New story: Muscle for Hire 6 by Londonboy

New story: Muscle for Hire 6 by Londonboy

DRM

• DRM sucks redux: Microsoft to nuke MSN Music DRM keys
• UK retailers to record labels: DRM is killing us
• Amazon and Wal-Mart unwittingly team up against DRM
• Roll over, Beethoven: Deutsche Grammophon ditches DRM
• Universal's CEO Once Called iPod Users Thieves. Now He's Giving Songs Away
• Sony BMG to sell DRM-free downloads through stores--And here's why it won't work.
• Content Cartel Taking Control of USB? New Revision To Include DRM--Looks like it's true.

Oh, Canada

• Canadian labels: We get "absolutely zero credit" for not suing fans
• Canadian Heritage Copyright Policy Rocked By Conflict of Interest Concerns
• CRIA about-face on iPod levies tied to concerns over legitimizing downloads
• Canadian coppers admit making up piracy figures
• Canadian DMCA Introduction Delayed--Would (and still could) be very bad if it passed
• "iPod Tax" smacked down in Canada
• DRM violates Canadian privacy law
• Uninvited to the Public Policy Forum Symposium

New chapters added to A Better Man by Clarence591

Updated story: Three new chapters added to A Better Man by Clarence591

10 impossibilities conquered by science

At 71, Physics Professor Is a Web Star

Brain Scanners Can See Your Decisions Before You Make Them

Under the sea

• Swimmers' Sunscreen Killing Off Coral
• Oral sex gene helps male fish fake it
• Giant Squids Inject Selves With Semen, Die

Bad Science Journalism and the Myth of the Oppressed Underdog

Top 10 science hoaxes of all time

New story: Lee Goddard, Jock by Peterbilt

New story: Lee Goddard, Jock by Peterbilt

Men

• Masturbation may prevent prostate cancer--Gentlemen, start your engines
• High Testosterone Linked to Men's Lower Death Risk
• Deep-voiced men father more children
• Autistic children linked to same sperm donor
• More men turning to implants for chests of gold

Height

• Hey shortie, grow up
• For Small Woman and Tall Man, Size Doesn't Matter
• 7 Feet 7 and 360 Pounds, With Bigger Feet Than Shaq’s

Food

• Top 10 Bad Things That Are Good For You
• Fast-food toxicity comparison chart
• 'This, Not That' practical for fast-food diners
• "Too much 'sugar-free' chewing gum can lead to severe weight loss and diarrhoea"--But another study ties artificial sweetener to weight gain
• Good trans fats could reduce heart disease, diabetes risk--Gah.

New stories: Muscle for Hire 5 by Londonboy and Innocence on the Wind 2 by dymondbolt

New stories: Muscle for Hire 5 by Londonboy and Innocence on the Wind 2 by dymondbolt

Disapproval of Bush breaks record

Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand

What Every American Should Know About the Middle East

The Green Light--How torture was given the go-ahead

The Difference Between Feeling and Reality in Security

Montana Governor: DHS 'Blinks' on Real ID

Innocent photographer or terrorist?

New stories: Muscle for Hire 4 by Londonboy and The Orphanage 9 by Jaypat

New stories: Muscle for Hire 4 by Londonboy and The Orphanage 9 by Jaypat

Access Denied: report on Internet censorship around the world

Web creator rejects net tracking

UK ISPs To Start Tracking Your Surfing To Serve You Ads

Bad Phorm? UK ISPs to sell clickstream data to advertisers--And of course, they lie about it

Newspapers Argue For First Amendment Right to Snoop on Readers

ISPs Meddled With Their Customers' Web Traffic, Study Finds

When Monetizing ISP Traffic Goes Horribly Wrong--Why are they fiddling with subdomains they don't own in the first place?

New stories: Muscle for Hire 3 by Londonboy and The Rise of the Ubermen by muscl4life

New stories: Muscle for Hire 3 by Londonboy and The Rise of the Übermen by muscl4life

The stupidity of banning gay priests

Six Things in Expelled That Ben Stein Doesn't Want You to Know...

Dutch Islam film website 'shut'

Parents Indicted in Faith-Healing Death

Praying passenger removed from flight

Church Explodes In Downtown Oconomowoc

The Rules of Living Biblically

New stories: Muscle for Hire 2 by Londonboy and Cadet Firefighter by Peterbilt

New stories: Muscle for Hire 2 by Londonboy and Cadet Firefighter by Peterbilt

Much ado about Mukasey

• Michael Mukasey's tearful lies
• Attorney General Mukasey lies about 9/11 and international spying
• US Attorney General: Piracy funds terror

Privacy matters

• Harman: It's Not My Fault I Couldn't Figure Out Domestic Wiretapping Was Illegal
• Telcos Spent $10K Per Telecom Amnesty Vote, Sunshine Group Says
• Feds Use Phone Bills to Get Journo's Sources on NSA Spy Program

Vote machinations

• Whistleblower: Voting Machine Company Lied to Election Officials About Reliability of Machines
• The Mysterious Case of Ohio's Voting Machines
• Diebold voting machine key copied from photo at company's own online store

Election fun

• Students Would Give Up Voting Rights for an iPod--We're fucked.
• 2008 Campaign Logos--How do the candidates' logos stack up? Salon
• Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early--The Onion strikes again

New stories: Muscle for Hire by Londonboy and How I Got Started by Peterbilt

New stories: Muscle for Hire by Londonboy and How I Got Started by Peterbilt

Parent things

• Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone--"Half the people I've told this episode to now want to turn me in for child abuse. As if keeping kids under lock and key and helmet and cell phone and nanny and surveillance is the right way to rear kids. It's not. It's debilitating — for us and for them."
• Mother Goes Too Far For Hannah Montana Tix
• Alleged explicit sex discussion gets mom probation
• Can Medical Marijuana Cost You Your Kid? In California, It Can
• "I gave birth to a bad son and I rid society of him."
• Sperm donor liable for child support, judge rules--WTF?
• Father knows best: Dad cleared of assaulting rebellious teen daughter
• Mom faces trial for leaving toddler in car--"Treffly Coyne was out of her car for just minutes and no more than 10 yards away."

Happy Tax Day

New comic: It's still all set-up since I wanted to post a part of it today. Read The Taxman Cometh.

New stories:

• Sex in the Hayloft by Peterbilt
• A Better Man by Clarence591
• The Orphanage 8 by Jaypat
• Birthday Wishes by Londonboy
• I Want To Be Young Again by zulator

Sex Tech

• Woman Sleeps With 50 Men From Facebook "I Need Sex" Group
• PC stripper helps spam to spread
• German Invents 'Spray-On' Condom to Fit All Sizes
• Bad vibrations over car love toy
• Brit women prefer web to sex

You've been RickRoll'd

• Rick Astley interviewed--"I think it’s just one of those odd things where something gets picked up and people run with it."
• Taking the Rick
• YouTube RickRolls Users--One of the better April Fool's pranks
• The Real-Life RickRoll--Nice voice
• Rick Rolled to child porn = you're a pedophile, says FBI

Most unusual data disaster horror stories for 2007--Don't neglect to backup your stuff