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...Wang, a Taiwanese-American strategy consultant who goes by the Web handle "jozjozjoz," thought it was funny that the camera had difficulties figuring out when her family had their eyes open. So she posted a photo of the blink warning on her blog under the title, "Racist Camera! No, I did not blink... I'm just Asian!" The post was picked up by Gizmodo and Boing Boing, and prompted at least one commenter to note, "You would think that Nikon, being a Japanese company, would have designed this with Asian eyes in mind." (See the top 10 gadgets...
...what may set the service apart is independent films. Alongside the rental program, YouTube is launching a program called "Filmmakers Wanted" that provides a platform for independent filmmakers to handle their own marketing and distribution via YouTube without relying on studios. According to the blog post that announced the plan, "They can decide the price of their videos and the rental duration; they can decide when and where their content is available; and they can keep 100% of their rights...
...Whenever we're on the Internet, we leave behind this very revealing and gigantic trail of information," says Nicholas Bramble, a Yale Law School fellow who has studied digital evidence. And that trail - which can include anything from a post on a Facebook profile to a message to a MySpace contact to an appearance in the background of a stranger's photo - can be a "huge resource" in judicial proceedings, he says...
...Arab trading post from about A.D. 800, then a Portuguese one from 1760. At the turn of the 20th century, it consisted of two forts, a grand plaza, countless mansions and a population of 37,000. But with the end of colonialism in 1975, Ibo was forgotten. Today, just 3,500 people live in and around the crumbling colonnades and red-tiled townhouses whose gardens still overflow with frangipanis, bougainvilleas and Indian almonds imported by the island's opulent forebears. And somehow, despite being considered for U.N. World Heritage status, Ibo has been barely rediscovered. There are just three small...
...Ozawa has had many run-ins with the Prosecutors Office over the course of his career, as have many of Japan's political élite. Last May, then DPJ president Ozawa stepped down from that post following the arrest of his top aide, Takanori Okubo, who is now on trial for accounting irregularities and illegal donations from a large construction company that allegedly wanted to win contracts in areas where Ozawa has political influence. Ozawa bowed to cries for his resignation from within the party just months before August's Lower House elections. That move, however, did not satisfy...