Archive for July 28th, 2003

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Christopher Lydon: The Nature of Sound

Can sound be usefully incorporated into the blogging format? That is the question
being explored by Christopher Lydon, eminent radio personality, in his blog,
appropriately called Christopher
Lydon. The blog consists largely of annotated
streaming oral interviews with such blogging luminaries as David
Sifry (most
recently), Doc
Searls, [...]

Million Dollar Robot Race

Teams are preparing for the DARPA Desert Challenge, a
robot race with a milliondollar prize. Put simply, the Defense Advanced
Research Project Agency (DARPA) will give
$1 million
[...]

Flasher’s Rig Recognized in Sharon

WALPOLE — A North Carolina trucker charged with exposing
himself to three Walpole 9-year-old girls in a local Stop & Shop
Saturday was arrested at a Sharon motel yesterday after a police officer
recognized
[...]

Experts Urge Strong Education Not Trade Barriers

The New York Times technology section has an article which argues that we should not try to stop the exodus of manufacturing jobs overseas. It makes the argument that this movement makes US businesses more profitable at home. Rather, we should try to educate the labor force thus “freed up” to take advantage of [...]

US Firm to Buy Soyuz for Tourism

MOSCOW (AFP) – US firm Space Adventures is
interested in buying a Russian Soyuz space craft to make tourist flights
to the International Space Station, ITAR-TASS
said Saturday. The Arlington, Virgina-based firm brokered
[...]

8 Questions that Freak Men Out

See how many of the eight you can guess before reading
the article.  Hint: "Was that your thing?" is not on the list.
from Netscape


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