Karlheinz Stockhausen Dies
The BBC reports that German avant-garde electronic composer Karlheinz Stockhausen has passed away at 79. Stockhausen pioneered the use...
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The BBC on UK Plan to Lay Broadband Fiber in Sewers
BBC Technology’s Jane Wakefield reports on a plan to build a UK broadband network using the sewers: H20 networks...
RIAA, Music Industry Show How to do Everything Wrong
Over at Ars Technica, Eric Bangeman reports that a judge has ordered record labels to cough up actual figures...
Video of MS Explorer Sinking in the Antarctic
National Geographic has some amazing video here (embedded video auto-start alert) of the sinking of the cruise ship MS...
Making Libraries Unsafe At Any Speed
Over at Science Blogs, there is a terrific post in reaction to a Canadian school board’s decision to remove...
8 Foot Long Scorpion Discovered
In Germany, in a quarry; an ancient find. No wonder there were crazy creatures in myths; the Romans and...
Boot Camp For “Web Addiction”
Proving there’s a market for everything, or one culture’s creative + capitalist channel is another culture’s evil dark parable...
The Horror! The Horror! Beer Prices Set To Rise!
I wish this was a joke — instead, it’s a cruel joke from the universe. Stockpile, ration and prepare...
Paralyzed Man’s Thoughts “Read”
The BBC reports on an experiment in which the thoughts of Eric Ramsay, who is conscious but paralyzed following...
AT&T Worker Whistleblows On San Franciso NSA Spying
Maybe I’m late to this, but I just read this news item about a (former) San Francisco AT&T worker...