] LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices could touch $105 a barrel
] in the next few years, the influential investment bank
] Goldman Sachs said Thursday.
] "Based on our analysis of gasoline spending and the economy
] noted above, we estimate that U.S. gasoline prices may need to
] exceed $4 per gallon," they said.

Goldman says oil could spike to $105 a barrel - Mar. 31, 2005

This looks neat. Same director as Akira.

Sony Pictures - Steamboy

] Georg Cantor showed that the number of real numbers is
] rigorously larger than a countably infinite set, and the
] postulate that this number, the so-called "continuum," is
] equal to Aleph-1 is called the continuum hypothesis.

Things you wish you knew when you were 12 and counting the number of times you were "not it."

Countably Infinite -- from MathWorld

] It has come to our attention that you registered the
] domain name "boringboring.org". We continue to
] be very concerned about your use of BoringBoring and
] stylized logo as it constitutes an improper association,
] which trades on the goodwill and reputation of BoingBoing
] and is likely to cause confusion with those Properties
] and applicable federal and local laws.

BoingBoing sends DMCA threat to parody site.

Cory Doctorow Issues DMCA Notice and Takedown to BoingBoing Parody Site

] Our methodology was simple. We examined 1303 electronic
] high-tech initial public offerings for a 10-year period
] ending in 2002. We limited ourselves to IPOs from the New
] York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, which were ground zero
] for the telecom and dot-com explosion of the 1990s. We
] sorted out those that were VC-funded and compared them
] with those that were not. We rated them on a scale of 1
] to 5, with 1 being the most technically innovative. [See
] sidebar, "Scoring Innovation."]
]
] We were shocked by what we found. Overall, the level of
] innovation during that decade was surprisingly low. Even
] more dismaying, it did not correlate well with VC
] funding: the level of innovation actually dropped sharply
] after 1996, even as venture funding was going through the
] roof.

Feature Article: VC doesn't drive innovation.

One of this year's April Fools RFCs.

] Promiscuous modes of operation are an abomination, exceeded only by
] multicast.
]
] No avian carriers were harmed in the production of this document.

Requirements for Morality Sections in Routing Area Drafts

] The parents of Terri Schiavo have authorized a
] conservative direct-mailing firm to sell a list of their
] financial supporters, making it likely that thousands of
] strangers moved by her plight will receive a steady
] stream of solicitations from anti-abortion and
] conservative groups.

Ahhh, America!

The New York Times - List of Schiavo Donors Will Be Sold by Direct-Marketing Firm

] Following the 1997 introduction of the optical
] memory-based %u201Cgreen card%u201D (the U.S. Permanent
] Resident Card) by the then U.S. Immigration and
] Naturalization Service (INS), the U.S. Department of
] State (DOS) selected the same optical card technology to
] enhance security on the U.S./Mexican border. So, in 1998,
] the optical memory-based BCC (or %u201CLaser Visa%u201D)
] was introduced and mandated for all new BCC applications
] and as a replacement for old, counterfeit prone
] documents.

This what they should be using in passports instead of RFID.

LaserCard Systems : Solutions : Optical Memory in Border Management

] Police in Malaysia are hunting for members of a violent
] gang who chopped off a car owner's finger to get round
] the vehicle's hi-tech security system.

Biometrics are dumb.

BBC NEWS - Malaysia car thieves steal finger

Slides of Virgil's Datamining Talk... I enjoyed this. One of the more interesting talks at Interz0ne.

Virgil's Datamining Talk @ IV4/OZ1/EZ1