Happy Birthday Rattle:)

] A cluster of SARS patients in Hong Kong with unusual
] symptoms has prompted concern that the virus causing the
] disease is mutating. Doctors fear the changes are making
] the disease more severe.

Um.....not good.

New Scientist | Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

] Fifty years after the discovery of the double helix
] structure of DNA, the genome community is celebrating the
] elucidation of the human DNA reference sequence. Sequence
] data are available for downloading now. Annotation of
] genes and other genomic features is still under
] development and will be available for browsing when
] complete.

Human Reference Sequence

] This time it is the real thing, scientists promise - the
] complete sequence of human DNA, as perfectly rendered as
] it ever will be.

New Scientist - Final human genome sequence released

More SARS info. There is some different info on this page than the CDC page...thats why I memed both.

This one is more fun, what with the graphs and maps and all.

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

] The preliminary
]
] injunction is here:
]
] http://www.interz0ne.com/events/Blackboard_Restr_Order.pd
] f

politechbot.com: Judge orders researchers, conference not to reveal security flaws

] On Saturday night, Virgil and Acidus, two young security
] researchers, were scheduled to give a talk at Interz0ne
] II on security flaws they'd found in a popular ID card
] system for universities. It's run by Blackboard, formerly
] by AT&T, and you may know it as OneCard, CampusWide, or
] BuzzCard. On Saturday, instead of the talk, attendees got
] to hear an Interz0ne official read the Cease and Desist
] letter sent by corporate lawyers. The DMCA, among other
] federal laws including the Economic Espionage Act, were
] given as the reasons for shutting down the talk. I spoke
] with Virgil this morning.

Slashdot | Blackboard Campus IDs: Security Thru Cease & Desist

"Iraq has a new regime, and that regime is love, baby" "These arms are fo' huggin"

[Bahahahahaha.....this guy's post is hilarious - Nano]

Operation:Iraqi mackin'

We tried blowing this statue of Saddam up in Iraq. It didn't come down, but I think the point was made regardless :)

[Bahahhaahahaha - Nano]

Saddam has no balls

] Forget Moore's law, because it is unhealthy," Michael S.
] Malone, a longtime member of the valley's technology
] community and an eBay founder, wrote recently in a trade
] publication. Forget Moore's law, "because it has become
] our obsession," Mr. Malone wrote. "Because high tech has
] become fixated on it at the expense of everything else
] %u2014 especially business strategy."

Is There Life After Silicon Valley's Fast Lane?