Rated Top Ten

 BBC News reports here: A law that could force Apple to share its digital download technology with rivals has been passed in France. Currently, songs bought from Apple’s iTunes music store can only be played on Apple-manufactured iPods. The bill would mean any digital song could be played on any player, regardless of its format or source.

The Washington Post reports here: Google Inc. yesterday unveiled its long-anticipated service for helping consumers make purchases online, setting up a potential rival to eBay Inc.’s popular PayPal system.

The Top Ten Books in this week’s Bestellers List at Amazon, see The Top Ten Books here for more info including some reader reviews in our online store (ranking as of writing of this article, might change over time)

And the top ten Bestellers this week are:

• Twelve Sharp (Stephanie Plum Novels)
• An Inconvenient Truth
• The Fat Smash Diet : The Last Diet You’ll Ever Need
• The One Percent Doctrine
• Godless: The Church of Liberalism
• The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded] : A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
• Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works
• The Kite Runner
• Heat : An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
• Danse Macabre (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter)

Recently, new media has reported a study showing the radiation from cell phones is so full of energy they can be used to cook eggs. For more info on cell phone health risks see this article here at foodconsumer.org

The National Motorists Association released here a press release with a list of the top-ten speed trap cities in the country. The top-ten list of speed trap cities was created with data from the SpeedTrap Exchange, a site that identifies locations that combine arbitrarily low speed limits with heavy traffic enforcement designed to raise revenue. The top-ten cities are as follows:

1. Detroit, Michigan suburbs
2. Washington D.C.
3. Orlando, Fla.
4. Colorado Springs, Colo.
5. Houston, Tex.
6. Virginia Beach, Va.
7. Austin, Tex.
8. Baton Rouge, La.
9. Nashville, Tenn.
10. Fresno, Calif.

Found here at Yahoo News: Announcement coincides with AVRev.com’s tenth year as the Internet’s leading online audio/video publication. Topping the list with a total of 525 points was Led Zeppelin. All of the judges gave Led Zeppelin high marks not only for their songs/songwriting ability, but also their consistency as a band through the years.

    The Top Ten is as follows:

    1. Led Zeppelin – 525 points
    2. The Beatles – 514 points
    3. Pink Floyd – 506 points
    4. The Jimi Hendrix Experience – 503 points
    5. Van Halen – 496 points
    6. Queen – 493 points
    7. The Eagles – 479 points
    8. Metallica – 468 points
    9. U2 – 455 points
    10. Bob Marley and the Wailers – 454 points

The Washington Post reports here: A proposal to prevent Internet service providers from charging Web firms more for faster service to consumers failed yesterday to clear a Senate committee.
The vote was a setback for such companies as Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. and Skype Technologies SA, which had pushed for rules that would prohibit telecommunications companies from controlling the flow of online content. The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee took up the matter as part of a larger telecommunications bill, which passed 15 to 7. But some telecom experts said the party-line, 11 to 11 vote on "net neutrality" could signal a tougher fight to get the larger telecom bill passed on the Senate floor.

Study Suggests 10 New Obesity Causes: 10 Causes of Obesity : Obesity isn’t all about eating and inactivity, says an international group of researchers. Just about everywhere you look, doctors are blaming America’s obesity epidemic on two things: too much food — especially widely marketed fast food and junk food — and too little exercise, with too much time in front of the TV. More here at the CBS News website.

Washingtonpost.com writes here: The Bush administration is giving federal civilian agencies 45 days to implement new measures to protect the security of personal information that agencies hold on millions of employees and citizens. The new security guidelines, issued Friday by the White House Office of Management and Budget, cap a month marked by data thefts or disclosures at five different agencies that compromised Social Security numbers and other private data on millions of people.