Alarm sounds on US population boom - The Boston Globe
The United States, now at nearly 300 million people, is the only industrialized country that has experienced strong population growth in the last decade, creating concerns that the boom and Americans' huge appetites for food, water, and land will sharply erode the nation's natural resources in coming years, according to a report released yesterday.

INTERVIEW-Tsunami alarm shows Indonesia system inadequate
JAKARTA, Aug 31 (Reuters) - A tsunami warning in Indonesia this week that turned out to be a false alarm shows the country's disaster alert system is still inadequate, a top seismologist said on Thursday.

Real-life hamburgler on the loose in Arizona
A man broke into a McDonald's early Sunday morning through a roof vent. Surveillance video shows the man turning on the grill, cooking and eating a couple of burgers before fleeing. When he fled, the burger bandit triggered a door alarm that a morning shift manager heard when she pulled into work nearly two hours later.

Nokia patents cell-phone smoke detector
Your cellphone may soon serve as a smoke detector if Nokia gets its way. Nokia wants to put a light emitter and detector in the side of a cell phone. Any smoke particles in the air would scatter light from the emitter into the detector which then triggers an alarm or dials a pre-programmed number.

Can Blu-ray Heat Up Hollywood Again?
"There's a real sense of unease and uncertainty of where the future is," says Oscar-winning producer Mark Johnson ("The Chronicles of Narnia"). "The old reliable standard has been, 'Of course, we're going to be making all this money in home video,' and now home video is settling down. It can't help but be alarming for everybody."

Adult obesity rates continue to rise in the USA
Trust for America's Health, a public health advocacy group, has said in its latest report that in 31 states, adult obesity rates rose in the last year, with the southern states being the 'biggest belt' (their pun, not mine). The trend is alarmingly similar to the UK, where we are due to fail to reach our obesity targets for 2010.

Mr. Anti-Spam is Spreading Spyware
Spam, a wake-up alarm for the PC users, can be said a real friend of yours, who every morning, every day and all day, knocks at the door of your computer. You find it and kill it by pressing delete button.

Aurora: The ultimate iTunes alarm
Aurora lets you turn your Mac into a musical alarm clock by using iTunes to wake you up. This is one awesome app.

The Gathering Nuclear Storm
Must read piece in the Washington Times. War is inevitable, and a nuclear war is almost inevitable. I know a lot of people consider that a fanciful or alarmist idea, but it's coming. The fact that it hasn't happened before...

4 in 1 Illuminator For $10.99
It is a flashlight, cellphone charger, radio and alarm. Original price at $14.99, but enter coupon code "illuminator4" to lower the price.

The Sunshine Underground - Raise The Alarm (Review)
Review of The Sunshine Underground's debut album 'Raise The Alarm' from Clickmusic in the UK.

Patrick Buchanan Sounds Alarm In 'State Of Emergency'
Phyllis Schlafly on Pat Buchanan's new book looking at what makes the US what it is.

Child Safety- Does Your Dog Have More Identification Than Your Child?
Take a moment and think about it. When you consider the fact that, as adults, we would never consider leaving the house without our id. We spend thousands on home and car alarms, we are even protecting our family pets with microchips; however, our most cherished possessions, our children, leave home without any identification.

Car 54...where are you in your police tech these days?
Cast your on-line memories back a moment, dear reader, to the days of dial-up modems, when downloading a photo took so long that your coffee got cold. Annoying. Now imagine that public safety depended on the download. Alarming.

New MOSQUITO ringtones: The ringtones your parents and teachers can't hear
Ultrasonic Ring tones for you're cell phone! The Mosquito tone is a very high pitched ringtone that can generally only be heard by teenagers. The high-pitched alarm originally meant to repel youngsters from shops could become the latest teen ringtone craze. Great for the classroom, as Teachers can't hear.

Aurora Rocket Clock: Radioactive Glow...so beautiful...arm melting
Most alarm clocks function under the mantra that you can sleep better when you don't need to worry about waking up. The Aurora Rocket Clock works under the mantra: you don't have to worry about waking up if you never go to sleep.

Firm Will Use Eminent Domain To Grab Land For NAFTA Super Highway
a corridor of this overall width - maybe as much as 360 m - has alarmed people who stand forced to surrender property in land and buildings to the project. This concern has been sharpened by the disclosure that, citing a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, the developers intend to exercise the principle of ‘eminent domain' in land acquisition

Online spy plan raises fears over privacy
Powerful, intrusive new technology is about to be used to spy on New Zealanders online. The software, developed to hunt movie pirates, can track internet searches in what an international privacy watchdog says is an alarming intrusion. It can trace Google searches and other download attempts back to the computer they came from.

Newfoundland is FAT!
We all know that people in North America are getting fat at an alarming rate. If you haven't heard it yet then you must be living under a rock or in denial. Yes Americans waistlines are growing faster than anyone Else's but now more than ever it is evident in their skinnier neighbour to the north......particularly in Newfoundland.

Protest permit alarms Utah's Jews
''To say something like 'Death to Israel' - I have a very hard time believing that this does not cross the line of being anti-Semitic. It's one thing to disagree with a country's policies . . . [it's another thing] to actually call for a destruction of a people, the destruction of a country. "

Daily Mirror Hoax Sparks Racist Alarm
You remember the two asian students removed from a plane because a 'racist' 'mob' thought they were terrorists. Well it appears the whole thing may have been a student prank.... though even this is in question because there are questions as to whether they are students.

Toxic Waste in China River Causes Alarm
Toxic waste dumped into a river in northeastern China caused a bubbly red slick, prompting alarmed residents to buy bottled water and a complaint by Russia that Beijing was too slow in issuing a warning, news reports said Thursday.

Google to keep storing search requests
Although he was alarmed by AOL's haphazard release of its subscribers' online search requests, Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt said Wednesday the privacy concerns raised by that breach won't change his company's practice of storing the inquiries made by its users.

Linux cluster security: False alarms and real threats
Find out whether security threats to your Linux servers are real or imagined and determine how to set up your Linux server for clusters in this tip.

More false accusations revealed
I remember when this was in the news, major coverage, everyone believed it regardless of fact/proof. The U.N. Actually investigated it, funny how armor piercing missiles cut a perfect circle on an ambulance roof, the exact same shape of the circle alarms fit in.