These are the lyrics of a new song by a NJ based band of rabblerousers calling themselves The Snipers. This song goes to the tune of Bob Marley's Redemption Song and it goes a little something like this...

Oh pirates yes they copy,
But who are we to bitch?
We write songs to make you think
Not for us to get rich,
But the Man he says you are wrong
Backed by RIAA
But we have the tools to fight them
Just get out there and play

Songs that make you think
True songs of freedom
All we'll ever have

We download songs.

Emancipate yourselves from market slavery
Boycott the servants who rule our lives
Have no fear of our corporate entities
There's no need for them in these times
Let's log on and kill their profits
While they treat us all like crooks
But it's them been ripping us off.
Time to steal back what they took.

Songs that make you think
True songs of freedom
All we'll ever have.

We download songs.

We Download Songs

"Monkeys can manage mathematics. Dolphins can be decisive. But US psychologists have broken new ground in the animal intelligence challenge. They have proved that animals are also smart enough to join the "don't-knows".

It means that animals, like humans, may be capable not just of thinking, but of thinking about thinking, of knowing that they don't know. Psychologists call this "metacognition", evidence of sophisticated cognitive self-awareness. Ordinary mortals know it as "dithering"."

Animals 'can think about thought'

" To empower citizens by providing a single, comprehensive, easy-to-use repository of information on individuals, organizations, and corporations related to the government of the United States of America.

To allow citizens to submit intelligence about government-related issues, while maintaining their anonymity. To allow members of the government a chance to participate in the process."

Open government Information Awareness

Creepy...

Art/natoris/PhotogenicMask

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A digital picture of a spectacular and apparently explosive event in the sky fooled a pair of seasoned NASA scientists, has other researchers around the globe mystified, and made a minor celebrity of a teenage photographer.

Jonathan Burnett, 15, was photographing his friends skateboarding in Pencoed, Wales when one of them noticed a colorful fireball in the sky. Burnett snapped a picture, then sent it to NASA scientists and asked if they knew what it was.

Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell, who run NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD), posted the photograph on Oct. 1 and wrote that "a sofa-sized rock came hurtling into the nearby atmosphere of planet Earth and disintegrated." They called the picture "one of the more spectacular meteor images yet recorded."
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The Picture: Jonathan Burnett's photograph, which has scientists baffled.

A photo taken from about 10 miles away, by Julian Heywood, confirmed that Burnett's photo was legitimate and helped scientists decide the event had something to do with a jet contrail

Problem is, it turns out, there was no meteor."

Photo of Fiery Object Mystifies Scientists

Decius wrote:
]This is probably the scariest Microsoft related footage that I have ]ever seen. Its called Dance Monkey Boy.

Holy shit... Its like a cross between the Star Wars Kid and Hitler.

Steve Ballmer: When marketing goes too far... [MPG]

inigoct wrote:
] Seoul, South Korea - Kim Won-jung walked up to a vending
] machine and bought an orange drink. But rather than
] insert coins, she paid with the press of a cellphone
] button.

]given how the US lags behind most everyone in cell phone tech, how ]long 'til we can do this here?

I wonder if they'll eventually be able to receive payment too. People would be able to play lasertag with cash.

IOL : Do you accept cellphone payments?

] Nano-velcro could hold objects together as tightly as a strong
] adhesive, say US researchers.

The real question is, would the inventor of velcro make a few more billions by exercising patent rights? (read as: half joking)

Nano-velcro binds faster than strongest glues: Super-strong adhesive planned with hooked carbon strands.

"The new system requires no special footage and relies on intelligent computer analysis of scenes to provide the information needed for 3D images."

Technology brings 3D TV closer

" HOUSTON, Oct. 20, 2003 -- Chemists at Rice University have demonstrated that disordered assemblies of gold nanowires and conductive organic molecules can function as non-volatile memory, one of the key components of computer chips.

"A large part of the cost associated with creating integrated circuits comes from the painstaking precision required to ensure that each of the millions of circuits on the chip are placed in exactly the right spot," said lead researcher Jim Tour, an organic chemist at Rice. "Our research shows that ordered precision isn't a prerequisite for computing. It is possible to make memory circuits out of disordered systems." "

Self-assembled nanocells function as non-volatile memory