Finnish library gets book back after 100 years

"A Finnish library-goer moved to avoid 100 years of ten-pennies-a-week fines when he or she quietly returned a book that was on loan for more than a century. The item was a bound copy of a 1902 volume of Vartija, an active religious monthly periodical at the time. The library...

How They Hack Your Website: Overview of Common Techniques

"We hear the same terms bandied about whenever a popular site gets hacked. You know… SQL Injection, cross site scripting, that kind of thing. But what do these things mean? Is hacking really as inaccessible as many of us imagine; a nefarious, impossibly technical twilight...

Time Layoffs: Another Death Knell For Print Media?

Print media is having a rough week.  TIME just laid off 100 people and the NYTimes also announced staff cuts.  This all points to an uncertain future for print."You can run, but you can’t hide from reality. And the longer you run, the quicker you realize that you...

Larry Craig gets standing ovation, tapping toes not heard

"In spite of his wide stance defense that turned Idaho into a national joke, Sen. Larry Craig got people to their toe-tapping in feet to applaud the three-term Republican. As if suffering from short-term memory loss, the party loyalists attending the Mini-Cassia Lincoln Day...

Kosovo Gets Salute from Bush

"ABCLive:Newly nation in global Map ‘Kosovo” today gets its major recognition from United states when president Gorge W. Bush during his foreign tip in Tanzania made a statement that his country will soon establish diplomatic relation the Kosovo"

Meet the baby who survived Tenn. tornado

"The happy little boy who sucked on a bottle of milk Monday as his grandparents talked about the tornado that took his mother’s life was given the name Kyson when he was born last year. But since the twister, which tossed him nearly 500 feet into a field, Kyson has a new...

Citizen Journalism Site Gets Director

Certainly a feather in Now Public's Hat with the hiring of World Editor Rachel Nixon to Now Public.  "Welcome Rachel" from us News Wranglers.  "Citizen journalism site gets directorVancouver SunPublished: Thursday, February 14, 2008Vancouver-based citizen...

Justice on the Cheap: $5,000 Plus Legal Fees For Wrongful Conviction

Five grand seems a bit stingy for such a miscarriage of justice: loss of a year's wages would be more than $5000, and that does not take into account lost opportunity from being portrayed as a child molester. Social repercussions: immeasurable."A man who served almost a year...

Wilders and his film worry Dutch expats

"Wilders and his film worry Dutch expats by Perro de Jong 23-01-2008 Dutch people living abroad are worried about the effects of right-wing politician Geert Wilders' anti-Qu'ran film. In recent weeks Dutch embassies have been busy making emergency plans, a move which many...