YouTube abroad, Radio Shack Mixup, your Star Wars fix, and a completely lungless creature! All these follow the break:
Indonesia Reopens Doors to YouTube
Indonesian ISPs unblocked access to the video sharing website after having banned access to the website last week. The ban was in response to a video posted on March 27 posted by Dutch politician Geert Wilders. Wilders video, geared towards promoting his anti-immigration policy, uploaded a video showing captions of the September 11th attacks with footage of a man being beheaded and concluding with a caricature of Muhammad. The ban itself has raised concerns over the authority the Indonesian government wields.
The video has been condemned by governments worldwide.
Star Wars Fix
A 2 minute trailer has been leaked onto the web of the upcoming Star Wars: Clone Wars animated film. In case you’re not up to speed, the new SW film takes place between Episodes II and III detailing the wacky and zany adventures of duo Kenobi and Skywalker. The film is intended to be a kick-off to a CGI tv series Lucas has been working on that will air on the Cartoon Network in the fall. Interestingly, this particular Star Wars entry seems to be striving to break with convention. It will be the first in the series not distributed by Fox (Warner Bros. will handle that instead), it will air in August and not May (the month in which all others debuted) and it is (obviously) animated, perhaps in response to some stiff acting *cough Hayden Christenson.
Follow the link for the leaked footage, which might not be around for long:
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Radio Shack gets one Wrong
In a recent flyer distributed by the electronics retailer Radio Shack has one fundamental flaw. In it a 8GB iPod Touch is being advertised for $299 but the picture offered shows a completely jailbroken Touch, sporting the installer and IM client icons, something not only misleading to casual customers, but sure to frustrate those over at Apple that are none to happy that the Touch has been ‘unlocked’ in the first place.
And now for something completely different…
An intriguing discovery has recently been made in Borneo where scientists have located a species of frog that breathes without lungs. Rather than using the ‘traditional’ method, this species breathes through its skin. Most frogs utilize this technique along with lungs. However this is the first instance where a species has been discovered to rely wholly on ‘skin-breathing.’ This discovery challenges the evolutionary position that as creatures moved from water to land they developed lungs to adapt.
