] Tree-trimming by Nashville Electric Service crews is
] reducing power failures in Middle Tennessee, but some NES
] customers still want to save more of their trees, shrubs
] and hedges.

About time they called off the Jihad!

Residents upset at tree-trimming get NES to back off

] Clear Channel asserted that it ''has the absolute right
] to use 'buzz' formative identifiers for any of its radio
] stations, except in the geographical area in which
] Cromwell has priority of use,'' court records show.
] Furthermore, Clear Channel said that Cromwell wasn't
] entitled to the trademark, and it demanded that Cromwell
] cease its use of the term to describe its stations.

Whoever's got the highest priced lawyers will win.

Radio fight over 'Buzz' tag heads to court

] But if a programmer or an engineer with a bright idea has
] to go to Washington, hat in hand and lawyers in tow, to
] request permission to sell a better product -- and is
] then told "just wait awhile" -- we are on our way to
] suffocating innovation in this country.

Yes kids, everything in this world is about money.

TiVo vs. the Broadcast Flag Wavers

] Radio host Bob Edwards, who drew millions of listeners to
] National Public Radio for three decades but was demoted
] earlier this year, is taking his signature voice to a
] competing radio universe, according to Edwards and
] executives of Washington-based XM Satellite Radio.

Good thing I'm putting XM in the Defender!

Former NPR Host Bob Edwards To Be XM's New Morning Star (washingtonpost.com)

] A new type of pump to help failing hearts will undergo
] clinical trials in autumn 2004 in the UK. Its design
]
] is intended to solve the problems of mechanical failure
] and blood clotting that have bedevilled artificial hearts
] and pumps since they were invented.
]
] The pump also has a curious side effect: people implanted
] with the device have no pulse.

weird.

Simpler pump boosts failing hearts

] Time abuse is a symptom of a problem, not the problem
] itself. It is therefore impossible to cure a person of
] time abuse by actually managing his time. Instead, you
] must understand your time abuser's need for control and
] fear of evaluations.

The Time Abusers

] When David Hasselhoff (news) gets his driving record in
] order, there's a set of hot wheels for sale that just
] might interest him.
]
] Joseph M. Maddalena of the Beverly Hills-based
] memorabilia dealer Profiles in History said he expects
] bidding on KITT to open at $35,000.]
]
] "Nineteen-Eighties television is just huge," Maddalena
] says. "That's all people want. It's just the ultimate pop
] culture icon, and that's what the KITT car is."
]
] Maddalena won't reveal the identity of the KITT owner
] (and seller), but he confirmed it's not Hasselhoff, who's
] due in a Los Angeles court Oct. 28 to be arraigned on a
] misdemeanor drunken-driving charge.

1983 Pontiac Trans Am for sale

The Death Star is in orbit around Saturn!!!!!!

That's No Moon!

The resolution, such as it is, involves the complexities of time travel — wormholes, tangent universes and so forth — in a way that asks larger questions about free will.

The Resurrection of 'Donnie Darko'

] Why are so many businesses%u2014though seemingly intent
] on fostering innovation%u2014unable to get new products
] through their organizations and into the marketplace?

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf