How to catch a bird: Get it drunk!

According to the Reuters news agency, police in Dortmund, Germany say a Crow attacked a woman and young girl over the weekend, but the bird managed to evade their efforts -- that is until they laced some cat food with high-alcohol fruit schnapps. The bird could not resist. A police department spokesman said the crow was completely smashed when they caught up with it, and is now sleeping off its hangover in a local animal home.

Tech News: The New Napster & Tiny portability

I really like gadgets that have function.  I like music and I refuse to
pay a buck a song (I-Tunes, etal), so a $10/month subscription to Napster seems
to be the best way to go...right now.  You can pay 99¢
for a song (and $9.99 for an LP) if you don't want to subscribe, but I would
want a fair amount of time to build up my library before pulling the plug. 
I figure about a month. 

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I strongly suggest you use your personal email
like Hotmail or
Yahoo! Mail when
corresponding with your friends, families and extra-marital partners.  Oh,
forget the last group; they deserve to get caught!  Seriously, for all
practical purposes, privacy protections do not exist at work!  This is a
must-read for corporate employees using company email for personal use. 

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Have you seen the 1-gigabyte USB drive in slick
a color and a cute little package?  They let you keep your stuff with you
even if you're hiking in the wilderness.  The new ones even let you surf
the web on company computers without leaving cookies and downloaded files on
work machines.  $50-$150. 

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Wayne Madsen: Exposing Karl Rove

Wayne Madsen: Exposing Karl Rove