A 7.5 quake just hit China's Sichuan province, about 60 miles outside of capital city Chengdu (incidentally, the city many foreign visitors -- including me, not too long ago -- fly into when traveling into Tibet). Link to USGS data, and Link to Google Map showing location, which is about 900 miles SW of Beijing. (thanks, Mike Outmesguine!)
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Our friends at FilmSchoolRejects have three new photos from the still untitled X-Files sequel. The new photos reveal shocking plot spoilers (of course, all of the plot spoilers take place slightly off... 查看全文
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To fend off Microsoft, Yahoo is conducting a test with Google to have the latter broker ads for Yahoo's search results. The notion: Google will be so much more effective at selling ads than Yahoo that... 查看全文
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