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RIAA backtracks after embarrassing P2P defendant
When the RIAA filed a file-sharing lawsuit against a sergeant in the US Army earlier this year, it included the customary exhibits with screenshots of what it alleges are the defendant’s Kazaa library. Along with the 367 sound recordings that Sgt. Nicholas Paternoster is accused of illegally sharing, the exhibit also contained over 4,200 other files—including pornographic images—that had nothing to do with the labels’ case. Recognizing its latest gaffe, the RIAA filed a motion asking that the original exhibit be removed from the public record and replaced with a modified exhibit without the superfluous file names.

If AT&T Ran The Highway System… - Digital Life Blog - InformationWeek
If AT&T ran the highway system, things would be different. Only AT&T-approved cars would be allowed on the roads, all of which would be toll roads.

Drivers would have to prepay their tolls, based on the estimated number of miles they expected to drive. Those who drove fewer miles than estimated would get no refund; those who drove more would be charged for the overage at a higher rate.

The AT&T-approved Apple iCar would be limited to a top speed of 30 mph. Sales people in AT&T car showrooms would have no idea how the iCar operated.

Buyers of the iCar would be required to use it for a period of two years or to pay a penalty. In addition to the purchase price of the iCar, buyers would have to pay a one-time activation fee to get the engine to start, not to mention the taxes.

AT&T’s roads would feature fluctuating speed limits. In some cases, speed limit reductions would correspond to the traffic on the road; in others, the speed limit would just drop for no apparent reason. Posted speed limits would not correspond with actual ones.

The engines powering AT&T cars would sometimes just stop, depending on the driver’s location. No warning about these “dead spots” would be provided.

Many of AT&T’s roads would be made of dirt, despite tax credits AT&T received to pave its roads.

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KJCT8.com - Grand Junction, Montrose - Weather, News, Sports | A Grand Valley miracle, a mule gives birth
High up on the Mesa, in the Grand Valley town of Collbran, a tiny four legged wonder sticks close to its mothers side. It is the latest addition to the ranch owned by Larry and Laura Amos. But this is a once-in-a-million, genetically impossible occurrence of a mule giving birth.

The mother of this beauty, is named Kate. She is a mule. Mules are a hybrid of two species, a female horse and a male donkey. Breading the two results in a species with 63 chromosomes. A horse has 64, a donkey has 62. A mule can’t reproduce because you need an even number of chromosomes to divide into pairs.

This little wonder came into the world in late April to the shock of the Amos family. Doting mother Kate has no idea what she has accomplished.

According to the magazine, “Mules and More”, it is theoretically impossible for mules to be sires or dams. Mule fertility is so rare that the Romans had a saying, “Cum mula peperit” meaning “when a mule foals,” or in modern terms, “when hell freezes over.”

Mr. Gonzales’s Never-Ending Story - New York Times
Americans have been waiting months for Mr. Bush to fire Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who long ago proved that he was incompetent and more recently has proved that he can’t tell the truth. Mr. Bush refused to fire him after it was clear Mr. Gonzales lied about his role in the political purge of nine federal prosecutors. And he is still refusing to do so — even after testimony by the F.B.I. director, Robert Mueller, that suggests that Mr. Gonzales either lied to Congress about Mr. Bush’s warrantless wiretapping operation or at the very least twisted the truth so badly that it amounts to the same thing.

Mr. Gonzales has now told Congress twice that there was no dissent in the government about Mr. Bush’s decision to authorize the National Security Agency to spy on Americans’ international calls and e-mails without obtaining the legally required warrant. Mr. Mueller and James Comey, a former deputy attorney general, say that is not true. Not only was there disagreement, but they also say that they almost resigned over the dispute.

U.S. Set to Offer Huge Arms Deal to Saudi Arabia - New York Times
The Bush administration is preparing to ask Congress to approve an arms sale package for Saudi Arabia and its neighbors that is expected to eventually total $20 billion at a time when some United States officials contend that the Saudis are playing a counterproductive role in Iraq.

Linux: The 0.01 Release | KernelTrap
“This is a free minix-like kernel for i386( ) based AT-machines,” began the Linux version 0.01 release notes in September of 1991 for the first release of the Linux kernel. “As the version number (0.01) suggests this is not a mature product. Currently only a subset of AT-hardware is supported (hard-disk, screen, keyboard and serial lines), and some of the system calls are not yet fully implemented (notably mount/umount aren’t even implemented).” Booting the original 0.01 Linux kernel required bootstrapping it with minix, and the keyboard driver was written in assembly and hard-wired for a Finnish keyboard. The listed features were mostly presented as a comparison to minix and included, efficiently using the 386 chip rather than the older 8088, use of system calls rather than message passing, a fully multithreaded FS, minimal task switching, and visible interrupts. Linus Torvalds noted, “the guiding line when implementing linux was: get it working fast. I wanted the kernel simple, yet powerful enough to run most unix software.”

Slashdot | Microsoft Claims a Billion Windows Installs by End of 2008
“Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer claimed yesterday that there will be a billion machines running Windows within a year. ‘The install base of Windows computers this coming 12 months will reach 1 billion. If you stop and just think about that, parse that for a second, by the end of our fiscal year ‘08, there will be more PCs running Windows in the world than there are automobiles, which is at least to me kind of a mind-numbing concept.’”

Newsflash: Time May Not Exist — Discover Magazine

No one keeps track of time better than Ferenc Krausz. In his lab at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, he has clocked the shortest time intervals ever observed. Krausz uses ultraviolet laser pulses to track the absurdly brief quantum leaps of electrons within atoms. The events he probes last for about 100 attoseconds, or 100 quintillionths of a second. For a little perspective, 100 attoseconds is to one second as a second is to 300 million years.

But even Krausz works far from the frontier of time. There is a temporal realm called the Planck scale, where even attoseconds drag by like eons. It marks the edge of known physics, a region where distances and intervals are so short that the very concepts of time and space start to break down. Planck time—the smallest unit of time that has any physical meaning—is 10^-43 second, less than a trillionth of a trillionth of an attosecond. Beyond that? Tempus incognito. At least for now.

Efforts to understand time below the Planck scale have led to an exceedingly strange juncture in physics. The problem, in brief, is that time may not exist at the most fundamental level of physical reality. If so, then what is time? And why is it so obviously and tyrannically omnipresent in our own experience? “The meaning of time has become terribly problematic in contemporary physics,” says Simon Saunders, a philosopher of physics at the University of Oxford. “The situation is so uncomfortable that by far the best thing to do is declare oneself an agnostic.”

No one has yet succeeded in using the Wheeler-DeWitt equation to integrate quantum theory with general relativity. Nevertheless, a sizable minority of physicists, Rovelli included, believe that any successful merger of the two great masterpieces of 20th-century physics will inevitably describe a universe in which, ultimately, there is no time.

The possibility that time may not exist is known among physicists as the “problem of time.” It may be the biggest, but it is far from the only temporal conundrum. Vying for second place is this strange fact: The laws of physics don’t explain why time always points to the future. All the laws—whether Newton’s, Einstein’s, or the quirky quantum rules—would work equally well if time ran backward. As far as we can tell, though, time is a one-way process; it never reverses, even though no laws restrict it.

United Press International - Security & Terrorism - Briefing
The American Civil Liberties Union Wednesday said it is “do or die time” to save the U.S. Constitution.

The ACLU in a statement urged the U.S. Congress to “vote to hold White House officials in contempt for refusing to cooperate with legitimate congressional subpoenas.”

The ACLU statement said the issue had become “a constitutional crisis that threatens to destroy the separation of powers.”

“Presidents have tried in the past to overreach in claiming executive privilege,” said Caroline Fredrickson, director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office. “However, Congress has long served as a check to such abuses of power, slapping the presidents hand when needed and pursuing contempt or enforcement actions that eventually resulted in the release of crucial information. Todays Congress must do the same if it wishes to remain a meaningful and independent branch of government.”

The ACLU said it “rejected claims that Congress responsibility to conduct oversight or investigate executive misconduct was somehow less important than its legislative function and therefore not worthy of compulsory enforcement.”

“Its do-or-die time for the separation of powers,” Fredrickson said. “Congress is facing a historic moment when it can fight for its rightful place in our Constitution or accept the presidents continued and sweeping claims of supremacy.”

The ACLU noted that U.S. courts “have long supported Congress authority not only to pass laws, but also to investigate their application. The courts have asserted that claims of executive privilege are a potentially dangerous proposition that should only be applied, and can only be upheld, under narrow circumstances.”

The confrontation between the Democratic-controlled 110th Congress and the Bush administration on warrantless surveillance has been escalating in recent weeks, with both sides hardening their positions.

‘Star Trek’ Gets A ‘Hero’ To Play Spock - Movie News Story | MTV Movie News
Over the last 10 months, millions of TV fans have come to despise 30-year-old actor Zachary Quinto, who plays Sylar on TV’s “Heroes.” They’ve learned to fear him, pray for an end to his killing spree and hope that one of his co-stars would stab, shoot or blow him to smithereens.

Now they’re likely to hope he’ll live long and prosper.

In the biggest announcement yet at this year’s ongoing Comic-Con (see ” ‘Iron Man’ Details, ‘300′ Bash, Life-Size Black Pearl: What To Expect At Comic-Con 2007″), the stoic actor was unveiled on Thursday (July 26) as the new Mr. Spock. Quinto took the stage alongside director/producer J.J. Abrams, writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman — after which another major announcement was made.

“He’s going to put the ears on one more time,” Abrams said. “Ladies and gentlemen, Leonard Nimoy.”

“People have asked me why I’m doing this movie, and I think it’s simple: It’s logical,” cracked the 76-year-old Nimoy, who, like Quinto, had similarly been unannounced to the throngs filling the convention hall. But while Nimoy — who will have a cameo in the flick — drew attention, so did his successor, Quinto, who is starring in the movie.

“As much as [Abrams] wants me to be [like Nimoy], I suppose … I certainly intend to bring my own spin to it, and working with these guys, I’m sure I’ll find it,” he said.

One of the most substantial characters in all of sci-fi, Spock is the half-Vulcan, half-human first officer of the USS Enterprise. A main character in “Trek” ever since Gene Roddenberry first pitched the series in 1964, Spock is constantly battling with the inner conflict of his logical Vulcan half and the emotional human side he tries hard to suppress. With the exception of a few brief flashback scenes, Nimoy alone has personified the pointy-eared protagonist in 80 classic episodes, six films and dozens of cartoons, video games and other media.

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Daily Kos: O’Reilly & the grand FOX Nutwork tradition
FOX “News” Nutwork. Is it fair and balanced? Is it even a “news” outlet at all?

Well, what are the odds of all this happening by accident?

Bad Astronomy Blog » Texas: Doomed
Via the DefCon blog comes that news that Texas governor Rick Perry has appointed a creationist to head the Texas State Board of Education.

I’ll give you a moment to clean off your screen. Yes, you read that right.

At first I thought, “No, not even a politician in Texas could possibly do something that dumb, that contrary to reality, that horrifying to their kids. DefCon Blog must have gotten it wrong!”

And then I did a few searches. DefCon Blog got it right. According to the Dallas Morning News:

Texas Freedom Network president Kathy Miller … noted that in 2003, Dr. McLeroy was one of four board members who voted against proposed high school biology textbooks because he felt their coverage of evolution was “too dogmatic” and did not include possible flaws in Charles Darwin’s theory of how life on Earth evolved from lower forms.

That is straight out of the creationist tactics notebook. In case you’re not sure, the article goes on to quote McLeroy:

“It is wrong to teach opinion as fact,” he said.

Pssst! Someone needs to tell him it’s also unconstitutional to teach religion as science.

Property tax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Before the American Civil War, New Orleans was one of the largest cities in the United States, with a population of over 100,000. The federal government was funded by import and export duties and the states and local governments were funded by property taxes.

New Orleans was sensitive to property taxes. To make the job of the assessors easier, the assessors adopted a rule that said that property taxes were proportional to the front footage of the lot, that is, the length of the lot along its street. The depth of lots was fairly consistent due to the streets’ fairly consistent layout. The rule was thus relatively accurate since land, not the structure, represented the value of the property.

To minimize property tax, lots were narrow but deep. As a result, houses were similarly narrow but deep. This is a striking difference from the contemporary ranch-style homes. The New Orleans house of that time became known as a shotgun house because it was said that you could stand in the front door and shoot a shotgun all the way through to the rear wall without hitting anything within. Hallways were avoided because they took up valuable room width inside the house.

The shotgun double became popular then. A shotgun double was two residences under one roof and the building was two rooms wide, instead of the shotgun’s single room width. The double has two front doors and the two residences share a common set of center chimneys. Each room had a fireplace for heat. This style saved the narrow alleys between each house that lead to the back yard as well as the construction cost of the multiple chimneys.

Citizens of New Orleans complained that their neighbor with a two-story house paid the same property tax as that paid by the owner of a one-story house. The assessors changed their rule to one that determined property taxes under a formula: the front footage times the number of stories the house had.

As a result of that rule change, the camelback house was born. A camelback house has a hump at the back; it was two stories tall in the back but only one in the front. In response, the assessors made a new rule that determined how far back the hump began before the house was determined to be a two story house.

Nevertheless, the property owners complained that the much grander camelback down the street paid the same tax as the single story house. In exasperation, the assessors made an entirely new rule: the tax would be based on the number of rooms within the house.

To the extent that anyone considered it previously, closets became totally unrealistic. A closet was counted as a room because a closet is an enclosed space with a door. So instead of closets, home owners used furniture to store clothes - the chiffarobe was born.

So, the New Orleans house is narrow and deep. It has no closets or hallways but every room has a fire place. City water and sewerage was added later so all the rooms that require this are at the back of the house at the site of the back porch.

Veblen good - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Commodities are Veblen goods if people’s preference for buying them increases as a direct function of their price.

The definition does not require that any Veblen goods actually exist. However, it is claimed that some types of high-status goods, such as expensive wines or perfumes are Veblen goods, in that decreasing their prices decreases people’s preference for buying them because they are no longer perceived as exclusive or high status products. Similarly, a price increase may increase that high status, exclusive perception, actually increasing preference. The Veblen effect is named after the economist Thorstein Veblen, who first pointed out the concepts of conspicuous consumption and status-seeking.

The Veblen effect is one of a family of theoretically possible anomalies in the general theory of demand in microeconomics. The other related effects are:

* the snob effect: preference for goods because they are different from those commonly preferred;
* the bandwagon effect: preference for a good increases as the number of people buying them increases (see network externality);
* the counter-Veblen effect, in which preference for goods increases as their price falls.

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5 Polyps Removed From Bushs Colon | The Onion - Americas Finest News Source
Following a routine colonoscopy, doctors removed five small polyps from President Bush. What do you think?

Just What the Founders Feared: An Imperial President Goes to War - New York Times
The nation is heading toward a constitutional showdown over the Iraq war. Congress is moving closer to passing a bill to limit or end the war, but President Bush insists Congress doesn’t have the power to do it. “I don’t think Congress ought to be running the war,” he said at a recent press conference. “I think they ought to be funding the troops.” He added magnanimously: “I’m certainly interested in their opinion.”

The war is hardly the only area where the Bush administration is trying to expand its powers beyond all legal justification. But the danger of an imperial presidency is particularly great when a president takes the nation to war, something the founders understood well. In the looming showdown, the founders and the Constitution are firmly on Congress’s side.

Given how intent the president is on expanding his authority, it is startling to recall how the Constitution’s framers viewed presidential power. They were revolutionaries who detested kings, and their great concern when they established the United States was that they not accidentally create a kingdom. To guard against it, they sharply limited presidential authority, which Edmund Randolph, a Constitutional Convention delegate and the first attorney general, called “the foetus of monarchy.”

Up To Date Feed: South Park’s Warcraft Episode Up For Emmy
Dwarven champions and South Park fans are united in general glee this week after South Park’s ‘Make Love, Not Warcraft’ was nominated for an Emmy TV award.

The hilarious – yet affectionate – send-up of World of Warcraft, its crack-like addiction qualities and the repercussions are brilliantly brought to cartoon life.

If Cartman taking a dump into a bedpan held by his mother because he can’t be arsed [sorry] to stop playing WoW doesn’t bring a tear of mirth to your eye, you’re already dead.

You can watch the whole episode online by going to 4spark.com, clicking on Season 10 and choosing episode 1008. Have a good weekend.

Pick Your Candidate
Okay, here’s a really simple way to find out which candidates share your views. This script is composed entirely of data collected by www.2decide.com. Enter your choices below and hit GO to rank the candidates.

Here’s how it works, if you want to know. If you agree with a candidate, he gets point(s). If you disagree, take point(s) away. Unkown/other results in no points. The number of points given or taken depends on the weight you set. “Meh” is worth 1 point, “important” 2, and “key” is worth 5. The items you disagree about will be listed directly underneath each candidate (if they score greater than zero).

YouTube role grows as U.S. election nears
In 2004, YouTube didn’t exist. Three years later, politicians have learned to fear and revere the video-sharing Web site that has become a vital part of the campaign for the 2008 U.S. presidential election.

From rapid dissemination of political blunders, often with funny tunes, to a new wave of music videos featuring scantily clad women singing the praises of their presidential favorites, YouTube.com has sparked a new interest in politics.

More than 2.5 million people have viewed “I’ve Got a Crush…On Obama” about Democratic Sen. Barack Obama since it was posted last month. A rebuttal video of women fighting over Obama and leading Republican contender Rudy Giuliani has been watched more than 500,000 times in four days.

While much on YouTube is skewed to a U.S. audience, the company — bought by Web search leader Google Inc. last year for $1.65 billion — now has local sites reflecting that more than half of viewers are outside the United States.

Many candidates vying for their party’s nomination to run for president have embraced the technological changes, holding polls via YouTube, asking for campaign input and making announcements on the site.

“In the past, the campaigns sort of stuck their toe into technology and innovation — it was a small detail of what was going on,” said Phil Noble, founder of PoliticsOnline.

“The difference in this election is that technology has become fundamental. Every campaign has figured out ways to use YouTube all the time.”

The FBI Can Eavesdrop on You Even When Your Cell Phone is Turned Off
Did you know that the FBI can listen in to any and all of your conversations through your cell phone–even when you’re not actually speaking on the phone?

Using your cell phone’s tracking device, the FBI can turn on the microphone in your cell phone and listen to any conversations taking place nearby.

Check out the video to find out the only way you can prevent this intrusion on privacy.

Capitol Hill Blue’s The Rant: Bush on the Constitution: ‘Just a goddamned piece of paper’

Last month, Republican Congressional leaders filed into the Oval Office to meet with President George W. Bush and talk about renewing the controversial USA Patriot Act.

Several provisions of the act, passed in the shell shocked period immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, caused enough anger that liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union had joined forces with prominent conservatives like Phyllis Schlafly and Bob Barr to oppose renewal.

GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous provisions of the act could further alienate conservatives still mad at the President from his botched attempt to nominate White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.

“I don’t give a goddamn,” Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.”

“Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.”

“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”

I’ve talked to three people present for the meeting that day and they all confirm that the President of the United States called the Constitution “a goddamned piece of paper.”

And, to the Bush Administration, the Constitution of the United States is little more than toilet paper stained from all the shit that this group of power-mad despots have dumped on the freedoms that “goddamned piece of paper” used to guarantee.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, while still White House counsel, wrote that the “Constitution is an outdated document.”

Put aside, for a moment, political affiliation or personal beliefs. It doesn’t matter if you are a Democrat, Republican or Independent. It doesn’t matter if you support the invasion or Iraq or not. Despite our differences, the Constitution has stood for two centuries as the defining document of our government, the final source to determine ­ in the end ­ if something is legal or right.

Every federal official ­ including the President ­ who takes an oath of office swears to “uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says he cringes when someone calls the Constitution a “living document.”

“”Oh, how I hate the phrase we have-a ‘living document,’” Scalia says. “We now have a Constitution that means whatever we want it to mean. The Constitution is not a living organism, for Pete’s sake.”

As a judge, Scalia says, “I don’t have to prove that the Constitution is perfect; I just have to prove that it’s better than anything else.”

President Bush has proposed seven amendments to the Constitution over the last five years, including a controversial amendment to define marriage as a “union between a man and woman.” Members of Congress have proposed some 11,000 amendments over the last decade, ranging from repeal of the right to bear arms to a Constitutional ban on abortion.

Scalia says the danger of tinkering with the Constitution comes from a loss of rights.

“We can take away rights just as we can grant new ones,” Scalia warns. “Don’t think that it’s a one-way street.”

And don’t buy the White House hype that the USA Patriot Act is a necessary tool to fight terrorism. It is a dangerous law that infringes on the rights of every American citizen and, as one brave aide told President Bush, something that undermines the Constitution of the United States.

But why should Bush care? After all, the Constitution is just “a goddamned piece of paper.”
© Copyright 2006 by Capitol Hill Blue

University of Oxford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The University of Oxford (usually abbreviated as Oxon. for post-nominals), located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world.[3]

The university traces its roots back to at least the end of the 11th century, although the exact date of foundation remains unclear. This dating would make its duration now equal to 900 years, comparable to Plato’s Academy (ca. 400 BC - 529 AD). After a dispute between students and townsfolk broke out in 1209, some of the academics at Oxford fled north-east to the town of Cambridge, where the University of Cambridge was founded. The two universities have since had a long history of competition with each other. (See Oxbridge rivalry.)

The University of Oxford is a member of the Russell Group of research-led British universities, the Coimbra Group (a network of leading European universities), the League of European Research Universities, and is also a core member of the Europaeum. Oxford is often ranked among the world’s top-5 universities.

2008 Presidential Election Candidates on the Issues
2008 Presidential Election Candidates on the Issues
The following is a general guideline to the candidates’ positions on some of the top issues. Some of the issues are more complex and usually require more than a ‘yes/no’ or ’support/oppose’ position. Please visit the official campaign site of the candidate in question for more details about each issue.

The Raw Story | Stephen Colbert, Michael Moore unite against CNN web of lies
In the spirit of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend,” filmmaker Michael Moore joined forces with Stephen Colbert to take on CNN in a segment on The Colbert Report Thursday night.

“Loyal viewers of the Report know theres no love lost between me and CNN. They are worse than the New York Times because I cannot line my birdcage with tapes of the Situation Room. Ive tried, its not absorbent,” Colbert said. “But I recently discovered in my disdain for CNN I have a strange bedfellow, Michael Moore, who for the past week has gone toe-to-toe with CNN over the facts of his new healthcare documentary, SiCKO.”

Earlier this month, Moore was engaged in a public spat with CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta over a report that claimed the film fudged facts with sloppy reporting. After the report aired, CNN did acknowledge it had made one mistake.

“Wooo CNN admits it is a web of lies,” Colbert said.

Colbert called Moore a “mendacious, muckraking, loudmouth bully,” and accused him of being a sloppy dresser, before inviting the filmmaker to appear as a guest.

“Its no secret, Im no fan of you,” Colbert told Moore. “But the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and you really kicked CNN in the Blitzer on this one.”

Moore accused CNN of being beholden to its advertisers in the pharmaceutical industry in attacking his film.

“Whats wrong with that? Should pharmaceutical companies not advertise?” Colbert asked. “Do we not get to know whats going to cure our restless leg syndrome?”

Moore said his film is meant to show “the other side of the story youre not hearing on the nightly news.”

The following video is from Comedy Centrals Colbert Report, broadcast on July 19.

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Booby Trap: Kids Use US-Donated Laptops To Surf The Porn, Of Course - Gizmodo
The Third World shorties make me so proud. According to Reuters, “Nigerian schoolchildren who received laptops from a U.S. aid organization have used them to explore pornographic sites on the internet.” The article says that the Nigerian government, who released the statement, felt the educational program had “gone awry” on account of the boobies, but did not say whether government officials were angry at the schoolchildren, angry with the US-based providers of laptops, or angry that they themselves did not have the necessary laptoppage to do some “exploring” of their own.