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An Israeli scientist said on Wednesday his team had found a way to break into mobile phone calls made on the popular GSM network, allowing eavesdroppers to listen in on calls and even take on a caller’s identity….

Dave Winer has been doing a lot of research about political candidates and how they should be using weblogs….

Now you too can own your very own can of Pimp Juice….

On Saturday night I had dinner with Dave Winer, Robert Scoble and his family, Jake Savin, Brad Neuberg, Don Park, Steve Gillmor, Phil Wolff, Cheyenne, Pat Delaney, Bryan Bell, and a few other names I cannot remember. If I left you out leave a comment and I will edit you in. Brad is working on some really cool JXTA project named Paper Airplane which he plans to release into beta this week. Steve Gillmor is a little too RSS crazy and would like to do away with all e-mail and instead turn to RSS. I argued that his gripes with…

NY Times reports that Ticketmaster will now start scalping tickets. “Ticketmaster will be able to compete with brokers and scalpers for the highest price a market will bear.”…

Tommy Nelson has a brand new version of The New Testament geared towards teenage girls: Revolve. ABC News has a pretty comprehensive review. As a child I had a version of the Bible (old and new testaments) rewritten to appear as a comic. If I had been given a King James version it would have never been read. So I think different inroads for the same content is a good thing. In case you are wondering…I was raised Irish Catholic but I am currently consider myself agnostic and in defiance of any dogma. The last service I attended was Zen…

Marshall Brain has a long but interesting article about what might happen when robotics and automation become as cheap as computers did in the late 1990s….

The Computer History Museum is hosting an event to celebrate Apple Computer’s historical contribution to the computer industry. The event is named AppleLore….

MIT’s Technology review profiles some interesting location based devices and their use….

MSNBC has a series of articles on “punching the clock in the new economy.” Especially interesting to me is Tethered by a high-tech leash. “[P]eople with Web access at home log in and work an extra 5.9 hours per week on average.” What causes someone to stay constantly connected? Fear of losing their job? A hope that doing so might single them out as an exceptional employee and get them the bonus, raise, promotion they desire?…