There is an internet site devoted to busting those who use handicapped permits they aren’t entitled to do so. UnitedSpiral.org is posting the license plates and handicapped permit numbers of suspect vehicles.
The site founders are even sending some of this information to authorities. The woman founded the site because of experiences in Ohio with able-bodied people snatching up spots. She says she has recieved notes from more than 26 states other states where similar problems have occurred.
Miss America Lauren Nelson is fighting back against online predators. Seven years ago when she was a 13-year-old, Nelson was checking out an Internet chat room with some of her friends.
Someone tried to hit on them. The guy even sent inappropriate photos in an e-mail. Now, the pageant queen wants to make the Internet safer for young people.
She is behind a new kid-friendly Internet browser designed to steer kids away from the steamier side of the Internet. MissAmericaKids.com is making its debut as a kid friendly web browser.
Microsoft now has a website that can manage personal health and medical information. HealthVault.com is part filing cabinet, part library and part fax machine for an individual’s or a family’s medical records.
It can store medical histories, immunization and other records from doctors’ offices and hospital visits, including data from devices like heart monitors. Some privacy advocates are worried the site could become a portal through which private information can be leaked.
While many people are unhappy with airline delays and lost baggage, one man is unhappy for a different reason. Jesse Kalisher says he does not like the many of the movies shown in the skies because he says they are inappropriate for his kid.
He has started the website KidSafeFilms.org. He is leading a petition demanding the U-S Congress put an end to violent films shown in flight. He says many are editted for sex and language, but not violence.
The State Department is launching its first-ever blog, live on the Internet. It’s called “Dipnote,” and it’s supposed to give Net surfers an insider’s view of diplomacy.
On the website Blogs.State.gov, Diplomats are being told to be informal and chatty. It’s starting with discussions about how diplomatic security agents protect foreign dignitaries like those in New York right now for the U.N. General Assembly session.
A spokesman says the challenge will be to inform people and still give diplomacy the space it needs.
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