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Brown-Forman Beverages Worldwide and Miller Brewing Co. said Monday their joint flavored-malt drink, Jack Daniel’s Original Hard Cola, will join the race among alternative alcoholic drinks this summer.
Jack Daniel’s Original Hard Cola “has a cola base flavor in which you can taste Jack Daniel’s,” said Erin Schlader, director for the Jack Daniel’s brand. He said that some consumers said the drink has some vanilla flavor to it, while others said it tastes a little bit like root beer.
The drink has 5 percent alcohol by volume.
The dark cola-colored drink will come in 12-ounce amber longneck bottles, Schlader said. Its label is evocative of the classic black and white label for Jack Daniel’s Whiskey.

Jack Daniel’s cola drink to debut

LONDON, May 20 — Technology buffs have cracked music publishing giant Sony Music’s elaborate disc copy-protection technology with a decidedly low-tech method: scribbling around the rim of a disk with a felt-tip marker.

‘Copy-proof’ CDs foiled by a marker

Click It or Ticket is a high-visibility education and enforcement campaign of Tennessee's seat belt laws. If you are unbuckled or have children in the vehicle not properly restrained and are stopped by law enforcement, you will be ticketed.

The Click It or Ticket enforcement blitz is scheduled for periods surrounding Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day. Driver's and passengers are subject to the law always when in a moving vehicle.

Click it or Ticket

Scientists at the Agriculture Department of the Hebrew University in Rehovot have genetically engineered a chicken that has no feathers. The naked chicken as it has been dubbed is also a low calorie bird because the lack of feathers means the chicken has less fat. (Hebrew University via Reuters)

w1ld: I think I might stop eating chicken after seeing this bird.

Hybrids, the geneticist believes, could revolutionize the chicken business

''The income tax is not the monster under the bed that it's made out to be,'' said Erik Cole, executive director of Tennessee Citizen Action, a government watchdog group that is a member of TFT.

w1ld: isn't more tax a monster?

Study says 60% would pay less under income tax

I'm really not sure what to say, but it will undoubtedly be an interesting read.

Wired 10.06: The Man Who Cracked The Code to Everything ...

NEW YORK-This is fair to say: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a 55-year-old Pashtun warlord, is a bad man. Evil, even. "What we're talking about here is someone at the absolute margin of violence in Afghan society-in his own way someone as extreme as Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)," Anthony Cordesman, a defense analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said in an interview. "He has a history that has proved about as conclusively as anyone can that this is a violent, vicious man who deserves to be a target."

A target of what? A target of whom? Hang tight through the next 124 words:

George W a gangsta?

STAR WARS RETURNS today with its fifth installment, "Attack of the Clones." There will be talk of the Force and the Dark Side and the epic morality of George Lucas's series. But the truth is that from the beginning, Lucas confused the good guys with the bad. The deep lesson of Star Wars is that the Empire is good.

It's a difficult leap to make--embracing Darth Vader and the Emperor over the plucky and attractive Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia--but a careful examination of the facts, sorted apart from Lucas's off-the-shelf moral cues, makes a quite convincing case.

First, an aside: For the sake of this discussion, I've considered only the history gleaned from the actual Star Wars films, not the Expanded Universe. If you know what the Expanded Universe is and want to argue that no discussion of Star Wars can be complete without considering material outside the canon, that's fine. However, it's always been my view that the comic books and novels largely serve to clean up Lucas's narrative and philosophical messes. Therefore, discussions of intrinsic intent must necessarily revolve around the movies alone. You may disagree, but please don't e-mail me about it.

If you don't know what the Expanded Universe is, well, uh, neither do I.

The Case for the Empire

As Fox's hit espionage thriller 24 draws to a close, the theory that the good guys use Macintosh computers while the bad guys use Windows PCs appears to be reinforced.

24's Good Guys Do Use Macs