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Iraq: Another Vietnam for the US?	By Jonathan Charles BBC News, Baghdad Fierce opposition to Iraq's draft constitution looks set to ensure there will be no withdrawal of US troops in the near future, and as the violence continues, the Vietnam comparisons return. August has been one of the bloodiest months of the conflict "Can you go to Baghdad?...	[ 6 ]
Daring Fireball: The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme	A Lexus SC 430 convertible speeds down a sunny street in Cupertino. The top is down. Brushed Metal is behind the wheel, stabbing at the buttons on his mobile phone. We hear the connection ringing. Brushed Metal’s agent, Mike, answers. Mike: B.M. Speak to me, baby. Brushed Metal: Don’t bullshit me, Mike. What’s going...	[ 13 ]
Terrorists Don't Do Movie Plots	Sometimes it seems like the people in charge of homeland security spend too much time watching action movies. They defend against specific movie plots instead of against the broad threats of terrorism. We all do it. Our imaginations run wild with detailed and specific threats. We imagine anthrax spread from crop duste...	[ 31 ]
Brain May Still Be Evolving, Studies Hint	They report that with microcephalin, a new allele arose about 37,000 years ago, although it could have appeared as early as 60,000 or as late as 14,000 years ago. About 70 percent of people in most European and East Asian populations carry this allele of the gene, but it is much rarer in most sub-Saharan Africans. Wit...	[ 7 ]
Microsoft tries to recruit me	The following is, verbatim, a letter I received a few minutes ago from a Microsoft recruiter. From: "Mike Walters (Search Wizards)" <v-mikewa@microsoft.com> To: <esr@thyrsus.com> Eric, I am a member of the Microsoft Central Sourcing Team. Microsoft is seeking world class engineers to help create products that hel...	[ 13 ]
Guilty burglars detected by glow	Anyone sprayed with SmartWater glows under an ultra-violet light SmartWater, which shows up under ultra-violet light, contains a unique DNA-style code. When a break-in happens the thief is sprayed with the liquid, which cannot be washed off and lasts for months. Custody offices are now fitted with ultra-violet arche...	[ 8 ]
Clever artificial hand developed	The artificial hand has an opposing thumb At present, prosthetic hands either do not move at all or have a simple single-motor grip. But the University of Southampton team has designed a prototype that uses six sets of motors and gears so each of the five fingers can move independently. Details of their design were ...	[ 10 ]
Firefox is more than a browser	It’s a whole family of products designed to keep you safer and smarter online. Firefox Monitor See if your personal information has been compromised in a corporate data breach, and sign up for future alerts. Check for breaches Sign up for breach alerts Firefox browsers Get the browsers that block 2000+ data trackers ...	[ 8 ]
Untitled Document	2017 It's been six years since I've done anything with this site, so I should probably do something about that. Maybe in July. Until then (and even after then), you can go visit GoComics.com for new comics and all the ones that weren't posted here the past half a decade or so. If you are so inclined, you can follow ...	[ 5 ]
Women MPs speak up against sexism	Feature by Jackie Storer BBC News Website There are now 128 women MPs in Westminster The women MPs who swept into the House of Commons in 1997, swelling their numbers to 120, say life at the heart of democracy has been anything but easy. Some even claim they have had to resort to ancient art of "nagging" to get ...	[ 3 ]
Key Points In Brain Evolution Identified	A research team from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, led by Bruce T. Lahn, has uncovered some fascinating genetic pointers to the human brain’s evolution. Their findings, in the journal Science, relate to sequence variations in two genes that regulate the size of the brain in humans. Interestingly, the major varia...	[ 3 ]
Rare White Giraffe Photographed	A researcher in Africa has finally spotted the rare white giraffe that he's been seeking for twelve years, and he's got a photograph to prove it. Charles Foley, a Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) researcher, first heard rumors of the white giraffe in 1993 when he was working in Tanzania's Tarangire National Park do...	[ 18 ]
Burj Dubai Tower Update: Science Fiction in the News	Burj Dubai Tower Update The Burj Dubai tower in the United Arab Emirates is quietly progressing on its goal of being the tallest building in the world. I thought their website was a bit over the top ("only a few structures have had the power to change history"), but then I read this interesting statement: "At th...	[ 8 ]
The 'Flying Carpet' of Seyed Alavi: Science Fiction in the News	The 'Flying Carpet' of Seyed Alavi Can you imagine walking the route that your plane will take - on your way into the airport from the parking lot? Artist Seyed Alavi has created a 150 foot 'flying carpet' that has a digital copy of the course of the Sacramento River woven into it. The carpet shows approximately ...	[ 10 ]
The Long Tail: Long Tail 101	[Note: I've updated my About page, which is where I've got the most concise definition of The Long Tail. This post is just a cleaned-up and easily linkable version of that.] The theory of the Long Tail is that our culture and economy is increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively small number of "hits" (ma...	[ 10 ]
The tip of the anti-Turkish iceberg	Turkey's date with destiny, October 3 - the same day, coincidentally, that Germany was reunited in 1990 - was set last year when the then 15-member EU was finalising its historic 10-country enlargement. It has been a very long time coming: Turkey has been a stalwart member of Nato since 1952 and was first recognised a...	[ 6 ]
Cheney told to 'go fuck yourself' in Gulfport, Mississippi	Cheney told to 'go fuck yourself' in Gulfport, Mississippi RAW STORY Vice President Dick Cheney, in Gulfport, Mississippi on a tour of the Katrina hurricane zone, was told to "go fuck yourself" twice on live television, RAW STORY has learned. During a discussion on hurricane relief efforts, an off camera protester s...	[ 11 ]
shfs kernel module	About shfs Shfs is a simple and easy to use Linux kernel module which allows you to mount remote filesystems using a plain shell (ssh) connection. When using shfs, you can access all remote files just like the local ones, only the access is governed through the transport security of ssh. Shfs supports some nice featur...	[ 5 ]
Developing Firefox Extensions with GNU/Linux	Introduction I'm sure many of you are excited about today's GNOME release and the release of Firefox 1.5 beta 1. Kris and I decided to write Linux.Ars sections about GNOME and Firefox customization in order to celebrate the releases. In this edition of Linux.Ars, Kris will teach you how to use command line build tools...	[ 3 ]
Civilization IV coming in October	2K Games and FIRAXIS have announced that Civilization 4 will be shipping in October, more or less confirming the early shipping time I told you about back in July. They've not narrowed down a more definite date, but when I hear of it, I'll be sure to let everyone know. They've also announced a special pre-order editio...	[ 9 ]
The World’s Leading Email Collaboration Platform	Subscribe To Zimbra Email as a Service Want the benefits of Zimbra email collaboration without the costs and hassle of maintaining your own environment? Contact one of our 500 service providers to find an affordable cloud email subscription plan that meets your needs.	[ 16 ]
see www.gethuman.com instead	Yes. If the application administrator has specified default calendar and timeline settings for an application, you can easily create a calendar or timeline from a table report just by clicking a link. Quick Base uses the default settings as a basis for creating the calendar or timeline. To create a calendar or timelin...	[ 4 ]
The Killing Machine: News: The Independent Institute	Che Guevara, who did so much (or was it so little?) to destroy capitalism, is now a quintessential capitalist brand. His likeness adorns mugs, hoodies, lighters, key chains, wallets, baseball caps, toques, bandannas, tank tops, club shirts, couture bags, denim jeans, herbal tea, and of course those omnipresent T-shirts...	[ 9, 7 ]
How ta tawk rite	I was raised in a bilingual family in New Orleans -- we spoke both English and New Orleans-ese. French didn't really enter into it, although I'm sure some families were trilingual and included that language as well. The local language is well-suited to the local person. You may now be wondering ... What's a Yat? "Yat...	[ 0, 14 ]
Number Of Babies Born Prematurely Nears Historic Half Million Mark In U.S.	Some 12.3 percent of all babies -- 499,008 infants -- were born prematurely (less than 37 weeks gestation) in 2003, according to the report released by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). That's up from 12.1 percent (or about 480,000 babies) in 2002 -- and an increase of more than 30 percent since the gov...	[ 6 ]
-- Axioms of Web architecture	Tim Berners-Lee Date: 1998, last change: $Date: 2013-03-04 22:56:21 $ Status: personal view only. Editing status: first draft. Up to Design Issues Principles of Design Again and again we fall back on the folklore of the principles of good design. Sometimes I need a URI for them so this is started as collection of ...	[ 5, 75 ]
I just got back from a FEMA Detainment Camp, page 1	The occupants of the camp cannot leave the camp for any reason. the next 5 months I'm extremely depressed to report that things seem to only be getting sadder concerning the people so devastatingly affected by Katrina last week. Two car loads of us headed over to Falls Creek, a youth camp for Southern Baptist churche...	[ 16 ]
Opinion \| Broken Yardstick	Washington - THE most widely quoted federal statistic on deprivation and need in modern America is the "poverty rate" -- a measure tracking households with annual incomes below a "poverty threshold" established at the beginning of the Johnson administration's "war on poverty" in the 1960's and adjusted over time for in...	[ 13 ]
Shape of Days	Propagating Plants The process of propagating nursery plants is pretty simple to master. You take a cutting from the desired plant, apply the appropriate ratio of rooting hormones and stick the plant cutting into a planting medium, such as a peat and perlite mixture. The cuttings are then watered in thoroughly and kep...	[ 12 ]
Q&A: Two mother embryo	The aim is to get healthy offspring free of inherited genetic disorders BBC News explains how and why. Why are the UK researchers doing it? The groundbreaking work aims to prevent mothers from passing certain genetic diseases on to their unborn babies. The researchers are focusing on a group of conditions called mi...	[ 3 ]
How to render the Segway Human Transporter obsolete: add a third wheel.	How to render the Segway Human Transporter obsolete: Every once in a while someone invents something so simple and elegant that it makes you say "damn, why didn't I think of that?" Then there are the other inventions, the ones that make you say "man, I know exactly why I didn't think of that: that's the dumbest thing ...	[ 6, 1 ]
Acoustic Snooping on Typed Information	by Li Zhuang, Feng Zhou, and Doug Tygar have an interesting new paper showing that if you have an audio recording of somebody typing on an ordinary computer keyboard for fifteen minutes or so, you can figure out everything they typed. The idea is that different keys tend to make slightly different sounds, and although...	[ 16 ]
We will never return, say survivors of drowned city	The tens of thousands in the New Orleans diaspora passing through the area and leaving their drowning city behind have to travel 200 miles north, to Monroe near the Louisiana-Arkansas border, before they can hope to find a motel. And then they may balk at the price: even the most flea-bitten hostels have raised their p...	[ 8 ]
Prescott links global warming to Katrina	John Prescott sparked controversy yesterday by linking America's refusal to tackle climate change to the devastation of the New Orleans hurricane. The Deputy Prime Minister caused potential embarrassment for Britain by drawing a parallel between the US city destroyed by Hurricane Katrina and island states that scienti...	[ 4 ]
Cornel West: Hurricane aftermath showed Darwinism in action	It takes something as big as Hurricane Katrina and the misery we saw among the poor black people of New Orleans to get America to focus on race and poverty. It happens about once every 30 or 40 years. What we saw unfold in the days after the hurricane was the most naked manifestation of conservative social policy towa...	[ 4 ]
Diseases of rich deprive poor of drugs	The world's poorest people are being denied access to drugs because pharmaceutical companies are focusing their resources on diseases suffered by wealthy, middle-aged Americans, such as obesity and heart disease, a leading expert will say tomorrow. Dr David Rhodes, the Health Protection Agency's (HPA) head of business...	[ 6 ]
A betrayal of the people	At 4pm Central Time two weeks ago today, the US national weather service warned that the hurricane about to hit New Orleans would cause 'human suffering incredible by modern standards'. The following morning, as citizens drowned on their front porches, President George W Bush attended a cake-cutting photo-opportunity t...	[ 3 ]
All eyes on Halliburton as contacts turn into contracts	With the floodwaters still high in New Orleans last week, with 25,000 body bags on their way to the city, with the Gulf of Mexico oil industry crippled - 160 platforms and 16 rigs still evacuated, oil refineries shut down - there was one group of people who, nevertheless, could see some good coming out of the wreckage....	[ 9 ]
On Oil Supply, Opinions Aren't Scarce	"The world produces about 85 million barrels a day," Mr. Pickens said. "That's where demand is now, too. And I've seen forecasts that demand is going to be higher than that by the end of the year." What's more, Mr. Pickens added, pre-Hurricane Katrina refining capacity was already at the breaking point, which is anoth...	[ 6 ]
Israel completes Gaza withdrawal	Palestinians celebrated and scavenged in the rubble Enlarge Image Tanks and armoured vehicles left under cover of darkness and the last officer shut the Kissufim border at dawn. Thousands of jubilant Palestinians entered the former Jewish enclaves, and some set an abandoned synagogue ablaze in a settlement near Kh...	[ 6 ]
Hubble makes movie of Neptune's atmosphere	Spaceflight Now + Premium video content for our Spaceflight Now Plus subscribers. Hill-climbing Mars rover The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has reached the summit of Husband Hill, returning a spectacular panorama from the hilltop in the vast Gusev Crater. Scientists held a news conference Sept. 1 to revea...	[ 3 ]
ongoing by Tim Bray · Massachusetts Back-Room	The comment period for the new draft Massachusetts office-file-format policy ended last Friday the 9th. During the week before that date, there was some pretty intense back-room politics going on. There are a ton of industry associations and lobbying groups, including: Mass Software Council, Technet New England, Mass H...	[ 8 ]
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The Long Tail: What the Long Tail isn't	After witnessing much misuse of the Long Tail phrase, this silly post has finally pushed me over the edge. It's time to draw the line. Long Tails are found everywhere, but not, you know, actually everywhere. There are many distortions of the term, but the most common one is to use it as a newly-positive synonym for "f...	[ 12 ]
Does the Truth Lie Within?	In some ways, self-experimentation has more in common with economics than with the hard sciences. Without the ability to run randomized experiments, economists are often left to exploit whatever data they can get hold of. Let's say you're an economist trying to measure the effect of imprisonment on crime rates. What yo...	[ 66 ]
Schneier on Security	Katrina and Security I had an op ed published in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune today. Toward a Truly Safer Nation Published September 11, 2005 Leaving aside the political posturing and the finger-pointing, how did our nation mishandle Katrina so badly? After spending tens of billions of dollars on homeland security ...	[ 7 ]
The Becker-Posner Blog	An article in the New York Times of September 20 by Louise Story, entitled "Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to Motherhood," reports the results of surveys and interviews concerning career plans of women at the nation's most prestigious colleges, law schools, and business schools. Although not rigorously em...	[ 6 ]
Don't dumb me down	OK, here's something weird. Every week in Bad Science we either victimise some barking pseudoscientific quack, or a big science story in a national newspaper. Now, tell me, why are these two groups even being mentioned in the same breath? Why is science in the media so often pointless, simplistic, boring, or just plain...	[ 17 ]
Survival of the fittest?	Last Updated: Friday, 9 September 2005, 15:02 GMT 16:02 UK E-mail this to a friend Printable version Survival of the fittest? A POINT OF VIEW By Harold Evans After so many years of Social Darwinism, Hurricane Katrina could reawaken the American people's appetite for compassion in government. It takes a lot to shake ...	[ 5 ]
Yahoo Gives Up Reporter's E-Mail	HANGZHOU, China – Yahoo had to comply with a demand by Chinese authorities to provide information about a personal e-mail of a journalist who was later convicted under state secrecy laws and sentenced to 10 years in prison, the company's co-founder Jerry Yang said Saturday. Yang, responding to questions during an inter...	[ 16 ]
Sharia law move quashed in Canada	The prospect of Sharia law in Ontario sparked protests in Canada A report by Ontario's former attorney general Marion Boyd had recommended the use of Islamic law to settle issues such as divorce and child custody. But Premier Dalton McGuinty ruled against the move, saying there should be "one law for all Ontarians". ...	[ 18 ]
A question of duty for US soldiers	Anthony Lawrence BBC News, Vietnam This From Our Own Correspondent was first broadcast on 23 May, 1970. Driven by Cold War concerns over the spread of communism, the US sent troops to South Vietnam in 1954. By 1970, 400,000 soldiers were stationed there. In Vietnam, Anthony Lawrence discovered what life was like f...	[ 4 ]
Pimp My Genome	By Kevin Davies Aug 15, 2005 \| The first five albums by the British rock group Queen included a defiant footnote on the back cover, to wit: “No synthesizers were used in the making of this record.” It wasn’t until the ’80s that the band finally experimented with, or perhaps succumbed to, the inevitable march of techn...	[ 4 ]
iPod nano	Introduction 2G iPod nano reviewed We've reviewed the brand-new second-generation iPod Nano. Check it out! If you're interested in seeing how the original iPod nano performed in this review from 2005, read on! The original iPod nano iPod nano Manufacturer: Apple (product page) System requirements: Macintosh comp...	[ 32 ]
Not to be read in China	By John Simpson BBC world affairs editor, Beijing Sadly, this column will not be read in China. Economic freedom, but no freedom of information in China Nor can BBC World be seen in China, except in the more expensive Western-style hotels and under certain very specific circumstances. And this must surely be a...	[ 12 ]
Spot On: Korea reacts to increase in game addiction	By now most gamers have heard the story of the South Korean man who collapsed to the floor after playing an online game at an Internet café for 50 hours straight. He later died at a local hospital. The press identified him only as "Lee." The man known as Lee was later identified as Lee Seung Seop, according to a recen...	[ 3 ]
Opinion \| All the President's Friends	The lethally inept response to Hurricane Katrina revealed to everyone that the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which earned universal praise during the Clinton years, is a shell of its former self. The hapless Michael Brown -- who is no longer overseeing relief efforts but still heads the agency -- has become a sy...	[ 20 ]
quiet american	april 21, 2008 1.7 MB ' The sunset call to prayer, or ezan, from the Blue Mosque — or Sultan Ahmet Camii, to give it its proper name. We'd just arrived in in Istanbul, Turkey, after driving from London through northern & eastern Europe, and after finding our hotel we wandered out onto the roof terrace to admire the vie...	[ 7 ]
Flickr signup: From human to droid in a Yahoo moment?	Consider the signup screen for Flickr before Yahoo: They make jokes about the screen name, remind you that it’s changeable, express their hatred for spam, and poke fun at the terms of use. And just as importantly, they only ask three questions and a confirmation. That’s it. Takes no time to complete, involves little b...	[ 32 ]
Asymmetrical Information	Democracy is spreading around the world. Recent elections in Iraq, Afghanistan and Ukraine give hope for greater freedom and peace. But in New York, home of the Statue of Liberty and the first U.S. Congress, democracy has practically disappeared. Help us restore fair elections. Read More... I'm guest-blogging at I...	[ 3 ]
Simon Schama: Sorry Mr President, Katrina is not 9/11	Slipstreaming behind the annual rituals of sorrow and reverence for 9/11, George W Bush has decreed that, five days later, on the 16th, there is to be a further day of solemnities on which the nation will pray for the unnumbered victims of Hurricane Katrina. Prayers (like vacations) are the default mode for this presid...	[ 9 ]
Resurgence • Issue 218	Contents Welcome Welcome • Satish Kumar Feature Articles A CITIZEN'S RESPONSE • Wendell Berry We must work seriously for peace. CLASH OF CIVILISATIONS • John Mohawk Rethinking basic assumptions. GOD SAVE AMERICA! • Ziauddin Sardar America is the first hyperpower in history. WHO IS NEXT? • Alan Simpson MP Ter...	[ 3 ]
The Fall of the House of Saud	The most vulnerable point and the most spectacular target in the Saudi oil system is the Abqaiq complex—the world's largest oil-processing facility, which sits about twenty-four miles inland from the northern end of the Gulf of Bahrain. All petroleum originating in the south is pumped to Abqaiq for processing. For the ...	[ 4 ]
The Jackals after the Storm	WorldWatch First appeared in print in The Rhinoceros Times, Greensboro, NC By Orson Scott Card September 4, 2005 The Jackals after the Storm The damage in New Orleans and southern Mississippi from Hurricane Katrina may have taken more lives than 9/11 -- at least that's what experts are estimating right now. And, a...	[ 5 ]
Brown calls for oil price effort	Ahead of expected fuel duty protests, Mr Brown told the TUC Opec countries to produce more oil and refine more. He said it was a "global challenge" which needed "global solutions". But France is to offer fuel tax rebates to farmers and retailers in Austria have cut prices after being threatened with a one-off tax on ...	[ 4 ]
Bot herder websites in internet take-down	Bot herder websites that specialise in dumbing down the process of managing zombie networks of compromised Windows PCs are under attack. High profile bot sites such as ryan1918.com and 0x90-team.com have disappeared, reports anti-virus firm F-Secure. Another such site, known as "Neo, The One" (neo-theone.com.ar), which...	[ 8 ]
Gulf Coast Isn't the Only Thing Left in Tatters; Bush's Status With Blacks Takes Hit	WASHINGTON - From the political perspective of the White House, Hurricane Katrina destroyed more than an enormous swath of the Gulf Coast. The storm also appears to have damaged the carefully laid plans of Karl Rove, President Bush's political adviser, to make inroads among black voters and expand the reach of the Repu...	[ 4 ]
No timetable for Iraq withdrawal	Mr Talabani (L) says Iraqi forces are getting stronger In a news conference in Washington with President George Bush, he said a timed pull-out could encourage terrorism. But Mr Talabani said he hoped Iraqi forces could take some responsibility from US troops by the end of 2006. In an interview with the Washington Po...	[ 3 ]
Nursing home owners face charges	Nursing home owners face charges Couple charged with 34 counts of negligent homicide BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (CNN) -- The owners of St. Rita's Nursing Home in St. Bernard Parish, where 34 people died as Hurricane Katrina hit, have been charged with negligent homicide, Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti Jr. said T...	[ 17 ]
Google Earth threatens democracy	The recent news that South Korea is to take the US to task over Google Earth images which expose its military installations to close Commie scrutiny has provoked a mini stampede of other peace-loving nations eager to protect their assets from prying eyes. Enter stage right Thailand, which says it may ask Google to "bl...	[ 22 ]
A Tutor Half a World Away, but as Close as a Keyboard	COCHIN, India - A few minutes before 7 on a recent morning, Greeshma Salin swiveled her chair to face the computer, slipped on her headset and said in faintly accented English, "Hello, Daniela." Seconds later she heard the response, "Hello, Greeshma." The two chatted excitedly before Ms. Salin said, "We'll work on pro...	[ 3 ]
Sane Nation	NEW ORLEANS NEGLIGENCE: I agree with those who say it's not to time to play "blame games" about the New Orleans nightmare. But we can — and should — be serious about assessing responsibility. It's a simple fact that local and state official represent the first line of defense in natural disasters. It's a fact that Mayo...	[ 9 ]
The beauty products from the skin of executed Chinese prisoners	A Chinese cosmetics company is using skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe, an investigation by the Guardian has discovered. Agents for the firm have told would-be customers it is developing collagen for lip and wrinkle treatments from skin taken from prison...	[ 7 ]
Amid Katrina Chaos, Congressman Used National Guard to Visit Home	Sept. 13, 2005 -- Amid the chaos and confusion that engulfed New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck, a congressman used National Guard troops to check on his property and rescue his personal belongings -- even while New Orleans residents were trying to get rescued from rooftops, ABC News has learned. On Sept. 2 ...	[ 10 ]
IHTFP Hack Gallery: Welcome to the IHTFP Gallery!	The IHTFP Gallery is dedicated to documenting the history of hacking at MIT. The word hack at MIT usually refers to a clever, benign, and "ethical" prank or practical joke, which is both challenging for the perpetrators and amusing to the MIT community (and sometimes even the rest of the world!). Note that this has no...	[ 4 ]
The Common Lisp web server formerly known as TBNL	Hunchentoot - The Common Lisp web server formerly known as TBNL Abstract Hunchentoot is a web server written in Common Lisp and at the same time a toolkit for building dynamic websites. As a stand-alone web server, Hunchentoot is capable of HTTP/1.1 chunking (both directions), persistent connections (keep-alive), and ...	[ 11 ]
Airtime	This image was lost some time after publication, but you can still view it here Embracing The Mobile Hacker Ethic By Carlo Longino As mobile phones become more powerful and pervasive, it was inevitable that they'd spawn the same kind of homebrew hacking culture as computers and the Internet. While the locked-down ...	[ 9 ]
Roberts quizzed on abortion issue	Pro-choice groups feel Roberts might not be sympathetic Mr Roberts, a Roman Catholic, told the committee examining his nomination that the 1973 ruling legalising abortion was "settled as a precedent of the court". He denied his faith would influence his decisions if he was chosen for the job. President Bush nominate...	[ 3 ]
We had to kill our patients	by C AROLINE GRAHAM and JO KNOWSLEY, Mail on Sunday Last updated at 09:10 11 September 2005 Doctors working in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans killed critically ill patients rather than leaving them to die in agony as they evacuated hospitals, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. With gangs of rapists and looters rampaging ...	[ 62 ]
Killer Buzz Flocks to New Browser	Perhaps the world does not need another web browser – but it may want Bart Decrem's. Decrem and a small cadre of programmers in Palo Alto, California, have spent this summer quietly readying Flock, an open-source browser, for an early October beta launch. Several members of the team, including Decrem, hail from the Mo...	[ 45 ]
defective yeti: Roberts Continues To Stonewall On Logan v. Wayne	Roberts Continues To Stonewall On Logan v. Wayne Judge John Roberts weathered another round of questioning today as his confirmation hearing entered its second day, but the controversal pick for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court left many senators frustrated and angry as he repeatedly declined to explicate his positi...	[ 7 ]
George Monbiot: It was claimed that the internet and satellite TV would topple dictators	'Several of this cursed brood, getting hold of the branches behind, leaped up into the tree, whence they began to discharge their excrements on my head." Thus Gulliver describes his first encounter with the Yahoos. Something similar seems to have happened to democracy. In April, Shi Tao, a journalist working for a Chi...	[ 12 ]
Companies and Discussion	In the spirit of Web 2.0 Companies, I'm beta launching the new and improved resource for all things Web 2.0. It still needs some work but it's coming together (hence the beta). Converting all my posts from Blogger to Wordpress was fairly smooth but with the new style sheets, some of the posts need some hand tweaking.Th...	[ 3 ]
DeLay declares 'victory' in war on budget fat	House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said yesterday that Republicans have done so well in cutting spending that he declared an “ongoing victory,” and said there is simply no fat left to cut in the federal budget. Mr. DeLay was defending Republicans’ choice to borrow money and add to this year’s expected $331 billion defici...	[ 5 ]
Gillette unveils 5-bladed razor with two lubricating strips	New system, available in early 2006, to have lubricating strips on both the front and back sides. The manual version of Gillette's new Fusion razor NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Gillette has escalated the razor wars yet again, unveiling a new line of razors on Wednesday with five blades and a lubricating strip on both the fr...	[ 5 ]
India's marathon boy, aged three	By Sandeep Sahu BBC News, Bhubaneswar Coach Das says Budhia could be a Guinness World Record holder And Budhia Singh is just three and a half years old. When Budhia's father died a year ago, his mother, who washes dishes in Bhubaneswar, capital of the eastern Indian state of Orissa, was unable to provide for her ...	[ 19 ]
Power vs. the People	Once there was a man who said, u201CRange me all men of the world in rows.u201D And instantly There was terrific clamour among the people Against being ranged in rows. There was a loud quarrel, world-wide. It endured for ages; And blood was shed By those who would not stand in rows, And by those who pined to stand in r...	[ 5 ]
Flat income tax - A dip in the middle	INCOME tax has been paid in Britain for more than two centuries. First introduced by William Pitt the Younger to finance the war against Napoleonic France, it is the Treasury's biggest source of revenue, raising 30% of tax receipts. It arouses strong political emotions, regarded as fair by some because it makes the ric...	[ 10 ]
Customer Data May be Too Risky to Keep	Companies keep finding ways to misplace consumers' personal data. Courier services lose tapes on their way to long-term storage facilities; malevolent social engineers con their way into access; laptop computers holding multiple databases are stolen. We hear a lot about these kinds of things now because a new Californ...	[ 10 ]
Guantanamo hunger strike expands	Many prisoners are al-Qaeda or Taleban suspects Eighteen prisoners have been hospitalised, including 13 who are being tube-fed. Lawyers for the detainees say they are demanding release or immediate trial. This is the latest in a series of hunger strikes since 2002 by detainees, who are held at the facility on Cuba a...	[ 6 ]
Human evolution - Three of a kind	HAVING been trumped last week by the decision of the chimpanzee genome-sequencing consortium to publish in their rival, Nature (see article), the editors of Science have now got somewhat of their own back with a trio of papers that look at genes which seem to be involved in the evolution of the human brain. Two of the...	[ 5 ]
Content Management System, Blog Software & Publishing Platform	License Agreement for Use of Movable Type Number of servers: 1 / Number of users: Unlimited This Movable Type License Agreement (hereinafter referred to as this "Agreement") is made and entered into by and between an individual, corporation, entity or organization (hereinafter referred to as the "Client") that uses M...	[ 6 ]
网上购买福彩快三	The Huajiang Yidong 2019 Strategy Release and Scorpion Band Tour China Conference was control in Beijing. It had been declared that the German band scorpion band can hold concerts in Beijing and Shanghai on November 17 and 21. Additionally, the Yangtze International Music competition also will be adscititious to Shenzh...	[ 3 ]
Taking Stock of the Forever War	As Zarqawi described in his letter and in subsequent broadcasts, his strategy in Iraq is to strike at the Shia -- and thereby provoke a civil war. "A nation of heretics," the Shia "are the key element of change," he wrote. "If we manage to draw them onto the terrain of partisan war, it will be possible to tear the Sunn...	[ 3 ]
Massive sunspot has Earth in its sights	A sunspot five times the size of Earth could wreak havoc with satellites and radio communication systems, scientists warn, as it moves across the face of the sun and Earth moves directly into its firing line. Seven huge X-class flares have already erupted from the spot, including one of magnitude X17 last Wednesday th...	[ 12 ]
Powazek: Just a Thought: Embrace your bottom!	Embrace your bottom! Just a thought from 13 September 2005 about Design, Powazek, Weblogs. I mentioned this idea briefly when I posted about the recent redesign, but I wanted to expand it further. Web designers of the world, let's talk about your bottoms. When you're designing pages - specifically content pages - wh...	[ 5 ]
Bush 'caught short' at UN summit	The note was written during UN summit talks Enlarge Image But when you are the US president, at a gathering of more than 150 world leaders, it is even more tricky. While talk at the UN world summit was focused on terrorism and internal reform, George W Bush appeared to have been caught short. And, he is said to h...	[ 14 ]
Meebo: More of What You Love	Meebo is now part of Google Meebo was acquired by Google on June 4, 2012. Our team is now working just a few miles down the road with the Google+ team, where we continue to focus on creating delightful experiences for our users, developers, and publishers. Meebo's products are no longer available, but you can find a...	[ 7, 7, 1 ]
Why I switched to Firefox	It’s a sad day and a good day. For years I’ve held onto my IE install out of love. I worked on IE 1.0 thru 5.0, and was one of the people that designed much of its UI. But my love for the past has faded. Last week I switched to Firefox: and I’ve been happy. Why I switched: IE is a ghetto. There are specs I wrote for ...	[ 55 ]
The Coming Dollar Crisis?	As is often the case, the most interesting things I learned at last August's round of conferences came not in the formal conference sessions but in the informal small-group conversations before, around, in the interstices of, and after the conference. Take the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's "Greenspan Era" conf...	[ 4 ]