17 Jun 2004
Panda pregnant after watching sex videos

What a headline! Maybe the prudes were right after all, but I suspect that something more than merely watching panda porn may have been going on here ...

American-born panda Hua Mei is pregnant, just months after she settled into her new home in southwestern China, state newspapers reported Wednesday.

(link) [CNN]

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BBC to Open Content Floodgates

This goes in my 'Copywrongs' category even though is really a 'Copy Right', in the sense of being correct policy. Somebody gets it: I'm just surprised it's the Beeb...

The BBC plans to open its vast archive of TV and radio programming to the Net this fall. Observers are excited about the liberal licensing terms: Users could download and remix all they want, turning the notion of copyright on its head. By Katie Dean.

(link) [Wired News]

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Kerry Raises Record $100 Million in Three Months

Hmmm .. looking at this outrageous figures just gave me an idea. We're going to spend well over a billion dollars on all Federal election campaigns this year - and that money cannnot be used as a tax deduction by contributors. However, the campaigns are not taxed on the money either. So, what if we made it a rule that, following the election, any leftover campaign funds from all candidates go immediately to the Federal Treasury? Or be donated to a 501(c)(3) charity of the campaigns choice?

This won't solve the Federal debt, by any means. But it might prove useful for levelling the playing field. Just take a look at the data from the 2000 campaign - there's better than $20 million leftover. And that's just from Presidential campaigns!

Just a thought ...

The Kerry campaign now has more than $140 million. The Bush campaign has raised at least $216 million.

(link) [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

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