Article published May 25, 2005
ONLY ONLINE
Careful you might cache something
A cache of an online page from the business section of Britain’s Independent newspaper might give a glimpse of tonight’s much-anticipated American Idol finale on Fox.
Business editor Jason Nisse was detailing 10 British-based business people that had been named among the Stars of Europe by BusinessWeek in a short business story that was originally published online Sunday afternoon.
In the final sentence of the item, Nisse referred to pop impresario Simon Fuller "whose ‘American Idol’ TV competition was won this year by Carrie Underwood."
Check the London daily today and all you get is "Sorry, the story which you requested is not currently published on this Web site."
But Google’s cache, a snapshot taken of the page when it originally appeared says otherwise.
Fan forums are wondering if this was an honest hiccup or inside information.
The Independent was founded in 1986 by the Fox Network’s Rupert Murdoch.
Bo and Carrie square off for the final time tonight at 8.18,697 As
A 17-year-old accused of breaking into school district computers to change his grades has pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges in Sacramento Juvenile Court according to the Associated Press. The teenager admitted to helping another student break into the computer system to change their grades to A's, said Deputy District Attorney Sue Wilson. He was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and six months' probation. Officials at the Natomas Unified School District said the two teenagers mistakenly changed the grades of all 18,697 students in the district.Look at that . . .
The Federal Aviation Administration proposed last week to amend its regulations to ensure that it can enforce a law that prohibits "obtrusive" advertising in zero gravity – billboards in space. "Objects placed in orbit, if large enough, could be seen by people around the world for long periods of time," the FAA said in regulatory filing FAA-2005-21234-1. Currently, the FAA lacks the authority to enforce the existing law. For instance, outsized billboards deployed by a space company into low Earth orbit could appear as large as the moon and be seen without a telescope, the FAA said.
dms.dot.govShake a leg
The British magazine New Scientist reports on Square Eyes – shoes that contain an electronic pressure sensor and a tiny computer chip to record how many steps the wearer has taken in a day. A wireless transmitter passes the information to a receiver connected to a television, and this decides how much evening viewing time the wearer deserves, based on the day's exertions. The shoes were inspired by a desire to combat rapidly expanding British teenagers.
Bristol University researchers calculated how exercise should translate to TV time using the recommended amounts of both. Health experts suggest that a child take 12,000 steps each day and watch no more than two hours of television. So, every 100 steps recorded by the Square Eyes shoes equals one minute of TV time.
www.newscientist.comStar Wars online
Waxy.org declares that Star Wars Episode III is on the internet already. Though rumors of screener copies on BitTorrent were fakes, a new workprint has arrived with watermarks and timecodes in every frame.
George Lucas is still rich.Your brain on disk
British futurist Ian Pearson told The Observer newspaper recently that computer technology is becoming sophisticated enough for the contents of a brain to be "downloaded" to a supercomputer. Pearson, head of futurology at British telecommunications giant BT noted that Sony's new PlayStation 3 console is 35 times more powerful than the model it replaced, and in terms of processing is "1 percent as powerful as a human brain. PlayStation 5 will probably be as powerful as the human brain," he said.Leaner Lara
For years, Lara Croft's gravity-defying chest, waspish waist and long legs have delighted teenage boys playing "Tomb Raider.” In an attempt to appeal to more female players, Lara’s creators have re-vamped her image to remove one of her most prominent features.
According to Saturday's edition of The Times newspaper, British computer game firm Eidos, which created Croft, has changed her physique in the soon-to-be-released "Tomb Raider: Legend," the eighth title to feature Croft. Her bust has been reduced to a modest C-cup and some of her more revealing outfits have been ditched. OnStar on target
Bernalillo County sheriff’s deputies have made one of the biggest drug busts in their department’s history after a cell call made last week to OnStar by a toddler who was locked inside a Cadillac Escalade, according to a copyrighted story in the Albuquerque Journal. When deputies went to rescue the boy, they found him inside the vehicle and his father, Alfredo Ibarra, 25, outside trying to coach his son to open a door. The security service eventually unlocked the doors, freeing the boy. Deputies, suspicious of a new trailer nearby, found 1,700 pounds of marijuana, worth an estimated $500,000.Marathon blog
Only 24 days remaining before the June 18 Grandmas Marathon in Duluth, Minnesota. The Cherry Fest Road Race (10K) in Whitehouse was a nice diversion from the mid-week pace. Flat, fast, overcast, and a little humid, this 10K in western Lucas County combines with a 16-mile Sunday run to cap one month remaining.
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