McCain Claims Victory on Debate Before it Happens

Seeded on Fri Sep 26, 2008 3:08 PM EDT (The Washington Post)

Although the fate of tonight's presidential debate in Mississippi remains very much up in the air, John McCain has apparently already won it -- if you believe an Internet ad an astute reader spotted next to this piece in the online edition of the Wall Street Journal this morning.

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U.S. stops breeding chimps for research | Science | Reuters

Seeded on Fri May 25, 2007 2:16 PM EDT (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. National Institutes of Health, which supports a variety of biomedical studies using animals, will stop breeding government-owned chimpanzees for research -- a step animal rights advocates lauded on Thursday.

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Boy Scouts get MPAA-approved copyright merit badge

Seeded on Sat Oct 21, 2006 5:35 PM EDT (Ars Technica)

"Research peer to peer websites—describe to your troop what they are and how they are sometimes used to illegally trade copyrighted materials," suggests the official curriculum.

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Nintendo Entertainment System 20th Anniversary

Seeded on Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:46 PM EDT (classicgaming.com)

The catastrophic crash of 1984 had wiped out or severely weakened all the major home videogame companies, and home computers were becoming more and more popular. The future of videogames looked bleak and it seemed as if the home videogame system would become a thing of the past.

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Girl questioned after threatening Bush on MySpace

Seeded on Fri Oct 13, 2006 10:31 PM EDT (The Minneapolis Star Tribune)

The latest Sacramento resident to be questioned by federal agents for threatening President Bush is a 14-year-old girl who is passionate about liberal politics and cute movie stars.

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Four top doctors arrested over illegal human experimentation

Seeded on Tue Oct 10, 2006 3:22 PM EDT (Haaretz)

Four senior doctors at Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot and Hartzfeld Geriatric Hospital in Gedera suspected of illegally experimenting on humans were arrested Monday.

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Dust mite droppings damage skin's defences

Seeded on Fri Sep 29, 2006 12:53 AM EDT (New Scientist)

Faeces deposited on our skin by dust mites may make our skin more permeable to different kinds of allergens and irritants, according to a new study in mice.

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Googling for ATM Master Passwords

Seeded on Thu Sep 21, 2006 4:44 PM EDT (eweek.com)

Using clues obtained from a YouTube video and a simple four-word Google search engine query, a criminal can find step-by-step instructions for how to hack into and take control of thousands of ATMs scattered around the United States.

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Don't Let Spam Filters Snatch Your Resume

Seeded on Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:11 PM EDT (careerjournal.com)

Dylan Hunter, 34, of Northborough, Mass., notes on his resume that he received a master's degree in business administration from Babson College, in Wellesley, Mass., in 1999 and graduated magna cum laude.

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Lost in Space? Lots of Junk

Seeded on Sat Sep 16, 2006 1:50 AM EDT (Wired News)

Using radar and telescope sensors, NASA and the Air Force track objects bigger than about 4 inches. The official "box score" of that space debris as of Thursday was 9,925. But the 90,000 objects smaller than that can be as dangerous, zipping around Earth at more than 15,000 mph.

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Large majority of theater-goers favor cell phone jamming

Seeded on Mon Sep 11, 2006 2:11 PM EDT (Ars Technica)

Some on both sides of the Atlantic want to modify current laws to ensure a more enjoyable entertainment experience; but in the UK (as well as the US), it is still illegal to jam cell signals.

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Google releases open-source OCR tool with HP special sauce

Seeded on Tue Sep 5, 2006 6:57 PM EDT (Ars Technica)

Google says that its interest in OCR stems from the desire to index all the information in the world, and to do that with printed materials requires that you digitize it first.

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Walt Disney World fingerprints visitors

Seeded on Sat Sep 2, 2006 2:58 AM EDT (Boing Boing)

Disney is now fingerprinting visitors to Walt Disney World as part of its ticket-fraud prevention scheme.

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Dad kills neighbor accused of molesting girl

Seeded on Thu Aug 31, 2006 5:39 PM EDT (CNN)

A lawyer climbed through a neighbor's bedroom window and stabbed him to death after being told by a family member that the man had molested his 2-year-old daughter, authorities say.

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Will fiber optics replace the lightbulb?

Seeded on Thu Aug 31, 2006 3:44 PM EDT (CNET)

EFO essentially revolves around taming metal halide lights. Metal halide lamps are extremely efficient, capable of putting out 90 lumens per watt of energy.

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Can Web 2.0 save newspapers?

Seeded on Thu Aug 31, 2006 3:40 PM EDT (CNET)

It's no secret that newspapers are having a rough go of it, though a persuasive argument can be made that much of their problems are of their own making.

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Call for fertility ban for obese

Seeded on Thu Aug 31, 2006 3:09 PM EDT (BBC News)

The British Fertility Society is recommending women with a body mass index of 36 and over should not be allowed access to fertility treatment.

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Web 2.0 Colour Palette

Seeded on Wed Aug 30, 2006 3:26 PM EDT (modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk)

Web 2.0 is about finding new ways to interact on the internet and collaboration, at least to a certain extent.

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Don't drop your iPod in the Toilet at 35,000 feet!

Seeded on Wed Aug 30, 2006 3:08 PM EDT (Geek News Central)

I waited in total silence for about 10 minutes as he kept searching and searching, until I finally asked him, "What are you looking for?"

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Porn Up, Rape Down

Seeded on Fri Aug 25, 2006 2:05 PM EDT (ssrn.com)

The incidence of rape in the United States has declined 85% in the past 25 years while access to pornography has become freely available to teenagers and adults. The Nixon and Reagan Commissions tried to show that exposure to pornographic materials produced social violence.

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Chinese county slaughters 50,000 dogs

Seeded on Thu Aug 3, 2006 9:20 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

Dogs being walked were seized from their owners and beaten to death on the spot, the Shanghai Daily newspaper reported. Led by the county police chief, killing teams entered villages at night creating noise to get dogs barking, then beat the animals to death, the reports said.

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Israeli conscientious objector jailed

Seeded on Wed Aug 2, 2006 2:46 PM EDT (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

ELEANOR HALL: In Israel, doing military service is an essential part of being a citizen. But peace groups say the recent conflict in Lebanon is testing the commitment of Israelis to this principle, and point to conscientious objector Amir Fester.

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Robert Fisk Reports From Lebanon on the Israeli Bombing of Qana

Seeded on Tue Aug 1, 2006 9:53 AM EDT (Democracy Now!)

ROBERT FISK: I've seen the video footage. It's impossible to tell from the footage if indeed this is from Qana.

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Yesha Rabbinical Council: During time of war, enemy has no innocents

Seeded on Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:43 PM EDT (CNET News.com)

The Yesha Rabbinical Council announced in response to an IDF attack in Kfar Qanna that "according to Jewish law, during a time of battle and war, there is no such term as 'innocents' of the enemy."

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