] Goodbye "e-mail", the French government says, and hello
] "courriel" -- the term that linguistically sensitive
] France is now using to refer to electronic mail in
] official documents.
]
] The Culture Ministry has announced a ban on the use of
] "e-mail" in all government ministries, documents,
] publications or Web sites, the latest step to stem an
] incursion of English words into the French lexicon.
]
] The ministry's General Commission on Terminology and
] Neology insists Internet surfers in France are broadly
] using the term "courrier electronique" (electronic mail)
] instead of e-mail -- a claim some industry experts
] dispute. "Courriel" is a fusion of the two words.
]
] "Evocative, with a very French sound, the word 'courriel'
] is broadly used in the press and competes advantageously
] with the borrowed 'mail' in English," the commission has
] ruled.

I'm told "computer" is a banned word as well. France really IS the butt hole of the western world.

Laughing Boy

France bans 'e-mail' from vocabulary

Cafe Press now sells books. Fairly cheap too when you consider how much kinkos charges for this. You no longer need a book publisher as long as you can market yourself.

Publish books for Free

The U.S. Chess Federation picked the Cumberland Plateau city over 29 others, including Atlanta, Dallas, Indianapolis, Lexington, Ky; Louisville, Ky.; Newark, N.J; Portland, Ore.; St. Louis, Salt Lake City; and San Francisco.

We're all culture-fied here in Tennessee!

U.S. Chess Federation Moves to Tennessee

Australian scientists have shown that the more men masturbate between the ages of 20 and 50, the less likely they are to develop the disease that kills more than half a million men each year.

Don't let those nuns convince you that it's a sin!

Masturbation Reduces Risk of Prostate Cancer

] During 50 years of communist rule in former Yugoslavia,
] the Croatian island of Vis remained an inaccessible naval
] base lost in the middle of the Adriatic.
]
] The islanders eked a living from fishing and services for
] the Yugoslav military. Tourism, which in today's Croatia
] generates some $4.0 billion in revenues a year, came much
] later to the island than it did elsewhere on the Adriatic
] coast.
]
] There are no big socialist-style hotels here, some 12
] years after Croatia left Socialist Yugoslavia and fought
] an independence war with its ethnic Serb minority and the
] Yugoslav army.
]
] The place looks more like an early 20th century
] fishermen's settlement and, with some luck, it may stay
] that way.
]
] The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has designated Vis as one
] of the 10 last paradises on the Mediterranean and is
] taking steps to preserve its pristine beauty and
] wildlife, while giving locals a chance to make some money
] in the process.

Lost Mediterranean island deemed wild paradise

] A new handheld scanner may mean patients being screened
] for cancer will no longer have to cram into the narrow
] tunnel of an MRI or CT scanner for a grueling 40-minute
] exam -- the patient won't even need to undress.

Wired News: Taking a Quick Swipe at Cancer

] South Korea's largest mobile phone operator said Thursday
] that it will offer cell phone users a new noise service
] that it says will repel mosquitoes.
]
] SK Telecom said subscribers can pay 3,000 won (US$2.50)
] to download a sound wave that is inaudible to human ears
] but annoys mosquitoes within a range of three feet.
] Customers can then play the sound by hitting a few
] buttons on their mobile phones.
]
] The company claimed that the service worked during tests.
]
] The service, which begins Monday, has one drawback: it
] consumes as much battery power as normal cell phone
] rings.
]
] SK Telecom has 17 million subscribers and controls a
] little over 50% of the domestic market.

Sweet. Now if only they could come up with a repellant that worked on those OTHER pests, namely telemarketers.

Noise from phone can chase mosquitoes

] George Evanthes has never been hunting. "Originally I'm
] from New York. What am I going to hunt? Squirrels?
] Someone's cats. Someone's dogs? I don't think so," said
] Evanthes. Now that he's living in Las Vegas , he's
] finally getting his chance to put on his camouflage, grab
] a rifle and pull the trigger, but what's in his scope may
] surprise you. He's not hunting ducks or even deer. He's
] hunting woman. Naked women.

What a great family sport. Especially for wife beaters.

Bizarre Game Targets Women: Hunting for Bambi: Parts 1 & 2

] Say you're a cook, or a nurse or the assistant manager of
] a store. You've worked more than 40 hours this week, so
] you're entitled to overtime pay, right?
]
] It's hardly that simple, and the Bush administration's
] proposed new rules on overtime pay raise all kinds of
] uncertainties about just who should be entitled to extra
] wages for extra work.
]
] The administration says its rules could cost 644,000
] workers the right to extra wages. Labor unions and
] Democrats say the real number is at least 8 million and
] maybe even higher.
]
] The truth is, nobody's sure precisely how many workers
] will be affected, largely because it's unclear what
] employers would do with the increased flexibility
] provided by rules that are arcane and broadly worded.

This adminstration really is all about screwing the working class, isn't it?

Overtime proposal creates confusion - Sunday, 07/13/03

] "He should turn it in to his professor, get his grade --
] and then they both should burn it," said Richard Clarke,
] who until recently was the White House cyberterrorism
] chief.

And it's your ignorance and inability to face reality that will continue to put our lives in jeopardy, you twit. If this grad student can build such a database, then obviously someone with a lot more motivation could as well. Burying our heads in the sand doesn't help.

Dissertation Could Be Security Threat