] LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A former top executive of US software
] giant Microsoft Corp has traded his high-flying job to
] deliver books to remote villages in Nepal on the back of
] a yak.
]
] John Wood, a 39-year-old senior executive at the
] Washington-state based company quit his
] 300,000-dollar-a-year post and launched a charity in 2000
] to boost literacy in remote Asian communities in
] countries such as India and Nepal.

Yahoo! News - Former Microsoft executive delivers books on a yak after quitting job

] How would you like to own Twiki from Buck Rogers, or even
] better one of Erin Gray's hot spandex pantsuits from the
] show? You can have your own Cylon, Commander Adama's
] uniform, or a Colonial Warrior helmet from the
] never-filmed second season of BG.

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Whenever someone says that this or that government program is absolutely necessary, I always wonder, "What did people do and how did they survive before the program?"

If someone says food stamps are absolutely necessary for poor people's survival, I wonder how America's millions of poor immigrants made it. Unless I missed something, mass starvation is not a part of our history. Was there a stealth food stamp program during the 1700s and 1800s?

Nashville City Paper

] When I mentioned in last week's column that I would this
] week be writing about a legal way to do a successful
] music downloading business -- a business that would
] threaten the Recording Industry Association of America
] and its hegemony -- dozens of readers wrote to me trying
] to predict what I would write. Some readers came at the
] problem from a purely technical perspective, ignoring the
] fact that the real issues here aren't technical but
] legal. Some readers took a legal approach, but they
] tended to ignore the business model. Some were looking
] solely for the business model. Interestingly, nobody
] even came close to my idea, which makes me either a total
] loon or a diabolical genius. Truth be told, I'm probably
] more of a diabolical loon.
]
]
] The reason I am even writing this column is two-fold.
] The biggest reason is simply because I would like people
] to consider lateral solutions to problems. I am pushing
] the concept of problem solving in a new way. There is no
] particular methodology here, just the underlying concept
] that if things aren't working the way you like, think of
] something different. Too often, people restrict their
] thinking or they somehow expect the world to change just
] for them, which it won't. But taking a lateral approach
] often yields interesting results. And once you've found
] an approach, maybe it can be applied to a different
] problem. What I am abo

I, Cringely | The Pulpit

] The parents of Ghyslain Raza, the Quebec teenager who
] became a celebrity this spring after classmates posted on
] the Internet a video of him mimicking a Star Wars
] character, allege that their son was so humiliated by the
] experience that he had to get psychiatric care.
]
] The revelation is made in a lawsuit his parents have
] filed against the families of four classmates they accuse
] of maliciously turning their son into an object of
] mockery.
]
] The video of Ghyslain, a portly 15-year-old pretending he
] is wielding a double-bladed light sabre, has been
] downloaded millions of times from several Web sites,
] which dubbed him Star Wars Kid.

The Globe and Mail

] MADRID, Spain, July 22 %u2014 For a glimpse of
] Europe%u2019s young generation on the move and the future
] of the borderless continent, head to the late-partying
] Spanish capital, drink a strong shot of coffee and try to
] keep up with Stina Lunden, a 25-year-old Swedish
] transplant.

A generation on the move in Europe

] Dockers recently came out with a new brand of pants, the
] Go Khakis, which promise to keep your legs stain-free
] using revolutionary nanotechnology.
]
] We couldn't help thinking that Dockers might be using the
] word "nanotechnology" more for marketing muscle than for
] true scientific purposes, so we called its customer
] service line to ask a few pointed questions. Here's a
] slice of the conversation.

Hilarious.

CNN.com - Little robots in your pants - Jul. 18, 2003

] This site is dedicated to the thousands of men and women
] in America who have been relegated to the status of
] children, regardless of their age, by the do-gooders of
] society who believe that merely because a person has no
] home they should therefore not be allowed to drink beer.

Beer For The Homeless

] Move over, Jaws. An underwater battle captured on
] videotape proves that killer whales are the kings of the
] sea.
]
] The first known videotape of a clash between a killer
] whale and a great white shark has enthralled whale
] watchers all over the world.

15 second video clip too! Very cool.

CNN - Clash of the titans caught on tape: Whale vs. Shark - October 8, 1997