Anti-Apartheid Hero Adelaide Tampo Dies in South Africa

We all remember Nelson Mandela, as well we should, but he is the very first to say he did not work alone. Ms. Tambo was a national hero."South African political activist Adelaide Tambo, who died last month aged 77, has been buried in her home town east of...

That Didn't Take Long: Voice-Activated Vista Security Crack

Yeah, I work at a Mac place for my day-job, but hey. This sort of thing is why I don't use Windows." "I recorded a sound file that would engage speech command on Vista, then engaged the start button, and then I asked for the command prompt. When I played back the sound...

Pentagon: Dubious Intelligence the Foundation of Iraq Invasion

I hesitate to call this "news", as it is something widely known and accepted by most of the world. However, this is the first time it is coming from the mouth of a Pentagon official. "Intelligence provided by former undersecretary of defense Douglas J. Feith to buttress the...

Unfairly Targeted by Viacom? Fight Back!

I found this page via the good people at boingboing.net. The show so far: The RIAA has sent out spam take-down notices to youtube contributors based on the titles of their posts. This was shady work by Viacom's legal department, and should not go unchallenged. "As an RIAA...

Some States Welcome National ID

This article pertains to a US law that has already been passed, a law most Americans know nothing about. The phrase "scope creep" that appears in this article is the perfect way to sum up the danger of national ID cards. Are your papers in order?(The RSA Conference is a...

Blu-Ray and Sony – Does the Consumer Win?

This is a fun little video explaining the market control that Sony is gunning for with the Blu-Ray format: it would control moviemaking from the studios to the DVD players to the DVD's, leaving customers at the mercy of their innovation or lack thereof.  The same caveats...

Magic Science: Physicists Move Light

This sort of thing is mind-blowing. When they say "transporting light"< do they mean like in STAR TREK or like in DR. WHO?"In a quantum mechanical sleight of hand, Harvard physicists have shown that they can not only bring a pulse of light, the fleetest of nature's...

Brit Wins Digital Treasure Hunt

"A game played out in both the real and virtual worlds has been won by a 38 year old man from Middlesex in the UK. Andy Darley was one of 50,000 players from 92 countries who played the alternate reality game, Perplex City. Gamers have spent nearly two years solving clues in...

GOP Wants Your ISP to Spy on You

Remember, once a state gives itself "emergency powers", it never gives them up. History bears this out. With that in mind, do you really want strangers looking over your shoulder while you work and play online, all in the name of nebulous "security"?"All Internet service...

The Hoohah Monologues?!

I truly do not know whether to laugh or cry. Surely--- nah. Just check out this article."The Atlantic Theater in Atlantic Beach, FL changed their marquee for the "The Vagina Monologues" at the request of a woman who saw it as she drove by the theater with her niece."

Police: Mom Gave Son a Gun to Take Revenge

Let's add this to the parent/child violence file, along with this. When those "The Anti-Drug" commercials talk about getting involved with your child's day-to-day life, this is not what they had in mid."A mother and her teenage son have been accused of second-degree murder,...

Million-Dollar Security for $100 Laptop

The more I read about this project, the more I like it. A laptop with such limited specs would be commercially useless in developed nations, but, due to its proposed mission and environment, would need to be virtually bulletproof in terms of stability of the operating system....

Kansas City Chemical Plant Explodes

The most remarkable aspect of this story so far is the lack of injuries or fatalities."Several explosions engulfed a chemical plant in flames Wednesday, forcing a broad evacuation as the fire spread to nearby houses and spewed a toxic, sticky substance that residents were...

Fear Hinders Black Marrow Donation: Tuskegee Experiments' Legacy

Once bitten, twice shy, as they say."In 1982, transplant surgeon Dr. Clive Callender and his colleagues sat down to took a look at African-American organ donation numbers, and they were grim. While blacks represented about 12 percent of the U.S. population, they represented...