Tuesday, August 03, 2004

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W I R E D N E W S Top Stories - 09:15AM 2.Aug.04. PDT
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Bike Writer Pedals for Protests (Culture 2:00 a.m. PDT)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64419,00.html/wn_ascii
Activist Joshua Kinberg is taking it to the streets with a graffiti-
spraying bicycle, soon to be blanketing the streets of New York with
anti-Bush slogans. You can get involved, too, using the Net and SMS. By
Leander Kahney.
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Internet Radio, Without Drudgery (Culture 2:00 a.m. PDT)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64402,00.html/wn_ascii
To get truly personalized online radio, listeners have to spend time
ranking hundreds or thousands of songs. Last.fm eliminates that tedium
with a small software plug-in that builds accurate profiles based on
songs on a user's hard drive. By Daniel Terdiman.
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JibJab Asks for Court's Help (Culture Sunday)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64428,00.html/wn_ascii
Ludlow Music, owner of Woody Guthrie's famous song, has been
threatening to sue a Web animation site over alleged copyright
infringement. But the site strikes first, filing suit asking a judge to
tell Ludlow to get lost. By Rachel Metz.
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The Danger of the Dead (Med-Tech Center 2:00 a.m. PDT)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,64401,00.html/wn_ascii
Across the country, coroners and health officials are figuring out how
to dispose of hundreds or thousands of infectious corpses in case of a
terrorist attack. By Randy Dotinga.
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Beijing Manifesto (Wired magazine 2:00 a.m. PDT)
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.08/beijing.html
The Chinese love the monumental ambition. They hate the monumental
price tag -- and the 'foreign' design. A portfolio of the grand ideas
and grim realities behind the contentious new vision for China Central
Television. By Rem Koolhaas from Wired magazine.
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9/11 Report Iffy on Tech (Business 2:00 a.m. PDT)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/business/0,1367,64412,00.html/wn_ascii
The 9/11 Commission made recommendations for technology solutions in
its final report -- some specific, some fuzzy -- to bring government
into the information age. By Michael Myser.
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NASA Waffles on Kerry Photos (The Final Frontier 2:00 a.m. PDT)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/space/0,2697,64423,00.html/wn_ascii
The space agency raises the ire of presidential partisans by posting
goofy photos of Sen. John Kerry in a bunny suit on the Web, then
removing them, then putting some of them back up. Also: China may
recruit female astronauts.... and more. By Amit Asaravala.
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Lost Florida Voting Records Found (Machine Politics Friday)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/evote/0,2645,64421,00.html/wn_ascii
The Miami-Dade County case of the missing electronic-voting records
has been solved. Elections officials found the 2002 records, previously
believed lost in computer crashes, on a compact disc in the Elections
Supervisor's office.
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