Overnight Stays at the Border if Canada Copyright Law Passes

The federal government is secretly negotiating an agreement to revamp international copyright laws which could make the information on Canadian iPods, laptop computers or other personal

electronic devices illegal and greatly increase the difficulty of travelling with such devices.
The deal could also impose strict regulations on Internet service providers, forcing those companies to hand [...]

Mozilla Requests ‘Save the Date’ .. er Month?

For the upcoming release of Firefox, Mozilla is preparing Download Day 2008: a campaign to set a world record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. Participants are asked to pledge to download Firefox 3 on the day that it’s launched. Silly publicity stunts are great and all, but wouldn’t it make more sense [...]

Houston, We Have a Problem and it Stinks

Shit is about to hit the fan, literally.

Just days before the planned delivery of the international space station’s largest laboratory, its crew is facing a much more down-to-Earth problem: a stopped-up toilet.
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Long a subject of bathroom humor, these high-tech commodes must use fan-driven air flow instead of gravity to transport human waste away from [...]

Launching Gmail in Firefox from mailto Links

Firefox 3 has brought about a whole slew of new features and abilities, one of them is being able to register webapps as link handlers. What is a link handler? In this example, when a web user clicks an email address a properly configured computer will open the default email program with the clicked email [...]

How Cow Farts Can Solve Our Energy Problems

The folks at Bell Plantations in Tifton, Georgia are developing a way to convert bacteria into hydrocarbons. By genetically manipulating the bacteria, they believe they can produce different

molecular chains to produce the basis for gasoline, diesel, propane and a variety of other hydrocarbon fuels.
In essence, they will be able to turn bacteria into [...]