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...buzzer sounded, the Cambridge side of the Centrum exploded in jubiliation, while the CRLS team collapsed in a pig pile at center court. Ford, looking a bit like Jim Volvano, darted to one end of the court, his arms raised in victory...
...Patel has ruled that Napster must prevent its users from trading in copyrighted material. Last week, the record labels delivered to Napster a list of hundreds of thousands of copyrighted songs, files which Napster now filters to prevent users from trading. Intrepid users are now resorting to misspellings and Pig Latin to avoid the filters, but it's doubtful that the majority of users will ever find Napster as convenient as it once...
...flesh-eating insects native to Canada--the first time such a resource has been put together for any country. They are examining hundreds of insects that have never before been studied for forensic purposes. Anderson is also moving beyond bugs to other creatures. In October she submerged six pig carcasses in Howe Sound, hoping to develop basic guidelines for how saltwater animals like crabs and shrimp interact with corpses. Though oceans have always been a favorite dumping ground for bodies, this type of research hadn't been conducted since the 1800s. Anderson's biggest challenge now? Cash. "Most funders like...
...Napster to block, but the filters are ridiculously easy to fool. Disguise a song title with an obvious misspelling--say, replacing the word to with the number 2--and the filters won't pick it up. One popular strategy is to post a song with its title translated into pig Latin. Something tells us the folks from Etallicamay aren't going to be satisfied...
...doesn't take much, you will have noticed, to become famous these days. Eating a rat or sticking a pig on Survivor is enough to get you talked about around the water cooler the next morning. If someone should ever actually get laid by an insignificant other on Temptation Island 2, that would doubtless do the trick too. We tune in to "reality TV" in hope of seeing one or more of our fellow citizens degrade themselves for (mostly) short money and (very) momentary fame. Watching these shows, we shake our head wryly: What are we coming to? Where will...