Indonesia's Papua plans to tag AIDS sufferers

I highlight the article in it's complete form... Indonesia is not my home and frankly I have no right to interfere or comment on their internal rules and laws, unfortunately I am an American and I have a big...

Zombies vs. Humans game coming to a campus near you

Bored with video games?  Procrastinating from studying?  Well then maybe you should go and find a game of Humans vs. Zombies near you.  It’s Night of the Living Dead, all day, everyday until...

'Body Spray' Makes Stinky Start to New Record Label

As there's no money in record labels anymore, labels have to go where the money is...er...Procter & Gamble?If this kind of 'branded entertainment' is the future of the music business, I don't think I like it....

$28-million penthouse breaks Vancouver record

I'm not sure if this is the kind of record we should be breaking in Vancouver.  Even a fraction of that would be better spent on the city's housing problem."Downtown Vancouver's luxury condo market has...

RFID Primer: Learn Your RFID ABC’s, Dig Deeper

Association for RFID professionals creates a RFID reference tool     Dallas, Texas (December 26, 2007) -- After estqblishing a network of 3,500 members in more than 65 countries around the world,...

The Surveillance Next Generation - VeriChip on the Verge of Expanding

               A major debate is on its way.  Its focus will be on a new technology that is growing rapidly and changing how we interact with our objects, the environment, and each other.  The...

METRO Group, Checkpoint Systems expand RFID `Tag It Easy!` program

""Tag It Easy!" is part of METRO Group's Advanced Logistics Asia (ALA) initiative to jointly enhance logistics processes with its Asian suppliers using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) to track merchandise throughout the supply chain. Because many suppliers in the region...

New brain disorder considered: pack rats

Being a well-established pack rat and collector of potentially useful things, I am a little uneasy about the fact that hoarding is regarded by some in the mental health field as a condition that should be classified as a mental illness.In a canwest news service article, Dr....

Sunday June 17th 2007 Tag on the alley door

Here is a tag on the back door, which is in the Alley between 9th & 10th Streets is this news? To me it is because I'm allways painting this door.

Democratic Debate: Tag Clouds and Talking Points

TThe Democrats began their selection process yesterday with a debate on MSNBC, establishing common groundon some issues while continuing the age-old party tradition of bickering and recrimination. Back in th eday,...

$1B price tag for 'Erotic Gherkin'

ZURICH, Switzerland (Reuters) -- Swiss Reinsurance Co. said Monday it agreed to sell its London headquarters, the 40-story glass skyscraper to a German real-estate company for 600 million pounds (US$1.18...

MP3 tag editors - what’s the best?

"MP3 tag editors - what’s the best? I have just read, over at www.Wired.com, a story reviewing various MP3 tagging editors. Most of the ones reviewed are pay to use software and although I don’t know Linux or...

Girl Accused Of Trying To Kill Sleeping Mother

Police said they arrested a 12-year-old Miami County girl suspected of setting fire to her sleeping mother's bed and driving away in a car with her younger siblings Monday.The mother called 911 at about 5 a.m. to say that she woke up to see her bed burning. She extinguished...

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