An initiative of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), Defective By Design is urging all technologists to get involved at the start of the campaign. "Technologists are very aware of the dangers of DRM," said Peter Brown, Executive Director of the FSF. "We see this as the tip of the iceberg and it is our duty to do something about it." The tech community is uniquely qualified to lead this effort, in Brown's view. "We know about the collusion of Big Media, device manufacturers and proprietary software companies to lock us down," he continued. "Their aim is to put Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) into all our computers and homes".

FSF - Protesters provide a nasty

Time lapse radar track of FedEx aircraft arriving into the Memphis hub during area thunderstorms.

Neat!

Airline Pilot Central - FedEx arrivals during Thunderstorms

What is Klüver-Bucy Syndrome?

Klüver-Bucy Syndrome Information Page: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)

The latest low-technology billboards along highways in the Netherlands are startling enough to prompt motorists to indulge in U-turns.

Or make that ewe-turns. These ads are walking, woolly flocks of bleating sheep. Early this month, Hotels.nl, a Dutch online reservations company, began displaying its corporate logo on royal blue waterproof blankets worn by sheep.

Advertiser Counts on Sheep to Pull Eyes Over the Wool

About 20 percent of U.S. teenagers admit they have gotten high by inhaling common household products, and fewer understand the dangers of this practice compared with teenagers five years ago, according to a report released Monday.

Remember, kids, huffing can kill you the very first time you do it.

Fewer teens realize dangers of huffing

An Alpaca cleans her baby in a field in Salinas, a town near Peru's volcano Ubinas, Moquegua, some 550 miles (900 km) south of Lima, April 20, 2006.

Belching Peru volcano sparks alarm, kills llamas

*sigh* ... why is it I have to become an expert about every piece of technology I touch?

LNB, Multiswitch, and DirecTV Signal FAQ's - TiVo Community

With the latest crop of videos, a new style has emerged, though, one that is at once absolutely mundane and completely postmodern: people posting videos of themselves watching YouTube videos. And that's just the start.

People Who Watch People: Lost in an Online Hall of Mirrors - New York Times

Here's that video of the duck getting hit by the car mentioned in the New Yorker piece...

blooper / caught on tape : a duck gets hit by a car - Google Video

Caltrain commuter trains struck and killed two people today, causing service delays for much of the morning and into the afternoon.

Wow...

Second person killed by commuter train on the Peninsula today