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Catwalk Politics - Jean-Charles de Castelbajac Says Yes to Obama (GALLERY)(TrendHunter.com) Sarah Palin is not the only politician setting fashion trends. After having his face on the Andrew Christian Obama 08 boxer briefs, Barack Obama made a splashy debut on the Paris runways...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 4 Oct 2008 | 1:19 pm Multifunctional Boudoir Lighting - Bedside Lamp Doubles as a Bowl (GALLERY)(TrendHunter.com) I love multi-functional furniture pieces like this Bedside Lamp by LifeGoods. The Bedside Lamp doubles as a cool-looking light and a convenient place within reach to store your...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 4 Oct 2008 | 12:59 pm Desk Chairs with Bony Spines - Embody by Herman Miller (GALLERY)(TrendHunter.com) Herman Miller, the company that designed the iconic Aeron Chair, is back with a new ergonomic desk chair called Embody. The chair is certified to be more comfortable than other...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 4 Oct 2008 | 12:39 pm Offensive Ringtones - 'Psycho Teddy' Tune Protested by Mental Health Charity (VIDEO)(TrendHunter.com) Australias answer to the Crazy Frog, Psycho Teddy, has had his ringtone frenzy toned down after receiving protests from a mental health charity. He now has to be called Teddy Z. ...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 4 Oct 2008 | 12:19 pm Big Cats That Love Water - White Bengal Tiger Dives for Food (VIDEO)(TrendHunter.com) This is Odin, a six-year-old white Bengal tiger that measures 10 feet long from nose to tail. Unfortunately, he is not in the wild but instead lives at a zoo in Vallejo, California,...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 4 Oct 2008 | 11:59 am Sly Political Recruiting - Jason Mraz Assvertises for Obama (GALLERY)(TrendHunter.com) Much like the star-studded reverse psychology Dont vote video, outspoken singer Jason Mraz cleverly masks his support for Barack Obama in an undercover brain-washing MySpace blog entry...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 4 Oct 2008 | 11:39 am Feel Like Losing Control? - eFluxMedia
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 4 Oct 2008 | 11:23 am RIM CEO: Bold Delay Because Of iPhone 3G - InformationWeek
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 4 Oct 2008 | 10:22 am Google: Android Market Will Be More Open Than iPhone Apps Store - InformationWeek
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 4 Oct 2008 | 10:22 am Google?s Gears: Not Just For Offline Accessibility - Washington Post
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 4 Oct 2008 | 10:18 am Apple Loses Bid to Dismiss ... - InternetNews.com
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 4 Oct 2008 | 10:08 am iPhone Killer Launches - Spy Footage of the Blackberry Storm (VIDEO)(TrendHunter.com) Spy footage of the touch-screen Blackberry Storm that is touted as the latest iPhone killer have been posted online. In the video, the Blackberry Storms numerous features--mobile music,...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 4 Oct 2008 | 10:05 am Trainwrecktastic Fitness Secrets - Britney Spears to Release Workout Video (VIDEO)(TrendHunter.com) Its no secret that Britney Spears hasnt been her trainwrecktastic self lately--shes buckled down, toned up and recorded a hot new single thats so strong, RCA is rush-releasing her...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 4 Oct 2008 | 9:57 am Googles Gears: Not Just For Offline AccessibilityThere's a common misconception that Google's "next-gen" web platform called Gears only (or even primarily) enables offline capabilities for web applications. The truth of the matter is that Google's...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 4 Oct 2008 | 9:44 am Easy, Reliable Distributed Storage and Backup?RichiH writes "Most of you are the free IT staff of friends and family, just as I am. One of my largest headaches is backing up their data. What I am looking for allows for off-site storage on multiple server machines running Linux, has Linux & Windows clients that Just Work and require zero everyday effort (although a large-ish effort to set them up is just fine), allows for granular access control, is versioned and will, ideally, allow me to grab data automagically (think photo pool for your family where your mother, sister, etc., share each other's photos). This is something I've been trying to find for years, but I've never seen anything even closely resembling what I want. With the Wall Street Journal handing out its Technology Innovation Award to Cleversafe recently, I was once again reminded of this particular itch which needs scratching. Before I deploy it, I want to ask the Slashdot community for its opinion on that piece of software, and on potential alternatives. How do you solve this problem?"Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 4 Oct 2008 | 9:14 am Witnesses say light was green just before Metrolink train crashed - Los Angeles Times
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 4 Oct 2008 | 9:04 am Sportvertising - 10 Amazing Sporting Ads (GALLERY)(TrendHunter.com) This collection of sports related ads help sell products and promote services all over the world. Some of the best are the Nike ads which use decals on bus shelters and on buildings...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 4 Oct 2008 | 8:40 am Semiconductor Makers Team Up for eWLB TechnologyBy Mumford, Richard ST Microelectronics (headquartered in Switzerland), STATS Chip- PAC (Singapore) and Infineon Technologies AG (Germany) have signed an agreement to jointly develop the next-generation of embedded Wafer-Level Ball Grid Array (eWLB) technology, based on Infineon's first-generation technology, for use in manufacturing future- generation semiconductor packages.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 4 Oct 2008 | 8:00 am Banned Chemical Used at U. Of Tokyo FarmA banned agricultural chemical containing mercury was used at the University of Tokyo research farm in the late 1990s, university officials have announced. Rice tainted with the chemical was sold to people living near the farm and to some faculty members, The Japan Times reported.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 4 Oct 2008 | 8:00 am G-8 Nonproliferation Effort to Shift FocusBy Bunnell, Stephen At a July 8 summit in Hokkaido, Japan, the heads of government of the Group of Eight (G-8), a forum of the largest economies worldwide, continued discussions on expanding their current nonproliferation partnership from a focus on the former Soviet Union to a more global approach.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 4 Oct 2008 | 8:00 am Legal - Public Notice, Notice is Hereby Given That the Western Virginia Water AuthorityNotice is hereby given that the Western Virginia Water Authority has applied for a permit from the Virginia Marine Resource Commission to install 297 linear feet each of a 24-inch and 36-inch diameter, concrete encased, sewer line beneath the existing submerged bottom of the Roanoke River along the western side of Wasena Park in the City of Roanoke.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 4 Oct 2008 | 8:00 am Oct. 16 Last Chance to Voice Comments on Water Release ProtocolSmith Mountain Lake residents have one last chance to have their voices heard on Appalachian Power's water release protocol. The State Water Control Board will meet Oct.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 4 Oct 2008 | 8:00 am Deq's Guide to Smith Mountain LakeOne conclusion is clear in this year's drought-intensified dispute over water releases at Smith Mountain Lake: Appalachian Power Co. is right to look for a more flexible formula that can take into account historical trends and current conditions.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 4 Oct 2008 | 8:00 am News Near You- Colonial Heights Sheriff Todd Wilson will present facts about scams in a program titled "Scams & Identity Theft" Monday at 2:30 p.m. The program is sponsored by Colonial Heights TRIAD, a partnership between senior citizens and public safety agencies in Colonial Heights.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 4 Oct 2008 | 8:00 am Crime and Public Safety: 10-04-08RANCHO CUCAMONGA Man breaks his leg in construction site fall Firefighters from the Rancho Cucamonga Fire Department rescued a man who fell into a hole at a construction site about 10 a.m. Friday.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 4 Oct 2008 | 8:00 am India Invites Pakistan Team to Inspect Dam in Kashmir - PaperText of report by Dilshad Azeem headlined "India offers Pakistan Baglihar dam inspection" published by Pakistani newspaper The News website on 4 October Islamabad: India has allowed Pakistan to carry out an on-the- spot physical inspection of the Baglihar dam where New Delhi had stopped almost 250,000 cusecs of water from the river Chenab recently, violating the Indus Basin Treaty, The News has learnt.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 4 Oct 2008 | 8:00 am Moneta Fire Department in Dire Need of Help, FundsBy Denise Allen Membreno The Moneta Volunteer Fire Department will get a boost to its coffers from the Smith Mountain Lake Charity Home Tour. Moneta Fire Chief Jeremiah Calhoun said this is the third time in four years the fire department has benefited from the Tour.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 4 Oct 2008 | 8:00 am Supervisors Approve Park's New DevelopmentThe Franklin County Board of Supervisors at a Sept. 23 public hearing unanimously voted to approve rezoning and special use permits for a new development proposed by Penhook Pointe, an LLC headed by developer Trey Park.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 4 Oct 2008 | 8:00 am Center Sets First Major FundraiserPASADENA - "A Musical Night on the Town: The American Song Book," a night of music to benefit the Pasadena Senior Center, will be held at 6 p.m. Oct. 12 at center, 85 E. Holly St. Honorary chairwoman for this special evening is Claire Bogaard.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 4 Oct 2008 | 8:00 am Hillsides Slates Benefit AuctionPASADENA - The Hillsides Volunteer Network will host a silent auction from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. Oct. 12 on the patio at The Ice House comedy club, 24 N. Mentor Ave.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 4 Oct 2008 | 8:00 am Not Very SocialBy Anderberg, Ken Fifteen years ago, they were called bulletin boards. Judged by today's technologies, they were pretty clunky. You typed questions or information in a few fields and waited (and hoped) for a response.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 4 Oct 2008 | 8:00 am Athletics Win With AntivirusBy Anonymous Low-cost, easy-to-deploy software defeats spam at Penn State University. Universities and colleges often face a more challenging IT and network security challenge than typical corporate networks.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 4 Oct 2008 | 8:00 am Fixed-Mobile Meets UCBy Guis, Isabelle With proper design, unified communications can enhance the FMC wireless experience.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 4 Oct 2008 | 8:00 am Copenhaver Ventures to Online World ; Politicians Use Facebook for Voter OutreachBy Sarah Day Owen It's the online equivalent of going to the hottest spot for twentysomethings.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 4 Oct 2008 | 8:00 am Rwanda, South Korean Telecom Firm Sign 38m Dollar Internet ContractText of report in English by Eugene Kwibuka entitled " Korean firm signs 38m dollar internet deal " published by Rwandan newspaper The New Times website on 4 October Kigali: Rwanda Information Technology Authority (RITA) Friday [3 October] signed a 38m dollar contract with Korea Telecom (KT) to have the latter set up the National Backbone Project which will enable high-speed internet network in the country using fibre optic technology.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 4 Oct 2008 | 8:00 am Nokia and Qualcomm Enter New Technologies AgreementBy Mumford, Richard Nokia and Qualcomm have entered into a new agreement covering various standards, including GSM, EDGE, CDMA, WCDMA, HSDPA, OFDM, WiMAX, LTE and other technologies.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 4 Oct 2008 | 8:00 am Fiber Plays Video Security RoleBy Carlson, Curt Media conversion connects surveillance networks utilizing copper- based cabling.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 4 Oct 2008 | 8:00 am Californians have higher levels of flame-retardant PBDEs in their bloodResearchers find that residents not only have more of the chemicals in their blood than people elsewhere, but that levels in California homes can be 10 times higher. ...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 4 Oct 2008 | 7:00 am Apple shares fall on false report of Steve Jobs' deathIn an online report, an anonymous person using the pseudonym Johntw claims the CEO was rushed to the hospital. The SEC is investigating the report. ...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 4 Oct 2008 | 7:00 am Dustin Moskovitz joins the Facebook exodusCo-founder plans to develop software for 'work life' networking. His engineering manager will join him. Facebook...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 4 Oct 2008 | 7:00 am Market turmoil takes costly toll on video game sectorExplanations abound as the supposedly recession-proof industry uneasily eyes the upcoming holiday season. The...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 4 Oct 2008 | 7:00 am Science BriefingVitamin C seen as interfering with cancer chemo / Dinosaur remains bolster bird link / 2nd Mercury flyby by Messenger approaches / 3 genes boost risk for gout ...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 4 Oct 2008 | 7:00 am Emory University psychiatrist accused of conflict of interestDr. Charles B. Nemeroff failed to report a third of the income he received from companies whose drugs he was evaluating, a congressional investigation finds. ...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 4 Oct 2008 | 7:00 am Google holds off on Yahoo deal - for nowGoogle's grandees might have been bullish over the potential implications of the company's advertising deal with Yahoo, but it seems that the warning shots fired by Washington have finally got through...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 4 Oct 2008 | 6:57 am 6.7 Meter Telescope To Capture 30 Terabytes Per NightLumenary7204 writes "The Register has a story about the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, a project to build a 6.7 meter effective-diameter ground-based telescope that will be used to map some of the faintest objects in the night sky. Jeff Kantor, the LSST Project Data Manager, indicates that the telescope should be in operation by 2016, will generate around 30 terabytes of data per night, and will 'open a movie-like window on objects that change or move on rapid timescales: exploding supernovae, potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids, and distant Kuiper Belt Objects.' The end result will be a 150 petabyte database containing one of the most detailed surveys of the universe ever undertaken by a ground-based telescope. The telescope's 8.4 meter mirror blank was recently unveiled at the University of Arizona's Mirror Lab in Tucson."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 4 Oct 2008 | 6:09 am Impeva Labs Joins Worldwide Focus on Armenian High Technology at ArmTech '08Global Asset Monitoring Leader Affirms Opportunity for Synergy with the Worldwide Armenian Business Community and the Rising Technology Sector of Armenia MOUNTAIN VIEW,Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 4 Oct 2008 | 5:26 am Google and Yahoo Ad Deal Delayed - Washington Post
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 4 Oct 2008 | 4:54 am Norwegian Standards Body Members Resign Over OOXMLtsa writes "Ars Technica reports that 13 of the 23 members from the technical committee of the Norwegian standards body, the organization that manages technical standards for the country, have resigned because of the way the OOXML standardization was handled. We've previously discussed Norway's protest and ISO's rejection of other appeals. From the article: 'The standardization process for Microsoft's office format has been plagued with controversy. Critics have challenged the validity of its ISO approval and allege that procedural irregularities and outright misconduct marred the voting process in national standards bodies around the world. Norway has faced particularly close scrutiny because the country reversed its vote against approval despite strong opposition to the format by a majority of the members who participated in the technical committee.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 4 Oct 2008 | 4:04 am The Project That Tracks Big ProjectsThe Human Genome Project isn't the only spendy endeavor that aims to significantly expand the scope of humankind's knowledge. Ambitious and obsessive researchers in a handful of fields aspire to do the same. Unfortunately, none of them used their funding to buy a thesaurus: Tracking the projects labeled project is a project in itself. Here are our fave five. .nTable {400px} .cell01 {background-color:#faa61a;border-right-width:6px;border-right-color:#000;border-right-style:solid;padding:4px 9px 12px;} .cell02 {background-color:#cbd422;padding:4px 9px;} .cell03{background-color:#000;color:#fff;padding:6px;} Project Budget What It Is The ITER Project $14.7 billion Gorbachev helped thaw the Cold War by pitching Reagan a superpower collaboration to suss out fusion energy. The 180,000,000°F temperature requirement has been a significant stumbling block. The Music Genome Project $23.3 million Every tune has hundreds of building blocks — from syncopation to harmony. Pandora's analysts are sequencing these "genes" by ear (up to 10 million a month) to create its proprietary database. The Milky Way Mapping Project $2 million Using the Very Long Baseline Array — radio wave telescopes with 100 times Hubble's accuracy — astronomers are seeking ultraprescise measurements of the distances between us and 100...Wired.com Source: Wired Top Stories | 4 Oct 2008 | 4:00 am Instant Suburb of Prefabs Hits New YorkTourists press up against the construction fence on the corner of 53rd and Sixth, staring speechless as a giant crane lifts an entire bathroom into the air and deposits it in what will be a master bedroom. Cellophane House is five stories tall, with floor-to-ceiling windows, translucent polycarbonate steps embedded with LEDs, and exterior walls made of NextGen SmartWrap, an experimental plastic laminated with photovoltaic cells. Its aluminum frame was cut from off-the-shelf components in Europe, assembled in New Jersey, then snapped together in 16 days on a vacant lot next to the Museum of Modern Art — joining four other full-size houses onsite through October as part of the exhibit Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling. It looks as if a suburban cul-de-sac took a wrong turn at the Holland Tunnel. Prefab is "modernism's oldest dream," curator Barry Bergdoll says. Since the industrial revolution, architects have been in thrall of the idea that houses could be built in factories, like any kind of widget. But reality hasn't been extremely cooperative. Whether because of conservative public tastes, unachievable economies of scale, or designers' less-than-stellar business acumen, their utopian visions have mostly remained fantasies. Frank Lloyd Wright, Buckminster Fuller, and Charles and Ray Eames each had compelling concepts of housing for all, most of which turned out to be housing for a few. Modernist masters Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier were among...Wired.com Source: Wired Top Stories | 4 Oct 2008 | 4:00 am Amazon's Kindle 2 leaked - CNET News
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 4 Oct 2008 | 3:02 am Google postpones Yahoo online ad deal (AFP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 4 Oct 2008 | 2:37 am DRAM makers face tougher challenges: iSuppliSEOUL (Reuters) - DRAM suppliers face tougher challenges in servicing debts and financing capital expenditure as banks become more cash-strapped under the global credit crunch, research...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 4 Oct 2008 | 2:04 am Making acorn flourMy pals Eric and Julia of Ramshackle Solid made acorn flour this year, and in their blog they showed how they did it.I'm going over there uninvited for pancakes. Link Source: Boing Boing | 4 Oct 2008 | 2:02 am e1000e Bug Squashed — Linux Kernel Patch Releasedruphus13 writes "As mentioned earlier, there was a kernel bug in the alpha/beta version of the Linux kernel (up to 2.6.27 rc7), which was corrupting (and rendering useless) the EEPROM/NVM of adapters. Thankfully, a patch is now out that prevents writing to the EEPROM once the driver is loaded, and this follows a patch released by Intel earlier in the week. From the article: 'The Intel team is currently working on narrowing down the details of how and why these chipsets were affected. They also plan on releasing patches shortly to restore the EEPROM on any adapters that have been affected, via saved images using ethtool -e or from identical systems.' This is good news as we move towards a production release!"Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 4 Oct 2008 | 2:01 am Citizen Journalism Not a Failure, Blogs a Failure?By Arnold Kim, Editor, MacRumors.comThis morning a rumor about Steve Jobs having a heart attack started circulating. The person who started the rumor submitted it to MacRumors using an anonymous proxy IP address. I saw the report right when it was submitted and after some brief research dismissed it. The story was also posted to CNN’s iReport (citizen journalism site) and also appeared on Digg with a large number of diggs (but not yet on the front page). I tracked back and found the story was being promoted by a semi-coordinated effort by members of the 4chan message board. So, I chose to ignore it, since we get fake rumor submissions daily. Digg users also figured out that this was likely fake, and despite the concentrated efforts, the story was kept from appearing on the front page due to a corresponding number of Digg users burying the story. Source: AllThingsD.com Consolidated Feed | 4 Oct 2008 | 1:27 am Hack and tell: Teen hacker Mafiaboy writes memoir (CNET)CNET - Michael Calce, aka "Mafiaboy," has written a memoir about how he temporarily shut down a handful of major Web sites and led the FBI and Royal Canadian Mounted Police on a manhunt when he was 15.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 4 Oct 2008 | 1:19 am CNN hands over info on author of Steve Jobs heart attack rumourreports written by ordinary citizens, said Friday it will give the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission information about the author of an item that claimed Apple CEO Steve Jobs had...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 4 Oct 2008 | 1:08 am Audio Precision Provides Automotive Audio Manufacturers With New Four-Channel APx Series Audio AnalyzerAPx521 and APx526 round out APx family with 2, 4, 8 or 16 channel models now available SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- AES -- Audio Precision, the recognized...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 4 Oct 2008 | 1:00 am Hanky-panky distorts Obama iPhone app results - CNET News
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 4 Oct 2008 | 12:54 am Hanky-panky distorts Obama iPhone app results (CNET)CNET - It looks like either somebody drinks a lot of coffee and talks really fast, or somebody diddled with the results of the phone recruitment feature in the Barack Obama campaign's iPhone application.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 4 Oct 2008 | 12:49 am Future Sony MMOs Will Be On ConsolesThe MTV Multiplayer Blog interviewed John Smedley, President of Sony Online Entertainment, about the future of MMOs. He discusses some of SOE's current projects and comments that they'll be focusing on consoles for all of their upcoming MMOs. "I would say that we would be one of the early adopters on [bringing MMOs to consoles], and we plan on becoming one of the dominant players in the MMO space on consoles." Sony's plans may include games for their hand-held console, the PSP. Smedley goes on to talk about bringing existing, popular franchises into MMO development, and remarks, "It's pretty safe to say that 'EverQuest' has not seen its last game."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 4 Oct 2008 | 12:42 am Google agrees to delay Yahoo ad deal to give antitrust regulators more timeWASHINGTON - Google Inc. agreed to delay the start of an advertising partnership with rival Yahoo Inc., giving U.S. antitrust regulators more time to review the deal. Under a plan...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 4 Oct 2008 | 12:27 am The art of A. Andrew Gonzalez A. Andrew Gonzalez' strikingly beautiful paintings have an uncanny 3D effect. Source: Boing Boing | 4 Oct 2008 | 12:25 am CNN hands over info on author of Steve Jobs rumorA CNN-owned Web site called iReport.com, which publishes reports written by ordinary citizens, said Friday it will give the Securities and Exchange Commission information about the author...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 4 Oct 2008 | 12:20 am Analyst: The Great Dark Times Cometh!
And it will hurt some Internet companies more than others. “Should the economy run into a recession, this would be only the second downward economic cycle for the Internet. Each Internet company is at a different phase of its evolution,” Aggarwal added. “We believe that a possible recession will be felt harder by those companies that have been delivering extremely high organic growth rates, have high operating leverage, or are approaching minimum operating scale levels in 2008-2009.” PREVIOUSLY:
Source: AllThingsD.com Consolidated Feed | 4 Oct 2008 | 12:19 am Microsoft Denies Hiring Freeze (Update)By Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader DailyIDG News Service is reporting this afternoon that Microsoft (MSFT) has instituted a hiring freeze, apparently in response to the deteriorating economy. According to IDG, the company started notifying employees of the freeze today. The company has 91,000 employees worldwide, including 54,000 in the U.S. I’m seeking confirmation from the company, and will update if/when they respond. Update: Microsoft denied it has set a hiring freeze, but it is reviewing its hiring plans. Source: AllThingsD.com Consolidated Feed | 4 Oct 2008 | 12:17 am European carmakers plead for 32bn loan to meet green targetCarmakers are pushing the European commission for a €40bn (£32bn) "green" bail-out plan to help them meet stringent EU limits on carbon emissions, it emerged yesterday.Sergio Marchionne,...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 3 Oct 2008 | 11:48 pm Oregon Judge Says RIAA Made 'Honest Mistake,' Allows SubpoenaNewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In Arista v. Does 1-17, the RIAA's case targeting students at the University of Oregon, the Oregon Attorney General's motion to quash the RIAA's subpoena — pending for about a year — has reached a perplexing conclusion. The Court agreed with the University that the subpoena, as worded, imposed an undue burden on the University by requiring it to produce 'sufficient information to identify alleged infringers,' which would have required the University to 'conduct an investigation,' but then allowed the RIAA to subpoena the identities of 'persons associated by dorm room occupancy or username with the 17 IP addresses listed' even though those people may be completely innocent. In his 8-page decision (PDF), the Judge also 'presumed' the RIAA lawyers' misrepresentations were an 'honest mistake,' made no reference at all to the fact, pointed out by the Attorney General, that the RIAA investigators (Safenet, formerly MediaSentry) were not licensed, rejected all of the AG's privacy arguments under both state and federal law, and rejected the AG's request for discovery into the RIAA's investigative tactics."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 3 Oct 2008 | 11:41 pm Nick Reynolds, RIPNick Reynolds of the Kingston Trio died yesterday at age 75. Kingston Trio's Nick Reynolds, 75, dies in San Diego Source: Boing Boing | 3 Oct 2008 | 11:25 pm Google agrees to brief delay of Yahoo ad dealGoogle Inc. agreed to delay the start of a Web advertising partnership with rival Yahoo Inc. , giving U.S. antitrust regulators more time to review the deal.Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 3 Oct 2008 | 11:17 pm Ben Goldacre: Making space for the wild and wonderfulBen Goldacre: Ejaculation and nasal congestion are only tenuously linkedSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 3 Oct 2008 | 11:12 pm Google agrees to brief delay of Yahoo ad dealGoogle Inc. agreed to delay the start of a Web advertising partnership with rival Yahoo Inc., giving U.S. antitrust regulators more time to review the deal. Under a plan announced in...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 3 Oct 2008 | 11:11 pm Apple: Barclays Cuts Estimates, Target; But Still BullishBy Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader DailyBarclays Capital analyst Ben Reitzes trimmed his EPS estimates and target price today on Apple (AAPL). He now expects EPS for the September 2008 fiscal year of $5.21, down from $5.23; for FY ’09 he sees $5.65, down from $6.05. For FY Q4, he sees $1.11, down from $1.12 previously. Reitzes lowered his target price for the stock to $135, from $180. He also lowered his Mac and iPod unit forecasts “given checks that indicate slower sales by the day as well as negative checks within the supply chain and prospects for more subdued demand for the upcoming holiday buying season.” He now sees Mac unit sales in the September quarter of 2.76 million, down from 2.96 million; but he increased his estimate on iPhone units to five million from 3.8 million. Source: AllThingsD.com Consolidated Feed | 3 Oct 2008 | 11:10 pm Python 2.6 to Smooth the Way for 3.0, Coming Next Monthdarthcamaro writes "Some programming languages just move on to major version numbers, leaving older legacy versions (and users) behind, but that's not the plan for Python. Python 2.6 has the key goal of trying to ensure compatibility between Python 2.x and Python 3.0, which is due out in a month's time. From the article: 'Once you have your code running on 2.6, you can start getting ready for 3.0 in a number of ways,' Guido Van Rossum said. 'In particular, you can turn on "Py3k warnings," which will warn you about obsolete usage patterns for which alternatives already exist in 2.6. You can then change your code to use the modern alternative, and this will make you more ready for 3.0.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 3 Oct 2008 | 10:49 pm Will Rogers talks to the bankers: keynote roast from 1924On a tip from Boing Boing reader JayHavvic, I checked out this 1924 recording of Will Rogers keynoting at an annual bankers' convention, giving them the gears with as much gusto as, say, Colbert gave GW Bush. It's a must-listen.
The audio comes from 78Records, an excellent site with serious bandwidth problems. So I've uploaded a copy to the Internet Archive for easier downloading.
MP3: Will Rogers Talks to the Bankers, VICTOR_45374-A (1924)
(Thanks, JayHavvic!) Source: Boing Boing | 3 Oct 2008 | 10:46 pm Photos from the Scopes "Monkey" trial -- public domain images from the SmithsonianThe Smithsonian has flickred 39 high resolution, public-domain images from the Scopes "Monkey" trial, the first major US trial over the teaching of evolution. Dig that natty straw boater!Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes Trial Photographs (via Wendy Seltzer) Source: Boing Boing | 3 Oct 2008 | 10:25 pm Ex-McAfee executive clear of illegal option dating (AP)AP - A jury on Friday acquitted the former top lawyer at computer-security software maker McAfee Inc. of illegally tampering with his stock option grants to boost his pay package.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Oct 2008 | 10:22 pm Facebook Co-Founder Moskovitz Leaving Company - Wall Street Journal
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 3 Oct 2008 | 10:19 pm Review: 'Clone Wars' TV Series Packs Action, Kiddy HumorMuch like this summer's animated Star Wars movie, the Cartoon Network show serves up loads of blaster fights and light laughs. Your reaction to the new show will probably depend a lot on your age and your state of mind.Wired.com Source: Wired Top Stories | 3 Oct 2008 | 10:17 pm How I dehydrated my vegetables Summer's over and the output of my vegetable garden has ceased, save for a few late season tomatoes. It wasn't a great season for me, mainly because I don't know what I'm doing. My squash yield was only so-so, and the few watermelons and cantaloupes that appeared never made it past the ping pong ball stage. But I learned plenty of tips from new and old friends (and kind Boing Boing readers, too!), so maybe my fall/winter garden will be better. My most successful crops were figs, cayenne peppers, and tomatoes. They came so quickly and in such abundance that we couldn't eat them fast enough. I gave a lot away to friends (except the figs, which are too delicious to share with anyone), and I dehydrated the rest using a Ronco food dehydrator. (The particular model I use is not available on Amazon any longer.) It took several attempts to learn the best way to prepare different fruits for drying. Figs are tastier when dried whole instead of cut in half, and tomatoes are better halved rather than sliced into disks. I dried the peppers whole until they were crunchy and ground them up in a food processor. I put the tomatoes and peppers into my eggs every morning and I cut the figs up and sprinkle them on my nightly bowl of blueberries and cream. Next summer, I'm thinking of making a solar dehydrator (the "Appalachian Dehydrator") like the one Kelly and Erik of The Urban Homestead made. Source: Boing Boing | 3 Oct 2008 | 10:06 pm iPhone Antitrust and Computer Fraud Claims UpheldLawWatcher writes "On October 1, 2008, a federal judge in California upheld a class action claiming that Apple and AT&T Mobility's five-year exclusive voice and data service provider agreement for the iPhone violates the anti-monopoly provisions of the antitrust laws. The court also ruled that Apple may have violated federal and California criminal computer fraud and abuse statutes by releasing version 1.1.1 of its iPhone operating software when Apple knew that doing so would damage or destroy some iPhones that had been 'unlocked' to enable use of a carrier other than AT&T."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 3 Oct 2008 | 10:05 pm Ex-McAfee executive clear of illegal option datingA jury on Friday acquitted the former top lawyer at computer-security software maker McAfee Inc. of illegally tampering with his stock option grants to boost his pay package. Kent...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 3 Oct 2008 | 9:58 pm Q&A: Nintendo's Cammie Dunaway Talks DSi, Club NintendoInterview with Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo vice president, about the company's current Wii and Nintendo DS announcements.Wired.com Source: Wired Top Stories | 3 Oct 2008 | 9:53 pm Obama takes campaign to the iPhone (AFP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Oct 2008 | 9:50 pm How to Hack Your Apple TV With BoxeeThe open source software package Boxee frees up your Apple TV, allowing you to play any DRM-free movie, TV show, song or video on the set-top box. All you need is a USB stick and some know-how. We show you how to unleash your Apple TV from the clutches of iTunes in Wired's How-To Wiki. Got extra tips? Log in and contribute.Wired.com Source: Wired Top Stories | 3 Oct 2008 | 9:45 pm How to Hack Your Apple TV With BoxeeThe open source software package Boxee frees up your Apple TV, allowing you to play any DRM-free movie, TV show, song or video on the set-top box. All you need is a USB stick and some know-how. We show you how to unleash your Apple TV from the clutches of iTunes in Wired's How-To Wiki. Got extra tips? Log in and contribute.Source: Wired: Gadgets | 3 Oct 2008 | 9:45 pm Sci-Fi 'Sanctuary' Makes Leap From Web to TVAfter sinking millions into an engrossing web series about a scientist who shelters supernatural creatures, Sanctuary's creators see their show find a new home on cable.Wired.com Source: Wired Top Stories | 3 Oct 2008 | 9:44 pm Rule 34 Showdown IRC Event on #boingboing
Update: Game's Over! Look for a transcript tomorrow! But we're all still chatting, so why not come in and say hi anyway?
It's been quite a while since we held our last IRC event, but with the solstice drawing the summer days to a wane, it's time once again to dust off the #boingboing IRC channel and spend a few hours in a rousing community game of an old favorite, Rule 34 Showdown.
Rule 34, as all men know, is the cosmic rule that demands that porn can be found on the Internet to fit any concept. The rules are simple: numerous times over the course of one hour, I will shout out a random Rule 34 Challenge.
"RULE 34: Obama French Kissing Joe Biden!" I might cry. The denizens of #boingboing will go scrambling to find a link that illicitly matches the challenge. The first three people to come up with separate links and images for the same concept will be awarded first, second and third place points of decreasing denominations. At the end of the hour, the person with the most points will be declared the official RULE 34 PORNOGRAPHER OF #BOING BOING! At least for the week. And to make it all timeless fun, we'll knock up all the links we accrue in the official transcript of the event, with the best images highlighted for fun.
This week's game will be held tonight at 4PM EDT / 1PM PDT / 9PM GMT. To play, simply come to the official #boingboing IRC channel on Freenode about 15 minutes before the game and /msg Brownlee that you'd like to play. Don't want to play? Come on by and watch.
If you've never used IRC before, you can find instructions on how to get to the channel here, or simply use the Java chat applet.
To discuss or ask questions, head on to the discussion thread over at Boing Boing Gadgets.
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Update: Sorry! Huge time mess up in the title. It's at 4PM EDT. See you then!Source: Boing Boing | 3 Oct 2008 | 9:29 pm Friend Update Added to 'BarackBook' Says Republican National CommitteeWASHINGTON, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Republican National Committee (RNC) today added a new friend update to its social networking Web site,Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 3 Oct 2008 | 9:25 pm Apple Reluctantly Tries Out TransparencyLong known for fanatically controlling information about its products, Apple has recently started showing signs of openness.Source: Wired: Gadgets | 3 Oct 2008 | 9:23 pm Apple Reluctantly Tries Out TransparencyLong known for fanatically controlling information about its products, Apple has recently started showing signs of openness.Wired.com Source: Wired Top Stories | 3 Oct 2008 | 9:23 pm Seeing With Your Skin?Iddo Genuth writes to tell us that a researcher from Tel Aviv University is exploring the possibility that humans may be able to "see" via their skin. Professor Leonid Yaroslavsky hopes to utilize this possible technology to find solutions for the blind in addition to new types of image capture that might be able to work where conventional lenses fail. Unfortunately he has a long uphill battle ahead to convince others that his theories are possible. "The lenses currently used for optics-based imaging have many problems. They only work within a limited range of electromagnetic radiation. Relatively, these are still costly devices greatly limited by weight and field of view. The imaging Professor Yaroslavsky has in mind has no lenses and he believes the devices can be adapted to any kind of radiation and wavelength. They could essentially work with a 360-degree field of view and their imaging capability will only be determined by computer power rather than the laws of light diffraction."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 3 Oct 2008 | 9:22 pm RIM CEO: AT&T still testing delayed BlackBerry (AP)AP - A delayed top-of-the-line BlackBerry phone from Research in Motion Ltd. is still undergoing testing by AT&T Inc., and RIM's co-CEO implied that the carrier wants to avoid the chorus of complaints about performance that greeted the new iPhone this summer.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Oct 2008 | 9:18 pm Yahoogle Delayed: Online Ad Partnership Being Scrutinized Further
Yahoo and Google have agreed to delay their online search advertising partnership to give the Justice Department more time to evaluate the deal. A Yahoo spokesman confirmed the move in a statement: “The companies have agreed to a brief delay in implementing this agreement to continue our ongoing discussions with the Department of Justice. We have had discussions with regulators and look forward to responding to their questions about this agreement.” A Google spokesman also added: “When we announced our advertising agreement with Yahoo! in June we agreed to delay its implementation until October to give regulators time to look at the details. As we are still in conversation with the Department of Justice we have agreed to a brief delay in implementing the agreement while those discussions continue.” The delay could impact Yahoo’s share price on Monday, given the deal for Google to serve some of its search ads promised to give Yahoo (YHOO) hundreds of millions of dollars in additional revenue. Still, the pair had few options of late but to cooperate fully with regulators. Although Google (GOOG) execs have been especially adamant that the arrangement was going forward no matter what, the delay is now not as surprising, given the increasing opposition to the deal involving the No. 1 and No. 2 online search leaders in recent weeks. So much so, that, according to several sources with knowledge of the situation, staffers at the Justice Department had recommended to their superiors that the deal be investigated further and even blocked in court. Top Google execs have been in Washington, D.C. over the last week, seeking to change regulators’ minds, sources said, including offering up more proof that the deal would not result in a Google search ad monopoly and necessarily raise online ad prices. But the problem has been that more critics have been joining the just-say-no-to-Yahoogle bandwagon–questioning the controversial ad deal for Yahoo to outsource some of its search ads to Google and its aggressive, damn-the-torpedoes approach to pushing the deal forward. Just a few weeks ago, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told reporters the deal would not be delayed by Justice Department mulling. “Time is money in our business,” he said. That might be, but time now apparently waits for regulators. The partnership was set to start up around mid-October and promised to give the much-suffering Yahoo a huge boost in revenues. Of course, the deal has been much lobbied against aggressively by Microsoft (MSFT), especially since Yahoo used it as a way to escape the software giant’s takeover clutches. Nonetheless, critics like Microsoft have a lot of ammo, especially because Yahoo and Google together will claim over 80 percent of the search market. That has caused a big outcry among advertisers and publishers to prevent the top two players from partnering at all. BoomTown has been one of those objecting to the deal too. In a post recently, I wrote: “Because while Google displays none of the bullying tactics of Microsoft in its glory days–think of it more like a giant that could accidentally squash all us little people with its big dumb feet–the worries about it amassing too much power are well-founded.” What’s next is anyone’s guess. Google and Yahoo could agree to certain parameters in the deal, in order to assuage critics, or they could fight any regulatory action. And, of course, they could abandon the deal, a move that most agree would hurt Yahoo more than Google–whose search market share has been ever-growing, even as Yahoo’s and Microsoft’s has declined. Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. Source: AllThingsD.com Consolidated Feed | 3 Oct 2008 | 9:17 pm Top 5 Cellphone Busts of 2008We've seen a lot of gadgets this year. A lot of them have been awesome devices. And a lot of them have been miserable failures. Cellphones especially. Here's a list of the top 5 cellphone busts of 2008.Wired.com Source: Wired Top Stories | 3 Oct 2008 | 9:17 pm Top 5 Cellphone Busts of 2008We've seen a lot of gadgets this year. A lot of them have been awesome devices. And a lot of them have been miserable failures. Cellphones especially. Here's a list of the top 5 cellphone busts of 2008.Source: Wired: Gadgets | 3 Oct 2008 | 9:17 pm Webcast Advisory - The Westaim Corporation Webcast of Conference Call to Discuss the Company's Reorganization AgreementCALGARY, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Monday, October 6, 2008 9:00 a.m. EDTSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 3 Oct 2008 | 9:04 pm How to draw an apple in Photoshop Eren Göksel provides a step-by-step for drawing this apple. How to Create a Delicious Green Apple Illustration Source: Boing Boing | 3 Oct 2008 | 9:03 pm Michael Robertson Sued Over Missing Linspire CashAn anonymous reader writes "Blogger and ex-Linspire CEO Kevin Carmony reports that Michael Robertson has been sued by a Linspire shareholder to get to the bottom of what happened to Linspire's assets. One hundred shareholders have been left uninformed as to what happened to the company and its assets after Linspire was sold to Xandros a few months back."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 3 Oct 2008 | 8:39 pm Federal Charges Filed Against Alleged Cyber Peeping TomA college student who allegedly rigged a woman's laptop to snap nude photos through her webcam faces federal charges this week, and tops Threat Level's roundup of cybercrime in the federal courts.Wired.com Source: Wired Top Stories | 3 Oct 2008 | 8:30 pm The World's Top 12 Aviation InnovationsWired.com tweaks Aviation.com's list of the greatest innovations of aviation in the past 100 years.Wired.com Source: Wired Top Stories | 3 Oct 2008 | 8:30 pm Nokia Launches Its 5800 XpressMusic PhoneNokia is set to retail its new touchscreen phone, the 5800 XpressMusic, which has access to the subscription service from Nokia's online music store.Source: Wired: Gadgets | 3 Oct 2008 | 8:24 pm American Fascist Writer Westbrook PeglerClayton Cubitt blogs:“Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin quoted an unidentified “writer” who extolled the virtues of small-town America: “We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity.” (9/3/08) The unidentified writer was Westbrook Pegler (1894-1969), the ultraconservative newspaper columnist whose widely syndicated columns (at its peak, 200 newspapers and 12 million readers) targeted the New Deal establishment, labor leaders, intellectuals, homosexuals, Jews, and poets.”More on Pegler at TNR, here's Wikipedia. Here are a few other quotes Palin didn't use: Jews, he said, could not be the victims of persecution because persecution “connotes injustice…They are, instead, enduring retaliation, or punishment.” (D. Levitas, The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right, Macmillan, 2002, p. 71.)Update: Blogger and Boing Boing reader Karen says, "Robert Kennedy Jr. was rightfully outraged about this too. I blogged about it here." Source: Boing Boing | 3 Oct 2008 | 7:32 pm Two Fast Reads...with surprisingly enduring flavor.I'm a slow reader so I particularly like books that read fast. Prose that "leans forward" in a way that makes it easy to keep going. Both of these books had that quality for me, yet manage to pull off some nice social commentary and human pathos at the same time. Personal Days, by Ed Park, is a post-Dilbert, post-Microserfs look at office culture. It's like the show The Office, except populated by people who, for the most part, understand what is happening to them. What I like best about the book is Ed Park's use of cliché phrases. You know how that first song on Elvis Costello's Imperial Bedroom album (Beyond Belief) strings together known phrases into something entirely bigger? Or the way Delmore Schwartz would italicize a phrase as if to show it was a saying instead of just words? Know what I'm saying? Park does this throughout his text, creating a gentle, phantom hypertext that required no further explanation. And this black comedy about downsizing brings an almost Beckett-like sense of reduction to the dwindling office.
The Rules for Hearts, a family drama, by Flytrap comics writer Sara Ryan, reads a bit like one of those young adult novels I'm so very fond of, even though its characters experience some of the kinds of sex reversals and confusion usually postponed until one's late twenties or early thirties. I hate memoirs (just because) so I depend on short novels with characters I can relate to for that necessary shot of personal narrative. Sara Ryan isn't a totally new voice, but this, her third book, still reads with that freshness of someone's first novel. Source: Boing Boing | 3 Oct 2008 | 7:11 pm Israeli Astronaut's Diary Goes on DisplayFive years post-Columbia, astronaut Ilan Ramon's diary will go on public display.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 3 Oct 2008 | 6:51 pm Goohoo Delayed
Source: AllThingsD.com Consolidated Feed | 3 Oct 2008 | 6:00 pm Labor report indicates squeeze on tech sector (AP)AP - The economic slowdown has started to squeeze the technology sector. So far this has not led to wide-scale job cuts, but a slowing demand for computers and other electronics may already be weighing on some payrolls.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Oct 2008 | 6:00 pm Ancient Peru Pyramid Spotted by SatelliteArchaeologists find a pyramid buried intentionally more than 1,700 years ago.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 3 Oct 2008 | 5:30 pm Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Adds a 'Human Interface' (NewsFactor)NewsFactor - Nokia has taken the wraps off a new smartphone powered by the latest version of the company's Symbian S60 operating system for mobile devices. By adding the benefits of touchscreen technology to the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, the company is taking the familiar and giving it a human touch, according to Nokia Senior Vice President Jo Harlow.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Oct 2008 | 5:12 pm Indian Outsourcers: Profits To Be Hit By IT DownturnBy Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader DailyThe Indian IT outsourcing companies are going to see a hit to earnings from the sagging global economy, Pacific Crest’s Kanchana Vydianathan asserted this morning. While still generally bullish on the sector, she cut estimates this morning for Satyam (SAY), Wipro (WIT), Patni (PTI), Infosys (INFY), Tata Consultancy and Cognizant (CTSH). Vydianathan offered six factors affecting her revised view of the sector:
Source: AllThingsD.com Consolidated Feed | 3 Oct 2008 | 5:05 pm 3-D: Coming to a Theater Near You (at a Glacial Pace)
A billion dollar investment in digital technologies, struck between a handful of Hollywood studios and a consortium of big theater chains, got little notice earlier this week. Under terms of the deal, the entertainment companies agreed to help defray the costs of rolling out more advanced digital technologies in 20,000 theaters, which will eventually lead to being able to see more movies using technologies like 3-D. Even though there will be about two dozen 3-D movies released in the next few years–think Hannah Montana and the Jonas Brothers in concert popping out of screens–a very small number of theaters across the U.S. can handle the advanced technology 3-D requires. Why? Well, it apparently costs about $70,000 to upgrade a screen. While studios are only paying a small fraction of that cost, one hopes they understand that upgrading theater facilities will be increasingly important in the years ahead. Because while the gimmick of getting audiences to wear polarized lenses–yes, you still need them–3-D alone is probably not what will prompt most people to up their movie theater attendance (although 3-D movies do attract more people and command much higher prices). But, even as digital technologies have exploded everywhere, the theater experience has changed in a negligible way over time. While questions swirl around whether such upgrades pay off, there is no question it will be hard to know without some effort on behalf of the entertainment industry. One might imagine a much more immersive theater experience or new ideas from filmmakers–I am not creative enough to come up with any good ones–to amplify a movie. So we’ll just have to wait for Hollywood to come up with something–well beyond Miley Cyrus or Nick Jonas jumping right into the seats. Source: AllThingsD.com Consolidated Feed | 3 Oct 2008 | 4:38 pm Odd, the Parental Controls on Sen. Kohl’s Copy of IE Have Been Set to Block YahooGoogleFacts.com
This isn’t the first time Kohl has raised concerns about the long-term implications of Yahoo’s (YHOO) proposed deal with Google (GOOG). And it almost certainly won’t be the last. Back in September, he worried aloud that the partnership might reduce Yahoo to “nothing more than the newest satellite in the Google orbit.” And nothing much has changed since that time, except for Google’s increased advocacy of the deal on the new “Yahoo-Google Facts” site. Source: AllThingsD.com Consolidated Feed | 3 Oct 2008 | 3:55 pm Otter Decline a Mixed Blessing for Bald EaglesAs Alaska's sea otter population plummets, local bald eagles are thriving. But why?Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 3 Oct 2008 | 2:58 pm iTunes Lives to Sell Another 5 Billion Songs
Not that it would ever have happened anyway, but Apple (AAPL) will not be shutting down the iTunes Store in protest over increased royalty rates paid to songwriters and publishers for CDs and digital music downloads. The Copyright Royalty Board Thursday left the rate for royalties unchanged at nine cents a track, paying no mind to a proposal by the National Music Publishers’ Association that would have raised it to 15 cents–a 66 percent hike. Seems Apple’s posturing paid off. Said Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr, “We’re pleased with the CRB’s decision to keep royalty rates stable.” Source: AllThingsD.com Consolidated Feed | 3 Oct 2008 | 2:24 pm Exotic Dancers, Armadillos Top Ig NobelsOther studies that won: Coke as a spermicide and more expensive placebos.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 3 Oct 2008 | 2:20 pm Where Life Found Refuge During Mass ExtinctionScientists find the last hiding place of life during Earth's worst apocalypse.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 3 Oct 2008 | 1:50 pm Nintendo's DSi: Everything You Need To Know (PC Magazine)PC Magazine - We decided to compare notes and round up all the important info on the new Nintendo DSi handheld game console so far.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Oct 2008 | 12:32 pm Skype Acknowledges Chinese Spying (PC Magazine)PC Magazine - Skype's president has acknowledged that users in China have had instant messages both blocked and copied to servers owned by TOM Online, Skype's partner in the country.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Oct 2008 | 11:53 am
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Once the flour is dried out it may be a little coarse. You can put it in a cleaned out coffee grinder to get a finer texture. A good food processor also works and I am pretty sure they make attachable gadgets for mixers that really mill the flour if you get completely obsessed.
The financial markets’ descent into the maelstrom over the past several weeks is proving quite a test of faith for Collins Stewart analyst Sandeep Aggarwal. Last week he cut his estimates for Yahoo (YHOO), citing the company’s deteriorating fundamentals. Since then he’s become increasingly dismayed by Wall Street’s continued collapse, so much so that today he 
With a Department of Justice ruling on Google’s advertising partnership with Yahoo 