The agency issues an order that requires all landline phone companies to allow customers to transfer their numbers to cell phones when signing up for new services. [CNET News.com]
This highly tweakable smiley-generator is part of a computational semiotics project to refine the expressivity of machine-mediated communications.
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A Sydney motorist who killed a cyclist while she was distracted with composing an SMS has been given a suspended sentence.
"It is tragic that a man's life was lost in these circumstances but this case should serve as a stark warning to all that the risk is very real and with the extended use of mobile phones generally more public attention should be drawn to this risk," Judge Cohen said.
However she said she took into account Ciach's guilty plea, her excellent character and the fact the dead man's parents did not wish her to be imprisoned.
Swedish hikers discovered 70 pairs of shoes in the woods, each pair filled with butter. No word on whether it was the very best butter.
A provincial spokesman says the buttered footwear ranges from sneakers to boots. There are even butter-filled high heels and tap shoes. Each contains about a pound of butter.
The province spokesman says they'd like to catch the person who did it and make them clean it up. He says it's going to create quite a mess when the butter starts to spoil.
Update: Erik sez, "It's an art project by German/Swedish photographer Boris Duhm who put the shoes on this mountain and filmed it and he will be showing it at an exhibition in Sweden in January. He forgot to tell the locals. [BoingBoing]
