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Canadian Blood Services Promotes Pseudoscience 219

Posted by samzenpus from the type-A-negative-personality dept.
trianglecat writes "The not-for-profit agency Canadian Blood Services has a section of their website based on the Japanese cultural belief of ketsueki-gata, which claims that a person's blood group determines or predicts their personality type. Disappointing for a self-proclaimed 'science-based' organization. The Ottawa Skeptics, based in the nation's capital, appear to be taking some action."
IBM

IBM Targets UFOs, Ghosts, and Goblins With Search Tool 192

Posted by samzenpus from the isn't-halloween-over dept.
coondoggie writes "IBM wants to help you find out if UFOs are real. Well, sort of. With UFO sightings seemingly on the rise, Big Blue is teaming with The Anomalies Network to offer UFO Crawler, a new search engine specifically tuned to search for information about the paranormal, unexplained or just plain bizarre. The search tool employs IBM's OmniFind Yahoo! Edition enterprise search software and the UFO Crawler should help users precisely target and gather information from relevant sources, including thousands of documents and files collected in the vast Anomalies Network archive, as well as multiple global resources across the Web on topics such as such as ghosts, conspiracy theories and extraterrestrials."

Feed Sweden: Monitor Communications (wired.com)

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A Swedish government security plan would allow a defense intelligence agency to monitor -- without a court order -- e-mail traffic and phone calls crossing the nation's borders. By the Associated Press.


Feed Framing Open Source Architecture (wired.com)

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How do you get architects to share? Architecture for Humanity lays the foundation with an open source database. Sonia Zjawinski chats with co-founders Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr about how a $100K TED Prize helped.


Feed Will Biology Solve the Universe? (wired.com)

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Dr. Robert Lanza, famous for his stem cell and cloning research, has come up with some ideas he believes will lead to a unified theory of the universe. It's all in the biology, he says. Wired News interview by Aaron Rowe.


Feed The Coming Plague at TED (wired.com)

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Chris Suellentrop, better known as The New York Times' Opinionator, steps out from behind the Times firewall this week to liveblog the TED conference in Monterey. Can a conference cynic find something to love at the big nerd love-in? It's already scared the crap out of him. In Epicenter.


Feed TED: Jeff Han, A Year Later (wired.com)

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Catapulted to geek stardom literally overnight at this high tech confab in 2006, inventor of mind-blowing touchscreen technology gives Wired News a glimpse into life as an entrepreneur and his new company, Perceptive Pixel. Kim Zetter reports from Monterey.


Censorship

Submission + - Law student web forum: Free speech gone too far?

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The Xoxo Reader
The Xoxo Reader writes: "Today's Washington Post carries a front-page article on the internet message board AutoAdmit (a.k.a. Xoxohth), which proclaims itself the "most prestigious law school discussion board in the world." The message board has recently come under fire for emphasizing a free speech policy that allows its users to discuss, criticize, and attack other law students and lawyers by name. Is this an example of free speech and anonymity gone too far, or is internet trolling just a necessary side effect of a policy that otherwise promotes insightful discussion of the legal community?"
Operating Systems

Submission + - Microsoft responds to DOT ban on Vista, Office, IE

Submitted by roscoetoon
roscoetoon writes: What's Microsoft's response to the DOT's charges? A corporate spokeswoman sent this statement, via e-mail: (caution: microbrain double-speak ahead) ... "We respect the customer's decision. As with any of our other Federal customers, it's our job to help DOT maximize the value of its Enterprise Agreement through the adoption of our technology. We are engaged with large, strategic customers across government at every level, and are working closely with them on these products through their participation in our Technical Adoption Programs."...

From the blog of Mary Jo Foley: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=301
Bug

Submission + - Computer foul-up breaks Canadian tax filing system

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CokeJunky
CokeJunky writes: "During a weekend maintenance window, the Canada Revenue Agency (Fills the same role as the IRS south of the border) experienced data corruption issues in the tax databases. As a precaution, they have disabled all electronic filling services, and paper based returns will be stacking up in the mail room, as returns cannot be filed at all until the problem is fixed. Articles: The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, The Canada Revenue Agency. Apparently on Monday they discovered tax fillings submitted electronically where the Social Insurance Number, and the Date of Birth were swapped."

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