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| daily links: november 2002 |
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11.1.02
Salon.com—Department of Education is sharing the personal data of student loan applicants with other branches of the government and even private companies
Wired News—Mac fans make photorealistic pumpkin portraits of Apple friends and enemies for Halloween
Fox News—Massachusetts considers banning aluminum bats in high school baseball
ABCnews.com—Army uses first person shooter video game to recruit teens
USA Today—NYC may fine rude cell phone users
CNN.com—Man carves over 2500 pumpkins for Halloween display |
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11.4.02
New Scientist—Scientists may soon be able to identify someone using the DNA from a single cell
ABCnews.com—Couple arrested for growing pots using stolen electricity from neighbor to power their lamps
C|NET—New piece of software makes it easy for Windows users to switch to the Mac
Wired News—Businessman will only allow Macs to be used on board is private yacht, siting security concerns with Windows
CNN.com—Science texts for school children are often grossly inaccurate
Fox News—Second Harry Potter film premieres in London |
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11.5.02
USA Today—The Osbournes say the second season of their reality series will be the last
MSNBC—Online identity theft scam masquerades as job posting
BBC News—Spider-Man DVD breaks opening weekend records
CNN.com—Web site will write custom speeches for special occasions
Salon.com—Supreme Court to hear telemarketing case
ZDNet—Apple will cut prices and upgrade features on its iBook line for the holiday sales season |
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11.6.02
Fox News—Two years after the debacle of the 2000 election, voting difficulties still abound
Wired News—Chapter that publisher omitted from hacker Kevin Mitnick's book shows up on the internet
Salon.com—Nevada voters opt not to legalize pot
ZDNet—Relatively tame Microsoft settlement may see the company returning to more aggressive practices and could hurt companies like Adobe
CNN.com—Dr. Smith from Lost in Space dies
MSNBC—NASA commissions a book to counter the moon landing hoax theories |
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11.7.02
Business 2.0—Blue is back in style, especially on tech devices
BBC News—British gaming clan receives sponsorship money and equipment from Intel
ABCnews.com—Man arrested for sending false information to police about Elizabeth Smart kidnapping
CNN.com—Sea lion remembers complicated trick after not performing it in ten years, leading to new speculation about long-term memory in animals
Fox News—French prostitutes protest a government crackdown on their trade
MSNBC—Taiwan scratch ticket lottery code may have been cracked |
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11.8.02
CNN.com—The Police, the Clash, and Elvis Costello will all be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
New Scientists—Opponents of copy-protected audio CDs argue that continual advances in hardware and software decoding will make the protections useless
ABCnews.com—Apocalypse Now named best film of past 25 years
BBC News—Missy Elliott offers $1 million prize to the fan who can decipher the backwards lyrics on her latest single
USA Today—Amazon is making it easy for web developers to create their own uniquely branded stores that tie into Amazon's inventory
Wired News—Aquariums made out of old Macs have turned from novelty to cottage industry |
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11.11.02
C|NET—AltaVista struggles to regain foothold in search engine market against the dominant forces of Yahoo! and Google
ABCnews.com—Zookeeper in Germany who was fired for killing and cooking several of the zoo's creatures still receives severance pay
Fox News—Cases of the Bubonic Plague are rare, but they still occur
Wired News—FDA approves 20 minute HIV test
CNN.com—Eminem's 8 Mile tops the weekend box office
Salon.com—McDonald's to close almost 200 restaurants worldwide |
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11.12.02
Salon.com—Reversing Clinton's push to ban snowmobiles from national parks, Bush will instead allow more than ever
Wired News—Saddam's son has both Yahoo! and .NET Passport accounts, both of which are in violation of the embargo against Iraq
MSNBC—Woman who posted her picture to a dating site now finds it used in ads for porn
ABCnews.com—Do the Harry Potter movies ruin the books for kids?
BBC News—Fans riot after Guns n' Roses cancel show, and Axl Rose blames promoter
Toledo Blade—Two teens posing as cops pull over the real police chief |
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11.13.02
California Coastal Records Project—Former dotcom exec is taking high resolution photos of the California coast and posting them to the web using his helicopter, a digital camera, and a powerbook
Fox News—FBI agents set up random checkpoints in Michigan, hoping to catch terrorists by surprise
Wired News—Soldier wearing new equipment for the Army collapses during demonstration
Salon.com—Stan Lee is suing Marvel, claiming he hasn't seen a penny of his 10% share of the blockbuster Spider-Man movie
ABCnews.com—Sherwood Forest made into nature preserve
MSNBC—Pirated version of new Harry Potter film already available online |
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11.14.02
Fox News—Text of Iraq's letter to the UN. This is really scary. It reads like a manifesto from a crazy person.
Wired News—Irish college considers suing George Lucas over the similarity between their unique library and the Jedi library in Episode II
MSNBC—The Sims Online could bring MMORPGs to the masses
ABCnews.com—Barbie gets a star on the Hollywood walk of fame
Salon.com—85 year old man steals over 3000 books and videotapes from his local library
C|NET—Poorly designed intranets reduce worker productivity |
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11.15.02
Wired News—Doctor who did scientific study on the power of prayer becomes a believer after seeing the results
CNN.com—As part of settlement for fraud allegations, Miss Cleo will forgive $500 million in customer charges
Salon.com—Police raid Suge Knight's record company offices and homes
ZDNet—New Homeland Security Bill would sentence convicted hackers to life in prison
MSNBC—Cray to unveil a new supercomputer, the fastest yet made
BBC News—New radiation-proof fabric delivers as much protection as a lead vest |
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11.18.02
ABCnews.com—Ann Landers' personal items to be auctioned off
BBC News—This year's Leonid meteor shower could be best we'll see for next 30 years
New Scientist—New study concludes that women in their 50s and 60s can safely carry babies conceived with the aid of fertility treatments
CNN.com—Calendar featuring coeds in lingerie will help raise money for college's science department
Salon.com—Clump of Elvis' hair collected by a former hairstylist goes for over $100,000 at auction
Wired News—Visa wins lawsuit against a man running the site evisa.com, which offered travel and translation services |
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11.19.02
USA Today—Salon.com will waive subscription fees for viewers who view large interactive ads
CNN.com—The FBI's terrorism watch list has gotten out of their control and has even been distributed to the private sector, but Ashcroft still defends it
Salon.com—Justice Department wins approval for expanded wiretapping capabilities
Wired News—Wal-Mart and Blockbuster plan to offer Netflix-like services
ZDNet—Segways are now on sale to the public at Amazon.com
Fox News—Chess prodigy Bobby Fischer's family was investigated by the FBI for ties to the Soviets |
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11.20.02
Wired News—Britain considers putting chips in sex offenders that would track their location, heart rate, and blood pressure
ZDNet—A new report shows that four out of seven of Microsoft's business units lost money last year, highlighting the company's dependence on Windows and Office, which monopolize their respective markets
BBC News—Sony developing PocketPC version of EverQuest
ABCnews.com—Woman waits 48 minutes for response from 911 after being shot by her husband's lover
CNN.com—7 year old girl calls police to report her drunken babysitter
Fox News—Michael Jackson dangles an infant over a hotel balcony railing |
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11.21.02
Fox News—Government has plans to develop database that would keep track of every single consumer transaction in the US, supposedly to help fight the war on terror. I can't even begin list all the ways this could be abused.
ABCnews.com—Woman taken to morgue after heart attack may have still been alive
CNN.com—What would Jesus drive? Why don't we worry about what Jesus would think of starting another war in Iraq over oil?
Salon.com—Domino's Pizza founder to create new town and Catholic university in Florida
USA Today—NYC may house some of its homeless population...on cruise ships?
BBC News—The Doors will reform with Stewart Copeland of the Police on drums and Ian Astbury of the Cult on vocals |
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11.22.02
ABCnews.com—Scientist who helped decipher human genome will now attempt to create an entirely new single-cell life form
Fox News—Sotheby's to auction off a note card from J.K. Rowling that contains hints about the plot of the long-delayed fifth installment in the Harry Potter series
Wired News—Filmmaker and pundit Michael Moore removes an essay predicting a Democratic victory in this year's elections from his web site after the Republican gains
USA Today—Bank of America using employees to test new payment system
Salon.com—Over 900,000 Americans will lose unemployment benefits in the last week of 2002
BBC News—Microsoft working on a "lifestore" concept that would keep backups of everything you write, take a picture of, etc. |
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11.25.02
Wired News—An article about the first internet-only law school; this is where my father is currently taking classes
CNN.com—Several executives at the company that administers the SAT have received six figure bonuses since the newest CEO began his tenure
C|NET—AOL is testing a standalone email client that may soon become a competitor for Microsoft's Outlook
ABCnews.com—Native American tribesman is seeking the right to give his son peyote during religious ceremonies
New Scientist—A new two-way radio system being used by emergency personnel worldwide could interfere with sensitive medical equipment
BBC News—New keyboard layout for mobile devices could soon make it easier to send text via pager or cell phone |
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11.26.02
Fox News—Bush signs the Homeland Security bill into law
New Scientist—British bat enthusiast is first man to die from rabies in that country in a hundred years
Salon.com—Texas judge gives okay for documentary filmmaker to tape jury deliberations in death penalty cases
BBC News—Researchers think unexplained seismic events may provide evidence of extremely rare quarks
Wired News—Microsoft's new plans to force users to install security patches and updates may create as many problems as it solves
CNN.com—Over 100 Naval Academy cadets have their computers seized in a file sharing probe by the school |
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