She also has a habit of catching various animals, dragging them inside through the cat door, and letting them loose so they can be chased for hours. Very cruel. To put an end to this we have built a computer-controlled device that visually determines if Flo is carrying anything in her mouth when she enters, and if she does, it simply does not let her in.

Face recognition cat door.

Flo Control

What's the secret to being a Jedi Master? Skill with a lightsaber is a prerequisite, of course, as is the ability to harness the ethereal powers of the Force. But the story mode of the new Revenge Of The Sith video game suggests a far simpler path to Jedi enlightenment: block.

The Onion | Revenge of the Sith video game

Premier Foods, the maker of Branston pickle and Typhoo tea, today targeted healthy eaters by buying the meat-substitute company Quorn for £172m.
...
Since its launch in Britain a decade ago, Quorn has become the UK's most popular branded alternative to meat.

Robert Schofield, the chief executive of Premier, believes the market for Quorn could be increased enormously by targeting all healthy eaters as well as the food's core market of vegetarians.

The Guardian | Premier Foods snaps up Quorn

Sun has positioned the StorageTek deal as a way to round out its storage offerings and enhance its status as a total network infrastructure supplier. The strategy absolutely makes sense. It would just make more sense if Sun were acquiring newer disk-based technology of the variety offered by EMC and Network Appliance. It's not that StorageTek doesn't have this stuff; it just isn't the leader. Not by a long shot.

That should tell you that this deal has almost nothing to do with storage, and everything to do with time. That's what StorageTek buys Sun: time.

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] Why is the Department of Homeland Security involved in
] copyright issues?

Schneier on Security: DHS Enforces Copyright

] There's a possible roadblock in Netflix's attempts to
] move the business online:
]
] At a symposium at Stanford University in Palo Alto,
] California, on Wednesday entitled "Next Generation
] Media Networks", Bob Greene, senior vice president of
] Advanced Services at Starz Entertainment Group, stated,
] "Netflix can not replicate the subscription model
] online because it violates our rights. Our subscription
] model does not run out until something like 2011, 2012,
] 2013."

That is, Starz holds patents (from something like 1994,
1995, 1996) on subscribing to a service of movies distributed
over the internet. (NetFlix launched in 1999). Interesting.

Hacking NetFlix : Red Herring Talks to Reed Hastings

] I wonder if Netflix has ever thought of partnering with
] Match.com to connect people who like the same kind of
] movies?

www.podcatch.com :

] This Holiday Season iRobot will introduce a revolutionary
] new hard floor cleaning system — the iRobot Scooba
] Robotic Floor Washer.

iRobot - Robots for the Real World : Scooba Landing

] Negativland in theory is almost always better than
] Negativland on disc, and the California collagists may be
] acknowledging that idea with No Business, a bustling
] package whose musical component (such as it is) feels far
] less important than the information it's bundled with.

The Onion A.V. Club | Music

] I read about a case of computer fraud last weekend in an
] unlikely place: the parish bulletin of my local church.
] It seems that the priest's name, and the postal address
] of the church, are being used in a way that is part 419
] fraud, part identity theft and part phishing scam.

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