The O.C. Season 3 Premiere Leaked
More stuff has escaped from Fox Studios this week and found it’s way onto various bittorent tracker sites. This time, its the first episode of the third season of The O.C., and sources confirm it’s real.
Tasmanian Tiger to Be Brought Back to Life!
Exactly 69 years after the last Tasmanian tiger died in an Australian zoo, scientists are planning to use Jurassic Park-style technology to bring the carnivore back to life. The thylacine, a wolf-like creature with a backwards-facing pouch and jaws the size of a shelf bracket, was the biggest meat-eating marsupial. Since the last living specimen, named Benjamin, died in Hobart zoo on the night of September 6 1936, it has become a conservation icon.
Scientists at the Australian Museum, in Sydney, first proposed bringing the thylacine back to life in 1999, but the plans were abandoned earlier this year when researchers said the DNA they had recovered was too poor in quality. However, the museum’s former director told Guardian Unlimited that a team of Australian and US researchers were restarting the project and hoped to use new techniques that could lead to the sequencing of the entire thylacine genome.
Tales of Two Photos…
Last week boingboing had a little photo essay as Hurricane Katrina hit. It was simply two photos, one of people stuggling against the rising water, and one of George Bush, helping to the relief effort. You can see the two below:
Now one of the budding photoshop fans, that fill the net has created a great little image to tie the two together. Bush has really copped it on this one, and it’s just further more reason why, as bad as Johnny Howard is, I’m glad we don’t have Bush in our country.
Original BB Post
Second BB Post
Interview with the Little Lady Who Can
We haven’t had to worry about the RIAA in Australia, but in the US they’ve now threatened over 14,000 people with taking them to court, unless they pay a settlement for downloading MP3’s off the internet. Amazingly though, not a single one of those cases has gone to court. Now, however, someone has refused to pay, and Nancy Gertner is going to court, refusing to pay the US$7,500 requested. P2Pnet has a great interview with her, and everyone seems to be behind her. Check out the interview here.
Hurricane Katrina. US Media Fair and Balanced?
A disaster in every respect, Hurricane Katrina has brought what was once an underlying problem to the forefront of American politics. Follow the link to the story as well as an interview with New Orleans’ Mayor Ray Nagin.
