State Sunshine and Open Records (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Tim Pawlenty, whose name is said to be on McCain’s short list for VP, as governor of Minnesota has taken what Minnesota’s archivist describes as a limited view on what records to preserve. Archivist Horton told a local newspaper that if Pawlenty becomes the VP candidate it will be “really, really interesting” because “we’re going to [...]
Wild about Mushrooms (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
American Charley Robinson has found a giant morel measuring 17 inches in girth and weighing 1.25 pounds, he said. ''I have been trying to find out what the records are for morels, but so far have struck out. I have found references to some around a pound, but none as large as mine, though I don't doubt that there are some.'' Mr Robinson 61 has been searching for morels for more than 3 decades near...
Passion of the Weiss (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Zilla Rocca brings you Day 2 of Lil Wayne week. Stay tuned for tomorrow where we’ll discuss his dental records, what television programs he Tivo’s and his favorite breakfast foods (omelettes, one egg short.) Anytime I go to a hip hop show or a DJ night or a cookout held by people who love music, [...]
jkOnTheRun (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Yesterday was day one of my "web-only" challenge, the effort to examine if it's possible for me to boycott desktop applications. The heavily-skewed pie chart shown to the right is the direct result of using Wakoopa, a small application that tracks and records what programs you run, how long they...
Tracing the Tribe (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
What would you do if all the records of your family, your synagogue, and your community were to suddenly disappear? What if those records were hundreds, even thousands of years old? Births, deaths, weddings, divorces, deaths - the history of an entire community, gone. According to an appeal from a New York-based non-profit group - The Historical Society of Jews from Egypt - whose members are
Science Daily (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
A team of researchers have modeled in the laboratory a primitive cell, or protocell, that is capable of building, copying and containing DNA. Since there are no physical records of what the first primitive cells on Earth looked like, or how they grew and divided, the research team's protocell project offers a useful way to learn about how Earth's earliest cells may have interacted with their environment...
DUVAFILES (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
This morning's Disgrace/Slime reports that the antiquated monopolistic Wicomico County Liquor Board is stonewalling the County Council's request that it make available for examination four years of financial records. I have no idea what those records will disclose, but the Council should not permit the Board to derail the plans for a November referendum on its continued existence. The last time I checked,...
politicalbetting.com (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
Is there anything that Brown can do to turn thing round? The May ICM national voting intention survey for the Guardian is just out and records what is the firm's biggest Labour deficit of modern times - and is in line with the trend of other recent polls. The figures, with changes on the last ICM poll [...]
Muzzle of Bees (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
“Well, go ahead and call the cops. You don't meet nice girls in coffee shops.” Favorite records of all time? Mule Variations makes my list. What makes your list? What records have you rediscovered lately?
Poynter Online (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Dieselboii, via Flickr (CC license) Public records aren't what they used to be... In today's Watchdog Tipsheet from the Society of Environmental Journalists, Joseph A. Davis reports on a lawsuit that aims to clarify whether Washington State government officials' e-mails are considered public records that could be covered by that state's public records act. If so, this could aid journalists, activists,...
CBS SportsLine.com (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Knucklehead Ryan Perrilloux gets an award named after him, spring practices are setting attendance records and what's with coaches-in-waiting? Dennis Dodd gets you all caught up with 25 things to take from football's first season.
Ecademy: user blogs (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
Massive excitement this week as I received my new digital pen notebook starter kit from Destiny. Check out what it can do for your business here destinyplc.com So I now have a pen that records what I write and sends it off to be processed. For me I get an email containing a picture of what I have written and an OCR word document that has tried to make sense of what I have written. In my case I will...
MSDN Blogs (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
Commenter John Topley wondered why clearing document history also clears Run history . Simple: Because people wanted it to. Originally, the button merely erased your recent document history, but with the increasing paranoia over what records the computer kept on your past usage, people began to expect more and even filed beta bugs saying, "I cleared my document history, but I went to Location X and...
3wan.net (Free subscription) | 04/27/2008
FBI seeks law forcing ISPs to retain data The United States' top cop told a Congressional committee this week that law enforcement would benefit from a law forcing Internet service providers to hold onto customer data longer. In comments before the House of Representatives' Committee on the Judiciary, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III told members that Internet service providers (ISPs) should be...
SecurityFocus News (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
FBI seeks law forcing ISPs to retain data
