ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- Three people have been arrested and charged with stealing confidential information about drink recipes from The Coca-Cola Co. and trying to sell it to rival PepsiCo Inc., federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

The suspects include an executive administrative assistant at Atlanta-based Coke, Joya Williams, who is accused of rifling through corporate files and stuffing documents and a new Coca-Cola product into a personal bag.

Stealing from Coca-Cola is how the terrorists win.

CNN.com - Three charged with stealing Coca-Cola secrets - Jul 5, 2006

NEW BRITAIN - Mayor Timothy Stewart said Monday he will name New Britain Attorney Gennaro Bizzarro as the city's next corporation counsel. Bizzaro replaces Peter Mlynarczyk, recently appointed by Gov. Rell to serve as a Workers' Compensation Commissioner.

Bizzarro! Bizzarro! Bizzarro! Bizzarro! Bizzarro! Bizzarro!
Bizzarro! Bizzarro! I'm helping Bizzarro! Bizzarro! Bizzarro!

The Herald - Bizzarro named as replacement to city corporation counsel

Last month, Limbaugh reached a deal with prosecutors who had accused the conservative talk-show host of illegally deceiving multiple doctors to receive overlapping pain pill prescriptions. Under the deal, a single charge commonly referred to as "doctor shopping" would be dismissed after 18 months if he complies with terms that include submitting to random drug tests and continuing treatment for his acknowledged addiction to painkillers.

Okay so if you enter a plea agreement you're guilty. You get a PO to track your case and your progress, because you are guilty. If you violate your parole then you get the original deal gets thrown away and you get recharged w/ BOTH crimes.

How many people wanna bet that pig fucker gets a walk?

--timball

FOXNews.com - Rush Limbaugh Detained at Florida Airport for Improperly Prescribed Viagra

The Road From K Street to Yusufiya

By FRANK RICH

AS the remains of two slaughtered American soldiers, Pfc. Thomas L. Tucker and Pfc. Kristian Menchaca, were discovered near Yusufiya, Iraq, on Tuesday, a former White House official named David Safavian was convicted in Washington on four charges of lying and obstruction of justice. The three men had something in common: all had enlisted in government service in a time of war. The similarities end there. The difference between Mr. Safavian's kind of public service and that of the soldiers says everything about the disconnect between the government that has sabotaged this war and the brave men and women who have volunteered in good faith to fight it.

Privates Tucker and Menchaca made the ultimate sacrifice. Their bodies were so mutilated that they could be identified only by DNA. Mr. Safavian, by contrast, can be readily identified by smell. His idea of wartime sacrifice overseas was to chew over government business with the Jack Abramoff gang while on a golfing junket in Scotland. But what's most indicative of Mr. Safavian's public service is not his felonies in the Abramoff-Tom DeLay axis of scandal, but his legal activities before his arrest. In his DNA you get a snapshot of the governmental philosophy that has guided the war effort both in Iraq and at home (that would be the Department of Homeland Security) and doomed it to failure.

Mr. Safavian, a former lobbyist, had a hand in federal spending, first as chief of staff of the General Services Administration and then as the White House's chief procurement officer, overseeing a kitty of some $300 billion (plus $62 billion designated for Katrina relief). He arrived to help enforce a Bush management initiative called "competitive sourcing." Simply put, this was a plan to outsource as much of government as possible by forcing federal agencies to compete with private contractors and their K Street lobbyists for huge and lucrative assignments. The initiative's objective, as the C.E.O. administration officially put it, was to deliver "high-quality services to our citizens at the lowest cost."

The result was low-quality services at high cost: the creation of a shadow government of private companies rife with both incompetence and corruption. Last week Representative Henry Waxman, the California Democrat who commissioned the first comprehensive study of Bush administration contracting, revealed that the federal procurement spending supervised for a time by Mr. Safavian had increased by $175 billion between 2000 and 2005. (Halliburton contracts alone, unsurprisingly, went up more than 600 percent.) Nearly 40 cents of every dollar in federal discretionary spending now goes to private companies.

In this favor-driven world of fat contracts awarded to the well-connected, Mr. Safavian was only an aspiring consigliere. He was not powerful enough or in government long enough to do much beyond petty reconnaissanc... [ Read More (0.8k in body) ]

The Road From K Street to Yusufiya - New York Times

Cool perl script that guesses languages. Almost as good as having a mom at the world bank.

TextCat Language Guesser Demo

Indian scientists say coffee protects mice from radiation and could work the same way in humans.

Researchers at India's Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) discovered mice injected with caffeine survived high doses of normally lethal radiation.

Although the study was limited to animals, Kachadpillill George, the head of the research team, believes the findings could have implications for humans.

"It does suggest that coffee might have some beneficial effects in protecting against radiation," he told New Scientist magazine.

News in Science - Coffee could provide shield from radiation - 25/06/1999

Fort Reno starts up again today, June 15th at 7:15pm sharp! It should be a great summer of free music in the park.

Fort Reno 2006 / Schedule

Okay I went to see Al Gore's movie on opening night. I was great. Yes it's a slide show. Is this Vice President Gore's salvo to become a comeback-nixon? Well watch the movie for yourself and see if your opinion doesn't change about the man.

The data shouldn't be shocking to anyone at this point. If the data shocks you, go watch the movie again until the data and the graphs really sink in. If the movie shocks you bring your friends. If the movie shocks you bring your parents.

Data points that were omitted that I wish were included:
- atmospheric CO2 vs human population
- reflectivity of atmosphere vs airborne particulate flux
- % of C trapped in land, sea, air, mantle
- tons fossil fuel consumed vs year (log graph please)

--timball

An Inconvenient Truth

writer's block is a bitch.

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The art of producing presented by RED BULL.

I thought this would be some faker marketing explotation. Shit it still might be, but they do get the best of the best to do their lecturing. Check out the interview w/ Madlib (hosted by Egon) or Prince Paul or Bob Moog or David Matthews (not the one that sucks)... Pissed you can't see the interviews w/ Peanut Butter Wolf or X-Ecutioners.

Cuts. Breaks. History.

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