A little old (9/2004) but none the less startling news for fans!

Early 1990's Hip-Hop collective Digable Planets have announced
that they have reunited and are working on a new album.

Digable Planets Reunite

Soon after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) implements its wireless number portability rules on Nov. 24, it's expected that most phone customers will also be able to keep the same number when they switch from regular landline to wireless service. And as that happens, telemarketers almost certainly will start reaching people via their mobile phones.

Telemarketers to cell phone users: 'you're next'

] WASHINGTON - The new peach-hued U.S. $20 bill will be
] introduced at U.S. banks and businesses Oct. 9, officials
] plan to announce today, Tuesday's Wall Street Journal
] reported.

Here's a image: http://www.caltradereport.com/eWebPhotos/newtwenty.jpg

New Peach-Colored $20 Bills to Make Debut Oct. 9 - Sep. 9, 2003

] Recent election problems have sparked great interest in
] managing the election process through the use of
] electronic voting systems. While computer scientists, for
] the most part, have been warning of the perils of such
] action, vendors have forged ahead with their products,
] claiming increased security and reliability. Many
] municipalities have adopted electronic systems, and the
] number of deployed systems is rising. For these new
] computerized voting systems, neither source code nor the
] results of any third-party certification analyses have
] been available for the general population to study,
] because vendors claim that secrecy is a necessary
] requirement to keep their systems secure. Recently,
] however, the source code purporting to be the software
] for a voting system from a major manufacturer appeared on
] the Internet. This manufacturer's systems were used in
] Georgia's state-wide elections in 2002, and the company
] just announced that the state of Maryland awarded them an
] order valued at up to $55.6 million to deliver touch
] screen voting systems.

The press claims this paper is discredited because Avi Rubin was involved with an electronic voting company. Read it for yourself and see what you think.

Analysis of an Electronic Voting System

] On February 10 Marion County deputies were called to
] William Frank Reese's home for a domestic disturbance.
] When they got there they found Mr. Reese bleeding from
] the leg and Tommie Lorene Burnette bleeding from the face
] and ears.
]
] Sheriff Bo Burnette, no relation to the woman involved
] with this case, said she was a girlfriend, but Mr. Reese
] told NewsChannel 9 she was a "live-in housekeeper."

Just how exactly does your housekeeper get close enough to bite your nutsack?

News Channel 9: Charges Dropped In Scrotum Biting Case

] The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last Tuesday
] that Web loggers, website operators and e-mail list
] editors can't be held responsible for libel for
] information they republish, extending crucial First
] Amendment protections to do-it-yourself online
] publishers.
]
] Online free speech advocates praised the decision as a
] victory. The ruling effectively differentiates
] conventional news media, which can be sued relatively
] easily for libel, from certain forms of online
] communication such as moderated e-mail lists. One
] implication is that DIY publishers like bloggers cannot
] be sued as easily.

Just a little good news.

Wired News: Bloggers Gain Libel Protection

An American doctor has claimed that cheese can be as addictive as morphine.

Dr Neal Barnard, president of the Physicians Committee on Responsible Medicine, says cheese is addictive because it contains small amounts of morphine from cows' liver.

Cheese can be as addictive as morphine

Tommy Gnosis taking turns "breathing with" Deal sisters

Ryan Goldman reports:
Wigheads are a weird and wonderful bunch. Despite the fact that The Angry Inch is a completely fictitious rock group and that Hedwig never really reached the mainstream audience that lesser, oh-so-1990s musicals like Rent and Urinetown did, fans of the cabaret-turned-Off-Broadway-play-turned-major-motion-picture have raised John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask's first production from a mere pop phenomenon to a nationwide-- nay, worldwide-- cult movement. Now, to go along with the local performances, soundtracks, DVDs, fan conventions, and Songs from the Oven: East Berlin Is for Children! (totally replaces Free to Be... You and Me as required listening in those formative years), Portland, Oregon's Off Records is compiling Wig in a Box, a tribute album of songs from and inspired by the show and movie, Hedwig & The Angry Inch.

Yo La Tengo, Breeders on Hedwig Tribute

EMINENT AUTHOR AND EDUCATOR MARK GOTTSEGEN HAS JUST DELIVERED HIS LONG-AWAITED critical essay on the problems with college-level art education in modern times, and has authorized its publication here on the Art Renewal Center web site. Mark is the author of The Painter's Handbook, and Chairman of the ASTM Subcommittee on Artists' Paints and Materials, among his many credentials. A tenured professor in the university system, Gottsegen gives us an in-depth account of the failures of that system, explains what led to the present situation, and offers suggestions as to how the reforms it so sorely needs might be brought about. Read what he has to say about it, without further ado.

The Decline of the Visual Arts and the Remedy

Recent results from the standardized Perl Fluency Test showed that 99.99% of US high school seniors can't read Perl.  This disturbing statistic shows that American students are painfully unprepared for life after graduation.

99.99% of High School Seniors Can't Read Perl