links for 2007-10-07

• Build a Remote Control Deadbolt - Instructables Cool How To & DIY [category: tech]
  (tags: electronics hacking hardware home howto instructables remote security deadbolt)
• Top 10 Tools I Can’t Live Without : Codswallop
  We all have our own unique ways of working. A large part of any persons individual productivity is the tools they use. Here is my top 10 Must Have Tools (and why), please add yours in the comments!
  (tags: 10 a accessories awesome best blogging collaboration computer web blog list web2.0 utilities software productivity tools)
• Purpose of appendix believed found - CNN.com
  Some scientists think they have figured out the real job of the troublesome and seemingly useless appendix: It produces and protects good germs for your gut.
  (tags: articles bacteria body cnn cool health links medicine appendicitis nature news appendix science)
• The Erosion of a Murder Case Against Marines in the Killing of 24 Iraqi Civilians - New York Times
  Experts in military justice say the Haditha prosecutions were compromised by several factors having to do with the quality of the evidence, including a delayed investigation and the decision to conduct hearings in the United States, far from the scene of
  (tags: haditha iraq murder civilians injustice military war court-martial)
• ANTARA News :: Govt backs Sunda Strait bridge project
  The government fully supports a plan to build the Sunda Strait Bridge (JSS) which will link Java and Sumatra islands, a minister said.
  (tags: bridge sumatra suspension enormous infrastructure engineering)
• Climate change disaster is upon us, warns UN | Environment | The Guardian
  A record number of floods, droughts and storms around the world this year amount to a climate change “mega disaster”, the United Nation’s emergency relief coordinator, Sir John Holmes, has warned.
  (tags: agriculture future climate-change climatechange conservation ecology environment food)
• Think Progress » O’Reilly Lets Loose: Says WH Reporters Need To Be ‘Wiped Out,’ Calls CNN ‘The Pagan Throne’
  He has lost his damn mind. Seriously.
  (tags: bill-o tony+snow wingnuts cnn stupidity pots+and+kettles fox+news pagan+throne)
• BBC considers Doctor Who movie | Broadcast | MediaGuardian.co.uk
  The BBC controller of fiction, Jane Tranter, has left the way open for a movie version of Doctor Who - despite film adaptations of existing BBC dramas not being part of her new strategy for BBC Films.
  (tags: bbc doctor+who movie w00t)

~ by SAP on 7 October 2007.