brent_chivers wrote:
] ] Powerbook Trackpad Senses Pressure
] ]
] ] Apparently, many semi-recent
] ] Powerbooks and iBooks have trackpads that are capable of
] ] reporting X, Y, and Z (pressure) information.
]
] The comments mention non-Apple laptops.

Cool. Ill have to try fingerpainting in photoshop.

RE: HML Blog: Powerbook Trackpad Senses Pressure

If you ever wanted to feel better about being laid off or unemployed, you should check this out. Personally, it made my day. For those of you who have mon-ay, give this guy a dollar, ok?

Laid-Off: A No Nothing Production

"Imagine doing a Google search for a phone number, weather report or sports score. The results page would be filled with links to various sources of information. But what if someone typed in keywords and no results came back?

That's the scenario critics are painting of a new bill wending its way through Congress that would let certain companies own facts, and exact a fee to access them."

"The House Judiciary Committee approved the bill and the commerce committee is expected to review it on Thursday."

Wired News: Hands Off! That Fact Is Mine

The memo, first published on the website of open-source advocate Eric Raymond, was presented as correspondence leaked by a whistleblower from within SCO that showed that Microsoft has invested up to $100 million in the company to squash the Linux operating system.

Wired News: SCO Says Microsoft Memo Is Legit

] From a former professor:
]
] At Harvard Business School, thirty years ago, George
] Bush was a student of mine. I still vividly remember him.
] In my class, he declared that "people are poor because
] they are lazy." He was opposed to labor unions, social
] security, environmental protection, Medicare, and public
] schools. To him, the antitrust watch dog, the Federal
] Trade Commission, and the Securities Exchange Commission
] were unnecessary hindrances to "free market competition."
] To him, Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was "socialism."
] Recently, President Bush's Federal Appeals Court Nominee,
] California's Supreme Court Justice Janice Brown, repeated
] the same broadside at her Senate hearing. She knew that
] her pronouncement would please President Bush and Karl
] Rove and their Senators. President Bush and his brain,
] Karl Rove, are leading a radical revolution of destroying
] all the democratic political, social, judiciary, and
] economic institutions that both Democrats and moderate
] Republicans had built together since Roosevelt's New
] Deal.

[ Yeah... as a Vanderbilt grad, i've had my own exposure to the "people are poor because they don't want to work hard". And as much as i try to be fair to people, it's usually the most intellectually lazy sons and daughters of priviledge that have this opinion. It's a bullshit argument from people who lack any perspective on what a normal human being is like. Bush is a rich kid. He's never been poor, and he's never been close enough to it to have a clue what it means. I don't think he's interested in discovering what it really means to be poor, or what it takes to help people. His policies are transparent, like every so-called fiscal conservative i've ever met. I'm convinced most fiscal conservatives are like most fundamentalist christians... going through the motions, preaching self righteously about beliefs and ideals they don't actually live by, when their true motivating factors are power and greed. You want to support a candidate because he'll hook you up with more money, and fuck the rest? Fine, say so outright. But i'm pretty sick of hearing the "i'm fiscally conservative, but socially liberal" line. Bullshit. 9 times out of 10 you're greedy and want more money... quit sugar coating it. Bush is bad for the average american. Period. -k]

The Bush Social Policy

Not a bad search engine. Something for days when I'm bored with google.

Teoma - Search with Authority

]Hi, this site is all about ninjas, REAL NINJAS. This site is ]awesome. My name is Robert and I can't stop thinking about ]ninjas. These guys are cool; and by cool, I mean totally sweet.
]
]
]
]Facts:
]
]
]
]1. Ninjas are mammals.
]
]2. Ninjas fight ALL the time.
]
]3. The purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people.

The Official Ninja Webpage: REAL Ultimate Power!!!!

] A new version of MP3 - the digital music format that
] kicked off the online music sharing revolution - is being
] developed that will include technology to stop
] unauthorised copying and sharing.
]
] The two companies that own the patents covering MP3,
] Thomson and Fraunhofer, are working on a new version that
] will incorporate so-called digital right management (DRM)
] technology.
]
] DRM can be used in conjunction with software and hardware
] players to limit the number of copies of a music file a
] user can make, or to prevent forwarding. As yet, however,
] it is unclear how the new protection system will work.
]
] "Eventually, digital distribution will be a significant
] mass market," Rocky Caldwell, director of technology
] marketing for Thomson, told CNET News. "We think it will
] be served well by [digital rights management] that is
] based on standards. No one else seems to be proposing
] that."

And this new form of mp3 is going to be REAL popular with users. Way to Shit it Up!

New Scientist

] Fantasy worlds created by virtual reality have been shown
] to provide a novel form of relief to patients suffering
] from intractable pain.

Hmmm... Could the next grand theft auto be the next prozac?

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Real pain dulled in virtual worlds

] BETHESDA, MD (February 25, 2004) %u2013 When we want to
] go, why can we "wait"? In other words, when we sense that
] a bowel movement will be necessary, the body has the
] ability to defer that action until an appropriate time. A
] new research study examines this issue and the findings
] could have beneficial implications for those patients
] with fecal incontinence resulting from a cerebrovascular
] accident and injuries to the frontal lobe.

Well, shit.

ScienceDaily News Release: New Study Seeks To Establish Mechanism Between Areas Of The Brain And Continence