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A collection of 172 issues

The Medium is the Message

To a man with a hammer, the whole world is a nail. To a man with a camera phone, everything is a photo-op: > A man filmed himself jumping to his death on his mobile video phone and beamed the live images to his horrified girlfriend, an inquest heard.

Brews You Can Use II

Talk to me, baby! Someone has started a podcast about beer. From the site: > Our podcast is an internet radio broadcast about good beers, good food, good friends, and good fun. We talk with guests from around North America and around the world–brewers, growers, chefs, maltsters, publicans, and

A Mite Severe . . .

. . . 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/

Odd Consumer 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

eBay: Cottage Industry Redux

We like it: > eBay is fast becoming one of the largest employers in America. Of course, it hardly employs anyone, but it enables a lot of people to employ themselves and run their own businesses: 724,000 people are using it as their full- or part-time employment, up

Pod Porn

The stuff is like weeds. It just grows and proliferates everywhere. Now, iPods: > Podcasting, that baby medium, is suddenly home to a lot of adult content. Introduced to a mainstream audience just last month, the technology–radiolike programming for your iPod–that was once the chaste province of "

We're Not Surprised . . .

. . . 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

Well, That's Good News

We hate spam and we hate porn. Any knife (needle) in their sides is good. We knew such operations were in place, but we didn't think very many people got caught or punished: > Federal regulators accused seven companies Wednesday of hiring others to send illegal e-mails

Test Orphans

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

Internet Catastrophe Looming?

> U.N. bureaucrats and telecommunications ministers from many less-developed nations claim the U.S. government has undue influence over how things run online. Now they want to be the ones in charge. > While the formal proposal from a U.N. working group will be released July 18,