Science and Technology

Via the always informative Resource Shelf, an excellent way for the interested layman to keep track of “legal news worth reading about,” The Paper Chase. Researched and reported by Professor Bernard Hibbitts and law students at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, here is a glimpse of what’s up …

Austin- based Schlotzsky’s restaurants expanding its free Wi-Fi: Schlotzsky’s today announced it has expanded its popular free wireless Internet access (Cool Cloud) from its Austin base to include 38 restaurants in a total of six states (Texas, North Carolina, Georgia, Ohio, Arizona, California) with more to come. The expansion reflects …

Gibson has a new digital Les Paul guitar coming in April: The first run of 3,000 instruments will retail for about $2,600 each. It looks, sounds and acts like a Les Paul, but it’s not. The technology in the standard electric guitar dates to the 1920s, with few major changes. …

I have a certain amount of affection for Sonny Bono: his self-deprecating personality was appealing (I met him once at his restaurant in Palm Springs), I liked Sonny and Cher as recording artists and entertainers, and I was sad when he skied into a tree. But the other side of …

I’m just giving our Blogads pal Henry Copeland a hard time. Check out this very promising article from Wired about political ads on blogs, er, liberal political blogs, that is: Not even his own staff would call Democratic congressional candidate Ben Chandler a nethead. “He uses the Internet almost exclusively …

A Rockaway, NJ, woman sued by the RIAA for file sharing has countersued on federal racketeering grounds: In what legal experts described as a novel strategy, [Michele] Scimeca is citing federal racketeering laws like the one that jailed mob boss John Gotti to countersue record labels that accused her in …

The RIAA continues its lawsuit campaign against alleged file sharers: The RIAA will file 531 “John Doe” lawsuits today (Feb. 17) against suspected users of illicit peer-to-peer file-sharing services. The suits will be bundled in five lawsuits and filed in federal courts in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Trenton, N.J., and Orlando, Fla. …

A week ago Sunday afternoon, I went down to a local radio station to do an interview with the BBC about the forthcoming Grammys (the station provided their facilities as a courtesy). While waiting to go live, I was chatting with the engineer about the Grammys and about Outkast in …

In light of heavy turmoil, conflict and emotional upheaval regarding content on the site, I believe the time has come to implement a “no hate speech” policy. If there is an instance of hate speech and any member complains about it, if I feel it is unambiguous I will remove …

The woman rumored to have had an affair with John Kerry denies it: Breaking her silence four days after the allegations surfaced on the Internet, Alexandra Polier issued a statement to The Associated Press, saying, “I have never had a relationship with Senator Kerry, and the rumors in the press …