BBC NEWS | Americas | Top US court rejects Schiavo plea

BBC NEWS Americas Top US court rejects Schiavo plea so that one feeding tube gets removed but on the other hand: doctors feed Pope by nasal tube. So if anyone feels like holding a vigil for a vegetable, Rome's the place to go.

New Scientist Breaking News - Electronic tags for eggs, sperm and embryos

New Scientist Breaking News - Electronic tags for eggs, sperm and embryos

(Short intro: there are people in the United States -I am doing my best not to qualify such people - who believe that the apocalypse is nigh and that the marking of goods and people is a sign of its coming. The basis for this belief is the following text from verse 17, chapter 13 of the New Testament Book of Revelation "And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name". The initial stroy was that a universal bar code is the sign. Now these believers may turn their attention to RFID)

In order to prevent mishaps during IVF, such as cases where a woman's egg is fertilized with an unintended donor's sperm, the UK authorities are proposing to mark all materials used in the process (eggs & sperm) with tiny RFID markers. My question is: what happens to the markers after the materials are placed in the womb?

And if we are going to be trying to solve this kind of problem (I estimate we are talking about a limited number of cases worldwide, one out of thousand IVF treatments maybe) with radio tagging, why not use RFID to prevent the repetition of the great urban legend of the man who goes out drinking picks up a girl who drugs him etc. ending in the man's waking up with a scar on his belly only to find out that he's down a kidney. So, the next big thing would then be to radio tag all our internal organs. Why not?

PalmInfocenter.com: Rumor: Additional LifeDrive Details and Images

The final spasm - the Palm Lifedrive. Ppalm is rumoured to be preparing a new handheld device, this time with a bigger screen and with a 4 Gb hard drive. The buzz is that the hard drive is going to be an important selling point for the device. It may be... but as someone who uses his PocketPC intensively and is happy with a 256 MB CF card for storage, I don't think the harddrive is really going to make that much of a difference. What you're basically going to be talking about is an oversized iPod mini with a large display and probably LARGE price tag. Sorry guys, too little, too late.

Should iPods carry health warnings? | The Register

The Register has come out as the first company to report on the health dangers of the Ipod. The kind souls they are, they've also included a few initial warnings that might need to be placed on the oh so popular music player.