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Judge Throws Out Cell-Phone Case
A federal magistrate drops charges against three Palestinian-American men who were arrested after buying large numbers of pre-paid cell phones. The judge said there wasn't enough evidence to bring them to trial. Lawyers for the men said they were victims of ethnic profiling. From Wired News on September 5, 2006 at 10:45 p.m..

FDA Approves Hearts Devices
A Massachusetts company gets a humanitarian exemption to sell gadgets that act like an artificial heart, but don't last as long. They are only approved for patients close to death. From Wired News on September 5, 2006 at 9:45 p.m..

iTunes Plays Hard to Get
Sex podcasters have an on-again, off-again relationship with Apple as a distributor. In Sex Drive Daily. From Wired News on September 5, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Web Workers Unite
Pajama-clad telecommuters and coffee shop CEOs get their own online community -- a new site for the nomadic Web 2.0 worker launches. In Monkey Bites. From Wired News on September 5, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

Film gives freshmen a first lesson
Some colleges are promoting film discussions, rather than reading analysis, for new student orientation. Christian Science Monitor | Learning on September 5, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

More Questions on Stem Cell Paper
Stem cell researchers continue to question Advanced Cell Technology scientists on their increasingly contested paper published recently in Nature.. In Bodyhack. From Wired News on September 5, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Price Motivates Triple-Play Subscribers
Price is key to the bundling of communications services. From ClickZ Stats on September 5, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Craig Cline, RIP
I met Craig in the mid-1980s when I worked at Interleaf and the Seybold Seminars was our major industry event. Craig was knowledgeable, helpful, honest and friendly. He died way too young, leaving a wife and six children. Tim Bray shares some good memories of Craig.... From Joho the Blog on September 5, 2006 at 5:48 p.m..

Intel Layoffs Could Be Huge
The chipmaker is ready to make its deepest payroll cut since the 1980s. Around 10,000 people are expected to lose their jobs, although one analyst expects it to be even worse. From Wired News on September 5, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Nokia's 8800 Sirocco Edition
The premium mobile phone features sounds by Brian Eno. In Gear Factor. From Wired News on September 5, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

Stephen Downes - Learning objects - what are they good for? - Skypecast
Greetings from Africa. With my website and email having been down the last few days, and of course with my flight to South Africa, I am needless to say way behind on things. Oh, and very tired. Today I completed a preconference workshop, and tomorrow morning I give a keynote address. I will have files to upload soon, but for now the outline is in my wiki at Jotspot. One of the highlights was the World Premiere of my video, Bogota, which will be online soon. But even better, we successfully ran a Skypecast from the workshop (my From OLDaily on September 5, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

The essence of cooking
Everything Is Miscellaneous is in some ways — but not ways that we'll talk about publicly because we want to sell some copies — about the thorough death of Essentialism, the ancient (and continuing) idea that some special (and possibly eternal) property of a thing defines it. Essentialism has the advantage that it enables taxonomies: If the essence of a screw is that it's threaded with a slot at the top (but the exact width of the threads is not essential), then it's clear what property you're going to use to place screws in your Taxonomy of Things. Essentialism From Joho the Blog on September 5, 2006 at 2:47 p.m..

Online? The Shorter, the Better
Although full-length movies are becoming increasingly available for download, relatively few internet users are jumping at the opportunity, a new poll finds. From Wired News on September 5, 2006 at 1:46 p.m..

Teen Drivers Back to School
One in eight teen drivers will have an auto accident during the year, so now is a good time to go to an accident avoidance class.. In Autopia. From Wired News on September 5, 2006 at 12:45 p.m..

WTC: The religious event and the movie
Jonathan Mahler, in a NY Times review of Joel Meyerowitz's book of photos of the World Trade Center clean-up, joins the congregants at the church of the WTC, saying of the workers: "...they are reclaiming this hallowed ground, making it possible once again to imagine a future there." The attack on the World Trade Center was a despicable act of mass murder. As is true for too many of us, people I know lost loved ones there. But those deaths did not make the ground sacred. There's something dangerous and unseemly about referring to it as such: Unseemly because it... From Joho the Blog on September 5, 2006 at 9:50 a.m..

NYT: Music Fans Turning to Each Other, Away From Traditional Gatekeepers
In an article covering Pandora, MusicStrands, and other novel recommendation tools, the NYT writes: "All told, music consumers are increasingly turning away from the traditional gatekeepers and looking instead to one another to fellow fans, even those theyve never met to guide their choices."Nicely put.A Copyfighter's Musings on September 5, 2006 at 9:49 a.m..

What's the use of Dublin Core?
Adriaan M. Bloem asks the interesting question: what's the use of Dublin Core? To quote: While designing a new CMS implementation we wanted to really get it right. That meant outputting strict xhtml, css formatting, trying to adhere to accessibility... From Column Two on September 5, 2006 at 9:48 a.m..

Plone 2.5
There is a new version of Plone out for some weeks now as well as a roadmap for future releases. The homepage of plone.org has also been redesigner to emphasize the key selling arguments of the Plone CMS. I have seen in the "inner workings" of a number of content management systems. I think Plone is one of the highlights in terms of the beauty of its technical design. There is alot one can learn from Plone conceptually.Related: From owrede_log on September 5, 2006 at 9:48 a.m..

WebnoteHappy
WebnoteHappy is a nifty little application that makes life with bookmarks (both in browser and on del.icio.us) much easier. It is a $25 dollar shareware with a 30 day free trial. More generally thinking I asked myself how many people actually do Paypal donations on "donationware"? Would these little applications make a better profit From owrede_log on September 5, 2006 at 9:48 a.m..

Links for 2006-09-04 [del.icio.us]
ACE - a collaborative editor ACE is a platform-independent, collaborative text editor. It is a real-time cooperative editing system that allows multiple geographically dispersed users to view and edit a shared text document at the same time. Renew US--Make Climate Change History ONLamp.com -- Hierarchical SQL There are many different ways to represent trees in SQL and t From owrede_log on September 5, 2006 at 9:48 a.m..

SUV Loopholes Cost Billions
The tax code allows $1300 or more in incentives to buy SUVs, but one Congressman wants to close that loophole. In Autopia. From Wired News on September 5, 2006 at 9:46 a.m..

Finally, a Sirius IPod Threat
Zing lets satellite subscribers connect wirelessly to music programming via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Apple and Microsoft take note. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk. From Wired News on September 5, 2006 at 9:46 a.m..

Cracking the Vivaldi Code
Can a computer program generate new works from long dead legends? By Douglas McGray from Wired magazine. From Wired News on September 5, 2006 at 9:46 a.m..

Vermonters Fight Towers of Power
As the state seeks to replace aging power sources with clean energy plans, wind-power developers fear Vermont's rural aesthetic is too strong to allow towers atop mountain ridges. Folks just don't want to spoil the view. From Wired News on September 5, 2006 at 9:46 a.m..

Security Tech Booms Post-9/11
Established security players profit from the rush to look for bad things in luggage and spot faces of evil-doers in crowds -- without real technology breakthroughs. But some little guys with the right products may get in on the homeland-security market, as well. From Wired News on September 5, 2006 at 9:46 a.m..

Gallery: Steam Robots
Falling under the rubric of functional hacker art, these steam robots are mechanically and aesthetically elegant. From Wired News on September 5, 2006 at 9:46 a.m..

Steam Dream Machines
Game animator I-Wei Huang is getting rave reviews for his steam-powered robots. How does he hack RC kits with steam engines? And will he ever make a rideable robot? By Griffin Wright. From Wired News on September 5, 2006 at 9:46 a.m..

Bombers ... In Spaaaaace!
If the military realizes its vision, the next space shuttle may be a real killer. By John Lasker. From Wired News on September 5, 2006 at 9:46 a.m..

In Praise of the Pro
My new Mac Pro is a badass computer; but how many cycles do I need to print pictures of my kids? Commentary by Leander Kahney. From Wired News on September 5, 2006 at 9:46 a.m..

Funny Phone: Is This a Joke?
In the mobile-phone broadcasting arena, all bets are off. Amateurs, like the producer of Laugh Rocket's joke-of-the-day videos for cell phones, may just find the next killer app. By Tom McNichol from Wired magazine. From Wired News on September 5, 2006 at 9:46 a.m..

Spam + Blogs = Trouble
Splogs are the latest thing in online scams -- and they could smother the internet like a pestilence. By Charles C. Mann from Wired magazine. From Wired News on September 5, 2006 at 9:46 a.m..

University Enjoys a Renaissance After 90s Strife
The enrollment at Adelphi University on Long Island has surged since a scandal roiled its campus and ousted its president a decade ago. From New York Times: Education on September 5, 2006 at 9:45 a.m..

Many Entry-Level Workers Find a Rough Market
Young people face a choppy job market, making it hard to cope with high housing costs and rising college debt. From New York Times: Education on September 5, 2006 at 9:45 a.m..

Back to School in a System Being Remade
Reforms allow principals to have greater authority over their budgets, staff and instruction, without answering to a superintendent. From New York Times: Education on September 5, 2006 at 9:45 a.m..

Swiss Army applications
I am an exploration junkie. I have tried countless software downloads. My websites are continuously morphing, oozing around like a light show at the Fillmore. I am torn between wasting time with yet another way to do the same old stuff and missing something very cool because I‘ve habituated to the rut I am [...] From Internet Time Blog on September 5, 2006 at 9:45 a.m..