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J.Tatar and a number of other readers alert us to the shooting death of an anti-government webmaster while in police custody in Ingushetiya, a volatile province in southern Russia. Police took Ingushetiya.ru owner Magomed Yevloyev off a plane that had just landed in Ingushetiya. “Yevloyev… was a prominent opponent of the pro-Kremlin president of Ingushetia, Murat Zyazikov [a close ally of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin]. Prosecutors have opened a preliminary manslaughter investigation after Yevloyev was shot in a police car in Narzan, the capital of volatile Ingushetia, a mostly Muslim region that borders Chechnya, Russian media reported. A spokesman for the prosecutor’s office, Vladimir Markin, said ‘an incident’ took place after Yevloyev was taken into a police car ‘resulting in a shooting injury to the head and he later died in hospital,’ Interfax reported.”

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Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

While Apple’s App Store was far from being the first of its kind, we’re now seeing a job posting over in the Redmond area that suggests that Microsoft is looking to produce something similar for its Windows Mobile platform. The news comes hot on the heels of Google’s own Android Market announcement, and if the Product Manager position writeup is to be believed, said platform will be christened Skymarket. Described as a “marketplace service for Windows Mobile,” Skymarket could seemingly be a critical part of WinMo 7. But don’t take our word for it, the proof is the pudding — or in the read link, in this instance.

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Original post by Darren Murph

There are just a few short hours left in our 20% off everything sale at the Maker Shed store… Just enter “dogdays” on check out and get 20% off your entire order. On a related note Marc’s “Solar Theremin” build was just featured on YouTube!

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Original post by Phillip Torrone

billybob2 writes “VIA has released a 113,800 line open source graphics driver with full mode-setting support for CRT, LCD, and DVI devices along with 2D, X-Video, and cursor acceleration. Harald Welte, VIA’s open source representative, states that the next step is to add 3D (see preview), TV-out, and hardware codec support while integrating this work with existing open source projects. VIA has pre-installed Linux on a significant portion of the company’s latest products, including the EVEREX gPʠ, 15.4″ gBook, and CloudBook. It has also helped port the open source CoreBoot BIOS (previously LinuxBIOS) to several of its motherboards.” VIA seems to be making good on the promise of its open source initiative announced last April.

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(A rendering of “Our Green Treehouse”)

If you find yourself with a desire to see examples of how we might live more in harmony with nature, with a stress on the “in” part, there’s a collection of treehouses being unveiled in San Antone through tomorrow:

The Balcones Chapter of the USGBC invites you to come see “Our Green Treehouse” at the public grand opening of Terrific Treehouses at the San Antonio Botanical Garden from August 30, 2008 to September 1, 2008. The display continues through December 7, 2008.

The USGBC-CTB treehouse, “Our Green Treehouse,” is made possible through collaboration with Texas Public Radio (TPR) and the Metropolitan Partnership for Energy (MPE). Designed by Lina Luque at MPE and built by USGBC-CTB volunteers led by John Rivenburgh, Our Green Treehouse is an open-air backyard retreat made entirely of sustainable materials featuring rain water capture and solar panels to harness renewable clean energy to power the LED fixtures that illuminate the space at nighttime.

Our Green Treehouse will be aptly located near Water Saver Lane on the grounds of the Botanical Garden. A special thanks to Allen and Allen Lumber and Hardware and Novastar Energy for their contributions of lumber and solar panels, respectively.

Also sponsored by the Aveda Institute of San Antonio, Our Green Treehouse will be auctioned off on-line at www.tpr.org in early December with proceeds benefitting Texas Public Radio.

Brought to you by the San Antonio Botanical Society, Terrific Treehouses will feature up to nine locally designed treehouses intended to delight and stir the imagination. More information about Terrific Treehouses can be found here.

For more on treehouses, check out:

• Building a treehouse step-by-step
• The steampunk treehouse (amazing)
• How to knit a treehouse

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Original post by Luke Iseman

(A rendering of “Our Green Treehouse”)

If you find yourself with a desire to see examples of how we might live more in harmony with nature, with a stress on the “in” part, there’s a collection of treehouses being unveiled in San Antone through tomorrow:

The Balcones Chapter of the USGBC invites you to come see “Our Green Treehouse” at the public grand opening of Terrific Treehouses at the San Antonio Botanical Garden from August 30, 2008 to September 1, 2008. The display continues through December 7, 2008.

The USGBC-CTB treehouse, “Our Green Treehouse,” is made possible through collaboration with Texas Public Radio (TPR) and the Metropolitan Partnership for Energy (MPE). Designed by Lina Luque at MPE and built by USGBC-CTB volunteers led by John Rivenburgh, Our Green Treehouse is an open-air backyard retreat made entirely of sustainable materials featuring rain water capture and solar panels to harness renewable clean energy to power the LED fixtures that illuminate the space at nighttime.

Our Green Treehouse will be aptly located near Water Saver Lane on the grounds of the Botanical Garden. A special thanks to Allen and Allen Lumber and Hardware and Novastar Energy for their contributions of lumber and solar panels, respectively.

Also sponsored by the Aveda Institute of San Antonio, Our Green Treehouse will be auctioned off on-line at www.tpr.org in early December with proceeds benefitting Texas Public Radio.

Brought to you by the San Antonio Botanical Society, Terrific Treehouses will feature up to nine locally designed treehouses intended to delight and stir the imagination. More information about Terrific Treehouses can be found here.

For more on treehouses, check out:

• Building a treehouse step-by-step
• The steampunk treehouse (amazing)
• How to knit a treehouse

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Original post by Luke Iseman

(A rendering of “Our Green Treehouse”)

If you find yourself with a desire to see examples of how we might live more in harmony with nature, with a stress on the “in” part, there’s a collection of treehouses being unveiled in San Antone through tomorrow:

The Balcones Chapter of the USGBC invites you to come see “Our Green Treehouse” at the public grand opening of Terrific Treehouses at the San Antonio Botanical Garden from August 30, 2008 to September 1, 2008. The display continues through December 7, 2008.

The USGBC-CTB treehouse, “Our Green Treehouse,” is made possible through collaboration with Texas Public Radio (TPR) and the Metropolitan Partnership for Energy (MPE). Designed by Lina Luque at MPE and built by USGBC-CTB volunteers led by John Rivenburgh, Our Green Treehouse is an open-air backyard retreat made entirely of sustainable materials featuring rain water capture and solar panels to harness renewable clean energy to power the LED fixtures that illuminate the space at nighttime.

Our Green Treehouse will be aptly located near Water Saver Lane on the grounds of the Botanical Garden. A special thanks to Allen and Allen Lumber and Hardware and Novastar Energy for their contributions of lumber and solar panels, respectively.

Also sponsored by the Aveda Institute of San Antonio, Our Green Treehouse will be auctioned off on-line at www.tpr.org in early December with proceeds benefitting Texas Public Radio.

Brought to you by the San Antonio Botanical Society, Terrific Treehouses will feature up to nine locally designed treehouses intended to delight and stir the imagination. More information about Terrific Treehouses can be found here.

For more on treehouses, check out:

• Building a treehouse step-by-step
• The steampunk treehouse (amazing)
• How to knit a treehouse

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Original post by Luke Iseman

An anonymous reader notes that Microsoft has been granted a patent on “Page Up” and “Page Down” keystrokes. The article links an image of an IBM PC keyboard from 1981 with such keys in evidence. “The software giant applied for the patent in 2005, and was granted it on August 19, 2008. US patent number 7,415,666 describes ‘a method and system in a document viewer for scrolling a substantially exact increment in a document, such as one page, regardless of whether the zoom is such that some, all or one page is currently being viewed.’… The company received its 5,000th patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office in March 2006, and is currently approaching the 10,000 mark.”

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An anonymous reader notes that Microsoft has been granted a patent on “Page Up” and “Page Down″ keystrokes. The article links an image of an IBM PC keyboard from 1981 with such keys in evidence. “The software giant applied for the patent in 2005, and was granted it on August 19, 2008. US patent number 7,415,666 describes ‘a method and system in a document viewer for scrolling a substantially exact increment in a document, such as one page, regardless of whether the zoom is such that some, all or one page is currently being viewed.’… The company received its 5,000th patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office in March 2006, and is currently approaching the 10,000 mark.”

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Original post by kdawson

An anonymous reader notes that Microsoft has been granted a patent on “Page Up″ and “Page Down” keystrokes. The article links an image of an IBM PC keyboard from 1981 with such keys in evidence. “The software giant applied for the patent in 2005, and was granted it on August 19, 2008. US patent number 7,415,666 describes ‘a method and system in a document viewer for scrolling a substantially exact increment in a document, such as one page, regardless of whether the zoom is such that some, all or one page is currently being viewed.’… The company received its 5,000th patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office in March 2006, and is currently approaching the 10,000 mark.”

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Original post by kdawson

An anonymous reader notes that Microsoft has been granted a patent on “Page Up” and “Page Down” keystrokes. The article links an image of an IBM PC keyboard from 1981 with such keys in evidence. “The software giant applied for the patent in 2005, and was granted it on August 19, 2008. US patent number 7,415,666 describes ‘a method and system in a document viewer for scrolling a substantially exact increment in a document, such as one page, regardless of whether the zoom is such that some, all or one page is currently being viewed.’… The company received its 5,000th patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office in March 2006, and is currently approaching the 10,000 mark.”

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Original post by kdawson

An anonymous reader notes that Microsoft has been granted a patent on “Page Up″ and “Page Down” keystrokes. The article links an image of an IBM PC keyboard from 1981 with such keys in evidence. “The software giant applied for the patent in 2005, and was granted it on August 19, 2008. US patent number 7,415,666 describes ‘a method and system in a document viewer for scrolling a substantially exact increment in a document, such as one page, regardless of whether the zoom is such that some, all or one page is currently being viewed.’… The company received its 5,000th patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office in March 2006, and is currently approaching the 10,000 mark.”

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Original post by kdawson

An anonymous reader notes that Microsoft has been granted a patent on “Page Up” and “Page Down″ keystrokes. The article links an image of an IBM PC keyboard from 1981 with such keys in evidence. “The software giant applied for the patent in 2005, and was granted it on August 19, 2008. US patent number 7,415,666 describes ‘a method and system in a document viewer for scrolling a substantially exact increment in a document, such as one page, regardless of whether the zoom is such that some, all or one page is currently being viewed.’… The company received its 5,000th patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office in March 2006, and is currently approaching the 10,000 mark.”

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Original post by kdawson

An anonymous reader notes that Microsoft has been granted a patent on “Page Up” and “Page Down″ keystrokes. The article links an image of an IBM PC keyboard from 1981 with such keys in evidence. “The software giant applied for the patent in 2005, and was granted it on August 19, 2008. US patent number 7,415,666 describes ‘a method and system in a document viewer for scrolling a substantially exact increment in a document, such as one page, regardless of whether the zoom is such that some, all or one page is currently being viewed.’… The company received its 5,000th patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office in March 2006, and is currently approaching the 10,000 mark.”

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Original post by kdawson

Filed under: Cellphones

After what feels like centuries of waiting (and suffering through that painful CeBIT demo), we finally get to see the Meizu M8’s OS in action… and it’s not as bad as you think. Sure, the interface is totally derivative of the iPhone, and there is that pesky cursor floating around, but all-in-all it looks like the company has managed to knock out a decent — if incredibly familiar — UI for its long-delayed phone. Still, there’s some low rent hilarity in this video. Our favorites? The smattering of soft porn pictures and video, and Meizu CEO and all-around bon vivant Jack Wong revealed in a reflection… wearing a face mask! Don’t believe it? Check the clip after the break (and freeze frame of Mr. Wong).

[Thanks, Patrick P.]

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Original post by Joshua Topolsky