Fight For Your Right to Wave Glow Sticks: ACLU Wins Victory in New Orleans Rave Case

BBC: Iranian film director Tahmineh Milani under arrest as 'counter-revolutionary'

Introducing... Windows RG! As seen on the pitiless Cruel Site of the Day.

Must read: "How to Build a Mind", by Igor Aleksander of the Neuromodelling Research Team in the Intelligent Interactive Systems Group in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department of the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

Eating Blackberries May Prevent Esophageal Cancer

Far beyond Cafe Odyssey and the Rainforest Cafe there lies... Mars 2112

Massachusetts NARAL News: NARAL endorses CHERYL JACQUES for U.S. Congress. Vote for Cheryl Jacques in the 9th Congressional District Democratic Primary on September 11.

Slimy: SOAP -- Squeaky clean: REST and WEBDAVFS. As seen on Need To Know.

Mark my calendar: Fourth international conference on the Unified Modeling Language: UML 2001 -- "Modeling Languages, Concepts and Tools" -- October 1-5, 2001, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Must read:

• Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, by Lee Smolin
• The Elegant Universe, by Brian Greene
• Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills, by Cynthia Gibas and Per Jambeck
• Bioinformatics Basics: Applications in Biological Science and Medicine, by Hooman H. Rashidi, Lukas K. Buehler
• Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future of Food, by Daniel Charles

Tired: HTML + Java(Script) -- Wired: Curl 'n Surge!

The Theory Formerly Known as Strings, by Michael J. Duff

ABCNEWS.com : Afghan Women Reach Out Via Web

Anybody recognize this?

001 AAGCGCATCA TGCTGGGAAA TTTTAGCGAG ATTATAAGTA TCTTCCTGGG GATCTCTGCT
061 GTTACTGGTG AATAGTGAGA CAGAGTCTTC TGAGCTCATA GGATAAAATA AATTATAATT
121 AGTAAATTTT TTAATTAAAT AAATCAATTA CTTCATAAAT AATTTTTTTT ATAGAATATG
181 TTGACATTCT AGCCGGATAT AGAACTAATG TAAAGAAACC TTAAAAATTT TGTTTGGAAG
241 AATATGTTAT TGAAAGACAA ATCTAATTAA GTTTATCAGG GTCATTTGTT GAAGATAGGA
301 AACCTTCAGC AATTTGAATA TTAAGTAACT GCTTCTCCCA GAATGATCGG AGTTTCTCCT
361 CCTGCTATTA CATGAGCAAA AATAAAAAAT AAATAAAAGA TAAGATTAAG CTTCAACATG
421 TGAAGGAGTA GTACACTCAC CAGTGACCCT AATAGGCAAC AGCATGAAAA AAAATAAAAA
481 AGAATAAAAA TAGCATCTAC ATATAGCTTC TCGTTGTTAG AAAAACAAAA CTAT

If so, contact Dr. Janet Cotter-Howells at Greenpeace.

Gotta love those ultra-dynamic Flash-based menus at the I-Logix site... if you can stand the wait while they load...

Looks like maybe some of our most cherished physical constants... aren't.

Yet another reason why, no matter how smart the power grid gets, the future belongs to micropower.

David Brock recants! Tony Mauro counter-spins furiously!

From an article on Brain Pacemakers in MIT Technology Review:

In the more distant future, laboratory research suggests that [brain] pacemakers may even have a role in controlling behavioral disorders, such as obesity, anorexia and addiction.

Kashmir women face acid attacks: "Talibanization" begins.

Here's a story you probably won't find in the in-flight magazine on your next plane trip. And here's another.

Tired: factory workers replaced by robots -- Wired: commodities traders replaced by software-based robotic trading agents.

CBS: U.K. libel suit hits U.S. website: Barrick Gold forces investigative journalist offline. The article in question, "Best Democracy Money Can Buy", by Greg Palast, is mirrored at Cryptome and Online Journal.

"Adios, First Amendment", by Molly Ivins -- on the cases of Vanessa Leggett (imprisoned freedom-of-press refusenik), and Brian Dalton (imprisoned thoughtcriminal).

BBC Staff Are Told Not To Call Israeli Killings 'Assassination'

From http://www.thetimes.co.uk:

A Japanese toymaker has the answer for dog-owners puzzled by their pets' bark - the Bowlingual. The device deciphers growls and yelps into six feelings - alarm, frustration, self-expression, happiness, sadness and desire - that appear on a monitor as one of 200 phrases, such as "I can't stand it", and "How boring". Takara Co's spokeswoman, Yoko Watanabe, says the handheld Bowlingual, which is smaller than a credit card, "offers a way of communicating with a living thing, an animal that's part of our everyday lives".

But can it distinguish between a giggle, chuckle and titter?? Better ask an expert.

Duluth News Tribune: Unidentified floating objects in Lake Superior "aren't fish eggs", say biologists. Not Earth fish, anyway...
UPDATE: no cause for alarm, citizens; just a mild case of Holopedium gibberum.

Boston Globe: Funding shortfall for AIDS activist Belynda Dunn of Dorchester.
Anyone wishing to donate to the Life Fund can send money in care of the AIDS Action Committee, 131 Clarendon St., Boston, MA 02116. Call 617-450-1111.
You can also contact Neighborhood Health Plan, an affiliate of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, to let them know what you think about their decision to decline coverage for Dunn's liver transplant.

Tired: Agent Scully -- Wired: Agent Lawless

Ladies and gentlemen! Put your fronds together for...... BERTIE THE BEET!!

Tired: Java Virtual Machine (JVM) -- Wired: K Virtual Machine (KVM). Could this be an oblique reference to those intrepid Men in Black? Sun Microsystems claims otherwise, but of course they would...

Beware the basilisk! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.