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Did L A Times Miss the Mark On Judicial Bias & Richard Fine??? // Current

Wrong. A June 7, 2009 Los Angeles Times article entitled “LAWYER TAKES A STAND FROM HIS CELL” provoked response and criticism from supporters of jailed Anti-Trust Attorney Richard I. Fine who is being held in civil contempt of court for over 100 days following his attempt to disqualify L. A. Superior Court Judge David YaffeContinue reading “Did L A Times Miss the Mark On Judicial Bias & Richard Fine??? // Current”

Android Developers Blog: Android 2.1 SDK

Okay, so the news is a day old, but Android 2.1 SDK is out. Today, we are releasing the SDK component for Android 2.1, so that developers can take advantage of the new features introduced in Android 2.1. Please read the Android 2.1 release notes for more details. You can download the Android 2.1 componentContinue reading “Android Developers Blog: Android 2.1 SDK”

Renowned cancer scientist was paid by chemical firm for 20 years | Science | The Guardian

Her Majesty might consider revocation of his OBE. Can she do that? Of course she can. Otherwise, why be a sovereign? Sir Richard Doll, the celebrated epidemiologist who established that smoking causes lung cancer, was receiving a consultancy fee of $1,500 a day in the mid-1980s from Monsanto, then a major chemical company and nowContinue reading “Renowned cancer scientist was paid by chemical firm for 20 years | Science | The Guardian”

Conversations About The Internet #5: Anonymous Facebook Employee – The Rumpus.net

Not a huge surprise. What’s odd is that there is an employee who is spilling the beans on this. Maybe they have an axe to grind — passed up for promotion or something burned by a supervisor. Employee: I’m not sure when exactly it was deprecated, but we did have a master password at oneContinue reading “Conversations About The Internet #5: Anonymous Facebook Employee – The Rumpus.net”