<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Woolworths First To Drop HD DVD From Stores : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/"/><tagline>Woolworths First To Drop HD DVD From Stores : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2008, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2008-08-20T20:42:43+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Woolworths First To Drop HD DVD From Stores]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/48701/1/" /><id>48701</id><summary><![CDATA[Woolworths First To Drop HD DVD From Stores]]></summary><issued>2008-01-28T20:19:55+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-28T20:19:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[British store chain Woolworths today revealed that it will switch exclusively to selling Blu-ray for its movie discs, becoming the first large-scale retailer to drop HD DVD entirely from its shelves]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Warner Bros. Picks Blu-ray Over HD-DVD]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/46095/1/" /><id>46095</id><summary><![CDATA[Warner Bros. Picks Blu-ray Over HD-DVD]]></summary><issued>2008-01-05T01:52:26+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-05T01:52:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Warner Bros. Entertainment said Friday it will release movie discs only in the Blu-ray format, becoming the latest studio to reject the rival HD DVD technology and further complicating the high-definition landscape for consumers.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Blu-ray Outsells HD-DVD In U.S. For First 9 Months]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/39478/1/" /><id>39478</id><summary><![CDATA[Blu-ray Outsells HD-DVD In U.S. For First 9 Months]]></summary><issued>2007-10-24T22:55:56+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-24T22:55:56+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Blu-ray DVD titles outsold rival HD-DVD titles by almost 2-to-1 in the first nine months of the year.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Crucial Advice for Surviving the First Years (both you AND the baby)]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/12419/1/" /><id>12419</id><summary><![CDATA[Crucial Advice for Surviving the First Years (both you AND the baby)]]></summary><issued>2007-03-06T17:16:38+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-06T17:16:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Amusing article, although the page is wayyy too busy.  I'm pretty sure witty Plimates could add more to the list.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Man gets world  record by being first person to swim at North Pole]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/27575/1/" /><id>27575</id><summary><![CDATA[Man gets world  record by being first person to swim at North Pole]]></summary><issued>2007-07-16T10:41:28+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-16T10:41:28+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Briton astounds the world by becoming the first person to swim to North Pole.<br/><br/>Global Warming: Do You Believe Now?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Day the Infant Internet Uttered its First Words]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/39941/1/" /><id>39941</id><summary><![CDATA[The Day the Infant Internet Uttered its First Words]]></summary><issued>2007-10-29T17:16:33+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-29T17:16:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[38 years ago today the first message was sent over the internet. Wow... and now look what it's become.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Shock: First Animal on Earth Was Surprisingly Complex]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/58145/1/" /><id>58145</id><summary><![CDATA[Shock: First Animal on Earth Was Surprisingly Complex]]></summary><issued>2008-04-14T04:11:52+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-14T04:11:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Earth's first animal was the ocean-drifting comb jelly, not the simple sponge, according to a new find that has shocked scientists who didn't imagine the earliest critter could be so complex.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Baby born with eight limbs takes her first steps after life-saving surgery ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/65886/1/" /><id>65886</id><summary><![CDATA[Baby born with eight limbs takes her first steps after life-saving surgery ]]></summary><issued>2008-06-19T02:19:14+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-19T02:19:14+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A two-year-old girl worshipped as a goddess after being born with four arms and four legs is taking her first steps since having her extra limbs removed. Update on <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/science/health/l/40656/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this</a> and <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/health/l/40896/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this</a>.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Winking Star: First Step Of Earth-Like Planet Formation Observed]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/54539/1/" /><id>54539</id><summary><![CDATA[Winking Star: First Step Of Earth-Like Planet Formation Observed]]></summary><issued>2008-03-17T01:07:47+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-17T01:07:47+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[For the first time, astronomers have observed the initial phase in the formation of an earth-like planet. What astronomers observed was that a protoplanetary disk, or ring, around the binary star known as KH 15D, is composed of solid particles larger than what is usually observed in space.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Miracle baby may be a world first]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/63705/1/" /><id>63705</id><summary><![CDATA[Miracle baby may be a world first]]></summary><issued>2008-05-30T07:27:40+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-30T07:27:40+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Territory baby has been dubbed a miracle after she survived -- in what is believed to be a world first -- a full-term ovarian pregnancy.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[First lady facts]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/29189/1/" /><id>29189</id><summary><![CDATA[First lady facts]]></summary><issued>2007-07-27T12:25:57+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-27T12:25:57+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The First to Sell White House Manure for Cash: Mary Todd Lincoln]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Montenegro woman has first child at 62]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/29918/1/" /><id>29918</id><summary><![CDATA[Montenegro woman has first child at 62]]></summary><issued>2007-08-02T08:48:05+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-02T08:48:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A 62-year-old woman in Montenegro gave birth by Caesarean section to her first baby in a Podgorica clinic, after 35 years of marriage.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The First Time News Was Fit To Print]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37269/1/" /><id>37269</id><summary><![CDATA[The First Time News Was Fit To Print]]></summary><issued>2007-10-03T22:21:59+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-03T22:21:59+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[<a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/business/l/36101/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Earlier</a> we learned that The New York Times opened up their archives for free. A <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/business/f/1804/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">thread</a> was started where we could post interesting finds. The people at <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.mentalfloss.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mental_Floss</a> <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=11887" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">magazine</a> are showcasing the first time various famous places/names/things/ etc were mentioned in the Times. From  <i>simpsons</i>, through <i>Starbucks</i>, <i>Silicon Valley</i> and more!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Were the first stars dark?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43135/1/" /><id>43135</id><summary><![CDATA[Were the first stars dark?]]></summary><issued>2007-12-03T08:33:38+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-03T08:33:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Perhaps the first stars in the newborn universe did not shine, but instead were invisible &#8220;dark stars&#8221; 400 to 200,000 times wider than the sun and powered by the annihilation of mysterious dark matter. The study calculated how the birth of the first stars almost 13 billion years ago might have been influenced by the presence of dark matter &#8211; the unseen, yet-unidentified stuff that scientists believe makes up most matter in the universe.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Britain's first shopping centre found - and it's 1,800 years old]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/67584/1/" /><id>67584</id><summary><![CDATA[Britain's first shopping centre found - and it's 1,800 years old]]></summary><issued>2008-07-03T02:39:04+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-03T02:39:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[One of Britain's very first shopping centres has been unearthed by archeologists in a Welsh field. The 1,800-year-old row of narrow shop buildings shows that the Romans in Britain had their very own well-heeled fashionistas.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Coat hanger amnesty declared by British store]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35478/1/" /><id>35478</id><summary><![CDATA[Coat hanger amnesty declared by British store]]></summary><issued>2007-09-12T23:07:54+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-12T23:07:54+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Amnesties are normally reserved for weapons or criminals but a British store has found a new offender to pardon -- the coat hanger.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Cosmic Grim Reaper Seen For First Time]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/65249/1/" /><id>65249</id><summary><![CDATA[Cosmic Grim Reaper Seen For First Time]]></summary><issued>2008-06-12T23:28:55+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-12T23:28:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Like a cosmic Grim Reaper, a blast of ultraviolet light signals the violent death of the universe's most massive stars. Now astronomers have viewed this heavenly harbinger for the first time.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[First Day of Spring!!!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/55098/1/" /><id>55098</id><summary><![CDATA[First Day of Spring!!!]]></summary><issued>2008-03-20T20:49:47+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-20T20:49:47+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Let the Warm Weather Begin!!! <br/><br/>Perhaps we shall celebrate with a little Vivaldi? Spring, First Movement.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[First Sunset Outside Our Solar System Glimpsed]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44006/1/" /><id>44006</id><summary><![CDATA[First Sunset Outside Our Solar System Glimpsed]]></summary><issued>2007-12-12T18:08:39+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-12T18:08:39+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Traces of a distant extrasolar planet's hazy red sunset have been detected for the first time. Astronomers pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at HD 189733b, a gaseous Jupiter-like world about 63 light-years from Earth, as it passed in front of its parent star to catch a glimpse of the planet's atmosphere.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The world's first mobile phone was the size of a dustbin lid - and had a range of just half a mile in 1902]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/61720/1/" /><id>61720</id><summary><![CDATA[The world's first mobile phone was the size of a dustbin lid - and had a range of just half a mile in 1902]]></summary><issued>2008-05-13T21:36:33+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-13T21:36:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[It was the size of a dustbin lid and had a range of just half a mile.<br/><br/>The world's first mobile phone could hardly be more different to today's devices, which are small enough to slip inside a pocket and can call almost anywhere in the world.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The world's first movie of black hole birth]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/55898/1/" /><id>55898</id><summary><![CDATA[The world's first movie of black hole birth]]></summary><issued>2008-03-27T01:05:15+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-27T01:05:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The date of 2008.03.19 marked the brightest ever cosmic explosion observed from the Earth. The outburst denoted as GRB 080319B was probably the death of a massive star leading to the creation of a black hole. Watch video <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://grb.fuw.edu.pl/pi/ot/grb080319b/news.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>.]]></content></entry></feed>