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] The music industry has turned its big legal guns on
] Internet music-swappers - including a 12-year-old
] New York City girl who thought downloading songs was fun.
]
] Brianna LaHara said she was frightened to learn she was
] among the hundreds of people sued yesterday by giant
] music companies in federal courts around the country.

FOXNews.com - Top Stories - 12-Year-Old Sued for Music Downloading

] "The newly proposed 'amnesty' is clearly a strategy by
] the industry to address some of the concerns I and others
] have had in this matter," Coleman said in a statement.
] "But, it raises new issues that require careful analysis
] and review. An amnesty that could involve millions of
] kids submitting and signing legal documents that plead
] themselves guilty to the Recording Industry Association
] of America may not be the best approach to achieving a
] balance between protecting copyright laws and punishing
] those who violate those laws."

Senator Cautions Those Tempted By RIAA Amnesty Offer

] The rush to lump VOIP in with phone services obscures the
] larger problem: The 100-year-old regulatory structure for
] telephones is no longer adequate for today's advanced
] telecom services. These rules were written in a time when
] each technology delivered one type of service: Voice
] traveled over copper wires. Broadcast radio and TV
] signals flew through the air. Multichannel video
] journeyed across a coaxial cable.

Time to Rewrite the Rules of Telecom

] 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

] From on-board radar and Wi-Fi to electronic steering,
] amazing technologies already here or soon coming promise
] to create a new automotive era

More propaganda from Detroit and Stuttgart.

21st Century Cars Hit the Road

] Each evening, thousands of Americans drift into Chinese
] restaurants or, if they are too lazy to go out, pick up
] the phone and order one of the most popular dishes on the
] menu: General Tso's Chicken, a sugary-spicy melange of
] dark-meat tidbits, deep-fried then fired up with ginger,
] garlic, sesame oil, scallions and hot chili peppers.
]
] Not one in 10,000 knows who General Tso (most commonly
] pronounced "sow") was, nor what terrible times he lived
] through, nor the dark massacres that distinguished his
] baleful, belligerent career. Setting their chopsticks
] aside, patting their stomachs, the satisfied diners spare
] scarcely a thought for General Tso, except to imagine
] that he must have been a great connoisseur of hot
] stir-fried chicken.
]
] Who was he?

Who Was General Tso And Why Are We Eating His Chicken? (washingtonpost.com)

] The LIBRARIAN
]
] ACTION FIGURE
]
] COMING THIS FALL, 2003!

Complete with "Shush-ing" action.

LibrarianActionFigure.com

] Amid a backdrop of far-off galaxies, the majestic dusty
] spiral, NGC 3370, looms in the foreground in this NASA
] Hubble Space Telescope image.
]
] Recent observations taken with the Advanced Camera for
] Surveys show intricate spiral arm structure spotted with
] hot areas of new star formation. But this galaxy is more
] than just a pretty face. Nearly 10 years earlier NGC
] 3370, in the constellation Leo, hosted a bright exploding
] star.
]
] In November 1994, the light of a supernova in nearby NGC
] 3370 reached Earth. This stellar outburst briefly
] outshone all of the tens of billions of other stars in
] its galaxy.

Best Hubble image I've seen yet.

RedNova News: New Hubble Space Telescope Image: Celestial Composition

] Using cellophane to convert a laptop computer screen into
] a three-dimensional display
]
] Keigo lizuka
]
] Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
]
] 35 St. George Street
]
] University of Toronto
]
] Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A4
]
] Abstract
]
] We present a novel, inexpensive, stereoscopic technique
] for generating 3D displays from cellophane and a laptop
] computer screen. Stereoscopy requires independent
] manipulation of the left and right eye views.1 Our
] technique takes advantage of two facts; the first is that
] the light from the liquid crystal display of a laptop
] computer is polarized light 2, and therefore we can
] easily manipulate its transmission with a polarizer
] sheet. The second fact is that a cellophane
] half-waveplate can change the direction of polarization
] of light. The direction of polarization of one half of
] the laptop screen was rotated by the cellophane
] half-waveplate. Two images displayed with orthogonal
] polarization on two halves of the screen become separable
] by wearing a pair of glasses of orthogonal polarization.
]
] A distinct advantage of our technique is its simplicity;
] a laptop screen can be converted into a 3D display with
] minimal knowledge of optics. An additional advantage of
] our technique is that we can eliminate the need for the
] observer to wear special glasses by making the computer
] wear the glasses instead. This is possible because a
] laptop computer normally has only one viewer at a time,
] and the relative orientation of the viewer's head and the
] laptop screen is sufficiently stationary. A futher
] significant discovery is that we verified that
] cellophane (costing mere pennies) proved to be a better
] half-waveplate than a commercial half-waveplate
] (costing hundreds of dollars for the required size) for
] rotating the polarization of white light.

3D displays