Annals of the Erosion of Privacy: Police have anti-nuclear protestor’s numbers: “The (British) Ministry of Defence has opened an internal inquiry into the
extraction of mobile phone information from a nuclear protestor.

The phone’s owner, Juliet McBride, dropped her mobile while being
escorted off an atomic weapons plant in Aldermaston, Berkshire. It
was returned 24 hours later, but allegations that police noted down
all the information on her SIM card has sparked the MoD to launch
an inquiry, the Guardian reports.

Among the information was 80 personal telephone numbers and a
variety of messages, including some from a senior MoD police
officer. The Guardian also reports that one senior MoD bod ordered
the information to be destroyed but was ignored.

… With the
wide-ranging RIP Act now in force, police have the right to monitor
virtually all communication stored or sent electronically.” The Register

What the Hell is… Win XP’s groovy new UI? The Register

Qubert: “It seems the issue over animal testing never dies. The
determined folks at People for Ethical Treatment of Animals
(P.E.T.A), are always in the news pointing their fingers at one
corporation or another and boycotting them for actively
pursuing this method of product testing.

We wanted to see what would happen if we tried to donate
our beloved pet rabbit, Mr. Qbert, to these companies for their
experiments.

In our traditional style of doing things, we got a list of
companies who test their products on animals and decided to
contact them to see if any were interested in adopting Mr.
Qbert.” The outrageous Fade to Black folks are at it again.

Stanley Kramer, Director and Producer of ‘Message’ Films, Dies at 87. To any film-lover, the list will amaze: High Noon, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Inherit the Wind, The Wild One, The Defiant Ones, Judgment at Nuremberg, On the Beach, The Caine Mutiny, Ship of Fools, and the over-the-top It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World. New York Times