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It's no coincidence that Doctors' Day shares the date with a medical milestone. March 30 is the anniversary of the first time (1842) anesthetic was successfully used during surgery -- by Dr. Crawford W. Long. National Doctors' Day Doctors' day honors all doctors, and has since has March 30...

Many thousands of you have watched Stephan T. Lavavej's great Link Removed on Channel 9. If you haven't, then you should. There are two STLs: the Standard Template Library and Stephan T. Lavavej Link Removed You will get to know a lot about each STL over the course of these lectures. Advanced...

DUBAI (Reuters) – Auction house Christie's will put one of the world's largest pearls on the block at its Dubai spring jewelry sale on April 20 in a nostalgic reminder of the Emirate's pearl diving past. The auction house is showcasing an array of pearls, diamonds, gems and gold jewelry ahead...

BOSTON (Reuters Life!) – Waves of criticism have followed the removal of a mural depicting workers' history in Maine, including the iconic "Rosie the Riveter," from government offices in the state capital Augusta. Governor Paul LePage, a Republican, has said through spokesmen that he received...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – John Baker won the storied Iditarod Sled Dog Race on Tuesday in record time, becoming the first Alaska Native champion since 1976. Baker shattered the course record by nearly three hours, finishing the 1,100-mile (1760 km) race in eight days, 19 hours and 46...

Link Removedon Monday, March 14, 2011 at 9PM PST (UTC-8). Our fearless dev leader Duncan mentioned to me over lunch today that he thought it would be a really good idea to provide a single post on 9 with links to good C9 content related to IE9 (we tend to go out early on 9 and some of our best...

Irish rocker Bono and Google co-founder Sergey Brin have been nominated for a new prize created by former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to mark his 80th birthday, the organisers said. The "Mikhail Gorbachev: the man who changed the world" awards are named after his three major policies...

Besse Cooper has officially been named as the oldest person in the world, having reached the ripe old age of 114. Guinness World Records officially named the great-great-grandmother as the person who has lived the longest, following the death of Eunice G Sanborn earlier this year. The...

Fans of the inventor of the modern day condom have outraged his home town by celebrating his birthday with a giant sheath over the town's biggest fountain. The gushing tribute to Julius Fromm in Konin, Poland, has angered Town Hall officials who declared it "inappropriate." Fromm - who...

Link Removed Prepare for a trip down memory lane. YouTuber Andy spends what seems like a whole day upgrading Windows, starting from DOS 5.0 and working his way up until Windows 7. Microsoft truly deserves a hand for making this process possible. Andy keeps track of several interesting...

LONDON — A 350-year-old notebook which documents the trials of women convicted of witchcraft in England during the 17th century has been published online. The notebook written by Nehemiah Wallington, an English Puritan, recounts the fate of women accused of having relationships with the...

They're more flying rats than desert rats but it has emerged China's army is training 10,000 messenger pigeons to serve in the event of a breakdown in mass communication systems. China Central Television (CCTV) announced that the mass feathered recruitment drive was being undertaken by...

I saw this "Chain of Fools" video yesterday that is brilliant in what it does. The producer uses VMware to show every update to Windows since the very first DOS release more than 20 years ago. It's fantastic in that it shows some of the more historic developments of the technology such as the...

An anonymous reader writes "YouTube user Andrew Tait has uploaded a video titled Chain of Fools: Upgrading through every version of Windows. Tait starts with MS DOS 5.0 running Windows 1.0 and keeps upgrading the operating system until he reaches Windows 7, taking note of the changes to system...

If you're old enough to remember tweaking your Autoexec.bat and tackling IRQ conflicts, days when launching Windows required typing "win" at a command prompt, prepare for a blast of nostalgia. YouTuber Andrew Tait (aka "TheRasteri") took a freshly minted VMWare instance and spent what looks to...

A painting of a large penis on a bridge in Russia's second city St Petersburg has been dropped from the shortlist for an art prize, the organisers said. The painting, which pointed skywards when the bridge was raised, was painted last June by opposition Russian art group Voina, or War, to...

Kyrgyzstan's parliament voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to immortalize Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin by naming a mountain in his honor, in a move to reinforce ties with former imperial master Moscow. The Central Asian nation's legislature held three rapid-fire votes within just one...