Mesa police want to add monkey to SWAT team: The monkey weighs only three to eight pounds, has tiny humanlike hands and puzzle-solving skills. Police say it would be able to get into places no officer or robot could go and could unlock doors, search buildings and find suicide victims on command. ————- cool.

Bill Frist’s religious war: Frist has an even bigger game in mind than the current nominees: the next appointments to the Supreme Court, which the Republican conservatives view as their best chance to outlaw abortion and impose their moral code on the country. yep, i warned you.

BAY AREA / Computer crashes booming business / Geeks find steady supply of vexed users who need house calls: What grabs him, Bennett said, is the interaction between these devices and people. The technology, to him, is a riddle. If others can’t figure it out — and the big computer companies aren’t making it easier, […]

Write-on Poly Sheets: Polysheet instant whiteboards are thick, static-laden sheets of plastic, like ultra-heavy garbage bags. Just unroll one, slap it on the wall, and instant whiteboard! Best of all, in the corporate world, at the end of the meeting, you can roll them up, take them back to your desk, and process them. After […]

semiotic engineering: Brazil forwards the academic dialogue as usual with an HCI program in semiotic engineering. From a related book Semiotics is the study of signs, and the essence of semiotic engineering is the communication between designers and users at interaction time;… ————– very useful.

c u l t u r e k i t c h e n: What Is Mine: Mine. Not yours. Not the government’s. Not the property of rightwing nut jobs who hate their bodies, and want to control mine, too. ————- i agree, everyone should have the right to their own body first and foremost.

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