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Demonstration and Performance of the new invention of Toshio Iwai, a reputed artist of Japan, the TENORI-ON:

From 4th September, Tenori-On will be on display in the UK:

http://www.pixelsumo.com/post/tenori-on-launch

Click here to see Yamaha’s web page on TERI-ON.

In his enviro-propaganda flick, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore claims nine of the 10 hottest years on record have occurred in the last decade. That’s been a common refrain for environmentalists, too, and one of the centrepieces of global warming hysteria: It’s been really hot lately — abnormally hot — so we all need to be afraid, very afraid. The trouble is, it’s no longer true.

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Fascinating New Scientist article (for subscribers only, but there’s a copy here) on conspiracy theories, and why we believe them:

So what kind of thought processes contribute to belief in conspiracy theories? A study I carried out in 2002 explored a way of thinking sometimes called “major event – major cause” reasoning. Essentially, people often assume that an event with substantial, significant or wide-ranging consequences is likely to have been caused by something substantial, significant or wide-ranging.

I gave volunteers variations of a newspaper story describing an assassination attempt on a fictitious president. Those who were given the version where the president died were significantly more likely to attribute the event to a conspiracy than those who read the one where the president survived, even though all other aspects of the story were equivalent.

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A new attempt to scare pot smokers in Britain alleges that smoking pot can increase the risk of becoming “psychotic.” A quick glance at the data cited reveals no such correlation.

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Is it a hoax? Seems like CGI has matured so much! Read this

The label ‘Al Qaeda’ has been used, or rather abused, ever since 11 September 2001 when the finger of blame for that terrifying day was pointed at bin Laden and his ‘al Qaeda’ organisation. Indeed, according to George Tenet in his book, At the center of the storm: My years at the CIA, bin Laden was blamed for the attacks by at least three-thirty in the afternoon of 11 September 2001.

Sounds pretty out there, doesn’t it? Read on and let us know what you think.

http://www.alternativenews.net/

The links seem to be the same colour as the background (!) which is white – to see the links press A – this will select the page and you’ll see the white text/links..

When your screen is white – an empty word page, or the Google page, your computer consumes 74 watts, and when its black it consumes only 59 watts.

Mark Ontkush wrote an article about the energy saving that would be achieved if Google had a black screen, taking in account the huge number of page views, according to his calculations, 750 mega watts/hour per year would be saved.

In a response to this article Google created a black version of its search engine, called Blackle, with the exact same functions as the white version, but with a lower energy consumption, check it out.

http://www.blackle.com/

In addition, check this site for Monitor Energy Information.