Check Your Freedom at the Front Door: CNET’s “list of your top ten legal nonrights on the web.”

Magnetic storm forecast following giant sunspot flare. “Colorful

lights could dance in the sky this

weekend, as a giant solar storm sends

charged particles crashing into the

Earth. Besides the bright northern

lights, the storm could threaten power

grids and radio transmissions.

A massive solar eruption took place

early Friday, the National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration reported.” I keep going out at the peak of these magnetic disturbances but have yet to see the coveted and magical aurora borealis.

Divorce online: Not exactly point, click and split, does this innovation ease the pain of a remorseless process or make easy impulse divorce that much closer? “People who want to petition for divorce can choose to log

on to the Internet, download – for a price – all the required

documents, fill them in and email them to the service’s

legal team.” BBC

Where are you if you haven’t noticed that these things are everywhere?

Computer game given adult rating. “In what could become a landmark case, as well

as a thorn in the side of video game developers

in North America, Mary-Louise McCausland,

British Columbia’s provincial film

commissioner, ruled yesterday that the PC

version of Soldier of Fortune is to be

considered an ‘adult film’ in her jurisdiction.

The ruling means that that game is subject to the

restrictions that come with that classification.

According to the board’s categories, an ‘adult film’ is

intended for ‘anyone 18 years of age or older.’ “

Le Monde‘s exhaustive primer on the Middle East and the “peace process”.

How would the Scopes Monkey Trial go today, Beliefnet asks on the 75th anniversary of the incendiary Bryan-Darrows contest.

R.I.P. F.M. Esfandiary, the futurist and “chronic optimist” who legally changed his name to FM2030 because of his

confidence that he would live to 100 (the year 2030) and beyond, has died at 69. Believing that immortality could be

achieved by replacing worn-out organs with synthetic substitutes and thus that age was irrelevant because a person might

have artificial body parts of many different ages–he had a hip that was only 2 years

old–he died Saturday in New York City of cancer of

the pancreas–one body part for which no substitute has been created and which he

recently denounced as “a stupid, dumb, wretched organ.” LATimes

Hate Speech or Free Speech?Albanian-language newspapers in Kosovo have taken to printing the names, photos and daily whereabouts of Serbs they believe to be war criminals. One such ‘celebrity’ disappeared and was found stabbed to death a week later. The UN’s interim administration for the region then began to crack down on the papers. Are they doing enough to protect Serbian civilians there? Brill’s Content