Minnesota Man Bites Off Brother's Finger (AP)

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Woman bites into finger at San Jose
restaurant

Woman bites into finger at San Jose
restaurant 03/25/2005 03:50 PM
Woman bites into finger at San Jose restaurant .. found a fingertip in her chili .. Wendy's Chili .. finger

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Woman Eating Chili Bites Into Human
Finger (AP)

Woman Eating Chili Bites Into Human
Finger (AP) 03/23/2005 11:02 PM
AP - A woman's meal at a Wendy's restaurant brought a whole new meaning to the term "finger food." The woman bit into a portion of a human finger while eating a bowl of chili Tuesday night at the San Jose restaurant, Santa Clara County health officials said Wednesday.

Microsoft and Minnesota Plaintiffs
Settle Minnesota Class-Action Lawsuit

Microsoft and Minnesota Plaintiffs
Settle Minnesota Class-Action Lawsuit 04/19/2004 03:09 PM
Zelle, Hoffman, Voelbel & Gette and Kirby, McInerney & Squire, counsel for the Minnesota Settlement Class, and Microsoft Corp. jointly announced today that a settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit alleging that Microsoft violated Minnesota’s antitrust laws.

Kill my brother's x-box

Kill my brother's x-box 01/01/2004 03:53 PM
I never make New Years Resolutions, because...I know no matter what I do...I will never keep it going. Well, for...

Big Brother's Last Mile

Big Brother's Last Mile 08/17/2004 11:25 AM

Big Brother's Big Brother?

Big Brother's Big Brother? 04/18/2004 12:14 PM
Watching Justice -- a new blog keeping an eye on the Dept. of Justice, drawing on the research and insight of a vast list of organizations, from the ABA to the Violence Policy Center, and brought to us by Soros' Open Society Institute.

Other News: Big Brother's Tax System

Other News: Big Brother's Tax System 02/17/2004 11:51 AM
Big Brother, the tax man, is watching us on the Internet.

Stepping on Big Brother's Toes

Stepping on Big Brother's Toes 07/29/2004 05:01 AM
A British group announces 'winners' in its contest to identify the groups that have done the most to invade personal privacy in the United Kingdom -- including the U.S. government. By Michelle Delio.

Eviction shock for Brother's Stu

Eviction shock for Brother's Stu 08/04/2004 08:49 PM
Student Stuart Wilson is voted off Channel 4's reality television show Big Brother in a surprise eviction.

Big Brother's designs on ratings

Big Brother's designs on ratings 05/22/2004 06:47 PM
A compact and uncomfortable fourth Big Brother house is revealed as the producers attempt to boost ratings.

PayPal: Big Brother's Little Helper

PayPal: Big Brother's Little Helper 03/14/2003 01:09 PM
Has PayPal's acceptable use policy become much broader recently? I just received notice of changes to PayPal's acceptable use policy. I was surprised at the number of things that they have restrictions on. One in particular seemed like the kiss of death: No porn for you unless it's from eBay's Mature section. Won't somebody think of the cam girls? With many banks now offering some sort of internet check-writing facility is PayPal really even a valid business model anymore outside of eBay?

| Big Brother's Ryan reaps big bucks

| Big Brother's Ryan reaps big bucks 08/15/2004 02:26 AM
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Big Brother's Kitten 'faces jail'

Big Brother's Kitten 'faces jail' 06/04/2004 10:54 AM
Big Brother 5 contestant Kitten could face jail if she does not show up in court next week.

US fingerprinting plan earns Big
Brother's wrath

US fingerprinting plan earns Big
Brother's wrath 07/28/2004 03:10 PM
ZDNet UK Jul 28 2004 6:47PM GMT

Big Brother's Stop Lights turn red on
speeders

Big Brother's Stop Lights turn red on
speeders 04/09/2004 04:13 PM
While stoplights have long since relied on sensors for turning green at opportune moments to aid traffic flow, they've not been used to punish speeders by preemptively turning red. Pleasanton California is out to change all of that.

Man Bites Dog (Reuters)

Man Bites Dog (Reuters) 05/07/2004 09:16 AM
Reuters - A man fleeing police in the South African city of Durban bit the dog and police officer ordered to apprehend him, police said on Friday.

Dog bites AIBO

Dog bites AIBO 03/21/2003 10:17 AM
Clive sez:

Many people love showering attention on their Aibos, pretending they're real. But what about actual dogs? Are they fooled? To find out, a bunch of French scientists recently had a few real dogs interact with some Aibos. It all went quite peacefully, until the scientists decided to put a piece of meat in the room and have an Aibo and a dog compete over it. Go to their site and you enjoy what is surely a first in scientific history: Live video of a snarling dog kicking the living shit out of a hapless robot.

The best part is the explanatory note by the scientists: "The horrible screams that you hear at the end of this film were made by the experimenters, who were startled to see the dog attack the AIBO ... we strongly advise you not to try anything similar with your AIBO."

Link Discuss (Thanks, Clive!)

Another one Bites the dust

Another one Bites the dust 10/30/2003 04:52 AM
I come home today and the wife says honey the computer quit working. Putting on my Geek hate I go...

Pain bites.

Pain bites. 09/20/2004 08:52 AM
No pain, no gain, they say, and when it comes to real pain, the inverse is true as well. "We now have research indicating there's a memory of chronic pain," said Dr. Doris K. Cope, director of chronic and cancer pain for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. It changes the genic code sometimes, it changes the biochemistry, and it causes new proteins to be formed." Or in other words, the more pain you have, the more pain you have. (More on this.) It's no wonder, then, that more money is spent on pain relief than any other medical problem, and that there has been so much p ain research and so many clinical trials revealing such painful facts as redhead s feel more pain, men feel less pain, and that there's a genetic difference between tough guys and wimps. (Much more pain inside.)

CeBIT bites

CeBIT bites 04/30/2004 11:17 PM
PlaybackTime May 1 2004 2:35AM GMT

Bluetooth Bites It?

Bluetooth Bites It? 09/02/2004 07:11 PM
Unstrung.com Sep 2 2004 10:19PM GMT

Sound bites

Sound bites 08/12/2004 11:35 AM
The following blurb appeared in my RSS reader this morning:

Paul Graham: Great Hackers

In one of the most entertaining presentations [clip] from OSCON 2004, Paul Graham answers the questions, what motivates great hackers? [clip] What do they need to do their jobs? How do you recognize them? [clip] How do you get them to come and work for you? [clip] And how can you become one?

[IT Conversations]

I missed Paul Graham's talk at OSCON, but caught some of the ripple effects -- in particular, the reaction to his trashing of Java in favor of Python. This blurb, from the IT Conversations RSS feed, gave me a link to the clip. By repeating the link here, in conjunction with some keywords -- "Paul Graham Java Python" -- I'm pretty certain that in a week or so, this Google query will lead you to the item you are now reading, and thence (if you're so inclined) to Graham's controversial remark, and thence (if you're further inclined) to the complete 30-minute segment posted by Doug Kaye at IT Conversations. ...

Another one bites the dust!

Another one bites the dust! 04/07/2005 02:36 AM
Easytree.org has been shutdown. Easytree, for those unfamiliar, was a tracker site for legal (apparently not) live music and video bit torrents, similar to Archive.org's Live Music collaboration with etree.org. Other discussions of File-sharing on MeFi (specifically the MGM vs. Grokster SCOTUS case) here and here. [more inside]

MP3 sound bites

MP3 sound bites 09/06/2004 11:54 PM

In the inaugural column of this series on hypermedia, I mentioned an MP3 clipping service I wrote to enable quotation of sound bites. Before I explain how it works, let's review why it exists. Audio content -- and of particular interest to me, spoken-word audio content -- is flourishing. In the tech world, Doug Kaye's ITConversations web site is a great example. It features audio interviews with IT personalities, as well as recorded speeches from conferences -- including the recent O'Reilly Open Source Convention. Kaye's audio engineering credentials are impeccable, but nowadays anyone can pick up a microphone and speak into an MP3 file. Today, for example, I listened to Dave Winer's thoughts on the business model for Wi-Fi and blogs, recorded while he was driving northward in Wisconsin. In my own journalistic work, I increasingly record and post audio interviews.

Although the amount of audio content keeps growing, the time available for listening remains constant. Until and unless we achieve a radical breakthrough in speech-to-text translation -- and I'm not holding my breath -- we'll need to find another way to make audio content more granular, and easier to consume selectively. [Full story at O'Reilly Network]

I've been using the service described here for a while now. For this column, the second in a planned series on hypermedia, I rewrote and published the code in hopes that others will be inspired to help move the project forward. ...

Is That Your Finger in Your Ear, or...

Is That Your Finger in Your Ear, or... 12/11/2003 04:57 PM
I've long remembered something about a wrist-phone with mic hidden in the wristband and thumb as earphone, allowing you to talk on the phone simply by making the international sign for "I'll call you." Unfortunately I never blogged it and soon lost track of the link.

Thankfully, it appears to have returned, albeit a finger, not a thumb, in your ear. Yahoo! News reports that NTT DoCoMo's Masaaki Fukumoto is developing the idea. Similar to the "bone phone" idea back in the 70s or 80s, sound travels as vibrations through the bones to the finger, into the ear, where the eardrum converts them back into sound. And as if that weren't juicy enough, "by touching forefinger to thumb, the user starts or ends a call, and uses voice recognition technology to dial the number."

You _know_ I want one...

SLA Presentation in Minnesota

SLA Presentation in Minnesota 04/14/2005 04:11 PM

Tip from Renee: Free Days is this weekend in Bloomington! Ask her for details. Lots of lakes here, too.

Microsoft v. Minnesota

Microsoft v. Minnesota 03/08/2004 11:22 PM
The Register Mar 8 2004 1:49PM GMT

Landry's Bites Into Gaming

Landry's Bites Into Gaming 02/05/2005 10:18 PM
Restaurant operator branches out with purchase of the Golden Nugget.

Comdex Bites The Dust...Again

Comdex Bites The Dust...Again 03/31/2005 07:58 PM
SYS-CON Media Mar 31 2005 11:46PM GMT

Apple Bites Into Storage.

Apple Bites Into Storage. 01/05/2005 11:47 PM
Byte and Switch: Apple Bites Into Storage.

Another server bites the dust

Another server bites the dust 09/22/2004 02:56 PM
Queen + Hip-Hop Mashups = A Night at the Hip Hopera Better than the Grey Album? Cease and desist in 3, 2, 1...

Bridezilla bites back!

Bridezilla bites back! 06/18/2004 07:48 AM
Fox and WE turned her into a creature from the reality-TV lagoon. Now she's getting even.

Bluetooth virus bites

Bluetooth virus bites 06/16/2004 05:24 AM
IOL: Independent Online Jun 16 2004 9:07AM GMT

Bluetooth bites into the mainstream

Bluetooth bites into the mainstream 05/05/2004 03:23 PM
Personal Computer World May 5 2004 7:37PM GMT

Dog Bites Off N.M. Man's Genitals (AP)

Dog Bites Off N.M. Man's Genitals (AP) 08/31/2004 08:37 PM
AP - A man whose genitals were bitten off by a pit bull remained in serious condition Tuesday, and the dog remained on the loose.

Doggerel Bites Manual

Doggerel Bites Manual 03/08/2004 11:15 PM
A brief poetic look at Simplifi's sky-high charges: Esme Vos of MuniWireless presents her take on the high charges for ad hoc access to iPass's network via Simplifi which we discussed a few days ago....

Monkey Bites Boy at N.Y. Supermarket
(AP)

Monkey Bites Boy at N.Y. Supermarket
(AP) 08/03/2004 08:05 PM
AP - A monkey trained to help a disabled man with chores bit a 2-year-old boy in a Brooklyn supermarket, authorities said.

Panther bites Firewire

Panther bites Firewire 11/05/2003 10:53 AM
Panther Bites Firewire - users get burned. Reports continue to pour in about catastrophic data loss on external firewire drives among users of Mac OS 10.3 (Panther). Apple cont inues to insist that only FW 800 drives are affected, but numerous users of FW 400 drives report similar problems. (more inside)

RealNetworks Bites Apple

RealNetworks Bites Apple 08/04/2004 06:42 PM
The grand scheme only works if the platform is secure. By John C. Dvorak, CBS MarketWatch (via MyAppleMenu)
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