] Going forward, Plume and the author have decided to
] re-title this book A Girl's Life Online.

Public pressure can do what the law refuses to do, but only for those luck enough to get attention.

Boing Boing: Katie.com: a total victory for the good guys

] Funk legend Rick James (search), best known for the 1981
] hit "Super Freak," (search) died Friday, apparently of
] natural causes, police said. He was 56.

FOXNews.com - Foxlife - Singer Rick James Dies at 56

]It's well known that President Ronald Reagan used a color-coded
]calendar to keep track of his astrological predictions. But not
]everyone knows that these predictions were based on the wrong sign.

Astrology meets Astronomy and loses.

Your Astrological Sign is Not What You Think

] But experiments, one using a common laptop and another
] using a prototype Bluetooth "rifle" that captured data
] from a mobile phone a mile away, have demonstrated that
] such attacks aren't so far-fetched.
]
] Then, German researcher Herfurt developed a program
] called Bluebug that could turn certain mobile phones into
] a bug to transmit conversations in the vicinity of the
] device to an attacker's phone

Wired News: Security Cavities Ail Bluetooth

] The Third Age Suit restricts the mobility of the wearer
] to give them an appreciation of what it is like for
] patients getting around the hospital.

Your own, private Bubba Hotep.

BBC NEWS | Health | The suit that makes you feel old

] Yes, hear Simon, Theodore and Alvin at their true speed, sounding
] respectively like an accountant, a hot-dog vendor, and a lunatic.

I always wanted to hear this.

Chipmunk Song Slowed Down

] The 32,000 net jobs added in July represented the
] smallest gain in hiring since December and followed a
] revised gain of just 78,000 in June, even less than
] previously reported. May's payrolls also were revised
] down to show a gain of 208,000.
]
] "Employers got cold feet," said economist Ken Mayland,
] president of ClearView Economics. "Employers just don't
] have the confidence in the economy that we need to
] sustain the kind of economic growth that we've seen."

Forbes.com: Only 32,000 Jobs Are Added in July

] You can create your own COLORCELL by choosing up to four of
] your favourite colors.
]
] Your cell is living in a virtual livingspace with cells from other users.
] There is space for 100 cells.
]
] Everybody can select their favourite cells once a day.
]
] Each day, the daily selections of each cel; get converted into fitnesspoints.
]
] Cells that seem to be likeable will become stronger (because they
] have been selected often).
]
] Cells that didn't get selected often enough will become weaker
] (apparently the color combination isn't very popular).
]
] There are various statistics about each cell (just click the cell),
] about the livingspace and the cemetery.

Colorcell Home - A reputation system for color combinations

A creepy custom music video. Radiohead does office space.

The main page from this link features a series of disturbing office suicide cartoons. The Apple one is probably the best.

If the appearance of dilbert cartoons on cubicles is the first sign that your company's culture is dead, the appearance of stills from this site ought to be the last sign before your company reaches cataclysm.

Radiohead Creep Flash Video

The American Library Association (ALA) today welcomed the Department of Justice's decision to rescind its request that the Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents instruct depository libraries to destroy all copies of five Department of Justice publications addressing forfeiture. The Justice Department claimed that the documents are "training materials and other materials that the Department of Justice staff did not feel were appropriate for external use." ALA disagreed with this categorization of the public documents, two of which are texts of federal statutes, and with the instruction to destroy them. ALA trusts that there will be no repetition of such unjustified instructions to destroy government information.

This is a fairly questionable decision.

ALA welcomes Department of Justice decision to rescind destruction request