Archive for September 19th, 2003

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Careful With That Patch, Eugene

A new mass-mailing virus masquerading as
a security patch from Microsoft is on the loose and
anti-virus experts say it has the ability to steal account information
[...]

Ugliest Couch in America

NEW YORK, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire/ — Sure Fit
Inc. announced the winner of its ninth annual Ugly Couch Contest today,
which was chosen by a live studio audience this morning on "Live
[...]

Who Knew General Motors Did Frankenfood?

 

   

       
   
   

NEW
YORK  - US consumers are less informed than they were two years
ago about genetically modified (GM)  foods and their opinions
about safety remain divided, according to a survey.         A
survey by the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology, a GM research group in Washington DC, found that 34
percent of survey respondents said they had [...]

Happy

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We
Mac users rarely get to feel jealous of our Wintel colleagues, but are
big enough to admit it when we do. Up until about ten minutes ago my
giddy exuberance over
blogging was naggingly tempered by the inability of my browser of
choice (Safari) to utilze or even display the extremely
cool  formatting pallette
which appears above the [...]

House Passes New Internet No-Tax Bill

WASHINGTON — Connections to the Internet would remain tax-free under a bill the House passed Wednesday. The legislation, passed with bipartisan support, makes permanent a ban on taxing Internet connections. A temporary ban on the taxes, first enacted in 1998, runs out on Nov. 1.
New language clarifies that all types of Internet access — ranging [...]

Beserk 1,545 Pound Rats Found in South America

Scientists
have found fossils of what they say is the largest rodent that ever lived,
a nine-foot-long, buffalo-sized creature with a long tail and powerful
teeth that foraged along the riverbanks of Venezuela about [...]

The Naked Face of Art

Naked bodies are the canvases in new exhibition
An art exhibition featuring pictures painted on naked
bodies instead of canvases has opened in Chile.
The Party of the Body exhibition features thousands of
pictures of [...]

The Amazing Multitasking Brain

As I sat
the other night blogging, writing brief posts in between paying bills
and correcting student essays, with a baseball game on the potable TV
with the sound turned down and the legendary [...]


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