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| daily links: september 2002 |
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9.2.02
Sacramento Bee—Support for free speech among Americans has eroded significantly since 9.11
MSNBC—Ford eliminating its electric car division
New Scientist—An experiment with a self-evolving circuit produces a radio receiver
CNN.com—Kentucky prison halts satanic services for inmates
BBC News—The Tate Gallery in London is experimenting with self-guided tours using PocketPCs
ABCnews.com—Chimpanzees may have survived an AIDS-like epidemic 2000 years ago, which might explain why they do not contract the disease |
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9.3.02
C|NET—Chinese government shuts off access to Google
BBC News—Classically trained musicians are using technology to hone their craft
ABCnews.com—More lawsuits are being filed by disgruntled workers who are regularly asked to work overtime without receiving extra pay
Fox News—Catholic church unveils new $195 million cathedral in California
CNN.com—MLB sends cease and desist letters to fan sites
Wired News—Escapist video games are increasingly like the real world |
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9.4.02
CNN.com—The now-wild star of "Free Willy" turns up in Norway looking for human companionship
MSNBC—In other whale news...
Wired News—The FBI has trouble recruiting hackers because of the strict physical fitness requirements for its agents
Salon.com—McDonald's to use lower-fat oil to try and make their fried offerings more healthy
USA Today—Judge rules that consumers in Florida can proceed with a class action suit against Microsoft
BBC News—Gaming companies are taking agressive steps to curb online cheating in their games |
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9.5.02
BBC News—Powell heckled at environmental summit
CNN.com—Melting ice in the arctic circle may soon open a northwest passage ships
Fox News—Judge halts plans of Hershey trust to sell the candy maker's assets
Wired News—Microsoft issues a warning about a new hack which may lock legitimate users out of their systems, but offers few details and no fix
New Scientist—IKEA developing furniture that could help you put it together more securely
C|NET—Land one of the hottest commodities on eBay |
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9.6.02
BBC News—Many workers fired for accessing porn at work
Wired News—People are using PayPal to solicit donations from stangers to help them go to school, get a divorce, and pay off credit card debt
MSNBC—Palm will offer refunds to customers who purchased a model which displayed fewer colors than advertised
ZDNet—A patent lawsuit could cause eBay to pay millions in royalties and change the way it runs its auctions
Salon.com—Elvis stamps are the most collected, which ironically makes them the least collectible, doesn't it?
ABCnews.com—Disney cuts deal with rival of Pixar, their current 3D animation partner |
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9.9.02
CNN.com—Reporters for NY Daily News smuggle forbidden items onto 14 flights over Labor Day weekend
Salon.com—Even worse: ABC News smuggled uranium into the country
USA Today—eBay considering suit against site the uses its look and feel to criticize the policies of Gray Davis, governor of California
Fox News—German government prevents couple from naming their child after bin Laden
ZDNet—Less than five percent of the members of the W3C actually follow the web standards set forth by the group
BBC News—More refined form of insulin could mean fewer injections and smaller doses for diabetics |
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9.10.02
The Smoking Gun—Look at the tour riders for over 130 music acts
Salon.com—In a rare showing of common sense, telemarketing companies plan to take the day off on Wednesday
Wired News—Cloning humans could be even more difficult and unpredictable than cloning animals
CNN.com—Grains of moon dust stolen from Swedish museum
ABCnews.com—Singer for Iron Maiden is now a commercial airline pilot
New Scientist—Whether or not you see something touching you may affect how you feel it |
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9.12.02
Fox News—More voting problems plague democratic primary in Florida
Wired News—An explanation for Daypop's recent wackiness
Salon.com—Hopkins researchers use gene therapy to create biological pacemakers in mice
CNN.com—Attack of the Clones coming to IMAX
MSNBC—Futurama coming to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block
ABCnews.com—Man who believes moon landings were a hoax claims former astronaut Buzz Aldrin punched him |
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9.13.02
CNN.com—The winning numbers for New York's Pick 3 lottery on September 11? 911.
Wired News—Scientist is trying to determine the whereabouts of hundreds of trees grown from seeds carried to the moon and back by an Apollo 14 astronaut
Fox News—China is no longer blocking the Google search engine
New Scientist—Developer of the DNA fingerprint thinks all citizens, whether they have been accused of a crime or not, should have their DNA stored in a national database
C|NET—Microsoft's Windows Media Player 9 difficult to uninstall
HarryPotter.com—New Harry Potter trailer |
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9.16.02
C|NET—Even though it's only a few weeks old, PS2's online gaming network is already rife with cheaters
Fox News—Thousands of uncounted votes located in Florida's democratic primary. What is wrong with those people?
Wired News—Weblogs hugely popular in Brazil
CNN.com—US gives approval to commercial group that wants to send spacecraft to the moon
ZDNet—Segways won't be widely available to consumers for a while yet
New Scientist—Boeing developing cargo plane that would skim just 20 feet about the surface of the ocean |
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9.17.02
Wired News—Why do online map services give such bad directions?
MSNBC—Porn group wants to purchase remaining assets of Napster
CNN.com—Map of regional names for soda
Fox News—Many former vegetarians are reintroducing meat into their diet
C|NET—McDonald's pays for placement in the online world of the Sims
ABCnews.com—Drivers in Maryland who have their licenses taken away for drunk driving will have to consent to an in-car monitor in order to get their driving privileges restored |
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9.18.02
CNN.com—California trailer park trying to gain status as historic landmark
USA Today—Michelangelo's David gets cleaned for first time in over 100 years
Fox News—Girl dies after adoptive parents force her to drink large quantities of water
ABCnews.com—City officials give away pot for medical use in Santa Cruz
BBC News—The Hitchhiker's Guide to be made into movie
MSNBC—Virgin airlines has to replace baby-changing tables in its newest planes because couples have broken them during in-flight sex |
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9.19.02
Wired News—Small Virginia company is helping to keep the public informed about events on the world stage using commercial satellite images
Salon.com—Cops in England encouraged to eat at McDonald's
CNN.com—9.11 memorial statue covered after complaints from the public
Fox News—Police find crack braided into 16 year old's hair
BBC News—Russian author claims his Tanya Grotter witch character is not a ripoff of Harry Potter
The Smoking Gun—Details on Jack Welch's retirement benefits from GE |
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9.20.02
BBC News—Warchalkers branded criminals by Nokia
ZDNet—Microsoft's recent update to Windows XP may violate terms of their pending antitrust agreement
New Scientist—British study finds that right-wing governments lead to higher suicide rates
Salon.com—Six students sue school after failing high school exit exam. But they've had five chances to pass over the past three years. At what point do they have to bear some responsibility for not working hard enough?
CNN.com—Farscape fans use the power of the internet to try and save their show
USA Today—Scam victims at online auction sites are taking matters into their own hands |
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9.23.02
MSNBC—J. K. Rowling said stress over lawsuits delayed the fifth Harry Potter book, but that she is mostly finished with it now
ZDNet—Palm will introduce three new models next month, hoping to revitalize the stagnating PDA market
CNN.com—Space shuttle flights will resume in October
New Scientist—Transparent tokens made up of tiny glass beads can be used to generate unbreakable security codes
Fox News—Two teenage girls suing McDonald's for making them fat, mimicing a similar lawsuit filed earlier this year
USA Today—Larry Ellision resigns from Apple's board |
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9.24.02
USA Today—Megachurch in rural Oregon is bane of quiet countryside
New Scientist—Controversial theory could help explain why the gravitational constant is so hard to measure
Wired News—Sniping has become a cottage industry at eBay, much to the chagrin of casual users
CNN.com—This Christmas sales season could determine the future of the Xbox
C|NET—New digital photo chip that claims to dramatically improve photo quality to go on sale soon
MSNBC—Ribbon cutting at Pittsburgh airport had to be a ribbon tearing instead because of the airport's zero tolerance policy on weapon-like objects |
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9.25.02
BBC News—Millions of preserved animal specimens, some collected by Darwin himself, are focus of new exhibit at British museum
Wired News—Secretary at law firm embezzles over $2 million in Nigerian 419 scam
CNN.com—Liberal director Rob Reiner and conservative actor Arnold Schwarzenegger could run against each other for governor of California in 2006
Salon.com—Vermont judge declares the federal death penalty unconstitutional
ABCnews.com—Kickball experiencing resurgency among adults
MSNBC—Mothballed missile site in South Dakota to be reopened as national park |
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9.26.02
CNN.com—Arthur C. Clarke dismayed at lack of progress in space exploration
C|NET—Site that posted salaries of Terra Lycos executives is blocked from their employees
Wired News—Producers of the underground Bumfights tape arrested
Salon.com—Enron sign sells for $44,000 at auction
ABCnews.com—Vaccine for West Nile virus could be ready within a few years
BBC News—French engineers to unveil car that runs on compressed air, designed to be used in urban settings |
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9.27.02
Checkershadow Illusion—It doesn't make sense to me, either, but I checked it in Photoshop and it's true
Wired News—Researchers think they have figured out why a small percentage of HIV-positive patients never develop AIDS, and it could be the first step towards a cure
CNN.com—GM unveils the Hy-Wire, a hydrogen-powered car with revolutionary ideas that they hope to have to market within a few years
Fox News—Man who disciplined his son with a stun gun has children taken away from him
Knoxville News-Sentinel—Man suing Marriot, alleging that he found a video camera hidden in his bathroom light
MSNBC—$200 PC that runs Lindows has been endorsed by AOL |
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9.30.02
www.netsol.co.uk—It looks like VeriSign has broken one of its own cardinal rules and forgotten to renew the UK version of its domain name
BBC News—Scientists think that natural blondes will be extinct within 200 years
CNN.com—Camera attached to the fuel tank will provide a shuttle's-eye view of the next space shuttle launch
Wired News—Some judges in Washington state will now accept emailed excuses as opposed to testimony in traffic violation cases
Salon.com—Prince suing internet site for selling bootlegs of his live shows. On an unrelated note, aren't you glad we don't have to call him "The Artist Formerly Known As", etc.?
ABCnews.com—Thief in Denmark uses vacuum to steal over $10,000 worth of jewelry |
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