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A Vermont Supreme Court justice has come out in favor of a bill that, for the first time, would allow the public to access the state’s criminal database over the Internet.

Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee last week, Associate Justice John Dooley urged lawmakers to expand the bill, S.246, to include other kinds of criminal court documents.... Read more

Early last week Hannaford Bros. Corp., which operates close to 300 supermarkets in New England and Florida, announced that cyber-thieves had compromised more than four million of its customers’ credit and debit card numbers over a four-month period beginning last December.... Read more

How do you stay in touch with your friends? Seems like everyone uses the Internet these days — to send email, share photos and send messages on social-networking sites such as MySpace or Facebook.... Read more

Barack or Hillary? Approve the city budget or vote it down? Demolish the Moran plant or develop it? By the time you read this, we’ll know what the voters chose. Unfortunately, Seven Days goes to press before the polls close. So we can’t announce the results of this exciting election.

Peter Freyne is on vacation this week, so instead of his regular political coverage, we present a selection of election-related commentary from the Exit Voices blog, http://www.vermontcam.org/exitvoices.... Read more

This is a list of Vermont blogs. Got a blog? Let us know and we'll add it to the list.

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8th Nerve
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9/11 Non-Conspiracist Gazetteer
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Is there a brain drain in Vermont? Are we losing geeky young people to metropolitan areas? These days, Vermont's economic forecast seems glum, which is where Seven Days and Vermont 3.0 come in.

This Saturday over 1,500 people stopped by Main Street Landing to mingle with the 50+ exhibitors at the first ever Vermont 3.0 Creative/Tech Career Jam.... Read more

The economic news of late hasn’t exactly been uplifting, but you’d never know it from the Vermont companies clamoring for exhibition space in an unusual job expo this weekend at Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center on the Burlington Waterfront. The state is full of innovative businesses that are thriving, growing, hiring — and they’ll be out in force for the first annual Vermont 3.0 Creative Technology Career Jam.... Read more

Human beings have the dubious distinction of knowing when they’re hurt. Endowed with an intricate and wondrous nervous system, we are capable of registering sensations on the wide spectrum between ecstasy and misery. Coupled with that, we have the instinct and ability to fix ourselves when we sense something’s amiss. Ironically, many of the things we trust to keep us safe — bridges and airplanes, for instance — are as dumb as doorknobs. A bridge truss doesn’t know when it’s about to fail, just as a plane’s wing can’t predict its own catastrophic demise.... Read more

On a recent Wednesday evening, four students are giving a Power Point presentation in a basement computer lab at Champlain College. On the pull-down screen hovers the cartoon figure of a kid who looks like Dennis the Menace’s slower cousin, with a propeller hat and a crooked grin.

“Our game,” a male student says, “involves Bobby here getting trapped in this crazy world by demons and trying to find his way home.”... Read more

Since its introduction in 2005, “Guitar Hero” has become one of the most popular video game franchises in the world. Its latest installment, “Guitar Hero III,” released at the height of the 2007 holiday shopping blitz, raked in more than $115 million in sales in its first week alone.... Read more