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According to Dennis Hopper, Elvis took that “king” thing seriously: “I REMEMBER going and seeing him once and there were about six girls waiting. These were all young starlets. I saw three of them go in. They went in for about 15 minutes and then I was invited in. I …

If you are a A) student, or B) in the military, you apparently have no property rights nor any search and seizure protections. If you are both, look out: Officials at the Naval Academy have seized nearly 100 midshipmen’s computers that allegedly contained illegally downloaded music and movies, sources said. …

Classicist historian Victor Davis Hanson may not be much fun at a party (or maybe he is – you can’t judge the man by the writing), but he sure has a way of boiling down complicated matters to their essentials. he doesn’t glory in war, but neither does he shun …

Between your computer and your DNA, huge privacy issues loom aright around the corner according to Clay Shirky: Databases have two key weaknesses that affect this debate. The first is that they deal badly with ambiguity, and generally have to issue a unique number, sometimes called a primary key, to …

Scientist burns penis with laptop.

HBO takes you to the Cathouse: Just when it strains credulity to see how far ordinary people will go for 15 minutes of fame, and what the public will watch, HBO airs a documentary next month in which patrons of a Nevada brothel happily appear on camera negotiating and consorting …

John Lettice reports in the Register on a paper delivered by Microsoft researchers saying file-swappers will win in the end: Growth in consumer access to broadband will make distributed file sharing networks more proof against such attacks, and in the interim a resumption of smaller overlapping groups, together with systems …

Why? They didn't like an editorial about beauty pageants. Arab/Islamic media pretends like nothing happened.

A German doctor performed a technically illegal public autopsy in London, charging admission, results to be shown on television: In a former brewery in east London on Wednesday night, the television cameras turned, a paying audience squirmed and gaped and Britain’s first public autopsy in 170 years since the days …

Hey, I missed the Victoria’s Secret show last night picking up my parents from the airport, but I’ve seen pictures and stuff and I can visualize. Much to my amazement, the wretched Bachelor (see Jan Herman’s review here) doubled the ratings of Victoria’s models, proving once again something or other …