The Library of Congress has an online exhibit consisting of photographs of signs used to enforce racial discrimination policies in the 1930s and 1940s. Images like this:
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BetterSearch 1.7 for Firefox
BetterSearch is an excellent example of the sort of cool extensions that people are writing for Firefox. BetterSearch enhances Google and other search engines by including thumbnails of the pages returned as search results. Its got pretty sophisticated options, too — I’ve got it set up to show small thumbnails and then big thumbnails on a mouseover. At least with Google, its building the thumbnails based on the Google cache of the page.
Very cool.
True Zero Tolerance
I think the message of this story is quite clear — teens should be doing drugs, consuming alcohol and having sex, not engaging in juvenile antics like baking cookies for the neighbors.
The court certainly taught them an important lesson, eh?
Yahoo! Context Search Rocks
I’m very impressed with Yahoo!’s Context Search — it properly ranks AnimalRights.Net as the #3 result when searching on “animal rights” compared to Google.Com’s lame #4 result.
Way to go, Yahoo!
😉
New vCJD Data, Projections Released in the UK
Lets take a look at where the United Kingdom is in its vCJD breakout, usually ascribed to the transmission of Mad Cow Disease.
In 2004, the number of people who died from vCJD continued to decline. A total of 9 people died from vCJD in 2004, compared to 18 deaths in 2003.
So far, a total of 148 people have died from vCJD and there are currently 5 people alive who are believed to be suffering from vCJD.
How many more people are likely to die from vCJD? An Imperial College London study released in January suggests that about 70 more people in Great Britain will become ill with vCJD.
Thousands of people likely harbor the defective prions, but for a variety of reasons will never exhibit symptoms of the disease in their lifetimes. Only about 40 percent of the British population has the specific genetic makeup that makes them susceptible to the disease. Moreover even in those susceptible to the disease, for most the incubation period will last longer than their lifespan.
Sources:
UK Department of Health, Monthly Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Statistics, Press Release 2005/0009, January 10, 2005.
Thousands of Britons may carry vCJD. James Reynolds, The Scotsman, January 12, 2005.
Five New Jersey Activists Set for Trial in Seaboard Securities Protest
The New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance sent out an appeal for funds in late December to aid five activists set to go on trial in late January.
According to the appeal,
Back in July, five activists were arrested at a silent, peaceful protest against Seaboard Securities, a market maker which allows Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) to trade its stocks. The activists were simply displaying their disapproval of Seaboard’s complicity in the murders of 500 animals a day at HLS — a lab which conducts cruel procedures on animals in the name of “science.” . . .
These false arrests have proven to be a financial hardship for two of the activists — one an NJARA member and employee — who have retained a lawyer to help fight the false allegations and defend their right to free speech for the animals.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find much information about the original arrests or the pending trial (even the NJARA’s website has no mention of it), so anyone who can point me to additional information on this case would be greatly appreciated.
Source:
Defend your right to speak up for the animals! New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance, Press Release, December 30, 2004.