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...little Canadian company has done for DNA collection what Google did for Web searches: made it ridiculously simple and efficient. Ottawa-based DNA Genotek has developed a device that allows you to collect and store a sample of DNA by just spitting into a small plastic vial. Closing the lid on the gadget, called Oragene, releases a chemical that stabilizes the saliva, allowing it to be easily shipped and stored indefinitely. It's a huge advantage over getting a blood sample (inefficient) or swabbing the inside of the mouth (less stable...
...Google election." Garrett has since come to rue several comments he's made on the hustings, but he's been nearer the mark with that one. It's not a revolution in Australian campaigning - yet. But more than halfway through the runup to Nov. 24, the Web is harder than ever to ignore. Slicker websites are spruiking policy, online analysis is rife and political parties have YouTube video-sharing channels. Labor, under leader Kevin Rudd, is running sites like kevin07.com.au, where voters can blog views as they buy T shirts, while John Howard has ventured onto YouTube for policy announcements...
...Youdecide2007.org invites voters to become "citizen journalists," posting first-hand reports from electorates. But when an M.P.'s outburst on the site about "financially illiterate" young people turned up in federal Parliament, it was a reminder that the Web also bites. Perhaps the campaign's most talked-about online moment is a video clip of Rudd, apparently eating his own earwax several years ago in Parliament. The embarrassing footage has been reported on around the world, and downloaded almost half a million times. There are rich pickings in this new age of online politics, but plenty of pitfalls...
Last Friday’s move adds Massachusetts to the list of 20 other states that have adopted policies of divestment from Sudan, according to the Sudan Divestment Task Force Web site...
...advertising application that gives Facebook profile pages to companies and allow users to identify themselves as fans of that company’s products. Activity about the products will pop up on a user’s news feed, sometimes with links to the company’s Web sites. Companies can buy advertisements that would appear beneath the news feed announcements, as well as banner ads mentioning people who endorse certain products. John G. Palfrey ’94, the executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, compared Facebook to sites like Google, where web surfers...