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Since passage of the Patriot Act, many companies based outside of the United States have been reluctant to store client information in the U.S.,” said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington. “There is an ongoing concern that U.S. intelligence agencies will gather this information without legal process. There is particular sensitivity about access to financial information as well as communications and Internet traffic that goes through U.S. switches.”
Comcast Corp., the nation's second-largest Internet service provider, Thursday said it would set an official limit on the amount of data subscribers can download and upload each month. On Oct. 1, the cable company will update its user agreement to say that users will be allowed 250 gigabytes of traffic per month, the company announced on its Web site.
Mccain chooses michael palin as running mate. sews up welsh vote. john cleese to head up ministry of funny walks.
billmon alert!
partly bitchy (scroll down for video)
I'm fixin' to join the cult of The Steve and get a Mac Book Pro. Primarily for QuickTunes, Final Cut and surfing the interweb. I plan to swap out my PCMCIA EVDO card for a USB EVDO card so I can use it with the Mac for wireless broadband. Also, I want to be able to work with MS Office files from PCs..

Are there killer apps that I should get?

Roger Tory Peterson Centennial

The new JetBlue Terminal 5's insane food court doesn't open to the public until October 1, but Cutlets has an early look at the renderings of some of the more exciting restaurants. Let's just say we've never been so excited about anything associated with the words "food court" or "airport" before. The spaces (at least in the artists' mock-ups) are real stunners. To Cutlets for more:

"Alexandra Raij should be cozy in her warped tapas bar; Michael Schulson's Asian spot Deep Blue is meant to make you feel cocooned in water; and Mark Ladner's Aeronuova trattoria screens old Italian flicks. The Loft, which has no celebrity-chef affiliation, recalls a Soho apartment you can't afford."
two fine paintings
TORONTO — What exactly was he planning to do with 2,865 bicycles?

The police are baffled by what Igor Kenk planned to do with such a surplus of bikes. That is just one of many questions the police and others have been puzzling over since the arrest last month of Igor Kenk, the owner of a used-bike shop here.
womens beach volleyball final. america v china. live. now.
architecture school
emily is not real.
kim novak
not coming to a theatre to you
whos the joker that sent me a subscription to field and stream?
radiant roasting
papa's got a brand new bag
g whiz
first times restaurant review
Documenting the Face of America: Roy Stryker and the FSA/OWI Photographers


Monday, August 18, 10:00pm

CHANNEL 13 (WNET)


An exploration of challenges faced by New Deal-sponsored photographers Gordon Parks, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Walker Evans, Jack Delano and Marion Post Wolcott, who were led by photographer and economist Roy Stryker.
what this neighborhood needs is another hotel?