] A caffeine and alcohol cocktail similar to an Irish coffee could
] prevent severe brain damage in stroke victims, new research has
] revealed.

] The experimental drug, called caffeinol, has the potency of two
] cups of strong coffee and a small shot of alcohol. When injected
] into rats within three hours of an artificially stimulated stroke,
] brain damage was cut by up to 80 per cent.

Here's for DeStimulation!

'Irish coffee' injection prevents stroke damage

] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. is in ongoing
] talks with Vivendi Universal to buy the Universal Music
] Group from the French media and entertainment company, a
] source close to the situation said on Friday.
]
] The source did not say what such a deal could be worth,
] but some analysts have said that Universal, which ranks
] as the world's largest music company, could fetch as much
] as $6 billion.

This smells like a hoax but would be incredible if it wasn't...

Apple in Talks to Buy Universal Music

] JK Rowling has won her court case to stop a Harry
] Potter-like book from being published.
]
] She's managed to stop the Russian book about a girl
] wizard called Tanya Grotter because she says it copies
] her best-selling novels.

CBBC Newsround | UK | JK wins 'Tanya Grotter' court case

flynn23 wrote:
] ] The low-fat, high-bandwidth solution to your networked
] ] cooking needs is finally here. The George Foreman USB
] ] iGrill conveniently connects to your home or office PC
] ] using USB 2.0 technology, and provides a sophisticated
] ] web-based cooking interface.
]
] sweet.

Make sure you click "add to cart" to try to order one...

In other 4/1 news, I logged in today and noticed my "Wanda the Gnome fish" was swimming upside down in its panel... Clicking
on it indicated that its water needed changing :P

RE: ThinkGeek :: George Foreman USB iGrill

] Sun Microsystems may be planning to drop its
] private-label version of Linux for servers, but the
] company is still on track with a Linux-based desktop
] system that should hit the market this summer, the
] company said.
]
] Sun showed off prototypes of the desktop machines,
] code-named "Mad Hatter", to customers at the CeBIT trade
] fair last month, according to the head of Sun Germany,
] Helmut Wilke. The desktop will bundle several
] off-the-shelf hardware and software components, including
] StarOffice, Sun's productivity suite; Evolution, an
] Outlook clone; and the Gnome desktop environment. It is
] aimed at businesses such as call centres, where users
] only need access to a limited set of functions, and will
] be closely integrated with Sun servers to give IT
] managers maximum flexibility.

Why does Sun think they can possibly compete with Dell here??
For awhile, now, I've felt that Sun has to live between IBM's
low-end and Dell's high end and there seems to be increasingly little room there...

ZDNet |UK| - News - Story - Sun 'on track' for Linux desktop push

] "Basically, (the bills) outlaw any device they don't
] like," McClure said. "Any technology they don't like is
] banned. Not only is it banned, but it opens you to
] criminal penalties for its use. If you use a computer,
] you could be a criminal. (They don't) require that a
] computer be used for copyright infringement, just that it
] could potentially be used for copyright infringement."

DMCA critics decry state-level proposals | CNET News.com

] Here is one example of the far-reaching harmful effects
] of these bills. Both bills would flatly ban the
] possession, sale, or use of technologies that "conceal
] from a communication service provider ... the existence
] or place of origin or destination of any communication".
] Your ISP is a communication service provider, so anything
] that concealed the origin or destination of any
] communication from your ISP would be illegal -- with no
] exceptions.

Yikes!

Freedom to Tinker: Use a Firewall, Go to Jail

]
] You may think the air of extreme witlessness impossible
] to mimic, but is the man on the podium the authentic
] Dubya, a trained stand-in or an animatronic lookalike?
] Tim Dowling investigates

:P

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Would the real George Bush please stand down

] Microsoft has reduced the number of e-mail messages
] Hotmail users can send each day to 100 in an effort to
] prevent spammers from using the service to send spam.
]
] The cap, put in place earlier this month, only applies to
] users of the company's free Hotmail e-mail service, and
] not to MSN 8 subscribers or those who pay for MSN Extra
] Storage, a Microsoft spokeswoman said Tuesday.

InfoWorld: Microsoft caps Hotmail to prevent spamming: March 25, 2003: By Scarlet Pruitt: Applications

] WASHINGTON, March 24 — In a case balancing national
] security with civil liberties, the Supreme Court refused
] to interfere today with a lower court ruling giving the
] Justice Department broad new powers to use wiretaps to
] prosecute terrorists.
]
] The justices declined without comment to review a
] decision last Nov. 18 in which a special federal appeals
] court found that, under a law passed after the terror
] attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Justice Department can use
] wiretaps installed for intelligence operations to go
] after terrorists.

Bad news...

Supreme Court Refuses to Review Wiretaps Ruling