Typing With Two Hands, No Fingers. It was a malady known to few when typewriters ruled the office. But as computers became ubiquitous, more people learned about carpal tunnel syndrome, pain attributed at least partly to repetitive movement of the wrist and fingers. [New York Times: Technology]
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Tiernan Ray: Why Blogs Haven't Stormed the Business World. [Scripting News]
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 Come back to the five and dime: Boing Boing points to an auction company in Montana that will be selling off the entire contents of a 1950s store. But that's not all -- the store was closed up in the 50s after the death of the owner and never reopened, until now. There are dozens of fascinating pictures of the contents here.
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London Review of Books opens shop. New venture by a literary magazine eschews the pile-'em-high philosophy of the giants of the bookselling world. [Guardian Unlimited]
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ChoicePoint's Private Data Hunger. AP: Mexican data acquired by ChoicePoint included more details than originally suspected.A Mexican company sold U.S. law enforcement agencies personal data that included even more private details than previously suspected, such as Mexican citizens' blood types and tax identification numbers, investigators said Wednesday. [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]
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Linux luminaries join government effort. The leaders of several major open-source projects have joined George Washington University's Cyber Security Policy and Research Institute. [CNET News.com]
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Dorothy Parker. "I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true." [Quotes of the Day]
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Squeezing light from nanotubes. Scientists at IBM Research have discovered a new way to get carbon nanotubes to emit light, a breakthrough that might one day lead to advances in fiber-optic technology. [CNET News.com]
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iTunes Music Store sells 275,000 Tracks in 18 Hours [Slashdot]
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Labour lose heavily in England. BNP wins 11 new seats; Tories gain 500 seats. [Guardian Unlimited]
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Suit Settled for Students Downloading Music Online. Four students have agreed to pay the recording industry's trade association $12,000 to $17,000 each over the course of the next three years.  [New York Times: Technology] And here's the story on Wired.
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