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diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.05.07/elsewhere.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.05.07/elsewhere.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..96af8c1 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.05.07/elsewhere.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Elsewhere on Wired: + +* Ryan Singel of 27B Stroke 6 [wants your help][1] figuring out some new government documents. The docs outline a system that sounds like MySpace meets Tron. Singel writes: "From what little I've read it sounds like it's supposed to discover terrorists plots in real time and create social network graphics to find leads for investigators by translating news and blog stories into structured information in real time and by monitoring who is communicating with whom in real time... the system is supposed to be able to handle one billion structured and one million unstructured text messages per hour." Creeped out yet? + +[1]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/03/help_27b_with_m.html "Help 27B With Massive Gov Data Mining Project" + +* Listening Post [reports on the very silly lawsuit][2] brought by Ric Silver, who owns the-electricslidedance.com and registered the dance with the U.S. Copyright Office using a video of himself teaching the dance in 1976. Silver has slapped Kyle Machulis with a DMCA takedown notice for video he posted on YouTube which shows some people doing the electric slide. Oh the humanity. + +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/03/certain_dances_.html "Certain Dances Copyrighted?" + +* Bodyhack wins headline of the day for: "[Honey, Did You Order a Human Head?][3]" Apparently DHL mis-delivered some body parts shipped from China. Ludivine Larmande thought she was getting a new table and instead unwrapped a head. "My husband started to unwrap one and said, 'This is strange, it looks like a liver. He started the second one, but stopped as soon as we saw the ear." But wait it gets better, authorities believe "28 more bubble-wrapped human organs and body parts could be dispersed across the country." Check your mail early and often. + +[3]: http://blog.wired.com/biotech/2007/03/honey_did_you_o.html "Honey, Did You Order a Human Head?" + +* Pete Mortensen over at Cult of Mac [reports that Apple is holding an event Sunday, April 15][4] during the National Association of Broadcasters. Could be the release of Mac OS X Leopard to me, but personally I think it has something to do with AppleTV, it is the NAB after all. + +[4]: http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/2007/03/apple_schedules.html "Apple Schedules April 15 Event. Expect Products."
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