Technology

Handing out the death penalty for double-parking a rickshaw: > A Chinese company has begun marketing kidneys, livers and other organs from executed prisoners to sick Britons in need of transplants. . . . What could possibly go wrong with that arrangement? > Some human rights campaigners have claimed the use of transplanted

Far out. What could possibly go wrong? > The first serious possibility that the woolly mammoth, or something like it, could walk on Earth again was raised yesterday by an international team of scientists. > A portion of the genetic code of the mammoth has been reconstructed and, to the

Highly disturbing piece at NYT this morning about voluntary child porn [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/19/national/19kids.ready.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5094&en=5eb58e4d773204ee&hp&ex=1135054800&partner=homepage] : youngsters with webcams who receive money and gifts from pedophiles for undressing

I saw this headline in the Washington Post this morning: "Remote Welsh families get electricity." [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/11/AR2005121101079.html] I thought, "Must be an awfully slow news day," but I checked it out anyway. It's a

Free or inexpensive voicemail for the homeless [http://www.cvm.org/]. Sounds good. Now they'll know when the latest case of Night Train [http://www.bumwine.com/] arrives. Easy, folks. I'm just having a little fun. The program is meant for the homeless and those in

Last night, I dug up the quote from JPII that I ran for this week's "Something for Sunday Morning" post. This morning, I ran across WaPo's review of The Town that Forgot to Breathe, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/08/

As a follow-up to my earlier post about Wikipedia [https://thedailyeudemon.com/3236/]: > Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia to which anyone can contribute, is tightening submission rules after a prominent journalist complained that an article falsely implicated him in the Kennedy assassinations. > Wikipedia will now require users to register

I've been interested in the Wikipedia pages for at least two years. The whole idea of "citizen encyclopediasm" intrigued me and I've generally found its content consistent with my knowledge on matters. But I hear about glaring errors, and a recent hub-ub that got

What is an avatar? A Hindu god incarnate, properly speaking. On the Internet, they're cartoon characters that you can accessorize. Think of them as on-screen Barbies. They're child-like, but--shocker, shocker--America's adults are finding them irresistible. Now the "experts" are explaining why they&