Archive for September 28th, 2007
If you enjoy good wines and love to taste different varieties, I have a website for you. The site is wine.woot.com. I have no financial stake in this recommendation other than sharing a site that will have you sipping some fine wines at bargain prices.
Each week a new wine deal is put up for sale. Woot’s wine experts search out deals, many of which come from small boutique wineries that you would never run across in stores locally. The prices are great and the shipping charges are ridiculously low. Here’s a photo of this week’s deal, selling for only $39.95 & $7 shipping.
You will find great descriptions of the wine as well as a spirited discussion, joined in by the winemakers, on each week’s offering. I am eagerly awaiting my shipment of the above wines. This will be my 3rd wine.woot deal since I stumbled upon this site in August.
This is a great way to build up a supply of very drinkable wines at an affordable price. Now, when I throw out that last minute dinner invitation, or lunch, I do not have to worry about running out and finding a wine to serve. I just peruse the variety I have been building up.
If you are like me, you will soon find that your biggest problem is keeping a nice selection on hand, the temptation to drink this stuff is very strong!
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Leaked e-mails revealing the New York attorney general’s plan to outsource evidence gathering for child-porn prosecutions are raising eyebrows among bloggers and causing defense lawyers to cringe, according to a report published yesterday in Wired. Some 700MB of internal e-mails from the controversial anti-piracy company MediaDefender were leaked two weeks ago via the file-sharing network BitTorrent.
This is one area where we do not need a profit incentive. Politicians, of which Andrew Cuomo is one, already have enough incentive to abuse the system for personal gain without outsourcing evidence gathering to private companies.
MediaDefender is a company used by the music and film industries to sniff out PC users downloading movies and music.
Ars Technica says that the e-mails are not sufficient to describe the full scope of the project. But, as Wired makes clear, whatever its scope, defense lawyers don’t like it. As one lawyer told Wired:
“Generally it is not looked upon favorably when a prosecutor engages a private company to collect evidence in a case or to … partner with in a criminal case. This raises grave ethical concerns regarding the propriety of that relationship between the prosecuting authority and the private company, and it also could potentially show favoritism toward that company in the future.”
