Microsoft's recent lawsuit against TomTom, alleging infringement of filesystem patents, has left many questions unanswered about the legal implications of distributing open source implementations of Microsoft's FAT filesystem. A new Linux ker...  Comment

A little over two hours ago, a Google employee posted a note in this Google Groups thread indicating that Google App Engine was “seeing elevated Datastore latency and error-rates, as well as elevated serving error-rates.” He noted that th...  Comment

Social network Facebook is road testing new privacy settings to replace the various privacy limits currently required for different applications and content. Users will be offered a transition tool to help them move their settings across to a new page.  Comment

In two recent posts (Windows 7 versus Snow Leopard: How much do upgrades really cost? and Do you need more than Windows 7 Home Premium?), I took a closer look at the differences between Windows 7 editions and their counterparts from Apple.  3 Comments

Ian McDonald's Desolation Road is one of my most personally influential novels. It's an epic tale of the terraforming of Mars, whose sweep captures the birth and death of mythologies, economics, art, revolution, politics. Its publication prec...  Comment

Filed under: Michael Jackson A $25,000, solid bronze, 14-karat gold plated, custom casket has been ordered for Michael Jackson.The casket -- ordered last night from Batesville Casket Company -- is called a Promethean and will feature a flame blue v...  8 Comments

Gary Coleman's 23-year-old bride Shannon Price decided it was time for an old-fashioned midget smackdown and was arrested for domestic violence last night. TMZ reports: According to the sheriff's website, Shannon Price was booked for the two ...  4 Comments

A crowd eagerly watches as a man dressed in a white suit performs an elaborate disco routine to the sounds of the Bee Gees' "You Should Be Dancing." Sound familiar? It should; it's the signature sequence from 1977's "Saturday Night Fever." But now the scene belongs to another film as well, "Tony Manero," named after John Travolta's Brooklyn disco king character. In this version, a middle-aged "Fever" fanatic named ....  Comment

We met Ricky Rubio and his family in the Dime/Levi’s Draft suite. Though it was a brief interaction, they didn’t seem like the type of people who would throw a giant temper tantrum until they got exactly what they wanted. By fretting abo...  Comment

Celtics forward Leon Powe tore his ACL in Game 2 of Boston's playoff series against the Bulls. A hard-working fellow who, in two seasons, had put himself in position to get a decent contract in restricted free agency, Powe had suffer...  1 Comment

Who says there’s no such thing as organizational personality. Following in the footsteps of Bobby Cox’s ML record 145 ejections, Braves minor league coaches seem to be upholding a tradition of epic manager meltdowns. Thursday, it was Clas...  1 Comment

Tiger Woods topped Sports Illustrated's annual list of the 50 highest paid American athletes, earning nearly $100 million last year. The list compiles athletes salaries/winnings and endorsements. Woods' earnings nearly doubled #2 on the list...  1 Comment

Citigroup has decided to raise interest rates on credit card accounts in a move which is expected to affect as many as 15 million US customers, according to a report in Financial Times. The hike is interest rates on credit cards is being seen as part...  1 Comment

NEW YORK — The U.S. Marshals Service on Thursday took possession of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff’s $7 million Manhattan penthouse in a move that forced his wife to move elsewhere.  Comment

For the first time since the Great Depression (with a brief exception in 1992) California, state finance officials will begin issuing IOUs today to meet its $24-billion budget shortfall.  1 Comment

Hot on the heels of announcing that they would join the lineup of Internet merchants dumping their affiliates in California, Hawaii, North Carolina and Rhode Island - states that plan to tax Internet referals - Overstock reversed its decision to drop its California-based affiliate advertisers following an assurance from Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Office that his rejection of the affiliate nexus tax bill will stand.  1 Comment

Today in the Washington Post editorial page: former UN Ambassador and unpleasant mustachioed asshole John Bolton says it is time for Israel to start a war with Iran. Sanctions have failed, Iran will nuke us all within days, and we (sorry, they! Onl...  Comment

The National Security Archive has posted a bunch of FBI interview reports from Saddam's interrogation. As the NSA notes, this record is not complete. Not included in these FBI reports are issues of particular interest to students of Iraq’s complicated relationship with the U.S. – the reported role of the CIA...  2 Comments

In the wake of Vanity Fair's scathing exposé detailing tensions between Sarah Palin and many former staffers to John McCain during the '08 presidential campaign, CBS News has obtained an e-mail exchange between Palin and high-level McC...  3 Comments

For a price, the paper offer lobbyists off-the-record access to "those powerful few."  1 Comment

Now that Al Franken is a Senator, everyone is expecting him to bring some much-needed laughter to the halls of Congress. But let's not forget that there's more to Al Franken than comedy. He also wrote When a Man Love a Woman, so he might also...  3 Comments

Sure, everyone knows the new junior senator from Minnesota used to be on SNL (including the roughly 4.5 trillion people yesterday who Tweeted a "good enough, smart enough, and doggone it, people like him" joke after the news broke.) But...  2 Comments

An attack with a violin led the armed offenders squad to a Westport house. Police were called to a house in Romilly St on Sunday after an 18-year-old reported being threatened by his 17-year-old friend. Senior Sergeant Geoff Scott, of the Westport...  Comment

Caturday Conga Line falls prey to nap time. u iz doin it rong...  Comment

The World Health Organization announced new warning signs of swine flue that doctors and patients should be aware of. In a recent statement by WHO, H1N1 influenza is causing mild symptoms that go away without any medication in most patients, but people and doctors should pay close attention to some new signs of Swine Flu.  Comment

Some of you may have seen my BzzAgent post on pork where I expressed my disappointment at not seeing the Canadian Pork label on the cooler shelves at Loblaws.  Comment

About 400,000 Simplicity drop side cribs were recalled Thursday for posing a suffocation hazard. The Chinese-made crib’s hardware can break or deform, allowing the drop side to detach.  1 Comment

Multaq, Sanofi-Aventis’s treatment for heart-rhythm disorders, has made a comeback. Rejected by the FDA in 2006 because of safety concerns, the agency has approved Multaq, the company announced today.  1 Comment

Police in Texas used a Taser on a 42-year-old pastor as well as pepper spray to break up members of his church after police said the pastor interfered with a traffic stop, police said. Jose Moran was arrested early Wednesday morning for interfering with the duties of a public servant in the parking lot of a Webster, Texas, building that is being remodeled for the Iglesias Profetica Peniel Church, Webster police said in a written statement.  Comment

It’s a long way down, but the Sears Tower hopes that a new attraction will boost tourism. Today, the Sears Tower opened four glass enclosures, called the Ledge, on the Skydeck’s West side. The Ledge enclosures will extend more than four f...  3 Comments

Prostitution is a global social phenomenon with a long history, and most countries today perceive prostitution to be a deviant social behavior and aim to minimize the extent of it. Prostitution is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as “a dynamic and adaptive process that involves a transaction between the seller and buyer of a sexual service”.  5 Comments

The Calgary Stampede is being called a "brutal violent spectacle" of animal cruelty by the Humane Society of Canada, which has filed a complaint with Canada's broadcasting regulator over the airing of the world's largest outdoor rodeo. The push to have broadcasters phase out the Stampede - which kicks off on Thursday - from their programming is sparking renewed debate over the controversial Canadian event...  Comment