A Hoax Turned Fatal Draws Anger but No Charges

The suicide of a 13-year-old girl after an Internet hoax that was hatched by an adult has brought outrage but officials say the hoax wasn’t illegal.

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Taking Marriage Private

State governments should get out of the matrimony business.

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[ACM] Re: ext2/ext3 on-disk format

“Just on the general topic of recovering emails from “trashed” disks, has it occurred to you that there might be serious investigative applications for a product that does exactly what Asheesh wants? With all the emails getting lost in the White House and all… ”

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NPR : Army Captains Critique Iraq War

Morning Edition, November 28, 2007 · A dozen former U.S. Army captains wrote a column for The Washington Post last month entitled “The Real Iraq We Knew” in which they set out to describe the war they had experienced, instead of the one generals and politicians had described.

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New Photo Gallery.

See my new Photo Gallery.

I’ve given in. My photos are now on Flickr. I’m using FAlbum to integrate them with WordPress.

Engagement Photos

Our engagement photos are online! To access them, you will need to enter Estella‘s e-mail address.

Our photographer was Travis Gagnon. He will also be photographing our wedding and we highly recommend him.

Finger-Friendly ‘Tactile Interface’ Could Aid

“A Johns Hopkins researcher has joined experts from four other institutions who plan to create a dynamic electronic surface to allow blind or visually impaired people to “feel” mathematical graphs, diagrams and other visuals now displayed on computer screens.” -via ACM Tech News

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In Eco-Friendly Factory, Low-Guilt Potato Chips

Frito-Lay is redesigning a potato-chip factory aiming to reduce the energy it consumes and waste it creates.

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Anti-Bush Sign Has Bridge World in an Uproar

In a fight reminiscent of the brouhaha over an anti-Bush statement by Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks in 2003, a team of women who represented the United States at the world bridge championships in Shanghai last month is facing sanctions for a spur-of-the-moment protest.

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From Ants to People, an Instinct to Swarm

Researchers are discovering simple rules that allow thousands of animals to form a collective brain able to make decisions and move like a single organism.

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