Bono lights up despite smoking ban (Reuters)

Grok Headline matches for Bono lights up despite smoking ban (Reuters)

Bono promises not to swear again at
awards (Reuters)

Bono promises not to swear again at
awards (Reuters) 01/23/2004 01:27 AM
Reuters - The U.S. government can relax. Irish rock star Bono promises he will not swear again on live television if he wins a Golden Globe Award on Sunday.

Pub Owner First to Be Fined Over Smoking
Ban (Reuters)

Pub Owner First to Be Fined Over Smoking
Ban (Reuters) 07/21/2004 07:28 AM
Reuters - An Irish publican became the first bar owner in the country Tuesday to be successfully prosecuted for breaking the government's pioneering smoking ban, court officials said.

Zoo Wants Chimpanzee to Stop Smoking
(Reuters)

Zoo Wants Chimpanzee to Stop Smoking
(Reuters) 04/15/2005 09:51 AM
Reuters - A South African zoo is trying to persuade its star chimpanzee to kick a bad smoking habit.

Defiant Pub Flouts New Smoking Ban
(Reuters)

Defiant Pub Flouts New Smoking Ban
(Reuters) 07/07/2004 11:23 AM
Reuters - Fibber Magee's has become the first pub in Ireland to openly defy the country's new smoking ban, allowing customers to light up in a last-ditch attempt to stay in business.

Pot-Smoking Dominatrix Jumps Into
Election (Reuters)

Pot-Smoking Dominatrix Jumps Into
Election (Reuters) 06/24/2004 11:33 AM
Reuters - After a two-year stint delivering papers to Canadian senators, Marijuana Party candidate and career dominatrix Carol Taylor said she has entered the political arena to help ease people's pain.

Ireland to Ban Smoking in Bars from
March 29 (Reuters)

Ireland to Ban Smoking in Bars from
March 29 (Reuters) 02/19/2004 11:22 AM
Reuters - Ireland will introduce a tobacco ban on March 29 making it the first country in Europe to outlaw smoking in pubs, bars and restaurants, the government said on Wednesday.

Chimpanzee told to stop smoking
(Reuters)

Chimpanzee told to stop smoking
(Reuters) 04/14/2005 03:55 PM
Reuters - A South African zoo is trying to persuade its star chimpanzee to kick a bad smoking habit.

Defiant pub flouts new Irish smoking ban
(Reuters)

Defiant pub flouts new Irish smoking ban
(Reuters) 07/07/2004 12:40 PM
Reuters - Fibber Magee's has become the first pub in Ireland to openly defy the country's new smoking ban, allowing customers to light up in a last-ditch attempt to stay in business and incurring the wrath of the government.

Smoking ban brings health ...and love?
(Reuters)

Smoking ban brings health ...and love?
(Reuters) 05/25/2004 10:22 AM
Reuters - Ireland's pioneering ban on smoking in pubs and restaurants seems to be helping some addicts to kick the habit and may be promoting a new way to meet people, Ireland's health minister has said.

Ministers out in cold as smoking ban
proves a drag (Reuters)

Ministers out in cold as smoking ban
proves a drag (Reuters) 04/09/2004 04:13 PM
Reuters - Europe's economic leaders got a chill taste of Ireland's pioneering new smoking ban.

Couple quits smoking for health of
parrot (Reuters)

Couple quits smoking for health of
parrot (Reuters) 08/04/2004 07:07 PM
Reuters - A couple booked themselves into a clinic to quit smoking after the vet said it was the only way to save their beloved sick parrot.

Pot-smoking dominatrix joins election
race (Reuters)

Pot-smoking dominatrix joins election
race (Reuters) 06/23/2004 03:48 PM
Reuters - After a two-year stint delivering papers to Canadian senators, Marijuana Party candidate and career dominatrix Carol Taylor said she has entered the political arena to help ease people's pain.

Smoking Soldiers Ignited Ammo Disaster
(Reuters)

Smoking Soldiers Ignited Ammo Disaster
(Reuters) 05/13/2004 09:30 AM
Reuters - Two smoking soldiers set off tons of ammunition that killed five people, caused $725 million in damage and sent debris showering across southern Ukraine last week, the emergencies minister said on Tuesday.

Sexually frustrated chimp takes up
smoking (Reuters)

Sexually frustrated chimp takes up
smoking (Reuters) 08/29/2004 06:53 AM
Reuters - Sexual frustration has turned a Chinese chimpanzee from a mild-mannered simian into a problem primate who smokes cigarettes and spits at visitors, the Xinhua news agency says.

Bono is the new Pope

Bono is the new Pope 04/14/2005 12:36 PM

Mark Pincus speaks his mind about one.org.

Bono on the barricades

Bono on the barricades 05/17/2004 07:25 AM
The rocker humanitarian talks to Salon about why he's hopeful America will do its duty helping Africa -- and how if diplomacy doesn't work, "I'm ready to be out on the streets."

Wolfowitz reaches out to Bono

Wolfowitz reaches out to Bono 03/19/2005 02:52 AM
If the World Bank nominee was hoping for an endorsement, he still hasn't found what he's looking for.

Illegal Art: "Sonny Bono is Dead"

Illegal Art: "Sonny Bono is Dead" 11/01/2003 07:33 PM
Sonny Bono is in fact dead, and that is also the title of the latest compilation project from Illegal Art.

This project is a protest against the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, which passed through Congress in 1998 and was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year. This act diminished the public's ability to access older works while granting more control to corporations anxious to preserve a few copyrights from the 1920's. Copyright law continues to expand and defeat its original purpose of promoting advances in the arts and sciences. These excesses damage the evolution of our culture and only serve corporate interests.

We encourage artists to liberally sample from works that would have fallen into the Public Domain by the year 2004 had the Sonny Bono Act failed. Artists are also encouraged to create new works by sampling Sonny Bono's output (or other artists who embraced the notion of copyright lasting forever). The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2004.

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Bono rides into Silicon Valley

Bono rides into Silicon Valley 06/16/2004 07:03 AM
Roving rock pundit turns venture capitalist

Bono Moves to Preempt Thieves

Bono Moves to Preempt Thieves 07/23/2004 04:34 AM
U2's new album was stolen last week. If it shows up online, it'll be rushed out on Apple's iTunes, the band has pledged.

Brad Pitt, Bono Among Celebs on New PSA
(AP)

Brad Pitt, Bono Among Celebs on New PSA
(AP) 04/06/2005 08:59 PM
AP - Brad Pitt is among the A-list celebrities featured in new public service announcements for a campaign led by U2 singer Bono to fight poverty and AIDS.

U-2's Bono joining venture capital firm

U-2's Bono joining venture capital firm 06/15/2004 06:15 PM

Bono cheers 'best frontman' Pope

Bono cheers 'best frontman' Pope 04/03/2005 10:22 AM
Bono, U2 singer and anti-poverty campaigner, praises the late Pope John Paul II as a great leader.

5/19/04, Commencement Address by Bono -
Almanac Between Issues

5/19/04, Commencement Address by Bono -
Almanac Between Issues 06/03/2004 09:03 AM
Bono's commencement address at UPenn: "Africa needs justice as much as it needs charity" .. commencement .. Bono

upenn.edu/almanac/between/2004/commence-b.html
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Wired News: Bono Moves to Preempt
Thieves

Wired News: Bono Moves to Preempt
Thieves 07/24/2004 02:27 AM
we will release it immediately as a legal download on iTunes .. But once it's out, it's out

wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64310,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3
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U2's Bono: We'll release album on iTunes
if leaked

U2's Bono: We'll release album on iTunes
if leaked 07/22/2004 11:47 AM
Last week, U2 had their recently completed new CD, which is planned to be released in November, stolen during a photo shoot in France...

Lights? Not quite

Lights? Not quite 12/28/2004 09:09 AM
USA Today Dec 28 2004 1:19PM GMT

Too many Christmas lights?

Too many Christmas lights? 12/10/2003 07:56 PM
Is there such a thing as too many Christmas lights? I love seeing lavish displays of lights at Christmas time. Some folks like a few old-fashioned Christmas lights and some like to deck the halls in a blaze of glory (this one boasts 700,000 lights). And how much does it cost to run a fabulous display?

Think Blinky Lights

Think Blinky Lights 12/08/2003 03:38 PM
It's that time of year I usually fire up xsnow on my sparc console and stare at the swirling...

Where Was FERC When the Lights Went Out?

Where Was FERC When the Lights Went Out? 08/06/2004 09:40 AM

SF Chronicle: Death Star' trader admits manipulating California market. The Enron Corp. energy trader who devised the notorious "Death Star'' scheme to bill California for fictitious electricity pleaded guilty in a San Francisco court to a federal fraud charge and admitted plotting to manipulate the market during the state's energy crisis.

Who else should be indicted? An e-mail correspondent this morning points to one of the worst offenders in this scandal: the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, where inaction in the face of utter sleaze is a way of life. Instead of helping California and the other states that got screwed by the bandits at Enron and other energy companies, FERC has consistently stiffed the victims, offering a tidbit here and there but essentially doing nothing serious. FERC keeps insisting that it's on the case. We'll need some actual evidence one of these days.

Last One Out, Turn Off the Lights...

Last One Out, Turn Off the Lights... 06/11/2004 04:05 PM

Gateway to consolidate Midwestern facilities: With this, Gateway is leaving Sioux Falls completely. This is too bad, as Gateway is a child of South Dakota.

Gateway will close its Sioux Falls, S.D., facility this month, as part of its plan to return to profitability.

Here's a statistic for you: in the last four years, Gateway has reduced their workforce by 91%, from 24,000 workers worldwide in 2000 to just 2,000 workers after this latest round of layoffs.

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Bryght lights

Bryght lights 09/01/2004 12:02 PM

Roland Tanglao reports......

If you haven't already, go check out our new venture, Bryght.

What is Bryght? Bryght is all of the following:

1. "The Salesforce.com of community content"
2. Content Management System + Community Blogging System + Email + DNS + Domain Name Registration + much more (see our features page for more details)
3. A hosted website service for communities, corporations, organizations and individuals built using the open source Drupal system.

What is the relationship between Bryght and StreamLine? None, other than the fact that I work on both :-) !

Seriously, StreamLine continues to resell Blogware blogs to individuals and Bryght is focused solely on hosted Drupal sites (with domains, email and DNS as well).

Why Blogware blogs? Because Blogware is still the best individual hosted blog service out there.
Why Bryght? Because Bryght is the best hosted website service for communities.

and those bright lights

and those bright lights 04/01/2005 02:42 PM
Just after 9 Wednesday morning, we said goodbye to Felix The Bear. He left us peacefully and quietly, surrounded by...

Welcome to Ugly Christmas Lights.com!

Welcome to Ugly Christmas Lights.com! 12/25/2003 08:07 AM
UGLY CHRISTMAS LIGHTS. COM .. and then you have these

uglychristmaslights.com
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PPC FAQ: iPAQ Notification Lights

PPC FAQ: iPAQ Notification Lights 01/04/2004 01:39 AM

Texting lights up Glasto

Texting lights up Glasto 06/26/2004 02:20 PM
Techzonez Jun 26 2004 5:12PM GMT

Turn off the lights when you leave.

Turn off the lights when you leave. 07/24/2004 06:16 PM
The end of the light bulb? E. Fred Schubert, a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute "claims to have invented a 99-percent efficient reflector that promises to speed the replacement of light bulbs with LEDs." According to researchers, this could happen within the next five years. The current prototype is bankrolled by the ARPA and The National Science Foundation "recently award Schubert's team a $210,000 grant to create in three years a commercial version of his patented omnidirectional reflector."

"Schubert claimed that lighting accounts for 25 percent of U.S. electrical energy consumption. Since white LEDs emit more light per dollar and generate less unwanted heat, they are potentially a major energy saver." (see EE Times link)

Meanwhile, some of the oldtimers seem to be pretty refractory.

Control TiVo, Lights With Your PSP

Control TiVo, Lights With Your PSP 04/19/2005 08:47 AM

Myriad hacks are emerging for the PSP as eager tweakers have their way with the black box. Add to the list the ability to control your home automation system (and TiVo) wirelessly. Liquidice explains:

I now have the ability to turn my lights on and off. [I] have full control (Play, Stop, Pause, Menu) of my DVD player, TIVO, and High Def TV, all wirelessly from my PSP. ... I put an image map on [some] graphics and created some HTML pages which are hosted on my WACI NX server. The links are crafted so that when the PSP highlights and clicks on a spot on the image map, it instructs the WACI NX server to send an IR signal to my A/V equipment or triggers it's relays to cut power on the lights.

While he doesn't have step-by-step instructions, he explains his methodologies pretty clearly, and mentions that an official Sony web browser for the PSP will make things much simpler.

(#gizmodo frequenter AMIB points out (with some sass, it's noted) that the PSP isn't so spectacular in this feat because all the heavy lifting is handled by the home automation web server. A valid point, by way of saying any device or code that can make a GET request to a web server can accomplish the same thing.)

P SP Home Control 1.0 [psphacks via PVRblog ]

Show lights up Paralympics

Show lights up Paralympics 09/17/2004 06:21 PM
The XII Paralympics begins in Athens, after a spectacular opening ceremony.
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