Comedian Russell Brand and pop star Katy Perry were married Saturday in northwestern India, the couple confirmed in a statement. (Oct. 24)
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Google is again in the privacy hot seat, as Britain’s privacy commission says it will once again investigate the kind and amount of personal information that the Internet search giant gathered from private Wi-Fi networks as its Google Street View cars patrolled. The BBC: Britain’s privacy watchdog is to look again at what personal information internet giant Google gathered from private wi-fi networks. The Information Commissioner’s Office had investigated a sample earlier this year after it was revealed that Google had collected personal data during its Street View project. At the time, it said no “significant” personal details were collected. Read more Related Entries October 21, 2010 Stevens v. Scalia October 20, 2010 The Thomas Clown Affair
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Olive trees are a symbol of the long history of many Palestinian families, and some Israeli settlers have now launched assaults on the trees, cutting down and torching them and at times attacking farmers in what many observers believe is part of a crescendo of settler militancy. —JCL The Guardian: Eighty-year-old Rasmia Awase had left the best olive trees until last. She and her family had already harvested most of their crop when they went to a small plot near their home in Luban a-Sharqiya on Saturday morning. Here were 40 trees that Awase had planted and tended herself, and they were now, two decades later, at their peak – the most productive of all the trees, which support 37 members of the extended family. But Awase found that someone had got there before them and had chopped down the trees, leaving stumps in the ground and branches scattered about the plot. The family blame hardline Jewish settlers from the nearby Eli settlement. Read more Related Entries October 21, 2010 Stevens v. Scalia October 20, 2010 The Thomas Clown Affair
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If you’re looking to get some BlackBerry up in your Droid , brace yourself for a premium price. Motorola’s Droid Pro worldphone was just spotted at a Verizon test website for $299 on-contract and as much as $700 unsubsidized. Should the 1GHz unit arrive as shown without a chunky rebate of some sort, it would be the most expensive Android handset on offer — a solid $50 more than Samsung’s $250 Epic 4G — a heck of a thing for an 320 x 480 resolution phone without a huge Super AMOLED screen. Perhaps this pricing is preliminary, however, or perhaps dual-mode CDMA / GSM chipsets don’t come cheap. We suppose we’ll find out the answer to the latter question when the HTC Merge finally appears. [Thanks, JP] Droid Pro appears at Verizon for $299? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Photo: Scott McLeod A new study from the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that much of the reason that Americans are over weight is due to sleep deprivation. A lack of enough sleep causes the body to hold onto fat in a biological effort to slow us down…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image: author “It’s like apocalypse time,” to quote a friend, on the situation in France. While much of the world ponders what can be done to avoid peak oil, instability of our transportation systems, and breakdowns of national security, France is making a trial run. If you have been watching the news, you know that the disruptions in France stem from protests against the government’s proposal to raise the retirement age to 62. But for people living and working in France, the effects could be a foretaste of the world when oil runs out. Having an unavoidable commitment in Paris this week, this author can report the expe… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Police have arrested three men suspected of creating a drug lab in a freshmen dormitory at prestigious Georgetown University in Washington. (Oct. 24)
Continue reading …By “they” I’m not just referring to Democrats, but to anyone running against Republicans, including former Republicans now running as independent write-in candidates, i.e. Lisa Murkowski.
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