Deadly $2 heroin targets teens – CNN.com

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Deadly $2 heroin targets teens – CNN.com:
DALLAS, Texas (CNN) — A cheap, highly addictive drug known as “cheese heroin” has killed 21 teenagers in the Dallas area over the past two years, and authorities say they are hoping they can stop the fad before it spreads across the nation.

“Cheese heroin” is a blend of so-called black tar Mexican heroin and crushed over-the-counter medications that contain the an

Iran moves to execute porn stars – CNN.com

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Iran moves to execute porn stars – CNN.com:
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s parliament on Wednesday voted in favor of a bill that could lead to the death penalty for persons convicted of working in the production of pornographic movies.

With a 148-5 vote in favor and four abstentions, lawmakers present at the Wednesday session of the 290-seat parliament approved that “producers of pornographic works and main element

China Threatens War Escalation Over Bush Handshake

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China Threatens War Escalation Over Bush Handshake:

China Threatens War Escalation Over Bush Handshake
Top news story in China ignored in U.S.; Beijing furious about warming of American-Taiwanese relations
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Wednesday, June 13, 2007

In an astounding development that has completely failed to register any attention amongst mainstream U.S. media, China promised to escalate preparations for war in advance of a potential conflict, after President Bush shook hands with a Taiwanese government official yesterday.

Bush shook hands and met with Taiwan’s representative to the United States, Joseph Wu, on Tuesday,

Better late Then Never…

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My Late tribute to Actor Charles Nelson Reilly, Died. May 27
Charles Nelson Reilly, the Tony Award winner who later became known for his ribald appearances on the “Tonight Show” and various game shows, died of complications from pneumonia on May 27. He was 76. In 1962, Reilly appeared on Broadway as Bud Frump in the original Broadway production of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.” The role won Reilly a Tony Award. He was nominated for a Tony again for playing Cornelius in “Hello, Dolly!” In 1997 he received another nomination for directing Julie Harris and Charles Durning in a revival of “The Gin Game.” Reilly was a regular on programs like “Match Game” and “Hollywood Squares” in the 1970s and ’80s, often wearing giant glasses and colorful suits with ascots.

Louisiana town banning saggy pants; plans fines jail terms for violators

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Louisiana town banning saggy pants; plans fines jail terms for violators:
Louisiana town banning saggy pants; plans fines jail terms for violators
Published: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 | 12:24 PM ET
DELCAMBRE, La. (AP) – It soon will be a crime in this Cajun-country town to let the waistband of your pants sag too low in public.

Mayor Carol Broussard has said he will sign an ordinance the town council approved this week setting penalties of up to six months in jail and a $500 fine for being caught in pants that show undergarments or certain parts of the body.

Broussard said he has nothing against saggy pants but thinks people who wear them should use discretion. “It’s gotten way out of hand out here,” he said.

Albert Roy, the councilman who introduced the ordinance, said he thought the fine was a little steep and should be more in the $25 range, but he still favoured the measure.

“I don’t know if it will do any good, but it won’t hurt,” Roy said. “It’s obvious,

Talkiphone posts iPhone FAQ – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

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Talkiphone posts iPhone FAQ – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW):
Talkiphone posts iPhone FAQ
TalkiPhone has posted their 101-question-long iPhone FAQ. The FAQ, which runs the gamut from “Are AT&T stores really going to open at 6PM on June 29th” to “Will the iPhone support Adobe PDF documents?” collects information from around the Internet and combines it into a single easy-to-search document. The FAQ is clearly a work in progress and some of their answers differ from what I have been led to understand, so take the information there with a wee grain of salt. You can always review our iPhone posts for more tidbits on the greatest gadget since the sliced-bread slicer.

1Passwd Update for Safari 3 Beta

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1Passwd Update for Safari 3 Beta:
Wow those guys work fast! No sooner did Steve announce the availability of Safari 3 beta, and there’s an update for 1Passwd to work with it! Awesome response guys!
1Passwd is a fantastic utility that saves all your passwords and unifies them across your many OS X browsers. It even manages your identities (aliases?) so you can fill out webforms with a single click. Until youve used it, it might not sound like something you need – thats how I felt anyway. But after getting it through MacHeist, I couldnt deny it any longer, and I paid for the upgrade.

A Medical Marijuana Law Gains Momentum in Albany – June 12, 2007 – The New York Sun

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A Medical Marijuana Law Gains Momentum in Albany – June 12, 2007 – The New York Sun:
ALBANY — Following in the footsteps of Connecticut’s Legislature, New York State lawmakers are expected to approve legislation allowing the use of marijuana for medical purposes.

The Democrat-led Assembly could pass a medical marijuana bill as early as this week, according to the bill’s main sponsor. The Republican-led Senate is expected to follow suit, lawmakers said.

It’s not clear if Governor Spitzer would support the bill. As a candidate last year, Mr. S

Amazingly clever yet scary ebay scam using javascript

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Amazingly clever yet scary ebay scam using javascript:
The javascript not only changes the sellers rating, it also points the sellers link to an actual seller with that rating. Amazingly, Ebay allows javascript to be embedded into templates thus allowing pages to be manipulated in this way. I have seen the offending piece of code which I was going to post but decided against for obvious reasons. I am astounded to think that there are no checks in place to prevent this from happening.

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YouTube to test video ID with Time Warner, Disney | Technology | Reuters

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YouTube to test video ID with Time Warner, Disney | Technology | Reuters:

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Top online video service YouTube will soon test a new video identification technology with two of the world’s largest media companies, Time Warner Inc. and Walt Disney Co..

The technology, developed by engineers at YouTube-owner Google Inc., will help content owners such as movie and TV studios identi

Kinyo DS-350 speakers play music off your USB stick

Kinyo DS-350 speakers play music off your USB stick:

From the “why aren’t more companies doing this?” department comes Kinyo’s DS-350 USB flash disk drive speaker, which can play MP3s and WMAs from USB flash drives, despite being in an enclosure the size of an average MP3 player dock. This particular example is a rather unimpressive one, being that the USB port’s location means your stick will jut out, the speakers are only rated at 2 Watts total output, and it runs off 4 AA batteries (yuck!). Anyway, it’s still nice to see companies come out with gadgets that give the owner a little more choice about what they can plug in: the DS-350 is shipping now for around $40, so if you’re looking to give your flash drive a tinny soundtrack, then go ahead and snap one up.

[Via Chipchick]

 

Alcohol per country.

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Alcohol | Drink up | Economist.com:
Drink up
Jun 12th 2007
LUXEMBOURG glugs more than 15.5 litres of alcohol per person in a year, more than any other country. One explanation is that the duty on alcohol is relatively cheap in the tiny nation, encouraging booze tourism from its more heavily taxed neighbours. No such explanation for the Irish, however, who quaff 13.7 litres a year, according to the World Health Organisation. European countries, with their cultural acceptance of alcohol, tend to dominate the top places. In America, where stricter minumum-age requirements apply, the average person drinks 8.6 litres a year.

Wheelchair Olympian Adams suspended for positive cocaine test

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Wheelchair Olympian Adams suspended for positive cocaine test:
Wheelchair Olympian Adams suspended for positive cocaine test
Last Updated: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 | 12:56 PM ET
CBC Sports
Canadian wheelchair athlete and Olympic champion Jeff Adams has been banned from competition for two years after testing positive for cocaine at the 2006 wheelchair marathon championships in Ottawa.

Russian ATM runs on unactivated copy of Windows

Granted, we’d be a tad more surprised about this if it wasn’t found in Russia, but this one defies logic regardless. While we’re unsure if tricksters have figured out a way to siphon unthinkable quantities of cash from this particular ATM, the owners should be ashamed of themselves for running a (presumably pirated) unactivated copy of Windows on the public banking machine. Of course, there’s quite a few workarounds for this problem if you take the time to look, but seriously, who skimps on a product activation code when running a multi-million (billion?) dollar banking operating?

[Via TheRawFeed]

 

Google named worst privacy offender in study

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Google named worst privacy offender in study
By Nate Anderson | Published: June 11, 2007 – 05:51AM CT

Google to anonymize logs in a nod to privacy advocates
Introducing iGoogle: Google’s Personalized Homepage rebranded
A new report puts Google in last place when it comes to privacy protection. Despite recent moves to anonymize server logs and other pro-privacy gestures, Privacy International called the company “an endemic threat to privacy.”

Only Google earned the dismal “black” color bar from the group, which has just issued a report on Internet privacy that took six months to assemble (see the rankings [PDF]). The current report is preliminary; final results will be released in September.

The report rated top Internet companies on privacy issues and distilled the various results into a single color bar. Microsoft was two ranks up from Google, earning a curry-colored “serious lapses” rating. Amazon scored one level higher with its yellow “notable lapses” rank, and eB

The Raw Story | Senator Lieberman advocates military strike on Iran

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The Raw Story | Senator Lieberman advocates military strike on Iran:

Senator Lieberman advocates military strike on Iran

Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) on CBS’s Face the Nation this morning laid out a case for the US taking military action against Iran.

“Iraq is now the main front in the long war we are fighting against the Islamist terrorists who attacked us on 9/11. In fact 90% of the suicide bombers in Iraq today killing Iraqis and American soldiers are foreign Al Qaeda fighters. Iran is training and equipping soldiers, Iraqis, to come in and kill American soldiers and Iraqis,” said Lieberman.

Host Bob Schieffer then asked Lieberman what the United States should do about Iran.

Lieberman said that Iran is at war with the US and “the moderates” and that while he supports sitting down and talking with the Iranian government, that might not be enough.

“If we’re going to sit and talk with the Iranians, tell them what