Archive for October 29th, 2003

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Dolphin Slaughter Creates Red Sea in Japan

Fishermen work on a boat filled with freshly caught dolphins while a
diver prepares to submerge in the blood-filled water near the fishing
town of Taiji in Wakayama Prefecutre in this photo taken Friday, Oct.
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Rupert Murdoch Threatens to Sue Own Show

The Simpsons
creator Matt Groening says Fox News threatened legal action after an
episode of the cartoon poked fun at the channel.
The episode, on Fox Entertainment, featured a "Fox News Crawl" at
the [...]

Digital Info Explosion Doesn’t Save Trees

NEW YORK (Reuters) – All those e-mails — junk or otherwise — are
adding up.
In 2002, people around the globe created enough new information to fill
500,000 U.S. Libraries of Congress, according [...]

Feds Grant DMCA Exceptions

The Library of Congress created on Tuesday four narrow exemptions to a controversial digital-piracy statute but faces criticism from free-speech activists, who had hoped for more exceptions.
As part of a regular process of reviewing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, regulators created four new instances in which it is legal to crack digital copyright [...]

Thoughts on a Rainy Day

Lying
on my back on a starry night, counting the uncountable, it seems
as though mankind’s noble aspiration to migrate out of the gravity well
is bound to succeed, allowing us to assume our [...]

Solar Flare Update

Unlike yesterday’s educational diagram, this is an actual photo, from NASA, of the solar flare which is scheduled to reach earth any minute now. While it only takes about 6 minutes for light to get to Earth from the sun, this electromagnetic radiations seems to take a couple of days, which is how long [...]

Dowbrigade for Dummies

True
or false — From ”Calculus for Dummies”: Regarding the infinite, if
you consider the series 0.1 + 0.01 + 0.001, etc., and if you go out far
enough, you’ll find a number with [...]


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