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4.1.03
Iraq-O-Meter—Handy at-a-glance collection of stats on the Iraq war
Fox News—British military is using code names based on James Bond movies for Iraq missions in order to boost morale
Wired News—Invisibility coat has potential as an aid to everyone from surgeons to construction workers, but the military is also interested
MSNBC—Michael Moore's next project will focus on links between the Bush and bin Laden families
USA Today—Peter Arnett is fired from NBC after giving interview to Iraqi state television, and Geraldo Rivera is withdrawn from his embedded position with the 101st after revealing classified tactical information on the air
ABCnews.com—Another American Idol contestant is disqualified after evidence of a criminal history is discovered |
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4.2.03
Salon.com—Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson's next project will be a remake of King Kong
CNN.com—Member of Congress who volunteered to serve in Iraq is turned down by the Pentagon
Fox News—Teachers in New Mexico suspended for refusing to take down posters made by their students about the war in Iraq (the artwork featured both pro-war and anti-war messages)
ABCnews.com—Donald Trump will host a new reality show about the corporate world conceived by Survivor creator Mark Burnett
Wired News—Makers of high tech maps for GPS devices use surprisingly low tech methods to gather their data
New Scientist—Satellite phones with GPS capabilities have been confiscated from embedded reporters by the US military, which fears that the phones could accidentally give away the position of US soldiers |
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4.3.03
Museum of Hoaxes—Top 100 April Fool's Day hoaxes
Wired News—Computer hobbyist wants to release a cheap upgradable Mac called an iBox commercially
BBC News—"Colossal"squid caught near Antarctica
MSNBC—New evidence suggests that Coots, marsh birds found in England, know how to count
CNN.com—Independence Hall in Philadelphia is closed to visitors due to terrorist concerns
New Scientist—Genetically modified white blood cells may be a new way to attack cancer |
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4.4.03
Ad Age—The government will halt the ad campaign that associates drugs with terrorist activities after a study shows that it was ineffective
LA Times—Editor's note about the firing of a photographer after he altered Iraq photos before publication
CNN.com—Microsoft is at it again, looking for ways to dominate a market created by some other company's inventiveness. Their target this time: Google.
ThinkGeek—I can't decide if this is real or not. I mean, it looks real, and it's on a legitimate site, and it's just the sort of thing geeks would have thrown their money away on three years ago when they all still had high paying jobs, but could something like this actually work using just the power from a USB port?
BBC News—Phone cameras face increasing restrictions to help insure privacy
USA Today—Amazon will incorporate Google technology into its web site |
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4.7.03
Wired News—Genetically engineered plants could be used as early detectors for biological and chemical agents
ohlssonvox—Man creates a RAID array using five USB floppy drives
CNN.com—NASA posts thousands of images from the Mars Global Surveyor online
C|NET—Akamai will no longer host Al-Jazeera's web servers on its network
MSNBC—Nando Times, one of the earliest news sites on the web, is shutting down
New Scientist—Britain reveals its own stealth fighter program by declassifying a photograph of the prototype |
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4.8.03
BBC News—Mathematicians make major breakthrough in search for pattern to prime numbers
CNN.com—Yahoo will soon introduced a revamped search engine, hoping to compete with its current partner Google
Wired News—One of the most well-known war blogs admits to plagiarizing material
ZDNet—Could employers be liable for sexual harrassment by letting porn spam worm its way into employee inboxes?
ABCnews.com—Disney will soon unveil a video-on-demand service
USA Today—Apple unveils Final Cut 4, says software can compete with even the most advanced professional video editing systems |
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4.9.03
Fox News—American Greetings releases line of cards related to the Iraq war
MSNBC—2000 year old frescos stolen from house in Pompeii are recovered, but they may be damaged beyond repair
CNN.com—Beethoven's manuscript for his 9th symphony is expected to go for millions at auction
Wired News—Under the Patriot Act, American citizens can suffer undue intrusions on their rights simply for having the same name as a suspected terrorist, even after the suspect has been taken into custody
CBS News—Louisiana serial killer may be wearing a police uniform to gain the trust of his victims
BBC News—A certain class of insects are different enough from other insects that scientists argue they should be considered part of a separate evolutionary line |
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4.10.03
The Kansas City Channel—Man auctions the back of his head as ad space
Wired News—The FCC is considering further loosening of media ownership rules
CNN.com—General Motors will remove electric cars from service when their current leases expire
ZDNet—Apple drops the price of the eMac, targeted at the education market, to $700
ABCnews.com—Dolly the sheep, the first cloned animal, is stuffed and put on display
C|NET—Dell will no longer sell Apple's iPod on its web site |
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4.11.03
Fark.com—Photoshop contest imagining how Fox News would have covered other historical events
ABCnews.com—Special 15th anniversary showing of Bull Durham to be held at the baseball hall of fame canceled by hall of fame president because he disagrees with stars Saradon and Robbins on the war. This is even dumber than freedom fries.
Wired News—Saddam-related items, including Iraqi currency, is hot property on eBay
USA Today—Paroled inmate sends video game cheat codes to his friends in prison and is sent back to jail for violating his parole, which specified that he was to have no contact with convicted felons
CNN.com—Fox will kick off May sweeps with another Michael Jackson special
BBC News—Knife thrower accidentally hits his assistant on live television |
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4.14.03
Information Clearinghouse—How many Iraqis were really present when the now-historic footage of Saddam's statue being toppled was shot?
CNN.com—Notebook carried by Buzz Aldrin to the moon sells for more than $200,000 at auction
C|NET—Apple may be in talks to buy Universal Music
Wired News—Man writes a program for Java-enabled Nokia cell phones with vibrating ring that turns them into sex toys
Flag-O-Rama—One of the best flag-waving parody sites I've seen
ABCnews.com—Sony is trying to trademark the war-related phrase "shock and awe" for a video game title |
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4.15.03
C|NET—Ten years later, how has the web browser changed our lives?
CNN.com—Several companies, such as Wal-Mart, Texaco, ESPN, and the New York Yankees, admit to illegal trade with countries like Iraq and Cuba
ZDNet—Apple offers a new beta of its in-house browser, Safari
Fox News—New draft of human genome sequence is released; said to be 99.9% accurate
BBC News—Wearable tracking device will let parents monitor their children's locations over the web
ABCnews.com—Two major investors sue AOL for misleading them about the financial health of the company |
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4.16.03
ABCnews.com—TNN (or is that "The New TNN"?) will change its name to Spike and will target its programming specifically to men
USA Today—Harvard student accused of stabbing a hotel worker in late-night confrontation
New Scientist—Image found carved into gourd may be oldest example of religious iconography in the Americas
CNN.com—NYC bouncer slain for trying to enforce the city's new smoking ban in bars
MSNBC—The FCC wants consumers to be able to keep their cell phone numbers even if they switch their wireless service
Fox News—Easter Bunny assaulted at mall |
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4.17.03
New Scientist—Depleted uranium used in artillery shells by American military in Iraq are an unknown and potentially significant health risk
Salon.com—Con man would have received $1.5 million tax refund from IRS if not for suspicion of local bank
New Scientist—Image found carved into gourd may be oldest example of religious iconography in the Americas
Wired News—Some people with access to the internet choose not to go online
Lisa Rein—Did CNN turn up the booing when it reran Michael Moore's antiwar Oscar acceptance speech?
ESPN—Jose Canseco is auctioning off an afternoon of his time |
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4.18.03
The Smoking Gun—Mockups of obituaries for the not-yet dead are accidentally posted a public area of the CNN web site
Google Menus—See what the Lords of the Internet are eating for lunch and dinner every day
Salon.com—Ex-wife of Dubya's younger brother Neil to write expose of life with the Bush family
MSNBC—Coal miners to protest Beverly Hillbillies reality show
BBC News—Namco may merge with Sega
New Scientist—New search engine will use distributed computing power to crawl the net |
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4.21.03
Fox News—Scott Peterson was carrying $10,000 in cash when he was arrested and charged with his wife's murder
Wired News—NYC has spent tens of millions of dollars on a system that would allow 911 operators to pinpoint the location of cell phone callers. So where is it?
CNN.com—Movie industry will embed subtle flickers in theater-shown films to create a watermark that will make the movies unwatchable if recorded using a camcorder
The Register—Informal survey reveals how the human element spoils password-based security systems
ZDNet—New disorder created for anxiety about sending email
ABCnews.com—Adult entertainment club sets up booth as high school job fair in Massachusettes, but claims it was trying to recruit landscapers and bartenders |
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4.22.03
USA Today—Two men arrested after they are noticed acting suspiciously near a busy US-Canada border crossing. Dynamite was found in their car.
Salon.com—Evel Knievel approves of rock opera based on his life
Wired News—Ask Jeeves is latest search engine to overhaul its methodology in an attempt to compete with industry-leading Google
CNN.com—Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen to open museum dedicated to science fiction in Seattle
New Scientist—Cave art in France has long been thought to be the oldest surviving example of human art. But could the date be wrong?
Rhino.com—Great moments in rock and roll history as reenacted by Peeps |
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4.23.03
Sydney Morning Herald—Pizza Hut and Burger King set up temporary restaurants in Iraq outside of coalition bases
FCW.com—Well, this is comforting: the new homeland privacy officer used to be in charge of privacy at Doubleclick, one of the worst abusers of online privacy rights on the web. Thanks to CS Jeff for the link.
Salon.com—PETA is offering money to the New York town of Hamburg to convince it to change its name to Veggieburg. Seriously.
Wired News—Man who made millions when PayPal was sold to eBay now plans to revolutionize the commercial space launch industry
ABCnews.com—Reader's Digest will no longer use sweepstakes as marketing tool
BBC News—Some of the art looted from Iraq may have turned up in US |
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4.24.03
CNN.com—OJ Simpson to star in Osbournes-like reality show
The Register—Macworld New York gets its original name back
New Scientist—Open source email and instant messaging client that uses peer-to-peer technology will compete with Microsoft's Outlook
Fox News—Initials of pilot missing since first Gulf War are found scratched into the wall of an Iraqi prison
C|NET—Microsoft considers buying Sega
BBC News—New technology lets art fans step into paintings |
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4.25.03
Boston Globe—American reporters participating in the looting in Iraq
Deep Throat: Uncovered—University of Illinois students claim to have uncovered the identity of Deep Throat
Fox News—Teacher's aide in Pennsylvania suspended for a year for wearing a necklace with a cross on it
C|NET—Judge orders Verizon to reveal the identity of a broadband subscriber accused of online file swapping
Salon.com—Even PBS is jumping on the reality show bandwagon
ABCnews.com—Jon Stewart to remain host of Daily Show at least through the 2004 elections |
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4.28.03
Fox News—Did France share information about America's war plans with Iraq?
C|NET—Judge rules that file swapping programs are no more illegal than VCRs or photocopy machines
Wired News—Sales of cigarettes online are booming as consumers look to avoid increasingly heavy taxes on tobacco products
Editor & Publisher—A Connecticut newspaper has ordered one of its travel columnists to stop publishing his personal blog
MSNBC—Scientists are using GPS to track the movement of grazing sheep in Ireland
ABCnews.com—Two Southwest pilots are fired after taking off their clothes during a flight |
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4.29.03
ZDNet—Apple unveils online music service along with revamped iPods
Wired News—Author William Gibson to stop publishing the popular weblog he created a few months ago
CNN.com—Chewbacca to return for Episode III
Editor & Publisher—A collection of buildings and ships rendered at one pixel per meter scale
MSNBC—Harry Potter books that had been banned by an Arkansas school district are ordered back on library shelves by a judge
BBC News—The new Super Furry Animals album is already being traded online, three months before its release |
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4.30.03
Beck.com—Beck's online journal. And you thought mine was banal.
CNN.com—Jack Osbourne in rehab. Try to look surprised.
Wired News—Hey, I was here! Wired covers the American Visionary Art Museum's 5th annual Kinetic Sculpture Race in Baltimore.
Salon.com—Joe Millionaire runner-up to appear in Playboy, but won't do full frontal nudity. Well, of course she won't—a girl's got to have her standards.
ABCnews.com—Nude man found in department store air duct
CBS News—Two reporters from the Salt Lake Tribune who worked for National Enquirer on an Elizabeth Smart story are fired from their day jobs |
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