] The First Museum-Quality Mouse.
]
] Give your hand a reason to celebrate with this stylish
] optical mouse, created by world-famous designer Philippe
] Starck.

[ Meh. -k]

Microsoft Mice & Keyboards - Optical Mouse by S arck

[ Does anyone else wish they could set a bookmark within a large HTML file... I have a number of monolithic guides PHP, BASH, etc, as giant HTML files... I find this the most portable and reliable way to have these documents, but they have the downside of not being able to return easily to specific points in the document.

Is the a project that does this? A mozilla plugin maybe? I haven't found one yet, but damn would that be useful -- just mark a location in a page and be able to snap back to it, like a post it note in a sheaf of papers.

Anyone know of something i'm missing?

-k]

] The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of
] 1990 - 2000

[ ALA's list of most frequently banned books. I always notice that Bridge to Terebithia is on the top of this list. I happened to notice it on a shelf the other day and recommended it to someone because I thought it was such a powerful story when i was young. It's definitely sad, and deals with serious subject matter, but I guess I've never been of the mindset that sheltering someone is the best way to keep them healthy. Plus, it's really good. -k]

ALA | 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

] rites "Space elevator proponents are planning
] competitions for space elevator technologies, similar to
] the Ansari X Prize. Elevator:2010 will organize annual
] competitions for climbers, ribbons and power-beaming
] systems.

[ Space elevators excite me a great deal.

Also, in case you didn't like google before : "the space elevator has caught the interest of Google's founders: 'At a space camp in Alabama last year, Brin talked about creating a space elevator to transport cargo up a special tether attached to earth. Also last year, Brin joined Page in proclaiming they should found a nanotech lab at Google.'"

I don't know how they relate to searching, but i'm all for it. -k]

Slashdot | Space Elevator Prizes Proposed

] A German who had his lower jaw cut out because of cancer
] has enjoyed his first meal in nine years %u2014 a
] bratwurst sandwich %u2014 after surgeons grew a new jaw
] bone in his back muscle and transplanted it to his mouth
] in what experts call an "ambitious" experiment.
]
] According to this week's issue of The Lancet medical
] journal, the German doctors used a mesh cage, a growth
] chemical and the patient's own bone marrow, containing
] stem cells, to create a new jaw bone that fit exactly
] into the gap left by the cancer surgery.
]
] Tests have not been done yet to verify whether the bone
] was created by the blank-slate stem cells and it is too
] early to tell whether the jaw will function normally in
] the long term. But the operation is the first published
] report of a whole bone being engineered and incubated
] inside a patient's body and transplanted.
]
] Stem cells are the master cells of the body that go on to
] become every tissue in the body. They are a hot area of
] research with scientists trying to find ways to prompt
] them to make desired tissues, and perhaps organs.

Unreal! -LB

Time for a sandwich: Doctors use man's back to make jaw

] It happened this week almost without notice: The number
] of Americans killed in Iraq during 2004 now exceeds the
] number killed in 2003.
]
]
] More remarkably, the 488 killed thus far this year died
] in just 239 days (2.04 daily average), while the 482
] killed last year died during fully 287 days (1.68 daily
] average), which means that not only has 2004 been
] bloodier than 2003 in absolute terms, but in relative
] terms as well.

[ But, but, we've "turned the corner." Haven't we? -k]

Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation.

] The number of Americans living in poverty increased by
] 1.3 million last year, while the ranks of the uninsured
] swelled by 1.4 million, the Census Bureau reported
] Thursday.
]
] It was the third straight annual increase for both
] categories. While not unexpected, it was a double dose of
] bad economic news during a tight re-election campaign for
] President Bush.
]
] Approximately 35.8 million people lived below the poverty
] line in 2003, or about 12.5 percent of the population,
] according to the bureau. That was up from 34.5 million,
] or 12.1 percent in 2002.

[ Rockin'. At least Iraq is safe and we capped that bin Laden fuck. Uh, or something.

I'd also like to point out that the poverty line for a couple is $12k. That's absurd. -k]

Ranks of Poverty and Uninsured Rose in 2003, Census Reports

] New Yorkers yesterday slammed House Speaker Dennis
] Hastert for claiming the Big Apple was guilty of an
] "unseemly scramble" for cash after Sept. 11 %u2014 and
] one city councilman demanded he return his FDNY cap.
]
] "I want to let Hastert know we want our FDNY cap back,"
] fumed Councilman Peter Vallone Jr., referring to the
] baseball cap given to Hastert three years ago when the
] powerful Illinois lawmaker toured Ground Zero shortly
] after the 9/11 attacks.

[ So, lets say New York is a bees nest, and a lot of angry bees live there who are really pissed at, say, wasps. And the wasps are all, "Hey, we have to have a big meeting, lets do it in New York because of that time it got hit with a rock from that fucker Billy from down the road." And then right before the meeting they start poking at the nest. There is gonna be some shit. You don't fuck with a bees nest.

The conspiracy theorists are already on about the (R)'s purposefully pissing off New York *so that* there will be a riot they can point at to discredit the crazy liberals who hate america and who hate new york, the symbol of our collective fear.

My logic and what remains of my basic respect for humanity precludes me from going that far, but I hold firmly to my standpoint that they know exactly what they're getting into, and they picked new york for all the wrong reasons. I hope to god everything goes down peacefully, but they are seriously fanning some flames right now. Or poking the nest, to get back to my original analogy. -k]

New York Post Online Edition: news

] 'I've seen things...'
]
] Our expert panel votes for the top 10 sci-fi films

But where's "Tron"?

[ Tron's a good flick... at least an honorable mention.

For the record, i've never liked 2001, as blasphemous as that may be. Otherwise, good list. Blade Runner truly is a masterpiece. -k]

Guardian Unlimited | Life | 'I've seen things...' -- Top Sci-Fi Movies

But political assemblies on the eve of the Republican National Convention appear to be taboo. This week, city officials persuaded a federal judge to keep the park off limits Saturday to a protest rally by 75,000 people jointly sponsored by an Arab-American coalition and an anti-war group.

[ It's a bs excuse and no one's even bothering to hide it. They don't want protests and they'll use whatever stupid crap they can find that'll achieve the end result. It's either a public place or it's not, and as I said in an earlier related topic, in any case where there's not a clear and obvious danger to public safety, people have the right to assemble, and that' pretty much it, as far as i'm concerned. -k]

Yahoo! News - New York tramples Bill of Rights to protect 'grass'?