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LONDON — Around 400 people protested in London Wednesday evening to show solidarity with U.S. demonstrators, following last week's grand jury decision not to indict a New York police officer in the chokehold killing of Eric Garner. There have been large protests in multiple U.S. cities over the past week, but this is the first demonstration to take place in the UK Protesters staged a die-in at the Westfield London shopping centre in Shepherd's Bush, London, with reports saying it was closed for some time Hundreds of protestors have staged another die in at the centre of Westfield London#BlackLivesMatter #ferguson pic.twitter.com/9GNMhl6RBQ — Areeb Ul (@are_eb) December 10, 2014 Read more... More about Uk, London, Protests, Us World, and World | | | | | | 
If it had been up to Douglas Engelbart, his invention would have been called the "X-Y position indicator for a display system." That's how the man who designed the mouse described what he'd made in his 1967 patent filing. But "mouse" became early shorthand for the beige box with the wire tail, and the cutesy term stuck. "I don't know why we call it a mouse," Engelbart said in his now-famous public demonstration of the technology on Dec. 9, 1968. "Sometimes I apologize it started that way and we never did change it." Of course, the way people talk about technology evolves along with their technological habits. Like how, long before Google became a verb, "computers" were humans, and the way movies were "motion pictures." In 1980, when The New York Times wrote about the brand-new Sony Walkman, it was a "stereo-to-go — and only you can hear it." In 2001, the iPod was explained in tape-era terms, described as "the size of a cassette." And in 2002, when the development of the first iPhone was still a rumor, it was "a telephone with personal digital assistant features." Read more... More about Computer Mouse, Gadgets, and History | | | | | | | 
CBS should have renamed the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show to "A Pop Concert With Victoria's Secret Angels as Backup Dancers" because, essentially, that's what happened when it aired Tuesday night Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Ariana Grande and Hozier stole the show with solid musical performances, and they all playfully interacted with the models, who wore clothes no normal person would wear in the bedroom — let alone in public In no particular order, here are the five performances you may have missed: Read more... 1. Taylor Swift: 'Style'More about Music, Tv, Cbs, Victoria S Secret, and Taylor Swift | | | | | | "Because UberCab LLC is operating without a permit, and has demonstrated numerous violations, we demand that you cease and desist all activities, operations and advertisements related to car service in San Francisco." That menacing line was part of t... | | | | | | 
Before House Republicans approve a $1 trillion spending bill to keep the government open past Thursday night, they are making a few demands. Hampering the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate is one of them. Republicans and Democrats are still negotiating over exactly what the bill will look like, with a vote coming as late as the weekend — even though Thursday is the last day of the session. But based on a New York Times report, one of the top issues at stake is regulations under the Clean Water Act. The EPA proposed a Waters of the U.S. rule this spring to answer a question that has been unclear in the last decade of the Clean Water Act’s 42-year existence. It subjects unregulated streams and wetlands to new restrictions — and that has made conservatives furious. In the last few months, the EPA has released long-awaited regulations on water, coal and smog, all of which have riled Republicans. Read more... More about Government, Politicians, Republicans, Epa, and U.S. Congress | | | | | | FCKH8's swearing little girls are back, this time with a new enemy to spar with: Sexist Santa. The for-profit T-shirt company's holiday ad asks its favorite foul-mouthed little girls to ponder the question, "How sh*tty would it be if Santa was a sex... | | | | |
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