Happy Mothers Day to all moms out there, particularly my wife the superhero known as Gotham Gal and my mom who reads this blog religiously so I know she'll read this post. Tom Friedman has an oped piece... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 11 May 2008 | 12:45 pm
or_is_it writes "The company I work for has been growing dramatically and I've been charged with the task of being the gatekeeper for our GFI Spam filters. This involves manually inspecting the subject line/to/from for all caught messages in each filter rule folder. For a company of about 50 people, in one day the number of spam messages can exceed 2,000. Neglect it for a day and you end up with quite a task on your hands. I've made the rules lax enough so important messages can go through, along with a few stray spams, for which I get bitched at. Tighten the rules up and then maybe an important time-sensitive email never gets to its intended recipient, and I get bitched at. Manually reading through all those subject lines is supposed to prevent that, but I'm only human and genuine messages can easily get overlooked. How do larger organizations deal with the spam issue? I can't imagine having one centralized person manually inspecting everyone's junk-mail header is the optimal solution. Purchasing a different commercial mail filter product is a possibility, but I'd like to hear some anecdotal evidence before jumping ship."
By Steve Waters, South Florida Sun-Sentinel May 11--Both quality and quantity will be rewarded in the Pompano Beach Fishing Rodeo. The 43rd Rodeo is Friday and Saturday out of Alsdorf Park on 14th Street in Pompano Beach. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 11 May 2008 | 11:00 am
By Brent Frazee, The Kansas City Star, Mo. May 11--LAKE OZARK, Mo. -- One last cast. That's what Jim Divincen was thinking as his fishing partner, Marcus Sykora, cranked the big motor on his boat and started to move to another area on a recent morning at Lake of the Ozarks. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 11 May 2008 | 11:00 am
By Susan Cocking, The Miami Herald May 11--The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council got an earful -- mostly negative and colorful -- Wednesday in Key Largo at a public hearing on proposals to end overfishing for gag grouper and vermilion snapper in federal waters throughout the region. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 11 May 2008 | 11:00 am
By Nick Sortal, South Florida Sun-Sentinel May 11--A typical middle-schooler's main concern might be staying under the monthly text-message limit. Not such topics as the effect exotic animals have on the environment. Or how to help a butterfly on the verge of extinction. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 11 May 2008 | 11:00 am
The online Apple store has currently no iPhones in stock. Both the 8GB and 16GB iPhone are marked as "Currently Unavailable", reports I4U. This could also just be a store glitch, but we also already learned... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 11 May 2008 | 9:22 am
Foreign aid workers dedicated to delivering emergency telecoms in disaster areas have been prevented from going into cyclone-hit Burma. The BBC reports. "Like many charity groups, the Telecoms Sans... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 11 May 2008 | 8:48 am
It seems that Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow may not have been completely off the mark. According to the Industry Standard, Airship Ventures has raised capital sufficient to build their first Zeppelin NT (Microsoft Windows reference purely coincidental). The airship will offer rides for up to 12 passengers out of the old Navy Blimp hangars at Moffett Field in Silicon Valley. Airship Ventures notes that airships are already flying safely in Japan and Germany, so now the US will have its chance. Rides will cost from $250 to $500 per person. Esther Dyson is one of the investors.
By Balas, Janet L If I were asked to define my role as a librarian in its simplest terms, I would say that I help people find things. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 11 May 2008 | 8:00 am
By Huwe, Terence K NOW WE ARE BEST SERVED BY VIEWING OUR USERS AS EXPERTS AND MEETING THEM ON THEIR OWN TERMS. So much is written about search, and the quality of analysis is high and getting higher all the time. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 11 May 2008 | 8:00 am
Expatriates work with volunteers inside to leak out news, often beating the mainstream media. When the cyclone... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 11 May 2008 | 7:00 am
Endangered tortoises airlifted from an Army base face other threats. As the sun rose over the Mojave Desert, researcher... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 11 May 2008 | 7:00 am
Roger Ebert traces the roots of Internet culture to science fiction fanzines:
Then the university intervened, and I found myself publishing The Spectator (not precisely an original title), a weekly tabloid of arts and politics at the University of Illinois. I had become too busy for fandom, and found it wise to GAFIA (get away from it all). I have always been convinced that the culture of sf fanzines contributed heavily to the formative culture of the early Web, and generated models for web site and blogs. The very tone of the discourse is similar, and like fanzines, the Web took new word coinages, turned them into acronyms, and ran with them. Think about it. Science fiction fans in the decades before the internet were already interested in computers, big-time--first with the supercomputers of science fiction myth, and then with the earliest home-built models. Fans tended to be youngish, male, geeky, obsessed with popular culture, and compelled to circulate their ideas. In the reviews and criticism they ran, they slanted heavily toward expertise in narrow pop fields. The Star Trek phenomenon was predicted by their fascination years earlier with analysis of Captain Video, Superman, X minus One and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, and there were learned discussions about how Tarzan taught himself to read.
Roger Ebert traces the roots of Internet culture to science fiction fanzines: Then the university intervened, and I found myself publishing The Spectator (not precisely an original title), a weekly... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 11 May 2008 | 6:18 am
The Discovery Channel has done a deal with NASA to enhance old film footage from the space program up to the standards of HD. Discovery will air, in HD, a 6-part special called "When We Left Earth," beginning June 8. Judging by the trailer it should be pretty spectacular, a good introduction to the wonders of space exploration for a new generation. After the show airs, NASA gets the improved footage for their archives.
Musicians who play tabletop RPGs, rejoice -- here's a detailed guide to using polyhedral dice to improve your musical skills. The d12 is Schoenbergs dream die. Music majors, rejoice! Now the dice gods... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 11 May 2008 | 6:11 am
Musicians who play tabletop RPGs, rejoice -- here's a detailed guide to using polyhedral dice to improve your musical skills.
The d12 is Schoenberg’s dream die. Music majors, rejoice! Now the dice gods can determine your tone row for you.
The d12 is also excellent for all you wind players who have to do scale competencies in order to pass band. Pair it with the d4 for maximum torture… I mean, practice value.
1. C
2. C#/Db
3. D
4. D#/Eb
5. E
6. F
7. F#/Gb
8. G
9. G#/Ab
10. A
11. A#/Bb
12. B
With just around a month to go before the iPhone 2.0 software hits, does RIM have reason to sweat? Apple pundit extraordinaire and co-creator of the Markdown syntax, John Gruber, thinks they might. He... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 11 May 2008 | 5:34 am
Switzerland-based O-FONE (not to be confused with Microsoft’s oPhone) has released a SIP VoIP client for Symbian’s S60 platform. Perhaps more interesting than the client itself is their claim... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 11 May 2008 | 5:08 am
TOKYO (Reuters) - German carmaker Volkswagen and Japan's Sanyo Electric Co will jointly develop a lithium-ion battery to be used in hybrid and electric cars, the Nikkei financial daily... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 11 May 2008 | 5:02 am
SABULA, Iowa - Jackson County Conservation has opened the South Sabula Lake Park campground. The campground is operating at 75 percent and the shower building will be open. Spruce Creek Park is still closed to camping. (c) 2008 Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque). Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 11 May 2008 | 5:00 am
By Himanshu Kaushik AHMEDABAD: In a desperate move, Madhya Pradesh government has written to all the zoos in the country to spare Asiatic lions for Kuno-Palpur National Park, where lions from Gir were to be shifted. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 11 May 2008 | 5:00 am
By Shalini Singh NEW DELHI: The department of telecom (DoT) is preparing to write to the PMO (prime minister's office) to seek its views on the eligibility criteria for 3G auctions. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 11 May 2008 | 5:00 am
More than 70 pupils are to be suspended from a Lincolnshire school for downloading a game onto school computers. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 11 May 2008 | 5:00 am
Women 2.0 held its second pitch event today on the kempt grounds of the Stanford Golf Course Grill. It was a chance for five private tech companies with at least 50% female ownership to compete for a prize... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 11 May 2008 | 4:13 am
robipilot writes "Mac stolen, Mac comes online, owner connects using 'Back to My Mac,' owner takes picture of culprit, and voila, criminal caught. OK, it wasn't quite that simple, but here's an interesting story of using some built-in technology on the Mac to recover a stolen laptop."
Roboexotica USA, a celebration of cocktail robots, takes place from 8pm-2am this Saturday, May 10th [that'd be today] at Space, 354 5th Street in San Francisco.
I won't be there myself, but I'll look forward to the tweets, vloggage, and flickr coverage likely to pour forth like so many mecha-margaritas.
Scott Beale reminds us that... Roboexotica USA, a celebration of cocktail robots, takes place from 8pm-2am this Saturday, May 10th [that'd be today] at Space, 354 5th Street in San Francisco. I won't... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 11 May 2008 | 2:36 am
Premiered recently in SF and NYC. Snip from description:
Faubourg Tremé is arguably the oldest black neighborhood in America, the
birthplace of the Civil Rights movement in the South and the home of jazz.
While the Tremé district was damaged when the levees broke, this is not
another Katrina documentary. Every frame is a tribute to what African
American communities have contributed even under the most hostile of
conditions. It is a film of such effortless intimacy, subtle glances and
authentic details that only two native New Orleanians could have made it.
Premiered recently in SF and NYC. Snip from description: Faubourg Trem is arguably the oldest black neighborhood in America, the birthplace of the Civil Rights movement in the South and the home of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 11 May 2008 | 2:25 am
Two alleged thieves were found with stolen computer and A/V gear taken from three roommates in White Plains, N.Y., because one of the victims is a Mac expert. She used the notoriously hard-to-get-working Back to My Mac feature in Leopard which allows single sign-in to .Mac for remote, secure access to all computers on which you've signed in. (It uses UPnP/NAT-PMP, wide-area Bonjour, dynamic DNS, and IPsec's IKE coupled with IPv6 tunneling. Any surprise it's wonky? It's cool when it works, though.)
The unnamed victim in question was able to use remote screen sharing to capture a picture of one alleged burglar via the machine's built-in iSight camera, and copied photos on the computer that apparently were of the other alleged thief.
One of the other roommates recognized the two alleged perps from a party at their apartment (they were friends of a friend), told the police, who tracked them down, and made the arrests, finding all the stolen gear in the process.
While I've heard of plenty of Webcams-lead-to-capture stories, this is the first story that ties in IPv6 and recovered gear that I know of.
BOISE, Idaho _ A dispute over a bill to preserve the Snake River in Wyoming presents a new hurdle for Idaho's Sen. Mike Crapo's proposal to protect the Owyhee Canyonlands and nearby ranchers. Sen. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 11 May 2008 | 2:00 am
sveard writes of a little problem Google is having that has Gmail acting like an open relay. Compounding the issue is the fact that services such as Hotmail and Yahoo trust Gmail as a source of mail. "A recently-discovered flaw in Gmail is capable of turning Google's e-mail service into a highly effective spam machine. According to the Information Security Research Team (INSERT), Gmail is susceptible to a man-in-the-middle attack that allows a spammer to send thousands of bulk e-mails through Google's SMTP service without fear of detection. This attack bypasses both Google's identity fraud protection mechanisms and the current 500-address limit on bulk e-mail."
Singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur uses his tumblelog, "Bag Is Hot," to build his next two EPs and a full-length CD, due for release in 2008. Sample the goods on the photo and music journal posted by the indie musician discovered and signed by Peter Gabriel.
theodp writes "Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie are listed as inventors of the Guardian Angel, which is described in a most unusual Microsoft patent application that should intrigue privacy advocates. In addition to protecting you from possibly diseased people, by detecting body temperatures, the Guardian Angel's 'monitoring component can take note of the number of conversations occurring in a room (and more specifically, a breakdown of the types of people in the room accompanied by a warning for dangerous persons, based on sex offender registration, FBI most wanted, etc.).' The versatile Guardian Angel, Microsoft notes, can also recommend restaurants, advise you on the appropriateness of your jokes, detect that your heartbeat has stopped, display targeted ads on billboards, and block spam."
IQ levels rocketed in the last century, but argument still rages about how our brain power should be tested, and the roles played by genetics, social conditions, culture and even race. Keen to find out... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 10 May 2008 | 11:11 pm
Medical row expected when scientists and health experts meet to discuss subject of marriages between cousins Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 10 May 2008 | 11:04 pm
A PETITION demanding tighter conditions on pollution from Aberthaw Power Station has sparked a call for more information from the Environment Agency. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 May 2008 | 11:00 pm
By JOHN HUSBAND USERS of social networking websites, such as Facebook, are leaving themselves wide open to identity fraud. One in three social networkers never use security or privacy settings, according to antifraud expert Equifax. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 10 May 2008 | 11:00 pm
NEW YORK, May 10 /PRNewswire/ -- America's #1 Psychic Sylvia Browne hosted a webcast today, offering her fans the chance to connect with their lost loved Mothers who have crossed over. A record 85,000 logged on, more than the SpiritNow website could handle. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 10 May 2008 | 11:00 pm
TOUGH TIMES: A tired Kevin Keegan rests his head on pal Terry McDermott's shoulders during Kev's first spell at St James's Park To see more great pictures of KK's days as a United player, log on to our online Gallowgate Gallery at www.chroniclelive.co.uk (c) 2008 Evening Chronicle - Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 10 May 2008 | 11:00 pm
THE ECHO has teamed up with Lancashire County Cricket Club to offer five lucky readers a pair of tickets to see the third day of the second npower Test at Old Trafford on Sunday, May 25. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 10 May 2008 | 11:00 pm
By MARIE SZANISZLO Two reputed gangbangers were held without bail yesterday after pleading not guilty to gunning down a 13-year-old boy they allegedly mistook for a rival. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 10 May 2008 | 11:00 pm
FORT WORTH, Texas -- Common household dust has long been known to carry pesticides, allergens and other irritants. But the dust that coats your television sets may finally answer why virtually every American tested has traces of a chemical flame retardant that may be harmful. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 May 2008 | 11:00 pm
The Future of Things covered the introduction last month of HP's DreamColor display, with 30 bits/pixel, developed in conjunction with DreamWorks Animation. The display is aimed at the video production, animation, and graphic arts industries. HP promises blacker blacks and whiter whites — though TFoT quotes one source who notes that if they deliver this, it will be due to the back-lighting and not to the number of bits/pixel. No word on the size of the displays that will actually be delivered, or on the price.
Flickr's Joe D! has a laugh-out-loud set of 75 "refaced" US bank-notes, in which the various dead presidents are reinvented as a series of ever-funnier defacements.
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(Thanks to everyone who suggested these!)
By ABRAHAM MAHSHIE After 11 years researching bisphenol-A and sounding the alarm about the dangers of the chemical that is used in the production of polycarbonate plastic, University of Missouri Professor Frederick Vom Saal got a chance to reach a nationwide audience with an appearance on NBC's "Today" show two weeks ago. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 May 2008 | 8:00 pm
Despite Rupert Murdoch's boast lthat he was about to close a deal for the Long Island newspaper, a News Corp. rep says the company has withdrawn its $580 million bid to purchase Newsday. News Corp. already owns two New York papers, WSJ and New York Post.
An anonymous reader writes "A Seattle Times editorial notes that the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal will put author Mark Steyn on trial for his book 'America Alone,' which has angered Muslims in Canada. Steyn is a columnist for the Canadian magazine Maclean's. According to the editorial, British Columbia bans all words and images 'likely to expose a person... to hatred or contempt because of race, religion, age, disability, sex, marital status or sexual orientation.' Steyn is unapologetic, and is advertising his book as a 'Canadian Hate Crime' and daring the tribunal to 'pronounce him bad.'" The Canadian tabloid the National Post has coverage of what it calls "a media storm."
Jon Edwards recovers data from computers wrecked in floods and fires. He has retrieved info from a melted disk drive that fell from the sky when space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in 2003. The drive held scientific data -- some was radioed to Earth during the voyage and Edwards recovered the remainder from "two hunks of burned metal."
The Prague zoo has launched a test programme to save the Indian crocodile-like gharial from the brink of extinction with a million-dollar pavilion for the animals to bask, and hopefully... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 10 May 2008 | 6:31 pm
Science News reports on recent research indicating that any kind of multitasking while driving is dangerous. Not just the obvious distraction of juggling a cell phone, but even talking to a passenger or listening to a book on tape. The researchers used a driving simulator inside an MRI machine to measure brain activations. "Attending to what someone says galvanizes language-related brain areas while simultaneously reducing activity in spatial regions that coordinate driving behavior. This finding suggests that people who combine relatively automatic tasks, such as speech comprehension and car driving, exceed a biological limit on the amount of systematic brain activity they can accommodate at one time, the researchers propose. As a result, the less-ingrained skill — in this case, driving, which is learned long after a person grasps a native language — takes a neural hit."
A St. Petersburg, FL TV station reports on a family with a 3-year-old boy so has a rare mdical condition that prevents him from sleeping. His parents must watch him around the clock, taking turns to sleep during the day.
Rhett has never taken a nap or gone to sleep at night, forcing his parents to keep watch day and night.
"(My husband) has the day shift and I kind of have the afternoon shift," mother Shannon Lamb said. "We share the night shift because no one can sleep in the house when he is up anyway."
Lamb said she is working extra to pay for Rhett's large medical bills. She also said her husband, David, has given up his job to care for their child.
In Nancy Kress's novel, Beggars in Spain, there were kid genetically designed not to sleep. Link
OAKLAND, California -- At Pacific Coast Brewing here, brewer Donald Gortemiller is reworking his recipes and altering his brewing styles like never before.
Gortemiller isn't acting on a spurt of creativity. He's coping with a worldwide shortage of hops -- the spice of beer. The dry cones of a particular flowering vine, hops are what give your favorite brew its flavor and aroma. Prices of the commodity are skyrocketing as hop supplies have plummeted, forcing smaller brewmasters around the United States to begin quietly tweaking their recipes, in ways that are easily discerned by serious imbibers.
The shortage -- caused by a dwindling number of hop growers worldwide, and exacerbated by a Yakima, Washington, warehouse fire -- has forced Gortemiller to use fewer and different hops than before, changing the flavor of his beer. He's also resorted to beer hacks, like "dry hopping," in which the hops are added late to the mix, consuming fewer hops and yielding a more consistent flavor.
"When hops were $2 a pound, compared to $20 or $30 a pound now, it didn't matter. We'd throw them into the boil at various times," Gortemiller says. "That was an inaccurate way of doing things. We're modifying recipes and using about 20 percent less hops."
Brewer Chuey Munkanta at the 21st Amendment Brewery pulls the grain out of the wash tub. Photo Jim Merithew, Wired.com
The beer-brewing situation demonstrates how the global-commodity shortage is spilling over to affect diverse industries in unexpected ways. The hop shortage lives on the outer edges of a food crisis that's prompted riots across the planet, and last month led U.N. Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon to implore the world's governments to increase food production to stave off a 40 percent jump in the cost of staples.
While nobody in the craft-beer industry is going hungry, they are being forced to adapt. There's no replacement for hops in beer -- they give the brew its flavor. But other key ingredients are in short supply, as well. Malt, which comes from sprouted barley, produces the alcohol and body of beer -- its prices have doubled along with hops. The price of rice, used by industrial brewers, has charted a similar course.
The larger commercial brewers are better off. Most have long-term contracts for hops, barley and rice, and are doing whatever is necessary not to tinker with their brand names.
"Coors Banquet has been tweaked very little since it was introduced in the 1800s," says Molson Coors spokeswoman Jenny Volanakis. "We don't play around with our beers."
But even the big brewers aren't immune from the shortage, says industry analyst Jack Russo of Edward Jones in St. Louis. "Most everybody has raised prices in the 2-to-3-percent range," says Russo.
The small, craft brewers are taking the brunt of the beer crisis, though. "When I called my hop supplier," Gortemiller says, "they told me you're 250th on the list."
At the 21st Amendment Brewery in San Francisco, brewer Shaun O'Sullivan says he just increased the price of a pint 25 cents, to $5.50. Like Gortemiller, he's reducing the amount of hops used in some recipes. "We've backed off," O'Sullivan says. "We had to get smart. We could have easily limped along."
O'Sullivan is lucky. One of his most popular beers is Watermelon Wheat, which "has virtually no hops in it," he says.
Jesse Houck is head brewer at the 21st Amendment Brewery. Photo Jim Merithew, Wired.com
Ken Grossman, the head brewer at Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, says he's not tinkering with his brand-name recipes, such as his Pale Ale. He has long-term contracts in place to purchase his hops of choice.
He's paying more for barley, though -- the price has jumped because of a drought in Australia, flooding in Europe and a trend that has farmers worldwide switching to corn to produce biofuels.
"A lot of brewers got caught short on hops," says Grossman. Still, that hasn't stopped him from brewing a new, hop-laden beer called Torpedo Ale, produced with New Zealand hops. "We have been in a fortunate position," Grossman says.
But not everybody in the business is as beer savvy as is Grossman, one of the first to commercialize microbrewing.
Ian Ward, president of Brewers Supply Group in Shakopee, Minnesota -- the nation's largest craft brew supplier -- says things are only going to get worse. "That's the crisis that brewers are finding themselves in," Ward says. "They're having to review their recipes. The crisis really hasn't hit hard yet."
The hop shortage became noticeable around July, when a market glut and hop reserves stored in extract began dwindling.
The bulk of U.S.-grown hops are produced in the Yakima, Washington, area. Farmers weren't getting a profitable return and got out of the market, switched crops or went bankrupt. The same was happening in Germany, the world's No. 1 hop-growing country.
In the United States alone, there were an estimated 515 hop growers in 1950; 75 in 2000 and just 45 today, Ward says. In 2006, about 2 million pounds of hops were destroyed in an S.S. Steiner warehouse in Yakima, equaling about 4 percent of the U.S. hop crop.
All the while, beer sales are increasing worldwide by about 1 to 2 percent annually. The craft brewing industry is growing yearly by 12 percent. That economic reality is pushing hop growers back into the fields.
21st Amendment's Jesse Houck adds hops to the brew. Photo Jim Merithew, Wired.com
About 8,500 acres of hops were just planted in Yakima alone, and about 2,500 thousand acres in Germany, Ward says.
"The cure for high prices is high prices," he says.
But that isn't sitting well with Omar Ansari, the owner and brewer of Surly Brewing in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, who just signed a long-term hop deal
"My jaw hit the floor when I saw the price," Ansari says. And next year, he'll have to reformulate his brown ale Bender beer, a blend he described as a "flagship" flavor requiring the "Willamette" hop from the Pacific Northwest.
"We were informed by our supplier that next year we can't get that hop. It's just gone,"
Ansari said. "We're going to have to make changes."
"Everybody," he says, "is crossing their fingers there is going to be good hop crop."
A number of readers are sending word that the blogosphere and Twittersphere are alight with reports of Microsoft's new block on messages containing YouTube URLs. Both MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger reportedly implement the block. One blogger sniffed the network to discover that such messages receive a NAK from Microsoft's servers. Microsoft has been blocking messages by keyword, as an anti-phishing measure, for some time, but *.youtube.com would not seem to provoke much worry about phishing. Instead, as B.E.T.A Daily speculates, "This block seems to be related to the recent launch of Messenger TV in 20 countries which allows for sharing video clips from MSN Video on messenger." Hard to get away with in an arena where you don't enjoy a monopoly.
Mashup artist Rench has released a free album of "gangstagrass" music -- hiphop mashed with bluegrass. The mixes are really good, in that, "Hey, who knew those two really different flavors worked so well together?" way that makes mashups so much fun to listen to.
Introducing block rockin' honky-tonk, New American music for the 21st century, built with love in a little studio, hand crafted, running on inspiration and imagination and duct tape, calling on the spirit of Gram Parsons and Otis Redding and KRS-ONE and Dolly Parton and Nina Simone and Willie Nelson and Missy Elliott and Johnny Cash, to write about what we feel and play what our hearts tell us, because to make it happen is reason enough, and to share it with the world is all the reason you need, because we tell the truth with music and the truth is beautiful.
NEW YORK, May 10 /PRNewswire/ -- America's #1 Psychic Sylvia Browne hosted a webcast today, offering her fans the chance to connect with their lost loved Mothers who Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 10 May 2008 | 4:07 pm
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch authorities intend to crack down on illegal online casinos and are calling on banks to stop providing financial services to them, a Justice Ministry spokeswoman... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 10 May 2008 | 3:18 pm
Brett from Open Source Cinema sez, "We're asking people to take photos of themselves with a mug shot plate indicating their copyright criminality. Then we're going to animate the photos and have them appear in our movie, Basement Tapes, an open source documentary."
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(Thanks, Brett)
The d12 is Schoenberg’s dream die. Music majors, rejoice! Now the dice gods can determine your tone row for you.
Rhett has never taken a nap or gone to sleep at night, forcing his parents to keep watch day and night.
Brett from Open Source Cinema sez, "We're asking people to take photos of themselves with a mug shot plate indicating their copyright criminality. Then we're going to animate the photos and have them appear in our movie, Basement Tapes, an open source documentary."
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(Thanks, Brett)
