Around the Web Today

Posted by shonk at 01:59 AM in Uncategorized Current Events | TrackBack

In the news

• Taiwan sex workers demand rights — they are “urging candidates in the presidential election to support the legalisation of prostitution.”

• Tennessee woman sues CBS over Jackson breast exposure — amazingly, it took three whole days before a class-action lawsuit was filed.

• U.S. taxpayers to subsidize Iraqi wrestling team — apparently, this is an integral part of the rebuilding process.

• Great taste, less privacy — the magnetic strip on the back of your driver’s license contains more data than you might like. And bars and restaurants see this as a great source for marketing data. As if this should surprise anyone.

Other interesting links

• Volkswagen’s Transparent Factory — in my opinion, the coolest link on this list.

• A ‘sexy’ bridge — in the same vein.

• Stephen Wolfram makes A New Kind of Science available for download — thereby exempting you from having to pay 30 bucks to not read it.

• Man stranded in Paris airport for more than ten years — not surprisingly, European bureaucracy is to blame.

• The Sound…Of Silence — there are at least nine different tracks of utter silence available on the iTunes Music Store. At 99 cents a pop. Disappointing to note that John Cage’s 4’33” is not, apparently, among them.

• Students for an Orwellian Society — motto: “Because 2004 is 20 years too late.”