Safe Creative has been expanding its services like mad recently. It was just two weeks ago I reported on their addition of multiple author registrations and a new automated registration tool. Now, Safe Creative has made an additional announcement, this one dealing with three new features they have added, RSS integration, cease and desist letters and the ability to let others ask permission to use your work.

That sinking feeling in your stomach may actually be coming from your browser. Don't look now, but Google plans to release a browser plugin that will allow users to opt out of being tracked by … Google Analytics. Um, what? Google, leading search provider and the horsepower behind the popular Google Analytics web traffic analytics tool, is going to allow users to avoid being tracked by their own tool.

Wikimedia Commons, the multimedia repository with over six million assets, has a brand new user interface and navigation today. This is the first roll out of the usability improvements to Wikimedia projects after English Wikinews and Wikimedia Strategic Planning adopted the usability beta as default interface during its early beta phase. Our next roll-out is English Wikipedia.

As calls increase for the the Pope to resign over his alleged role in not dealing with pedophiles as the Cardinal Archbishop of Munich and subsequently head of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, I was wondering if it has any historical precedent. To my surprise, it isn't that hard to do and it has happened in the past according to the BBC.

Genetic material pulled from a pinky finger bone found in a Siberian cave shows that a formerly unknown type of pre-human lived alongside modern humans and Neanderthals. The creature, temporarily nicknamed "Woman X", could have lived as recently as 30,000 years ago and seems only distantly related to modern humans or Neanderthals.

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."

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