Court Orders Halt to Sale of Spyware
"Following an EPIC complaint, a federal court has ordered CyberSpy Software to stop selling malicious computer software. In March, EPIC filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission alleging that the spyware purveyor engages in unfair and deceptive practices by: (1) promoting illegal surveillance; (2) encouraging "Trojan Horse" email attacks; and (3) failing to warn customers of the legal dangers arising from misuse of the software. The federal regulators agreed, and asked the court for a permanent injunction barring sales of CyberSpy's "stalker spyware," over the counter surveillance technology sold for individuals to spy on other individuals. The court entered a temporary restraining order on November 6, 2008. Further litigation is expected before the court rules on the government's request for a permanent ban. For more information, see EPIC's Personal Surveillance Technologies page and Domestic Violence and Privacy page."

Live Piracy Map 2008
From the ICC Commercial Crime Services (CCS) - "the anti-crime arm of the International Chamber of Commerce": Live Piracy Map 2008 - "This map shows all the piracy incidents reported by the IMB Piracy Centre in Kuala Lumpur during 2008. Please click on the pins for more details of the specific incident or zoom in for more accurate location information."

New online encyclopedia on Ohio is evolving
You can search by category, topic or click on index for a detailed approach.
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/

Floripedia is a collection of articles about Florida and Florida history
Most of the articles were written a long time ago. The original source is given at the end of each article. Notice the date when the article was written, and whether it is “promotional.” http://fcit.usf.edu/FLORIDA/docs/docs.htm

The North Carolina Encyclopedia is a work under construction
New text, additional text, and new graphics are being added as often as possible. This encyclopedia is designed to give you an overview of the people, the government, the history, and the resources of North Carolina. The information is organized into broad information categories, and most of these categories offer an opportunity to select either more specific or additional information on a particular topic. http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/NC/COVER.HTM

On November 19, 1863 Abraham Lincoln got up in front of about 15,000 people and delivered the Gettysburg Address, which begins, "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." A military band played, a local preacher offered a long prayer, and the headlining orator, Edward Everett, spoke for more than two hours. When Everett was finished, Lincoln got up and pulled his speech from his coat pocket. It consisted of 10 sentences, a total of 272 words. The audience was distracted by a photographer setting up his camera, and by the time Lincoln had finished his speech and sat down the audience didn't even realize he had spoken.
There are five known manuscripts of the Gettysburg Address. The earliest version is the copy he gave to his private secretary, John Nicolay, and it's thought to be the version he used for the oration at Gettysburg. It is two pages long—the first page is in ink on official Executive Mansion stationary, and the second is in pencil on lined paper. This version doesn't contain the words "under God" in the phrase "this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom."
Lincoln made one other copy at the time, which he gave to his other private secretary, John Hay, and then he wrote out three more copies in later years one for a benefit book and two for the historian and former statesman George Bancroft. Lincoln had to copy out two because the first one was written out incorrectly—on both sides of the paper—and so wouldn't go in Bancroft's book. The second copy for Bancroft is the only one that Lincoln signed his name to. It's the copy that has been reproduced on a widespread basis in books and photographs and leaflets, and it is considered the standard version of the speech.
November 20 is the birthday of astronomer Edward Hubble, born in Marshfield, Missouri (1889). He majored in math and astronomy in college, then went to law school and started practicing as an attorney. He got bored after just a couple of years and went to get a Ph.D. in astronomy, where he focused his research on nebulae—distant objects in the sky that couldn't be categorized as stars. He moved to California to work with the world's largest telescope, which was in Pasadena. He identified a certain kind of pulsating star, a "Cepheid" in Andromeda—then considered a not-well-defined nebula of clouds of gas. At the time, scientists believed that the galaxy that Earth was in was only about 100,000 light years across. They also believed that the Milky Way was the only galaxy in the universe. Hubble's discovery of the Andromeda Cepheid and his calculation of its distance proved that the universe was billions of times larger than scientists had thought.
On November 20, 1971 a ban was placed on the use of the popular pesticide DDT. The American public's knowledge of DDT and its environmental dangers was in large part due to Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring (1962). The Writer’s Almanac