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Humor: Apple, Sony Fight for Space in Our Head from msnbc

This is almost the full article

"The Apple CEO, who last week became the first to have the iPod Micro implanted into his brain, showed how music can be downloaded via a USB port discreetly located on the back of his neck. Jobs said that the Micro can store up to 2,800 songs and that the tracks can be shuffled by blinking one's eyes or nodding one's head, making it possible to listen to music in a classroom or at the office without anyone else knowing it. He demonstrated by rocking out to the song "Let's Get It Started" by The Black Eyed Peas, declaring the sound quality inside his head "awesome."
While Jobs said that as many as 100 million Americans could be hardwired for sound by 2008, Sony Corp. CEO Sir Howard Stringer served notice that his company was rolling out a new, super-tiny PlayStation Portable that could also be implanted directly into the brain. "There's a lot of room in the average American's head and we intend to fight for every square inch of it," Howard told reporters.
Elsewhere, thousands lined up to buy Powerball tickets when lottery officials announced that the grand prize would be a full tank of gas."

Stem cell research follow up

Stem Cell Side Shows from NYTimes

"'Scientists experimenting with mice have devised two new ways to derive embryonic stem cells without destroying viable embryos. The work is being hailed for its potential to sidestep some of the ethical controversies that have slowed stem cell research in this country. But each of the new techniques raises ethical issues of its own, and neither is apt to be ready for use in humans for many years."

Way to go Satyen Nair

http://web.mid-day.com/news/city/2005/october/121281.htm from Midday [via IndiaUncut]

"When Nair approached Pawar, the policeman abused him and shrugged him off. But he got help from some rickshaw drivers in the area. They caught the constable and took him and the girl to the police station.
Nair said that the constable tried to bribe him with the promise of Rs 15,000 to keep mum about the incident."

When I first saw the heading of this article I was going to just put it in the back of my mind like the many others that I read and try to ignore. But this I think needs mentioning... It takes normal people with a little courage to make the difference.

I ask myself what would I have done? What would you have done ask yourself?

Talk back

Indian outsourcers follow a megatrend from CNET Nilekani's(CEO Infosys) Interview.

Talkback: Indian outsourcers follow a megatrend from CNET

More intersting than the article is the talk back there are some very very strong (uncalled for) arguments there.

Blogging in School curriculum

Blogging 101--Web logs go to school from CNET

"He's more than glad to do it. Like other teachers bringing blogging into the classroom, he thinks the online journals will spark students' enthusiasm for computers, writing and opining.
"They're learning the technical skills, but they're also learning that they have a voice online," he said. "They may be from a tiny town in the middle of nowhere, but they're writing online, people are commenting on it, and they're learning that they have a voice.""

Isn't it intresting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bringing up kids the Asian way.

Item: Sisters Think Parents Did O.K. from NYTimes

"But their parents, who were hard-working middle-class immigrants from Korea, had other ideas. Eventually they set a rule: Read one book from the library this week, receive one candy bar the next. Looking back on it, the sisters are not complaining. Instead, in "Top of the Class: How Asian Parents Raise High Achievers - and How You Can Too" (Berkley), to be published Nov. 1, they applaud their parents' coercions. "We read the book, and we got the candy," said Dr. Abboud, 32, who is a surgeon and clinical assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania medical school. "We didn't go without."
In "Top of the Class" the Kim sisters advise parents who want successful children to raise them just as the Kims did - in strict households in which parents spend hours every day educating their children, where access to pop culture is limited, and where children are taught that their failures reflect poorly on the family."

Multitasking in computer human interaction

Meet the Life Hackers from NYTimes

"When Mark crunched the data, a picture of 21st-century office work emerged that was, she says, "far worse than I could ever have imagined." Each employee spent only 11 minutes on any given project before being interrupted and whisked off to do something else. What's more, each 11-minute project was itself fragmented into even shorter three-minute tasks, like answering e-mail messages, reading a Web page or working on a spreadsheet. And each time a worker was distracted from a task, it would take, on average, 25 minutes to return to that task. To perform an office job today, it seems, your attention must skip like a stone across water all day long, touching down only periodically."