It’s News To M_A - 8/28/08

cross-posted at WWL, M_A’s & OWL

Stories of note from the WakeTheFuckUp news desk….






Here’s a glimpse of some of the headlines featured below the fold:



Israel ‘doubling’ settlement growth



FCC Anounces 80 City “We’re Not Listening” Digital TV Tour



FASCISM ANYONE?



The Chinavore’s Dilemma



The Christian Right’s Got a New Stealth Tactic to Smuggle Creationism into Science Class



The Future That Never Comes; The Past That Never Was; The Present Inscrutable



The “Good Germans” And The Democratic Convention







Israel ‘doubling’ settlement growth


Israel has nearly doubled settlement construction activity in the occupied West Bank since 2007, a report by the rights group Peace Now says.



The report on settlement expansion coincided with the 18th visit by Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, to the Middle East, on Tuesday.



Rice urged Israel to stop expanding settlements, deemed illegal under international law, arguing that they were not helpful to the peace process.



“The settlement activity is not conducive to creating an environment for negotiations,” Rice...

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digital tv frequencies News




Microtune's Groundbreaking DTV Chipset Delivers Highest-Quality Reception to
MarketWatch (press release)
The Chinese government is aggressively driving the transition to digital TV broadcasting and is expected to mandate a national plan for the
Microtune Announces Chinese Digital TV ChipsetTexas Tech Pulse (blog)

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Augmented reality games show potential
San Francisco Chronicle
Players try to home in on ghosts' frequencies to see them and interact with them on the screen. Video game publishers have worked hard to plunge players

and more »


TVS and ACMA alert viewers on need to re-scan TV's
StreetCorner
by TVS 12/03/2010 Viewers may need to perform a rescan on their digital TV or set-top box to receive Sydney community televison station TVS on channel 44.

and more »


PRLog.Org (press release)

Handheld Digital Signal Level Meter with Rich Features
PRLog.Org (press release)
This portable digital signal level meter, model 1129D, operates in a frequency range of 5MHz to 870MHz. It has functions such as single-channel,

and more »


Reuters

Spectrum: Public trust or cash cow?
ConnectedPlanet (blog)
And in the age of blockbuster spectrum auctions, they each received gratis new digital TV licenses in exchange for their analog spectrum, which allowed them
An academic view on allocating spectrumBroadcast Engineering

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