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Tuesday, 25 July 2006
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Researchers at a medical conference in Cairns have heard that taking high doses of antioxidants such as vitamin C and E does not protect against heart attacks.
[ABC News: Health]
11:27:23 PM 
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David Pescovitz:
Tim Elverston's Cursor kite is a very clever idea. From WindFire Designs:
Quad-line control, asymmetrical framing, invisible stainless fittings, and opposed-bow tensioning for the sail make this incredible kite look digitally pasted right into the sky.
Link (via MAKE: Blog)
 By noemail@noemail.org (David Pescovitz).
[Boing Boing]
11:18:12 PM
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Cory Doctorow:
Domain Name Kiting is a new online scam that's pretty fascinating. Under new domain reg rules, you can register a domain for five days without paying for it. Kiters register thousands and thousands of domains and stick ads on them, check to see which ones generate income, and pay to keep those registrations. They can also linkfarm on those domains, using thousands of shifting come-and-go domains to try to trick Google into conferring pagerank on a spam-site. Here's a pretty good explanation of Domain Name Kiting and how it got here:
The AGP is a five-day window period during which a newly registered domain name can be deleted/ dropped with full refund of registration fee. AGP was introduced to provide a mechanism for Registrars and registrants to correct mistakes, reverse fraudulent registrations. Registrars involved in kiting scam, register thousands of domains against the large amount of money they deposit with Registry. Domains registered are usually the expired ones, which have been indexed by search engine giants like Google, Yahoo etc. Appreciable volume of type-in-traffic is received for these domains, which have now been parked, to generate revenue. Domain Parking presents viable option for domainers to generate revenue from their unused domains, by hosting a single page web site with paid advertisement links. Clicks from visitors to such sites, generates money for the domainer.
Link
 (Cory Doctorow)
[Boing Boing]
11:01:50 PM
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 BBC Nature --
Only 56 butterfly species now remain in Britain as others have fallen
victim to disappearing habitat, a charity says. The Butterfly
Conservation charity said urban sprawl, modern farming techniques and
lack of woodland management had all played their part in habitat loss.
Hertfordshire has lost the most species - 17 - in the past century,
with Bedfordshire, Suffolk and Lincolnshire having lost 15 each. The
list has been published ahead of the first Save Our Butterflies week.
Cambridgeshire comes fifth on the "extinction" list, having lost 12
species, followed by Essex which has lost 11. Conservationist Dr Martin
Warren, from the charity, said: "Butterfly species are becoming extinct
county by county. It is deeply worrying. "Butterflies in profusion tell
us that nature is in balance. Where butterflies are disappearing,
nature generally is in trouble." He added: "These extinctions are the
result of habitat loss. That's the result of either urban spread, lack
of woodland management or intensive farming practices." Warwickshire
comes in at seventh in the table with nine species lost, making it the
highest placed county outside of the East of England. Dr Warren said:
"Sadly, these counties in the East of England lack any serious hills
which could have provided a refuge from the plough." The species that
has suffered most county extinctions is the High Brown Fritillary. (07/23/06)
[Synergic Earth News] [The Mediaburn Radio Weblog]
10:58:18 PM
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Arthur:
Even though the catastrophe of Vietnam happened only a moment ago in historic terms, we never understood the lesson. That failure made the catastrophe of Iraq possible, and even inevitable. Since we failed to learn from our terrible error, we would have made the same mistake again, if not in Iraq, then somewhere else. And given the terms in which so many commentators continue to discuss the disaster of Iraq, we still refuse to learn the lesson. We refuse to give up the notion of our "omnipotence," and the idea that we can achieve anything if we only set our minds to it with sufficient willpower, and if we only execute the plan "competently." That has never been true for any people, at any time in history. And it is not true for us. We had better learn the lesson, and learn it soon, or the price we will have to pay may be higher and worse than any of us will care to contemplate[sigma]read on
[Crooks and Liars]
8:15:08 AM
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