And In Other News... Tigers kill man who stuck his arm into zoo cage in northeastern India

"GAUHATI, India - A man who stuck his arm into the tiger enclosure at a zoo in northeast India has died after two of the big cats tore off his limb. He says the man ignored warnings from keepers, crossed a barrier and stretched his hand into the enclosure that housed a male and a female tiger."

Viral Video of the Year Nominee: Human Tetris

"One of our 2007 favorites came all the way from Japan and it's fairly straightforward: Human beings are put in a stage with a moving platform that's made to resemble the all-time game phenomenon Tetris, the only difference is that the human beings are the blocks and they must fit into tiny crevices made of odd shapes." [Gadget Lab from Wired.com]

Why We do Dumb or Irrational Things: 10 Brilliant Social Psychology Studies

"Like eminent social psychologist Professor Philip Zimbardo, I'm also obsessed with why we do dumb or irrational things. The answer quite often is because of other people - something social psychologists have comprehensively shown." [via PsyBlog]

New Google Talk bots bring real-time translation to IM

"In Google's never-ending quest to collect and utilize the world's information, the company today introduced a new translation feature to its Google Talk chat client. Delivered as a series of chat bots, these tools can quickly translate a phrase or paragraph for you, and they can even be added to group chats to act as real-time translators." [via Ars Technica]

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On blogging... Blogging. This, I think, is what it all boils down to:

"But 'Blogalization?' I think it's just a new word. It's a word for something that people have been doing since time immemorial, and that is: People telling stories, people listening and people conversing. The Internet and the Web have just made these things available to everyone and anyone, no matter where you are."

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And In Other News... Drift into war with Iran out of control, says UN

"I would not talk about any use of force," Mohamed ElBaradei told reporters at the International Atomic Energy Agency headquarters in Vienna. "There are rules on how to use force, and I would hope that everybody would have gotten the lesson after the Iraq situation, where 700,000 innocent civilians have lost their lives on the suspicion that a country has nuclear weapons." [via The Guardian, Digg]

Indonesia's big one 'on its way'

"An international team of earthquake specialists says Indonesia faces another potential "giant" quake in the near future" [via CNN.com]

Virtual worlds opened up to all

"We are out to democratise virtual worlds and bring them to absolutely anybody," said Mr Koster, founder of Areae, the company behind Metaplace.

"You can come to the site, press a button and have a functioning virtual world that supports multiple users in about 30 seconds." [via BBC NEWS]

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