Doctor Who to marry his own daughter

by  Andrew Roberts

David Tennant is engaged to Peter Davison’s daughter. Tennant played the tenth Doctor Who while Davison featured as the fifth Doctor Who. Davidson’s daughter is Georgia Moffett who is 26 years old.

The couple met when she made an appearance as Jenny on a 2008 episode of the popular series. Her role was to play the Doctor’s daughter. The couple plan to marry on New Years day. This will be a year after Tennant made his final appearance on the series. Matt Smith took over his role. Tennant and Davidson were both on the show at the same time in a November 2007 episode.

Moffett is the mother of one child who she had when she was 17 years old. She raised him alone and has not disclosed to the public who the father of her child is. She moved in with Adam Harvey in 2004 and their relationship lasted for another two years. The couple have remained friends. Moffett made appearances on Peak Practice when she was 14.

http://news.carrentals.co.uk/david-tennant-proposes-to-georgia-moffett-34231784.html

#Breaking News: Australia's 4th largest bank #NAB unleashes new cashless society experiment,customers unimpressed, appears ppl prefer money

NAB glitch sparks concern over payment systems

By Emily Bourke

A crippling computer glitch at NAB has raised questions about the vulnerability of the payment systems used by Australian banks.

The bank's customers have been affected by technical problems, which have locked them out of their bank accounts.

Wages and Centrelink benefits had been delayed, settlements and property deals frozen and ATM and eftpos transactions shut off.

Last night the NAB issued a statement saying it had begun to clear the huge backlog of outstanding transactions from Wednesday and Thursday.

The bank is also opening up extra branches today.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/11/27/3078267.htm?section=justin

Tron’s Triumphant Return to Cyberspace

• By Adam Rogers

You will like Tron: Legacy. That’s not a prediction—it’s a command. Don’t even try to fight it. Come December 17, when the movie comes out, your butt will be in a seat and your head will be plugged into migraine-inducing Urkel goggles like everybody else. The people from Walt Disney have made sure of it.

The studio has put an estimated $170 million into this choo-choo train, and it is chugging down the track. The producers started leaking images and designs three years ago. They showed a trailer at Comic-Con before they even had a green light to make the movie. The number of dollars invested in the franchise will likely enter the mathematical regime created by reclusive Russian geniuses for defense budgets and bank bailouts. Los Angeles visual f/x house Digital Domain deployed the latest 3-D cameras and motion-capture technology to render a younger Jeff Bridges as the villain. 

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/ff_tron/

Literacy may have stolen brain power from other functions

By John Timmer 

The human brain contains many regions that are specialized for processing specific decisions and sensory inputs. Many of these are shared with our fellow mammals (and, in some cases, all vertebrates), suggesting that they are evolutionarily ancient specializations. But innovations like writing have only been around for a few thousand years, a time span that's too short relative to human generations to allow for this sort of large evolutionary change. In the absence of specialized capabilities, how has it become possible for such large portions of the population to become literate?

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/11/literacy-takes-over-the-brain.ars

Star Trek's Enterprise now has an owner's manual

by Chris Matyszczyk

As we enter the season of buying people things they don't like, it is fortunate that one company has stopped to think what the world might truly be missing.

Haynes, a company that has made its name and fortune out of creating perfectly bound owners' manuals for every conceivable car, has taken its talents to celestial heights.

According to the Daily Mail, the company is releasing an owner's manual for the USS Enterprise

 http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20021291-71.html?tag=cnetRiver#ixzz140hkmEDT

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Internet reaches Everest summit

Climbers at the top of Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak, will now be able to make video calls and surf the internet on their mobile phones, a Nepalese telecom group claims.

Ncell, a subsidiary of Swedish phone giant TeliaSonera, said on Thursday it had set up a high-speed third-generation (3G) phone base station at an altitude of 5200 metres near Gorakshep village in the Everest region.

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/internet-reaches-everest-summit-20101029-177bf.html

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Fat employee sues McDonald's, wins

A Brazilian court has ordered McDonald's to pay a former franchise manager $US17,500 ($18,000) because he gained 29kg while working there for 12 years.

 http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/fat-employee-sues-mcdonalds-wins-20101029-176kx.html

Its about time people took responsibility for their own actions, McDonald's are not to blame for this guys inability not to say no to food.