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Law enforcement may soon be able to �Nuke� your car and stop it wherever and whenever they need it stopped. James Tatoian, chief executive of Eureka Aerospace in Pasadena, California, is developing a system that uses microwave energy to interfere with microchips inside cars. Once the chip is overloaded with excessive current, the car ceases to function, and will gradually decelerate on its own, he said. "If you put approximately 10 or 15 kilovolts per meter on a target for a few seconds, you should be able to bring it to a halt,"

Vodafone New Zealand gets the GSM Treo 650 first

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000727029849/

http://www.wired.com/news/space/0,2697,66457,00.html?tw=rss.TEK

Anyone can daydream about traveling through space or visiting other worlds. But to be able to pull those dreams out of one's head and put them down on paper in the form of highly detailed and inspiring illustrations takes talent -- and lots of it. That's why space agencies around the world seek out artists like Pat Rawlings when they need to illustrate concepts for new missions to far-off planets.

TruthOrFiction.com

The M Sorter = No more brown M&Ms!

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000607029725/

MIT boffins moot space leotard

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/28/space_suit_mit/

Syphilis is making an alarming comeback in New Z

http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3171382a10,00.html

http://www.invisiblecowgirl.com/index.html

Dan Brown - Content Management

http://www.greenonions.com/index.php/index.php?cat=2

What You'll Wish You'd Known

http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html

The Cubes

http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/722a/images/1078/

Does the World Need Wireless Robots?

http://www.thefeature.com/article?articleid=101357

OOP Is Much Better in Theory Than in Practice

http://www.devx.com/DevX/Article/26776

Smug Lisp Weenie

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SmugLispWeenie

Stamp Collecting in an E-Mail Age

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/20/technology/circuits/20stam.html?ex=1264050000&en=e66aeefc336607e7&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland

Should Your Mobile Be A Portal To Your Desktop?

http://www.thefeature.com/article?articleid=101359

LiveJournal Blackout Analysis Online

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/20/1647244

Printing XML: Why CSS Is Better than XSL

http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/20/1424220

PostgreSQL 8.0 Released

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/19/1312224

Are Extensible Programming Languages Coming?

http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/18/2157249

The big one is coming!

http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/archives/008933.html

Hi Tech Bus Signal Gets Go Ahead

http://www.ew.govt.nz/newsandevents/mediareleases/mr971673.htm

Women Lack 'Natural Ability' In Some Fields, Harvard President Says

http://www.local6.com/education/4090001/detail.html

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/

Farce this Time: Renewed Pessimism about Oil Supply Michael C. Lynch

http://www.gasresources.net/Lynch(Farce%20this%20Time).htm

Wet and Windy Summer Predicted

http://www.ew.govt.nz/newsandevents/mediareleases/mr969280.htm

Why the future doesn't need us - Bill Joy

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html

Kiwis on OE do same as at home

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=9006005 http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/archives/008821.html

UNDERCITY.ORG

http://www.undercity.org/photos/photos.htm

Lost Man Finds Self Online

http://techdirt.com/articles/20041220/0022233_F.shtml

The Loneliest Mystery of the Deep

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/20/184723/82

And God rolled His eyes II

http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/2004_12_21.html#008707

Researchers have suggested that left-handed people are better at surviving fights to the death.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/10/lefties_win_fights/

Women are crap with PIN numbers - shock survey

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/14/pin_security_survey/

'Nano-needle' operates on cell

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/sci/tech/4078125.stm

Missile defence shield test fails

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/world/americas/4097267.stm

NZ aims to jail 'up skirt' snappers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4076353.stm

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20041205.html

The religious revival in the US

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/4/225858/862

What Japanese women want: a Western husband

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1206/p01s04-woap.html

PC-free New Zealand!!!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1294968/posts
http://www.PCFreeNZ.co.nz
http://www.act.org.nz/action/campaigns/pcfreenz/index.html

Military Robots Get Machine Guns

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/02/007253&from=rss

HIV Vaccine

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2243220&from=rss

Rocket Fuel in Milk, Lettuce

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65884,00.html?tw=rss.TEK

Moon gas could meet earth's future energy demands: scientists

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1288908/posts

'BrainGate' Brain-Machine-Interface takes shape

http://gizmag.com/go/3503/

Absinthe

http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~lacroix/crim417.htm

pregnant women using meth

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3614025&thesection=news&thesubsection=general

ID card scheme unveiled by Queen

BBC

US Marine Corps ready the RST-V hybrid tactical vehicle

http://www.gizmag.com/go/3477/

Dolphins protect New Zealand swimmers from great white shark

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1516&ncid=1516&e=1&u=/afp/20041123/od_afp/nzealand_sharks_041123141905

Terraforming Mars, The Noble Experiment?

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/mars-terraform-04h.html

UK channel to air sex videos

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11472280%5E1702,00.html

A BRITISH television channel will this week stretch the boundaries of reality TV by showing videos of couples having sex, in a program designed to help address common sexual problems.

Ireland is named 'best country'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4020523.stm

Patron Saint of: computers,

http://www.scborromeo.org/saints/isidores.htm

We're just like our parents, but with less money

http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/001113.html

Got Anti-Nuke Pills? Probably Not

http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,65611,00.html?tw=rss.TEK

Russia Profited From Iraqi Oil

http://www.sptimes.ru/archive/times/1015/news/b_13994.htm

Putin Plugs Nuclear Convention

http://www.sptimes.ru/archive/times/1017/news/n_14044.htm

Porsche Dealership Opens in the City

http://www.sptimes.ru/archive/times/1017/news/b_14035.htm

Incident at Nuclear Plant Leads To Panic

http://www.sptimes.ru/archive/times/1019/news/n_14099.htm

Physicist Stored Plutonium In Garage

http://www.sptimes.ru/archive/times/1019/news/n_14101.htm

http://SK8.co.nz

http://www.paulgraham.com/charisma.html

http://www.boingboing.net/2004/11/08/los_alamos_hermit.html

http://masamania.com/archives/2004/09/japanese_busine.html

PBase to Host and Share your photos

http://www.pbase.com/

Death Mask Gallery

http://thanatos.net/deathmasks/album.php?album=gallery&lang=en

Cease and Desist

http://incsub.org/blog/index.php?p=40

Embryos to be screened for cancer

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3970519.stm

Daily Photography Galleries

http://www.invisiblethreads.com/potd/collections/galleries.php

WHO calls flu pandemic summit

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6378004/

A Saturn moon with echoes of Earth

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1028/p01s01-stss.html

Giant squid 'taking over world'

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4811363%5E13762,00.html

Hibernating to Mars

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/30/1813248

http://www.galumpia.co.uk/adult/adult_2.htm#

An Hydrogen Economy? Not so fast...

http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041004/full/041004-13.html

Sushi USB KeY

http://wirelessdigest.typepad.com/shinyshiny/2004/10/sushi_usb_key.html

Men more willing to sleep with their boss

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=856&ncid=856&e=3&u=/nm/20041015/od_uk_nm/oukoe_odd_belgium_sex

Italian Woman's Veil Stirs More Than Fashion Feud

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/15/international/europe/15veil.html?ex=1255579200&en=e49583a226477b67&ei=5090&partner=your-registration-system-sucks

Structured Procrastination

http://www-csli.stanford.edu/%7Ejohn/procrastination.html

For Many Airline Pilots, the Thrill Is Gone

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/15/business/15pilots.html?ex=1255579200&en=11212c33a8117792&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland

It's Time for Reality Porn

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65343,00.html

MARK MOTHERSBAUGH'S (Devo) 2004 GALLERY

http://www.mutato.com/beautifulmutants/adopted.html

http://www.gumblondes.com/gb.html

One Terrible Job: IT Manager

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/11/2234203

Unexplained Leap In CO2 Levels

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/11/119233

Drugs delivered by robots in the blood

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996474

A microscopic swimming robot unveiled by Chinese scientists could eventually be used for drug delivery or to clear arteries in humans, say researchers.

Deep-sea water from Hawaii finds huge market in Japa

http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/10/08/build/business/35-hawaii-water.inc

BOFH tests the law of redundant supply

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/04/bofh_2004_episode_33/

Playboy: The Mansion and Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude

http://www.gamesman.co.nz/product.php?id=3007

Space Station Turning Into a Trash Heap

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/04/2228249

team america

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/12/2052219 http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/02/team_america_preview.html

http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/01/1736200

Yup. Any grandma who makes up stories is well versed in the technique of reaching a climactic moment and asking "And then what do you think happened?" The child responds, and grandma exclaims "That's exactly right!" Then grandma continues, dramatizing and expounding on the child's answer.

Red vs Blue

http://www.redvsblue.com/archive/

Coffee is Addictive

http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=124209&cid=10420408

Virtual tourists are helping the Swiss to plan their landscape

http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3195832

Paradise cleansed

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1317945,00.html

Tulameria Hamsters

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cpress/20041003/ca_pr_on_he/hamster_warning&cid=2155&ncid=2155

Dilberts ultimate house

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/duh/tour.html

The Family First files - updated

http://www.crikey.com.au/politics/2004/09/21-0001.html

World's Deepest Cave Explored Further

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/27/1210229

Email After Death

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/26/0129201

http://www.wcmg.org.nz/events.shtml

BACK TO SCHOOL: Millions of Egyptian

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/708/fr3.htm

http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/

http://www.wetheliving.com/

Why Is America So Fat?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0975265601/qid=1095091295/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-9334137-5133433?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Federal Ban on Assault Weapons Ends

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040913/ap_on_go_co/assault_weapons&cid=512&ncid=716

Oil reserves by country

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0872964.html

http://archive.scripting.com/2004/09/14

As voters, the most expedient way to tell the world we know we fucked up is to get rid of Bush, now that we have a chance to. Rush Limbaugh and his dittoheads won't like this, but a vote for Bush is a vote for the Islamic Revolution. He's their best guy (hey he gave them Iraq).

Breeding Aggression in Male Iguanas

http://www.reptilianagenda.com/research/r102299d.html

Walcome til the Scottish Pairlament wabsite

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/language/scots/index.htm

Covini's six wheeled sportscar

http://www.gizmo.com.au/public/News/news.asp?articleid=2754

Police find acre of pot

http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/04/09/10/loc_pot001.cfm

Nature gets biblical in Africa

http://medilinkz.org/journal/default2.asp?Journal_ID=39

Mexico Deports Hundreds of U.S. Teenagers

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040911/us_nm/mexico_usa_dc_1

Greek debt spirals after Olympics

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3649268.stm

WTC agency sues Saudis over 9/11

It seems that aliens are not worried with the fate of humanity. They are basically worried about the planets environment.

http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/09/16/36691.html

Miss Universe red-faced again

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10706830%5e13780,00.html

http://www.projectcensored.org/about/index.html

It's Nelson Rockefeller's Party

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/lydon/2004/09/01#a572

http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/

http://www.rd.dgu.ru/english.html

Jenna Jameson: Girl On Top

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/interviews/story.jsp?story=557266

http://www.asciibabes.com/

Dossie.ru Editor Gets 7 1/2 Years

http://www.sptimes.ru/archive/times/999/news/n_13412.htm

Brits bet on gravity wave discovery (register)

http://www.jkrowling.com/

The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books

http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/100mostfrequently.htm

http://www.popcap.com/portablegames.php

http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/333/C3147/

idea amplifier

http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000933.html

Blogger ranks Olympic losers (NZHerald)

LONDON - For those who believe the adage "all Olympic athletes are winners," a Canadian man has dedicated the past 11 days to proving you wrong.

At his blog site, Jonathan Crowe has been chronicling those Olympic athletes who finished dead last in their respective events.

Sony EBook

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/peterlewis/0,15704,685443,00.html

German pub owner left crying into his beer

http://www.personneltoday.com/pt_news/news_daily_det.asp?liArticleID=25280

http://www.teararoa.org.nz/trail_stories.php?story_id=27

British Town Worried About WWII Ammo Ship Wreck

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/21/1847240

New Robots and the Ten Ethical Laws Of Robotics

http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2004/08/22.html

Scream stolen from Norway museum

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3588282.stm

http://87.1911encyclopedia.org/A/AL/ALLEGRI_GREGORIO.htm

Prozac "found in drinking water"

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=5904035&section=news

Badgers threaten Stonehenge burial sites

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=856&ncid=856&e=1&u=/nm/20040809/od_uk_nm/oukoe_britain_badgers

http://rageboy.com/

http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/sept97/spot2.htm

http://www.popculturemadness.com/Music/WORST-Rex.html

Magentic flip

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/13/0759231

http://www.procyclegear.com http://www.probikekit.com http://www.justpushplay.com/road-cycling-videos.html http://www.roadbikereview.com http://www.cyclingvideos.co.uk/ http://www.sendit.com/video/browse/411/825

http://www.dunlopmotorcycle.com/tirecatalog_tire.asp?id=82

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3218026

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/09/1933216

A new report by the National Endowment for the Arts finds the number of literate, non-reading adults dropped sharply between 1992 and 2002. This despite the best efforts of Harry Potter and Oprah Winfrey's book club.

World Court declares Israeli barrier illegal - CSMonitor

http://www.flipstartpc.com/default.asp

Net Sticky Notes All Over London

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/06/0418230

http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/

http://bitworking.org/news/One_of_the_reasons_I_no_longer_wear_a_watch

I robot

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.07/machines.html

Q&A With MIT's Nicholas Negroponte

Interview with Mandrake's Head Honchos

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/17/1620214

The History of Programming Languages

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/17/1529256

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/17/1614255

http://www.mc.man.ac.uk/framework

Thieves Steal Computers at Hong Kong Fair

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=516&ncid=716&e=8&u=/ap/20040617/ap_on_re_as/hong_kong_brazen_thieves

Simulating Hallucinations in Virtual Reality

http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2004/06/17.html#a877

Coalition's sealed compound includes a brisk bar scene

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2004/06/17/coalitions_sealed_compound_includes_a_brisk_bar_scene/

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20040615-2150-china-pandapregnant.html

BEIJING � American-born panda Hua Mei is pregnant, just months after she settled into her new home in southwestern China, state newspapers reported Wednesday.

http://www.urban-climbing.com/

Rugby in Neuseeland: Zipfelm�tze erlaubt

http://www.20min.ch/unterhaltung/news_bizarre/story/18912777

Japan pig fraud prompts DNA test

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3751535.stm

Kissinger Tells Of A Drunk Nixon

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0526044nixon1.html

Bizarre tale of boy who used internet to plot his own murder

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,2763,1227362,00.html?=rss

P-Mate

http://www.plastuitcompany.com/eng/intro.html

http://www.pdabuyersguide.com

How Can I Sex Up This Blog Business?

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.06/blog.html

http://www.gizmodo.com/

http://www.gawker.com/

http://www.defamer.com/topic/crapulent-fox-staffer-flushed-at-upfronts-009881.php

Drug Farms Forced Underground http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,63603,00.html

shopping and fucking 26/may 11/jun wed-sat (not sun) near town hall below comedy central 09 3003700

http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/90/361/12833_happiness.html

The New Iraqi Flag .. Not

http://www.back-to-iraq.com/archives/000748.php

A DNA Walking Robot

http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2004/05/06.html

New clues to 2bn-year-old murder

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1216444,00.html

Street fight in Dallas suburb started in chat room

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/tech/news/2565447

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.02/warwick.html

NEW YORK -- The origin of AIDS is a mystery that twists through the forests of Africa and into the bowels of a supercomputer in New Mexico. It pits hypotheses, scientists and one persistent journalist against one another, rarely producing answers that satisfy all the detectives on its trail.

RFID implants

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/12/1655222 http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.02/warwick.html

http://folksong.org.nz/howlucky/

Back-to-Iraq goes back to Iraq http://www.back-to-iraq.com...

Chris Allbritton of Back-to-Iraq.com raised over $11,000 in reader donations to return to Iraq to continue his independent reporting in his blog. He left today for Oslo, and from there he travels to Jordan, then into Iraq. Chris is going to be there for a while, too, instead of popping in and out to cover the stories of the week.

Proof women really are safer drivers

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/standard/article.html?in_article_id=302497&in_page_id=25

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,63403,00.html

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Monsanto on Monday said it was suspending plans to introduce what would be the world's first biotech wheat, a product that has generated concerns around the world about scientific tinkering with a key food crop.

Z Volcano Scarier Than Mt. Doom

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,63301,00.html

A simmering crater lake on Mt. Ruapehu, neighbor of the New Zealand mountain that starred as The Lord of the Rings' fiery Mount Doom is the volcano scientists fear most in the area.

Kiwis Cop Stonehenge's Star Buzz

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,63227,00.html

The mysterious ring of megaliths erected on England's Salisbury Plain has enthralled visitors for millennia. Now a group of astronomers in New Zealand is trying to one-up the ancient Brits by erecting a combination solar calendar and star compass. Kim Griggs reports from Wellington.

http://pacmanhattan.com/about.php

Researchers To Climb Ararat To Seek Noah's Ark

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/26/2143207

http://www.newseum.org/

D&D Is 30

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/26/1258240 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3655627.stm

Library without books

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1197495,00.html

Paul Fussell, "Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and an Afterword on Japanese Skulls" (1988)

http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/thankgod.html http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/23/2149209

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3650057.stm

A comparison of almost 3,000 research papers published over 30 years in major biomedical journals found a 30% fall in the number of studies using animals.

Remember Typewriters?

http://archive.scripting.com/2004/04/16#rememberTypewriters

Day of the locust: Millions of locusts swarmed toward Australia's second biggest city of Melbourne, as the insects were also reported near the southern city of Adelaide.

The geek shall inherit the Earth

http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/0000000CA436.htm

Why Mobile Phones Are Annoying

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/13/024237

(dude in Borders re Java)

New Zealand to �legalise CD piracy�

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/03/23/new_zealand_to_legalise_cd/

3D ads to put virtual beers on bars

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994807

Onion Taken Seriously, Film at 11

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,63048,00.html

Porno Hen Hawks for Burger King

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,63053,00.html

http://gloryriders.com/MCpatches/index.html

EXCLUSIVE TO ON-LINE THEATRE SPANKED BY KAT

http://www.femaleauthority.com/vl_spankedbykat.htm

Robots Invade San Francisco

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,62759,00.html?tw=newsletter_topstories_html

Robot creators and fans from around the world converge on San Francisco for a weekend of fighting, climbing, wrestling and teaching at the first Robolympics. By Lore Sj�berg.

Eccleston is new Doctor Who

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3552087.stm

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/16/2031207

After having contaminated Earth's Oceans, it seems that there are plans to send a probe drilling through Europa's ice sheet and explore the purported ocean below the crust. The plan seems to be to find Life there. But I wonder how long the time lag will be between the probe finding life, and a leak in the radioactive heater wiping all of it out."

Our corner of the galaxy got a little stranger this week with the discovery of Sedna, the most distant object ever spotted in the solar system. Now astronomers are puzzling over how it got there. The most intriguing idea is that there might be another world as

big as Earth, a gravitational bully lurking in some unexplored corner of the solar system. --Rob Britt, Space.com, 16 March 2004

Those darn Spanish voters wont do what Bush wants them to do

http://blogs.salon.com/0000014/2004/03/16.html#a570

The Sun's 10th Planet... Sedna?

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/14/1657223

The American Delusion: Safety

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,62585,00.html?tw=newsletter_topstories_html

All the money spent on security to turn the country into a fortress may make us feel better, but it doesn't make us any safer. By Bruce Schneier from Wired magazine.

espresso, is good for you http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/08/1440218

Twenty-five Years at the Heart of Gaming http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/02/1755233 Salon has a loooong interview with Eugene Jarvis, the creator of legendary arcade video games Defender and Robotron, up today. Jarvis talks about why he is pro-emulators, anti-Grand Theft Auto, still focused on arcade games, and deeply worried about terrorism.

British School Offers Elvish Lessons http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/06/1641240

Hubble Captures a Starry Night http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,62527,00.html?tw=newsletter_topstories_html

Lord Of The Rings - Oscars, We Loves Them http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/01/0513213

Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Porn http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,62343,00.html?tw=newsletter_topstories_html As Hustler magazine nears its 30-year anniversary, Larry Flynt reflects on how technology has changed the adult entertainment business -- and how the Patriot Act relates to porn.

The Great Robot Race http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.03/robot.html he Pentagon wants a third of its trucks, tanks, and recon vehicles to operate on their own by 2015, and Darpa worries that without a leap or two, the science will arrive late. "They've been at this for 10, 15 years now. Where are they? Nowhere!" Negron says.

Venus: The Forgotten Planet http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/22/237237

Magic Words - Interactive Fiction in the 21st Century http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/26/2334203

Green Dragon Flys North Fighting Elements Bravely But Remains Unseen

Europa's Acid Ice Fields http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/16/1441202

Comic Book Physics

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/15/2146226

no !!! ... I cant believe it. Well I guess given his moody disposition over the last few years, that an exit like this wasnt out of the question. I havent read any velo-news for the last week or so, so your blog-link was the 1st I heard about it. I've got a soft-spot for climbers, and Marco is the only rider to have a presence (photo) on my office wall. I imagine if I spoke any Italian I might be able to voice my distress a little more colourfully, but this is 'Very sad' indeed. :-(

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