Feed Blogger Jailed for Slamming Islam (wired.com)
Submission + - South Africa joins countries switching to OSS
An anonymous reader writes: According to reports by Reuters and IOL, the South African government has officially announced that all government departments are to switch to Open Source operating systems and software from this year onwards. There is no word on how long the process will take (likely years), but a joint office to be run by the Department of Science and Technology and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) will be set up by April to oversee the process.
Journal Journal: CNN Just Confirmed it, Chivalry is Dead 7
***UPDATED***
JesseL was kind enough to point me to an article which provides a couple few other details- such as the pr0n was played between 1:30 and 2:30 in the morning, while the door kicking didn't occur until 11:30 that morning! So much for the slant that he was rushing in to rescue her (unless the nighbor is lying, but there doesn't seem to be any reason for that).
So while I'll leave what I originally wrote, charges just made a whole lot more sense.
Submission + - Colossal Squid Caught
michaelrash writes: "From the article, "A fishing crew has caught a colossal squid that could weigh a half-ton and prove to be the biggest specimen ever landed, a fisheries official said Thursday. If calamari rings were made from the squid they would be the size of tractor tires, one expert said. The squid, weighing an estimated 990 pounds and about 39 feet long, took two hours to land in Antarctic waters, New Zealand Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton said.""
Journal SPAM: Partial List of IP Blocks Used by US Terrorist Surveillance
Submission + - Inflatable mirrors may make solar power very cheap
rhettb writes: "Inflatable mirrors for capturing sunlight could reduce the cost of solar power 90% by 2010, making sun energy cost competitive with traditional fossil fuels. CoolEarth Solar, based in Livermore, California, believes its technology could make solar farming economically competitive within three years by making solar cheaper than coal and allowing farmers to become net suppliers of electricity. The technology essentially uses a string of balloons to concentrate and capture the sun's energy without occupying valuable real estate or using large amounts of silicon."
Submission + - Living in underwater complex
Hucko writes: A lot of Sci-fi stories concerning the near future (21st and 22nd centuries) have had some reference to living underwater in some form: evil villain's lab, cities etc. Why aren't we hearing about various stations being built in the vast areas oceans? Are people working on it? Surely there are numerous commercial ventures that could be viable and have profitable gains (the tourist industry would be the first idea, no doubt there are better ideas to be discussed). With all the frontier talk being about going to the moon/mars, I'd almost be just as excited about permanent habitation in an underwater complex.
