The Environmental Protection Agency is changing drinking water standards to impose stricter limits on four specific contaminants which can cause cancer. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said that the agency is developing stricter regulations for: tetrachloroethylene, trichloroethylene, acrylamide and epichlorohydrin.

I banged into Google News this morning just like I've done everyday since Google News was just a puppy. Working my way past World, US, and Business news I navigated my way into Sci/Tech and what do my wondering eyes behold? 10 out of 20 news items listed in the Sci/Tech category of Google News were about or related to the iPad.

We hit a moose yesterday on Interstate 91 while on our way "down country". I was driving my trusty old ‘95 Jeep Cherokee and Laurie was beside me in the passenger seat. The whole incident from start to finish took around 5 seconds. Although hitting a moose isn't that unusual in the state of Vermont, surviving the encounter intact and without injury is.

I've been planning to get a netbook / ultra-portable laptop for grad school. Today, my dad offered to buy me one in exchange for my weighty hunk of metal (aka late-model Powerbook) so that he can give it to my grandma who's still, somehow, running one of these funky boys. So that means I need to figure out what kind of netbook to buy.

Apple's latest "ground-breaking" product enjoyed a phenomenal launch with Mashable reporting some big statistics after its first weekend in the US. "Apple announced on Monday morning that it sold over 300,000 iPads in the US on the first day of sales."

From Shortest, to Longest; these are the domains that will save you the most space in Twitter, or whatever service you're using where space matters. I normally use tr.im, which does an awesome job giving short urls (shorter than some of the services on this list) but I did a little research because I felt like there had to be something shorter. I was right!

In the hope of shedding some clarity on a bunch of ideas I've been struggling with over the past few months, I went back to read some classic texts about the internet. Among them, I got a hold of J.C.R. Licklider and R.W. Taylor's paper "The Computer as Communication Device", describing the structure, features, and impact of a computer network devoted to communicating (soon to exist in the form of ARPANET).

Beginning with, as one staff member described them, "every opera which Verdi ever conceived any part of in French," the Music Library's goal is to make its entire collection of Verdi first editions available online by 2013, the bicentennial of the composer's birth.

Keeping track of passwords sucks. We may be moving – ever so slowly – towards some sort of acceptable centralized identity authentication scheme, but in the here and now I bet you have to manage a lot of passwords. I tried several password managers before settling on KeePassX. It wasn't a hard choice because only KeePassX offered me the set of features that I was looking for in a password manager.

The never ending economic growth within a finite planet is basically impossible. A child can understand that. But the belief in economic growth bringing peace and prosperity to everyone is tough enough. How is this mystification possible?

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