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Posted in Technology on Jul 31st, 2003
Press Release: Ritz Camera Centers, the largest retail camera and photo chain in the United States, today announced the nationwide launch of the Dakota Digital Single-Use Camera at select Ritz Camera and Wolf Camera locations. The cameras, a first to offer consumers a high-quality, fully digital experience at a single-use price, will sell for $10.99 [...]
Posted in Political, Technology on Jul 31st, 2003
(Wired News) While no one has sympathy for the devils that fill inboxes with promises of lower mortgages and larger members, not everyone is supporting the new movement to banish spammers from the Internet. Some online advocates worry that heavy-handed antispam measures, such as centralized blacklists and charging for delivery, will destroy e-mail. Electronic Frontier [...]
Posted in News on Jul 31st, 2003
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (Reuters) — Oh heck. You can’t drive on the Devil’s highway in New Mexico anymore. Route 666, often referred to by locals as the “Highway to Hell” or “Satan’s Highway” was formally re-christened Route 491 Wednesday. Several prominent voices wanted new numbers for one of the state’s deadliest roads that lacked associations [...]
Posted in Gaming on Jul 29th, 2003
Atlanta, GA; July 26, 2003 — After 12 years of buildup, White Wolf Publishing is bringing its award-winning World of Darkness to a climactic end in an unprecedented series of game supplements and tie-in novels. This is the Time of Judgment. More Information
Posted in Technology on Jul 29th, 2003
Kudos to Fastrat for passing this bit of technolust my way. GPS-Integrated FRS/GMRS Radio
The Rino 120 is state-of-the-art GPS navigation and two-way communications combined, with enough memory to download detailed mapping for driving, hiking, hunting, fishing—or just about anything else you can dream up.
It’s waterproof and can “beam” your exact location to another Rino [...]
Posted in Technology on Jul 29th, 2003
(Wired News) A young man crouches, staring intently into a small camera about 10 feet in front of him, hands balled into fists hovering at chest level. Overhead, his image flickers on a television screen as cartoon characters leap from a series of footbridges. He swings his hands in a circular motion, waxing on and [...]
Posted in Science on Jul 29th, 2003
(New Scientist) Some cigarettes have a “kick” containing 35 times more “freebase” nicotine – the most addictive form – than others, researchers have found. The findings could help rate the addictiveness of different brands, they say.
“Free-base” nicotine is a particularly potent form of the naturally-occurring tobacco drug because it is in an extremely volatile, uncombined [...]
Posted in Technology on Jul 27th, 2003
SEATTLE — A group in China released a program Friday that lets hackers exploit a flaw in Microsoft software and take over a victim’s computer over the Internet. The program, released nine days after Microsoft announced the flaw, has turned an embarrassment for the company and inconvenience for customers into a near-emergency. The program, [...]
Posted in News on Jul 27th, 2003
BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) — A giant catfish that ate a dog and terrorized a German lake for years has washed up dead, but the legend of “Kuno the Killer” lives on.
A gardener discovered the carcass of a 1.5-meter (five-foot) long catfish weighing 35 kilos (77 lbs) this week, a spokesman for the western city of [...]
Posted in Political on Jul 24th, 2003
Europe wants to be the other superpower. There are just four problems. by Bruce Sterling
In April, while the US was loudly conquering Iraq, the world’s weirdest empire quietly swallowed 10 countries. In the ancient shadow of the Acropolis, the European Union expanded from 15 nations to 25, opening its gates to the Czech Republic, [...]
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