My Faves for Friday, February 01, 2008

Le Figaro - Sciences : La stimulation cérébrale au secours de la mémoire

Quoted: Sciences : La stimulation cérébrale au secours de la mémoire

[tags: france, memory, pd]

Le Figaro - Sociétés françaises : Le projet géant de Suez dans le solaire

Quoted: À Curbans, en Provence, on ne parle que de cela : la construction, sur 300 hectares, de la plus grande centrale solaire d'Europe.

Coincé entre le parc régional du Lubéron et le massif des Écrins, Curbans (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) est un village de 420 âmes à peine. C'est dans cette petite commune qu'Electrabel France (filiale de Suez) a choisi d'installer ce qui serait à ce jour la plus grande centrale solaire d'Europe.

[tags: france, solar]

US campaign captivates a world desperate for a change from Bush - International Herald Tribune

Quoted: America's extraordinary presidential campaign has captivated politicians and ordinary people around the globe. With so much at stake in the race for the White House, the world is watching with an intensity that hasn't been seen since the Clinton era began in 1992.

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My Faves for Thursday, January 31, 2008

Apple - iLife - Guided Tour

Quoted: iLife '08 is the easiest way to make the most out of every bit of your digital life. Create beautiful books, colorful calendars, dazzling DVDs, perfect podcasts, and attractive online journals.

[tags: apple, mac, tutorial]

GPS Shocker: Garmin Enters the Cell Phone Market - Gearlog

Quoted: GPS maker dropped a bombshell Wednesday by announcing its first cell phone, the iPhone-like nuviphone. The news isn't that the nuviphone has GPS, a Web browser, or a camera -- it's how they're all connected back to the GPS functionality. There are some pretty cool features here.

[tags: mobile, GPS]

For Giuliani, a Dizzying Free-Fall

Michael Mukasey Still Mum On Waterboarding

Attorney General Michael Mukasey still won't say whether waterboarding is torture, a stance that is upsetting Senate Democrats who had threatened to derail his confirmation over the issue.

Jerome Kerviel boasts about his €1.4bn profit to police - Times Online

Quoted: J�rôme Kerviel, France's rogue trader, still believes that he could have made an astronomic profit from his €50 billion of illicit market bets if his bosses at the Soci�t� G�n�rale bank had not sacked him, he has told police.

[tags: france, banking, finance]

BBC NEWS | The Reporters | Robert Peston

[tags: france, banking, business]

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My Faves for Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Inner Life of Jerome Kerviel, Accidental Rogue

Quoted: an. 30 (Bloomberg) -- When a person loses $7.2 billion of other people's money, other people naturally want to know more about him. They badly want to believe that he is in some way unusual. To blow up $7 billion -- to buy more than $75 billion in equities in private -- must require some kind of genius.

But despite some seriously sweaty journalistic effort, all we know about 31-year-old Jerome Kerviel is that he was a mediocre student, a green belt in judo and unsatisfying to his wife.

[tags: france, banking, finance]

Kerviel Says Societe Generale Was `Complacent' on His Trades

Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Jerome Kerviel, the Societe Generale SA trader whose unauthorized bets led to the biggest trading loss in history, told prosecutors the bank cast a ``complacent look'' on his practices.

``As long as we were winning and it wasn't too visible, things worked out, no one said anything,''

[tags: france, banking, trading, business]

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My Faves for Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Citizen Garden » Seeding the Citizen Web

Quoted: Seeding the Citizen Web

[tags: podcasting, internet, development]

Skitch.com + Skitch = fast and fun screen capture and image sharing.

Quoted: Your friends are global… you can send them links… but what if the action is on your screen? ... Point out a quick suggestion to a colleague or pass on that funny moment from an IM chat, post images to MySpace, eBay, forums or via email..
Skitch is the Internet age's Camera and it Rocks!

[tags: screenshot, image, capture, sharing, mac]

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My Faves for Monday, January 28, 2008

'Masdar is an agent of change' | kippreport.com

Masdar is Abu Dhabi's multidimensional, multi-billion dollar response to the global need for alternative sources of energy. Masdar is not pursuing alternative energy in competition with conventional sources of energy. Its work complements Abu Dhabi's leadership in the oil and gas sector. We have prospered in the era of conventional energy; we have learnt from it and know how to build on it.

[tags: development, technology, solar, environment]

Oil to fund AD's solar future | kippreport.com

Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, aka Masdar, plans to fund research and development of a variety of alternative energy technologies, foster the businesses that create them, and use the emirate's financial clout to make these expensive ideas economical, according to the Financial Times.

[tags: solar, future, development]

French bank details $7.2 billion loss - CNN.com

Quoted: French bank Societe Generale described Sunday how one of its traders allegedly carried out a $7.2 billion (?4.9 billion) fraud, how the loss came to light and what it is doing to ensure such a case does not recur.

[tags: france, banking, business, finance]

Pill-sized camera can be swallowed for cancer scan: researchers

Quoted: Scientists have developed a tiny camera that fits inside a pill, with the goal of allowing patients who swallow it to be assessed for warning signs of esophageal cancer.

[tags: technology, camera, health, cancer]

Don't treat the old and unhealthy, say doctors - Telegraph

Quoted: Get the latest UK news and World news from the Telegraph. Your source for sport news, business news, travel news, motoring news and property news

[tags: health]

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