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7.1.02
flaminglips.com—The Flaming Lips are going to release "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots", the follow-up to their stunning "The Soft Bulletin", on July 15 but you can listen to a stream of it from their newly revamped web site now
CNN.com—Hiker lost in Andes is saved by a telemarketer calling his cell phone
Wired News—The latest rate hike from the post office has businesses looking at e-solutions
Fox News—Two Mets players caught smoking marijuana in the players' parking lot
MSNBC—BMW's new 745i is loaded to the gills with electronic gadgets
ABCnews.com—New blended wing body aircraft could dramatically improve efficiency |
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7.2.02
Space.com—Moon rock at center of court battle
Yahoo! News—Two airline pilots are summoned back to the terminal before takeoff and arrested on charges that they were intoxicated
Salon.com—Part-time Arizona firefighter charged with starting the wildfires there in an effort to get hired for contract work
CNN.com—Detroit mom charged with murder after her kids, who were locked in the car, die from the heat while she had her hair done for three hours
Fox News—Federal death penalty ruled unconstitutional
BBC News—Aqua satellite, designed to study the world's bodies of water, returns its first images of earth |
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7.3.02
Apple.com—The new Two Towers trailer is officially posted online, nearly a week after an illegal copy made its way onto the web
5k.org—An entrant into this year's 5k contest has recreated the original Wolfenstein using only HTML and Javascript
CNN.com—Did Bush engage in the same kind of corporate insider profiteering that he now says executives at Enron and WorldCom should be jailed for?
ZDNet—An investigation by the FCC may prompt search engines to stop placing ads for paying advertisers among legitimate search results
MSNBC—What?!? Web users don't like annoying pop-up ads and a deluge of junk email in their inboxes? Stop the presses!
Fox News—Holy crap. A Pakistani tribal council orders an 18 year old girl to be gang raped to punish her family for her 11 year old brother's transgression of walking unchaperoned with a girl of a higher social class. |
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7.9.02
Fox News—Baseball strike appears increasingly likely as we head into the all-star break
CNN.com—Chinese snakehead fish found in Maryland could threaten local freshwater ecosystems
BBC News—White couple who used in vitro fertilization give birth to black twins
C|NET—eBay buys PayPal
Wired News—Macintosh fan has over 500 t-shirts collected from conferences and product launches over the last 20 years
USA Today—Family fights over whether to freeze Ted Williams' body at a cryonics facility |
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7.10.02
blogChalking—Inspired by the Wi-Fi Warchalking effort, this site attempts to create a system whereby webloggers can identify themselves to other webloggers more easily
Scrollbar Racing (IE)—Another pointless but amusing use of JavaScript
Wired News—US Secretary of Health booed off stage by AIDS activists at an AIDS conference in Barcelona
CNN.com—Bush calls for a crackdown on corporate corruption. Isn't this a little like Clinton leading the charge against inter-office romances?
Fox News—Lutheran minister who participated in an interfaith 9.11 memorial service is suspended
USA Today—Nevada considers legalizing marijuana |
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7.11.02
Wired News—Wow. Yahoo! posts a profit.
BBC News—Cheney accused of the corporate price-rigging that the Bush administration has recently denounced
CNN.com—Wolfgang Peterson selected to direct Batman/Superman flick
MSNBC—Some of the original dotcoms are still hanging on and building an actual business base
ZDNet—Apple to unveil 17 inch flat panel iMac at Macworld NY
ABCnews.com—NYC cabbie runs computer consulting and troubleshooting business out of his cab |
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7.12.02
CNN.com—Man who shot latest LA beating video arrested on unspecified charges. Don't they realize how suspicious that looks?
Yahoo! News—Interesting photo from the running of the bulls
Wired News—Users are increasingly finding their sites deleted by their hosting services for no reason
Salon.com—Selig says that one team may not make payroll next Monday, and that another may fold by the end of the season. Is it just a coincidence that his plans to eliminate two teams was thwarted earlier this season?
ABCnews.com—National Debt Clock restarted in face of rising deficits
MSNBC—If Bush's corporate reforms had been enacted 10 years ago, he would have been in violation of them for accepting a low-interest loan while he was with Harken |
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7.15.02
Spider-Man Will Make You Gay—No, really.
Pearls—I only played this game a few times, but I didn't win once. Am I a moron?
CNN.com—Sesame Street to add HIV-positive muppet, but only in the South African version of the show
Salon.com—Canadian court rules that gay marriages must be recognized by the government
ZDNet—Report finds that Mac users are smarter than PC users. Well, duh.
The Smoking Gun—Contract rider from Robin Williams' latest tour |
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7.16.02
CNN.com—John Walker pleads guilty to two counts; receives 20 year sentence
Sydney Morning Herald—US planning to create secret network that uses ordinary citizens to provide information on individuals and organizations. Codename: Operation TIPS
Wired News—GM betting big on revolutionary new fuel cell cars
Fox News—Florida man sues strip club because lap dances are not handicap-accessible
BBC News—UN committee that is trying to establish a global war crimes court angers member nations by exempting American peacekeepers from prosecution
Salon.com—More suspicious documents surrounding Bush's 1990 Harken transactions |
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7.17.02
Apple.com—Apple releases QuickTime 6
CNN.com—Six plans unveiled for WTC site; finalist to be chosen by year's end
Wired News—SETI researcher says that we will have proof of extraterrestrial life by 2027
Fox News—New Yorker bites dog that attacked his pet
ABCnews.com—New filming technique could provide a cheaper improvement for theater movies than the more expensive digital technologies
New Scientist—Yahoo! email filter creates some strange new words |
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7.18.02
BBC News—Unreleased Congressional report blames CIA and other intelligence agencies for failing to stop attacks by bin Laden's al Qaeda network
Google's integrity—Good article on how Google's ranking engine works
CNN.com—Missouri man arrested for barbecuing a kitten
Salon.com—Jeb Bush's daughter jailed for failing to meet the conditions of her court-ordered drug treatment plan
USA Today—Some Wal-Mart stores are selling low-cost PCs without Windows loaded on them
ABCnews.com—New non-lethal technology uses sound waves to stop people in their tracks |
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7.19.02
Time Travel Fund—I've finally found it: the Perfect Scam. Too bad I didn't think of it first.
CNN.com—Moussaoui attempt to plead guilty rejected by judge
Ananova.com—Canadian man on the run after being caught having sex with two dogs he had dressed up in women's underwear
Improvisation.ws—True stories from adult video store clerks. This is totally...gross. But riveting.
New Scientist—Amino acids, the building blocks of life on earth, are detected in deep space
MSNBC—Telemarketing scammers are building a database of people who fall for their cons |
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7.22.02
Jaguaro.org—A list of 100 albums that you should remove from your collection immediately. It's hogwash, for the most part, but it makes for interesting reading.
New Scientist—Second Law of Thermodynamics breaks down at the nano level
ZDNet—Earthlink wins $24 million in damages from a spammer
CNN.com—Man shoots at helicopter with automatic weapon, fearing that it held terrortists. What?
BBC News—Elephants may use their feet to talk to and listen to each other
ABCnews.com—Runner-up from The Bachelor will star in her own The Bachelorette show |
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7.23.02
New Scientist—Statistical analysis shows that traditional batting order is not the most efficient
SiliconValley.com—Lawyers compete for evidence on eBay auctions
CNN.com—Spanish director tapped to helm third Harry Potter film, due in summer 2004
Fox News—Christian group in NC sues UNC-CH over a book on the Koran that all freshmen are required to read
MSNBC—Four charged with stealing space rocks from NASA
C|NET—Small Texas company claims that it owns the JPEG format |
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7.24.02
CNN.com—Stever Earle catches flak for new song that is empathetic to John Walker Lindh
Salon.com—NYC Mayor's office wants to keep emergency response records from 9.11 secret
Fox News—New Jersedy little leaguers say their coaches asked them to throw a game so that a team from their region could advance to the nationals
BBC News—Snowbound pubgoers use ketchup to mark landing spot for rescue helicopter
C|NET—WebTV email hack switches MSN dialup number to 911, resulting in a flurry of false emergency calls
Yahoo! News—Author of the Turner Diaries dies. Yes, there is a good reason I decided to use the Yahoo! link. |
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7.25.02
The Smoking Gun—Bar tab from America West pilots who were arrested for trying to fly a plane while drunk
ABCnews.com—"Italian Unabomer" (despite how this article spells it, my spelling of Unabomer is the correct one) sets his explosives in food items in supermarkets
Fox News—Obese man files suit against fast food chains, claiming their food (which they obviously forced him to eat at gunpoint) is responsible for his poor health
Salon.com—Factory worker dies after falling into vat of chocolate
CNN.com—New species of centipede discovered in Central Park
Wired News—Asteroid over a mile in length could collide with the earth in 17 years |
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7.26.02
C|NET—Hotmail service starts deleting any messages that are more than 30 days old
CNN.com—Yale claims that a site set up for prospective students was hacked using computers in the Princeton admissions office
Wired News—Environmentalists say new Navy sonar programs are destroying habitats for sea creatures
Fox News—Artistic rendering of a soon-to-be canonized Native American saint looks European
ABCnews.com—The future of online ads
BBC News—The growing popularity of online gaming worlds like Everquest leaves many longtime users frustrated |
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7.29.02
Washington Post—F-16s are scrambled to pursue unidentified object flying over Washington D.C.
ABCnews.com—Girl pays for college with pigs
Fox News—Newspaper in NC prints announcement of gay civil union
USA Today—Bush raised $14 million and used jets from Enron and Halliburton during recount crisis two years ago
Salon.com—Woman suing Delta after being pulled off a plane and asked to remove a sex toy from her luggage
Dayton Daily News—Man fleeing from police is caught when his fake leg falls off |
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7.30.02
MSNBC—iVillage site will no longer use pop-up ads
Fox News—Why I'm afraid of the dentist
Salon.com—One of bin Laden's older sons may be preparing to take his place in the al Qaeda network
BBC News—Boeing investigating anti-gravity technology
Wired News—Man will attempt to break the sound barrier without a plane by skydiving from the edge of space
CNN.com—Moby goes to space camp |
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7.31.02
scottandrew.com—Netscape 4 turns 5. I don't expect anyone except other web people to find this funny, but anyone whose done web development anytime in the last 3 years will understand this site completely
CNN.com—Rare gold coin goes for $6.6 million at auction
Fox News—Girl is suing her high school, saying they violated her rights to free speech by not allowing her to criticize the gay lifestyle
C|NET—Founder of fuckedcompany.com launches new paid site that gives access to secret corporate memos
MSNBC—RIAA site hit with denial of service attack
ABCnews.com—Porn industry on cutting edge of web tech |
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