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I came across this headline today:

Man accused in beating death appears in court

At my first read, I thought it was talking about a man that beat death. I was hoping the article could tell me how to do the same: beat death and live forever. If this man had allegedly beat death, what is he doing in court?

Upon second look, I realized that it was a death by beating that he was accused of. If he had actually beat death, the headline would have read: Man accused of beating death appears in court. What a difference one little word can make.

A Cnet News blog claims that Yahoo! might be bought out by Microsoft this week. If this happens, I am prepared to cancel all of the Yahoo! services that I currently use. I have little or no faith that Microsoft’s management of Yahoo! services will be satisfactory, so upon any sort of merger announcement, I will start looking for replacement services that I believe will better serve my interests.

As a developer, I currently trust the openness of Yahoo! developer APIs, but I would have serious concerns if I could depend on a Microsoft Yahoo for continued support of these APIs.

Some reports say that the Microsoft bid is simply to buy Yahoo!’s user-base. I refuse to be bought like that, and will remove myself from the user-base when it comes time.

Today the Daily Universe covered the BYU Amateur Radio club and ham radio in a couple of articles:

• An article about ham radio.
• An article about our club’s service to campus this week (red week)

According to the People’s Daily Online, Internet Game Operators in China have been ordered to install anti-addiction software on the games to prevent minors from gaming more than 3 hours a day.

China got this one right. Teens who spend too much of their time gaming form addictions to their games which curve their personal and career development. By limiting gaming time, China is encouraging teens to learn to do something more productive with their time, such as learn a new skill for form healthy relationships.
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The Mercury News reports that only one percent of the Internet contains adult content. This is according to a “confidential analysis of Internet search queries and a random sample of Web pages taken from Google and Micrsoft’s giant Internet indexes.”

Some might say that only one percent is practically nothing.

That is like saying that it is practically nothing if the breadfast cereal you ate this morning was only one percent poison.

Internet pornography is very similar to poison. It has and does ruin lives and relationships. Less than one-half of one-hundred-thousandth of one percent of the world population died in the attacks on September 11th, and we didn’t tolerate that. We should not tolerate one percent of Internet moral poison.