Eighty years after they were written, a previously unknown story and a handwritten letter ascribed to Ernest Hemingway have surfaced, stirring a literary and legal dispute between people who want to see them published and people who do not
Giorgio Angelozzi, 80, has lived alone outside Rome with seven cats since his wife died in 1992, but he took the unprecedented step of putting himself up for adoption last month via the Corriere della Sera newspaper. Not satisfied with just running the advertisement, Italy’s main daily ran a front-page story about Angelozzi’s plight. Inundated with offers from families across Italy and as far away as New Zealand, Brazil and the United States, the retired schoolteacher has decided to go to live with Elio and Marlena Riva and their two teenage children in Bergamo, northern Italy
The Biomod company in Montreal has released plans for building your own solar scooter for only CA$1600. Hopefully the engineering community will take an interest, and add brakes to the blueprints
Students have developed a tool which could mean broken web links are history. Peridot, developed by UK intern students at IBM, scans company weblinks and replaces outdated information with other relevant documents and links. It works by automatically mapping and storing key features of web pages, so it can detect significant content changes
More than 50% of Australian online shopping sites are selling goods or services with terms and conditions which robbed shoppers of their legal consumer rights. Deputy ACCC chair Louise Sylvan said many of these sites contained clauses which attempted to disclaim consumers’ warranty rights or limit liability
Nudists, grab your yoga mats and head for San Francisco. City prosecutors on Wednesday said it was not illegal to perform naked yoga in the city — even at the crowded tourist destination of Fisherman’s Wharf. Prosecutors dropped charges against a limber nudist, known locally as the Naked Yoga Guy
, who made a habit of striking yoga poses in the buff in order to promote a book and his lifestyle
Wolves and other predators have long been hunted by farmers hoping to protect their livestock — but new research suggests the slaughter may be unnecessary. The first worldwide review of the effect of predators has found little evidence that they have a significant impact on livestock
Microsoft affirms its plan to make its Internet Explorer upgrades available only through XP updates, while half the Windows world operates with older operating systems
The chairman of the Motorcycle Council of NSW has expressed his outrage at the Road Traffic Authority’s neglect of motorcycle riders in its planned cashless tollways, saying the RTA has not considered motorcycle riders in their plans
Wholesale network provider Comindico will be sold as soon as possible, the company’s voluntary administrator Ferrier Hodgson has announced. The company, which has spent around AU$445 million establishing its IP-based network and backhaul links to the US, entered voluntary administration Wednesday after critical negotiations with investors to save the business failed
Looks like Elvis Costello doesn’t like the FBI talking about what you can do with his discs once you buy them. Above the obnoxious FBI anti-piracy warnings he has added: The artist does not endorse the following warning. The FBI doesn’t have his home phone number and he hopes that they don’t have yours
— via BoingBoing
Australian purebred dogs will soon need genetic identity papers to prove their pedigree and show if they carry hereditary diseases. Only dogs used for breeding stock will need this genetic stud book
and not purebred show dogs or the average pet poodle, according to the Australian National Kennel Council. Testing will be introduced in stages, before it becomes mandatory in January 2008. The move towards genetic testing, which was made at the ANKC’s recent annual conference in Sydney, is aimed at confirming dogs’ parentage and reducing the incidence of hereditary disease in purebreds
Sanjay Kumar, a former chief executive of Computer Associates International, and Stephen Richards, a former vice president for sales, were indicted in what US prosecutors called a massive fraud that inflated the company’s sales by $2.2 billion
Singer Cat Stevens and his daughter were escorted off a diverted transatlantic flight by FBI agents. The pop star, who converted to Islam, was denied access to the US because his name was on a security watch list
, government security sources said. The Transportation Security Administration said the singer was denied access to the US on national security grounds
and would be returned to Britain
Rumours have flown around the Web about Google’s potential plans to release a Web browser. These rumours have been fuelled by a number of high-profile hires that Google has made, including various people who worked on Microsoft Internet Explorer, added to the fact that Google Inc. has registered the domain name gbrowser.com. A Google spokesman refused to comment on reports surrounding the Google browser, but analysts believe they may have some substance. James Governor, a principal analyst at Red Monk, said that he would be surprised if Google was not working on browser technologies. He does not think it will create a new proprietary browser. Instead, he expects Google to build on Mozilla, the open-source browser
McDonald’s lost a legal battle in Singapore to stop a food company from distributing products named MacNoodles
, MacTea
and MacChocolate
Telstra competitors are rushing to build their own high-speed internet networks, eyeing the promise of the voice, video and faster data triple-play as the wrecking ball for the telecoms giant’s broadband dominance
What seems to be an embarrassing blunder by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in its hunt for online pirates has prompted Linux Australia to contact its legal representatives and warn of a possible breach of Australian law
A recent Symantec internet security threat report shows that Australia is a world leader in phishing scams and the fourth most common launching pad for internet attacks
These days you can’t give away your GMail invitations. The people over at Isnoop.net have went and designed an automatic GMail invite spooler that takes your unused GMail invites and hands them out to people looking for an account.
People with available invites send them to the spooler’s address (gmail@isnoop.net), and it automatically adds them to an available pool. People who need addresses can then get invites from this pool, as necessary.
It’s a good place to dump those excess invites, and anybody who needs a GMail invite can pick one up there, easily. Saves time for everybody, really — via boingboing
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