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Lenovo's IdeaCentre 600 is a pretty splashy debut: Its first ever all-in-one is a simple curved slab that's supposedly the thinnest all-in-one in the industry.p> Category: Tech Industry News Votes: 139 Comments: 12 »» Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:00:02 +0000

Budget hotels are contaminated with blood, mould, urine and even faeces, an investigation has revealed.p> Category: Travel & Places Votes: 109 Comments: 32 »» Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:50:01 +0000

Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts I-IV topped Amazon's digital download charts in 2008, despite being offered to fans free of charge. Creative Commons touts the project as a new model for music.p> Category: Music Votes: 195 Comments: 44 »» Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:20:01 +0000

A team at Baylor University there has made trunk liners, floorboards and car-door interior covers using fibers from the outer husks of coconuts, replacing the synthetic polyester fibers typically used in composite materials.p> Category: Autos Votes: 186 Comments: 20 »» Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:10:04 +0000

We're six days into the new year, and that means everybody is abandoning ship on 2008 and looking forward to all the wonderful things 2009 has in store for us. The good folks at JoBlo for instance, have used their time machine to jump forward to the end of the year and report back on what the best movies of 2009 will be.p> Category: Movies Votes: 255 Comments: 60 »» Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:10:02 +0000

txmadman writes Like a lot of my colleagues and all of my three children, I have several SD , mini-SD, and micro-SD cards for various purposes: cameras, cell phones, my laptop, etc. These things are handy to have around, offer easy and significant storage, but are very easily lost. We have also have run into some instances where it wasn't clear whose SD card was whose, and have also started to see a need for a storage mechanism. I have seen SD card 'wallets' and such, but have never seen anyone actually use one. So: How do you manage and keep track of your SD cards? Category: hardware Comments: 71 Department: sticky-notes »» 2009-01-07T07:46:00+00:00

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes Oprah Winfrey, or to be more precise, Oprah's Book Club, is being sued by the inventor/patent attorney Scott C. Harris for infringing upon his patent for 'Enhancing Touch and Feel on the Internet.' So Oprah's Book Club is now one of many people and entities being sued over this patent because they allow people to view part, but not all, of a book online before purchasing it. Mr. Harris also sued Google Books for infringing upon this patent. He actually was fired from his position as partner at Fish & Richardson for that, because Google is a client of that law firm and they had conflict of interest rules to uphold. It would be entertaining to see Oprah give very wide and mainstream publicity to the abuses enabled by our current patent system. Category: yro Comments: 74 Department: where-the-money-is »» 2009-01-07T05:03:00+00:00

The Recording Industry of America's favorite courtroom lawyer, Tom Perrelli, who has sued individual file swappers in multiple federal courts, is President-elect Barack Obama's choice for the third in line at the Justice Department. CNet's Declam McCullagh explores the background of the man who won the RIAA's lucrative business for his DC law firm: An article on his law firm's Web site says that Perrelli represented SoundExchange before the Copyright Royalty Board — and obtained a 250 percent increase in the royalty rate for music played over the Internet by companies like AOL and Yahoo, not to mention Pandora and Radio Paradise. NewYorkCountryLawyer adds, Certainly this does not bode well for CowboyNeal's being appointed Copyright Czar. Category: politics Comments: 320 Department: paging-mister-lessig »» 2009-01-07T03:05:00+00:00

rohitm918 writes A study by Microsoft Research concludes that phishers make very little (PDF): '...low-skill jobs pay like low-skill jobs, whether the activity is legal or not.' They also find that the Gartner numbers that everyone quotes ($3.2B/year etc) are rubbish, off by a factor of 50. 'Even though it harvests free money, phishing generates total revenue equal to the total costs incurred by the actors. Each participant earns, on average, only as much as he would have made in the opportunities he gave up elsewhere. As the total phishing effort increases the total phishing revenue declines: the harder individual phishers try the worse their collective situation gets. As a consequence, increasing effort is a sign of failure rather than of success.' Category: news Comments: 158 Department: triumph-of-the-commons »» 2009-01-07T01:06:00+00:00

kenblakely writes We've known for a while that the Department of Homeland Security was collecting travel records on those who cross US borders, but now you can see it for yourself. A Freedom of Information Act request got this blogger a look at DHS's file on his travels. Pretty comprehensive — all the way down to the IP address of the host he used to make a reservation. Category: yro Comments: 158 Department: fifteen-year-retention »» 2009-01-06T23:07:00+00:00

Why don't people check the new list more instead of just the hot list? The same things are on the front page all day, while countless posts sit on the 'New' list and are completely ignored.

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