2006
02.28

Legal options in digital entertainment are growing. But they come with restrictions that can hobble your ability to enjoy the content you’ve paid for–and even threaten your control over your system.
As we move to a world where all entertainment is delivered digitally, the battle over copyright protection is turning into a full-blown war. And consumer rights may end up being the biggest casualty as media companies hunker down and try to redefine what users can and can’t do with the content they’ve paid for and the hardware they own. Read all about it here at the PC World website.


2006
02.28

Found here at the Washington Post site:  Dressed in all black, former stripper turned weight-loss promoter Anna Nicole Smith fought her way through a throng of photographers and autograph-seekers Tuesday on her way to a Supreme Court showdown in her bid to inherit her late husband’s fortune.


2006
02.27

The Washington Post reports here: LONDON, Feb. 27 — Author Dan Brown copied the central themes of his best-selling thriller, "The Da Vinci Code," from a 1982 book, a lawyer for two of the book’s three authors argued in a London courtroom Monday.


2006
02.27

What’s Needed From Hamas

The Wasington Post reports here: Steps in the Peace Process Must Match Conditions on the Ground – By Henry A. Kissinger – For there to be progress toward peace, Hamas must undergo an evolution similar to Ariel Sharon’s and accept that Palestinian and Israeli states can co-exist.


2006
02.27

USA TODAY reports here: The decade-long saga of former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith, her late tycoon husband, his adult son and a multimillion-dollar inheritance will be argued at the Supreme Court on Tuesday.


2006
02.27

Europe Erupts in Excess

Spiegel Online writes here: From Venice to Cologne, people are throwing on their party clothes for one last burst of overindulgence before Lent. While the weather forced the Europeans to wear more clothes than they do at Carnival in Rio, in spirit they are just as risqué.


2006
02.24

In the latest round of the Donald vs. Martha smackdown, Trump elaborates on why he wrote such a nasty letter about Stewart’s ‘Apprentice’, see this article here at the Newsweek website for all the details.


2006
02.24

Hmmmm BBC reports here: A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his "wife", after he was caught having sex with the animal.


2006
02.24

Building New Orleans 2.0

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Susan Stone writes here at Spiegel Online:  Hurricane Katrina left a devastated New Orleans in its wake. But a new architectural exhibit has come up with some ideas for the Big Easy’s new look. Who’s behind the project? The Dutch of course.