] Wal-Mart is recalling a candle gift set collection
] because paint used on the candles could pose a fire
] hazard.
]
] The company, which hasn't heard any reports of injuries,
] is recalling 69,804 units of the Snow House Candle gift
] set; 29,064 units of the Snowman Candle gift set; and
] 62,428 units of the Snowflake Candle gift set.

BURN!!

TheHawaiiChannel - Money Watch 4 - Wal-Mart Recalls Candle Gift Collection

A nice little article on building BSD ports for the Outguess and Steghide utilities.

Hiding Secrets with Steganography [Dec. 04, 2003]

] Criminals are turning the tables on police by making
] crude versions of road spikes and hurling them in the
] path of pursuit cars.
]
] And, according to the letter of the law, there is little
] police can do about it.

This isn't a US news story but I thought it was interesting all the same.

DIY spikes: police face a new kind of stick-up - www.smh.com.au

] The Yakima Brewing and Malting Co. announced Wednesday it
] would offer 500,000 shares of preferred stock in hopes of
] raising money to boost production for a popular new beer.

] Sales of Grant's Mandarin Hefeweizen beer are on track to
] beat company records. The company has been unable to keep
] up with consumer demand but hopes raising capital will
] enable it to increase production.
]
] Mandarin is available in Washington, Oregon, Idaho,
] California, Arizona and Florida in bottles and on draft.

Orange flavored beer? Well it must be good if they can't keep up with demand.

Yakima brewery raises money to boost production / Business -The Olympian

flynn23 wrote:
] ] Fox is considering a plan to resume production of Family
] ] Guy
]
] What the Deuce?

Bring on that fat man and the dreadful woman! And while you are at it Fox, release a copy of "The Road to Rhode Island" with the Osama Bin Laden airport joke in tact. Yeah thanks.

RE: 'Family Guy' may return

] RHUM is an easy to use script for merging updated RPMs
] into a RedHat style distribution. RHUM can merge RedHat's
] RPM Updates and your own custom RPMs into the copy of
] RedHat you use for Kickstart installs, eliminating the
] need to apply RPM Updates after install. This script can
] also use Fedora Core has a base for building custom
] distributions.

I have updated RHUM to work with Fedora Core. You can now create custom Linux distributions based of Fedora using RHUM the say way as RedHat 6 through 9.

There is also a crude script linked from this page that will create a network install base using the yarrow images.

RHUM - RedHat Update Munger (Version 1.2)

] By applying electrical pressure to neighboring atoms of
] two different elements, such as iron and silver, Gleiter
] said an electron deficit or excess can be stimulated
] among the bordering atoms to create a composite material
] that has properties in between the two elements.

This is actually really really neat... Anyone got more information? Can we experiment with this at home?

Scientist opens gate to new elements

] Mouse movements in combination with a click-hold and
] optionally a modifier that execute some browser
] functions. You press mouse button, draw a gesture, and
] release mouse button (you can choose which button to use
] in advanced preferences). This gesture is recognized and
] appropriate action is triggered.

I know I am behind the times on this but if you are using mozilla without them, you are me three weeks ago. :) If you have a middle mouse button or your scroll wheel can click then these are definitely something you need to try. The tab navigation and forward / back movements are great. I can't see me going back to a browser without them ever again.

mozdev.org - optimoz: /gestures/index

] The 11th edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate
] Dictionary, published in June, defines a "McJob" as "a
] low-paying job that requires little skill and provides
] little opportunity for advancement."

CNN.com - Merriam-Webster: 'McJob' is here to stay - Nov. 11, 2003

] Startup MagiQ Technologies Inc. yesterday announced it's
] shipping what appears to be the first security system
] based on quantum cryptography.
]
] Quantum cryptography goes a step further than electronic
] cryptography through its employment of a stream of
] photons, the quantum properties of which determine the
] key. The fun part is that if an intruder observes or
] intercepts the transmission, those properties get changed
] -- an unavoidable principle of quantum mechanics --
] meaning the sender and receiver can tell if anyone is
] eavesdropping. Perhaps more important, the key can't be
] copied or faked (see Optical Science Gets Spookier and
] Quantum Cipher Sent by Fiber ).
]
] It's a potential breaththrough, though working with
] photons has never been easy, and, as the optical
] networking bubble has shown, it can be an expensive way
] to build technology.
]
] MagiQ's Navajo system, a box made to fit in a standard
] telecom rack, was unveiled in February and began beta
] trials in March.

Startup Says Quantum Crypto Is Real