del.icio.us links for May 13, 2007

del.icio.us links for May 13, 2007

1. iPods may cause pacemaker glitch

   A study presented by Jay Thaker at the Heart Rhythm Society’s annual meeting in Denver found that the portable music players caused implantable pacemakers to misread the heart’s pacing when placed two inches from patients’ chest

2. Two Romanian couples have been arrested trying to sell a two-month old baby girl in a hypermarket parking lot near southwestern France.

   A 15-year-old, the presumed mother of the baby, was taken to hospital and three adults to the police station in Angouleme, just north of Bordeaux. “How much do you offer?” a male member said as he accosted shoppers in the parking lot.

3. No winners in NASA moon-dirt digging competition

   NASA’s Regolith Excavation Challenge invited teams to build machines for digging mock moon dirt, or regolith, in a competition held in a one-ton sandbox on Saturday. But all the teams fell well short of the winning requirement of 150 kilograms.s

4. Buddhist monk slain as Sri Lanka killings grind on

   Military spokesman Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe said it was too early to say who was behind the monk’s killing in the far northeastern district of Trincomalee, where troops have evicted the rebels from territory they held under the 2002 ceasefire.

5. Gran’s sex dream blooper : South Africa: News: News24

   Five years short of her 100th birthday, an Mpumalanga grandmother was dreaming of sex with her grandson and when she awoke, had the 25-year-old arrested for rape. The case was eventually struck off the roll.

6. Joost raises $45-m (U.S.) in funding

   Index Ventures, a European venture capital firm, and Sequoia Capital were the lead contributors to the investment. Plus Li Ka-shing, chairman of Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. and Cheung Kong Holdings, who invested through his charitable foundation.

25 more articles after the jump

1. UK Drivers may be banned from smoking at the wheel

   A smoking ban for drivers is to be considered by the Department of Health in a bid to cut the number of deaths from crashes. A similar ban on using a mobile phone while driving is already in place. The Local Authority Road Safety Officers’ Association

2. Amusement park safety

   The axle, 40 cm long and about 5 cm in diameter, broke almost perpendicularly. The surfaces of the broken sections are almost flat, indicating the possibility of metal fatigue. The company had not changed the axle since first putting it to use in March 19

3. Bob Woolmer died of heart failure: report

   The Sunday Gleaner said that according to a pathology report submitted by the Scotland Yard team, the former Pakistan cricket coach died of natural causes and not due to manual strangulation as initially reported by Deputy Commissioner of Police Mark Shie

4. Bob Woolmer’s last e-mail was sent by his killers?

   According to a report in The Sunday Telegraph, the Jamaican police is “very interested” in the email, which was Woolmer’s resignation from the post of Pakistan coach sent to the Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Nasim Ashraf.

5. Ban on phoning while driving is official | Seattle Times Newspaper

   Under the new laws, drivers who read and compose text messages or talk on a cellphone without a hands-free device could face a $101 ticket. The text-messaging ban takes effect Jan. 1; the cellphone law will be enforced starting in July 2008.

6. Mother’s Day brunch? You’ll be sorry

   if you go out for brunch on Mother’s Day, you’re nothing but livestock being herded halfway to hell. How long will you wait for a table? Oh, figure eternity plus one. Your fellow cows will argue that they’ve been waiting for an hour.

7. Don’t Mess With Our Chocolate

   Don’t Mess with Our Chocolate web site. Its purpose is to provide information regarding how to get involved in saving the real chocolate that we all love and enjoy. Through the years, consumers have had a passionate love affair with chocolate.

8. Chocolate gets into a sticky mess

   current FDA standard for chocolate says it must contain cacao fat, a.k.a. cocoa butter, and this proposal would make it possible to call something chocolate even if it had vegetable oil instead of that defining ingredient.

9. Ski Champ Bode Miller’s Cousin Kills Cop

   A cousin of skiing star Bode Miller fatally shot and ran over a police officer, then was killed by a passer-by who grabbed the officer’s gun. Liko Kenney shot Cpl. Bruce McKay four times, then ran over him with his car after a traffic stop Friday night.

10. ***HUAR*** Humans United Against Robots

    HUAR – was designed to educate and aware the citizenry of the world the impending attack that computers and robots will put into affect against humans.

11. NASA shuttle tank an eyesore but ready to fly

    Instead of being a uniform orange color, Atlantis’s tank now has a patchwork of white spots where technicians sprayed, scraped and filled fresh foam into more than 4,200 areas that were damaged during a freak hail storm in February.

12. Airlines risk ballooning frequent-flyer payout

    Airlines have awarded more than 19 trillion frequent flyer miles over the past 25 years, roughly equivalent to circling the globe 760 million times, and more than 14 trillion of those miles are unredeemed. The rate of awards is increasing annually.

13. Bush tours Jamestown on 400th anniversary

    Michael Lavin, senior conservator at the archeology site, said it was coincidence and that four sword hilts had been discovered in the dig while Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II was visiting, and two of those were freed from the ground the day of Bush’s tour.

14. Montreal police arrest one of FBI’s ‘most wanted’

    Richard Goldberg, a 61-year-old accused of sexually assaulting children in California, was picked up early Saturday at an apartment in Dorval on Montreal’s West Island. Police believe Goldberg may have been living there for several years.

15. Nudist Groups Seek Younger Members

    Here’s the naked truth about nude recreation: The people who practice it aren’t getting any younger. To draw 20- and 30-somethings, nudist groups and camps are trying everything from deep discounts to a young ambassador program

16. Polish Posters Shop – Posters For You – From Poland

    Museum of the city walls – In 1968 the first poster museum in the world was opened in Warsaw. Two years earlier, Poland had held the First International Poster Biennial, which for many years was the most prestigious event of its kind.

17. Public Domain Movie Torrents with PDA iPod Divx PSP versions

    Wired Magazine – Public domain Torrents has links to more than 500 movies in the public domain available for download via BitTorrent. Most are compatible with the video iPod. There’s a lot of silent-era stuff, but also a rich vein of kitsch trash

18. floola.com – Wiwi – Home

    Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes). It can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation under Linux, Mac OS X and Windows

19. We Like The Moon – the Spongmonkeys try and cash in on the kittens’ success – By Joel Veitch rathergood.com, song by Joel and Alex Veitch

    just because – we all like the moon, well it is up so high.

20. Molecules with Silly or Unusual Names

    Believe it or not, some chemists do have a sense of humour, and this page is a testament to that. Here we’ll show you some real molecules that have unusual, ridiculous or downright silly names.

21. FUJIYA & MIYAGI – NEWS

    Website for the UK based group FUJIYA & MIYAGI, ‘Ankle Injuries’ on the MP3 section is good, click on the ‘back’ logo in the actually page to get to the main menu, but this page has an interesting video, Can white men dance, YES or NO?

22. Sim2 makes the first 3-chip 1080p DLP projector

    The company has just introduced its new flagship model, the Grand Cinema HT5000, claiming it to be the first 3-chip 1080p DLP projector. It uses three of the new 0.95in 1080p chipsets from Texas Instruments, brighter and greater contrast levels.

23. Nederland FM – Radio luisteren via Internet, klikken en luisteren

    Loads of great internet radio station all in one place, without having to use iTunes. Based in the Netherlands so should not get hit with the new fees that are coming in soon.

24. Ask MetaFilter | Community Weblog

    Metafilter is a weblog (what’s a weblog?) that anyone can contribute a link or a comment to. This website exists to break down the barriers between people, to extend a weblog beyond just one person.

25. Hick’s law – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Hick’s law is sometimes cited to justify menu design decisions. However, applying the model to menus must be done with care. For example, to find a given word (e.g. the name of a command) in a randomly ordered word list (e.g. a menu)