My Children Don't Eat Dogfood A remarkable book of healing and life extending recipes and herbs for dogs and cats. A down to earth, to the point, easy to follow dialog for the average dog and cat lover. It suggests life saving foods to replace bagged and canned commercial dog food. Many wonderful natural recipes. Eye opening information about unnecessary vaccines, toxic flea killing chemicals, how to use natural remedies to kill fleas. Airline snafoos which can kill your pets. How to cure yeast infections. Mold & mildew cures. Much, much more.

Identity swapping makes privacy relative Think privacy is a battle waged only in the courts? Think again. It's guerrilla warfare, consumers against the companies, and the consumers hold more cards than they know.

Lawyers Volunteer to Help Consumers Challenge Their Health Insurers When Alice Elliot, a homemaker from Danielson, Conn., discovered she had breast cancer three years ago, her doctor said she needed a bone marrow transplant to combat the disease, but her insurance company, Central States Health and Life of Omaha, refused to pay for the treatment, calling it "experimental." However, the Elliots did not sit back and take the financial hit. They took action in the same way other Americans are beginning to fight Goliath-sized health care organizations. They turned to a public interest law firm with a specialty in health care that provides free legal counsel.

SpaceViews Scientists have found that a particular class of meteorite is not made of the same material from which the Earth and Moon formed.

Welcome to HavenCo.com HavenCo Limited is exploiting a unique opportunity to set up the world's first real data haven. The initial showcase datacenter is the Principality of Sealand, the world's smallest sovereign territory. It was founded over thirty years ago and has obtained a unique legal status as the only sovereign man-made island. Its claim to sovereignty has been tested and supported in several legal challenges.

Rebel Outpost on the Fringes of Cyberspace In the annals of Internet history, June 5, 2000, may be remembered as the date that a hardy band of true believers tried to establish the first independent colony in cyberspace. A small international group of computer rebels plans to introduce what they are calling a data haven, perched precariously on a World War II military fortress six miles off England's coast.

The Carmel Pine Cone THE DETERIORATING lantern room of the Pt. Sur Lighthouse needs a $340,000 restoration job, and to help raise the money the Central Coast Lighthouse Keepers is offering its big donors a unique incentive....The Lighthouse Keepers decided to build replacement prisms for the lantern room floor as part of the restoration project -- and offer one to any donor who ponies up $1000. They will also take home the replica prism on a small redwood stand salvaged from Pt. Sur buildings and carved by volunteers.

IBM "Solutions" conference focuses on XML Hands-on tutorial sessions include those on XML & Java, XSLT and VoiceXML. Eighteen other sessions feature XML, including diverse subjects from "AS/400 Application Integration" to "The Role of XSL Transformations in e-business Solutions".

The Good E-Book Literature's next big revolution will be digitized. What's so scary about that? By JACOB WEISBERG (free subscription to nytimes required)

John Perry Barlow: Napster.com and the Death of the Music Industry An editorial by Grateful Dead lyricist and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, John Perry Barlow.

XHTML: A Bridge To The Future Hypertext Markup Language, an aging, inflexible formatting standard, has fueled the phenomenal growth of the Web. Now a new technology, a flexible data-markup standard called Extensible Markup Language, promises nearly complete flexibility.

"Truth in advertising" - vintage cigarette & tobacco ads This site is powered by the white-hot bitterness of long-term Nicotine withdrawal.

The Programmer's File Format Collection Wotsit's Format, the complete programmer's resource on the net. This site contains file format information on hundreds of different file types and all sorts of other useful programming information; algorithms, source code, specifications, etc.

Family Tree Research It's in Great Britain. They keep track of the graves and other info for soldiers killed in WW1 and WW2. There's a DB search of personnel and service records. Surname is required to search. Other info can help narrow it down.

Lee Iacoca's peddling an electric bicycle The new E-Bike is lighter, faster, and has much longer range than past generations of electric vehicles. With a top speed of 15mph and a range of about 20 mi., the E-Bike will get you where you need to go. Whether it’s to get you up and over those hills or simply to get you home after a long ride, The E-Bike’s remarkable Power on Demand drive train is always ready. No hassle. No stopping to make adjustments. Just a simple click of the “thumb throttle” and the reliable electric hubmotorengages, delivering all of the power needed to keep you moving.

From the people who created the Statue of Liberty? Web users in France who want to publish online will have to register their intent with the government, if a bill being considered by French Parliament this week is passed.

Micro Publishing "Micro Publishing" or publishing "Books on Demand" has been, up until now, only a dream. Most of the pieces were already in place, (Desktop Publishing Software, Laser Printers, Imposition Software, etc.). The last key ingredient was an inexpensive way to bind and cover the books into professional looking "Perfect Bound" books. The future just arrived.

Stalled in Paradise A quiet but profound revolution is taking place in suburban America, affecting the way people there think about government, taxes, property rights, the free market, and the idea of community itself, and it is being sparked by that most mundane of phenomena: the traffic jam.

The Alternate History Travel Guides From Larkfarm, "A strange mix of fiction, history, and perhaps even roleplaying. This site has travelogs and other articles covering a wild mix of alternative Earths. It's all presented in the form of travel guidebook entries on places like the Lawrencian Emirate in the mideast or the Three Papacies in Europe. Lots of fun "what-if" scenarios to think about here."

Virtual Dr - Drivers Here you can search for the latest drivers for your system and it's peripherals.

Transmeta's Crusoe, Friday is lost for words - Introduction Transmeta has developed a whole new approach to microprocessor design. Currently an entire processor with the accompanied instruction set is implemented in hardware (for example an x86 processor such as the Intel Pentium III), and then the software is written specifically to make use of that instruction set. Transmeta chose to do it differently; rather than implementing the entire x86 instruction set of the processor in hardware, the Crusoe processor consists of a compact hardware engine surrounded by a software layer.

Microsoft Issues Patch, Squashes Two Security Bugs

Microsoft has released a patch which corrects two securituy vulnerabilities in Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000.

The Anatomy of a Trivial Patent

Richard Stallman writes " The patent system's defenders can point to the complex description and say, 'How can anything this complex be obvious?' I will use an example to show you how."

PHP 4.0: Dynamic Content for the Web If you came late to the PHP Party, don't worry--there's plenty of reasons to celebrate. PHP is an open source server-side scripting language for creating dynamic web content, in place on some 1.5 million web sites worldwide--and growing. There's a new version of PHP out, version 4.0.

Giant turtle heading for shopping spree rescued by police Just when you think you've seen it all, here comes a 50-pound turtle waddling down the sidewalk.

Ingestible camera gives internal view Small device records journey through the digestive tract. Patients just swallow the capsule. They don’t know it is there. The other thing that is different is that they don’t have to be in a hospital environment,” Paul Swain, of the Royal London Hospital, said.

"Plowing the Dark" by Richard Powers "A novel that conjures up the bygone days of virtual reality and the promise of the unreal world that might have been". Hmmmm, I think I'm going to get this one to read next.

SpaceViews Article: Astronomers Peer Through Milky Way to Glimpse Distant Galaxies For most, the Milky Way is a picturesque band of gas and dust visible over large portions of the night sky. However, to astronomers the Milky Way has been an annoying object that, until now, has obstructed their view of more distant objects.