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| daily links: february 2003 |
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2.3.03
USA Today—One of the more macabre links dealing with the shuttle disaster: a list of all debris that has been found so far
Wired News—Neutrino hunters are using the moon as a particle detector
CNN.com—Catholic web users want Vatican to name patron saint of the internet by Easter
Fox News—Phil saw his shadow yesterday
ABCnews.com—Virtual reality could help people conquer their phobias
BBC News—Bill Paxton will star in live-action movie update of cult British puppet show Thunderbirds |
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2.4.03
MSNBC—Families of lost shuttle astronauts say they want the space program to continue despite the tragedy
Salon.com—Vatican has no problem with Harry Potter books. I guess that will shut up the Christians sects that have denounced it as promoting witchcraft. Oh, wait, Nevermind. They think the Catholic church is evil, too.
CNN.com—Rock producer Phil Spector arrested and charged with murder
Wired News—Site that generated fake stories that looked as if they were being published by CNN is taken down after a week in which many of its stories appeared in print and on other news sites
BBC News—Developers are working on creating games that would not have linear script structure and would present constant new challenges to players
San Francisco Gate—Woman loses winning $85 million lottery ticket, but says she's not sure she would want the money anyway. Why was she buying the bloody tickets, then? |
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2.5.03
USA Today—Subordinates allege that General Franks alllowed his wife to attend classified briefings
CommonDreams.org—Is there a connection between recent Republican upsets at the polls and the company that makes the new touch screen voting machines?
Wired News—Space travel could one day be achieved using an elevator riding on a carbon nanotube
Herald Sun (Australia)—One of Saddam's former bodyguards say he has a formidable arsenal that U.N. inspectors have not yet uncovered
ZDNet—Surprise, surprise: monitoring workers' surfing habits lowers their morale and reduces their productivity
Art Daily—Reproduction of Picasso's Guernica on display at U.N. is covered with curtain |
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2.6.03
Celestia—Free software that renders the universe in 3D
Ananova—Japanese scientist takes a big step towards a garment that makes its wearer invisible. This is pretty freaking cool.
SFGate.com—Amateur photographer give photo to NASA that purportedly shows a purple bolt of energy striking Columbia over California. The photo has not yet been released by NASA.
MSNBC—I don't know what the hell this article is doing on MSNBC, but it's a slow news day, so I'm posting the link anyway.
Best of the Blogs—More details on the voting machine scandal that I linked to yesterday
Salon.com—Nudist resort in Palm Springs will build pedestrian bridge to connect its buildings, a bridge that just happens to pass over a crowded publich street |
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2.7.03
MSNBC—Whoa. The suggested price of the next Harry Potter book will be nearly $30. Isn't everyone involved already making enough money off this franchise?
ZDNet—Makers of Opera browser say Microsoft sites are sending their browser a bad stylesheet that causes the program to crash
Fox News—Restaurant owner in the Bush enclave of Kennebunkport, Maine, has been ordered to take down outdoor umbrellas advertising Hebrew National Beef Franks
ABCnews.com—Dell to phase out floppy disk drives. So soon? It's been years since I even thought about using a floppy.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin—Woman injured when suicide jumper lands on her van, which was stopped at a light
C|NET—Court says site that allowed voters in different states to swap votes to give their candidates better chances in close races was legal |
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2.10.03
CNN.com—Two marines charged with plotting to explode a bomb at their base
Wired News—Well, we all knew it would happen eventually: game developers are making games that even the most advanced consumer machines cannot run smoothly
Salon.com—Game players use online role-playing universes to organize and hold peace protest, candlelight vigils, and other forms of activism
C|NET—Pixar switches its server farm from Sun to Intel
BBC News—Latest round of man vs. machine ends in a draw
ABCnews.com—Colorado may upgrade legal status of pets from property to companions |
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2.11.03
Daily Rotten—Full text of draft legislation that would expand the powers granted to the government by the Patriot Act
Wired News—Hospitals moving away from films and towards all-digital x-rays and CT scans
Fox News—Two sisters are suing Southwest Airlines over a nursey rhyme recited by flight attendants that they claim was racist
CNN.com—The "Dude-you're-getting-a-Dell" guy arrested in NYC on marijuana charge
MSNBC—Stonehenge may have had Swiss connection
USA Today—Iran begins mining uranium |
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2.12.03
Songs Inspired by Literature—The title of the site is pretty self-explanatory, but for a music/book geek like me, this is a pretty cool site
Flash Mind Reader—This is based on a fairly simple number trick, so unfortunately, the longer you are amused by it, the dumber you probably are
Wired News—Kentucky mandates broadband capability for all state-sponsored low-income housing
CNN.com—Remaining Grateful Dead members to rename themselves The Dead
ABCnews.com—Fox will air unaired portions of Michael Jackson interview selected by the singer as a response to the ABC version
MSNBC—Dracula theme park to be built in Romania |
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2.13.03
Wired News—Leaders in the House and Senate cool to the proposed Patriot II legislation that would further increase the powers of the Department of Justice
Salon.com—NYC bans the use of cell phones at any kind of public performance, despite the objections of Mayor Bloomberg
CNN.com—Beauty schools and bible colleges win the right to use the .edu domain
C|NET—Digital camera sales still booming
Fox News—Sixth grader arrested for hacking his grades
SFGate—Man cuts his throat in court after being convicted of theft |
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2.14.03
Fox News—Supermarket worker accused of poisoning beef with insecticide
CNN.com—Joe Millionaire viewers say they will boycott the real finale to protest last week's fake finale. Right. Sure they will.
USA Today—American Idol contestant disqualified because she posed nude for a web site
Salon.com—Iran government cracks down on storekeepers selling Valentine's Day materials
BBC News—New study suggests that playing online video games, even violent ones, teaches cooperation and social skills
Los Angeles Times—Apple founder Steve Wozniak is moving to a new home to get better cell phone reception |
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2.17.03
Google Watch—Several good articles about why everyone's favorite search engine might not be quite as cool as you think. The Google as Big Brother article is especially interesting.
CNN.com—Fatal shooting caught on tape at gas station also catches several witnesses not lifting a finger to help
ZDNet—This is hilarious. To protest MSN feeding poorly formatted pages to the Opera browser to try and make IE look better by comparison, Opera has released a special version of its browser that translates all MSN content to a Swedish Chef dialect.
MSNBC—Dolly the sheep, the first cloned animal, is put to an early death because of premature aging
USA Today—Dave Mirra sues makers of racy BMX video game, claiming the adult content hurt his image
Zed—Link to making-of video for Pretty Big Dig, a short film of construction equipment set to a waltz |
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2.18.03
Television Without Pity—An unbelievable amount of information and discussion about almost everything on television
Wired News—New contest is in search of stupidest security measure instituted since 9.11
CNN.com—Web sites allow students to find out about their professors before they sign up for classes
Boston Globe—High school senior's mother sues school to have her daughter named valedictorian of her class, even though the student is taking all of her senior classes at Weslyan University
Letters—Please, please, please do not waste your time on this pointless Flash game. I'm begging you.
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal—Male teachers dresses as woman to lure teen boy into sex |
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2.19.03
Salon.com—A venture capital group is planning to launch a liberal-leaning radio network to counter all of the Rush Limbaughs, Oliver Norths, Sean Hannitys, and G. Gordon Liddys who currently rule the political-talk airwaves
CNN.com—Teen will likely die after receiving organ transplant from donor with different blood type
Wired News—To deal with the growing shortage of available phone numbers, North American numbers might expand to 12 digits by 2005
New Scientist—New search algorithm that identifies rate of increase of word usage—"word bursts"—on the internet could rapidly identify trends on the web
ZDNet—Many search engines base their algorithms on theories by Thomas Bayes, a mathematician who has been dead for almost 250 years
Los Angeles Times—Woman sues Sci-Fi channel after falling victim to a reality show prank sponsored by the network |
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2.20.03
Yahoo! News—Could Bono win this year's Nobel Peace Prize?
New Scientist—Chemist proves that oil and water do mix after all
BBC News—Newly discovered William Blake watercolors sell for millions at auction
CNN.com—School bans anti-Bush t-shirt
C|NET—Progressive will now offer insurance for Segway owners
Fox News—Subway fire that killed over 100 in Korea was the result of a suicide attempt |
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2.21.03
Boston Globe—Man attacks snowplow driver who wouldn't clear his driveway
Salon.com—Pennsylvania wants ISPs based in its borders to block users from accessing porn sites
Reason Online—Many Congress members didn't realize exactly what they were voting for in the campaign finance reform bill they approved last year
ZDNet—Lindows releases low-cost notebook computer
CNN.com—Restaurant changes name of french fries to "freedom fries" to protest the French government's opposition to war in Iraq
ABCnews.com—Car dealer offers Saddam a free car if he abdicates and goes into exile |
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2.24.03
Wired News—Why did Google want Blogger?
CNN.com—Army is calling up college students for war in Iraq
London Times—New program by the British government meant to cut teen pregnancy rates encourages experimentation with oral sex by minors
Chigaco Sun-Times—Lawsuit claims ads before movies defraud consumers of their valuable time
USA Today—New Dumbledore named for next Harry Potter film, replacing the late Richard Harris in the role
BBC News—Is Google becoming too powerful? |
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2.27.03
Wired News—Anti-war protestors stage first virtual protest by jamming the phone and fax lines of the capitol
New Scientist—Pioneer 10 may have finally run out of steam
CNN.com—Texas judge duct tapes defendant's mouth shut after he kept interrupting court proceedings
ABCnews.com—The telemarketing industry has already come up with tools to defeat the TeleZapper
Lost Labor—A site documenting jobs that no longer exist
Salon.com—Fox busy trying to come up with different twist for second edition of Joe Millionaire |
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2.28.03
USA Today—Mr. Rogers goes to that big neighborhood in the sky
Ananova—Pizzeria in Denmark bans French and German citizens because of their countries' opposition to war in Iraq
CNN.com—Could Napster return from the dead yet again?
New Scientist—Low birth rates and epidemics like AIDS could reverse the current population explosion by century's end
ABCnews.com—Oprah becomes first black woman to make Forbes' billionaire list
Boston Herald—Man finds stolen skis for sale on eBay |
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