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Linux For Housewives. XP For Geeks.Talinom writes "ZDNet has an article sure to raise the hackles of any self-respecting geek. They report that housewives buying small laptops like the Asus EE are causing Linux usage for that demographic to spike. A reporter for Tech-On states that 'Retailers and contract manufacturers in Taiwan say that novice PC users there, like students and housewives, tend to buy the Linux version of the Eee PC701, while geeks go for Windows XP.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 9 Jul 2008 | 2:00 pm Nehru Place, Delhi's amazing computer marketDave Prager, a New Yorker living in Delhi, has written a smashing appreciation of Nehru Place, the main computer market in Delhi. I love LOVE Asian computer markets, have done since I first had my mind blown by Sim Lim Square in Singapore. I'm going to India to research a novel in September and I'm really looking forward to the computer-market-pilgrimage part of the trip.Link (Thanks, Dave!) Source: Boing Boing | 9 Jul 2008 | 1:53 pm Google Wraps Search Query Volume Data Into AdWords (PC World)PC World - Google is adding a feature to its AdWords platform that lets advertisers see how frequently people use certain search terms to...Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 9 Jul 2008 | 1:40 pm Justice's data breached in file-sharing - United Press International
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 9 Jul 2008 | 1:20 pm First-ever Web serverWikipedia's image repository includes a photo of the NeXTCube that Tim Berners-Lee ran the first-ever Web server on, at the CERN lab in Geneva, Switzerland:Link (Thanks, Fipi Lele!) Source: Boing Boing | 9 Jul 2008 | 1:20 pm Time for a YouTube intervention - MSNBC
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 9 Jul 2008 | 1:18 pm Nasa Details Shuttle's Retirementschliz writes "Nasa has announced that it intends to officially retire the aging space shuttle fleet by 2010, four years before it has a replacement craft ready. The space shuttle fleet will make ten more flights, mainly to add modules to the International Space Station and carry out repairs and upgrades to the Hubble orbital telescope. The retirement will leave the US without orbital capacity for at least four years, until the Ares booster programme is complete. European and Russian launchers will service the space station in the meantime."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 9 Jul 2008 | 1:15 pm Space shuttle gets its final assignments - Ars Technica
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 9 Jul 2008 | 1:12 pm Sun Takes on Data Boom With Expanded Storage Lineup (PC World)PC World - Sun expanded its storage line with a series of arrays and a server-storage hybrid.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 9 Jul 2008 | 1:10 pm Creditnet.com Unveils Its New FaceNew Easy-To-Use Design, Enhanced Credit Learning Center, and Improved Product Offerings Help Consumers Win the Credit Game SEATTLE, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Creditnet, a...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 1:05 pm DigitalFX International, Inc. Announces Annual Shareholders Meeting for July 23, 2008LAS VEGAS, July 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DigitalFX International, Inc. (Amex: DXN) ( href="http://www.digitalfx.com">http://www.digitalfx.com ), a digital...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 1:05 pm NBC Universal Marketing Executive Kenneth R. Graffeo Joins PointRoll As Chief Operating Officer- Graffeo Brings 20 Years of Leadership Experience to PointRoll's Fast-Growing Interactive Marketing Business - SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- PointRoll,...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 1:02 pm Study: Prescription-free drugs still abound on the Web - CNET News
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 9 Jul 2008 | 1:01 pm Shillington, Pennsylvania, Residents To Benefit From Verizon Wireless Network ExpansionInvesting to Stay Ahead of Growing Demand for Wireless Calling, Data Access, and Music SHILLINGTON, Pa., July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- In a continuing effort to provide the...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 1:00 pm VideoIQ(R) Secures $10 Million in Series B Funding from Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, Matrix Partners and Atlas VentureBEDFORD, Mass., July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- VideoIQ(R), Inc. today announced that it has closed $10 million in a Series B funding round, led by Lehman Brothers Venture...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 1:00 pm ATEN Technology Expands Audio/Video Product Line to Broadcasters, Systems Integrators and Educational InstitutionsIRVINE, Calif., July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- ATEN Technology, Inc., an innovator of high-quality KVM (keyboard/video/mouse) and remote connectivity products to centrally manageSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 1:00 pm Advanced Energy to Report Second Quarter 2008 Financial ResultsFORT COLLINS, Colo., July 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq: AEIS) will release second quarter 2008 financial results on Wednesday,...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 1:00 pm USDC Expands Mission to Include Flexible, Printed ElectronicsThe Newly Named FlexTech Alliance Will Support Displays and Accelerate Advances in the Emergent Flexible Electronics Marketplace SAN JOSE, Calif., July 9 /PRNewswire/...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 1:00 pm New Columnists and Staff Promotions at Reynolds National Center for Business JournalismTEMPE, Ariz., July 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Three new columnists for BusinessJournalism.org and two staff promotions were announced today by the Donald W. Reynolds National...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 1:00 pm iSoftStone Appoints Bruce A. Ferland as President of iSoftStone, Inc.Veteran Business and Technology Executive to Head New North American and European Operations Based in Boston BEIJING and BOSTON, July 9 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Today...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 1:00 pm Google Launches Lively, an Avatar Based 3D Worldno.good.at.coding writes "Google has launched a Windows-only, in-browser (you need to install a client first, though) 3D avatar world — Lively — that you can embed in websites and use to interact with other people. It's not as expansive as Second Life yet but expect things to get better."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 9 Jul 2008 | 12:38 pm Microsoft sets pricing, fee sharing for services (Reuters)
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 9 Jul 2008 | 12:33 pm Fans line-up in Asia 2 days before new iPhone launch (Reuters)
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 9 Jul 2008 | 12:26 pm Microsoft tries to talk its way out of Vista debacle - Inquirer
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 9 Jul 2008 | 12:16 pm Pogue, Goatberg, Baig Review IPhone 3G - Wired News
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 9 Jul 2008 | 12:06 pm Is the iPhone 3G more expensive than the old model?Customers in the UK are more than used to stories of rip-off Britain - and few get hit by high prices as regularly as gadget fans. So it's no surprise that there has been scepticism about the arrival...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 12:03 pm Best Buy Is Selling UbuntuSirLurksAlot writes "It appears that Best Buy is now selling Ubuntu, both through its Web site and in its brick-and-mortar locations. Going by the release on the product page, Ubuntu has actually been available for the low, low price of $19.99 since May 6th of this year. It is being packaged as the "Complete Edition." While they don't specify on the site what version is being offered, a quick call to a local store revealed it to be Hardy Heron, the latest Long Term Support version. How did this development fly under the radar for over two months without anybody noticing?"Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 9 Jul 2008 | 12:02 pm YouTube can't blame Viacom for ad woes - CNET News
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:55 am Congress studies how people track your online use - The Associated Press
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:50 am Google ventures into virtual reality with 'Lively' (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:45 am Congress studies how people track your online use (AP)AP - Executives from major Internet players Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. are due for a grilling about online privacy in a Senate committee Wednesday, but the company likely to get the most scrutiny is a small Silicon Valley startup called NebuAd Inc.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:45 am Microsoft issues four patches, none critical - NetworkWorld.com
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:36 am Chart du Jour: Earth Loans Aren't EasyToday's chart of the day shows how loan standards and costs have climbed together over the last 2.5 years, making it tougher to get credit than it has been in a decade. Apparently Earth loans aren't easy...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:11 am Gosh, How Many Diggs Does It Take To Get To The Home Page, Anyway?Back in June 2005 when I first wrote about Digg (six days after starting TechCrunch), it took just 15 diggs and a story was automatically sent to the home page of the then small and innocent site (there...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:09 am How the iPhone 3G is changing the wireless game - CNNMoney.com
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:07 am Wireless South Korean Operators in Talks With Nokia, Apple Over PhonesIn a country where the use of mobile phones comes as naturally to people as breathing the air, Nokia, iPhone, Blackberry and other iconic phones are conspicuous by their absence. The Korea Times reports...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:05 am Pogue, Mossberg, Baig Review IPhone 3GAt T-two days the big boys from the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and USA Today give their verdicts on the second coming of the iPhone. The consensus? The 3G model isn't so great a leap forward that you should ditch your original model; just wait for the 2.0 software.Source: Wired: Gadgets | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:01 am Kawasaki Microelectronics Adds Multiple MIPS Technologies Processor Cores to Its ASIC IP PortfolioMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MIPS Technologies, Inc.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:00 am BASF Podcast: The Chemical Reporter - Why is Sugar Sticky?LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Sugar's ability to adhere to a surface is pretty impressive. Back in the 1950s, women even used sugar water to hold extravagant hairdos in place - and it made them pretty indestructible.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:00 am Swaziland to Buy AIDS Drugs From UgandaExcerpt form report by Barbara Among entitled:"Swaziland to buy ARVs from Uganda" published by Ugandan newspaper The New Vision website on 9 July His Majesty King Mswati III of Swaziland, who is on a four-day state visit, yesterday toured the new anti-AIDS and anti-malaria drug plant in Luzira, Kampala.Swazi Foreign Affairs Minister Moses Mathedelene said the Swazi government would initially buy drugs from Uganda when the factory starts full production.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:00 am Dairy UK Trumpets White Stuff's Green CredentialsBy Dan Buglass DAIRY UK, the trade organisation that represents the interests of dairy farmers, producer co-ops, milk processors and doorstep delivery firms, has welcomed the British government's new focus on sustainable food production.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:00 am Scott County Gets Key Park Parcel for Bargain Price: The County is Preserving a Lakefront Parcel Between Prior Lake and Elko New Market, Keeping It Out of the Hands of Developers.By David Peterson, Star Tribune, Minneapolis Jul. 9--With an assist from a state program aimed at saving woods and lakes before developers can snare them, Scott County has acquired a lakefront parcel that will one day be a centerpiece of a major regional park.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:00 am BRIEF: Kaskaskia River Reopens to BoatersBy Belleville News-Democrat, Ill. Jul. 9--Kaskaskia River in Randolph County reopened Tuesday to all pleasure and recreational boating from the lock and dam south of Modoc to mile marker 21 near Baldwin.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:00 am Route 11 Plan Gets A $5 Million PushBy Tracy Gordon Fox, The Hartford Courant, Conn. Jul. 9--State and federal officials have agreed to infuse the stalled Route 11 expansion project with more than $5 million, saying the funding "breathes new life" into the plan for a new corridor to southeastern Connecticut. U.S.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:00 am FLDS Spokesman Tells Private Eye to Back Off: Willie Jessop Seeks a Restraining Order for 'Continual Harassment'By Brooke Adams, The Salt Lake Tribune Jul. 9--Two weeks after a restraining order targeted him, a polygamous sect spokesman is firing back and asking a Utah judge to keep a private investigator at bay.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:00 am Coral Experts Converge on S. Fla.By Oscar Corral, The Miami Herald Jul. 9--The world's foremost scientific experts on coral reefs are gathering this week in Broward County to compare notes, network and identify problems and solutions for the ocean's most delicate ecosystem.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:00 am Fernald's Uranium Mess Has High Price: Pollution From Weapons Plant May Stay in Water 100 YearsBy Spencer Hunt, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Jul. 9--Radioactive waste left in the groundwater at the former Fernald uranium-processing plant in southwestern Ohio could linger for a century, state officials estimate. That's why the U.S.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:00 am Hong Kong Anti-Globalization Activists Speak Out on China at G8 SummitText of report by Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post website on 9 July [Report by Ng Tze-Wei: "HK Activists Speak Out on China"] Hong Kong protesters among the thousands of activists in Sapporo to oppose the G8 summit say they want to tell the other side of China's development story.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:00 am Philips to Outsource Monitors HOT STOCKSPhilips Electronics said it had entered into a deal to outsource its PC monitors business to TPV Technology of Hong Kong to increase profitability at its struggling TV unit. Originally published by Reuters. (c) 2008 International Herald Tribune.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:00 am Briefing:TAIWAN PLANS to relax some regulations to allow companies to invest more in mainland China, the economics minister, Yin Chi- ming, said. Originally published by Reuters. (c) 2008 International Herald Tribune. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:00 am Lexington Loses 350 More Furniture JobsBy Richard Craver, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. Jul. 9--Davidson County's battered furniture industry received another major blow today when Stanley Furniture Co. Inc. said it was closing its Lexington plant and cutting 350 jobs by mid-October.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:00 am Suretone Records Announces the Launch of New Website/Ground-Breaking Community FormatSANTA MONICA, Calif., July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Santa Monica-based record label, Suretone, presents the launch of their unprecedented and innovative online music destination, http://www.suretone.com/.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:00 am RMI's Power-Optimized Alchemy Au1250 Processor Enables Up to 12 Hours of Playback Time for Clearview Technology Infinity Mobile Internet PCRMI Corporation, a leading provider of High Performance Processor Solutions for Networking, Communications and Media Rich Applications, and Clearview Technology, Inc., a leading innovator of mobile computing devices, today announced that the miPC Infinity(TM), an innovative computing product bringing true "mobile computing" to the market, is powered by the RMI(R) Alchemy(TM) Au1250(TM) Processor, through its Windows CE 5.0 Pro embedded platform.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:00 am Solace Systems Demonstrates Low Latency, Six-Figure Throughput in Guaranteed Messaging Testing With STACSolace Systems, the leading supplier of high-speed, low-latency content networking systems, today announced the results of testing of its guaranteed messaging solution with the Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC).Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:00 am BRIEF: Where to Find All Things Food- and Cooking-Related in the Journal and on JournalNowBy Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. Jul. 9--Here is a list of where to find all things food- and cooking-related in the Journal: Restaurant news and information about cooking classes and other food-related events run weekly in the "Tidbits" column in the Wednesday Food section.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:00 am Icahn Finds a New Ally in His Pursuit of Yahoo Will Microsoft Help American Investor?By Miguel Helft Andrew Ross Sorkin contributed reporting from New York. * Carl Icahn, the activist investor, has a powerful new ally in his campaign to take control of Yahoo: Microsoft.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:00 am BRIEF: Need a Hook Up? Let Me Tell You About...By From The Editor, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Jul. 9--Sex sells. But when if a publication is free, does it? We'll see. Starting this week, Eye is rededicating coverage to dating, mating and just plain sex.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:00 am Investors play the market for hot video games (USATODAY.com)USATODAY.com - If you see your nephew or daughter waving a plastic wand like a crazy person at the TV, rather than calling a shrink, you might want to dial your broker. Novel types of controllers, like the motion sensitive wand used to move on-screen characters on the Nintendo Wii console, have shown investors that video games have burst light years beyond the dark basements of geeks.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 9 Jul 2008 | 10:53 am Korea Files a Lawsuit Against Sony Ericsson and HTC for Patent InfringementTelecoms Korea reports that "ETRI, Koreas state-invested research center, filed a lawsuit for patent violation against Sony Ericsson, HTC and other global mobile handset makers, for Orthogonal Complex...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 10:52 am On the Watch: AA ZZ ARRSAlcoa Inc. posted a nearly 24 percent drop in quarterly profit because of rising raw material costs, results which are likely to move shares of the aluminum producer on Wednesday.Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 10:17 am Reliance and MTN extend tie-up talks (AFP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 9 Jul 2008 | 10:16 am Can Browser Add-ons Be Businesses?Full disclosure: Alex Iskold runs a browser add-on company called AdaptiveBlue. Also Fred Wilson, who is cited in this article, is a partner in Union Square Ventures - an investor in Alex's company. VC...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 10:14 am Charities urged to harness social mediaCharities are having to cope with a fundamental shift in power as unnofficial advocates launch appeals and bring in donors through social media, a fundraising expert said today. Many are struggling to...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 10:08 am Yahoo Takes A Gander At Demand Media To Plug Some HolesDemand Media, founded by former MySpace CEO Richard Rosenblatt, has quietly grown into a pretty large business, with rumored revenues of around $250 million, and profitable. It just so happens that what...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 9:56 am Security flaw prompts major web alertA major flaw in the way the internet works could lead to millions of people being targeted by criminals and has prompted the "largest security update" in web history, according to a leading security researcher...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 9:40 am Surviving Outsourcing?An anonymous reader writes "As some of you may know, HP is negotiating with DPWN, parent company of DHL, to take on outsourced parts of DPWN's global IT Services business unit. As a worker in that business unit, I and my colleagues are part of what HP is negotiating for. I moved into my current position fresh out of university and so far haven't experienced corporate shake-ups or outsourcing initiatives. I enjoy my work and the opportunities that go with it, which is why this announcement was so distressing to me at first. Then I began hearing about the opportunities HP has internally. If you've been through a similar experience, what advice would you give for someone being outsourced? Should I 'ride the wave' and join the new company and culture, or dust off the old CV/resume?"Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 9 Jul 2008 | 9:35 am Interview: web inventor Sir Tim Berners-LeeWhy are you advocating the study of 'web science'? There are lots of people currently in different disciplines who are looking at the web, and they're realising that it's big and its complex. There are...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 8:53 am An Hour with Jamie DimonMust watch: Charlie Rose in an hour-long discussion with JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon. After watching it, go read selectively from the viewer posts -- including some scathing stuff from at least one ex-JPM...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 8:50 am First iPhone 3G Reviews are So-SoTech's two big hitters -- the NYT's David Pogue and the WSJ's Walt Mossberg -- have out their reviews for the new iPhone 3G, and they're surprisingly so-so about Apple's upgrade. To be released Friday,...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 8:29 am Internet: protect the web, says creator Berners-LeeResearchers have a "duty" to protect the future of the world wide web, according to its inventor. Speaking at the launch of a new research programme yesterday, Sir Tim Berners-Lee - the British computer...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 8:10 am Today at Boing Boing GadgetsA heady day of excitement and derring do, today at Boing Boing Gadgets. The morning started off as it always does: with Steve Jobs screaming "It sucks! SUCKS! It just does!" Then we had coffee, chuckling...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 8:08 am Today at Boing Boing Gadgets
Ready now to face the day, Brownlee was impressed with Acer's latest mini-PC and discovered a zombie crawling its way out of his garden, which he quickly decapitated with a hoe. Then he sort of dicked the morning away playing Song Summoner, a Final Fantasy Tactics clone by Square Enix for your clickwheel iPod. Meanwhile, Beschizza commenced a flurry of posting. To be fair, his first post's title was a bit obvious, but he quickly reached his stride as he wrote about LEGO clones of the 1970s, a novelty electric chair and a wonderfully retro Sinclair's wrist calculator. It didn't stop there: Rob discovered a grass greenness scanner, then let forth with a fire hose of useless vitriol when discovering that the word "woot" had entered the Webster Dictionary. Other things we learned: the iPhone 3G might have a replaceable battery and Stelarc's still making some horrifying robots. Source: Boing Boing | 9 Jul 2008 | 8:08 am BT Has Acquired Ribbit For $55 Million To Build GrandCentral Competitor, Say Ribbit Execs To FriendsThis is a strange story. Rumors circulated today that Silicon Valley based startup Ribbit was acquired by British Telecom, and VentureBeat ran with the story. The company later denied the rumors, but wouldn’t...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 8:04 am Dopey the hamster, and his private LEGO elevator.Actually, his private elevator is built of PURE WIN. Hamster with private elevator built of Lego [YouTube, thanks Jolon Bankey] Source: Boing Boing | 9 Jul 2008 | 7:19 am "New" Words From the Geek Culturethatskinnyguy sends news of Merriam-Webster's 2008 list of new words and, to no-one's surprise, a good number of them come out of geek culture: words like webinar, malware, netroots, pretexting, and fanboy are now official words according to M-W. The CNet article pulls out one "new" word for special appreciation — mondegreen — and, while the article gets the origin right, it ends with a lame call for readers to send in their favorite mondegreens. (CNet does have the good grace to link the Kiss This Guy site.) SFGate columnist Jon Carroll has been collecting readers' mondegreens since 1995 and his list is bound to be better. Quoting Carroll, in a prophetic mode: "This space has been for some years the chief publicity agent for mondegreens. The Oxford English Dictionary has not yet seen the light, but it will, it will." Would you believe, Merriam-Webster's?Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 9 Jul 2008 | 7:11 am Massive Internet security flaw uncoveredSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 7:00 am Senate panel to examine NebuAd's Web monitoring systemSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 7:00 am Localized prostate cancer rarely helped by hormone therapySource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 7:00 am Use of statins in children is debatedSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 7:00 am Bank of America may finally embrace Firefox (CNET)CNET - The largest bank in the United States has officially ignored the second most popular Web browser--until recently.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 9 Jul 2008 | 5:30 am Leverage: hyper-geeky caper TV showJohn Rogers -- who wrote the superb pilot for the stillborn TV show based on Warren Ellis's excellent comic Global Frequency -- has a new TV show in the works, called Leverage. TNT has a little trailer available (see embedded video above) and I was able to see the whole thing via BitTorrent. On the strength of both, I'd say that Leverage has the potential to be the first new TV show in more than five years that I would actually put my butt on the couch for, every week, without fail. Leverage is an hour-long tensely plotted, technologically literate heist/caper show whose likable, flawed, comedic foursome of infiltration specialists are well-cast, funny, and given some damned good lines. The direction and camerawork is distinctive and fearsomely great: this show feels like a graphic novel (in a good way) -- that fast-moving, highly visual, stylized thing that the Wachowskis got so right in the first Matrix movie. It's a really neat trick: it feels like a cinematic graphic novel, one of those graphic novels that appears to be setting up every panel like it was a camera-shot. But those novels always transcend what a mere camera could do (because the artist is more flexible than the lens), so it was freaky to see a camera mimicking the stuff that the notional "hypercamera" of graphic novels uses. Rogers is also a comics writer (Blue Beetle, among other things) and has had a diverse history in the field. I've been lucky enough to hang out with him a couple of times, and he really feels like "one of us" -- a net-centric geek with a gigantic D&D collection, a nonstop sense of humor, and a lust for all things gadgety. Link
See also: Screenwriter of cancelled, leaked Warren Ellis pilot marvels at his fanbase Source: Boing Boing | 9 Jul 2008 | 4:55 am Linguistic Problems of GPL AdvocacyReader Chemisor advances a theory in his journal that a linguistic misunderstanding is at the root of many disagreements over different licensing philosophies, in particular BSD vs. GPL. The argument is that GPL adherents desire the freedom of their code, while those on the BSD side want freedom for their projects. "It is difficult to spend a week on Slashdot without colliding with a GPL advocate. Eager to spread their philosophy, they proselytize to anyone willing to listen, and to many who are not. When they collide with a BSD advocate, such as myself, a heated flamewar usually erupts with each side repeating the same arguments over and over, failing to understand how the other party can be so stupid as to not see the points that appear so obvious and right. These disagreements, as I wish to show in this article, are as much linguistic as they are philosophical, and while the latter side can not be reconciled, the former certainly can, hopefully resulting in a more civil and logical discourse over the matter." Click below for Chemisor's analysis of the linguistic chasm.Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 9 Jul 2008 | 4:46 am Media Heroes trading cardsJeff sez,Link (Thanks, Jeff!) Source: Boing Boing | 9 Jul 2008 | 4:16 am Wired.com Readers' Top Superhero Costumes : When we put out the call to show us your best superhero costumes, we knew Wired.com readers would be up to the task. And we weren't disappointed: From the Thing to the obscure Scarlet Spider, it's clear that you people know and love your superheroes. And apart from a slightly odd fascination with Edward Scissorhands (who was represented in two separate entries -- and who is really only a superhero among the emo crowd), we're completely cool with that.
Left: The winning entry is "Used Electronics Man," by Ryan Peters. Peters built the suit out of old electronics parts while taking summer school in college, and wore it to class one day. Peters' creation combines the aesthetic of Robocop with the ingenuity of Peter Stark's Iron Man suit, so although it's not strictly speaking a superhero costume, it's a worthy champion for the Gadget Lab contest.  : Justin Fields' amazing custom-built costume is an incredibly faithful tribute to Marvel's super-strong, scaly behemoth. The Thing was a close second to Used Electronics Man when the Gadget Lab polls officially closed, although subsequent, unofficial voting has since propelled him to the top of the reader's choice list.  : Thomas Boggs' entry is an obscure Spider-Man clone known as the Scarlet Spider. Yes, folks, this is an actual superhero -- a supervillain, actually -- not just some failed attempt at a Spider-Man costume. Boggs' effort includes an impressive pair of web-shooters.  : Jessica Hurst's costume is an over-the-top tribute to a British cartoon that came to life in a quickly-forgotten 1995 movie of the same name. The only thing missing from this awesome getup? A mutant kangaroo sidekick.  : Never fear, the "comfortably armored superhero of softly padded justice" is here! Reader "JD" submitted this entry, which is made entirely of industrial-grade carpet underlayment, found in a local dumpster. Now that's recycling, folks.  : Crystal Foley sent in this photo of herself as one of the X-Statix, an attempt by Marvel at creating a more poppy, cynical brand of superhero. "I even made the stuffed Doop!" Foley writes.  : David Martindale writes, "This is me when I'm super." We give him points for chutzpah: Since his "costume" exists entirely on the Photoshop plane, it's a dubious entry for this contest. The bike is amazing, though.  : One of two submissions in the Scissorhands category, this one was sent in by Robert O'Brien. One criticism: The blades look a little dull.  : Ed Steel's costume owes more to the classic, 1960s-era TV show than the more recent Heath Ledger reinterpretation of the Joker in Dark Knight. Still, we like it: He's got the demonic grin down pat.  : Marc-Antoine L. Frenette and companion pose as Captain Jack Sparrow, a superhero among pirates.  : Clare McDermott strikes a pose as Barbarella, complete with futuristic ray gun. You go, girl!  : Wikipedia defines an aquitard as "an impermeable layer along an aquifer." It's not clear to us how that translates into bicycle helmets and spandex, but it must make sense to Sarah Crane, who submitted this photo with the note, "We are aquitards. Our super power is the ability to stop water." Source: Wired: Gadgets | 9 Jul 2008 | 4:00 am Wired.com Readers' Top Superhero Costumes: When we put out the call to show us your best superhero costumes, we knew Wired.com readers would be up to the task. And we weren't disappointed: From the Thing to the obscure Scarlet Spider, it's clear that you people know and love your superheroes. And apart from a slightly odd fascination with Edward Scissorhands (who was represented in two separate entries -- and who is really only a superhero among the emo crowd), we're completely cool with that.
Left: The winning entry is "Used Electronics Man," by Ryan Peters. Peters built the suit out of old electronics parts while taking summer school in college, and wore it to class one day. Peters' creation combines the aesthetic of Robocop with the ingenuity of Peter Stark's Iron Man suit, so although it's not strictly speaking a superhero costume, it's a worthy champion for the Gadget Lab contest. : Justin Fields' amazing custom-built costume is an incredibly faithful tribute to Marvel's super-strong, scaly behemoth. The Thing was a close second to Used Electronics Man when the Gadget Lab polls officially closed, although subsequent, unofficial voting has since propelled him to the top of the reader's choice list. : Thomas Boggs' entry is an obscure Spider-Man clone known as the Scarlet Spider. Yes, folks, this is an actual superhero -- a supervillain, actually -- not just some failed attempt at a Spider-Man costume. Boggs' effort includes an impressive pair of web-shooters. : Jessica Hurst's costume is an over-the-top tribute to a British cartoon that came to life in a quickly-forgotten 1995 movie of the same name. The only thing missing from this awesome getup? A mutant kangaroo sidekick. : Never fear, the "comfortably armored superhero of softly padded justice" is here! Reader "JD" submitted this entry, which is made entirely of industrial-grade carpet underlayment, found in a local dumpster. Now that's recycling, folks. : Crystal Foley sent in this photo of herself as one of the X-Statix, an attempt by Marvel at creating a more poppy, cynical brand of superhero. "I even made the stuffed Doop!" Foley writes. : David Martindale writes, "This is me when I'm super." We give him points for chutzpah: Since his "costume" exists entirely on the Photoshop plane, it's a dubious entry for this contest. The bike is amazing, though. : One of two submissions in the Scissorhands category, this one was sent in by Robert O'Brien. One criticism: The blades look a little dull. : Ed Steel's costume owes more to the classic, 1960s-era TV show than the more recent Heath Ledger reinterpretation of the Joker in Dark Knight. Still, we like it: He's got the demonic grin down pat. : Marc-Antoine L. Frenette and companion pose as Captain Jack Sparrow, a superhero among pirates. : Clare McDermott strikes a pose as Barbarella, complete with futuristic ray gun. You go, girl! : Wikipedia defines an aquitard as "an impermeable layer along an aquifer." It's not clear to us how that translates into bicycle helmets and spandex, but it must make sense to Sarah Crane, who submitted this photo with the note, "We are aquitards. Our super power is the ability to stop water." 
Source: Wired Top Stories | 9 Jul 2008 | 4:00 am July 9, 1993: Yes, They're the Romanovs, DNA Tests Confirm1993: DNA testing identifies nine bone fragments found in an unmarked grave in a Siberian forest near Ekaterinburg as those of Nicholas II -- the last czar of Russia -- and members of his family. The identification, made by British scientists working with Russian colleagues, ended a 75-year mystery surrounding the whereabouts of the Romanovs, the last ruling family before the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the birth of the Soviet Union. Drs. Peter Gill and Kevin Sullivan of the British Forensic Science Service in Birmingham were able to establish with near certainty that the remains found in the Koptyaki Forest indeed belonged to Nicholas, the Czarina Alexandra, four of their five children (the remains of Prince Alexei were not recovered), the family's personal physician and three servants. Despite some subsequent criticism of the scientific methodology employed in the nuclear- and mitochondrial-DNA testing, the 1993 findings are considered to be accurate. Nicholas and his family were arrested by the Bolsheviks, who were then engaged in a struggle with the Mensheviks, or Whites, for control of Russia following the country's collapse during World War I. Although the Bolsheviks originally planned to put Nicholas on trial for crimes against the Russian people, the sudden approach of White troops caused the Red Guard to panic. Fearful that the czar might be rescued, the guard commander, with Lenin's approval, executed the Romanovs on July 17, 1918, in the basement of the Iptiev House, the Ekaterinburg mansion that served as their makeshift prison. As the lab tests eventually determined, the bodies were taken to Koptyaki and buried in a mass grave. Further testing in Great Britain established the mitochondrial-DNA haplogroup and sequences for the Romanov family line. The Soviet Union kept mum about the family's fate until finally admitting, in 1926, that they were dead. Although two Russians -- a movie producer and an ethnographer -- claimed to have discovered the grave in 1976, the burial site remained a closely guarded state secret until the USSR itself ceased to exist in 1991. The mystery remained fixed in the popular consciousness throughout most of the 20th century, and there was no shortage of crackpots and frauds emerging from obscurity claiming to be Princess Anastasia or some other down-at-the-heels member of the czar's family. Once the remains were examined, tested and identified, they were laid to rest in the imperial crypt in Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg on July 17, 1998, exactly 80 years after the Romanovs' execution. The Russian Orthodox Church canonized the czar and his family in 2000. Complete closure came earlier this year when DNA testing on some newly unearthed bone shards identified Prince Alexei, the last missing Romanov. Source: Various
Source: Wired Top Stories | 9 Jul 2008 | 4:00 am George Lucas and JJ Abrams, gloriously photoshopped.
Joi Ito points to this fan-remix of a photo he once took of George Lucas and JJ Abrams -- he's looking to contact whoever created it. I'd like to contact the artist to ask for permission to use it and ask them to license it under a CC license. I'd also like to provide attribution. If you sent me the photo and are reading this, can you leave a comment or send me an email? If you know who did this, let me know too.Photoshopped George Lucas and JJ Abrams photo [Joi Ito] Source: Boing Boing | 9 Jul 2008 | 3:43 am The Handwriting of Type Designersjamie found this blog post wherein an Australian Web technologist, Cameron Adams, wondered whether the handwriting of his favorite type designers encoded some sort of influence on their designs. So he wrote to them and asked for a sample. The result will make you slow down and appreciate the beauty and the aesthetics of type. Or else it won't.Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 9 Jul 2008 | 2:57 am Sir Clive Sinclair, UK home computer market pioneer (audio)The BBC's Chris Vallance tells us,We recorded a long interview with Sir Clive Sinclair, British personal computer pioneer (ZX80, ZX81, ZX spectrum) and we've just posted it, more or less unexpurgated, online. Many of your readers will have grown up playing games on one of Sir Clive's machines. In the interview he talks about everything from from flying electric cars to Eee PC's and and his thoughts on the modern computing industry.
Sir Clive Sinclair [ BBC iPM ] Source: Boing Boing | 9 Jul 2008 | 2:40 am Nearly every part of US gov is "involved in monitoring or surveillance."As Congress prepares new guidelines for the NSA's domestic spying program, US lawmakers are leaving untouched a wide array of government programs which also perform surveillance on Americans:These programs - most of them highly classified - are run by an alphabet soup of federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies. They sift, store and analyze the communications, spending habits and travel patterns of U.S. citizens, searching for suspicious activity.Domestic spying quietly goes on [Baltimore Sun] Source: Boing Boing | 9 Jul 2008 | 2:35 am Sci-Fi Books For Pre-Teens?o2binbuzios writes "I have two pre-teen boys who are avid readers, and I am going through my mental catalog for great sci-fi & fantasy books for them. What are some of the classics (and maybe new additions to the classics) that would be great for them to read? I am asking because some of the 'straight-up' classics I remember actually seem kind of dark & cynical for younger readers. Starship Troopers and some of the other Heinlein are definitely darker and more political than I remember... Foundation Trilogy and psycho-history maybe too dry. Road-trip reading season is upon us — what are the good reads for the kids in the back seat?"Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 9 Jul 2008 | 1:08 am Nanotubes Hold Promise for Next-Generation ComputingCarbon nanotubes have been around for more than a decade, but so far they haven't shown up anywhere outside of R&D labs and tennis racquets. Now, two separate groups of researchers have recently published papers demonstrating advances in creating, sorting and organizing carbon nanotubes so they can be used in electronics. Because they are so small and could potentially replace two of the basic components of modern microchips (conductors and semiconductors), nanotubes have continued to pique the interest of electronics researchers. And that interest continues to grow, especially as the current technology used to make chips for electronics begins to reach its physical limits. The trouble is that, until recently, making nanotubes was a somewhat random affair: You'd mix the required ingredients, grow a batch of nanotubes, and then sort through the resulting batch to see what you got. Researchers had no effective way to grow exclusively metallic or exclusively semiconducting nanotubes, and even ordering the nanotubes in regular patterns was a challenge. That has made using nanotubes on an industrial scale impractical to the point of impossibility. "An ant is incredibly strong for its size. But nobody uses ants to do useful work, because they all run around in different directions," says Mike Mayberry, the director of components research for Intel. (Mayberry was not involved in the research.) And so nanotubes have grown for the past 15 years -- knotty and bent -- since the single-walled variety were discovered in 1993 by IBM researcher Donald S. Bethune and NEC researcher Sumio Ijima. As molecular oddities, carbon nanotubes have always been fascinating. Each nanotube is made of a "sheet" of interlocked carbon atoms, rolled up into a single- or multi-walled cylinder. Although each cylinder is a single, narrow molecule no more than a nanometer (nm) or two in diameter, the molecules can grow up to several centimeters in length -- or 30 million times their width. A human hair that long would stretch 1.5 miles. Even better, these strange carbon molecules exhibit great physical strength because they're held together by atomic bonds. They've also got unusual electrical properties: Depending on which way the sheets of carbon are rolled up, nanotubes are either metallic, making them good electrical conductors, or semiconducting, making them potentially useful components for the logic components of microchips. A paper -- presented last month at the VLSI Symposium by Nishant Patil, Albert Lin, Edward R. Myers, H.-S. Philip Wong and Subhasish Mitra, all of Stanford's electrical engineering department -- addresses the problem of getting the nanotubes straightened out so they could be put to work in chips. To be useful in large-scale chip manufacturing, nanotube components will have to be integrated with existing silicon-based chips. Unfortunately, growing nanotubes on silicon wafers produce a disorderly mess. The authors tackled that problem by growing the nanotubes on crystalline quartz, where they grow in orderly rows, then transferring them to a silicon wafer. "If you grow carbon nanotubes on silicon, you will see that the carbon nanotubes are really unruly, like a bowl of thin rice noodles," says Mitra. "If you use a quartz wafer, the nanotubes are largely aligned with each other. They still have kinks and bends and so on, but they're pretty good." Even if the nanotubes are reasonably straight, the problem of selectively creating semiconducting and metallic carbon nanotubes remains. Another paper, published last week in Science by Stanford and Samsung chemical engineers Melburne C. LeMieux, Mark Roberts, Soumendra Barman, Yong Wan Jin, Jong Min Kim and Zhenan Bao, reports that by changing the substrate on which the nanotubes are grown, manufacturers can control what kind of nanotubes form. Using a substrate of aminosilanes, the resulting nanotubes were almost entirely semiconducting, while substrates of aromatic compounds (such as phenyls) produced metallic nanotubes. That's a more effective way of getting the right kind of nanotube than previous techniques, which involved sorting nanotubes after they are made using electrical or magnetic fields -- and which weren't usable on a commercial scale. Nanotubes might be coming on the scene just in time, as modern chipmaking technologies approach their physical limits. Current cutting-edge chip technology creates circuit elements that are 45nm wide, and the next-generation technology, expected in prototype form later this year, will be 32nm. (Smaller circuits are faster and also allow chipmakers to pack more components into a single chip, making processors more powerful and capable.) That's getting pretty close to the limit of current technologies for two reasons: leakage and light. As silicon-and-copper circuits get smaller, electricity leakage and heat dissipation become proportionally greater problems than they are with larger circuits. By contrast, a nanotube circuit could potentially be as small as 1 or 2nm, and it would be extremely efficient, even over comparatively long distances. Also, the photolithography techniques used to etch microchip circuits are running into a physical barrier: The components are smaller than the wavelengths of the light used to etch them. Going smaller will require a completely different technology. "Lithography is running out of steam," notes Subhasish Mitra, a co-author of one of the nanotube papers. While industry researchers welcomed the new papers, they cautioned that it will be quite awhile before nanotubes are used inside microchips. "These techniques and others are all steps in the right direction. They're good progress along the way," says Mayberry. In the meantime, however, nanotubes might find applications on a larger scale than the inside of a chip. For instance, Mayberry notes that Intel has done research into using nanotube-based wiring as the interconnecting wires between different sections of microchips, or even as part of a chip package's cooling system.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 9 Jul 2008 | 1:00 am IBM, Second Life Demo Virtual World Interoperability (TechWeb)TechWeb - InformationWeek - The extensions used to connect Second life to the OpenSim server will be made available to the open source community and the OpenSim community.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 9 Jul 2008 | 1:00 am Alt Text: Documentaries Decoded for Half-Dressed Movie FansForty years ago, if you wanted to see a full-length movie with no interruptions you needed to spend the evening in the company of those with a similar desire to sit in the dark and do nothing. Twenty years ago, you could bring the movie home, but you needed to get out of the house long enough to have a public argument with your significant other at the video store. Ten years ago, Netflix started to send the movies to you, but you still needed to get to your mailbox, which for most people involves mandatory pants. Being generally anti-pants, I recently picked up the Netflix Player, a device that allows you to stream movies directly into your home. Being a recluse has never been easier! The device works quite nicely. It's easy to set up, easy to use and the image quality is arguably better than a garage-sale VHS tape. The main limitation is in the movie selection. Not everything is available for instant download, and what is available is often somewhat ... perverse. For instance, you can watch Young Guns II, but not Young Guns. That's something like Round Table coming out with an all-crust pizza. There is one area where Netflix is chock-full of options, though, and that's in the realm of the documentary. As it turns out, pretty much anything that can be documented has been, and it's all ready to be poured into your lap like so much hot soup. You're going to need some help sorting through this mountain of movies. Luckily, most documentaries come in one of three varieties. EducationalFirst off, there's the sort of documentary you can get high school extra credit for watching. These are about old things, or scientific things. These are easy to spot, because the title tells you what the movie's about and why you should care. Possible titles:
IrritationalThe second sort of documentary involves a director who wants you to throw off the shackles of convention and/or oppression and get really steamed about some variety of injustice. For some reason, these titles are always weird half-puns. I'm not sure why lackadaisical wordplay goes hand-in-hand with social activism, but that's how it works. Possible titles:
CultivationalThe third type of documentary is about some semi-obscure band, artist or quirky person with a cult following. These are marketed to people who are already fans of the subject, so the moviemakers don't need to explain what the documentary is about. In fact, the more obscure the title, the better -- that makes the fans feel smart for "getting it." Possible titles:
Bonus: Quick-Pick Picture ModeWhen in doubt, you should go with something with a dinosaur, a penguin or a fighter plane on the cover when choosing a documentary. They're all pretty good, and it's a proven fact that penguin, fighter plane and dinosaur documentaries are being made faster than you can actually watch them, so you'll never run out. - - - Born helpless, nude and unable to provide for himself, Lore Sjöberg eventually overcame these handicaps to start development on a documentary about a dinosaur-penguin-fighter pilot.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 9 Jul 2008 | 1:00 am Kodak Unveils 50MP CCD Image Sensori4u writes in to let us know that Kodak has announced the world's first 50 million pixel CCD image sensor for professional photography (i.e., for medium-format cameras). Engineering-grade devices of the CCD, the KAF-50100, are currently available. Kodak plans to enter volume production in Q4 2008. "At 50 megapixels, the sensor captures digital images with unprecedented resolution and detail. For instance, with a 50 megapixel camera, in an aerial photo of a field 1.5 miles [about 2.5 km] across, you could detect an object about the size of a small notebook computer (1 foot by 1 foot)." Here's CNet's Crave blog with a few more technical details.Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 8 Jul 2008 | 11:22 pm How to Run Linux Applications in WindowsDiscover the perfect app for the job only to learn that it's optimized for Ubuntu? Don't worry, there are several options for running that Linux application on your Microsoft desktop. Follow this guide to unlock a world of free software options within Windows XP and Vista.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 8 Jul 2008 | 11:00 pm Tesla Finally Hires Someone Who Knows What He's DoingTesla Motors turns to Detroit and hires one of the sharpest engineers around to lead the development of its forthcoming all-electric sedan.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 8 Jul 2008 | 10:19 pm Use Mapstraction and Avoid Embedded-Map HasslesDealing with Google or Microsoft map APIs can be a pain. A JavaScript library called Mapstraction helps take the pain out of geocoding and allows you to tinker with maps in ways the other APIs won't. Our guide helps you get started embedding maps with Mapstraction in four easy steps.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 8 Jul 2008 | 9:20 pm Bruce Conner, filmmaker, Beat artist (RIP)Bruce Conner, a pioneering collage filmmaker and Beat-era assemblage artist, died yesterday. He was 74. Conner is best known for his experimental cut-up films made from found footage and TV advertisements. In the decades since his first gallery shows in the 1950s, Conner collaborated with the likes of DEVO, Terry Riley, Brian Eno, and David Byrne. From Wikipedia:Conner’s first and possibly most famous film, entitled A Movie (1958), combined his thrift store hunting process and his use of still photography. It is referred to as the piece that brought Conner to notoriety. In skillfully editing stock footage, Conner created abstract metaphors of mankind's violence. He subsequently made nearly two dozen non-narrative experimental films.Bruce Conner (Wikipedia), DEVO - Mongoloid: A film by Bruce Conner (YouTube), Prolific Beat era artist Bruce Conner dies (San Francisco Chronicle, thanks RU Sirius!) Source: Boing Boing | 8 Jul 2008 | 7:07 pm Vivaty Scenes Taps Facebook, AIM for 'Immersive Internet'A new service lets users build tiny virtual worlds that they can decorate with video and images imported from YouTube, Facebook and other websites.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 8 Jul 2008 | 7:02 pm FISA Activists Use New Tools, Tactics to Pressure LawmakersLiberal and libertarian bloggers have hired the political media consultants behind Ron Paul's online fundraising "moneybomb," set to go off on Aug. 8, the day Richard Nixon resigned.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 8 Jul 2008 | 6:57 pm New Gmail Features Protect Your Inbox From Prying EyesNew enhancements to Google's online mail application give users more control over their privacy. Gmail now keeps a log so you can monitor your account, and it lets you sign off from a remote computer.
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