| daily links: october 2002 |
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10.1.02
CNN.com—Automakers must give diagnostic computer codes to all auto repair shops, giving the consumer the choice to bypass the dealerships
Wired News—Judge dismisses suit of Maryland doctor who claims that constant use of cell phone caused his brain tumor
Salon.com—Surprise, surprise: Bush's daddy was probably involved in supplying Iraq with the biological agents that he now claims we need to go to war over
Fox News—Courtney Love settles suit with Universal, meaning that new Nirvana music will be released soon
Battle Creek Enquirer—Sheriff's department mistakes The Onion for a real news source and issues an al Qaeda warning based on a satirical story
C|NET—Apple pulls iPod from shelves in France because the device is in violation of the French government's limit on decibels |
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10.2.02
Atlanta Journal-Constitution—A theory as to what Bush really wants in Iraq that makes a scary amount of sense
MSNBC—SETI@home to get long-overdue upgrade
CNN.com—This is supposed to be a look-at-how-cool-the-future-will-be article, but from what I can tell, it's really about how wireless technology will help corporations gouge consumers
Wired News—Apple is severely reducing the ability to customize the interface of its latest OS to the chagrin of longtime Mac users and developers
Fox News—Baptists think yoga is a religion and want the teaching of it banned from public schools
Lockergnome—New version of Kazaa steals referral links to sites like Amazon and CDnow |
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10.3.02
Apple.com—The new trailer for The Two Towers
ZDNet—While music industry lawyers argue against file-sharing in America, the major labels are giving away free digital music in Europe
Fox News—Snoop Dogg edited out of upcoming Muppets Christmas special
BBC News—British Telecom to limit amount of time its subscribers can spend online every month
ABCnews.com—For $500,00, you can have your genome decoded and burned to a CD
MSNBC—Museum in York, England, accidentally sells real human skull in its gift shop |
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10.4.02
Fox News—Jerry Falwell calls Muhammad a terrorist
icWales—Scientists unveil world's funniest joke, selected after a yearlong survey of internet users
CNN.com—John Walker Lindh says that 9.11 attacks were first in a planned series of three
Mercury News—Another reason to love Apple: they are one of the only major equipment manufacturers that are not considering adding controls to their machines that would limit how users could use their digital content
Googlefight—If you're a total geek, this might amuse you for a few seconds
ABCnews.com—Senate candidate from Montana has permanently turned his skin blue |
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10.7.02
BBC News—Small craft rams oil tanker, causing it to explode and catch on fire
Wired News—The latest revisions to Google's PageRank code are giving worse results on searches
ABCnews.com—New specially treated coasters could allow women to detect the presence of date rape drugs in their drinks
CNN.com—Mom and teen twins beat woman to death on the street
USA Today—Hacker Kevin Mitnick is auctioning off his old laptops to help promote his new book
New Scientist—Special plastic discs can help tell whether frozen food has spoiled |
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10.8.02
ABCnews.com—Man killed by own booby trap
New Scientist—Japanese researchers develop technology to let people exchange data using a handshake
CNN.com—New planet found beyond Pluto
Fox News—Navy personnel used government credit cards to pay for gambling and prostitutes
MSNBC—Jude Law's daughter swallows a tab of ecstasy left behind in a restaurant from a party the night before
BBC News—MTV to produce movie about Napster |
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10.9.02
Lego Escher—Very cool
Fox News—The EU wants to add ten new members by 2004
Wired News—Surpreme Court to hear arguments against new copyright law, which was passed after intense lobbying from Disney to protect early images of Mickey
CNN.com—Administrators at a Christian college manipulated an athlete's grades to make him eligible to play
MSNBC—Harry Potter books and the Bible were main sources of revenue for publishers after 9.11 attacks
Salon.com—David Letterman's office robbed |
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10.10.02
Institute for Public Accuracy—Commentary on Bush's latest Iraq speech
ABCnews.com—Researchers think lemon juice can provide protection against pregnancy and HIV
BBC News—Scientists beg for cash to study new meteor impact crater in Siberia
Salon.com—Advocates for gun fingerprinting use Maryland sniper case as argument in their favor
Wired News—Yahoo! posts a profit
USA Today—Fewer students are majoring in technology-related fields amid tech bust |
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10.11.02
BBC News—Fish like recently reopened boatlift in Scotland
ABCnews.com—College students are using web sites to review schools and professors
Wired News—Museum planning exhibit using copyrighted material that will coincide with copyright case before Supreme Court
Salon.com—Giuliani tells Italian-Americans to lighten up about the Sopranos
Fox News—Tree sitter falls to his death
C|NET—Circuit City to sell Sharper Image items |
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10.14.02
Wired News—Wired overhauls its site design
USA Today—Jimmy Carter wins Nobel Peace Prize
Fox News—Battle staffs sent to Kuwait in preparation for war with Iraq
CNN.com—Miramax pushes back the Scorsese-helmed DiCaprio flick Gangs of New York to keep it from battling with DiCaprio's Catch Me If You Can, which also stars Tom Hanks
Salon.com—Fox may hold movie about sniper in light of the recent attacks
C|NET—Head of Microsoft's Mac business unit is transferred to the Xbox team |
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10.15.02
MSNBC—Microsoft unveils its own "switch" campaign to counter Apple, and then quickly pulls it amid accusations that the true-life stories were fakes
BBC News—Harry Potter star Richard Harris has cancer
CNN.com—Duct tape can be used to treat warts
ZDNet—IBM to unveil new PowerPC chips for release in Macs next year
ABCnews.com—Dell may be getting rid of its dude spokesman
Fox News—Falwell apologizes to Muslims for calling Muhammad a terrorist |
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10.16.02
USA Today—Wal-Mart to begin DVD rentals using the Netflix model as their blueprint
MSNBC—Scientists fear that Hawaii's Mauna Loa could erupt again soon
Wired News—Major retailers are refusing to carry a new game that features nude strippers and prostitutes
CNN.com—Deep fried twinkies are a hit at state fairs
ABCnews.com—Scientists modify bacteria to create pure blue dye
ZDNet—Gateway will bundle Corel's WordPerfect suite on its machines instead of Microsoft's Office |
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10.17.02
ABCnews.com—Former Lucasfilm employee arrested and accused of stealing Star Wars memoribilia
CNN.com—Owner of fish hatchery accused of killing 4000 endangered birds
New Scientist—Japanese researchers are trying to develop an onion that won't make you cry
USA Today—Latest version of AOL gets rid of pop-up ads, an annoying trend that AOL itself is mostly responsible for starting
Fox News—Vanilla coke propels Coca-Cola to strong earnings
BBC News—Recharging kiosks for cell phone batteries to be introduced around London |
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10.18.02
Wired News—What the hell? Apple won't attend Macworld in Boston this year.
USA Today—Dick Armey criticizes Justice Department for trampling civil rights
Fox News—Singer Ryan Adams explodes at fan for Bryan Adams reference
BBC News—Racoons are overrunning Germany
CNN.com—Star Wars producer Rick McCallum thinks that DVDs are hurting profits during theatrical releases of films
ABCnews.com—Redheads need more anesthesia |
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10.21.02
John Perry Barlow—Missive from the founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation on the global empire that the Bush administration seems intent on creating
C|NET—Ask Jeeves will no longer use pop-up ads
CNN.com—Vanderbilt University sued by Daughters of the Confederacy for changing the name of a building they helped to pay for
MSNBC—Bulk emailer has figured out how to send pop-up spam to IM clients
Wired News—Former Clinton advisor rebukes Bush administration for their handling of privacy issues
ABCnews.com—Wrestler accused of biting head off live rabbit |
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10.22.02
Wired News—Weblogs help flesh out news coverage of the sniper with rampant speculation about the sniper's motives
imaginaire—Open letter from Sean Penn to President Bush
Salon.com—Artifact containing reference to Jesus is oldest found so far
New Scientist—Boeing unveils new stealth jet
CNN.com—School lunch programs may soon add soy milk
MSNBC—Patent registrations may point to further Harry Potter installments |
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10.23.02
C|NET—Judge rules that ADA regulations do not apply to the web
Fox News—Atlanta DJ at country station fired for having southern accent
Salon.com—Clippings of Elvis' hair to be auctioned online
Wired News—Apple stickers, part of their marketing efforts for over 20 years, have helped cement their logo as one of the most recognizable ever
CNN.com—Woman squashed by large passenger on transcontinental flight paid $20,000 in compensation by Virgin Atlantic
MSNBC—Internet crippled for an hour after mysterious attack |
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10.24.02
eviltron—Rubik's cube Flash app with lots of cool features
Wired News—New sensor shaped like an egg can help egg farmers weed out problems in their production process that can lead to cracked eggs
Fox News—Former ice cream truck driver charged with over 100 sexual offenses against minors
ABCnews.com—The Osbournes next season could premiere in November
MSNBC—Older consumers are reluctant to invest in new music technology and formats
C|NET—Celebrity-designed AOL discs are going for big bucks on eBay |
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10.25.02
The Elements—Wow, two days in a row featuring a Flash piece that doesn't suck
CNN.com—Some colleges are outlawing writing on walkways with chalk
Wired News—eBay wouldn't let indie band sell its own homemade CDs on the popular auction site
O'Reilly Network—Ten tips for taking digital pictures
New Scientist—NASA long range plans include a space station between the earth and the moon and a manned mission to Mars
BBC News—Bug in EverQuest is threatening the stability of the game's economy |
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10.28.02
Fox News—Bush says that US is prepared to take action against Iraq with or without UN support
Salon.com—Authorities were warned about sniper suspect earlier this summer
MSNBC—Popular blogging host site hacked
Wired News—New customer tracking technology used at lastest Prada store in New York has some privacy advocates concerned
CNN.com—Director speculates that the current Harry Potter kids will only do the first three movies
USA Today—New York fines Microsoft for defacing public property as part of its latest ad campaign |
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10.29.02
ABCnews.com—Privacy groups plan to sue government to see how they have been using the powers granted by the Patriot Act
CNN.com—Medical workers urged to give up hand washing
Wired News—Web users all over the world have written to Saddam to express support and offer suggestions for resisting the United States
Salon.com—Teenage suspect may have pulled the trigger in some of the sniper shootings
Fox News—Robert Blake's lawyer quits after he does interview with ABC
BBC News—Web usage levels off in Australia |
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10.30.02
C|NET—Microsoft's newest version of Office may only work on the latest versions of Windows
Wired News—How to make your own TeleZapper to thwart telemarketers
USA Today—Fox's Hannity and Colmes eclipses Larry King in the ratings
ZDNet—Dell will replace floppy drive with USB Key in its laptops
Salon.com—Army working on sandwich that will last up to three years
Fox News—Several movies in production team up two independent franchises like Batman and Superman |
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10.31.02
MSNBC—Ghost webcams
New Scientist—Zambia won't accept aid that contains GM food
Wired News—Formula scribbled on Irish bridge over 150 years ago is basis for computer animation
CNN.com—Pentagon will offer basic combat training to journalists who will cover the seemingly unstoppable Iraq war
ABCnews.com—Ex-NFL player comes out of the closet
Salon.com—Amazon will start selling clothes soon |
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