Even as the weather turns warm, homeowners who heat with oil can't help but think about next winter. It's a chilling thought. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 15 Mar 2008 | 2:00 pm
We applied to our condominium homeowners association to put a solar water heater on our roof, and they just notified me that they have turned down our request. I thought there were laws that said associations couldn't do this. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 15 Mar 2008 | 2:00 pm
SkiifGeek writes "Zone-H have recently posted the statistical breakdown of the collected website defacements from the last few years. Surprisingly, in 2007 more Linux servers suffered a successful attack than all versions of Windows, combined. Similarly, more Apache installations were successfully attacked than all IIS versions combined. A day after posting this data, Zone-H have questioned the appropriateness of continuing to operate the archive. Despite the valuable information that can be gleaned from the service, it may soon be lost to the world. The natural successor to the now-defunct Alldas archive of defaced websites, Zone-H's archive maintains records of over 2.6 million defaced sites but may be shut down due to the continuous accusations of impropriety leveled against them any time they disclose and mirror a reported defacement."
By Jason M. Rodriguez, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C. Mar. 15--Lynn Grissett's family has endured a lot of ups and downs to keep the family farm for nearly 120 years. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:00 pm
By Nick G. Maheras, High Point Enterprise, N.C. Mar. 15--HIGH POINT -- Local officials have serious reservations about Gov. Mike Easley's proposal to give his office more power to regulate water use and direct water distribution. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:00 pm
By Jamie Pilarczyk, Tampa Tribune, Fla. Mar. 15--SOUTH TAMPA -- Two local residents hope their organization can link supporters of environmental sustainability with the groups and individuals doing the legwork. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:00 pm
By Stacey Shepard, The Bakersfield Californian Mar. 15--The Wasco City Council on Tuesday will hear and possibly vote on plans for a 1,640-acre industrial park that would house an ethanol plant and other businesses. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:00 pm
By Paul B. Johnson, High Point Enterprise, N.C. Mar. 15--TRIAD -- The comprehensive water management plan unveiled by Gov. Mike Easley isn't intended to override the control of local governments over their water sources, a spokeswomanfor the governor said. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:00 pm
By Robin Fitzgerald, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss. Mar. 15--BILOXI -- A Lexington woman accused of stealing a purse from a casino resort has been extradited to Harrison County to face a grand larceny charge. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:00 pm
Slimjim100 writes "Last year at ChicagoCon 2007, Brian Wilson gave a great talk entitled "Cain & Abel: Windows Can Hack, Too!" Although the presentation and audio recording of the talk can be downloaded from the ChicagoCon site at Library, I had totally forgotten to publish his videos. Just in case things didn't go as planned during the live event or his laptop crapped out on him, Brian made a video of the MITM attack he demonstrated using Cain. You get to see how Myspace and other social networking sites are not designed with security in mind."
A Russian rocket launched a communications satellite produced by US defence company Lockheed Martin into space on Saturday but failed to take it into the planned orbit, Russian space... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 15 Mar 2008 | 11:46 am
schliz writes "Researchers are investigating large swarms of up to 10,000 miniature robots which can work together to form a single, artificial life form. A resulting artificial immune system is expected to be able to detect faults and make recommendations to a high-level control system about corrective action — much like how a person's natural immune system is able to cope with unfamiliar pathogens."
Today in my ongoing series of photos from my travels, this shot of the fingerprint reader at Walt Disney World's turnstiles. These machines (which, I'm told, capture the shape of your fingertip instead of your fingerprint itself) are used to keep Disney World customers from sharing or re-selling their admission tickets, and are part of a general and growing police-state climate at the parks that includes routine bag-searches at each park entrance.
The readers aren't very effective at stopping admission cheats. You can choose not to register your fingertip, and to use photo ID for admission instead (I'm thinking of having a random piece of photo identification made with the words "OFFICIAL BOGUS SECURITY IDENTIFICATION FOR HOTELS, THEME PARKS AND OTHER JUNIOR G-MEN" printed on it). So it would be very easy to share your pass: the person named on the pass enters with his ID, and the person with whom he's sharing the card uses a fingertip -- you could visit with your sister's family and half of you could use the tickets in the morning while the other half hung around the pool and relaxed, then switch at lunch: the morning crew uses fingertip, the afternoon uses ID.
What these readers are effective at is conditioning kids to accept surveillance and routine searches and identity checks without particularized suspcion. One morning at Epcot Center, as we offered our ID to the castmember at the turnstile and began to argue (again -- they're very poorly trained on this point) that we could indeed opt to show ID instead of being printed, a small boy behind us chirped up, "No you have to be fingerprinted! Everybody has to be fingerprinted!"
To all those parents who worry that Disney will turn their kids into little princesses, it's time to get priorities straight: the "security" at the parks is even more effective at conditioning your children to live in a police state.
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Today in my ongoing series of photos from my travels, this shot of the fingerprint reader at Walt Disney World's turnstiles. These machines (which, I'm told, capture the shape of your fingertip instead... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 15 Mar 2008 | 10:28 am
The Got Medieval blog traces the history of fanfic all the way back to the middle ages, when enthusiastic Chaucer nuts wrote their own Chaucer sequels, and even wrote themselves into the literature of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 15 Mar 2008 | 10:18 am
The Got Medieval blog traces the history of fanfic all the way back to the middle ages, when enthusiastic Chaucer nuts wrote their own Chaucer sequels, and even wrote themselves into the literature of the day:
Chaucer seems to have attracted this sort of activity more than other writers--or possibly, we modern readers are more interested in tracking down this sort of thing when it's done to a writer we admire as much as Chaucer. Chaucer left a lot of gaps in the Canterbury Tales, and other writers stepped up to fill them, writing tales for the poor Ploughman who never got one in the original, an extra tale for both the Merchant and the Cook, and a whole story about what the Pilgrims did once they got to Canterbury. Robert Henryson, a 15th-century Scottish writer, went so far as to write a sequel to Chaucer's earlier work, Troilus and Criseyde, in which he punishes Criseyde for all the things Chaucer had her do to poor, noble Troilus.
By Paul Wenske, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Mar. 15--With tax season upon us, the IRS is warning consumers that identity thieves are out in force. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 15 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
By George Diepenbrock, Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan. Mar. 15--With advisory committees of teachers, parents and students coming together, Lawrence's superintendent hopes to select a new Free State High School principal next month. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 15 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
By Jennifer Lloyd, Victoria Advocate, Texas Mar. 15--The primaries may be over, but that's no reason to lose sight of the election's end goal: a swanky white-washed mansion in a very hot neighborhood. There is a crop of niche Web sites that cater to the needs of the woman voter. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 15 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Mar. 15--With a keystroke or two, e-mail messages can vanish from view. In North Carolina state government, that may be happening all too often. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 15 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
By Colette M. Jenkins, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio Mar. 15--KENT -- Eleven-year-old Samantha Schultheis wants people to know that they are welcome at her church. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 15 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
By The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson Mar. 15--After a seven-hour delay, tickets for the April 24 Kanye West show at McKale Center went on sale late Friday afternoon. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 15 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
Pat Cadigan has started a campaign to get 500,000 Terry Pratchett fans to donate £1 each to Alzheimer's research, matching the funds put up by Pratchett himself, who was recently diagnosed with rare, early-onset Alzheimer's -- the calls the campaign "Match it for Pratchett!"
Today, it was announced that Terry Pratchett has donated half a million pounds to Alzheimer's research. Hearing that, it occurred to me that if half a million of us all donated a pound to Alzheimer's research, we could match his donation and make it an even million.
So whaddaya say, guys? It's a pound. That's about 2 bucks US dollars, give or take a couple of (US) pennies. You can spare that much. Go here and make your donation. Tell them it's in honour of Terry Pratchett.
Pat Cadigan has started a campaign to get 500,000 Terry Pratchett fans to donate £1 each to Alzheimer's research, matching the funds put up by Pratchett himself, who was recently diagnosed with... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 15 Mar 2008 | 9:54 am
Balistyx writes to mention that Comcast has announced the first test of 100-gigabit-per-second optical networking equipment designed to carry data over a production fiber network. The trial equipment will connect Philadelphia and McLean, VA. "In November, Verizon said it completed the first field test of 100-Gbps optical transmission on a live 312-mile network route between Tampa, Fla., and Miami. The telco's test used a live video feed from the FiOS TV network, and optical equipment from Alcatel-Lucent. Comcast's test is different, according to Schanz, for several reasons: It's running live traffic, and the 100-Gbps wavelengths in the Comcast trial are running over the same physical fiber as its existing 40-Gbps wavelengths, which are handled by Cisco Systems gear."
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A Delta 2 rocket carrying a GPS satellite for the U.S. Air Force has blasted into orbit. The rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida early Saturday ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 15 Mar 2008 | 9:30 am
This Sweded Star Wars remake features enthusiastic young people with KFC buckets on their heads reenacting key scenes from Episode 4: A New Hope while humming the theme music. Gold. Link, Link to production... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 15 Mar 2008 | 9:29 am
This Sweded Star Wars remake features enthusiastic young people with KFC buckets on their heads reenacting key scenes from Episode 4: A New Hope while humming the theme music. Gold.
Link, Link to production sketches
(via IZ Reloaded)
Dwiff sez, "Great trailer for Kino's upcoming release of Houdini the Movie Star, restored editions of Harry Houdini's silent era action blockbusters - including a truly 'teh awesome' sequence from 'The... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 15 Mar 2008 | 9:23 am
Dwiff sez, "Great trailer for Kino's upcoming release of Houdini the Movie Star, restored editions of Harry Houdini's silent era action blockbusters - including a truly 'teh awesome' sequence from 'The Master Mystery' with Harry Houdini battling THE FIRST EVER ROBOT IN A MOTION PICTURE."
Link, Link to Houdini the Movie Star on Amazon
(Thanks, Dwiff!)
LAWRENCE, Kan., March 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Protection One, Inc. (Nasdaq: PONE), one of the largest electronic security companies in the United States, today... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 15 Mar 2008 | 8:58 am
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's carefully controlled media may have remained largely silent on the unrest in Tibet, but a look at Chinese blogs reveals a vitriolic outpouring of anger and... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 15 Mar 2008 | 8:17 am
A Delta 2 rocket carrying a GPS satellite for the Air Force is on its way into orbit. The rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral early Saturday without a hitch. It momentarily lit up... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 15 Mar 2008 | 8:14 am
A retired police drug sniffer dog regularly patrols his new rural beat with his own "off road" wheels supporting his unstable hips. English Springer spaniel Max is a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 15 Mar 2008 | 8:05 am
With power now flowing to the international space station's new robot, the astronauts aboard the linked shuttle-station complex started preparing Saturday for a spacewalk to assemble the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 15 Mar 2008 | 8:01 am
Protesters gathered at an abandoned military site in the Australian capital Saturday to prevent the planned slaughter of 400 kangaroos blamed for ruining the habitat of rare lizards and... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 15 Mar 2008 | 7:34 am
Anonymous writes "A circuit court judge has denied the Church of Scientology's second request for an injunction against protests by the internet group "Anonymous." The Church sought to prevent Anonymous from protesting on the birthday of the Church's leader, the late Ron L. Hubbard. The petition filed by the Church listed twenty-six individuals allegedly affiliated with Anonymous, but "accidentally" included others who merely work near the location of the first protests held in February and did not participate in them, such as a Starbucks employee. Furthermore, the Church failed to show that any of those listed actually committed any wrongdoing."
By Emma Stone, CRIME REPORTER A MAN arrested in connection with the abduction and murder of Nicola Payne has been cleared. The 37-year-old suspect was arrested in Derbyshire by detectives in November 2007, 16 years after the young mum went missing. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 15 Mar 2008 | 7:00 am
The skull of a young woman shows a wound that indicts an attempt to save her life, nearly 1,800 years ago. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 15 Mar 2008 | 7:00 am
Democrats approve a bill that would widen federal wiretapping power but wouldn't give retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 15 Mar 2008 | 7:00 am
Santa Ana's Discovery Science Center had planned an exhibition in which an artist would try to surround an elephant with a giant soap bubble. People complained; now the elephant won't participate. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 15 Mar 2008 | 7:00 am
Second Life founder Philip Rosedale wants an experienced leader to expand Linden Lab. The founder and chief executive of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 15 Mar 2008 | 7:00 am
The $1.6 million Templeton Prize, the richest award made to an individual by a philanthropic organization, was given Wednesday to Michael Heller, 72, a Roman Catholic priest, cosmologist and philosopher... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 15 Mar 2008 | 6:35 am
Dextres got juice. The new Canadian robot for the International Space Station, known as Dextre, had been unable to draw power from the station because of an improperly configured data cable in its storage... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 15 Mar 2008 | 6:35 am
Bungee Labs has raised $8 million Series C in a round that included Wasatch Venture Fund and existing investors North Bridge Venture Partners and Venrock Associates. Orem, Utah based Bungee Labs offers... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 15 Mar 2008 | 6:32 am
China, India and other developing nations must join industrialized countries in reducing greenhouse gas emissions if the world is to avert a global warming disaster, former British Prime... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 15 Mar 2008 | 6:11 am
coondoggie writes to tell us that DARPA announced a wide array of new projects in a report to the House Armed Services Committee that they will be funding in the near future. "everything from advanced network and communications implementations to powerful laser and unmanned aircraft development as well as developing techniques to help military personnel survive myriad dangerous situations"
A Russian Proton-M rocket blasted off Saturday from Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome, carrying a US communications satellite, but failed to take it into orbit, Russian space officials said. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 15 Mar 2008 | 5:26 am
Craigslist should not be held liable for discriminatory housing ads posted on the popular Web site, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 15 Mar 2008 | 5:20 am
By Chidanand Rajghatta WASHINGTON: For all the heartburn and hoopla over H1-B visas and the flood of skilled guest workers coming into the United States, American companies are finding it hard to fill vacant positions with thousands of posts just waiting to be taken by qualified workers, a new study released this week shows. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 15 Mar 2008 | 5:00 am
By Jordan Robertson From iPods to navigation systems, some of today's hottest gadgets are landing on store shelves with some unwanted extras from the factory - pre-installed viruses that steal passwords, open doors for hackers and make computers spew spam. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 15 Mar 2008 | 5:00 am
My current favorite Bear Stearns quote du jour come from Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson today. The preternaturally placid Paulson had this to say about the Bear Stearns bailout: As we have been... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 15 Mar 2008 | 4:46 am
Okay, the FT has me wasting time coming up with more fun anagrams for Bears Stearns: Bare Ass Rent Barer Sanest Bears Astern Barest Snare Stabs Nearer Baser Rates Baste Rears ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 15 Mar 2008 | 4:37 am
(TrendHunter.com) The European Union is developing and funding a project, the Symbrion program, to develop a prototype team of shape-changing, self-organising mini robots that work as a team. These robots... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 15 Mar 2008 | 4:16 am
By JAMES DERK Reader mail clogs the box this week after a few weeks of reviews, so let's get right to it. Q: You mentioned in your column that you are using a scanner that is saving files to a very tiny server with redundant drives. What kind of server is that? A. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 15 Mar 2008 | 4:00 am
(TrendHunter.com) There is a currently an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City that is creating buzz around the world. The exhibit, Design and the Elastic Mind, is a combination of art,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 15 Mar 2008 | 3:58 am
Nathan Yau of FlowingData created posted a graphic showing the 10 largest data breaches in the last 8 years. "Notice the higher frequency as we get closer to the present?" writes Nathan. Follow the link to see the whole thing. Link(Thanks, Mike Love!)
My pal Jason Weisberger and I were just discussing how distressing it can be when a familiar TV character is replaced with a different actor in the middle of a series. Of course, the two Darrins from Bewitched, Dick York and later Dick Sargent, immediately came to mind. I Googled for photos of the two and this beautiful illustration appeared. Link
Mark Graham writes "All this week, UK games development site Develop has been running a series of articles under its 'WiiWare Week' banner, analyzing developer's affections for, and the potential success of Nintendo's upcoming WiiWare digital distribution platform. Most revealing is the claim that Nintendo has been secretly 'waging war' on the likes of Sony and Microsoft by capitalizing on frustrations over cuts to the Xbox Live Arcade royalty rate (down from 70% to 35% for any game making under $4m in revenue) and talking up the service's access to a wide audience to win over development support. It features commentary from both established developers (such as David Braben, creator of Elite, and Scott Orr, creator of Madden) — and indie teams (developers of new WiiWare games Pop and Gravitronix) making launch games for the service."
wiredog writes "The Washington Post is reporting that Microsoft is developing a program that classifies news stories according to whether liberal or conservative bloggers are linking to them and also measures the 'emotional intensity' based on the frequency of keywords in the blog posts." If you would like to jump right to the tool you can check out "Blews" on the Microsoft site.
An anonymous reader writes "We got all excited earlier this week about robo-combat returning to TV with ESPN, but now PopMech super geek Erik Sofge talks to the folks at BattleBots and finds out that because of so many early entries, the competition will be delayed until at least November. The reason? Gone are the babes and predictable wedge fights, in are eager engineering students, a crazy ramp arena and lots of new rules. Worth the wait, or do we miss the Comedy Central version?"
Truly useful software app Evernote, now available for Windows, Mac OS X and as a web service, lets you store digital clippings of your life in an instantly searchable, easily categorized database.
A digital music server is the perfect way to access your music remotely from your bedroom, kitchen or hot tub. They come in all sizes and at all levels of expense -- learn to create the setup that's right for you at Wired.com's How-To Wiki.
The head of the National Science Foundation sees cluster computing as a key enabler in understanding the emergent behavior of complex, chaotic systems like the climate, the power grid and brain-computer interfaces.
Update on a series of previous posts here on BB about pro-Tibetan-independence protests in Lhasa: violence grew dramatically today.
Snip from report issued today by the US-government-funded news agency RFA, which has correspondents on the ground in Tibet:
“We saw two dead at Ramoche temple, two in the garden, two at the Ganden printing house, and those Tibetans who went to take food to prisoners in Drapchi prison saw 26 Tibetans shot after they were brought in on a black vehicle,” one Tibetan witness said. “There could be about 80 dead, or more, but there is too much commotion here to give an exact number.”
“Several buildings owned by Chinese immigrants and Chinese Muslim immigrants were set on fire,” the witness said. “All those shops owned by Chinese were ransacked and burned. Tibetan shop owners were told to mark their shops with scarves.”
Another source said Ramoche monastery, which has about 110 resident monks, was badly damaged after Tibetans were found running in the area carrying photos of the Dalai Lama and shouting “Independence for Tibet.’”
At a demonstration outside the United Nations in New York, Psurbu Tsering of the Tibetan Association of New York and New Jersey said its members received phone calls from Tibet claiming 70 people had been killed and 1,000 arrested. The reports could not be verified.
In the past, China has not hesitated to crush major protests in Tibet or to jail disobedient monks. President Hu Jintao, who is also the general secretary of the Communist Party, served as party boss in Tibet during a violent crackdown against protests in 1989. His support for the bloody suppression of unrest that year earned him the good will of Deng Xiaoping, then the paramount leader, and led directly to his elevation to the Politburo Standing Committee and eventually to China’s top leadership posts.
Image: A man lies injured in the street during street protests today in the "Old Tibetan" neighborhood of Lhasa. (AP Photo)
Update 2: Tibetans in other parts of the world, and their supporters, are also demonstrating in support of cultural, spiritual, and political sovereignty this week.
Some Tibetans in Northern India are attempting to march over the Himalayas, into Tibet. Yingsel Rangzen from Students for a Free Tibetsends these photos, and says, "This movement is happening on many, many fronts."
Update 3: Christal Smith, who produces a radio show called The Tibet Connection, passes along this (unconfirmed) statement from a fellow pro-Tibet activist named Ngawang Norbu:
There was a phone call to my tenant from Lhasa today at 9:00pm saying
more then three hundred people were already killed by Chinese troop
and they were mostly monks from Sera and Drepung Monastery. Sound of
gunshots were heard non stop. Right now Lhasa is like a war zone.
The US House has just approved a new bill that rejects the retroactive immunity to telecommunication businesses and denies most of the new powers for the US President to spy on citizens without a warrant. "As impressive as the House vote itself was, more impressive still was the floor debate which preceded it. I can't recall ever watching a debate on the floor of either House of Congress that I found even remotely impressive -- until today. One Democrat after the next -- of all stripes -- delivered impassioned, defiant speeches in defense of the rule of law, oversight on presidential eavesdropping, and safeguards on government spying. They swatted away the GOP's fear-mongering claims with the dismissive contempt such tactics deserve, rejecting the principle that has predominated political debate in this country since 9/11: that the threat of the Terrorists means we must live under the rule of an omnipotent President and a dismantled constitutional framework."
These are toilet paper dispensers. You stick a roll of toilet paper through the back, and pull a few squares out the nozzle. They cost £12.99 each. Link(Via Random Good Stuff)
Flickr user Moody75 found this fantastic console in the beside table in a room at the Zurich Crowne Plaza, sporting AV inputs for his laptop or pocket-player, a USB power-port, and an HDMI and VGA port so he could put his laptop screen onto the room's big TV.
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The House of Representatives passed a spying bill Friday that expands government surveillance authority but does not free telecoms from lawsuits alleging they violated millions of Americans' privacy rights. Bush has threatened to veto any bill without such amnesty, but that may be more politically difficult than expected.
Perhaps anticipating a major recession and a lot of time spent indoors, gamers are snapping up hardware and software at a brisk rate. Overall sales are up 34 percent in February.
University of California scientist Michelle Khine uses Shrinky Dinks to create lab tools. In this video, she shows how her students create containers for growing stem cells using the popular toy plastic.
Courts will be empowered to force ISPs to hand over information on suspected file sharers, the justice ministry says. The point is protect material that rightfully belongs to the copyright holder.
President Bush wants "less stringent" smog requirements and the Environmental Protection Agency obliges him with a watered down air quality standard, although not without some grumbling.
Today, it was announced that Terry Pratchett has donated half a million pounds to Alzheimer's research. Hearing that, it occurred to me that if half a million of us all donated a pound to Alzheimer's research, we could match his donation and make it an even million.
My pal Jason Weisberger and I were just discussing how distressing it can be when a familiar TV character is replaced with a different actor in the middle of a series. Of course, the two Darrins from Bewitched, Dick York and later Dick Sargent, immediately came to mind. I Googled for photos of the two and this beautiful illustration appeared.
These are toilet paper dispensers. You stick a roll of toilet paper through the back, and pull a few squares out the nozzle. They cost £12.99 each. Link (Via Random Good Stuff)
