06/23/09

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Forever Young
Palin Flirt Earns Fatwa For Zardari
Microsoft Sued For Kidnapping By Homeless Person
Hairspray Turns Habitat
After Death, An Upgrade
The Copyright Database Is Copyrighted
Suing God
Misery Loves Competition
The Furry Grim Reaper
Satellite Destruction Using Google Earth And Orbitron
Out the Anonymous Senator Who Hates Freedom of Information
Digg Rebellion Shows That Crowd Is Law
Man Dies of Thirst During Survival Test
Artificial Snot Enhances Electronic Nose
Apple Delays Leopard Until October
Keith Richards Inhaled Father's Ashes (Or Not)
Internet Tubes
Xcerion's Internet Cloud Forms Over Google and Microsoft
Revenge of the Tourists
MP3 Player Distraction Puts 40 Tons of Cow Intestines on Highway
Apple Inc. Gets Apple Trademark From Apple Corps.
PC World Editor Murdered
Bush Claims Authority To Open Mail Without Warrant
Virtual Worlds Collide With Real Laws
Microwaving Rioters Deemed Safe
China Ends Transplant Tourism
Man Tried to Hide Guitar in Pants
Barney Fails in Bid to Silence Parody
Did It Take a Nuclear Physics Lab to Murder Alexander Litvinenko?
Shooting at the Zune
McDonald's Seeks Sandwich Patent
Mindless Eating
Suicidal Artists Benefit Society
Mapping the Future of Open Source Data
Web 3.0 Bombs Among Bloggers
Skull Vs. Scripture
Thomas Pynchon Buzz
The Rising Political Clout of the Dead
PayPal.Bomb
Modern Samurai Need to Rethink Tactics
Digital Freedom Campaign Launches
Digg vs. Amazon's Mechanical Turk
Microsoft Patents Forgetful Memory
Re-Shock the Monkey
Virtual Halliburton
Digital Rights in Question as a Business Model
Wired News Editor Helps Catch Sex Offender
China Warns Against Self-Torture
Spam From Uncle Sam
Teleportation, Sort Of
Koyaanisqatsi Meets the Fantastic Voyage
Airport Security: The Video Game
TransMedia's Glide 2.0
Cleanliness Really Is Next to Godliness
Smarter Silicon
Autonomous Design
Federal Appeals Court: Driving With Money is a Crime
Tibet Not Found on Google Earth
Unabomber Auction
Recipients of "Leaks" May Be Prosecuted, Court Rules
Botanical Ad Blocking
A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749
AOL's Mea Culpa
The Anti-Stupidity Pill
Sexual Lyrics Prompt Sexual Behavior
AOL Releases 20 Million Search Queries
Apple Accounting Irregularities
Windows Games on Macs Without Windows or Boot Camp
God As Gumshoe
A Vaccine Against Fat
Of Flying Cars and Longevity
Genetically Altered Crops Promote New Pests
A Plane Made From "Printed" Parts
Bed Sharing 'Drains Men's Brains'
Court Allows AT&T Spying Lawsuit to Proceed
China Plans Vegetable Surveillance
Powered Shoes for Exploring Virtual Worlds
Chocolate That Won't Melt
Postal Worker Caught With Thousands of Letters
Hao Wu Freed
MSNBC Doesn't Like Microsoft Fine
Original Godzilla Trailer
"You're the son of a terrorist whore."
Grow Your Own Robot
France Earth
Alien Abductions Ruled Out As Cause of Japan's Declining Birth Rate
Nuclear Special Delivery
The Price of Overconfidence
Fruit Sticker To Replace Human Senses
A Good Week To Die
Cow Sex Shows
Robber Sues "Victims" Who Beat Him
Judge Orders Child's Game To Resolve Dispute
Al-Qaida, U.S. Both Celebrate Death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Google Rallies Users For Net Neutrality
God Will Save Me, If He Exists
The Great Steak Escape, Part II
Nipplegate Fallout
Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
The Tropical North Pole
Cordless Jump Rope
Fish Catches Fisherman
Madonna Crucifies Herself In Tour Opener
Monkey Sentences
U.K. Sci-Fi Sex Slavery Cult
Amazon Shills For Tracks New Disc Formats
New Antibiotic Shows Promise for Misuse
RIAA Wants To Design Your Radio
Human Launcher
Exploding Phones
Bloggers Make Lawyers Think Twice
Human Zoo Planned
All Your Calls Belong To U.S.
Attack of the Flying Robot Bombs
UFO Report Finds No Aliens
Defamation Suit Against Blogger Draws Fire
Kidnappers Threaten Pillsbury Doughboy
Anthrax Assassin
Warm Pizza, Cold Corpses
Man Rams Police Station With Potato Chips
A Stroke of Good Luck
Airbus, Now With Less Comfort
Digital Cameras Leave "Fingerprints"
Camelbert Cheese
Remix This
Nanotech in Consumer Products
Hacker Faces the Rack
Time for Google Calendar
Robot Voting
Prescription Wine
They Report, We Deride
New Study Reveals the Glaringly Obvious
The Lost Gospel
Reporters' Rights
Yahoo Accused of Syndication Fraud
Operation: Anti-Censorship
A Prayer for the Dying
Journalist Jill Carroll Released in Iraq
Justice Department Spreads Subpoenas
Environmentally-Friendly Explosives
Google Reader Shares Viral Marketing
Blizzard Sued for Copyright Misuse
iPod Phone Reportedly Confirmed
A Place in the Sun Infrastructure?
Video Games Benefit Society
A Haircut in Iraq
Random Links
Mocking Scientology
Virtual Spying
Bandage Powder
Google's Virtual World
Internet Data Brokers Reveal CIA Agents
Where the Money Is
Google Settles Click-Fraud Case
A Job for Jeeves
Chimps Are Nice, Jailers Say
Apple Buys Data Center
China Starts Its Own Domain Name System
Postal Service Wages War on Truth
Google History, Meet Google Propaganda
Google Shows Macs Some Love
Supreme Court Upholds Hallucination Among the Religious
Top Five SETI Candidates for Alien Life
Break the Code, Help Murder Investigation
Google Says "Don't Be Evil" Isn't Arrogant
Ex-Chinese Officials Condemn Censorship
Bush Eavesdrops on Himself
Cheney Shoots Fellow Hunter
Are Hit Songs Predictable? Scientists Disagree
Oxymoron Watch: Compassionate Force-Feeding
DEMO 2006
Plastic Policeman Delays Drivers
Spying On Yourself With the Help of the Net
Apple Plans iTunes Sharing
Lawsuit Seeks to Silence iPod
Infected With Obesity
Health Care for the Virtuous
Copyrights Run Amok
Google Crawls Into China
Clothe the Machines
Georgetown Law Students Shun Alberto Gonzales
MPAA Accused of Piracy
Killer Whales Are Full of Poison
Man Has Heart Attack at Cardiologist Ball
Computer Measures Political Spin
Gonzales v. Google
Apple Patents Seeing Screen
Brain Scans Reveal Men Delight in Revenge
Chinese Govt Exempts Adult Gamers From Time Limits
The Urine Battery
Volkswagen Tries on Jack Boots
Dogs Scan for Cancer
The Great Steak Escape
GPS Tracker Locates Bank Robber
Wire Tapping Falls on Deaf Ears
Phone Co. Toll Demands Unfair
Sex, Lies, and Cookies
Mooning Legal in Maryland
Cell Phone Gavage
Cell Cameras Capture Credit Cards (Maybe)
AdSense Gets Graphic
Intelligent Design Damned In Dover
Google Earth Scares Governments
NASA Wants Your Brain
Skin Color Gene Discovered
EFF Brings the Smackdown to Warner/Chappell Music
Robot Receptionist Starts Work in April
Regulating the Deadly Sport of Kite Flying
The Information War
P2P Polluter Shuts Down
Google's Cure for the Inbox: More Content
NASA Plans to Commercialize Space Missions
Scratch Resistant CD Debuts
Nanotechnology Is the New Asbestos
The Disinformation Age
Erotic Moments From the Bible
Glide File Sharing Service Debuts
Repealing the Freedom of Information Act
Televangelists Fight for Racy Programming
Apple Plans "TiVo-Killer"
A Sonic Weapon to Repel the Young
Thieves Menace Pretend Pirates
Turkey Trials
TiVo Plans RFID-Aware PVR
Scent of a Libido
Sony DRM Defeated With Adhesive Tape
Move Over Sony, Microsoft Tries DRM
FEC Rules Bloggers Are Journalists
Scientists Produce Fearless Mice
All Your Data Are Belong to Us
Hot Rocks
iPod Porn Takes Off as Bush Admin Clamps Down
Saks Pollutes Children's Book With Marketing
Computer Gaming Addictive
Marc Benioff to Bill Gates: Thanks for Nothing
Bras in the News
The Physics of Cow Tipping
House Committee Weighs Data Discrimination
Liberal Church Threatened By IRS
George Bash
Scooter and Sulu Out
Top-Earning Dead Celebrities
Scientific Revelation: Looks Matter
French Company Fails to Win Smell Trademark
Eavesdropping Gets Easier
Expert Makes Astounding Claim
Rapper Sells His Shooting
From RSS to P2P
Analog TV RIP
CEOs Play Farmworker
Mac-Using Journalists Accused of Bias
Microsoft Aims to Patent RFID Tracking Device
Eastwood's Rashomon
World's Largest WiFi Cloud
Torchwood
Marijuana Boosts Brains
Bush Enlists Soldiers In Public Relations Campaign
Vulture Culture
Save Your Portfolio!
The Right to Wi-Fi
Disasters Real and Imagined
Offshoring Report Censored
Underground Mutton
Google Reader
Ig Noble Prize Winners, 2005
Free Speech Protected
Google Takes the Party Line
Intel Awarded Hardware ID Patent
Apple Granted Patent for Ornamental Synthesizer
The Idea Economy
First-Sale Doctrine Under Assault
Google Offers Free WiFi in San Francisco
Torture Photos
Headlines in Translation
Robotic Landmine Removal
Pong University
Patently Silly
The Magic Kingdom
Radio Clampdown
Ronald McDonald Replaced By Babe
Supernatural Selection
Blogging for Dissidents
State Secrets
Apple Niggles With Nigels
Who Watches the Watchmen? Not You Anymore
After the Flood
9/11 Cover-up
Stinking Bishop Sold Out
Shock the Monkey
Hackers Write Buggy Code Too
Microsoft Wins Injunction Against Google and Kai-Fu Lee
Blessed Is The Cheesemaker
E-mail an Afghan
EBay Phone Home
Power Line Thieves Get Shock of Their Lives
Breath Easier With Worms
Science Shocker: Study Finds Funder's Product Beneficial
Web 2.0 Conference Preview Podcast
"Freedom" Walk to Benefit Irony-Challenged Government
Google Drains More Brains
Change the Administration
Cerf's Up At Google
Labor Arbitrage By Buying Bloggers
Kanye West Plays Moscone West
Yahoo Squeals
Making the Dead Pay
Toddlers Mimic Parents' Smoking
Good Vibrations
Insurgents Kill Collaborators, Then Post Welcome Sign
Tell, Don't Ask
Cruise Ships Bring Refugees New Chance for Sickness
Memorable Headlines
A Terrorist Sitcom
Borrowing People From the Library
Live Long and Adjudicate
RFIDoll
Engines of Privacy Invasion
Chemistry Experiment
James Doohan Beams Up
Reining in the National Weather Service
Leave No Cash Behind
Hard Time
Fly the Fungal Skies
God in the Medicine
Das Loot
Finger Finder Chillin' In Jail
Foul Asleep
Elect a Pope Dot Com
Health Forecasting
A Gesture Interface
Ms. Wheelchair Stands And Loses Title
Brain Chip
Phishing Up and Down
MGM v. Grokster: Report From the Court
Wendy's Gives Customer the Finger
Copying Isn't Just For P2P
Pro-lifer threatens judge's life
Sentenced To Live
We Report, We Decide
Fair And Balanced Propaganda
Germs Travel
Think Secret But Don't Tell
Crowd Control
MGM v. Grokster
Head Like A Hole
Podcasting
Google Movies
All Apple, All The Time
We Take Your Privacy, Very Seriously
Reproducing Robots
The Hawk Who Cried Wolfowitz
Robo Cop
Mission Accomplished
Who's Afraid of the FCC?
Upgrade to Blindness
A Conservative Critique of the Bush Administration
Optimists (and the Tax Averse) Live Longer
Crime minus fine equals profit
Skin Deep
Do Some Evil
Johnny Ramone Bows Out
Gastrobot
Malarketer Banned From Disinfomercials
Back Biting
Snortshots
Sentenced To Advertise
Who Regulates the Regulators?
60 Minutes in the Slammer
Big Database Is Watching
Up Your Trademark
Bush Said...
Bobblehead Gun Control
All Our News That's Fit To Print
The Spam Protection Act
Arnold
New "Reality" Show
Cops Donuts
What Wall?
Million Dollar Bill
Deficit Spending
Doonesbury's Bounty
Papers Please
Tuned Out
Guilt By Association
Spam Solved
Weighing the Tax Burden
Final Notice
Deriding Derrida
Gene Wolfe
Fat of the Land
Reservist Jobs Not Reserved
Pacifist AI
Cyber Coolies
Stoplight
Steve Jobs
The Hobbit
Music Industry Not Guilty But Pays Anyway
Image Is Everything
Kennedy Shocker
George Against George
Futures
CAPTCHA If You Can
Return of the King Trailer
To Market
All Bets Are Off
Blurring the Line
Please Remain Seated
Calling Frank Herbert
Church and State
Pretzels for Bush
Compassionate Conservatism
Suspicious Minds
Johansen Cleared
Deception as Omission
When They Kick at Your Front Door
Froogle
Piracy Is Progressive Taxation
Artificial Stupidity
Support the DMCRA
What Ails China
The Moral Low Ground
You've Got Missiles!
Ma Bell Cheats on You
Winona Ryder Embraces Method Acting
A Better DNS
Wellstone's Plane Crashes
Coat Hanger Trial
Distributed Computing Scores
You've Got Garbage!
Wallace and Gromit
Frozen Zoo
Taiwan Plays Hardball
Reflecting Fires Slashdotted
Calling Jules Verne
Eldred v. Ashcroft
X-Rated Symphony
Tattoo Ban
Dismantling the DMCA
World's Funniest Joke?
Two Towers Trailer
Clueless
Google News
Silence Is Golden and Copyrighted
Sound Off
Free the Mouse
A Request for ACC
Rocking the Boat
Act Now
Download This
Know Your Rights
A Grave Mistake
Tattoo You
Future Criminals
Cutting It Close
Banning the RIAA
The End of Regional Encoding
War on the Public Domain
Embrace, Extend, Cripple, Cash-In
License to Vandalize
World Scam
I Don't Like Mondays
And Then There Was One
Mozilla Strikes Back
Biometric Spoofing
Tinsel Town Club
Linux Undone By Hollywood
Copyleft
Intelligence? What's That?
The Truth Is No Longer Out There
Interview With Ellen Ullman
First Reported Segway Accident
The Next Generation
Sterling Shines
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