http://array.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for array en Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:29:11 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712355 unknown@Netscape.com Whether they're incredibly useful or solve an annoying problem, these are bookmarklets that you'll want to have saved to your browser as productivity tools. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:29:11 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712355arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712354 unknown@Netscape.com Have they reveled in the news that U.S. casualties have plummeted? Have they praised the achievements for which our troops have fought so hard? Have they congratulated the Iraqi government for progress in political reconciliation? Not exactly. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:26:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712354arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712269 unknown@Netscape.com Ellington rides for Baker Skateboards, Spitfire Wheels, Thunder Trucks, Supra Footwear, KR3W Clothing, Active Mailorder, and Black Hole Griptape. He turned pro at the age of 21 for the Zero Skateboards team. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:23:43 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712269arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712268 unknown@Netscape.com Motorcycle sport is a broad field that encompasses all sporting aspects of motorcycling. The disciplines are not all "races" or timed-speed events, as several disciplines test a competitor's various riding skills. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:16:28 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712268arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712163 unknown@Netscape.com Whether you're trying to improve your skills, or learn new ones altogether, these videos can be a great way to educate yourself on a number of ways to get fit. Here are 100 to get started with to start your online exercise education. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:46:55 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712163arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712162 unknown@Netscape.com No matter how you use blogs in your classroom, these tools will help you get started, enhance your experience, or bring the students into the fun. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:46:44 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712162arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712161 unknown@Netscape.com Apple announced record fiscal year Q3 results, and then watched its stock plummet 10% in after hours trading. Why? An outlook below what Wall Street had been expecting. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:44:36 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712161arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2710427 unknown@Netscape.com The U.S. government has asked a federal judge to throw out one of two lawsuits filed by Kentucky women who claim that surgical care at a southern Illinois Veterans Affairs hospital killed their husbands. The lawsuits accuse the government of negligence, saying it inadequately checked Dr. Veizaga-Mendez's background before hiring him. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:30:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2710427arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712081 unknown@Netscape.com A conservative-dominated U.S. Appeals Court has opened the door for President George W. Bush or a successor to throw American citizens - as well as non-citizens - into a legal black hole by designating them "enemy combatants," even if they have engaged in no violent act and are living on U.S. soil. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:28:12 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712081arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712159 unknown@Netscape.com When Raymond ScottÃ;¢ââ;;¬"the colorfully eccentric 51-year-old book dealer, champagne connoisseur, and shiny-suited wooer of nightclub dancersÃ;¢ââ;;¬"walked into the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:26:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712159arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712080 unknown@Netscape.com If a veteran has private health insurance that can pay for care not connected to a service disability, the VA can bill the insurer. A little-noticed GAO report recently found that the VA likely missed out on billions of dollars from insurers because of a disorganized, disjointed accounting system. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:24:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712080arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712158 unknown@Netscape.com -- If Sen. John McCain is really serious about becoming a Web-savvy citizen, perhaps Kathryn Robinson can help. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:18:50 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712158arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712157 unknown@Netscape.com Dismissing claims from independent legal experts and the European Commission that the government was not doing enough to fight corruption and that it was reluctant to bring prominent politicians before the courts, Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:11:18 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712157arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712156 unknown@Netscape.com Treasury secretaries typically like to operate away from the media glare, which is why Henry Paulson's choice to make the rounds of the Sunday TV talk shows, reassuring us that the American banking system is sound, seems unintentionally ominous Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:05:03 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712156arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712066 unknown@Netscape.com I spoke with Albert Feng, a professor of molecular and integrative physiology at University of Illinois, who noted that this particular frog, known as "Odorrana tormota," is the only known animal that actively selects what frequencies it hears. He pointed out that the frogs seem to possess an ability to tune in to specific sound frequenci Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:51:51 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712066arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712155 unknown@Netscape.com Britain is determined to prevent Iran developing nuclear arms, Gordon Brown has warned in an address to the Israeli parliament, the Knesset. He said that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's call for Israel "to be wiped off the map" was abhorrent. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:47:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712155arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712065 unknown@Netscape.com OCZ Technology has laid claim to being the first company to bring a "brain-computer" interface to the retail market and they have aimed it squarely at the gamer. The device is called the NIA, which is an acronym that stands for Neural Impulse Actuator Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:45:33 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712065arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712064 unknown@Netscape.com The New York Times reported this weekend that "felons are asking President Bush for pardons and commutations at historic levels as he nears his final months in office, a time when many other presidents have granted a flurry of clemency requests." Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:31:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712064arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712063 unknown@Netscape.com Obama has positions on broadband access and using the Internet as a tool to increase government accountability. McCain? Big nothing. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:29:34 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712063arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2711955 unknown@Netscape.com Ok,It's not blues.This is is southern rock turned metal at it's best.Loved these guys(the band is still crank'n but the singer has left to do other things)from the first time i heard them.If you like rock and don't want to move when you turn this up to ten then you might want to check for a pulse,lol.Hope you like this. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:26:43 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2711955arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712062 unknown@Netscape.com A year overdue, the Federal Emergency Management Agency issued a draft disaster housing strategy Monday, which leaves it largely up to the next administration to figure out a way to avoid Hurricane Katrina-like problems that sent victims to toxic trailers. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:21:48 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712062arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2711954 unknown@Netscape.com "Even when others questioned the surge Senator McCain knew it was the right thing to do," Schulstad remarked, "He knew he could very well lose the election as a result of that, but he stuck with it and he was right." Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:20:54 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2711954arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712077 unknown@Netscape.com Because they are so clearly designed for the convenience of large testing companies, I had always assumed that multiple-choice tests, the bane of any fourth grader's existence, were a quintessentially American phenomenon Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:20:54 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712077arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712076 unknown@Netscape.com Does it make sense to not drill offshore? If we just leave all the oil where it is; doesn't that help make global warming better? The answer is no! Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:16:29 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712076arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2711907 unknown@Netscape.com A pastor brought out a dirt bike during a church service to demonstrate the concept of unity. Now he's demonstrating the concept of healing. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:15:36 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2711907arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2711906 unknown@Netscape.com Golden Shellback is a coating that lets you spill, pour, or submerge your gadget in a liquid and have it survive. Golden Shellback says it will protect against oils, water-based liquids, synthetic fluids, dust and dirt. Tekzilla's Patrick Norton shot a segment on Golden Shellback and has footage of cellphones and CB radios functioning normally unde Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:06:22 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2711906arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712082 unknown@Netscape.com Usually when someone thinks of a powerful and accurate golf swing or when you get started playing golf most people never think of their hips having anything to do with it, but little do they know that the hips play a huge part in the having a best swing you can get. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:03:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712082arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712075 unknown@Netscape.com ADA Watch and the National Coalition for Disability Rights is demanding U.S. talk radio host Michael Savage be fired for his recent remarks about the disabled. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:02:59 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712075arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712074 unknown@Netscape.com As Democrat Barack Obama began an overseas tour, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told employees at U.S. embassies to provide only minimal help to visiting presidential candidates. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:00:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712074arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2711759 unknown@Netscape.com A once-a-day pill significantly shrank tumors in men with advanced prostate cancer who had not responded to other treatments, researchers said on Tuesday. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:57:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2711759arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712078 unknown@Netscape.com A leading Christian Zionist says Israel should be concerned that Barack Obama is meeting with the successor to infamous Palestinian terror leader Yasser Arafat. The Democratic presidential nominee is expected to meet with Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah Wednesday. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:56:42 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712078arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2711754 unknown@Netscape.com As giant oil companies like Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips get set to report what will probably be another round of eye-popping quarterly profits, just where is all that money going? Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:47:15 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2711754arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2711958 unknown@Netscape.com The production of biofuels is depriving the world of around 100 million tons of cereals that could go to feed the hungry, the head of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization said on Monday on a visit to Cuba. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:38:58 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2711958arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2711957 unknown@Netscape.com North Dakota's two newest ethanol factories have collected $1.78 million in state subsidies during the past six months, in part because high corn prices have made it difficult to profit from selling the alternative fuel. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:38:51 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2711957arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712071 unknown@Netscape.com But don't expect the EPA, which issued the bad health reports, to do anything about it - at least not anytime soon. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:38:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712071arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712070 unknown@Netscape.com More than ever, vice presidential wannabes must maneuver between groveling and remaining cool. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:34:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712070arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712069 unknown@Netscape.com Ford Motor, which devoted itself for nearly 20 years to putting millions of Americans into big pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles, is about to drastically alter its focus to building more small cars. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:29:27 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712069arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712068 unknown@Netscape.com Do not be fooled by their cute faces and floppy ears - these puppies from the Australian Customs dog breeding center are genetically superior, crime-fighting machines. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:28:34 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712068arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2711956 unknown@Netscape.com On this very day 39 years ago, Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the moon. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:23:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2711956arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712067 unknown@Netscape.com Lyndon LaRouche lets loose on the state of the world. Cheerful it isn't. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:20:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712067arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712072 unknown@Netscape.com Geologists scoping out a glacier in Antarctica found a piece of granite there. This granite's structure matched that of granite found in only one other place: North America. Radioactive dating tests using several methods all match the age of the same granites in North America. So how did that rock get to Antarctica? Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:30:10 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712072arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2710277 unknown@Netscape.com Despite ethical concerns about testing on humans, researchers say their work is necessary to determine the boundary between garbage and food. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:03:43 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2710277arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2711764 unknown@Netscape.com UFOCapture is a Windows application that helps you videotape meteors and other fast-moving stuff in space. You hook up a sensitive video camera to your computer, point it out your window, and while you slumber, the software saves all the good bits. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:44:50 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2711764arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2711763 unknown@Netscape.com More than half the birds, amphibians and mammals found only in the Philippines are either threatened or nearly extinct, the environment and natural resources department said Monday. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:34:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2711763arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2712073 unknown@Netscape.com Linux is set to make a major impact in the mobile computing realm, the executive director of the Linux Foundation stressed at a conference Monday morning. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:34:44 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712073arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2711899 unknown@Netscape.com An international team of astronomers has observed that vibrations in the Pole star, which had been fading away to almost nothing over the last hundred years, have recovered and are now increasing. And the astronomers don't know why. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:29:20 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2711899arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2711898 unknown@Netscape.com Those hard-to-read scribbled prescriptions from doctors could soon become a rarity. Beginning Jan. 1, the federal government will boost Medicare's payments to doctors that send prescriptions electronically to a pharmacy rather than writing them out on paper and handing them to the patient. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:19:33 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2711898arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2711762 unknown@Netscape.com A Purdue University nuclear engineer who claimed to have carried out tabletop nuclear fusion is responsible for two instances of scientific misconduct, a report made public today concludes. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:10:29 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2711762arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2711960 unknown@Netscape.com Liver transplant patients who receive an organ from a donor age 60 or older do just as well as patients getting a liver from a younger donor, U.S. researchers said on Monday. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:03:33 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2711960arrayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2711761 unknown@Netscape.com Losi Grodya works 2 jobs, has a driver's license, is working on a college degree and is ready to take her citizenship exam. Her daughters, approved by U.S. officials to join her from the Republic of Congo as refugees, have seen their cases caught up in a provision in the Patriot Act that bars people from the U.S. if suspected of aiding terrorists. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:01:47 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2711761arrayNews