FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Michelle Duggar is all smiles after delivering her 15th child, but she may be ready for more, her family says

W0W!! what were they thinking?

[ Yeah, great, have some more. Awesome. Wheeeee! -k]

Arkansas woman has 15th child

] An analysis by the UK Met Office shows that the effects
] of global warming will be much more intense in urban
] areas, where vehicles and buildings heat the air and
] asphalt and concrete retain heat at night.

[ Not a lot of surprise here, but it's a topic which deserves enhanced currency. I think it's long past time to start looking seriously at ways to alleviate the heat island effect, dissipate more of that ambient energy, or harness it for some other use. I should probably rephrase that... I know there are people working on such problems... what they need is funding, and legislative support for emplacing their developments. -k]

Cities will swelter on summer nights

] Weapons that can incapacitate crowds of people by
] sweeping a lightning-like beam of electricity across them
] are being readied for sale to military and police forces
] in the US and Europe.

[ Mixed feelings. I respect the desire for law enforcement to have viable riot control technology, but I'm also very much concerned about indiscriminate weaponry. I'm not so worried about safety... I'm sure a device of this class can be developed that's as non-lethal as the Tazer, so that's fine. What bothers me is the blanket approach to pacification. Just doesn't sit very well... -k]

Sweeping stun guns to target crowds

Teen hearthrop Kirk Cameron has turned Christian preacher. No, it's not a parody site. Reality is much stranger than fiction.

[ Remember, "Don't let your loved ones go to hell without trying to save them." Ugh. -k]

The Way of the Master

] The system, of course, would allow speed checking sensors
] and other mechanisms to identify which cars were
] traveling at what speeds -- up to 200mph from up to 300
] feet away.

@#*&^@#

[ Yep. -k]

UK Considers RFID License Plates

] Has the entire Goddamn universe become snared by the
] siren song of City of Heroes? Everywhere I look, monitors
] glow with bobbing superhero ass. I played it, and it was
] great at what it did - Diablo plus Unprecedented
] Character Creation. I declared it inoffensive and moved
] on. And now, I'd say eighty percent of my friends can't
] pry themselves from that superteat.

[ No one beats PA for telling it like it is, that's for sure... i love those guys. -k]

Tycho on City of Heroes

] A book by travel writer Bill Bryson, which explains the
] origins of everything scooped the Aventis Science Book
] Prize on Monday night. A Short History of Nearly
] Everything, was awarded the prize by Lord Robert May,
] President of the Royal Society and Dirk Oldenburg, chair
] of the Aventis Foundation, at London's Royal Society.

[ I haven't had the chance to read this yet, but I know Ryan really liked it... i may well pick it up one of these days. It's quite something by all accounts... -k]

A Short History of Nearly Everything wins Aventis Prize

] EPOC.Cabir is a proof-of-concept worm that replicates on
] Nokia Series 60 phones. It repeatedly sends itself to the
] first Bluetooth-enabled device that it can find,
] regardless of the type of device (ie even a
] Bluetooth-enabled printer will be attacked if it is
] within range).

[ This one seems pretty passive, but I suspect the next ones will not be... -k]

Symantec Security Response - EPOC.Cabir

] CNNfn also has obtained some of Enron's accounting
] records, some of which refer to previously unreported
] market manipulation techniques called "sidewinder,"
] "Russian roulette," "ping pong" and "donkey punch."

Ha!

[ HAHA! Awesome! Enron did pretty much dpunch a lot of people... -k]

New Enron tapes deal with alleged market manipulation - Jun. 14, 2004

] In the classic 1951 film, The Man in the White Suit, Alec
] Guinness played a scientist who invents a fabric that
] never gets dirty or wears out. A chemist's pipe dream
] perhaps, but the prospect of self-cleaning clothes might
] be getting closer.

[ Sign me up for some of that! -k]

Clothes launder own fabric: Catalytic cotton chows down on dirt.