Texas School Nixes Marijuana-Laced Treats (AP)

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"School bans cupcakes, other sugary
birthday party treats"

"School bans cupcakes, other sugary
birthday party treats" 06/05/2004 09:31 PM

School Nixes Teen Quest to Grow Wig Hair
(AP)

School Nixes Teen Quest to Grow Wig Hair
(AP) 09/16/2004 09:31 AM
AP - A South Texas school board denied a student's request to grow long hair for a group that makes wigs for sick children, instead offering him the post of American Cancer Society liaison along with a $500 donation to the group in his name.

Texas school districts to get iBooks

Texas school districts to get iBooks 06/27/2004 05:42 PM
Floydada ISD is one of six school districts in Texas that will benefit from a technology immersion pilot grant that will include Apple iBooks...

Short on Books, Texas School Uses
Laptops

Short on Books, Texas School Uses
Laptops 04/27/2004 01:15 PM
San Jose Mercury News Apr 27 2004 5:19PM GMT

Short on Books, Texas School Uses
Laptops (AP)

Short on Books, Texas School Uses
Laptops (AP) 04/27/2004 10:18 AM
AP - Every fifth- and sixth-grader at Johnson Elementary will receive a $1,350 IBM ThinkPad computer loaded with digital versions of state-approved textbooks and 2,000 works of literature. If the experiment works, the program will be expanded to other grades.

Texas High School Football Coach Shot
(AP)

Texas High School Football Coach Shot
(AP) 04/07/2005 12:37 PM
AP - A father with a hit list shot the football coach at his son's school Thursday and fled in a pickup loaded with weapons, state officials said.

Yahoo! News - Short on Books, Texas
School Uses Laptops

Yahoo! News - Short on Books, Texas
School Uses Laptops 04/28/2004 07:36 AM
DALLAS - Every fifth- and sixth-grader at Johnson Elementary will receive a $1,350 IBM ThinkPad computer loaded with digital versions of state-approved textbooks and 2,000 works of literature .. Yahoo

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Soldiers in Iraq see Central Texas high
school graduations via satellite,
Internet

Soldiers in Iraq see Central Texas high
school graduations via satellite,
Internet 05/29/2004 10:33 PM
AP via New Jersey Online May 30 2004 2:31AM GMT

Sex-Laced Mozart Raises Scandal
(Reuters)

Sex-Laced Mozart Raises Scandal
(Reuters) 06/28/2004 09:38 AM
Reuters - An opera featuring rape, torture and masturbation, a nude bass singing an aria in the shower and a cross-dressing hero who rounds off the night by slaughtering a troupe of semi-naked prostitutes has caused a scandal in Berlin.

USDA Rejects Drug-Laced Rice

USDA Rejects Drug-Laced Rice 04/10/2004 05:10 AM
The agency turns down a biotech company's proposal to grow rice that's been genetically modified to produce proteins that fight infection. The rice could contaminate normal crops, critics say. By Kristen Philipkoski.

Booze-laced biscuits hit sour note
(Reuters)

Booze-laced biscuits hit sour note
(Reuters) 02/10/2004 02:56 AM
Reuters - A public outcry over the launch of alcohol-flavoured biscuits in Australia has prompted the government to order a review into whether promoting the liquor-laced nibbles breached advertising rules.

Alcohol Enemas, with notes about
vodka-laced tampons and other oddities

Alcohol Enemas, with notes about
vodka-laced tampons and other oddities 01/09/2004 09:57 PM
Your weekend's entertainment. Alcohol Enemas, with notes about vodka-laced tampons and other oddities.

Gerber Baby Food Found Laced with Ricin
in Calif

Gerber Baby Food Found Laced with Ricin
in Calif 07/28/2004 09:55 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jul 29 2004 1:43AM GMT

HD DirecTiVo And Other CES Treats

HD DirecTiVo And Other CES Treats 12/24/2003 04:18 AM

Trickett Treats

Trickett Treats 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
Adam Trickett speaketh: "Just to let you know that brian d foy wrote an article about reading/writing RSS with Perl...

Data Management Ranks 29th as Texas’s
Fastest Growing Technology Company in
Deloitte Texas Crescent Technology Fast
50 Program

Data Management Ranks 29th as Texas’s
Fastest Growing Technology Company in
Deloitte Texas Crescent Technology Fast
50 Program 09/15/2004 02:00 AM
Attributes great team work and flawless execution to its 416 Percent Revenue Growth. [PRWEB Sep 15, 2004]

OS X delivers treats and tricks

OS X delivers treats and tricks 10/31/2003 04:09 PM
A potential refund, data-loss concerns and security questions cast a shadow on Apple's operating system.

Apple Has Plenty Of Tricks And Treats

Apple Has Plenty Of Tricks And Treats 03/06/2004 02:06 AM
Every operating system has hidden features. Here are more of my favorite undocumented, hidden or unappreciated tips and tricks for Mac OS X. By Al Fasoldt (Syracuse Post-Standard via MyAppleMenu)

Brain surgery treats Alzheimer's

Brain surgery treats Alzheimer's 04/28/2004 09:00 AM
It may be possible to treat Alzheimer's by inserting genetically modified tissue directly into the brains of patients, research suggests.

DNA Computer Detects, Treats Disease

DNA Computer Detects, Treats Disease 04/29/2004 05:45 PM

DNA Computer Diagnoses, Treats Cancer

DNA Computer Diagnoses, Treats Cancer 04/28/2004 08:12 PM
Betterhumans Apr 29 2004 0:20AM GMT

A Digital Doctor Treats Computer
Contamination

A Digital Doctor Treats Computer
Contamination 08/14/2004 10:49 PM
Washington Post Aug 15 2004 2:25AM GMT

DNA 'computer' detects, treats cancer in
cells

DNA 'computer' detects, treats cancer in
cells 04/29/2004 04:57 AM
National Post Apr 29 2004 9:33AM GMT

From Santa's wired workshop: Toy treats
and ace accessories

From Santa's wired workshop: Toy treats
and ace accessories 11/16/2003 01:27 AM
US News Nov 16 2003 0:01AM ET

Bio Acoustical Utilization Device Treats
ADHD

Bio Acoustical Utilization Device Treats
ADHD 03/14/2005 06:03 PM

The Bio Acoustical Utilization Device is emerging as a new potential treatment for those suffering from attention deficit hyperactive disorder, also known as the reason you can't stand your nephew. "Through headphones, the instrument emits sonic waves that stimulate brain frequencies, accomplishing the same objective as commonly prescribed medicines," such as Ritalin and Adderall. By keeping their children off of brain stimulants, alternative treatments such as the BAUD allow the parents a safer way of dealing with what is often a misdiagnosed condition. Plus, it keeps them from dealing their kid's Adderall on the streets for $40 a pill. The Modesto Bee has a lengthy article about the device's success with eight-year-old Austin Lassa.

Order to a Disorder [Modbee via M edgadget]

Marijuana IPO in the offing

Marijuana IPO in the offing 12/06/2003 09:48 AM
An entrepreneur has responded to Canada's impending marijuana legalization by founding a company to package, sell, and pay taxes on medical pot, and now he hopes to take the firm public.

Eugene estimates the grass crop is worth anywhere from CN$4 billion to CN$7 billion and thinks a money-making opportunity exists as governments move to decriminalize the drug. He also said a U.S. Supreme Court decision in October lifting a federal ban on medical marijuana will open the doors to a larger international market.

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Marijuana is a Drag

Marijuana is a Drag 04/16/2005 06:57 PM
I hope there's a sequel to the Anti-Drug marijuana scenario 1. I'm dying to find out whether Brent was successfully rehabilitated after taking a one-second hit of wacky tobacky.

Putting the Bite on Mailman-Shaped Dog
Treats (Reuters)

Putting the Bite on Mailman-Shaped Dog
Treats (Reuters) 07/23/2004 09:50 AM
Reuters - Dogs chomping on mail carrier-shaped treats is no laughing matter for Canada Post.

DNA Computer Detects, Treats Disease in
Test Tube

DNA Computer Detects, Treats Disease in
Test Tube 04/28/2004 02:44 PM
AP via ABCNEWS.com Apr 28 2004 6:22PM GMT

A Digital Doctor Treats Computer
Contamination (washingtonpost.com)

A Digital Doctor Treats Computer
Contamination (washingtonpost.com) 08/14/2004 10:12 PM
washingtonpost.com - Before me lies the patient, a Gateway computer running Windows 98. It is suffering from extremely clogged Internet arteries, unable to reach the Web. As one of The Washington Post's digital doctors, my task is to nurse the machine back to health so my colleague Kathleen Day can access her e-mail and file stories from home.

British Academy treats film judges as
crooks

British Academy treats film judges as
crooks 08/31/2004 10:09 AM
Cory Doctorow: The British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA) is treating all judges as criminals this awards season. They are supplying special lockware DVD players that can play back the "secure" DVDs that the Academy is distributing. My guess is that anyone elected to judge a film award has a highly tuned, specialised home-theatre setup and that this will represent a serious goddamned pain in the ass for them:

"We are very pleased to be working with Cinea to give our members the opportunity to receive secure screeners. The British Academy takes the threat of piracy very seriously, and we welcome any solution that can reduce the risk of unauthorized copying." said David Parfitt, Chair of BAFTA's Film Committee.

Variety is reporting that it will cost studios US$25,000 (€20,650) per film, plus a license fee to Cinea, to secure the screener disks with the S-VIEW system. Cinea will pay for the players and encoding themselves, and is in discussion with studios for further uses of the S-VIEW technology to secure the post-production process for film makers. It can be used for the secure distribution of dailies and other works in progress, ensuring that digital copies don't end up being leaked onto the internet. Something that was almost impossible with 35 or 70mm film.

Each sv300 player is individually addressable, allowing distributors to decide exactly who views their content, from large groups of thousands to a single individual.

Nice: if you can't sell DRM to users, you can convince paranoid studio execs to shell out tens of thousands of dollars to buy it and shove it down cinephiles' throats. Link (Thanks, Simon!)

Man Caught With Marijuana at Courthouse
(AP)

Man Caught With Marijuana at Courthouse
(AP) 01/16/2004 10:56 AM
AP - A man going through a courthouse metal detector emptied his pockets, tossing a small bag of marijuana into the security tray.

Marijuana Scented MP3 Player

Marijuana Scented MP3 Player 03/28/2005 01:22 PM

Audiotronic throws us a curveball with their iCool MP3 Player—quite possibly the first MP3 player with a Marijuana faceplate and scent. Featuring other captivating scented faceplates, including "Coffee" and "Casino", the iCool also features an "Expansionary [sic] Memory Slot" which accepts SD/MMC memory cards and a hologram lens faceplate, much like those $3 stickers you could buy featuring bad-ass dragons outside of the bowling alley. Throwing all (remaining) caution to the wind, Audiotronic went ahead and named the Marijuana & Casino line the "Addiction Series", leaving little to the imagination. There's an LCD and a few other typical features, but why would you care? It smells like weed!

Truly Disturbing Product Page [Audiotronic via DAPrevie w]

Man Accused of Sending Marijuana Via UPS
(AP)

Man Accused of Sending Marijuana Via UPS
(AP) 02/05/2005 09:23 PM
AP - Federal drug agents have accused a 25-year-old man of using UPS to send a happy birthday box containing seven pounds of marijuana.

Apple sells Matt Webb a lemon, then
treats him like crap

Apple sells Matt Webb a lemon, then
treats him like crap 07/11/2004 05:32 PM
Matt Webb bought a 12" Powerbook and got a lemon. He's spent over a month calling Apple, trying to get it fixed, getting ignored, getting promises broken, not having his calls returned, getting the machine returned still broken, sending it back again. This is outrageous: Apple UK needs to do a better job if it plans on retaining customers.

It's happened again. Same problems as last time. mutt can't make temporary files, the computer won't shut down cleanly, then it won't boot (stays at the grey Apple screen) DiskWarrior can't repair it (and it freezes in Target Disk mode). If I go into verbose mode on book, the errors are:

Load of /sbin/mach_init, errno 2, trying /etc/mach_init Load of /etc/mach_init failed, errno 2

The hardware check, on the original CDs, comes back fine.

Coincidentally, it's after about 11 days of usage (again), and after the hard drive has got 45Gb of data on it (again).

I called tech support. Very helpful guy in the Danish tech support call centre. He says the next thing they'll ask me to do is reinstall.

Hang on, I've been here before.

I'm not going through this again.

I know this story. This is the one where I spend days doing what tech support ask, send my computer off, Apple hang onto it for months and send it back, still broken.

Link (via Plasticbag)

Revised Policy Treats Obesity Under
Medicare (Los Angeles Times)

Revised Policy Treats Obesity Under
Medicare (Los Angeles Times) 07/16/2004 05:23 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — Federal officials Thursday announced a new policy on obesity that could make weight-loss treatments eligible for Medicare coverage.

Ampal claims Motorola treats MIRS as
in-house unit

Ampal claims Motorola treats MIRS as
in-house unit 05/10/2004 11:17 PM
Haaretz May 11 2004 3:06AM GMT

DNA Computer Detects, Treats Disease in
Test Tube (Reuters)

DNA Computer Detects, Treats Disease in
Test Tube (Reuters) 04/29/2004 03:25 AM
Reuters - Scientists have come a step closer to creating a minuscule DNA computer that may one day be able to spot diseases like cancer from inside the body and release a drug to treat it.

NORML.ORG CN QU: Web: Marijuana Law
Faces Another Challenge

NORML.ORG CN QU: Web: Marijuana Law
Faces Another Challenge 06/01/2004 06:49 PM
Norml Jun 1 2004 11:21PM GMT
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