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

Data on more than 120,000 participants in two U.S. studies that followed people for as long as two decades found no link between heart disease and a daily intake of six or more cups of coffee. In fact, the risk was the same as for people who had less than one cup of coffee or tea a month.

Heavy Coffee Drinking Doesn't Hurt the Heart

Internet Freedom is under attack. Congress is pushing a law that would abandon Network Neutrality, the Internet's First Amendment. Network neutrality prevents companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast from deciding which Web sites work best for you -- based on what site pays them the most. Your local library shouldn’t have to outbid Barnes & Noble for the right to have its Web site open quickly on your computer.

Save the Internet

Del Mar College students who want to surf their online social scene at MySpace.com will have to use computers outside the school's system.

I'm highly skeptical that surfing traffic is eating 40% of their pipe...

College bans MySpace.com to save bandwidth

Scott McNealy, the often acerbic co-founder of Sun Microsystems Inc. and one of Microsoft Corp.'s harshest critics, stepped down as CEO after 22 years Monday as the pioneering maker of computer servers reported its latest quarterly loss.

Sun Microsystems Chief to Step Down

The Vatican is preparing to publish a statement on the use of condoms by people who have Aids, a senior Roman Catholic official has said.

Vatican 'may relax condom rules'

Yochai Benkler’s book, The Weath of Networks, is out. This is — by far — the most important and powerful book written in the fields that matter most to me in the last ten years. If there is one book you read this year, it should be this. The book has a wiki; it can be downloaded as a pdf for free under a Creative Commons license; or it can be bought at places like Amazon.

Read it. Understand it. You are not serious about these issues — on either side of these debates — unless you have read this book.

Lessig Blog: Benkler’s book is out

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?

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