At Long Last: Federalizing the Porsche 959 has been a long road. Now, at least, it can be traversed.

Bill Gates at last can drive his Porsche 959

you're a female cashier or a corporate officer at Wal-Mart, age 18 and over, and you're not afraid to shed your inhibitions in front of the camera, Playboy wants you.

Playboy wants Wal-Mart women

] A look at how Google's monopoly, algorithms,
] and privacy policies are undermining the Web.

Google Watch

A woman riding an "art car" at the counterculture Burning Man festival died when she accidentally fell under the vehicle's wheels, authorities said.

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The acid must had fallen off the dash board...

Burning Man: Woman dies when run over by 'art car'

This is the week I said we'd roll our own DSL. On the surface it looks like a daunting task, but it is actually not that hard at all — if you can get past the many regulatory loopholes. But why would you even want to do such a thing? Well maybe DSL isn't available in your area. Maybe you want a significantly cheaper alternative to a T-1 line. Or just maybe you and the kid down the block want to play networked games at warp speed. Well here is how to do it.

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Ready for round 2? :)

Roll Your Own DSL Roll Your Own Roll your own DSL

GERLACH, NV—The Burning Man festival, a prominent artistic and countercultural event that draws tens of thousands of people to the Nevada desert annually, is in danger of cancellation this week because "no one had their shit together enough to even make it," organizers said Tuesday.

"Jesus Christ, this is pathetic," said event coordinator Ethan Moon as he angrily gestured toward the empty Black Rock Desert basin expanse, known as the playa. "We've been promoting this thing all year. You can't start panhandling quarters for gas the week before the festival and expect to make it here in time, man."

No One Makes it to Burning Man Festival

] Almost three years after their breakup, Rage Against the
] Machine will stick it to The Man one more time with the
] release of the CD/DVD Live at the Olympic Auditorium, due
] November 18, according to an Epic Records spokesperson.

sweeet!

MTV.com - News -Rage Against The Machine's Final Concerts Hitting CD, DVD In November

] The Culture Ministry has announced a ban on the use of
] "e-mail" in all government ministries, documents,
] publications or Web sites, the latest step to stem an
] incursion of English words into the French lexicon.

The bloody French are at it again.

France bans 'e-mail' from vocabulary

] A federal judge took under consideration Thursday a
] proposal to get dozens of lawsuits moving against Enron
] Corp., former executives and various banks and brokerages
] by setting them for trial in October 2005, nearly four
] years after Enron's bankruptcy filing.

Who will care about the Enron issue in 2005 and years to follow in trial??

Judge Considers 2005 Trial Date for Enron

Troy Irving's 18-year-old Dodge Caravan has a heck of a sound system: 72 amplifiers -- you got it, 72 -- and 36 big 16-volt batteries to put out the 130,000 watts of power needed to rumble his nine 15-inch subwoofers.

To put that into perspective, the most powerful production-car audio I know of is the $230,000+ 2003 Aston Martin Vanquish's 1,200-watt system. Irving carries $80,000 worth of audio alone, in a vehicle that is worth, admittedly, slightly less than the Maybach. Must be fun to ride down Main Street with the windows rolled down, right?

CNN.com - A car stereo that can kill you? Cool