands in the goals build up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8pQPSPISZs&feature=player_embedded The Irish ask for a rematch. It's rare for FIFA order a rematch but in has been in 2005. There was...

It seems to be the latest hype over here, threads with polls asking who is hotter. Even though the first thread of this kind was nonsensical, it didn't break the rules I guess. Now two or three new ones have appeared and I think they fall under the definition of spam. What do the mods...

I want to have windows 7 64 bit (home premium). So I went to this (Dutch) website that offers cheap software, you just got to have a student license. Great joy when I saw they offer windows 7 ULTIMATE 64 bit for 70 €(!). I thought to myself "great deal." (windows 7 ultimate normally costs 300 €...

The Journal of the American Chemical Society (J. Am. Chem. Soc., or JACS) published an article by David Wang (Et Al). He reported this reaction: For those who only had chemistry at high school, let me explain: The reaction is an oxidation (the alcohol is oxidized to ketone: -OH --> =O)...

The Dutch child protection services have sued the parents of 13 year old Laura Dekker. The girl wants to set the record as youngest person who ever circumnavigated the world in a sailboat. She wants to leave in September (when she will be 14) and the trip will take at 1-2 years. The child...

Google is working on a operating system for netbooks. Called Chrome OS, it's expected to be released in the middle of 2010. "Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS,(..)We're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you on to the web in a...

The Tour de France will start tomorrow (Saturday 4th of July) and there was no thread about it, what a shame. So I had to start one so we can discuss: Favorites, who do you think will win? Favorites include Carlos Sastre (won in 2008), Denis Menchov (won the Giro this year), Cadel Evans...

Duke Nukem developer 3D Realms has been shutdown. The studio was best known for the Duke Nukem series. It has been developing Duke Nukem Forever for 12 years(!) source: http://www.shacknews.com/featuredarticle.x?id=1127 I guess wired has to find another winner for this years vapor ware...

My parents have an old computer, it's old and slow. Recently it has slowed down even more. I think the HDD has deteriorated, which explains the slowdown (it uses lot of swapfile). It could really benefit from some extra RAM (so it uses less swapfile). However that would be rather useless if the...

Wired has announced the winners af the wired vaporware awards 2008. Of course, Duke Nukem Forever ended first place. What are your own experiences with vaporware*? My vaporware: Ubuntu 8.10: supposed to easily handle Sata-Raid, but it didn't on my Dell. I'm also still waiting for DNF. I loved...

I knew that ant colonies could be big, but this big. Look at the video: http://holy-web.blogspot.com/2008/11/amazing-video-excavating-giant-538.html It must have taken ages to build that. That 'ventilation system' is very impressive.

A 42 year old American living in Berlin might have been cured of AIDS after he underwent a bone marrow transplant, as part of therapy against leukemia. He received bone marrow from a donor who had a mutation that prevents a molecule called 'CCR5' from appearing on the surface of cells. Most...