Scary: The Times Online (the Internet site of “The Times” of London) is reporting that we’re running out of Internet addresses. And that could be a problem. From the times:

The world is about to run out of the internet addresses that allow computers to identify each other and communicate, the man who invented the system has told The Times.

Vint Cerf, the “father of the internet” and one of the world’s leading computer scientists, said that businesses and consumers needed to act now to switch to the next generation of net addresses. Unless preparations were made now, he said, some computers might not be able to go online and the connectivity of the internet might be damaged.

Cerf said time is running out and Internet service providers must prepare. It’s like Y2K all over again. Sort of. This time it might be serious.

Read the blog here.

Other news:
CNNMoney has a good round-up of the financial crisis as details of a baiout plan emerge.

Seriously scary: Shots fired in Pakistan-U.S. clash.

Drinking problem: The European Union bans baby food imports from China. European nations already have a declining birth rate; they don’t need an assist from deadly products from China.

First time for everything.

Good science news.