The Canadian Plastic Industry Association (likely feeling reduced sales due to the popularity of reusable cloth bags) says that reusable bags are a public health risk.

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Steve Jobs is dying. Oh, wait. No. Jesus Diaz was wrong.

Last week, I published an article in an effort to call out Jesus Diaz on his use of an anonymous source as the basis for an article about the "dire" health of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Attempts to contact Diaz went unanswered.

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Mike Sunnucks, writing for the Phoenix Business Journal, reports that Arizona state and local police "say they have broad plans to deal with social unrest, including trouble resulting from economic distress.

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But in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America," Ayers told anchor Chris Cuomo that he doesn't know Obama any better than "thousands of other Chicagoans" and that "a secret link" between the two men is a "myth."

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Obama's "America Serves" SNAFU: Hysteria and Empty Rhetoric

Shortly after a landslide electoral victory on Tuesday evening, President-elect Obama unveiled a new administration website, change.gov -- part of his plan to usher in a new era of transparency in the White House.

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Surrick issued a 34-page memorandum and opinion that said the claims were "ridiculous" and "patently false." He also said Berg's effort to pursue his claim regarding Obama's citizenship were "frivolous and not worthy of discussion."

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Ayers Apparent: Guilt by Non-Association

"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square hole, the ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo.

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Regarding the Media Frenzy Surrounding Steve Jobs' Health

Here's what we know, regarding the health of Steve Jobs:

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Preston Gralla has decided to tell us why Vista is better than Mac OS X. Let's go through point by point.

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From One Kool-Aid Swilling, Deluded Cultist to Another

Obama fans take note: You're drinking the Kool-Aid and there's nothing you can do about it.

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Several (legitimate) Reasons for Fundamentalists to Protest the Remaining "His Dark Materials" Movies

1995: Two years before the release of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone -- Scholastic published the first of Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials (HDM) trilogy.

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When Robert X. Cringely Speaks: Read Between the Lines

Robert X. Cringely (the Mark Stephens flavor) recently posted an article comprised primarily of doom and gloom speculation about the allegedly damaged relationship between AT&T and Apple as it relates to the iPhone.

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As a result of some confusion (and sadly, some very active, ugly and offensive muck-raking) in various sections of the community recently, I thought it might be interesting to do a review of GNOME's relationship with Novell and some of the people involved in that relationship.

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The first ever patent infringement litigation involving Linux. Here s the patent, for those who can look at it without risk. If in doubt, don t. Here s the complaint [PDF].

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For some time, we have not heard anything about the patent sellout which Novell inked with Microsoft 11 months ago.

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Reader Fallout: It's getting harder to get the right attention

I had another experience with reading a potent story and getting all worked up about nothing. While this is a long read, I'd love to have some feedback on what you think about online news today and how it might seem to do just as much bad as good.

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Well, iPhone 1.1.1 has landed and reports of what works and what broke are flying in. I manually restored my iPhone to a factory fresh 1.0.2 state this weekend to clean out all the hacks and apps I had been playing with, so updating to version 1.1.1 just now went smooth as butta'.

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A concrete and steel fence is being built across the centre of Sydney amid a massive security effort for a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders next week. More than 5,000 police and troops will also be deployed as part of Australia's largest security operation ever.

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New South Wales police say they are continuing to identify people they suspect will cause trouble during next week's APEC summit in Sydney. The names and photographs of about 30 people on an APEC black list have been published today in a Sydney newspaper.

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The New South Wales Police Minister, David Campbell, says people on an exclusion list for the APEC week will know they are banned from certain areas in Sydney.

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The Federal Government claims the Opposition's new industrial relations (IR) plan aimed at restoring the balance, will instead push up unemployment.

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The incoming New South Wales Police Commissioner, Andrew Scipione, says details about security fencing for the APEC summit in Sydney will be made public soon.

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TELSTRA public affairs boss Phil Burgess has suggested Australia would be vulnerable to terrorist attacks if the telecommunications company didn't get its way in the broadband debate.

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UPDATE: This post has been determined to be a bit off base. While the items below are in the iPhone's terms of service, they may be misrepresented in many cases. Read the terms of service for yourself.

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Police have released five foreign doctors who were questioned yesterday in Western Australia and Sydney about possible links to the attempted UK car bombings.

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