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3.3.03
BuzzFlash—Maybe the press aren't as sheeplike as I thought (well, the foreign press, anyway): Ari Fleischer gets laughed off the podium by the press corps during a briefing. The account on this page isn't completely accurate, but they have a link to the C-SPAN video where you can see it for yourself.
CNN.com—Doh! Cornell mistakenly sends acceptance email to hundreds of students it had actually rejected. I find this particularly scary/funny given that we also use mass emails to communicate with our accepted students.
NY Times—Letter of resignation by a US diplomat that is startling in both its bluntness and insightfulness (NY Times site requires free registration, but it's worth it)
US Central Command—A collection of all the leaflets we have dropped on Iraq, along with the dates on which they were distributed
Fox News—Latest PETA ad campaign angers Jewish groups with its comparison of livestock living conditions to the Holocaust of WWII
Salon.com—Former president Clinton called up for jury duty |
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3.4.03
Fox News—Car seat instructions written at the 10th grade level prove difficult for many adults
CNN.com—Bush's chief diplomat to the arab world resigns
ABCnews.com—Strange clouds forming high in the earth's atmosphere have scientists baffled
MSNBC—Amazon will add domain names to its list of items for sale
ZDNet—Klez worm still in top 10 after more than a year
BBC News—This article tries to be unbiased about the shorthand slang used in text messaging, but how can you not be annoyed by it in a non-cell phone context? |
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3.5.03
BBC News—The next game from the developer of Black & White will focus on the movie industry
MSNBC—It had to happen sooner or later: advertisers want to use blogs as the starting point for viral marketing campaigns. The really scary thing is that the site profiled in the article is already number five on Daypop.
CNN.com—More weirdness about Michael Jackson, including claims that he paid $150,000 to put a curse on Steven Spielberg
ZDNet—Beta version of next Windows OS leaked to the web
Tampa Bay Online—Some western human shields are leaving Iraq
LA Times—Apple to unveil a new music service in conjunction with the major labels next month |
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3.6.03
Salon.com—Mall patron in New York arrested for refusing to remove a shirt with a peace slogan on it
CNN.com—New twenty dollar bill will feature color other than green
Wired News—Do chat room authors have a right to remain anonymous if they defame someone in their posts?
ZDNet—Microsoft will release an official beta for Office 2003 after accidentally releasing it to a few developers three weeks ago
ABCnews.com—Supreme Court upholds three strikes
MSNBC—One of Cher's wigs stolen during concert |
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3.7.03
A Whole Lotta Nothing—The case for Mozilla
Fox News—Couple arrested in capitol rotunda on explosive device charges
Salon.com—More than two thirds of Americans believe that Bush has already decided to go to war in Iraq, but less than half believe he has justified that action
Wired News—Doctors use a boy's own stem cells, harvested from his blood, to help repair his damaged heart
CNN.com—John Walker Lindh assaulted in prison
The Animatrix—View four of the nine animated shorts that are being released as part of the wave of new Matrix stories (two are available now, others come online in the next two months) |
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3.10.03
Fox News—Shuttle crew may have attempted to override the autopilot seconds before the craft disintegrated
New Scientist—Even though Bush's appointed road safety expert thinks SUVs are dangerous, the president has included incentives for businesses to buy more of them in his tax cut plan
BBC News—Man finds lost Picasso sketches in used book
MSNBC—Consumers find advertising increasingly intrusive and annoying, especially on the internet
C|NET—Halo 2 will not be ready this year
CNN.com—Girls Gone Wild moves spring break filming to Texas after warnings from law enforcement in Florida |
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3.11.03
electronicIraq—Art Spiegelman resigns from the New Yorker to protest conformity in the mass media
MSNBC—Strongest SETI signal candidates to be rechecked using the Arecibo telescope
Salon.com—AOL Time-Warner may be looking to unload the Atlanta Braves and its other sports franchises
Sunday Mirror—Iraqi troops tried to surrender to the British even though the war has not officially begun
Wired News—Is the US planning to use more and larger depleted-uranium weapons in the new war on Iraq?
Fox News—New shots may help people with peanut allergies |
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3.12.03
CNN.com—Oh, lord. The congressional cafeterias will no longer serve french fries or french toast, changing the word "french" to "freedom" to protest France's opposition to war in Iraq. It was mildly amusing, in a kitschy sort of way, when some hillbillies from my home state of NC did this at their burger joint, but doesn't Congress have more important things to concern themselves with?
Whittier Daily News—Anti-war protestors trash 9.11 memorial
Salon.com—Saddam opens training camp for suicide bombers who would be used against invading US troops
Kuro5hin—Ari Fleischer admits that, at his most recent press conference, the Q+A section with reporters was pre-scripted
ZDNet—Macromedia's new Flash-heavy site comes under fire from users of less popular browsers
ABCnews.com—McDonald's in three test cities to offer one hour of free wireless internet to anyone who buys certain combo meals |
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3.13.03
ABCnews.com—The internet is making it easier for Americans to get different perspectives on the news than the homogeneous propaganda fed to us by American media conglomerates
CNN.com—Egyptian man to receive $27 million for information that led to the arrest of high-ranking al Qaeda member
Fox News—Elizabeth Smart found alive almost nine months after she first went missing
USA Today—China forbids the Rolling Stones from performing four of its hits at their upcoming performances
Salon.com—Veteran sitcom writer Norman Lear to collaborate on several upcoming South Park episodes
SF Gate—California library warns patrons that the FBI may demand records of who has borrowed which books under the Patriot Act |
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3.14.03
London Times—Even George Bush the Elder thinks we need to have international support before we go into Iraq
Wired News—National do-not-call list for telemarketers should be active by October
Fox News—Judge orders man to spend 30 days in a dog house as punishment for beating his stepson
MSNBC—A hundred year drought may have been the killing blow for the Mayans
ABCnews.com—Michael Jackson ordered to pay promoter $5.3 million for backing out of concerts
BBC News—New images of Mars suggest that there could be water flowing on the surface |
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3.17.03
CNN.com—Air traveler with "No War in Iraq" signs in his checked luggage finds disapproving note from federal baggage inspector when he opens his bags
Wired News—Independent reporter will cover the war in Iraq without any assistance from the US military and will post his articles to a weblog
The Observer—Hasidic sect in New York believes that God has revealed himself in the form of a 20 pound carp that started yelling warning in Hebrew just before it was to be killed
USA Today—The House has passed a bill that would severely limit pain and suffering awards in medical malpractice cases
MSNBC—Scholastic will selling some copies of the new Harry Potter book directly to consumers, irking booksellers
BBC News—Stewart Copeland is suing the newly reformed Doors after they dropped him from an album and tour after publicizing his connection to the band |
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3.18.03
ABC 13 Houston—16 year old assaulted at rodeo for not standing when Lee Greenwood's "Proud to be an American" was played over the PA
The Smoking Gun—FDNY issues memo about terrorists buying UPS uniforms off of eBay to enable them to easily infiltrate buildings with dangerous packages, but the threat is actually an internet hoax/urban legend
Salon.com—Lumber company sending climbers into trees to remove environmental activist tree sitters who were ordered by the courts to come down from the trees
New Scientist—Bone marrow stem cells show promise as a possible cure for diabetes
ABCnews.com—Many military couples are rushing to get married before one partner gets shipped out to the Iraq conflict
BBC News—America's love of golf could be one of the major contributing factors to our looming water problems |
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3.19.03
ABC 7 Baltimore—Tobacco farmer drives tractor into reflecting pool near Washington Monument and threatens to detonate explosives
ZDNet—Apple will no longer sell the original iMac, now offering only the new flat-panel version
Fox News—Baseball's opening series in Japan has been canceled because of war fears
MSNBC—Tobey Maguire's ailing back could prevent him from reprising his star-making Spider-Man role
Salon.com—Start of war may delay NCAA basketball tournament
ABCnews.com—Bush has had his sights set on Iraq long before 9.11 |
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3.20.03
USA Today—Several Iraqi soldiers surrendered before the war officially began
C|NET—Al Gore joins the board of directors at Apple
CNN.com—An original copy of the Bill of Rights, stolen by a Union soldier from North Carolina almost 150 years ago, is recovered in Philadelphia
ABCnews.com—The Senate shockingly fails to ratify a bill supported by Bush that would have permitted drilling in the Alaskan wildlife refuge
New Scientist—One of the ingredients in curry powder may help combat alchohol-related liver problems
MSNBC—Amazon will not honor orders placed for $450 iPaq handhelds that were mistakenly listed for $12 on its site |
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3.21.03
Wired News—New thermobaric weapons could put devastating firepower into the hands of individual soldiers
CNN.com—Shuttle's black box recovered in Texas
Salon.com—Missiles fired at Kuwait after the first bombs fell on Iraq may have been banned Scuds the Saddam said he had destroyed
MSNBC—Monica Lewinsky to host reality show on Fox
New Scientist—Intel says it has come up with a way to thwart DoS attacks on internet servers
ABCnews.com—The next Harry Potter book will have two covers, one aimed at adults and one at kids |
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3.24.03
GiveItBack.net—A web campaign to give the Statue of Liberty back to the French to protest their opposition to the Iraq conflict. Please. How stupid can you get?
WKYC.com—National Guardsman changes his name to Optimus Prime after the main character from the Transformers cartoon show
New Scientist—US military is commandeering time on commercial satellites to help with the Iraq war
SFGate.com—San Francisco protestors stage a "vomit-in" to protest the war with Iraq
USA Today—Princeton dean who oversaw admissions office during last year's unauthorized access to Yale's internal network is given a new position with the university
ABCnews.com—Man wins $39 million at a Las Vegas slot machine |
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3.25.03
ABCnews.com—Google will soon add human researchers to its search offerings
New Scientist—Al Jazeera's web site crashes after it airs controversial video of American POWs, and the network suspects hackers are to blame
Wired News—Intel honcho thinks the PC business will pick up again this year after two years of poor sales
MSNBC—Hotmail will limit the number of outgoing messages users can send in an effort to curb spam sent from its accounts
CNN.com—Japanese inventor says he has created a device that will translate your dog's barks
PC Magazine—Dvorak thinks Apple will switch to Intel processors within the next two years |
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3.26.03
Salon.com—Halliburton, Cheney's old firm, wins contract to fight oil well fires in Iraq
Cincinnati Enquirer—Truck driver drives his 18 wheeler onto the sidewalk near a crowd of ant-war protesters
CNN.com—Online gamers will be able to use new service to win money from their defeated opponents
New Scientist—New enzyme-based battery could be fueled by alcohol
C|NET—Google says it has no plans to go public
ZDNet—Microsoft withdraws from the W3C web services standards group |
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3.27.03
Salon.com—Two Nobel Peace Prize winners arrested at antiwar protests in DC
Wired News—PayPal will start placing restrictions on what types of items people can use their service to pay for
The Agonist—Breaking news flashes on the war in Iraq
Pitchfork—Godspeed You Black Emperor! detained in Oklahoma and questioned as terrorists
ZDNet—Macworld Expo New York will be replaced by a show that is geared towards graphics and music professionals called Create
Des Moines Register—Domino's delivery driver is fired after stopping to lecture 17 year old girl who had an antiwar sign in her front yard |
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3.28.03
Washington Monthly—A frightening—and frighteningly accurate—prediction about the future of the war in Iraq and our presence in the Middle East
CNN.com—Tampa Bay begins using desalination plant to provide fresh water for its burgeoning population
BBC News—Hackers deface the web site of arab tv network al Jazeera, planting a virtual American flag on the home page
New Scientist—Examining patterns of email sending and receiving can reveal where the true power centers in an organization lie
Nature—Is there a natural pattern in the occurence of prime numbers?
USA Today—Harry Potter fan pays $8000 for an autographed copy of the as-yet unreleased new book |
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3.31.03
Wired News—Builder of Saddam's main bunker underneath his palace says it can withstand anything except a direct hit by a nuclear weapon
CNN.com—Betting on Saddam's future a popular activity at gambling web sites
Gary Hart—The politician has started keeping a web log in preparation for his presidential bid, the first presidential candidate from a major party to do so
North Jersey News—During last week's "die-in" war protests in New York, Fox News revised the news ticker on its building to fun of the protestors outside
New Scientist—More than 200 antique tower clocks in Europe have been outfitted with radio recievers that will keep them in sync with an atomic clock
MSNBC—A man is suing Snoop Dogg for sampling a message the man left on Snoop's answering machine and using it in a song criticizing Suge Knight |
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