Day: August 4, 2006

JOSH WOLF is an imper­fect mar­tyr for free­dom of the press. The 24-year-old free­lance jour­nal­ist from San Fran­cis­co makes no pre­tense of being fair and bal­anced. He is a self-pro­claimed anar­chist. Advo­ca­cy, not objec­tiv­i­ty, appears to be his dri­ving motivation.

The tech­nique will even­tu­al­ly be offered as a free soft­ware tool

Uni­ver­sal Pic­tures will ful­ly finance and dis­trib­ute Hell­boy 2, the Guiller­mo del Toro-direct­ed sequel to the 2004 Dark Horse Com­ic-spawned film, Vari­ety reported.

Hele­na Bon­ham Carter has joined the cast of the upcom­ing fifth Har­ry Pot­ter movie, The Order of the Phoenix, and will play Bel­la­trix Lestrange, Sir­ius Black­’s cousin and a Death Eater, who is one of Lord Volde­mor­t’s fol­low­ers, Warn­er Broth­ers announced.

A Ger­man com­put­er secu­ri­ty con­sul­tant has shown that he can clone the elec­tron­ic pass­ports that the Unit­ed States and oth­er coun­tries are begin­ning to dis­trib­ute this year.

Our uni­verse may be 15% larg­er and old­er than we thought, accord­ing to new mea­sure­ments of the dis­tance to a near­by galaxy.

Con­ser­v­a­tive Chris­t­ian broad­cast­er Pat Robert­son said on Thurs­day the wave of scorch­ing tem­per­a­tures across the Unit­ed States has con­vert­ed him into a believ­er in glob­al warming.