Balls Deep wrote:
] Read the hate mail. This is some funny shit.

Be sure to check out the store section as well. "For every animal you don't eat, I'm going to eat three:"

--wilbur

RE: The Best Page In The Universe.

w00t! Too bad it's in the final days of this version of the Patriot Act. Maybe this will carry momentum while they think of drawing up another version.

CNN.com - Federal judge rules part of Patriot Act unconstitutional - Jan. 26, 2004

] A Danish biotech company has developed a genetically
] modified flower that could help detect land mines and it
] hopes to have a prototype ready for use within a few
] years.

Yahoo! News - Flower-Power Could Help Clear Land mines

] Check the year-end reports from the various sectors of
] the entertainment industry, and it's clear that DVD
] stands alone as an unqualified sensation. It's such a
] success that it might even be eclipsing - and
] cutting into - other leisure pursuits.
]
] Each DVD amounts to a consumer devoting money and time to
] watching a movie at home, sometimes in lieu of going to a
] theater or watching TV or listening to a CD.

Are you listening to this RIAA? Its *NOT* only peer2peer trading that is responsible for your sagging sales. There are a number of factors, and probably the biggest is that other entertainment avenues are taking a larger slice of the pie.

If you'd listen, you'd hear consumers voting (with their cash) that other entertainment avenues currently represent a better value for the money then a mediocre CD with 2 good tracks.

LB

DVD's success steals the show

] Through the Novell Linux Indemnification Program, you can
] deploy qualified Novell Linux solutions with the peace of
] mind that Novell will protect you against any future
] copyright challenges against the technology in those
] solutions.

Just another interesting twist coming from Novell in the SCO fight.

NOVELL: Novell Linux Indemnification Program

] The parents of twin sons in China saved money by
] pretending they only had one child and sending the boys
] to school on alternate days, a news report said.
]
] The parents sent one boy to school on even numbered days
] of the week and the other on odd numbered days, the Hong
] Kong edition of the China Daily reported.
]
] Preschool teachers at a primary school in Chongqing
] province, in western China, believed the twins were one
] boy for six months until the ruse was eventually
] discovered, the newspaper said.

This is all there is to the report. Amusing all the same.

The power of one - www.smh.com.au

] So why would people pay for radio, when they have a free
] alternative?
]
] Because satellite radio is fantastic - a cultural source
] unlike any other. It's so addictive, the Sirius manual
] actually refers to its customers as "users."

I don't like to recommend articles from the nytimes because of the subscription but this one I made an exception. I love my XM radio and for anyone that has to spend more than 3 hours in a vehicle a day, it is wonderful. This didn't give any technical insite into the two services but gave a quick look at the programming of Sirius and XM.

State of the Art: Satellite Radio Extends Its Orbit

] Hey, "reality" TV show fans, I've got a concept to pitch: Break
] the Alky. Fox picks a recovering alcoholic and pretends to kidnap
] his wife, kill his child, and get him fired from his job - all
] with the consent of those involved, of course. A camera crew then
] follows him to see how long it'll take for him to turn back to the
] demon of liquor after having denied it for so long ... and then we
] watch the hilarious results!

The way reality shows are going this might not be that far away.

Jose Millionaire... of Death!

] It is called the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network
] Computing (BOINC). BOINC acts like a software platform
] that can run a number of screen-saver style applications
] on top of the PC's own operating system. The system will
] also solve some of the problems that have dogged
] distributed projects.
]

I just love the name of this thing.

New Scientist | Software shares out spare processing power

] A man accused of beating his mother to death with a
] baseball bat was influenced by a cartoon that made him
] believe humans were unnecessary beings, prosecutors told
] the Yamagata District Court on Monday.

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