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1)
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft partner to help in search submission
and Help Webmasters
http://tinyurl.com/y9kc5p
Strange bedfellows Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have
partnered to simplify how webmasters and online publishers submit
their sites' content for indexing in the companies' search engines. In
a rare collaborative effort, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, which
compete directly in Internet search and other online services, plan to
announce on Thursday their support for the open-source, Sitemap
Protocol based on XML. This protocol, which Google created and has
been using for about 18 months, will be adopted by Yahoo effective
Thursday, and the three companies will collaborate to extend and
enhance it.

2)
Cracked it!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/idcards/story/0,,1950226,00.html
Three million Britons have been issued with the new hi-tech passport,
designed to frustrate terrorists and fraudsters. So why did
Steve Boggan and a friendly computer expert find it so easy to
break the security codes?

3)
On the Net: outraged bloggers and blog aggregators turned the
fracas at UCLA into nationwide news.
The video, which was posted almost immediately on YouTube, shows an
officer repeatedly shooting the student (identified by the Los
Angeles Times as Mostafa Tabatabainejad) with a Taser as he
screams in agony and rage and other students try to intervene.

What appears to be an outrageous use of a "taser" against a
proposed UCLA student in Powell.

YouTube Video clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyvrqcxNIFs
UCLA's response:
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=7513
press release by the police themselves:
http://www.ucpd.ucla.edu/ucpd/zippdf/2006/Taser%2011-15-06.pdf

Amnesty International estimates Tasers have caused 120 deaths
and there are known long term health effects.

The student appears to have retained a high profile lawyer that intends
to file charges against the police
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2006/171106Taser.htm

"Attorney Stephen Yagman said he plans to file a federal civil rights
lawsuit accusing the UCLA police of "brutal excessive force," as well as
false arrest. The lawyer also provided the first public account of the
Tuesday night incident at UCLA's Powell Library from the student,
Mostafa Tabatabainejad, a 23-year-old senior."

make your voice heard:

UCPD Chief of Police, Karl T. Ross (310) 825-1633 kross@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
UCPD Captain, John Adams (310) 825-4406 adamsj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
UCLA Campus Police (310) 825-1491
Mr. Naples, Dean of Students (310) 825-3871


See: The Emergence of Citizen's Media
http://mitworld.mit.edu/play/392/

News, Information and the Wealth of Networks
http://mitworld.mit.edu/play/394/


3)
Geek Tool:
This box goes between your tape deck or turn table and lets you rip your
old formats to MP3.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/avcards/85fb/

4)
Steve Wilson Exposes Huge Prescription Drug Price Markups
February 5, 2004 http://tinyurl.com/4y97f
Although we can't guarantee that Costco
http://www.costco.com/ always has the lowest
prices on generic drugs, it is generally true that their pharmacy
will fill prescriptions for non-members (but be prepared to pay by
cash or ATM card rather than check).
Generic Prescription Drug Price Comparison Chart
http://web.wxyz.com/extras/040205-drugchart.html
read
http://www.snopes.com/medical/drugs/generic.asp

5)
National Retail Federation: Annual Holiday Sales Information
http://tinyurl.com/yhxebt
Information about retail shopping activity in the U.S. during the
winter holiday season. Information before and after the holidays
variously includes spending projections, shopping on the Friday and
Monday after Thanksgiving ("Black Friday" and "Cyber Monday"), online
shopping, and consumer surveys. Also includes a report with "recent
and historical data on holiday trends, including sales data, holiday
hiring, and shoplifting." From a trade association whose membership
"comprises all retail formats."

6)
World Health Organization: Female Genital Mutilation
http://www.who.int/topics/female_genital_mutilation/en/
Material about female genital mutilation (FGM), "often referred to as
'female circumcision', [which] comprises all procedures involving
partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other
injury to the female genital organs whether for cultural, religious or
other non-therapeutic reasons." Includes a fact sheet, reports, and
other publications. From the World Health Organization (WHO).
http://www.who.int/topics/female_genital_mutilation/en/

7)
Vegetarian Thanksgiving (Vegan Friendly!)
http://vegkitchen.com/recipes/vegetarian-thanksgiving.htm
Features a complete menu with recipes for a vegetarian Thanksgiving
dinner. From an author of vegetarian cookbooks.

8)
Philadelphian Ed Bradley:  - Journalist and Jazzman aka Jazzbo
Find the etymology of Jazzbo
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/irish.html
February 2004 article about the "passion for jazz" held by this "60
Minutes" television journalist who died in November 2006. Discusses
Bradley's work early in his career as a radio DJ who played jazz music
and his recent hosting of "Jazz from Lincoln Center" on NPR.
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=1073


9)
Music From The Inside Out Movie
http://tinyurl.com/ydtknz
PBS: The education program for MUSIC FROM THE INSIDE OUT, designed for
both general and music educators, is targeted particularly at schools
where funding for music has been reduced or eliminated. Visit the site
to find out about the curriculum, which will be available this fall.
Also, get information on how you can bring the film to your community
with "town hall"-style workshops led by top arts and music educators.

The Philadelphia Orchestra
At the official Web site of The Philadelphia Orchestra find the
orchestra's history, information on orchestra radio broadcasts,
individual concerts and touring schedule.

10)
Sacred Heart Movie http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/SacredHarp.html
The documentary offers a glimpse into the lives of modern shape-note
singers, who still sing from The Sacred Harp, a 160-year-old hymnal
first published in Georgia in 1844.
Sacred and Secular Shape Note Singing
Traditional Musics of America - New England, Pennsylvania, Alabama,
African America Seven Shapenote Singing. Learn about the basic history
of 7-shapenote in the US

11)
Hoffacker Charged With Hacking System
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/4338075.html
NEW YORK - A former Source Media Inc. executive was charged with hacking
into the company's computer system three years after he was dismissed,
and tipping off employees whose jobs were in jeopardy, prosecutors said
Wednesday.
In a press release, the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan said Stevan
Hoffacker, the company's one-time director of information technology and
later vice president of technology, was charged with one count of
unauthorized access to a protected computer network.
Source Media is the New York publisher of American Banker, the Bond
Buyer and other financial publications. It is a unit of Bahrain's
Investcorp.

12)
"The Pros and Cons of Turnitin"
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/plagiarism.html
``Plagiarism software and Turnitin are now part of how education works.''

13)
Zero day attacks rise to top of SANS Top 20
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=7355
The respected SANS Institute has identified the sudden rise in zero day
attacks as the most important threat trend in its 2006 Top Twenty
Vulnerabilities list.

14)
"China Welcomes Back Wikipedia"
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/censor.html
Wikipedia: Unlike companies like Microsoft,
Yahoo, and Google, the open-source encyclopedia refused to alter
any of its content to appease Chinese censors

15)
Kyrgyzstan cut off from Internet by hacker attack
http://www.ospint.com/text/d/3488924/
A series of strong DoS attacks on November 2, which blocked operations
of Kirghiz main providers, led to a several-hour cut-off from the
Internet of the whole country. It was equally impossible to access local
web sites from Russia during the spell.

16)
Attack code posted for latest Microsoft bugs
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/111606-attack-code-posted-for-latest.html
Hackers have posted code that could be used to target Microsoft's
Windows operating system in a worm attack.
The code, which was published early Thursday on the Milw0rm Web site.

17)
Contractors should comply with DOD security training rules
http://www.fcw.com/article96859-11-16-06-Web
Contractors who are serious about getting Defense Department contracts
should make sure now that their employees who have information assurance
roles meet the standards set by DOD Directive 8570.1, according to
panelists who spoke this morning at an Information Technology
Association of America event.

18)
OU upholds firings over computer breaches
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/news-story.php?story=227147
Two Ohio University computer-systems administrators blamed for hacking
incidents will receive neither apologies nor their jobs back.
Provost Kathy Krendel, rejecting a grievance committee's recommendation
to reinstate the men with back pay, has upheld the dismissal of Todd
Acheson and Tom Reid.
William Sams, departing associate provost for information technology,
blamed the pair for the theft of 367,000 files with personal information
on OU alumni, students and staff.

19)
The MLA has a language locator site that can tell you
how many speakers of  languages live in various units from
states down to census tracts.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/aboutdialect.asp

20)
Judge won't halt AT&T wiretapping lawsuit
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6136841.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn
SAN FRANCISCO--A federal district judge on Friday rejected the Bush
administration's request to halt a lawsuit that alleges AT&T
unlawfully cooperated with a broad and unconstitutional government
surveillance program.
U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker said the lawsuit could continue
while a portion of it was being appealed, despite the U.S. Justice
Department's arguments that further hearings and other proceedings
would consequently endanger national security.
"I do think these are matters we can proceed on," Walker said toward
the end of the status conference here, which began at 11 a.m. PST and
was attended by around 50 attorneys from the government, nonprofit
groups, class action law firms and major telecommunications companies.
Friday's ruling represents another preliminary victory for the
Electronic Frontier Foundation, which filed its lawsuit against AT&T
in January. In its suit, the EFF charged that AT&T has opened its
telecommunications facilities up to the National Security Agency and
continues to "to assist the government in its secret surveillance of
millions of ordinary Americans."

21)
Reserved Electronic Postings - Follow the Money:
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/aup.html
Publishers say they must protect $3.35 billion in annual U.S.
college textbook sales. They do not want to allow professors
unfettered "fair use". Textbook Sales Rise - The higher-education segment
of the U.S. book publishing industry had 2005 sales of $3.35 billion,
5.3 percent higher than 2004, the publishers association says.
Sales for the entire book publishing industry were $25 billion in 2005,
an increase of 9.9 percent.
College students spent an average of $898 on books
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/textbookcensorship.html
and supplies in the 2003-04 academic year,
and textbook prices have climbed an average of 6 percent
each year since the 1987-88 academic year, according to
estimates by the U.S. Government Accountability Office,
Congress's investigative arm. 
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