"This is only a pilot program, but we hope to roll out 200 to 300 of these toilets in one year," Hans van de Pos, who has patented the device, told Reuters Tuesday.

Yahoo! News - Dogs Get Their Own Toilet

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St. Louis University student Nick Aker and an assistant chemistry professor Shelley Minteer developed the biofuel cell in class. Akers said that once the biofuel cell is charged, it could run a cell phone for a week or a laptop all day before needing another drink.

I've always thought we needed alchoholic technology. It'll be weird seeing cell phones and laptops on twelve step programs. Even stranger when they find Jesus.

Vodka and beer to power batteries

In the future, there will be two groups of people: Cosmists, who will support the building and development of artificial intellects (artilects) and Terrans, who will be against artilects, de Garis said....
De Garis predicted that the future would bring a war between Terrans and Cosmists - a war that would result in "gigadeath." He said tens of thousands of people were killed in the Napoleonic wars and tens of millions of people were killed in the World Wars when technology became greater. In a 21st century war, de Garis said, billions of people would be killed

The Statesman

Wired News says two US draft bills are proposing increasing penalties and lowering the burden of proof against the users of file sharing networks. One would allow the US DoJ to take civil action against file sharers on behalf of copyright holders - a fundamental change to the way copyright enforcement works. Senator Orrin Hatch describes peer-to-peer networks as a pornographic conspiracy that uses children as "human shields". Both bills are sponsored by Senators who have received large donations from the entertainment industry.

vigilant.tv - US preparing bills to criminalize P2P

Berger had left the room by the time Clarke, using a Powerpoint presentation, outlined his thinking to Rice. A senior Bush Administration official denies being handed a formal plan to take the offensive against al-Qaeda, and says Clarke's materials merely dealt with whether the new Administration should take "a more active approach" to the terrorist group. (Rice declined to comment, but through a spokeswoman said she recalled no briefing at which Berger was present.) Other senior officials from both the Clinton and Bush administrations, however, say that Clarke had a set of proposals to "roll back" al-Qaeda. In fact, the heading on Slide 14 of the Powerpoint presentation reads, "Response to al Qaeda: Roll back." Clarke's proposals called for the "breakup" of al-Qaeda cells and the arrest of their personnel. The financial support for its terrorist activities would be systematically attacked, its assets frozen, its funding from fake charities stopped. Nations where al-Qaeda was causing trouble-Uzbekistan, the Philippines, Yemen-would be given aid to fight the terrorists. Most important, Clarke wanted to see a dramatic increase in covert action in Afghanistan to "eliminate the sanctuary" where al-Qaeda had its terrorist training camps and bin Laden was being protected by the radical Islamic Taliban regime. The Taliban had come to power in 1996, bringing a sort of order to a nation that had been riven by bloody feuds between ethnic warlords since the Soviets had pulled out. Clarke supported a substantial increase in American support for the Northern Alliance, the last remaining resistance to the Taliban. That way, terrorists graduating from the training camps would have been forced to stay in Afghanistan, fighting (and dying) for the Taliban on the front lines. At the same time, the U.S. military would start planning for air strikes on the camps and for the introduction of special-operations forces into Afghanistan. The plan was estimated to cost "several hundreds of millions of dollars." In the words of a senior Bush Administration official, the proposals amounted to "everything we've done since 9/11."

George Bush... Keeping America safe. Almost makes you wonder if he was waiting for something to happen.

TIME.com: Could 9/11 Have Been Prevented?

There are two possible sources: either active volcanoes, none of which have been found yet on Mars, or microbes.

Possible tiny, flatulent aliens.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Methane on Mars could signal life

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It's the presidential campaign season, gasoline prices are climbing, and the challenger is demanding that the president get more oil on the market and stop foreign suppliers from ‘‘holding our nation and our consumers hostage...
AAA, formerly the American Automobile Association, reported Tuesday that the price for a gallon of self-serve unleaded hit a national average of nearly $1.74 -- a record in constant dollars, although not when inflation is taken into account. Using today's dollar, motorists paid the equivalent of $2.90 a gallon in March 1981, the government has said....
The $2-a-gallon symbolic barrier has already been broken in the West, and Michigan pollster Ed Sarpolus said his surveys have found people in his state seem willing to put up with a hypothetical $3 gallon before they change their driving habits.

Salon.com Politics | Gas prices taking priority in campaign

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