Pressure from privacy advocates who are
concerned about the practice of
tracking
your online movements has
pushed the advertising industry into
forming a trade group called the
Network
Advertising Initiative. The NAI is
offering
a web
With the release of Disney's new Pearl Harbor
blockbuster we're all about to be
deluged with psuedo-historical hype, but
along with the hype there's bound to be
a bit of substance, as National Geographic
demonstrates with this Remembering
Pearl Harbor online feature.
Greg Palast, reporter for the London
Observer, takes a look at who is
reaping the benefits of President George
W. Bush's
new energy plan.
Hint: it's not your
average tax-paying utility customer.
Reportedly William Shatner will be hosting
an American version of the bizarre
Japanese cooking show
Iron Chef
in the fall. This could elevate the Kitchen
Stadium to a whole new plane of surreality.
Red Herring
publishes a seven-part series investigating
some of the shady shenanigans
that went on during the extended Internet
IPO frenzy that started with a loud bang back
in 1998 and ended with a painful whimper
last summer.
Paul May, at the University of Bristol
in the UK, proves that chemists do indeed have a
sense of humor with his
Molecules with Silly or Unusual Names
page.
Also of interest and maintained by
May is Molecule of the Month, which has a list of links to pages
Peter Maass writes in The
Atlantic about the current situation in
target=_new>Mogadishu, where businesses reign unfettered by any sort of
bureaucracy or regulation at all.
Some theories as to where all the money has gone
The Wall Street Journal reports on the
FBI, IRS, and other government agencies
doing what some consider an end-run
around the Privacy Act of 1974.