Daily Archives: October 29, 2003
Dolphin Slaughter Creates Red Sea in Japan
Fishermen work on a boat filled with freshly caught dolphins while a diver prepares to submerge in the blood-filled water near the fishing town of Taiji in Wakayama Prefecutre in this photo taken Friday, Oct. 6, 2003 by American anti-whaling … Continue reading
Rupert Murdoch Threatens to Sue Own Show
The Simpsons creator Matt Groening says Fox News threatened legal action after an episode of the cartoon poked fun at the channel. The episode, on Fox Entertainment, featured a "Fox News Crawl" at the bottom of the screen, which parodied … Continue reading
Digital Info Explosion Doesn’t Save Trees
NEW YORK (Reuters) – All those e-mails — junk or otherwise — are adding up. In 2002, people around the globe created enough new information to fill 500,000 U.S. Libraries of Congress, according to a study by faculty and students … Continue reading
Feds Grant DMCA Exceptions
The Library of Congress created on Tuesday four narrow exemptions to a controversial digital-piracy statute but faces criticism from free-speech activists, who had hoped for more exceptions. As part of a regular process of reviewing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, … Continue reading
Thoughts on a Rainy Day
Lying on my back on a starry night, counting the uncountable, it seems as though mankind’s noble aspiration to migrate out of the gravity well is bound to succeed, allowing us to assume our rightful place among the pantheon of … Continue reading
Solar Flare Update
Unlike yesterday’s educational diagram, this is an actual photo, from NASA, of the solar flare which is scheduled to reach earth any minute now. While it only takes about 6 minutes for light to get to Earth from the sun, … Continue reading
Dowbrigade for Dummies
True or false — From ”Calculus for Dummies”: Regarding the infinite, if you consider the series 0.1 + 0.01 + 0.001, etc., and if you go out far enough, you’ll find a number with so many zeros to the right … Continue reading