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- A suspected rapist on the U.S. Marshals' 15-most wanted list was detained by local residents Thursday while trying to steal a car in North Carolina, the agency said. |
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- oh, jebus h christ on a popsicle stick. whoever "invented" this atrocity should be kicked in the nuts, given an obscene amount of paper cuts, dipped in lemon juice, set on fire, and then shot. |
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- In an attempt to keep public schools as secular as possible, a presidential commission in France has proposed that students be barred from wearing Muslim head scarves. According to the Associated Press, the proposed ban also would include other obvious re |
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- Researchers have turned mouse stem cells into sperm cells, which went on to fertilize mouse eggs and become an embryo. If they lead to normal mouse pups, it could be a boon for stem cell research. By Kristen Philipkoski. |
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- Poorer nations want their share of the information technology pie, and a three-day summit in Geneva is designed to point the way. But richer nations, conspicuous by their absence, don't appear to give a damn. |
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- Physicists find a way to hold light and its energy in its tracks -- if only for a fraction of a second. The ability to harness light particles to store and process data could aid the still distant goal of quantum computers. |
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- Researchers have turned mouse stem cells into sperm cells, which went on to fertilize mouse eggs and become an embryo. If they lead to normal mouse pups, it could be a boon for stem cell research. By Kristen Philipkoski. |
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- Poorer nations want their share of the information technology pie, and a three-day summit in Geneva is designed to point the way. But richer nations, conspicuous by their absence, don't appear to give a damn. |
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- Physicists find a way to hold light and its energy in its tracks -- if only for a fraction of a second. The ability to harness light particles to store and process data could aid the still distant goal of quantum computers. |
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- Mirroring the evolution of Linux, new developments in ski equipment for the disabled come largely from members of the community. By Michael Myser. |
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- Congress overwhelmingly passes a bill to fight the online scourge, but critics say the unwanted e-mail will increase because the law will actually legitimize spam. By Amit Asaravala. |
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- No more ringy-dingy: Services that let cell-phone users create almost any type of ring tone, and assign different tones to different callers, are all the rage. Some, surprisingly, are choosing the sound of silence. By Daniel Terdiman. |
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- Mirroring the evolution of Linux, new developments in ski equipment for the disabled come largely from members of the community. By Michael Myser. |
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- Congress overwhelmingly passes a bill to fight the online scourge, but critics say the unwanted e-mail will increase because the law will actually legitimize spam. By Amit Asaravala. |
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- No more ringy-dingy: Services that let cell-phone users create almost any type of ring tone, and assign different tones to different callers, are all the rage. Some, surprisingly, are choosing the sound of silence. By Daniel Terdiman. |
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- Aristotle International sells lists online containing personal facts about voters to anybody who cares to plunk down the money. A Wired News special report by Kim Zetter. |
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- The personal information people give when they register to vote is supposed to remain in the hands of governments, political parties and candidates. But nearly half of all states allow the data to go to marketers as well. By Kim Zetter. |
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- Aristotle International sells lists online containing personal facts about voters to anybody who cares to plunk down the money. A Wired News special report by Kim Zetter. |
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- The personal information people give when they register to vote is supposed to remain in the hands of governments, political parties and candidates. But nearly half of all states allow the data to go to marketers as well. By Kim Zetter. |
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- Need to position your HierMenus based on something other than the Top-Left Corner? With only a few lines of custom code, you can position a menu based on its top, bottom, left, or right corner. By D.M. Ragle 1211 |
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- Need to position your HierMenus based on something other than the Top-Left Corner? With only a few lines of custom code, you can position a menu based on its top, bottom, left, or right corner. By D.M. Ragle 1211 |
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A feat (Dec 11 2003 23:10 GMT) - If you Google for 'Tannock', this site is now the number 1 result. For a long time, it was something... |
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- So KBR, a Halliburton subsidiary, who was awarded several bid-free reconstruction contracts, has been accused of price gouging in Iraq... |
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- My internet access is limited to 2 GB of traffic per week. I must remain under this limit or my account will be frozen for a week. I'm using a freeware tool (Bandwidth Monitor) to meter my traffic usage. My problem is that even if no application is connecting to the internet, Bandwidth Monitor shows a constant upload speed of about 2 KB/s, and a constant download speed of about 3 KB/s. These nu ... |
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- Well, this is it. It's Thursday 11th December, 2003. I'm in the hotel room in Germany for the last time this year, and hopefully, forever. I've enjoyed my time here, don't get me wrong, but I'm ready for home. I'm ready to see family again. |
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- SCO has complied to the court order and sent IBM the allegedly infringing code - printed out one one million pieces of paper. These guys are priceless - I hope this goes on for some more time until some judge tells them to go to hell. I haven't read a satire site in months. My morning dose of tech news usually contains enough SCO ridiculousness to make my day. |
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Motivation. (Dec 11 2003 23:10 GMT) - It's the holidays. it has been for the past week. already i am bored. i need something to stimulate my mind. for the first time ever, im am sick of reading. |
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What!? (Dec 11 2003 23:10 GMT) - Here's the thing... I get quite depressive sometimes, and no matter who you are, your not going to cheer me up. That's the way I am, I will get back up on my own, you know? Anyways, For the last few days, I've been this way once more.. and I think it's confusing my boyfriend. |
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- Ebu created this attachment on Fri Dec 12 01:10:22 EET 2003 |
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- http://www2. observer. com/observer/punktable. htm... |
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- Despite my mentioning them here, more likely than not. First off, Over the Rhine: Sun Dec 14: Chicago IL, Martyr's... |
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- An overpowering stench from a landfill forced two schools to close and send home about 1,000 students in northeastern Pennsylvania. |
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- In late 2001, antiabortion fanatic Clayton Waagner used packets of bogus anthrax to shut down scores of clinics nationwide. When he was convicted last week, the press was notably absent. |
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- In late 2001, antiabortion fanatic Clayton Waagner used packets of bogus anthrax to shut down scores of clinics nationwide. When he was convicted last week, the press was notably absent. |
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- The U.S. military requires troops to take controversial anthrax shots and court-martials them if they refuse. But critics say the vaccine is too dangerous -- and with Saddam's bioweapons nowhere to be found, needless. |
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- Insecticide? Flame retardant? PCBs? Dioxin? If you're curious, maybe it's time to get biomonitored. |
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- The U.S. military requires troops to take controversial anthrax shots and court-martials them if they refuse. But critics say the vaccine is too dangerous -- and with Saddam's bioweapons nowhere to be found, needless. |
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- Insecticide? Flame retardant? PCBs? Dioxin? If you're curious, maybe it's time to get biomonitored. |
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- In our roundup of the season's best mysteries, a cracking new Dalziel-Pascoe yarn, echoes of a forgotten murder, S.J. Rozan's appealing private-eye duo, and the bleak brilliance of Ruth Rendell. |
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- In our roundup of the season's best mysteries, a cracking new Dalziel-Pascoe yarn, echoes of a forgotten murder, S.J. Rozan's appealing private-eye duo, and the bleak brilliance of Ruth Rendell. |
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- The candidates gather at a major debate and, with the exception of a jilted Joe Lieberman, go easy on Dean. |
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- The candidates gather at a major debate and, with the exception of a jilted Joe Lieberman, go easy on Dean. |
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- The first Scalable Vector Graphics specification (SVG 1.0) laid the standard for XML-expressed two-dimensional interactive and animated graphics. Since then, the W3C SVG Working Group has made efforts to take SVG a step further with a strong focus on enhancing features that ease the work of using SVG for Web and desktop application development. One of the most promising features introduced in SVG 1.2 is Rendering Custom Content (RCC) -- it offers a clean XML-centric extension mechanism to m |
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- The first Scalable Vector Graphics specification (SVG 1.0) laid the standard for XML-expressed two-dimensional interactive and animated graphics. Since then, the W3C SVG Working Group has made efforts to take SVG a step further with a strong focus on enhancing features that ease the work of using SVG for Web and desktop application development. One of the most promising features introduced in SVG 1.2 is Rendering Custom Content (RCC) -- it offers a clean XML-centric extension mechanism to m |
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- The first Scalable Vector Graphics specification (SVG 1.0) laid the standard for XML-expressed two-dimensional interactive and animated graphics. Since then, the W3C SVG Working Group has made efforts to take SVG a step further with a strong focus on enhancing features that ease the work of using SVG for Web and desktop application development. One of the most promising features introduced in SVG 1.2 is Rendering Custom Content (RCC) -- it offers a clean XML-centric extension mechanism to m |
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