Technology

. . . but only a mite: > Vardan Kushnir, notorious for sending spam to each and every citizen of Russia who appeared to have an e-mail, was found dead in his Moscow apartment on Sunday, Interfax reported Monday. He died after suffering repeated blows to the head. Link [http://mosnews.com/news/

Man, we don't even own a camera phone yet, much less a tripod for it. When is the first camera-phone art festival? > Cellpod is a quick-attach, quick release tripod for your cell phone camera. Cellpod is a product that is small enough to carry with you all

. . . We've suspected for many years that certain folks like to kill babies. We always felt a little shrill thinking such a thing, but there's evidence for it, including this: > Appearing before the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services subcommittee last week, Dr. William Hurlbut, a

Startling stuff from James Kushiner over at Mere Comments: > Last year we posted a link to the writing of investigative writer Liam Scheff, who wrote about the use of orphans in New York as subjects for testing AIDS drugs. We received a couple of complaints or warnings not to

Prison Fellowship has run a nice and concise critique of chimeras. Link [http://www.pfm.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=BreakPoint1&Template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=16322] . Excerpt: > Even the magazine Scientific American says that some human-animal chimeras “disquietingly blur the line between species.” It notes that

London's public cameras apparently played a role in cracking the London case. Link [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/13/ncctv13.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/07/13/ixportaltop.html] . Excerpt: > The critical breakthrough in the hunt for the London bombers