Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez distances himself from the furore surrounding the club’s attempts to prise Kenwyne Jones from Sunderland.

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The England and Wales Cricket Board says there is no truth in the report that bowling coach Ottis Gibson is to resign and take over as West Indies coach.

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Halftime at the Super Bowl is generally marked by two events, both often characterized by excess: the entertainment program and the rush for restrooms that produces the condition known to public works departments across the country as the halftime flush.

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At age 70, Charles Daniels completes the triple crown of U.S. through-hiking — Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail and now the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail. I get tired walking to the train station. Sigh.

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lbalbalba writes “Electronic Arts is shutting down its Westwood-based game developer Pandemic Studios just two years after acquiring it, putting nearly 200 people out of work. ‘The struggling video game publisher informed employees Tuesday morning that it was closing the studio as part of a recently announced plan to eliminate 1,500 jobs, or 16% of its global workforce. Pandemic has about 220 employees, but an EA spokesman said that a core team, estimated (more…)

Britain’s oldest bath overflow is to be given its first thorough inspection nearly 2,000 years after it was built.

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nam37 writes with this BoingBoing snippet “The MPAA has successfully shut down an entire town’s municipal WiFi because a single user was found to be downloading a copyrighted movie. Rather than being embarrassed by this gross example of collective punishment (a practice outlawed in the Geneva conventions) against Coshocton, OH, the MPAA’s spokeslizard took the opportunity to cry poor (even though the studios are bringing in record box-office and aftermarket (more…)

oranghutan writes “The Obama administration is looking to the southern hemisphere for tips on how to improve the broadband situation in the US. The key telco adviser to the president, Sarah Crawford, has met with Australian telco analysts recently to find out how the Aussies are rolling out their $40 billion+ national broadband network. It is also rumored that the Obama administration is looking to the Dutch and New Zealand situations for inspiration (more…)

Paolo DF writes “Geocities is closing today. Its advent in 1995 was a sign of the rising ‘Internet for everyone’ era, when connection speeds were 1,000x or 2,000x slower than is common today. You may love it or hate it, but millions of people had their first contact with a Web presence right here. I know that Geocities is something that most Slashdotters will see as a n00b thing — the Internet was fine before Geocities — but nevertheless (more…)

Fish that use electric fields to sense their environments dim their signals to save energy during the day when they are resting.

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