- A computer science professor at the University of Buffalo is building a search engine populated with thousands of shoe images scraped from internet shoe stores that would let police forensics units submit a photo of a shoe print from a crime scene and quickly learn the gender, size and brand of shoe a killer or thief was likely wearing.
- Unwelcome by dealers and buyers, thousands of cars worth tens of millions of dollars are being warehoused on increasingly crowded wharfs at the Port of Long Beach. Dozens of acres of the nation’s second-largest container port are being turned into a parking lot, creating a vivid picture of a paralyzed auto business and an economy in peril. The backlog at the port is just part of a broader rise in the nation’s inventories, which were up 5.5 percent in September from a year earlier, according to the Commerce Department.
It is one of London's most exclusive addresses. Michelin-starred restaurants are just a block away, the US embassy is around the corner and Hyde Park is at the end of the road. To share the same postcode ought to cost millions. But the new residents of 18 Upper Grosvenor Street, a raggle-taggle of teenagers and artists called the Da! collective, haven't paid a penny for their £6.25m, six-storey townhouse in Mayfair. The black anarchist flag flapping from the first-floor balcony gives a clue what they are up to: since finding a window open on the first floor on October 10, the group has been squatting in the house, and only plan to leave when evicted. (Photo)
- C.S.A. Strategy Quote Of The Day: "Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make your timid."--Frederick the Great
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