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  /_/_/  |_|__/|__/_/ |_/http://www.acronymchile.com/yawn.html
                         2002-09-30


##################### From Lego ######################################


Andy's legion of lego men assemble a computer themselves. 
http://lego.dave.dk/
This is Fantastic.


##################### Talking Bush ###################################


http://www.lemonbovril.co.uk/bushspeech/
Compose your own George W. Bush speech, and hear the man perform it.


##################### MIT Open Courseware ############################


http://slashdot.org/articles/02/09/30/1647213.shtml?tid=146
"A sampling of MIT's  OpenCourseWare selections appered online today. The
courses cover a full range of departments, but only a couple apiece. The
material ranges ranges from just syllabi and calendars to extensive on-line
course notes and interative demos. To succeed, OpenCourseWare must also be
an advantage to MIT faculty and students, as well as the outside world. I
think this may be possible, because it gives a uniform appearance and
access point for online material, plus tools to build these." 
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html


##################### Intellectual Property ##########################


How Poor Countries Can Avoid the Wrongs of IP Rights
Report from the Economist on the pitfalls of intellectual property
policy for developing nations. Check it out at:
    http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1325360


##################### Gambling as Hacking ############################


"Article on hacking the blackjack tables at Las Vegas.  It
seems that while Vegas knew how to spot card counters, they could not
detect counters that worked in teams":
    http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.09/vegas_pr.html


##################### Listen to Brittney #############################


Britney spearheads anti web piracy campaign
    "MUSIC PIRACY BATTLERS the Recording Industry Association Of America
    has signed up a bunch of cleavage-flashing popsters to warn young
    skinflints off downloading copyrighted music from the web."
    http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5591


##################### Bum Fighting ###################################


San Diego Union Tribune
    "EL CAJON The lawyers for four men accused of making a shock video in
    which homeless men beat each other and perform dangerous stunts say
    whatever the video makers have done, it's not a crime."
    http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20020928-9999_6m28beat.html
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/09/27/state1927EDT0150.DTL
    http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/1691932/detail.html
And a few more:
    http://news.google.com/news?num=30&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&filter=0&q=cluster:www%2esignonsandiego%2ecom%2fnews%2fmetro%2f20020928%2d9999%5f6m28beat%2ehtml


##################### Nigerian Money Scam ############################


Fighting the Nigerian Money Scam
    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/22/1957226&mode=nested&tid=133
    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=40465&cid=4308657
"It will probably not come as a surprise to know that the 'Nigerian Scam'
predates the internet and really, in its essential form, predates
Nigeria. If you're interested in historical examples of this sort of
thing, you might want to check out sniggle.net [sniggle.net]'s Scams
[sniggle.net] page."
    http://www.sniggle.net/index.php
    http://www.sniggle.net/scams.php


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