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Get a (Virtual) Life!

Always something odd in cyberspace. This time, it's a virtual life. Millions of people have signed up for websites that allow them to enjoy plush casinoes, cruises, yachting, fine dining, and other amenities. They pay a monthly fee ($10, according to the registration I checked out), assume a

The Technology Dumping Ground

There can be a downside to technology and foreign aid? I thought it was all rosy, all the time: > [A] report [to be released today], titled "The Digital Dump: Exporting Reuse and Abuse to Africa," says that the unusable equipment is being donated or sold to developing

The Pretentious Society

When a society doesn't recognize learning or virtue, it will use more base methods of distinguishing among its members. > Diamonds are forever, but mobile phones are not designed to last quite so long. Unless you are a lucky recipient of a jewel-encrusted mobile this Christmas, that is.

Dalai Lama in Trouble with Scientists

"Big hitter, the Lama" (Carl from Caddyshack): > The Dalai Lama, the exiled leader of Tibet who is revered as a spiritual teacher, is at the center of a scientific controversy. > He has been an enthusiastic collaborator in research on whether the intense meditation practiced by Buddhist

Dressing Up with Gadgetry

Just a quick heads up to men: If you're accessorizing with more than shoes and a watch, you're a metrosexual or worse. I don't care if something makes your phone clip look cool. Leave the self-styling efforts to GQ-types and pimps: > Companies are

But It's No Fun . . .

. . . unless we can kill the baby [https://thedailyeudemon.com/1785/]: From Secondhand Smoke [http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2005/10/embryonic-stem-cells-without.html]: > Researchers at Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) have claimed publicly that they were able to derive embryonic stem cells without destroying the embryo. The story is international. Some

Worse than Opium

The Internet is booming in China (even with all the censorship, a result that violates every premise of extreme versions of the open society). Yet with the boom has come a mental problem: Internet addiction. > Wang Yiming, 21, is a self-confessed internet addict, one of a growing number in

What Kind of Reversal Is This?

You're supposed to kill 'em, especially if they're crippled or ugly, not help 'em: > Researchers said Saturday they have used stem cells collected from the amniotic fluid surrounding fetal lambs to grow windpipes, and then implanted the tissue back into the fetuses while

U.S. Will Give Up Control of Internet?

According to The Guardian, we'll have to: > A number of countries represented in Geneva, including Brazil, China, Cuba, Iran and several African states, insisted the US give up control, but it refused. The meeting "was going nowhere", Hendon says, and so the EU took a

Odd Consumer News

For $400 or less, you can built the Automite. It goes 40-55 mph, gets 90 miles to the gallon, and is uglier than the day is long. Link [http://www.prismz.com/automite/]. Making the Yugo look like a luxury ride: