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LifestreamABC: Rumsfeld bans camera phones in Iraq
Mobile phones fitted with digital cameras have been banned in United States Army installations in Iraq on orders from Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, The Business newspaper reported on Sunday.
Quoting a Pentagon source, the paper said the US Defence Department believes that some of the damning photos of US [...]
Archive for May, 2004
I really should turn this into a static section since it reflects what I really do with my time. That is, acquiring new albums and wading through the everlasting onslaught of music. Here is a crop selection of the last week or so, accompanied with a few enlightening comments of sorts …
It’s easy to make [...]
It has been one of those weeks …
I’m a big consumer of Leukoplast Zinc Oxide Adhesive Tape. It’s one of the top four things I get from the local pharmacy together with pH regulating gum, multivitamin pills and caffein.
Now, the real question here is why I use so much Leukoplast in the first place. I [...]
BBC: Anti-Bush film wins Cannes prize
Director Michael Moore’s controversial anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 has won the prestigious Palme d’Or best film award at the Cannes festival.
It was the first documentary to win the top prize since Jacques Cousteau’s The Silent World in 1956.
This will be unpopular with certain people in the US I am sure. [...]
BBC News has created a guide to the wars that are being waged on our planet at the moment. At any given time there are over a dozen conflicts that scar the earth and shame our species.
Every minute, two people are killed in conflicts around the world. Often very little is known about the people [...]
BBC News: Analysis: Rise and fall of Chalabi
Just over a year ago, when US-led forces overthrew the Saddam Hussein government, Ahmed Chalabi was America’s best-known Iraqi ally.
He was, to be sure, controversial. Many in the State Department and the CIA were wary of him - unconvinced he always told the truth or had a [...]
The Register: Italy approves ‘jail for P2P users’ law
Italy has made transferring content via the Internet without the permission of the copyright holder a criminal offence
The Italian parliament yesterday voted in favour of imposing jail sentences of up to three years on anyone caught uploading or downloading unauthorised copyright material to and from the Net.
Those [...]
Follow-up to #934 “Hiking with a C-Leg”.
It has now been almost 60 days since Scott ‘One-Leg’ Rogers set out on his mission to walk the Appalachian Trail.
Put simply, the technology was not up to the task, but Scott seems to be struggling on anyway. Hopefully this will help, in some small way, to advance prosthetic [...]
While scavenging the wired for information on aggressive behavior and computer simulations I came across this rather fascinating article by Julian Stallabrass of the Courtauld Institute of Art.
For many people, computer games represent the apogee of the mindlessness and violence of commercial mass culture. For Henry Jenkins, professor of comparative media studies at MIT, they [...]
Tech of the week: Charge and Go.
A 2000mAh NiMH AA battery that charges in 15 minutes or less. Might be something for impatient digital camera owners. Too bad they have to be recharged using the Varta base unit only. Haven’t seen any of them on sale yet either. Kind of curious to see how much [...]
