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Americans Toss Out 40 Percent of All Food Livescience
While many Americans feast on turkey and all the fixings today, a new study finds food waste per person has shot up 50 percent since 1974. Some 1,400 calories worth of food is discarded per person each day, which adds up to 150 trillion calories a year. The study finds that about 40 percent of all the food produced in the United States is tossed out. Meanwhile, while some have plenty of food to spare, a recent report by the Department of Agriculture finds the number of U.S. homes lacking “food security,” meaning their eating habits were disrupted for lack of money, rose from 4.7 million in 2007 to 6.7 million last year. About 1 billion people worldwide don’t have enough to eat, according to the World Food Program.

Rogers Gives Canadians Their ‘TV Everywhere’ With New VOD Service paidContent
Canadian cable giant Rogers Communications has launched an ad-supported online video service that THR is calling a “Canadianized Hulu.” But we think it’s more like one of the first viable attempts to launch a “TV Everywhere” service—since the premium, ad-supported video content will only be accessible to Rogers’ 2.3 million cable subscribers. People will be able to watch the content on any computer after they’ve been verified as a Rogers customer; the company says it’s working with white-label video tech provider ThePlatform for the subscriber verification. Rogers On Demand Online is slated to launch in Canada Nov. 30; subscribers will get access to content from 15 channels the company owns (either in whole or partly), including A&E Canada, Rogers Sportsnet and G4 Canada, as well as shows fed in from Warner TV, and Michael Eisner’s Vuguru (which Rogers took a “multimillion dollar” stake in, in October).

Independent Skype Set for Executive Shakeup New York Times
Last week, Skype became a newly independent company, formally separating from its parent of the last four years, eBay. Now the Internet phone company, with major offices in Luxembourg and London, is set for a significant reorganization of its management team. Scott Durchslag, Skype’s chief operating officer, is leaving the company to return to the United States, the company confirmed on Tuesday. His departure has set off a broad reorganization of Skype’s management, with executives shuffling responsibilities. Josh Silverman, its chief executive, will likely take a more hands-on operational role at the company.

Man stuck upside-down in Utah cave dies Associated Press
A man stuck upside-down in a cave for more than a day died early Thursday, despite the efforts of dozens of rescuers, authorities said. John Jones, 26, of Stansbury Park died about 12:30 a.m., nearly 28 hours after he became stuck 700 feet into the cave known as Nutty Putty, Utah County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Sgt. Spencer Cannon said. Rescuers were next to Jones for much of the day but he was wedged in a small hole too tightly to pull him out or even reach through to assist him, Cannon told The Associated Press. “They were right there with him, checking his vital signs,” Cannon said. “They were able to get close enough to verify that he was deceased.” The 6-foot-tall, 190-pound spelunker got stuck with his head at an angle below his feet about 9 p.m. MST Tuesday. At times more than 50 rescuers were involved in trying to free him.

Microsoft issues takedown notices over spilled COFEE Ars Technica
Microsoft has issued takedown notices to multiple websites hosting the company’s Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE), which helps law enforcement officials grab data from password protected or encrypted sources.

Government e-petitions give power to the people BBC
Government plans to roll out e-petitions across the UK could offer people a real say in the democratic process, a conference has heard. The legislation to make e-petitions compulsory for all councils in the UK comes into force in April 2010. It could result in a national e-petition scheme and force Westminster to take more notice of people power, thinks web guru Tom Steinberg. E-petitions allow citizens to raise issues with government. It also gives them a chance to have a say in political processes.

The Distraction of Transparency: an ACTA News Roundup EFF
Alerted in part by your letters and calls, Senators have begun to express concern over the secrecy and content of ACTA, while the MPAA, RIAA and other established groups rush to reassure them that ACTA — while of course they know nothing of its actual content — will be good for business and that “transparency is a distraction”. Once again, it seems like one incumbent subset of the tech, content, and communications sector is banging the drum for ACTA while claiming to speak for creators, consumers, and everyone else affected in those large and increasingly diverse industries.

The Palin-Graham connection Daily KOS
Sarah Palin is flying around the country on Billy Graham’s aircraft. Graham’s people have blocked aircraft tracking data so this fact will remain hidden.

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