Roundup
No, not the Monsanto pesticide, but a summary of the icons I haven't got around to deleting off my OS desktop:
- Nine 'women clerics' defy Vatican:
Nine Roman Catholic women have been unofficially ordained as priests and deacons in North America, risking excommunication by the Vatican.
- Pope aide 'has not burned papers':
The personal secretary of the late Pope John Paul II says he has not burned the former pontiff's personal papers as the Pope had requested.
- Bachelor's friends use billboard to find him dates: hmmm.
- New South Wales head steps down:
The premier of New South Wales, Australia's most populous state, has made a shock resignation announcement.
- Is your printer spying on you?
Secret codes enbedded into pages printed by some colour laser printers pose a risk to personal privacy, according to the Electronic Frontier Fundation.
- Residents fight for dry community:
Traditional owners at Ngukurr in Arnhem Land have become increasingly hostile towards white workers including police, who are the only people allowed to drink.
- Time's up for Corby appeal:
The decision effectively ends the defence team's opportunity to produce new evidence that someone else planted the drugs which were found in Corby's bag last October.
- Astronomers detect 'tenth planet':
Scientists say it is three times as far away as Pluto, in an orbit at an angle to the orbits of the main planets.
- Newest planet in solar system dubbed 'Xena':
it takes more than 204,000 days to orbit the sun
. - Afraid Of Commitment:
Commitment is a big thing, not to be taken lightly. With something this big, it is normal to have these feelings, as long as you keep them in check. It is okay to be cautious, but there will come a time when you will have to change your "yellow light" to green and take that chance. If it doesn't work out, it is okay. Obviously they weren't the one for you, but you would have never known had you not taken that chance.
- A Company's Troubled Answer for Prisoners With HIV
- The world's most powerful women:
Our second ranking of the World's Most Powerful Women illustrates how fleeting power is. Megawati Sukarnoputri, the former president of Indonesia who lost her re-election bid, dropped off the rankings. Gone, too, is Carleton (Carly) Fiorina, booted from Hewlett-Packard.
- Getting Open Source to the Dialup Masses
And for the historians -- from 1999: Preamble shamble.
More links from the 'backlog' of icons later in the week.