CNN

Officials in Thailand and Sri Lanka report that residents are evacuating coastal regions in the Indian Ocean after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of at least 8.2 struck off the coast of Indonesia Monday.

In Thailand, thousands of people in the six provinces affected by the December 26 tsunami were moving to higher ground or 2 km (1.25 miles) inland, the governor of Phang Nga province said.

Sri Lanka also issued a warning that the earthquake may spawn a tsunami that would reach Sri Lanka’s shores by about 3 a.m. Tuesday (4 p.m. ET Monday) and urged those living in low lying areas to move to higher ground.

NPR

In a reverse-theft of sorts, a British artist has been sneaking his works into some of New York’s top museums.

MSNBC

A 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil dug out of a hunk of sandstone has yielded soft tissue, including blood vessels and perhaps even whole cells, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.

Paleontologists forced to break the creature’s massive thighbone to get it on a helicopter found not a solid piece of fossilized bone, but instead something looking a bit less like a rock.

Discovery Channel :: News

Easter is the holiest Christian festival, celebrating as it does the resurrection of Christ, but oddly enough cute bunnies and chocolate eggs have become its most recognized modern-day symbols.

The roots of the holiest day in the Christian calendar appear to lie in a pagan spring festival that celebrated the Anglo-Saxon goddess of fertility, known as Eostre or Eastre.

Discovery Channel :: News

A dreary weed that grows in the cracks of parking lots has caused an uproar amongst biologists by challenging one of the basic laws of genetics.

U.S. researchers, reporting Wednesday in the journal Nature, say their lab samples of thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) appear to bust a fundamental rule of inheritance.

Convention dictates that all of one’s genetic toolbox, for better or for worse, is handed down from one’s parents.

But in the bizarre case reported in Nature, the weeds seem to have genes that existed in their grandparents, but not in their parents.

adaptive path ajax

If anything about current interaction design can be called “glamorous,“ it’s creating Web applications. After all, when was the last time you heard someone rave about the interaction design of a product that wasn’t on the Web? (Okay, besides the iPod.) All the cool, innovative new projects are online.

A new approach? WTF? This shit isn’t new. Get real! Yay buzzwords!. Yes, it’s cool. It’s been cool for years.

Here’s something else that is cool: BAM.

CNET News.com

The Net’s top standards body is getting closer to speeding up XML-based software, a move that could benefit everyone from cell phone carriers to television broadcasters to the military.

But critics say the group’s favored approach could cause major compatibility problems, among other things.

If you BIN it they will come (Mobile Apps).

CNN.com

A diner at a Wendy’s fast food restaurant in San Jose, California, found a human finger in a bowl of chili prepared by the chain, local officials said Wednesday.

“This individual apparently did take a spoonful, did have a finger in their mouth and then, you know, spit it out and recognized it,” said Ben Gale, director of the department of environmental health for Santa Clara County. “Then they had some kind of emotional reaction and vomited.”

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!! And apparently Wendy’s is serving it up.

Star Tribune

LINDALE, Texas -— When Smith County Constable Dennis Taylor got a call reporting a stolen house, his first question was, “Is it a trailer house, ma’am?”

“No, it’s a brick house,” the real estate company representative replied.

Board by board, shingle by shingle, for nearly three months, thieves dismantled a three-bedroom brick house in this East Texas town and carted it away until only a pile of rubble was left.

Authorities allege Brandon Ray Parmer, 29, and Darrell Patrick Maxfield, 44, both of Tyler, took the house apart and sold it for drugs, in plain view of everyone cruising by along Lindale’s main street.
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“It’s the strangest case I’ve ever worked in my life,” Taylor said. “Everybody drove by and waved at them.”

Put a frog in boiling water….

ABC News

In a case that could set limits on Internet search engines, the French news agency AFP is suing Google Inc. for pulling together photos and story excerpts from thousands of news Web sites.

Agence France-Presse said the “Google News” service infringes on AFP’s copyrights by reproducing information from the Web sites of subscribers of the Paris-based news wholesaler.

The issues raised by the case have profound implications for the Internet, where anyone can be a publisher and Web journals, or blogs, are becoming more frequent destinations for seekers of news.

This clearly could have a profound impact on the blogging world.