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| daily links: december 2002 |
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12.3.02
And now, as a celebration of Daypop finally coming back online after more than a month's absence, a set of links pulled from the Top 40 Links page of that site.
Get Your War On—Acerbic cartoons about the progress of the war effort
Apple.com—Apple spoofs itself with Switch ads starring Will Ferrell as Santa
Wall Street Journal—Counterprogramming your TiVo
Daring Fireball—Criticism of the changes made to the Mac Finder under OS X
Ananova—Tatooing robot unveiled at tech fair in Vienna
Sydney Morning Herald—New high resolution telescope will attempt to photograph moon landers and silence conspiracy theorists |
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12.4.02
CNN.com—Under the new education bill, schools are required to give names, addresses, and phone numbers of their students to military recruiters or risk losing federal funds
ZDNet—Email hoaxes still going strong among gullible corporate population
Fox News—Five U Penn students are charged with aggravated assault in the beating of a visiting Princeton debate student
ABCnews.com—Ohio high school teacher may be fired for mailing raccoon head to school official during strike
C|NET—Even though version 8.0 wasn't released until a few weeks ago, AOL is already showing off version 9.0 of its software, which won't be released until late next year
MSNBC—Newly rediscovered Pippi Longstocking story will be published next year |
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12.5.02
ABCnews.com—College athletes who were secretly taped in their locker rooms win $506 million judgement against porn sites
MSNBC—Amazon is using fake recommendations to push people to its new clothing site
Ananova—Finnish cab drivers must pay royalties if they play music for passengers, even if the music comes from the radio
Wired News—Operation TIPS officially put on ice
Salon.com—Mobster caught trying to smuggle their sperm out of jail
CBC News—Millions of spiders cover dozens of acres with a massive web |
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12.6.02
Earth as Art—A NASA site collecting some of the best images taken by the Landsat-7 satellite
CNN.com—Wal-Mart's $199 PC—sans an Intel chip or Microsoft's OS and applications—is selling well
New Scientist—Mathematical proof identifies strongest and most efficient ways to lace up your shoes. In case you were wondering.
Wired News—AOL is using special celebrity voices for its voicemail system—and also using the medium as a way to advertise those celebrities' products
3rd Annual 20 Worst Things on the Internet—This article is dead on in some respects, but it gets a few things wrong
Fox News—Judge turns down request for records by sniper suspect Malvo |
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12.9.02
2600 News—Amateur photographer is held without explanation under the Patriot Act for taking pictures of a hotel where Dick Cheney happened to be staying
Detroit Free Press—One of the internet's biggest spammers is inundated with snail junk mail after his address appears in an article about him
Filmjerk—Info on the Battlestar Galactica mini-series which has been in development for years now
DavidM.net—Guy sends a FedEx to Santa to track where it goes
CNN.com—Blasts from top secret construction project at the Vice President's official residence cause concern for neighbors
Fox News—Burger King workers arrested for selling cocaine from drive-thru window |
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12.10.02
USA Today—Tom Glavine, a Brave for his entire professional baseball career, is now a Met. This is a sad, sad day.
Wired News—A new study claims that most workers are not being deluged by junk email. I guess I must be one of the lucky ones, since I regularly have to sort through and delete close to 200 pieces of spam a day.
CNN.com—Man who drove into ravine survives for a week by melting snow and eating hot sauce packets from Taco Bell
New Scientist—Self-tuning piano to go on sale next year
BBC News—Reduced demand for cork from winemakers could actually harm Mediterranean forests
Philadelphia Inquirer—Fire sprinklers go off during symphony rehearsal and ruin $75,000 grand piano |
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12.11.02
BBC News—Several prominent museums have signed a joint statement that they will not give artifacts back to their countries of origin
Salon.com—Bud Selig may be considering dropping Pete Rose's lifetime ban from baseball
Wired News—Stanford will try to clone human embyros for research purposes
CNN.com—Marvel to introduce first openly gay title character in a revamping of a comic book from the 1950s
USA Today—PETA suing California dairy industry, claiming that their "happy cows" ad campaign is false advertising
C|NET—Apple selling versions of the iPod with celebrity signatures laser-engraved on the back |
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12.12.02
ZDNet—Study shows that the average web user has more than 20 passwords to remember
Wired News—Organization supported by Danish music, movie, and software industries sends invoices to file sharing networks, demanding royalties for illegal copies of those products
BBC News—British reverend tells children that Santa doesn't exist
C|NET—Online industry trade group proposes new, larger sizes for ad banners
MSNBC—Sometime next year, spam will be more prevalent than real email. Welcome to my inbox.
TwinCities.com—USPS is missing $65 million worth of plastic mail bins |
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12.13.02
USA Today—American fan pays over $45,000 for clues to next Harry Potter book
CNN.com—Stereolab member killed while riding bike in London
Salon.com—FBI will buy banner ads on Lycos to try and hunt down most wanted criminals
MSNBC—Government considering designating "trusted travelers" to reduce wait times at airports
BBC News—British scientists invent self-watering pot for houseplants
ABCnews.com—German police arrest serial killer cannibal after he posts an ad on the internet looking for his next victim |
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12.16.02
Wired News—To protest the Total Information Awareness effort by the Justice Department, privacy advocates have begun posting personal information about John Ashcroft online
remodern.com—True story of how Mac enthusiasts who'd never met banded together to catch an eBay scammer
ABCnews.com—Teen girl tackles and hogties intruder who robbed her house
CNN.com—British tabloids allegedly hired private detective to obtain hair samples from Prince Harry for genetic paternity testing
Salon.com—Man who ransacked archaeological site in Nevade fined $2.5 million by the federal government
New Scientist—New game from Japanese company will be distributed for free, but to play, you must convert real-world currency into the currency of the game world |
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12.17.02
CreativeCommons.org—New copyright licensing hierarchy will easily allow content creators to offer varying levels of use to consumers
news.com.au—Is Demi Moore dating Bill Clinton?
Wired News—Playboy to release R-rated video game that lets you step into Hef's slippers and silk pajamas
Fox News—Iowa residents oppose building of Muslim summer camp facility
The Buffalo Beast—The 50 most loathsome people in America 2002. Dead-on synopses and doesn't play partisan favorites.
ABCnews.com—Man climbs 30 stories of 64 story skyscraper in Houston and then jumps to his death |
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12.18.02
Fox News—New government program will require all males from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan in the United States to register with the US government
ZDNet—A jury sides with the defendant in the first major test of the restrictive Digital Millenium Copyright Act
MSNBC—On his latest live album, Paul McCartney reverses the order of the famous Lennon-McCartney songwriting credit
London Telegraph—Court refuses man's request to settle parking fine via trial by combat
CNN.com—Eminem house up for sale on eBay fails to garner a serious minimum bid
USA Today—The Chicago Cubs are suing local individuals and businesses who sell tickets to watch Cubs games from their rooftops across the street |
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12.19.02
Wired News—FTC creating national "no-call" list for telemarketers; violators could be fined thousands of dollars per infraction
Apple—T3 trailer
MSNBC—AOL receives patent for instant messaging
Hokey Spokes—New LED-powered spoke covers
CNN.com—Student gets "A" on project to hack school computer
New Scientist—New cancer procedure involves removing liver from the body, killing the tumors with high doses of radiation, and then reimplanting the organ |
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12.20.02
USA Today—Air marshals are leaving the program, saying its policies and procedures could actually increase the danger to air passengers
Wired News—Some cities are refusing to go along with the Patriot Act
ABCnews.com—The Army is looking for ways to help soldiers conquer the need for sleep
CNN.com—New Lord of the Rings installment breaks record for biggest single day take in December
New Scientist—Dramatic penalty shoot-outs to decided tied soccer matches cause surge of heart attacks in Britain
Fox News—Ohio woman makes people think her daughter has cancer in order to profit from donations |
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12.30.02
BBC News—Iran will no longer permit adulterous women to be stoned to death. Wait—what century are we in again?
Wired News—Small town in California sold on eBay for $1.8 million
CNN.com—Children find German porn in Barney book
Salon.com—800,00 people will lose their unemployment benefits because the House and the Senate couldn't agree on a compromise to extend them before taking their Christmas break
Star Wars Origami—The title pretty much tells you everything you need to know
ABCnews.com—Photographer Herb Ritts dies |
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12.31.02
ZDNet—Microsoft is planning to mount a challenge to Adobe's dominant PDF electronic document format
CNN.com—Kroger is test-marketing payment by fingerprint in Texas
news.com.au—2000 pages of new material from Tolkien discovered in Oxford library, including his translation of Beowulf
USA Today—Man uses GPS receiver to stalk ex-girlfriend
Wired News—Team behind Lord of the Rings says Andy Serkis deserves recognition for how much his acting helped create the digital Gollum in The Two Towers
ABCnews.com—New billboards can tailor their ads to the demographics of passing motorists based on the radio stations people are listening to |
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