links for 2006-09-21
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THINK DRM WAS bad already? Think I was joking when I said the plan was to start with barely tolerable incursions on your rights, then turn the thumbscrews? Welcome to Windows Media Player 11, and the rights get chipped away a lot more. Get used to the fee
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These are edgy times at the Washington Times.
Still one of the most important right-wing organs in the nation, the paper has a circulation base of around 100,000. According to a source close to senior management, in the past two decades it has burned th -
But the human need to exact blood has a greater force than the human desire to do right. We are sadistic animals and want an excuse to tear something living apart.
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I n mid-August of 1974, Gerald Ford had to name a Vice President. His search narrowed to three finalists
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The Bush administration had to empty its secret prisons and transfer terror suspects to the military-run detention centre at Guantánamo this month in part because CIA interrogators had refused to carry out further interrogations and run the secret facili
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SACRAMENTO — The state of California sued the country’s largest automobile manufacturers Wednesday, seeking billions of dollars for environmental damage caused by tailpipe emissions.
It was the state’s latest effort to combat the effects of greenhous
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Daily life requires that people cope with distracting emotions–from the basketball player who must make a crucial shot amidst a screaming crowd, to a salesman under pressure delivering an important pitch to a client.
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The discovery is scientifically invaluable for understanding the origin of galaxies, considering that just a decade ago early galaxy formation was largely uncharted territory. Astronomers had not seen even one galaxy that existed when the Universe was a b
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The average temperature of the water near the top of the Earth’s oceans has significantly cooled since 2003. New research suggests global warming trends are not always steady in their effects on ocean temperatures.
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At last astronomers have a method to accurately measure the speed of stars within a galaxy containing a black hole. Dutch researcher Alessia Gualandris developed the algorithm for this in cooperation with the Astronomical Institute “Anton Pannekoek” and t
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The United States threatened to bomb Pakistan “back to the stone age” unless it joined the fight against al-Qaeda, President Pervez Musharraf says.
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