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Environmental Working Group || Nuclear Waste Route Atlas

] WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled U.S.
] Senate on Tuesday defied opposition from the Bush
] administration and voted 55-40 to rescind new regulations
] allowing large media companies to grow even bigger.
]
] Fearing fewer viewpoints and decreasing local news
] coverage, 12 Republicans joined most of the Democrats to
] back a resolution that would undo rules narrowly adopted
] by the Republican-led Federal Communications Commission
] (news - web sites) in June.

Yahoo! News - Senate Votes to Reverse New Media Rules

] Ah, science! Ennobling. Fascinating. Deeply challenging.
] Also, dangerous, gross and mind-bogglingly boring. We at
] Popular Science are sometimes brought up short by the
] realization that there are aspects of science%u2014entire
] jobs, even%u2014that, when you strip away the imposing
] titles and advanced degrees, sound at best distasteful
] and at worst unbearable. Having chosen last month our
] second annual Brilliant 10%u2014a group of dynamic
] researchers making remarkable discoveries%u2014we turned
] to this pressing question: For the rest out there, just
] how bad can a science job get?
]
]
] The answer: Really, really bad.
]
]
] We solicited nominations from more than a thousand
] working scientists and culled the list for the most
] noxious. Then we voted. Which is to say, there is
] absolutely nothing scientific about the ranking of the
] worst jobs in science that appears on these pages; it is
] simply the collective opinion of a group of alternately
] awestruck and disturbed editors who rarely suffer
] anything worse on the job than keyboard- induced
] repetitive-motion syndrome.

Popular Science | The Worst Jobs in Science

] Recording artists across the board think the music
] industry should find a way to work with the Internet
] instead of suing people who have downloaded music.
]
] "They're protecting an archaic industry," said the
] Grateful Dead's Bob Weir. "They should turn their
] attention to new models."
]
] "This is not rocket science," said David Draiman of
] Disturbed, a hard-rock band with a platinum debut album
] on the charts. "Instead of spending all this money
] litigating against kids who are the people they're trying
] to sell things to in the first place, they have to learn
] how to effectively use the Internet."

Wayne Coyne's quote towards the end of the article is great:
"I don't know that there's any one factor behind the industry," said Coyne. "Maybe it's downloading, or maybe people just didn't feel like buying so many records. So Metallica makes $10 million instead of $20 million, who cares? To me, the sympathy is unwarranted. Some of this is just the hazard of doing business. It's the nature of the world. At the end of the day, it's just rock and roll. It isn't that big of a deal."

ajc.com | News | Artists blast record companies over lawsuits against downloaders

] He was a poor sharecropper's son from Kingsland,
] Arkansas, who sang to himself while picking cotton in the
] fields -- then later sang to millions through recordings,
] concerts and his late-'60s TV variety show.
]
] He became a country music statesman who found a home with
] rap-rock producer Rick Rubin's American Recordings.
]
] He was called the "Man in Black," who once sang "I shot a
] man in Reno/Just to watch him die," but opened his
] concerts with the friendly, modest greeting, "Hello, I'm
] Johnny Cash."

It's a sad day in music.

CNN.com - 'Man in Black' Johnny Cash dead at 71 - Sep. 12, 2003

] In 1969, Neil Armstrong made history by becoming the
] first man to walk on the moon, uttering the immortal
] phrase, "One small step for man, one giant leap for
] mankind." Or did he? Previously suppressed footage
] discovered by blogjam shows that Armstrong's reaction was
] a great deal more uninhibited than history suggests, and
] that a hasty editing job was needed to prepare the
] astronaut's moment of glory for broadcast.

Jesus H. Christ this is fucking funny.

Blogjam presents: Neil Armstrong - The Truth

] You may think your salary is paltry, but compared with
] most of the world's population, you're up there with Bill
] Gates.

don't forget how good you have it!

Westerners Pretty Rich

] A homesick shipping clerk had himself shipped from New
] York to Dallas in an airline cargo crate, startling his
] parents -- and a deliveryman -- when he broke out of the
] box outside their home.
]
] Charles D. McKinley, 25, was arrested and jailed on
] unrelated bad-check and traffic charges after his
] overnight odyssey. Federal officials are considering
] additional charges of stowing away on a plane.

CNN.com - Homesick man who flew as cargo recounts journey - Sep. 10, 2003

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Hold onto your seat...

Freak out man!!!

] The recording industry continued to push mounds of paper
] Monday, filing suit against 261 people for allegedly
] pirating songs on file-sharing Websites like Kazaa.
]
] That leaves about 59,999,739 to go.
]
] But if the countless tune-swappers trolling through
] cyberspace were intimidated by the spate of lawsuits, you
] wouldn't know it. The consensus message from a bounty of
] cavalier posts aimed at the Recording Industry
] Association of America became abundantly clear: Bring it
] on!

File-sharers scoff at RIAA lawsuits