1990 Ancestry Map
State of Minnesota has a website graphically detailing the ancestory groups of Minnesota as well as the entire United States as reported in the 1990 U.S. Census. It is interesting to take a look at U.S. Irish....
October 2003 archives
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Google Looks for Book Content
Google is building its own searchable book library with pointers to publisher maintained sites instead of an internal source like Amazon's solution....
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KFC Makes Its Case for Health
Today's New York Times profiles KFC's new advertising campaign promoting fried chicken as healthy eating. From one of the ads: "The secret's out. One Original Recipe chicken breast has just 11 grams of carbs and packs 40 grams of protein. So if you're going low-carb, high-protein, go KFC."...
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PublicRadioFan.com
PublicRadioFan.com indexes public radio programs' audio feeds....
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The new car senses
Car manufacturers are starting to pay attention to fine tuning the roar of an engine or the smell of its interior, according to today's New York Times....
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Longhorn Developer Center
Longhorn Developer Center is now live....
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Aeron wheelchair
There is now an Aeron wheelchair....
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Fox News Threatened to Sue The Simpsons
Fox News Threatened to Sue The Simpsons over their parody of the cable news channel....
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RFID tracking school children
Enterprise Charter School in Buffalo, New York has started using radio frequency ID tags to scan their students. If this had happened to me while I was in school I would have invented a way around it so it should be interesting to see how it all turns out. """ The charter school's 422 students wear small plastic cards around their necks that have their photograph, name and grade printed on them, and include an embedded RFID chip. As the children enter the school, they approach a kiosk where a reader activates the chip's signal and displays their photograph. The...
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BBC News : How spammers are targeting blogs
Bill Thompson of BBC News writes about flyblogging: spamming weblog comments....
