Monday, September 15, 2003

Music of the Heavens Turns Out to Sound a Lot Like a B Flat. Astronomers say they have heard the sound of a black hole singing. And what it is singing is B flat a B flat 57 octaves lower than middle C. By Dennis Overbye. 8:56:57 PM    comment []

Microsoft fires Web conferencing salvo. Microsoft this week will unveil Office Live Meeting, the first service offered as part of its Office productivity suite. Although the first version will pepper only a few enhancements above the service Microsoft acquired from PlaceWare earlier this year, the move signals Microsoft's long-term aspiration to bring online meetings into the enterprise collaboration platform fold. [InfoWorld: Top News] 8:52:46 PM    comment []

Comfort Foods Switch Off Stress, Scientists Find. Comfort foods like chocolate cake and ice cream literally blunt the body's response to chronic stress. By Sandra Blakeslee. [New York Times: Science] 8:47:45 PM    comment []

Why Copyright Threatens Intellectual Property September 15, 2003. IP Threat [Cryptome] 8:43:00 PM    comment []

Boston Herald: Blogs offer peeks inside small firms. [Scripting News] 8:39:39 PM    comment []

Mosquitoes and Genes. This week's question: Why do some of us get bitten by mosquitoes while others go free? By C. Claiborne Ray. [New York Times: Science] 8:38:28 PM    comment []

Chicago Manual of Style, Fifteenth Edition. 10:43:44 AM    comment []

Radio Tag Debut Set for This Week. A retail trade group will debut the bar code's successor this week in Chicago. Privacy advocates will be there to protest the controversial radio-tagging technology scheme. By Mark Baard. [Wired News] 7:17:07 AM    comment []

Cisco To Fund Voice Mail For Poor, by John Boudreau, SiliconValley.com. 4:42:26 AM    comment []