NY Bus Converted Into Oven for Matzos

Seeded on Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:53 PM EDT (The Washington Post)

"It wasn't your typical fire.

odd-news

It's over: RIM and NTP settle BlackBerry dispute

Seeded on Sun Mar 5, 2006 9:28 AM EST (Ars Technica)

...and NTP gets a cool $612.5 million.

technology, settlement, patent, blackberry, rim, ntp

Boy, 12, gums up pricey DIA artwork

Seeded on Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:46 PM EST (The Detroit Free Press)

"At the DIA on Friday, a mischievous 12-year-old boy visiting the museum with a school group took a piece of barely chewed Wrigley's Extra Polar Ice out of his mouth and stuck it on Helen Frankenthaler's 1963 abstract painting "The Bay," damaging one of the most important modern

art, odd-news, gum, modern-art, dia, wrigley, detroit-institute-of-arts, frankenthaler, the-bay

Uncle Sam wants YOU to "give your thumbs a rest"

Seeded on Tue Feb 28, 2006 1:16 PM EST (Ars Technica)

This is an interesting article over at Ars Technica about a new and controversial ad campaign by the Center for Disease Control to get gamers to put down the controller and play outside.

entertainment, thumbs, video-games, videogames, center-for-disease-control

Verizon sued for alleged wiretapping

Seeded on Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:14 PM EST (Ars Technica)

According to the article, which describes the attorney who brought this suit as an "entrepreneur" it is unclear whether he is a champion of privacy rights or merely trying to cash in on publicity...

technology, verizon, class-action, nsa, wiretapping

RIAA et al. says CD ripping, backups not fair use

Seeded on Thu Feb 16, 2006 2:22 PM EST (Ars Technica)

I'd like to have faith in organizations such as the RIAA and MPAA... but for some reason, ever since BitTorrent and iPods hit big, I've always thought that it was just a matter of time before I saw this headline.

technology, tech, ipod, copyright, riaa, cd, fair-use