Gonzales calls for mandatory Web labeling law | CNET News.com: "A mandatory rating system will 'prevent people from inadvertently stumbling across pornographic images on the Internet,' Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said at an event in Alexandria, Va."
Guardian | Police in Tehran ordered to arrest women in 'un-Islamic' dress: "Young women shopping in north Tehran's fashionable Tajrish neighbourhood yesterday, however, were uncowed. Matin, 24, a nurse, was wearing a gaudily patterned light-blue head scarf pushed back to reveal sunglasses and bleached blond hair. Her tight, short black manteau with intricate gold patterns seemed designed to provoke the ire of the authorities. But she was unrepentant. 'I'm a married woman and it should be my husband who tells me what and what not to wear. He likes the way I dress,' she said."
The Virtues of a Second Screen - New York Times: "Recent Windows and Mac computers (and some Linux systems) can operate with multiple monitors; with my computer's Windows XP operating system, it took only a few keystrokes and mouse movements to set things up. Once I saw how it improved my productivity, I was an instant convert."
A Penny for Your Thoughts, and 1.4 Cents for the Penny - New York Times: "So retailers demand pennies from their banks, the banks demand them from the Federal Reserve, and the Fed orders them from the mint. Many of the people who get the pennies in change throw them into a jar, where they may sit for years, requiring the mint to make more and more of them."
Comment is free: The 'Hollywood' generals: "We are a nation of starfuckers, and ergo we produce an inordinate amount of schmucks who aspire to stardom. They clamour for their place to sing their way to fame and fortune on American Idol, race their way on The Amazing Race, scheme their way on Survivor, wrestle and scream their way on The Jerry Springer Show, weep their way on Dr Phil, reclaim their momentum on the myriad of reality shows for D-list celebs, and on and on and on. Andy Warhol was only slightly off in his 15 minute estimate; instead it's usually an hour - minus commercials."
Quake: Listening to Earthquakes: "When a loudspeaker produces sound it shakes. During an earthquake the ground shakes. To convert the earthquake shaking to sound we make the loudspeaker shake the same way the ground did. But, if we really did that the sound would be too low for people to hear. So, we speed things up so that the loudspeaker moves back and forth much faster than the ground did and then we can hear it."
Iran, You Ran, Let's Bomb Iran / When all else fails and you're becoming Nixon 2.0, why not just nuke someone, and smirk?: "His formerly enormous pile of betting capital is down to a tiny lump, nothing like back when he had the table rigged and all the pit bosses worked for him and the pile was as big as a roomful of Texas cow pies. But now, fortune is frowning. In fact, fortune is white-hot furious at being so viciously molested, spit upon, raped lo these many years. The truth is coming out: Bush has now lost far, far more bets than he ever won."
Parents rip school over gay storybook - The Boston Globe: "In 'King & King,' two princes kiss at the end of the book"Eeeeeek!
First Coast News - Florida State News - Woman Finds TSA Uniform In Her Luggage: "CLEARWATER, FL -- An airline passenger made a surprising discovery after flying from New Jersey to Florida -- When she opened her luggage, she found a uniform belonging to the Transportation Security Administration.
'I couldn't believe what was on there,' Debra Sanders said."
"It didn't sound like anyone's being uncivil or anything," he said.
cbs5.com - Rove, McClellan Latest In White House Changes: "Rove is giving up oversight of policy development to focus more on politics with the approach of the fall midterm elections."
recorder.com - Today's Headlines: "'I bet it was Max again,' said one young woman, who refused to be identified."
kutv.com - Israel Warns Of New 'Axis Of Terror': "Ambassador Dan Gillerman cautioned that a new 'axis of terror' � Iran, Syria and the Hamas-run Palestinian government � was sowing the seeds of the first world war of the 21st century."
Watch Out, Kids: With GPS Phones, Big Mother Is Watching: "So at least the trackees can know exactly how they are being followed and can react accordingly -- say, by abandoning the phone on a church pew before running off to the mall."
(That it would also help Sprint get more cellphones into the age-12-and-under market is a handy side benefit for the company.)
The youngest, Norma Norwood, said she was "conceived in the park,"That's Norma. The Earthquake Baby. She's 99.
where her parents joined thousands left homeless by the quake. "My parents
snuggled to keep warm," Norwood said. "And when you snuggle, you have a
baby."
To wit: 15 toilets sprouting with plastic flowers; dozens of purple, green, brown and white toilet brushes poking up from the lawn, and a host of multicolored pinwheels whirling in the breeze.Sutton and her partner, Allen Lade, wanted to build a fence. But the township zoning board wouldn't allow it - too “visually imposing,” they said. Ah well.
Paul Drury, Anderson Township's assistant director of development services, said he gets occasional calls about the yard display.
“Most of them are inquiries about why they're allowed to do that,” he said. “We haven't found any zoning violations.”
And throughout New York's history, its political leaders have sought to restore order to the chaotic streetscape and fine-tune urban life. Fiorello H. La Guardia once banned street performances involving monkeys. Decades later, Rudolph W. Giuliani's campaign against squeegee men came to embody his philosophy that fighting crime began with the smaller, quality-of-life offenses. But sometimes, the city's attempts to enforce the laws illuminated its hard-nosed nature:
Mayor Edward I. Koch's favorite parking sign warned motorists: “Don't Even THINK of Parking Here.”
Created for the Robb Report, the Robb cocktail cost $87,600 when it was offered in 2003 at the Rivoli Bar at The Ritz Hotel in London. Now unavailable, the cocktail was made with 22-carat gold leaf Eskalony vodka, Grand Marnier, peach liqueur and topped off with Ritz private label champagne. It came with a custom-made 13.66-carat yellow diamond swizzle stick that doubled as a bracelet.But worry not. If you're in the mood for an expensive drink you can still drop $3,000 on a “Sapphire martini” at Connecticut's Foxwood casino, $10,000 for a diamond martini at Manhattan's Algonquin (I wonder what Dorothy Parker would have said about that), or $1,050 for a shot of Scotch at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.
“I think people are willing to spend more to have a premium experience so they're buying less but they're buying higher quality,” said Brett Anderson, senior vice president and editorial director for the Robb Report, the luxury lifestyle magazine.Guess so.
