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LifestreamTime Magazine has once again charted what they feel to be the best inventions of the last year. Exciting stuff but … The top lists are starting early this year. Kind of like Xmas shopping. Yearly top lists have become quite the ritual in this temporally fixated society.
Archive for November, 2005
Not so unlike Monsanto’s use of bovine growth hormone (Posilac) on the North American continent. Hopefully this is contained to America as well.
MSNBC - DuPont Co. hid studies showing the risks of a Teflon-related chemical used to line candy wrappers, pizza boxes, microwave popcorn bags and hundreds of other food containers, according to internal company [...]
Looks like it. And the new “Internet Governance Forum” is a mere shadow of what it should have been. Maybe I need a crash course in democracy but last time I checked, practically the whole world vs. America doesn’t require any negotiation.
Wired - Negotiators working late into the night Tuesday shook hands on a deal [...]
Awfully predictable. It is telling that an exhibit that is supposedly documenting Sweden during WWII is entitled “Sweden and the Holocaust.”
The Local - A new exhibition in Sweden - officially neutral in World War II - displays documentary evidence of war-time medical experiments, commerce with the Nazis and indifference to the plight of Jews.
“Our main [...]
Better late than never. An apt commentary by Noam Chomsky on “Intelligent Design.”
Khaleej Times - Unlike Intelligent Design, for which the evidence is zero, malignant design has tons of empirical evidence, much more than Darwinian evolution, by some criteria: the world’s cruelty. Be that as it may, the background of the current evolution/intelligent design controversy [...]
The MPAA have really done it this time.
MPAA via Boing Boing - PIRATED DISCS, DVDS BECOMING “THE NEW DRUG ON THE STREET”
WASHINGTON — A fatal car chase on November 10 between a convicted felon in Virginia wanted by authorities on several criminal charges including cocaine possession yielded hundreds of pirated CDs and DVDs in the [...]
And Sweden has the questionable honor of being smack at the center of attention.
Reuters via CNet - The International Federation for the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) said it was launching 2,100 legal cases and extending the action to five new countries in Europe, Asia and, for the first time, South America.
It said file-sharers in Sweden, Switzerland, [...]
Abusters is once again busy organizing the Buy Nothing Day.
For 24 hours, millions of people around the world do not participate — in the doomsday economy, the marketing mind-games, and the frantic consumer-binge that’s become our culture. We pause. We make a small choice not to shop. We shrink our footprint and gain some calm. [...]
Don’t know how fresh this article is but I hadn’t seen it before so it goes on the board. The data is no older than a year nevertheless.
Economist via AA - Since 1979, median family incomes have risen by 18% but the incomes of the top 1% have gone up by 200%. In 1970, according [...]
Not quite there yet, but close.
DAEMON TOOLS - As we already heard from our customers, it fixes indeed most or even all blacklists - however, it is STILL a SCSI-Emulator, therefore it’s still necessary to remove present IDE-Drives!
- NO IDE-Jammer atm - we are working on it! No ETA for it - it’s done
when it’s [...]
