Rants & raves
By none
March 13, 2008
March 13, 2008
Rants
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, known for his anti-corruption reforms, resigned in the midst of a prostitution scandal.
An analysis of online data shows that companies may know more about you than you think. Companies that manage sites on the Web are gathering data from users’ purchases and searching people’s habits hundreds of times per month.
There are cat teahouses in Japan. Customers can pick a comfy calico cat to purr in their laps while they sip tea. The cafes address the needs of urbanite cat lovers because housing restrictions prevent some city-dwellers from owning cats.
Raves
A bird species thought to be extinct, the Beck’s petrel, has been rediscovered near Papua New Guinea.
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