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Right-Wingers in Tinsel Town - Celebrities Supporting John McCain and Sarah Palin (VIDEO)(TrendHunter.com) Finding celebrities who support Senator/GOP Presidential Candidate John McCain and Governor/GOP Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin, is like trying to find several needles in a...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 18 Sep 2008 | 3:19 pm Hacked Politicians - Sarah Palin Yahoo! Email Hacked (GALLERY)(TrendHunter.com) The obsession with VP candidate Sarah Palin has gone a bit too far with hackers tapping into her Yahoo! account. Maybe the hacker was hoping to find hot Sarah Palin photos a la the...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 18 Sep 2008 | 2:45 pm Lives of "First Men" - Sarah Palin's Husband, Todd Palin (GALLERY)(TrendHunter.com) Sarah Palins husband is a total sportsman, a busy father (with a new addition), a devoted husband and a possible first man of sorts for the White House. Todd Palin has a lot on his...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 18 Sep 2008 | 2:19 pm Trend Setting Celebrities - Katie Holmes Sells Out Prps Boyfriend Jeans (GALLERY)(TrendHunter.com) Katie Holmes recently set the tongues of fashionistas and bloggers wagging when she began wearing the baggy boyfriend jeans. Even though most of the buzz was negative, going as far...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 18 Sep 2008 | 1:30 pm Boyfriend Jeans - Katie Holmes Jumps on the Bandwagon of Boy Jeans (GALLERY)(TrendHunter.com) Katie Holmes recently set the tongues of fashionistas and bloggers wagging when she began wearing the baggy boyfriend jeans. Even though most of the buzz was negative, going as far...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 18 Sep 2008 | 1:30 pm Full Moon Energizes BirdsDuring full moons, a marine bird is much more active than on dimmer nights, research shows.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 18 Sep 2008 | 1:18 pm Kangaroo Rats Get Space-Based CensusThe first-ever population count for kangaroo rats will be taken from outer space.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 18 Sep 2008 | 1:14 pm Wall Street havoc deals a new blow to cellphone makers (Reuters)
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 18 Sep 2008 | 1:03 pm New interstate bridge in Minneapolis opens - The Associated Press
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 18 Sep 2008 | 1:01 pm Store, Tag and Print: 10 Great Photo Sharing ServicesThe photo sharing market is growing at a steady clip and new services are released regularly. In this round-up, we compare the features and usability of 10 of our favorite photo sharing sites. Two years...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 18 Sep 2008 | 1:01 pm Nikon Instruments Opens Popular Vote for This Year's Nikon Small World CompetitionPopular Voting Open for Annual Competition of Photography Under the Microscope MELVILLE, N.Y., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- For the second consecutive year, Nikon...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 18 Sep 2008 | 1:00 pm HeelysWhippersnappers have been skating around on these single-wheeled skate shoes since the early 00's. Seeing them coast through mini-malls, supermarkets and movie theaters, I started to get jealous...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 18 Sep 2008 | 1:00 pm Help! Goodwill Needs Donated Computers to Keep Clients WorkingPITTSBURGH, Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania today issued a special emergency appeal to individuals,...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 18 Sep 2008 | 1:00 pm Platform Review: Candidate Positions on Science and Tech Issues - FOXNews
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 18 Sep 2008 | 12:58 pm Bewkes on Bebo: Well, That Was $850 Million Well Spent … Maybe [Digital Daily]
Portfolio: And if you had to do it all over again … would you pay $850 million for Bebo? Jeff Bewkes: Maybe. I’ll tell you why I can’t give you an answer. Because when you’re doing an acquisition in an auction, the core purpose of the auction is to try to get as much buyer and competing interest. When you look back at it, you then have to reveal—which I can’t to you—what I know about the other bidders. And you learn more of it after than before. The reason we said—when we kept being pressed by people, when they said “did you overpay or not?” we said we don’t know—is if our plans work out, we did not overpay. But then somebody says it’s compared to what you could’ve paid. If our plans work out less well than we thought, we would have overpaid by a few hundred million dollars. I’m not sitting here now—I don’t know if that’s the case—under a high case, we’ve actually made a lot of money on it. So it’s really too early to say. It’s kind of like saying, did Google overpay for YouTube? What was that number—$1.6 billion? They haven’t monetized that yet. Source: All Things Digital | 18 Sep 2008 | 12:55 pm Yahoo begins radical home page overhaul (Reuters)
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 18 Sep 2008 | 12:52 pm Gamers Are Fitter (and Sadder) Than You Thinkmissb writes "According to NewScientist.com, online gamers are no 'couch potatoes'. US researchers quizzed players of the role-playing game EverQuest II, and found adult gamers to be in better physical condition than the average American. The downside, however, was the gamers reported more cases of depression and substance abuse than their compatriots."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 18 Sep 2008 | 12:50 pm Seamless Corporation CEO Discusses Recent Feature in Equities Magazine in Audio Interview on www.stockbully.comLAS VEGAS, Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Seamless Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: SMWF), an Internet and software company that develops cutting-edge technologies,...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 18 Sep 2008 | 12:45 pm Shenandoah Telecommunications Company to Explore Options for the Sale of Converged Services UnitEDINBURG, Va., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel) (Nasdaq: SHEN) announced that it will explore options for the sale of...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 18 Sep 2008 | 12:45 pm Line Rider Now Live on iTunes(TM)!RIDE THE LINES ON YOUR iPHONE(TM) & iPOD TOUCH(TM) FROM INXILE ENTERTAINMENT NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- inXile entertainment today announced the...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 18 Sep 2008 | 12:45 pm Samsung and SanDisk Can Learn From Prior Deals [Voices]By Therese Poletti, Senior Columnist, MarketWatch, Tech TalesSamsung Electronics Corp. and SanDisk Corp. can both learn some useful lessons from other recent takeover battles in the technology sector, particularly the failed merger talks between Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. The first lesson is for South Korean electronics giant Samsung. Hostile, unsolicited deals do not have a great history of success in the high-tech business. In the past, such attempts were viewed as a dicey path to take to win over a company where many of the assets were the employees, which could walk out the door. They were rarely pursued. Source: All Things Digital | 18 Sep 2008 | 12:32 pm SteelCloud BlackBerry(R) Appliance Achieves DISA ApprovalGovernment Agency Implements STIG-Compliant SteelWorks(R) FedMobile HERNDON, Va., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SteelCloud Inc. (Nasdaq: SCLD), a developer and...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 18 Sep 2008 | 12:30 pm Free DexKnows.com Widgets Help Consumers Find What They're Fidgeting ForNew Desktop and Website Search Tools Make it Easier for Consumers to Find Local Businesses CARY, N.C., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Dex today unveiled a series ...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 18 Sep 2008 | 12:30 pm Seinfeld ads end as Microsoft turns to reclaim 'I'm a PC' slur ... - Computerworld
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 18 Sep 2008 | 12:23 pm Oracle iGovernment to Launch at Oracle OpenWorld 2008REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- News Facts -- Oracle will introduce Oracle iGovernment at four Oracle OpenWorld sessions on...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 18 Sep 2008 | 12:22 pm Nokia Announces Forum Nokia Calling All Innovators Global Developer ContestDean Kamen Endorses Forum Nokia's Challenge ESPOO, Finland, September 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Forum Nokia is proud to announce Calling All Innovators, a global...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 18 Sep 2008 | 12:21 pm The Glenlivet XXVSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 18 Sep 2008 | 12:20 pm Website Devoted to Animals - Bunnylicious (GALLERY)(TrendHunter.com) I love rabbits (of the non vibrating description) and wagged my bunny tail in joy when I discovered this brilliant lapine site. Basically it covers hares and rabbits in a fun, entertaining...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 18 Sep 2008 | 12:19 pm mocoNews.net - Google's Android Mobile A Hard Sell? - Washington Post
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 18 Sep 2008 | 12:18 pm Maritz Ranks 26th on 2008 InformationWeek 500Ranking Recognizes Maritz' Innovation and Dedication to Delivering Superior Technology Services to Clients MONARCH BEACH, Calif., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Maritz, a...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 18 Sep 2008 | 12:16 pm CU to probe galactic origins with Hubble device - Longmont Daily Times-Call
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 18 Sep 2008 | 12:08 pm It's Not Gold, Jerry: Microsoft Ditching SeinfeldAfter only a couple of TV commercials featuring Odd Couple Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates Microsoft is killing the campaign meant to be its answer to Apple's long-running "PC & Mac" duo that few seemed to love and many loved to ridicule, if not hate.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 18 Sep 2008 | 12:02 pm New Joost Launches Now. And Next Month Joost Will Be 100% Flash.The new browser-based Joost, which we wrote about two weeks ago (screen shots here), launches this morning. The new Joost still requires a plug-in to facilitate P2P transfers of files (reducing Joost's...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 18 Sep 2008 | 12:00 pm Software Spots Spin In Political SpeechesT.S. Ackerman writes "According to an article in NewScientst Tech, there is now software that can identify the amount of spin in a politician or candidate's speech. From the article, 'Blink and you would have missed it. The expression of disgust on former US president Bill Clinton's face during his speech to the Democratic National Convention as he says "Obama" lasts for just a fraction of a second. But to Paul Ekman it was glaringly obvious. "Given that he probably feels jilted that his wife Hillary didn't get the nomination, I would have to say that the entire speech was actually given very gracefully," says Ekman, who has studied people's facial expressions and how they relate to what they are thinking for over 40 years.' The article goes on to analyze the amount of spin in each of the candidates running for president, and the results are that Obama spins the most."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 18 Sep 2008 | 11:57 am Internet Outage Sweeps U.S.An Internet outage swept through the United States after Hurricane Ike caused millions of dollars of damage in the Gulf Coast and beyond according to a firm that tracks connectivity.Renesys Corp. says Internet connections in Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania were the hardest hit.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 18 Sep 2008 | 11:50 am Testimony of Troy Davis, on death row in GeorgiaDamian from Amnesty UK sez, "Troy Davis is scheduled to be executed in Georgia at 7pm local time on 23 September. He has been on death row for 17 years for a murder he maintains he did not commit. His appeal for clemency was deined on 12 September. In March 2008, the Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, joined by two other Justices on the Court, wrote that,: In this case, nearly every witness who identified Davis as the shooter at trial has now disclaimed his or her ability to do so reliably. Three persons have stated that Sylvester Coles confessed to being the shooter. Two witnesses have stated that Sylvester Coles, contrary to his trial testimony, possessed a handgun immediately after the murder. Another witness has provided a description of the crimes that might indicate that Sylvester Coles was the shooter.Hear Troy Davis (Thanks, Damian!) Source: Boing Boing | 18 Sep 2008 | 11:35 am Microsoft Zune 120GB (third generation, glossy black) - CNET News
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 18 Sep 2008 | 11:32 am Congress eyes restrictions on exporting e-waste - CNET News
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 18 Sep 2008 | 11:30 am Password-hacking More Common than You, or Palin, May Think - CRN
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 18 Sep 2008 | 11:26 am Who’s Your Mergers & Acquisitions Consultant SanDisk? Jerry Yang? [Digital Daily]
Is SanDisk out of its mind? On Tuesday the company rejected a $5.9 billion acquisition bid by Samsung Electronics. Apparently, the company feels $26-a-share cash — an 80 percent premium over its Monday close — undervalues the company. And it may have once upon a time. But now that a supply glut has depressed prices for memory cards on which its business is built and its shares have halved in value, well … Really, you have to wonder what the company is thinking. Anyway, Samsung isn’t taking no for answer. In a Wednesday a letter to SanDisk CEO Eli Harari, Samsung CEO Yoon-Woo Lee argued that a merger is a financial win for both companies. Our many meetings and conversations over the last several months have served to confirm for us that a combined Samsung-SanDisk would have a superior global brand, an unparalleled technology platform and the scale and resources to drive convergence in the marketplace. With SanDisk’s innovative culture and technology leadership and Samsung’s scale, leadership in manufacturing and execution, and strong systems and consumer electronics segment knowledge, the combined company would be well positioned to accelerate the adoption of flash memory technology in new markets. We can also establish the platforms and capabilities necessary to position flash as the preferred vehicle for delivery and storage of a wide variety of content, such as film, in a way that would not be possible for either of our companies alone. As we have seen in recent months, markets have become more turbulent and global economic trends are negative. At the same time the competitive environment remains challenging. To survive and compete in these times we will each need to leverage our resources and rely upon a strong balance sheet to fund critical investment and development through good times and bad. Separately investing in necessary state of the art facilities will be a significant tax on your business in the near term. In addition, reliance on IP and enforcing it is a costly and uncertain business for both our companies. Faced with these challenges, now is the time to merge. A persuasive argument. But not in the eyes of SanDisk which seems determined to play Yahoo to Samsung’s Microsoft and, in Lee’s words, “continues to cling to unrealistic expectations on both its standalone market value and an appropriate merger price.” Source: All Things Digital | 18 Sep 2008 | 11:23 am How SEC rule-exemptions led to the Wall St collapseBarry Ritholz sez,Special exemptions from the SEC are in large part responsible for the huge build up in financial sector leverage over the past 4 years -- as well as the massive current unwindHow SEC Regulatory Exemptions Helped Lead to Collapse Source: Boing Boing | 18 Sep 2008 | 11:17 am Learn About the World Battery &Amp; Fuel Cell Chemicals and Materials MarketReportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Chemicals industry industry is available in its catalogue.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 18 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am More Farmers Fighting High Costs With High Technology ; As Fertilizer And Seed Prices Double Or Triple, Some County Farmers Turn To Gps And Precision Applications To Control Costs.By Stephen Zook A. Dale Herr isn't ready to invest in an advanced spray control system. "The day I have to have a machine drive my tractor, I'll quit," the Kirkwood farmer joked. However, even Herr acknowledges the usefulness of some technological advances in farming.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 18 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am Energy and Environment is an Insightful Journal Dedicated to Energy and Environment IssuesResearch and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/467fa2/energy_and_environ) has announced the addition of the "Energy and Environment" subscription to their offering.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 18 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am Texas Scrambles to Restore Power Some Towns Face Weeks in the DarkBy James C. McKinley Jr. Sheryl Gay Stolberg contributed reporting from Houston, and Thayer Evans from Galveston, Texas. * An army of line crews from 31 states has converged on eastern Texas to help deal with the largest power failure in this large state's history.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 18 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am 'Water Trail' Designation Seen Boosting GreenwayBy Jack Brubaker As the Susquehanna rolled by, a number of the river's friends gathered at Long Level Tuesday to praise its virtues.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 18 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am McCain Right to Call for Colorado River Water TalksBy Dave Miller John McCain's recent call for future talks on changes to the 1922 Colorado River Compact should be a good wakeup call for all Western leaders concerned with renewable water and energy resources.Colorado is the primary headwater state for six major river basins and 11 downriver states on both sides of the Continental Divide.Federal data indicates Colorado has only been using about 60 percent of its Colorado River Compact entitlements since the 1960s, because of political infighting between water-short and surplus river water basins.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 18 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am Grain Smuggling Rises in North Korea BRIEFLY: ASIA/PACIFIC: DALIAN, ChinaA corn shortage in North Korea and a bumper harvest across the border in China have triggered an active grain smuggling business, a Chinese official said Wednesday, even as legal trade has also soared.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 18 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am Report: U.S. Lax on Toxic ExportsBy Julie Schmit U.S. regulators aren't enforcing even limited laws against exporting toxic waste from used electronics, the Government Accountability Office said Wednesday. The GAO report is the first time the government has come down hard on toxic e-waste exports, activists say.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 18 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am Environment and Industry Plan to 'Work in Harmony'By John Ross COMPETING interests between industry and the environment on the Cromarty Firth have prompted the launch of a new initiative.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 18 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am Samsung's Cash Bid Rebuffed By SanDiskBy Brad Stone Vindu Goel contributed reporting from New York.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 18 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am SanDisk Rejects $5.8 Billion Samsung BidUS memory chip maker SanDisk has rejected a $5.8 billion takeover bid by South Korean chipmaker Samsung. It said the bid was an opportunistic attempt to take advantage of its current stock price.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 18 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am VMware and Cisco Extend Virtualization PartnershipVMware and Cisco have extended their partnership to deliver joint data center applications designed to improve the operational control of virtual environments. Cisco's Nexus 1000V distributed virtual software switch will be integrated with VMware Infrastructure.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 18 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am Cray Unveils Windows-Based SupercomputerSupercomputer company Cray and Microsoft have collaborated to develop a desk-side, low-end, bladed office supercomputer for customers who require compute-intensive environments. The Cray CX1 supercomputer is pre-installed with Windows HPC Server 2008.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 18 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am Tools to Count Up Your Internet Use U.S. Efforts to Charge Heavy Broadband Users More Could Start to Catch on Elsewhere BASICSBy Peter Wayner When Richard Tallent moved to a new home in Beaumont, Texas, he had one worry on his mind: signing up for Internet service as soon as possible. Time Warner Cable, the local provider, had imposed a 5- gigabyte usage limit for its new customers.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 18 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am Google Android No Match for iPhone - Yet WIRELESSBy Yinka Adegoke Eric Auchard contributed reporting from San Francisco. * Anyone expecting the Google mobile operating system to change the market as Apple's iPhone has over the past year will probably be disappointed - for now.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 18 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am Central European Media Enterprises and MTV Networks International Sign Licensing Agreement for Czech RepublicLONDON and HAMILTON, Bermuda, Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. ("CME") (Nasdaq/Prague Stock Exchange: CETV), a leading television broadcaster in Central and Eastern Europe, and MTV Networks International ("MTVNI"), a division of Viacom Inc.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 18 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am Hot Dog! Readers Find BunsBy Heidi Knapp Rinella The good news: We may have solved the mystery of the whereabouts of hot dog buns like Woolworth's used to serve, which are being sought by Sandra Ashenmil.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 18 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am House Panel OKs Internet Betting BillBy Tony Batt By TONY BATT stephens washington bureau WASHINGTON - The House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday voted 30-19 to require federal agencies to define unlawful Internet gambling before completing regulations to enforce a ban against it.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 18 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am Spit parties: Genetic testing becomes a social activityA company is glamorising genetic testing by taking spit samples at high-society parties. But instead of promoting healthier lifestyles, the results could create needless anxietySource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 18 Sep 2008 | 10:54 am Microsoft and Seinfeld part companyMicrosoft has bid goodbye to Jerry Seinfeld and the next stage of its $300m global advertising campaign will launch in the US tonight with a TV ad that confronts rival Apple's disparaging "Mac vs PC" ads...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 18 Sep 2008 | 10:38 am Ahead of the Bell: Oracle to report 1Q resultsOracle Corp. is expected to report another quarter of double-digit growth after the stock market closes Thursday, but it still might not be enough reassurance for investors worried about weakening demand...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 18 Sep 2008 | 10:31 am Ballmer Dials Up Busy Signals in Search For Microsoft Digital Head [BoomTown]
Time waits for no man–but Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer seems to be taking an awful lot of it in picking who will head the software giant’s long-foundering digital efforts. It has been almost two months since Microsoft said it would pick someone to helm the part of the business that was run by former exec Kevin Johnson, who left in July after the software giant’s bid for Yahoo failed. A decision could come at any time, although Ballmer is reportedly intent on getting exactly the right person for the job. But, by now, most inside the company had expected him to make the most obvious internal choice of SVP Brian McAndrews, who came to Microsoft (MSFT) via its $6 billion acquisition of aQuantive. McAndrews now runs Microsoft’s Advertising and Publisher Solutions Group. Longtime digital SVP of Strategic Partnerships Yusuf Medhi has been seen as #2 candidate. He could also be part of a team that includes both he and McAndrews. Many sources have said that they expect McAndrews to leave, if he is not given the top digital post. But many sources report that Ballmer still remains more intent on hiring someone outside the company, with the idea that such a person could better reenergize Microsoft’s moribund Internet efforts and bring in a fresher perspective. According to sources, his favored external pick has been former Yahoo (YHOO) COO Dan Rosensweig, who has turned down his offer. Ballmer has also been interested in former Facebook top exec Owen Van Natta, who might be a dark horse in the race. In addition, Ballmer has previously queried former AOL head Jon Miller, who was also in line to be on the board of Yahoo, until he was nixed due to a non-compete agreement in place with the online service’s owner Time Warner (TWX). Miller told Ballmer he was not interested in the job. “Ballmer is burning up the Rolodex and coming up empty,” said one person who is familiar with Microsoft. “But he is still looking outward.”
Other sources said Ballmer (pictured here) might now be considering a more pure tech exec for the role, rather than a Web exec. Microsoft’s culture is more technical and such a leader might have an easier time leading the company’s Web efforts. Yesterday, Valleywag had an intriguing report that well-regarded former Yahoo tech exec Qi Lu, who was its top search scientist, might be headed to Microsoft. But Li would be more a powerful weapon for Microsoft to fight archrival Google (GOOG) in the search arena, rather than he would be the company’s overall digital leader. Then again, nabbing someone like Li could be part of a larger team Ballmer might be contemplating, made up of both external and internal elements. Time will tell, of course. How much time, though, is anyone’s guess. Source: All Things Digital | 18 Sep 2008 | 10:26 am Vintage Marlboro ads targeted at moms I had no idea that Marlboros were originally marketed to women, but it appears so. From the Sociological Images blog: "Notice how in one picture the baby actually asks mom to have a cigarette instead of scolding him. It plays up the women-as-hysterical stereotype and also shows changing expectations about good motherhood.." Who knew that the Marlboro Man had a thing for MILKCs (Mothers I'd Like to Kill with Cancer)? Marlboros for Mommies Source: Boing Boing | 18 Sep 2008 | 10:25 am Ahead of the Bell: Jobless claims to drop slightlyGovernment data due out Thursday on the number of newly laid-off workers filing jobless benefit claims is expected to show little improvement from the previous week, as the labor market struggles through...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 18 Sep 2008 | 10:24 am Indian stock index plunges over 5 percentIndia's benchmark index has fallen more than 5 percent in early trading, tracking declines across the region as investors worry the financial crisis unfolding in the U.S. could spread.Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 18 Sep 2008 | 10:03 am All3Media buys Illumina DigitalThe UK independent production firm All3Media has bought Illumina Digital to expand its multimedia division, it has been announced today.In its 10-year-old history, multimedia production firm Illumina's...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 18 Sep 2008 | 9:21 am Microsoft To Announce Jerry Seinfeld Ads CancelledAn anonymous reader writes "Valleywag says the Jerry Seinfeld ads are over — In a phone call, Frank Shaw, confirms that Microsoft is not going on with Seinfeld, and echoes his underlings' spin that the move was planned. There is the "potential to do other things" with Seinfeld, which Shaw says is still "possible." He adds: "People would have been happier if everyone loved the ads, but this was not unexpected.""Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 18 Sep 2008 | 9:02 am Biz break: Tesla, San Jose unveil factory site - San Jose Mercury News
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 18 Sep 2008 | 8:23 am Anise-for Licorice, and BeyondBy Tabanca, Nurhayat More than just a source of flavoring for sweets or liqueurs, the anise plant, Pimpinella sp., is turning out to be a potential source of new pharmaceuticals and agrochemical agents.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 18 Sep 2008 | 8:00 am Live From New York: ATD Hires Peter Kafka to Pen a New Media and Advertising Blog [BoomTown]
Although we did not raid the offices of Silicon Alley Insider and “steal” Peter Kafka, as the fanciful SAI kingpin Henry Blodget alleges–had it been a raid, BoomTown would have properly hogtied Blodget, so he could not make such spurious allegations!–it is true that its current managing editor (pictured here) will be coming to work for us at AllThingD.com soon. Indeed, Walt Mossberg and I, as well as the rest of the ATD team, are thrilled that Peter is coming on board at the end of October. He will write a daily still-unnamed new media blog from New York City. Walt and I have long wanted to bring someone on located on the East Coast and away from the echo chamber that Silicon Valley can be, because we both feel the ongoing digital revolution is taking place over a number of key industries all over this country and the world. Peter was our first choice and has been on my must-read list since I began this blog. He is sharp, witty, confident and has the kind of reporting and writing chops that we think are key to giving readers high quality, standards-based content they can trust. With extensive connections across the media, advertising, entertainment and tech sectors, Peter will be doing original reporting, getting scoops, doing interviews, making videos and providing much-needed and clear-headed analysis that he is so well known for. Peter has worked at SAI since mid-2007. The first hire at the startup tech business analysis site, he has focused on enterprise and beat reporting, as well as breaking news. Previously, he spent 10 years as a reporter and editor at Forbes and Forbes.com covering media and technology. There he launched two tech columns, coordinated the video staff and represented Forbes on industry panels and in TV appearances for CNN, BBC and CNBC. Peter was also a staff reporter with City Business in Minneapolis and a staff writer for the Minnesota Real Estate Journal in Bloomington from 1993 to 1997. Earlier, he was a stringer with the Milwaukee Journal and the Milwaukee Sentinel in Madison, Wisconsin. He holds a bachelor of arts from the University of Wisconsin and resides in Brooklyn, New York. More importantly, Peter is a newly minted father, which should give him more practice in prolonged sleep deprivation needed for his blogging. He will begin at ATD on October 27. Along with Walt and me, Peter joins senior news editor John Paczkowski, author of the rocking Digital Daily column, who formerly wrote the San Jose Mercury News’ award-winning blog “Good Morning Silicon Valley,” and Wall Street Journal reporter Katherine Boehret who writes the most excellent weekly Mossberg Solution column. We hope you are as thrilled as we are that Peter is coming soon to the ATD site. (And if you want a little taste of Peter’s work, here is post he did yesterday on an appearance by Time Warner’s Jeff Bewkes at Goldman Sach’s media conference and another he did on one by News Corp.’s–and owner of this site–Rupert Murdoch.) Source: All Things Digital | 18 Sep 2008 | 7:11 am Report is Critcal of US For Dumping E-Waste Overseascoondoggie writes "In what may be the least astonishing news of the day, some major US companies who say they are environmentally recycling electronic waste — aren't. Rather more startling — they are dumping everything from cell phones and old computers to televisions in countries such as China and India where disposal practices are unsafe to people and dangerous to the environment. Controlling the exportation of all of the e-waste plops on the doorstep of the US Environmental Protection Agency which is doing a woeful job, according to a scathing 67-page report issued by the Government Accountability Office today."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 18 Sep 2008 | 7:10 am Fries With That Zune? Fast Food, Slow Connection [Voices]By Staci D. Kramer, Executive Editor, paidContent.orgSitting in a McDonald’s in suburban St. Louis, breaking my rule about eating fast food when I’m not on the road and trying out the latest Zune gimmick–free wireless access via Wayport at roughly 9,800 golden arch outlets across the US. First impressions: Way easy and way slow. It’s not just the Zune WiFi that’s sluggish; the free-with-food hour of Wayport WiFi on my laptop is slower than real ketchup. It took about 5 minutes to establish a connection, load the page and log on. You could finish a Happy Meal by the time you’re actually doing anything purposeful. As for the Zune, as soon as I went to the Marketplace area on my freshly updated 2nd gen 8G model, it started looking for the network. Source: All Things Digital | 18 Sep 2008 | 7:04 am Can Games Make Your Kid a Better Citizen? [Voices]By Kristin Kalning, Games Editor, MSNBC.comParents of video-gaming children, take heart: Your kid is not destined to become an anti-social hermit who lives at home until he’s 35. In fact, a new study shows that all that game time could actually be making him a better citizen. No, this isn’t a study funded by the video-game association. It’s from the respectable folks at the Pew Internet & American Life Project. And it’s the first, says study co-author Joe Kahne, to track the sorts of things kids do when playing–not just how much time they spend playing. “It’s really valuable to focus heavily on the quality of those experiences,” he says. Source: All Things Digital | 18 Sep 2008 | 7:03 am Surprise! Universal Music Revenues Up 5 Percent Thanks to Downloads [Voices]By Nate Anderson, Senior Editor, Ars TechnicaAfter having $10 billion wiped off their collective worldwide revenues this decade, the four major music labels haven’t had much to crow about. Indie labels, which have banded together to negotiate as Merlin, together are as large as EMI, the smallest of the majors. And even though digital sales are way up across the board, the dramatic declines in more-lucrative CD revenues have led industry observers into Sartre-like levels of existential despair. So why is Jean-Bernard Lévy, CEO of Vivendi and owner of largest label Universal, so upbeat? In an interview with the Financial Times, Levy claimed that his label had already hit bottom and was now slogging uphill (its revenues increased by 5 percent on a constant currency basis in the first half of the year). Source: All Things Digital | 18 Sep 2008 | 7:02 am More Than 20 Million Homes Have Cut the Cord On Landline Phones [Voices]By Jim Puzzanghera, tech and media policy reporter, LA TimesPeople of a certain generation remember when a wire connected the headset to your phone, your phone to the wall and your wall to the world. The big advance in the 1990s was–amazingly–freeing the handset from the wire, allowing you to roam more than a few feet while talking. Old telephone Now, according to new data released this morning by Nielsen, more people are taking the wire completely out of the equation. And the whole concept of a landline appears to be going the way of the bulky rotary phone. Source: All Things Digital | 18 Sep 2008 | 7:01 am Linguist Explains That Txting Isn’t Ruining Spelling Or The English Language [Voices]By Mike Masnick, Blogger, TechdirtFor years, we’ve been responding to highly questionable reports or unsubstantiated claims that “txt spk” was somehow destroying the English language and seeping into all sorts of written communications from students who just didn’t know any better. Much of that myth was apparently built off of a paper that was posted to the internet, that many people then insisted must have been true–but which later turned out to be a hoax. Source: All Things Digital | 18 Sep 2008 | 7:00 am Tech won't be shielded from financial-sector falloutShare prices of most of the technology bellwethers closed down Wednesday as the U.S. stock market continued to digest the troubling financial news of recent days: Lehman Bros. Holdings Inc. filing for...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 18 Sep 2008 | 7:00 am Yahoo begins radical home page overhaul - Reuters
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 18 Sep 2008 | 6:38 am Google CEO won't delay Yahoo deal any further (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 18 Sep 2008 | 5:51 am Google CEO Won't Delay Yahoo Deal Any FurtherAfter voluntarily delaying the start of the Yahoo deal three months ago to give antitrust regulators time to review the potential impact, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said he isn't willing to wait very much beyond an Oct. 11 deadline spelled out in the companies' contract even if the government says it needs more time to assess whether the alliance will diminish competition.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 18 Sep 2008 | 5:51 am Wide open skeletal PC caseAntec's new Skeleton case is pretty rad -- looks like the manufacturer has been paying keen attention to the casemod scene:Skeleton (Thanks, Paul!) Source: Boing Boing | 18 Sep 2008 | 5:30 am Freaky, fleshy concept toy that you can pierceWired Gadget Lab calls the "Epidermits" toy from Karten Design the "scariest toy concept ever," and they make a great case for it! I couldn't find the actual toy on Karten's site, because, like so many "designers," they've designed and unnavigable unlinkable mess of Flash instead of a real website.Scariest Toy Concept Ever: The Epidermits Thing Source: Boing Boing | 18 Sep 2008 | 5:27 am RIAA wants to fine lawyer who defends file-sharers for blogging about itFrom the Danger Room blog:The Recording Industry Association of America is declaring attorney-blogger Ray Beckerman a "vexatious" litigator and is seeking unspecified monetary sanctions to punish him in his defense of a New York woman accused of making copyrighted music available on the Kazaa file sharing system.Congrats, Ray! First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Victory is around the corner.
RIAA Decries Attorney-Blogger as 'Vexatious' Litigator Source: Boing Boing | 18 Sep 2008 | 5:23 am City Uses DNA To Sniff Out Dog Poop OffendersAn Israeli city is using DNA analysis of dog droppings to reward pet owners who clean up after their pets and punish those who don't. A six-month trial program launched this week, in the city of Petah Tikva, to tackle the dog mess problem in a high tech way. The program asks dog owners to take their pets to a veterinarian, who then swabs its mouth and collects DNA. The city will use the DNA database it is building to match droppings to a dog and identify its owner. Owners who scoop up their dogs' droppings and place them in specially marked bins will be eligible for rewards of pet food coupons and dog toys. Those who leave the poo on the street face fines. I wonder what sin you had to commit in a previous life to find yourself the official dog poop examiner of Petah Tikva, Israel.Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 18 Sep 2008 | 4:16 am Sept. 18, 1830: Horse Beats Iron Horse, for the Time Being1830: America's first native locomotive loses a smackdown race to a draft horse. Embarrassment does not alter the course of history. The city fathers of Baltimore were plenty worried about the financial future of their bustling burg in the late 1820s. The National Road and its eastern connections had linked the city's harbor to Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia), on the Ohio River in 1818. The federally financed wagon road was the best, quick link for moving products and raw materials between the young nation's East Coast and the burgeoning interior. But Baltimore was losing business to a new competitor: canals. The Erie Canal, which opened in 1825, gave New York City access to the Great Lakes. The proposed Chesapeake and Ohio Canal would link Washington, D.C., to the Ohio River. (Using Canada's St. Lawrence River to reach the Great Lakes was out of the question: The War of 1812 was a recent memory, and real peace -- and boundary settlements -- were still decades away.) Thomas Carroll of Carrollton (Maryland), a nonagenarian who had signed the Declaration of Independence, led a group to establish the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1828. They planned to beat the competition by jumping to a superior technology. Locomotive steam engines that could move along a track and haul passengers or freight were a new idea. England's first steam railway had just opened in 1825. The B&O intended to haul its carriages with sturdy horses. Or maybe wind power. But the experiments with sail cars were a flop ... literally. It's pretty darn hard to tack on a track, and the cars frequently toppled over. Engineer Peter Cooper thought he could build a locomotive that would impress the B&O barons. His Tom Thumb was basically a miniature locomotive. The boiler was no bigger than those found in large kitchen ranges of the time, and Cooper repurposed musket barrels for boiler tubes. The B&O arranged a demonstration of the Tom Thumb on the 13 miles (of a projected 379) of track it had completed by 1830. Hauling a car full of 40 officials, dignitaries and social notables, the little loco covered the distance from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills in an hour, reaching the unheard-of speed of 18 mph. Gracious! On the return trip, the train was met, on the adjacent track, by a similar open-air passenger car hitched to the best draft horse of a local stagecoach company. The iron horse and bio-horse were to race. The horse-drawn car pulled ahead first, as the tiny engine struggled to build up steam. Then it got going. Soon it was chasing the horse. Then it pulled even, and sure enough the little Tom Thumb pulled ahead. A cheer arose from the crowd. Then: Murphy's Law. A drive band slipped in the locomotive's works. The engine slowed to a crawl. The horse car pulled ahead. By the time Cooper (who was a railroad engineer in both senses of the word) repaired the damage and got the engine going again, it was too late. The horse was too far ahead, and it won the race. Aah, but he who laughs last laughs best. It was easier to increase the horsepower of a steam engine than to up the horsepower of a horse. An improved locomotive reached the ferocious speed of 30 mph in a speed test at Baltimore in 1831. The B&O stopped using horses to pull its carriages on July 31 of that year. The railroad announced a competition for a locomotive specifically designed for the steep, curvy route it contemplated though the Allegheny Mountains. By 1832, the B&O stretched 137 miles west from Baltimore -- the world's longest stretch of railway. Source: Various
Source: Wired Top Stories | 18 Sep 2008 | 4:00 am First Google Android phone to cost $199: report (Reuters)
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 18 Sep 2008 | 3:10 am Mister Jalopy hosting American Maker at Chicago MSI, Saturday September 20, 2008
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From Chicago Museum of Science and Industry: American Maker is a raucous daylong festival of homemade innovations and inventions, organized and hosted by MAKE Magazine. Picture your grandpa’s weekend workbench projects… if they had diodes, circuits, wheels and fire.As a kid, my absolute favorite place in the world was the Stouffer's restaurant in Chicago - the mothership of the Corn Souffle, Turkey Tetrazini, Swedish Meatballs, Escalloped Apples, Creamed Chicken and Noodles Romanov. A close second was the Museum of Science and Industry with the submarine tour, coal mine elevator and ice cream sandwich vending machines. This Saturday, September 20th, I will be hosting the first ever American Maker event at the Chicago MSI. And, hold on to your penny purses, it will be free! Free admission to the museum, free admission to American Maker, free admission to LabFest - that is a better deal than a Stouffer's French Bread Pizza two-pack! What can you expect for your hard earned no dollars and no cents? Makers throughout the day will show their homebrew robots, human powered submarines, ingenuous gizmos, a DIY laser cutter, a Kraftwerk-inspired electroluminescent prototype dress and lots more of the extraordinary things people build when they are doing it for the joy of creating. We will get all the Makers up on stage to show off their creations, needle them with questions and, at the end of the day, we will name a the grand prize winner who will walk away with $500 and a feature in Make: Magazine! Come by and say hello! Did I mention the event is free? American Maker schedule Labfest at Chicago MSI, same day, same no cost Source: Boing Boing | 18 Sep 2008 | 3:09 am How bad is your tech stock doing? (CNET)CNET - If you are long in individual stocks these days, you are likely part of a large and miserable fraternity.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 18 Sep 2008 | 3:05 am Palin's Yahoo email account hacked, contents posted to WikileaksWashington Post reports that Sarah Palin's email account was hacked and her emails posted online.A group of computer hackers said yesterday they accessed a Yahoo! e-mail account of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, publishing some of her private communications to expose what appeared to be her use of a personal account for government business.Palin's Yahoo! Account Hacked Source: Boing Boing | 18 Sep 2008 | 2:49 am Stanford To Offer Free CS and Robotics CoursesDeviceGuru writes "Stanford University will soon begin offering a series of 10 free, online computer science and electrical engineering courses. Initial courses will provide an introduction to computer science and an introduction to field of robotics, among other topics. The courses, offered under the auspices of Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE), are nearly identical to standard courses offered to registered Stanford students and will comprise downloadable video lectures, handouts, assignments, exams, and transcripts. And get this: all the courses' materials are being released under the Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 18 Sep 2008 | 2:15 am ITC to probe Nintendo Wii patent infringement (Reuters)
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 18 Sep 2008 | 1:46 am Letter: We must oppose the HIV-Aids deniersLetter: Aids deniers undermine confidence in essential anti-retroviralsSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 18 Sep 2008 | 12:35 am Best Reference Site For Each Programming Language?Howling writes "I've been a PHP programmer for a few years and after taking a trip through many sites Ive learned that www.php.net is probably the most complete souce when looking for information/documentation. I have been trying to find similar sites for every other language (Java, perl or ASP, for instance) without equal success, though. I ask: what is the best documentation/reference site for your prefered programming language?"Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 18 Sep 2008 | 12:33 am Former Mercury Interactive directors settleThree former board members of Mercury Interactive , a business software company acquired by Hewlett-Packard Co. for $4.9 billion in 2006, have each agreed to pay $100,000 fines in a settlement with federal...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 18 Sep 2008 | 12:24 am Former Mercury Interactive directors settle (AP)AP - Three former board members of Mercury Interactive, a business software company acquired by Hewlett-Packard Co. for $4.9 billion in 2006, have each agreed to pay $100,000 fines in a settlement with federal regulators over stock options tampering.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 18 Sep 2008 | 12:19 am Notorious Crime Forum DarkMarket Goes DarkThe top hangout for credit card thieves and phishers announces it's closing its doors, following the arrest of a Turkish hacker -- and alleged kidnapper -- prominent on the site.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 18 Sep 2008 | 12:07 am Crows use causal reasoning
The use of causal reasoning to solve problems was previously thought to be something only humans can do. But new research suggests that crows are capable of it too. University of Auckland cognitive scientist Alex Taylor and his colleagues devised an experiment to test New Caledonian crows' causal reasoning. Turns out, they were able to succeed where even chimps fail. I, for one, welcome our new feathered overlords. "Crows make monkeys out of chimps in mental test" (New Scientist), "Do New Caledonian crows solve physical problems through causal reasoning?" (Proceedings of the Royal Society) Source: Boing Boing | 17 Sep 2008 | 11:56 pm PHP upgrade improves Windows backing (InfoWorld)InfoWorld - PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) 5.3, a significant upgrade to the server-side scripting language for Web applications, is expected to be available in a beta release in October, a representative of the PHP community said on Wednesday.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 17 Sep 2008 | 11:45 pm Gamers not fat loners, say researchersGood news for gamers - first we discover that they are not actually lonely, anti-social misfits, and now we find that they might also be healthier than the average bear, too. According to a report in New...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 17 Sep 2008 | 11:44 pm Military Uses Virtual Iraq To Treat PTSDHugh Pickens writes "Traditionally the best treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder [PTSD] — being raped, narrowly escaping the collapse of the Twin Towers, or witnessing a buddy die on the battlefield — is to have the person relive the trauma using his or her imagination. Repeated exposure to the horror can desensitize individuals and help them stay calm enough to reprocess what happened and get beyond it. Now Clinical Psychologist Albert "Skip" Rizzo has developed a program that has had great success in treating returning troops from Iraq. A soldier with PTSD recounts what happened, and a therapist seated before a computer then creates an environment in the program Virtual Iraq that captures the essential elements of the episode. By donning special goggles, the soldier can see a reenactment and while the simulation starts off relatively tame over the course of several weeks, the therapist monitors the patient 's response and more elements of the episode are introduced until the individual can finally go through an intensely vivid recreation of it without being overpowered by terror. Other programs offered to treat PTSD include Virtual Airplane, Virtual Audiences, Virtual Heights, Virtual Storm, and Virtual Vietnam."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 17 Sep 2008 | 11:39 pm How to Cheat at Rock Band 2Sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll. It's not all glamorous, even in a videogame simulation like Rock Band 2. We have the tips and codes to keep playing (even if you really suck), unlock all those hidden songs and rap without trying. Strap on an axe and take a look.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 17 Sep 2008 | 11:25 pm Segway Inventor Crowd Sourcing Mobile Apps to Change the WorldDean Kamen has teamed up with Forum Nokia to encourage young mobile developers to create the next big application to benefit society. The contest "Calling All Innovators," which they announced today at Web Expo 2.0 in New York, will award up to $150,000 dollars to the winner, and Nokia will help him or her to distribute the application.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 17 Sep 2008 | 11:18 pm RIAA Decries Attorney-Blogger as 'Vexatious' LitigatorThe Recording Industry Association of America, which has sued dead people, children and those without computers for unlawful file sharing of copyrighted music, accuses one of the nation's few lawyers who work on behalf of RIAA defendants of practicing "vexatious conduct" because he has "consistently posted virtually every one of his baseless motions on his blog seeking to bolster his public relations campaign and embarrass" the RIAA.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 17 Sep 2008 | 10:47 pm 8 Simple Tools for Better BookmarkingSocial bookmarking on the web has grown beyond simply storing your favorite links for later. The latest crop of bookmarking websites let you grab photos and screenshots, highlight the most important bits of text or leave post-it notes for your friends. Webmonkey recommends the eight best places to save your faves.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 17 Sep 2008 | 10:45 pm Review: Song Remains (Mostly) the Same in 'Rock Band 2'Why mess with success? MTV Games has a winner on its hands with Rock Band, and the sequel doesn't screw with the original formula.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 17 Sep 2008 | 10:42 pm "Anonymous" Hacks Palin's Private Emailnetbuzz writes "'Anonymous,' best known for its jousts with Scientology, has apparently hacked Sarah Palin's private Yahoo email account. Contents, including sample emails, an index, and family photos, have been posted by Wikileaks, which calls them evidence that the GOP vice presidential candidate has improperly used private email to shield government business from public scrutiny." Note that there is no easy way to tell if the material on Wikileaks is genuine or a hoax. Update by J : Genuine.Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 17 Sep 2008 | 10:34 pm Cover versions of the Clash's "Straight to Hell" Cover Lay Down has links to four great cover versions of the Clash's "Straight to Hell."
Cover versions of the Clash's "Straight to Hell" (Amazon sells the original Clash version for $0.99) (Via Uke Hunt) Source: Boing Boing | 17 Sep 2008 | 10:14 pm Qaida's Propaganda Sites, Smacked DownAl-Qaida's once-robust online propaganda network has taken a major hit. The release of a 9/11 anniversary video was delayed by nearly a week. And one of the most-popular video-distribution sites is offline. One paper blames American bloggers. Online jihadists think it was the CIA.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 17 Sep 2008 | 10:00 pm Saving Geek Lore and Other Wikipedia CastoffsIan Lamont notes an Industry Standard feature on Deletionpedia — a collection of 63,559 deleted Wikipedia pages that range from "vanity entries" or obscure points of reference to heavily edited topics that Wikipedia editors eventually deemed fan fiction, inadequately sourced, or otherwise lacking. Looking through the collection of removed articles, it's apparent that entertaining minutiae are often the target of Wikipedia editors: "Geek lore seems to be a particular target for deletion, with the deleted page of the month a comprehensive guide to 'Weapons of the Imperium (Warhammer 40,000)'. Deletionpedia provides links back to the Wikipedia deletion discussions, which are a lesson in magnification of minutiae; the Warhammer page was removed due to philosophical disagreements over what can be considered credible source material, while a page listing every chalkboard gag in The Simpsons opening credits spent 691 days on the site before being deleted as 'fancruft.'" Note that while Deletionpedia uses MediaWiki, it doesn't have wiki functionality — readers can't alter or update archived entries.Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 17 Sep 2008 | 9:48 pm Leica grabs bragging rights with `fastest' lens (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 17 Sep 2008 | 9:06 pm Samsung bid for SanDisk shows memory market woes (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 17 Sep 2008 | 8:35 pm High Prices Stifle iPhone Demand in India and JapanHigh prices and the lack of strategy taking into account local market realities is killing sales of the iPhone in Asia.Source: Wired: Gadgets | 17 Sep 2008 | 8:21 pm Heat Hinders Ground's Ability to Absorb CO2A very hot year damages the ability of soils and plants to absorb carbon dioxide.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 17 Sep 2008 | 6:22 pm Spore-Flinging Fungi Set Flight RecordNature's fastest launch comes from a surprising source: fungi.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 17 Sep 2008 | 3:14 pm New Iguana Species RevealedAnalysis of mitochondrial DNA from 61 iguanas reveals a new species.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 17 Sep 2008 | 2:49 pm Viking Age Triggered by Shortage of Wives?Competition for wives, not better ships, likely set off the violent Viking Age.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 17 Sep 2008 | 1:57 pm Cactus Goo Makes Water SafeSome families have long known about cactus's water-cleansing properties.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 17 Sep 2008 | 1:42 pm Official: Android to be Unveiled on September 23rdT-Mobile has sent out invitations for the official announcement of the first Googlephone, the HTC Dream. The press conference will be held in New York on September 23rd, but first adopters of the Android-powered phone will have to wait until probably October 20 to get their hands on one.Source: Wired: Gadgets | 17 Sep 2008 | 12:09 pm
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