with this guide, you can't lose.

ROFL -nano

What a Crappy Present - CD Gift Advice, Parents and Kids

SARS neckties.....what will they think of next:)

Infectious Awareables - Directory

] When the final part of The Lord of the Rings trilogy
] opens next week, it will ratchet the franchise's
] box-office receipts up to several billion dollars - and
] mark the final triumph of all things geeky over what we
] used to think of as cool. Xan Brooks investigates how it
] happened

We are all nerds now

] A global ban on all medical applications of human cloning
] was averted by an eleventh-hour deal at the United
] Nations on Tuesday. Last-minute haggling in the aisles of
] the UN General Assembly in New York sealed a compromise
] which postpones debate on a cloning treaty until October
] 2004.
]
] A total ban, backed by the US, the Vatican and other
] Catholic countries, would have caused a deep rift with
] nations such as the UK and the Netherlands that want the
] right to pursue new medical treatments from cloning.
]
] All countries want a UN treaty that will ban the creation
] of cloned human babies. But a US-backed proposal put
] forward by Costa Rica sought to extend the ban to
] "therapeutic" cloning. This aims to use stem cells from
] cloned embryos to treat diseases such as Parkinson's
] disease, but requires the embryo to be destroyed.

Good god. I am glad I have been too distracted by finals to hear about this until now - a full ban on therapuetic cloning would be dumb

New Scientist - Global therapeutic cloning ban averted

] A two-pronged assault on diseases such as cancer and
] arthritis could soon be delivered by a single drug,
] thanks to a breakthrough in antibody engineering.

Molecular engineering is so rad

New Scientist - New antibody delivers a double blow

] The DNA is then amplified using a standard technique
] called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which takes a
] couple of hours. Lastly, the amplified sample is "typed"
] to give the profile. This also takes a couple of hours.
]
] Charlotte Word, laboratory director at Orchid Cellmark,
] Maryland, which conducted DNA tests on the victims of the
] September 11 attacks, is also surprised by the speed of
] the testing, but agrees it is possible with a good blood
] or saliva sample.
]
] She notes that tests for use in criminal cases often
] takes much longer because samples are scant or
] contaminated.

New Scientist - Fast-track DNA tests confirm Saddam's identity

] Downloading copyrighted music from peer-to-peer networks
] is legal in Canada, although uploading files is not,
] Canadian copyright regulators said in a ruling released
] Friday

Canada deems P2P downloading legal | CNET News.com

I don't know about the last line of this article, but I figured I would meme it along anyway:)

Wired News: Saddam's DNA Test a Fast Job

] Digital Decay BBS is dedicated to the lost art of BBSing.
] At one time there were over 50,000 BBSes in the US alone.
] Now we number in the hundreds. My name is
]
] Chris Edwards the SySop of Digital Decay. Now days almost
] all BBSes are telnetable and no longer posses dial-up
] access. So you can go back in the day without having to
] run up your phone bill.

Digital Decay BBS - Chris Edwards the SySop of Digital Decay

In Baghdad, huge crowds celebrated in the streets with gunfire.

Saddam Hussein Captured Alive; Iraqis Celebrate