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6.1.01
Wired News—Census takers in the British colonies don't know what to do with the thousands of census returns where the religion has been recorded as "Jedi" in an attempt to make the government recognize it as a legitimate religion
Salon.com—Should a website that webcasts video of people going in and out of abortion clinics be protected by the first amendment?
CNN.com—New Army vehicle features several devices worthy of James Bond
New Scientist—Doctors pioneer technique to do a heart bypass without open heart surgery
USA Today—Hormel gives up fight to get people to stop using spam as slang for junk email
Toasty—Student proposes a web-enabled toaster that would burn your daily weather forecast into your morning slice of toast |
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6.4.01
Salon.com—Cell phones next target of porn entrepreneurs
geegaw.com—Text of the commencement speech Conan O'Brien delivered to last year's graduating class at Harvard
ZDNet—Are the days of free web services coming to an end?
New Scientist—Hackers steal email addresses of thousands of SETI@home participants
CNN.com—Polaroid introduces new products focused on the ability to instantly create high-quality prints from digital photos
USA Today—Arizona sheriff faces lawsuit over webcams in his jail |
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6.5.01
MSNBC—Sony invents fake reviewer and uses quotes from him on posters for their films
Wired News—25% of computers are physically attacked by their owners, a British survey finds
Salon.com—Bush has a double standard when it comes to punishment for underage drinking
ZDNet—Sega and Sony to unveil service that will let Dreamcast and PS2 owners play against each other over the internet
USA Today—Nevada approves internet gambling
CNN.com—Organic LEDs could become standard for displays within five years |
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6.6.01
Washington Post—Esquire writer admits that he made up much of a profile on Michael Stipe
Space.com—Prototype hypersonic plane spins out of control during test flight
The Standard—Microsoft and AOL deadlocked over inclusion of AOL software in Windows XP due to Microsoft's bizarre demands
CNN.com—Movie, TV, and video game ratings need to be revisited, study says
Wired News—Famous computer-bashing MPEG movie is really part of an advertising campaign for a surveillance firm
ABCnews.com—New mall being built on Mexican-American border |
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6.7.01
Wired News—A look at how big-name directors and downloads from the internet combine in BMW's latest killer ad campaign
Salon.com—Secret service wants to crack down on the production of fake money used in movies, some of which is making it into circulation
ZDNet—Recent conflict between two major ISPs left many customers without access to much of the internet; such problems could become more common in the future
New Scientist—Tiny magnetic crystals in hornet's nests could aid the hornets during construction
CNN.com—New study shows that surfers spend 50% of their time on sites owned by only four media companies
USA Today—Palm introduces a card that enables Bluetooth compatibility |
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6.8.01
Hermenaut—A self-described journal of philosophy and pop culture, including an essay on why the Simpsons will destroy our civilization
Salon.com—Bush's Treasury Secretary promised to sell stock in order to avoid conflict of interest accusations, but still hasn't, and may have made over $50 million thanks to the so-called energy crises, which is largely a fabrication of the Bush administration in the first place
Yahoo! News—Netscape says it's not in the browser business anymore
New Scientist—Dutch architect designs hotel that takes advantage of the lower gravity on the moon
ZDNet—IBM to unveil new chipmaking technique called "strained silicon" that could significantly reduce power consumption and speed up processing
Wired News—Can software be art? |
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6.11.01
Salon.com—Original content sites Feed and Suck shut down
Wired News—New website tries to put consumers in control of their personal data and maybe even make money from it
New Scientist—Privacy organization releases software that will allow surfers to see when web sites are surreptitiously collecting information on them
CNN.com—Hackers attempted to gain control of California's power grid
USA Today—New "feature" in Microsoft's XP version of IE will place links on web sites without the site owner's knowledge. Is this even legal, taking away control of a site's content from the site owner?
MSNBC—Moviegoers initiate class action suit against Sony for the fake reviews attributed to David Manning. Which might even be more ridiculous than the fact that Sony's marketing department made up a fake reviewer in the first place. |
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6.12.01
Wired News—Supreme Court rules that law enforcement must obtain a warrant before spying on people with high-tech equipment
Salon.com—Can Bush convince the rest of the world that he isn't a backwoods buffoon? [I really like the picture with this article, too.]
USA Today—A joke email tricks some people into deleting their AOL software
CNN.com—Birds in Australia are starting to mimic the sounds of cell phones
Scientific American—Explores that latest techniques for dating geological, archaeological, and paleological material
Space.com—Oregon man plans to launch himself into space in a home made rocket next Spring |
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6.13.01
New Scientist—Tropical Storm Alison swamps Texas Medical Center, destroying years of research
ZDNet—Will Microsoft support the MP3 format in Windows XP?
CNN.com—Floating abortion clinic will provide offshore services to countries where the procedure is banned
Salon.com—The secret world of Sasquatch trackers
ABCnews.com—Mega-churches flourishing in US
News.com—HP pulls adds of kids coordinating snowball attacks using cell phones after real children initiate copycat attacks |
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6.14.01
Kick Ups—A horribly addictive game. Do yourself a favor and don't click on the link.
I'm A Cow—Flash video for country song
Popular Mechanics—Article from 1950 predicting what technologies would be developed by the year 2000
Wired News—In an about-face from the early days of ecommerce, retailers are now trying to make a profit by inflating shipping fees (a practice invented on eBay, by the way)
ZDNet—Yet another security/stability problem with a major Microsoft product. What a shock.
The End—I thought I'd never find it... |
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6.15.01
Macworld—Apple's dispute with the Church of Satan
Salon.com—Homer Simpson's favorite phrase now in the Oxford English Dictionary
ZDNet—Microsoft's IE6 will give users more control over who is collecting information about their web browsing habits
Wired News—Salon is now the last independent news mag on the web. What will happen if it dies?
New Scientist—Why does Venus spin backwards?
ABCnews.com—NASA selects finalists for Mars mission probe designs |
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6.21.01
Salon.com—TiVo's happy coexistence with hackers may be coming to an end with the recent decryption of the proprietary file system, which allows users to move recorded tv shows and movies onto their computer hard drives and eventually the internet
Wired News—Many phone operators for telemarketers are from India, but go through rigorous training to sound American
ZDNet—Study shows that 1 in 5 kids are propositioned onlines
New Scientist—Company is attempting to map out a "music genome" in order to help predict hit singles more accurately
StarWars.com—Episode I to be released on DVD in October
USA Today—MIT files suit against AOL Time Warner and C|Net over upcoming magazine title |
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6.22.01
Wired News—Thousands of languages could become dead languages within 100 years
New Scientist—Stock exchanges do better on sunny days
ZDNet—Car rental agency using GPS to track location and speed of customers, and fining them if they speed
Salon.com—Interview with the Google's director of research
USA Today—Troubled by some of the "features" in the upcoming Windows XP, some states are considering further antitrust action against Microsoft
CNN.com—Scientists believe they have proven that neutrinos have mass, which means that existing models of the universe will have to be modified |
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6.25.01
CNN.com—Japanese farmers grow square watermelons so that the fruits may more easily be stack on shelves
Salon.com—Owner of hundreds of domains, most ending with the word "sucks", is a vocal critic of the domain name registration system
USA Today—New York expected to ban cell phone use while driving
The Register—Google planning $250 million IPO this year
New Scientist—Injecting CO2 into deepwater oceans could help speed up a natural process and keep the greenhouse gas out of the atmosphere
Nuke the Hamptons—Wow. This guy's really upset about the locals being pushed out by rich weekenders. |
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6.26.01
Wired News—People who oppose Bush's policy that students who admit to using drugs in the past are ineligible for student loans plan to send hundreds of small mirrors to the White House in protest
Salon.com—Will the large media conglomerates like Microsoft and AOL turn the web into a closed proprietary system?
Scientific American—Computers may be able to help put two Italian frescos damaged in an earthquake back together again
Washington Post—North Dakota considering name change
CNN.com—German court imposes retroactive licensing fees on manufacturers of CD burners
ABCnews.com—High tech food could help the soldier of the future to quickly grow food in survival situations |
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6.27.01
CNN.com—Were kites used to build the pyramids?
Freakytrigger—A log kept realtime by someone who watched MTV for 24 hours straight
Wired News—Computer virus as art
New Scientist—Cows produce more milk when listening to slow, relaxing music
USA Today—Dick Armey says that red light cameras are a threat to privacy
ZDNet—The new product activation technology in Windows XP could render the software useless after a hardware upgrade |
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6.28.01
New Scientist—Italian geologist believes that the Loch Ness monster is just an illusion of waves created by earthquakes
Space.com—Hubble telescope spots six planet-sized mystery objects
CNN.com—Interactive Television could allow media companies to collect incredibly detailed information about consumers without their knowledge
Red Herring—Next generation cell phones could have smart antennas that would provide clearer, more reliable connections
ABCnews.com—Scientist discover way to create droplets of "dry water"
The Standard—Microsoft says it will pull the controversial "Smart Tags" feature from its upcoming Windows XP |
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6.29.01
Wired News—Recent privacy notices from many companies are misleading
USA Today—Kmart will stop selling handgun ammunition
SF Gate—PETA protestor in a cow suit arrested on roof of Burger King
New Scientist—New techniques could allow a patient's own blood cells to deliver cancer killing drugs directly to the cancerous cells
C|NET—Inside view of how spammers operate
Space.com—Did the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs come from Mercury? |
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