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E-Cig, for the tech smokers :)

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:54:20 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus

E-Cig is the abbreviation of Electronic Cigarette. E-Cig.com, the world largest BtoC and BtoB commercial website for the Electronic Smoking Products, is the flagship of The E-CIG Technology Inc. Ltd.

Why choose E-CIG?

The healthiest alternative smoking products you will ever get!

There is no fire, no tar, no carbon monoxide, no ash, no stub.

It lets you enjoy and satisfy those tactile taste sensations without any risk on smoking and on tobacco.

Auto-eCig

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The e-cig gives the smoker a hit of nicotine and the sensation of smoking without the tar and the witch's brew of carcinogens that makes up regular fag smoke. The filter contains an atomiser and a cartridge of nicotine, suspended in liquid. When you take a drag, the atomiser converts this into a vapour that looks like smoke, but isn't.

Perhaps that is the e-cig's hidden strength: it makes you realise what a ludicrous business smoking actually is.

When my e-fag works, it is effective.

Tags: cigarette, electronics, health

Humble mouse turns 40 and loses its touch

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:27:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "The mouse now faces unprecedented competition. Laptops which make no use of a mouse are an increasingly popular alternative to desktop computers for workers on the move. Apple's popular iPhone and Nintendo's Wii have shown the potential for touchscreens and movement sensors. HP is pushing a mouse-less TouchSmart PC. Microsoft has invested millions of dollars in a coffee table-shaped 'Surface' computer which responds to natural hand gestures, touch and physical objects."

And still it has done its job in making computers more accessible...
happy birthday

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Humble mouse turns 40 and loses its touch

The name was never meant to stick. When Doug Engelbart and his team at the Stanford Research Institute in California designed a computer controller encased in a carved-out wooden block, with wheels mounted on the underbelly, one researcher nicknamed it a 'mouse'. 'We thought that when it had escaped out to the world it would have a more dignified name,' Engelbart recalled later. 'But it didn't.'

Its 40th birthday will be celebrated next week

Now the mouse faces growing competition from a new generation of touchscreens

Xerox developed the mouse during the Seventies and launched the first commercial product with the Xerox Star computer system in 1981. It failed to take off, but when Apple bought the mouse patent for its Macintosh in 1984 success was assured, and it was eventually taken up by the mass PC market for use with Microsoft Windows.

'I very much doubt that we'll be using the mouse in 40 years' time

mouse will be left behind

Tags: computer, history

Antarctic peninsula marine life

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:12:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The first comprehensive inventory of sea and land animals around the South Orkney islands off the tip of the Antarctic peninsula has revealed a region rich in biodiversity, with more species than the Galapagos

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As climate changes, species like this soft coral will react

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atmospheric temperature on the Antarctica Peninsula has increased by 2.5C over the same time and is one of the most rapidly warming areas on the planet

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a sea snail

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Groups of islands in the polar regions appear to be the last place where biodiversity is much the same as when man first started researching them. The team found little evidence of invasive species in the 100 years of data from study on the islands.

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remarkable looking sea lemon

surprisingly has more known species than the Galapagos, and many temperate and tropical regions

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'This abundance of life was completely unexpected for a location in the polar regions, previously perceived to be poor in biodiversity

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'This is the first time anybody has done an inventory like this in the polar regions'

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Five were new to science

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The animals recorded were checked against a century of literature and modern databases. The team concluded there are over 1,200 known marine and land species,

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Tags: marines, biology