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BBC: All London Underground services have been suspended indefinitely and bus services in central London (Zone One) have been halted. Wait, London Transit officials are just announcing on CNN that the Underground will be open tomorrow. Red Cross USA Online Donations British Red Cross

NYT: LONDON, July 7 – London was struck by a series of apparently coordinated terrorist explosions in subways and buses during the morning rush hour this morning. The explosions ripped apart at least one double-decker bus and caused officials to close and evacuate the entire subway system. There were many casualties, but officials said it was still too early to tell how many of them were injuries. There were at least two dead. Witnesses reported seeing dozens of people stumbling…

So what do these two have in common? Apparently at the Live 8 show, they both were forgotten about, and had to *gasp*, SHARE a dressing room with someone else. BillG hung with U2, in his “un-ironed trousers” and Pitt spent some quality time with Sting. PITT AND GATES SUFFER LIVE 8 BLUNDER

So eBay wants to expand Paypal to China, and the valley is all abuzz about Google’s possible buyout of Chinese search juggernaut Baidu, possibly before its IPO later this month. Now the only left for the Chinese to do is to continue the space race. Oh, wait. BEIJING: China is drawing up its own version of the US-built Deep Impact probe, media reported on Wednesday, two days after the American spacecraft smashed into a comet. The third nation to launch…

That’s just what we need, technology taking the place of good ol’ fashioned sommeliers. I can just imagine instead of being annoyed by people yakking away on their cell phones, people are going to be yakked to by their bottle of wine. While we’re at it, let’s just get rid of the waiters and have everyone just speak into a voice recognition box at a fast food place instead. “The idea is to bring the oenologist to the table so…

So this guy wrote a piece for Popular Science magazine on how to build a WiFi hotspot backpack. It’s $1000, and yes, while cool (the geek in me is drooling), I wonder if things like The Quiet Zone are in danger. So to all you PR flaks out there, when talking about why you aren’t returning my calls — “Oh, s/he was traveling!” — get over it. There’s no excuse now, bitch. BE YOUR OWN HOTSPOT

Our good friend Om Malik basically trashes a new report by The Diffusion Group that podcast consumption will grow from “15% of portable digital music player owners in 2004 to 75% by 2010.” CNET, on the other hand, leads with this: Researchers at The Diffusion Group predicted this week that the U.S. podcast audience will climb from 840,000 last year to 56 million by 2010. By that time, three-quarters of all people who own portable digital music players will listen…

So Paul Allen is not only swimming in money, he’s getting local subsidies for his companies too! Ah, the life! Allentown: Rich guy Paul Allen and his Vulcan Inc. are about to receive hundreds of millions in various public subsidies for their South Lake Union commercial real estate development. Mayor Greg Nickels’ Robin Hood-in-Reverse proposals will tax poor and middle-income Seattleites in order to bestow the subsidies on a private venture that should be able to make it without them.…

So Steve Jobs gets +10 Nice Guy points for calling the family of the boy who was slain in Brooklyn recently. But then the Times of India gets +5 Huh? points for comparing this murder to the deaths of the Iraq War. On Tuesday, Jobs telephoned Errol Rose, the father of the slain boy, after his staff obtained his telephone number from a newspaper reporter. He conveyed his sympathies to the family and told them he understood their pain. Rose…