RIAA vs. Verizon - The Circuit Court of Appeals Trims the RIAA’s DMCA Wings - There was a case decided on Friday by a federal appeals court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, that is so significant in its implications, at least to my reading, that I thought it worthwhile [...]
Ms. Schultz,
My wife and I were reading the paper together when we saw a syndicated copy of your column titled “Morning after pill brings ad new day.” As someone who after some careful thought generally supports the idea of the morning after pill being made an over the counter medication (as long as the [...]
A “special advertising section” of the Star Ledger Tue 12/16 had an article titled Gift card has redeeming value written by ‘Andrea Frucci - Marketing Staff.’ Ms. Frucci tries to paint the gift card as a win-win situation for people looking to buy gifts, less work for you, and then your recipients get to [...]
Take that fruitcake and mail it. To Buffalo - BUFFALO, N.Y. — Competitive eaters will sink their teeth into the nation’s unwanted fruitcakes in a contest that blurs the line between public service and public spectacle. Buffalo and the International Federation of Competitive Eating yesterday announced their two-part answer to the question of what [...]
The proposal for a 1776 foot tower was unveiled yesterday. I’m not quite sure how to interpret it, though they have said that the design is still open to revision, but could be built as soon as 2008.
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p. The Fleet Bank Website posted this photo for their holiday toy drive, but I think it looks more like a teddy getting eaten by an ATM.
The BBC Story states:
Israel will take unilateral steps to separate from the Palestinians unless there is progress on the roadmap peace plan, Ariel Sharon has warned.
These would include the dismantling of settler outposts and accelerating the building of the controversial security barrier in the West Bank, he said.
The Palestinian Prime Minister has responded stating [...]
Mark Pilgrim wrote up Hilbert’s Hotel an example of using a diagonal argument that uses the metaphor of an infinite hotel to discuss the difference between countable and uncountable infinite quantities (e.g. the fact that the Real numbers is a “bigger” infinity than the Natural numbers). Interesting reading.
Jacques Chirac has declared that France ‘must outlaw Islamic head coverings, Jewish skullcaps, and other obvious religions signs in schools and regulate them in the workplace.’ according to the Star-Ledger.
A ban on wearing conspicuous religious insignia such as head scarves, large crucifixes or Jewish skullcaps in public schools will likely be in place by the [...]
The Star-Ledger covered a note about a Latvian man who was picked up with a blood-alcohol level of 7.22 PPM, approximately twice the level at which most people stop breathing (4.0). Even better was the hospital’s emergency ward head who ‘told reporters there was no record of anybody having survived such a dose, even [...]
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