sunspot.net: Bloggers on parade

"Some, like Tiffany Baxendell's "The Ankle Biter," focus on life's mundanities, such as the leftover Chinese food she ate for breakfast or her lousy commute into the district.

"It's the ultimate ego trip," said the 24-year-old Alexandria, Va., resident, who estimates about 100 visitors read her daily. "The same people who are yelling at the TV when only their cat can hear are the ones who are blogging. It saves my friends from having to listen to it.""

Also, new to me is the term 'blog-species' for example kitty bloggers.

Pentagon threatens to target journalists in Iraq.. Kate Adie's real audio broadcast

In an interview with Radio One Ireland, Kate Adie, former chief news correspondent for the BBC, drops a bombshell.

If satellite uplinks from the press are detected in Baghdad, they would be "targeted down", said a senior US military official. "They know this. They've been warned."

Ms. Adie also revealed that the US military are openly asking journalists what their feelings are on the war, and are using this information to block reporters from access to reporting on the conflict.
These actions are "shameless" and "entirely hostile to the free spread of information," says Ms. Adie. "What actually appalls me is the difference between twelve years ago and now. I've seen a complete erosion of any kind of acknowledgment that reporters should be able to report as they witness." [MetaFilter]

Three and a half-year old SETI@home project identifies candidate radio signals from space, heads for Arecibo to take second look

"Three members of the SETI@home team will head to Puerto Rico this month to point the Arecibo radio telescope at up to 150 spots identified as the source of possible signals from intelligent civilizations."

Little green men leaking TV signals? Well, the reckon there's only a 1% chance that these 150 hot spots will show anything.

Europemedia: Telewest begins wireless broadband trials

"Telewest Broadband has begun trials of a new wireless broadband connection, enabling customers to access its blueyonder broadband internet services via a wireless access point and their digital set-top box.

The new self-installation pack is being trialled with the companyâs existing digital TV (DTV) customers in the North West and makes use of cable modems embedded in set-top boxes. The pack also utilises a pre-configured Netgear wireless access point and enables a connection suitable for either 512kbp/s or 1Mbp/s blueyonder broadband services. "

I wonder what price this is?