What amazes me is that it's the second time it's been stolen in ten years. It feels like they just recovered it from the first time. Maybe it's the "Scream Movies" that made it so popular. This would be much cooler if the thieves had worn scream masks.

] OSLO, Norway (CNN) -- Armed robbers Sunday stole two
] paintings by Edvard Munch, including "The Scream," as
] aghast museum-goers watched.
]
] Authorities found the getaway car and the frames that the
] paintings had been held in, and are using video footage
] of the robbery in an effort to track down the thieves,
] police said.

While I truly hate this painting, it sucks for the museum to lose such a large exibit.

Armed robbers steal 'The Scream'

] TypeKey helps ensure that people who comment on a site
] have a verified identity, keeping conversations on track
] and helping to prevent abusive or offensive content
] (comment spam) from being posted.

Moveable Type's solution to comment spam was to build their own version of Microsoft Passport.

1. One wonders why they didn't just use Microsoft Passport.

2. I predict that because most net users have the IQ of a rock they won't understand that this is exactly the same as Microsoft Passport. Furthermore, they will think its a "great idea" and wonder why no one did it before. They won't be at all concerned about the privacy of their data because its not the architecture of the system that is important but who made it that matters.

3. TypeKey currently doesn't share information about how to interoperate with their system. They hint that people will have to pay them money in order to interoperate. Depending on the costs associated with that they may or may not expand this little service outside of the world of their own software. They are unlikely to get this right.

4. It will be interesting to see how their system actually works. If they developed a good enough protocol an open source typekey system would enable people to run their own identity servers that are compatible with moveable type. Its easy to mis-design a system like this so that it doesn't really work well for such a purpose.

5. There is a remote possibility that if the protocol is right, the money is right, and MT's perception in the user community is right that this could become the way that everyone shares authentication information on the internet. Its unlikely, and it won't happen in way that MT likes (they'll loose control). But its possible.

TypeKey

] Asked why she felt she was marked down by the judges,
] Khorkina said: "You better ask them. I think
] it's because I'm from Russia, not from
] America!"

MSNBC - Khorkina says %u2018judges robbed me%u2019

] McCain, sitting next to Bush, says that when "fringe
] veterans groups" attacked him at a Bush campaign
] function, Bush stood by and didn't say a word. McCain
] says a group of senators wrote Bush a letter that said:
] "Apologize. You should be ashamed."

Yahoo! News - Kerry Urges Bush to End Vietnam Attacks

] You start by creating a workspace and creating notes in
] the workspace. You can save your workspace at any time
] and return to them from the same computer or any other
] computer. You can also share your notes with others by
] providing the workspace name (or url) to a friend.

Webnote - an online tool for taking notes

] According to an article in EcommerceTimes, Microsoft is
] trying to migrate Office from a product to an online
] service with a focus on automating collaborative work.
] Quote: 'Making collaboration faster, easier and more
] efficient will be the next revolution in worker
] productivity, and we want to be in the forefront,' said
] Peter Rinearson, vice president for new business
] development in Microsoft's information worker group

Slashdot | Microsoft Renovates Office Suite as a Web Service

] The U.S. men's basketball team endured another brutal
] loss. But because Angola is playing even worse than the
] Americans, they're in the quarterfinals of the Athens
] Games.

Yahoo! News - Dream Team Loses Again, but Still Advances

] MobiTV is billed as the first streaming service to
] broadcast real-time video to cell phones. Offered by
] Sprint, it costs an additional $9.99 monthly, is adding
] new channels, and supports various handsets. My phone
] features 21 channels, some of them typical broadcast
] channels like Fox Sports and MSNBC, while others are
] designed for the mobile environment, such as NBC Mobile.
] What's it like to watch TV on a cell phone? The TV junkie
] in me says it's great. I really like the idea that I can
] pull my cell phone out of my pocket and catch up with the
] latest news and sports scores in an instant. Read on at
] MSN.

Slashdot | Television On Your Cell Phone

road runner racing club info

New York Road Runners

Good tech site.

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