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5.1.03
USA Today—Virginia enacts the toughtest spam laws to date
Salon.com—Worms from shuttle experiments found alive in wreckage
CNN.com—A new study rekindles the debate between animal rights activists and fishermen over whether fish can feel pain
New Scientist—Research shows that mice make signposts for themselves out of leaves and twigs so they don't get lost in featureless terrain
King County Journal—First known report of a stolen Segway scooter
Wired News—Washington state passes a law that makes it a crime to sell violent video games to minors |
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5.2.03
Chicago Tribune—12 year old boy is accepted into the medical school at the University of Chicago with the goal of getting both an MD and a PhD
New Scientist—A newly discovered subatomic particle doesn't fit with scientists' predictions
Salon.com—The Dixie Chicks kick off their first American tour since singer Natalie Maines made remarks critical of Bush
Wired News—Everyone agrees that Apple's new iTunes-based music store is a great way to deliver music online. But is 99 cents a song really a good deal?
Fox News—Greenpeace releases a parody of the US Army's most wanted Iraqis deck of cards, focusing instead on leaders in possession of nuclear arms
ABCnews.com—Einstein and Newton may have had a form of autism known as Asperger's Syndrome |
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5.5.03
The Washington Monthly—William J. Bennett, a conservative watchdog who has made millions with his books and lectures on morality, has a serious gambling problem
CNN.com—The National Park Service wants to force visitors to the Washington monument to enter the structure via a 500 foot long tunnel
Canada.com—US officials say Canada places too much emphasis on civil liberties
BBC News—Apple's iPods an integral part of a course on gothic art at a Georgia college
ABCnews.com—Only one protestor showed up for a sold out Dixie Chicks concert in Orlando
USA Today—New Rugrats movie will be released with a set of scratch and sniff cards |
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5.6.03
CNN.com—A company that has received a $600 million contract to help rebuild Iraq has ties to the bin Laden family
BBC News—MSN releases list of least popular search terms
Fox News—Hunter S. Thompson gets married
ZDNet—Apple says its new online music store sold over 1 million tracks in its first week
Salon.com—95 year old man receives associates degree after 75 years of on and off studies
MSNBC—Prince William wants to move to NYC |
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5.7.03
ABCnews.com—British woman leaves the bulk of her estate to her cat
MSNBC—Many insurance companies now offer protection against identity theft
CNN.com—Copies of the new Harry Potter book were found abandoned in a field near the factory where it is being printed
Salon.com—A country music station has suspended two DJs for playing a Dixie Chicks song after station management had banned their music
Fox News—Wal-Mart will no longer carry men's magazines like Maxim and Stuff
C|NET—Microsoft has given users of MSN Photo, formerly a free service, two weeks to subscribe to MSN 8 or remove their photo collections from the site |
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5.8.03
Salon.com—Many items looted from the National Museum in Iraq have been returned
Wired News—Another step on the road to e-paper
C|NET—Microsoft and Best Buy accused of charging customers for online services they never agreed to
Fox News—A genetically modified cold virus has success destroying brain tumors in mice
New Scientist—Researchers discover a unique new species of jellyfish
ABCnews.com—Models who pose nude at Philadelphia art school may unionize to improve their working conditions |
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5.9.03
CNN.com—School tries to cut down on truancy by text messaging parents' cell phones when their children are marked as absent
ZDNet—A new study shows that people who download music illegally are more likely to buy more online and offline music than those who don't
The Washington Times—France may have supplied passports to fleeing members of Saddam's regime to allow them to escape into Europe
MSNBC—Fake text files that some claim are copies of the new Harry Potter book are showing up on the web
Fox News—Georgia adopts a new state flag that does not include the confederate emblem
USA Today—Ashton Kutcher says the Bush twins smoked pot in his house last year |
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5.12.03
CNN.com—Woman arrested for assaulting her chemically sensitive husband with aromas
Wired News—Maybe a million monkeys at a million typewriters can't write a great novel after all
KRON 4 Oakland—Two students questioned by Secret Service after their teacher found their remarks about the president overly critical during a class discussion about the war in Iraq
Fox News—Mental health outreach office in Oregon wants an interpreter who can speak Klingon
Center for Cooperative Research—What exactly was Bush doing on 9.11?
BBC News—Is there morality in the animal kingdom? |
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5.13.03
Wired News—The lack of success of The Sims Online has other developers of online worlds worried
ABCnews.com—Investigators may drain Maryland pond in search for evidence in Anthrax case
Salon.com—Verizon will turn pay phones into WiFi stations in metropolitan areas like NYC
USA Today—This year's budget deficit may be the largest in America's history. Why is Bush pushing for a tax cut again?
New Scientist—Boeing plans to fly a plane powered entirely by fuel cells by the end of the year
MSNBC—Ray Romano will earn nearly $2 million per episode for his sitcom next year |
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5.14.03
ESPN—Pro golfer Singh says he won't play if paired with female golfer Sorenstam, who received an invitation from an event sponsor on the PGA tour
USA Today—New multi-hued $20 bill unveiled
Wired News—Sony will release a handheld version of the PlayStation to compete with Nintendo's GameBoy Advance
Salon.com—59 Texas Democrats hide out in nearby states to prevent the Republican-controlled Texas House from having the quorum it needs to pass legislation
CNN.com—Man suing to have Oreos removed from the market in California
ZDNet—Some hackers have already figured out how to use the newest version of iTunes to create a Mac-based music sharing network |
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5.15.03
Kuro5hin—An earlier story claiming that a mental health organization in Oregon was seeking a Klingon language interpreter is debunked
MSNBC—A new study shows that most people don't mind watching advertisements before movies. Where do they find these idiots? You're paying to watch ads, you morons.
ZDNet—Notorious spammer arrested and charged with four felonies
Wired News—After initially saying that reports that Microsoft was developing an internet-enabled public toilet were hoaxes, the company now admits that they were actually developing a prototype of the device
New Scientist—Synthetic gecko hairs may one day allow humans to walk up walls
CBS News—World's first inflatable church debuts |
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5.16.03
There's not a lot happening in the news today, so how about we peruse the various Matrix: Reloaded reviews?
Wired News—Liked it okay as an action movie, but thought it lacked depth of the original
Salon.com—Positively glowing
CNN.com—Didn't like it too much, although wowed by special effects
ABCnews.com—Sequel is more of the same, but doesn't outdo original
USA Today—The movie starts off slow but ends well
MSNBC—Extremely negative and bitter |
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5.19.03
USA Today—Morticians protest violence in LA with parade of hearses
ABCnews.com—Germany may add pleasure tax to brothels to help make up for budget shortfalls
MSNBC—Britain's campy 60s puppet program, Thunderbirds, is being made into a live action movie
BBC News—Apple's online music store continues to do big business
The Smoking Gun—Police officer resigns after making girl do topless jumping jacks to avoid jail
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette—Man sues strip club, claiming he was so injured by the dancers at his bachelor's party that he could not consummate his marriage on his honeymoon |
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5.20.03
BBC News—Well, this is an interesting 1-2 punch. This is a story about how the rescue of Jessica Lynch may have been overly dramatized in order to create a good propaganda piece for the folks back home, and here is a story on...
CNN.com—...where the Pentagon denies the whole thing.
Wired News—Canadian kid who had a video of himself playing Star Wars clandestinely posted online by classmates receives money from the weblogging community
MSNBC—The US military is using Metallica and the Barney theme song to break Saddam supporters in Iraq
ZDNet—PeopleSoft CEO compares Microsoft's .Net platform to asbestos while announcing that his company is moving to an all-Linux enterprise setup
Fox News—And now for today's happy news: Ari Fleischer is resigning |
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5.21.03
Wired News—With the possibility of their Total Information Awareness program being terminated by Congress, the Pentagon is trying to develop an even more ambitious information collection system called LifeLog
USA Today—A South Dakota funeral home will webcast services for distant relatives who cannot attend in person
CNN.com—Employee sues after being fired via a text message on his cell phone
MSNBC—Site that encourages patriotism by allowing you download American flag cursors is actually installs spyware on your machine
Wall Street Journal—Hackers spam the spammers
Fox News—Republicans' estimate for the cost of the dividend tax cut was off by $70 billion |
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5.22.03
Washington Post—An excellent editorial by Warren Buffett about why the dividend tax cut is such a terrible idea
CNN.com—Bomb explodes in a classroom at Yale law school
Wired News—Man on trial for murdering his daughter challenges the police department's surreptitious use of GPS device, which they used to follow him to the site where he hid his daughter's body
ZDNet—Shortly after restricting their formerly free online photo service to MSN users only, Microsoft adds fees to their online calendar service
New Scientist—German company is working on wireless electric stun gun that would use a current conducting mist to deliver a shock to its target
BBC News—The new Harry Potter book will likely be the most popular book ever sold by Amazon |
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5.23.03
Salon.com—Two Utah inmates are preparing for death by firing squad
Sports Illustrated—Sorenstam shoots a one over par round on the first day of the Colonial
Oakland Tribune—Anti-war activists are tracked in the same database as terrorists in California
Centre Daily—Texas law enforcement agencies destroy all records related to last week's search for the absent Deomocrats
Fox News—Scott Peterson's lawyers say they have strong evidence that Laci was killed by members of a Satanic cult
MSNBC—NASA releases a photo of Earth taken by the Mars Global Surveyor |
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5.26.03
Wired News—Uru, a new online world from the creators of Myst, will be released later this year
ZDNet—Benchmark firm accuses Nvidia of altering its drivers to make the performance of their chip appear to be faster during benchmarking trials
New Scientist—Kaaza is the most downloaded piece of software ever
CNN.com—I might have to move to California. The legislature has proposed a $500 penalty per unsolicited email, which would net me about $75,000 per day.
Salon.com—Michael Jackson's former financial firm sues him for fees owed and alleges that he is near bankruptcy
Fox News—Unconscious two year old girl is rescued from laundromat washing machine by a policeman after the mother had locked her in and started the cycle |
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5.27.03
ABCnews.com—The new video game based on the Matrix sells 1 million copies in its first week
CNN.com—Bruce Almighty opens strong to push the Matrix sequel from the top spot after only one week
New Scientist—New, cheap inkjet printers can make passable forgeries of banknotes
MSNBC—Brian Wilson will perform songs from the aborted Smile sessions later this year
Wired News—Firms that make ring tones for mobile devices are doing big business
C|NET—Microsoft prepares a counter attack to Apple's iTunes |
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5.28.03
Panoramas.dk—360 degree panorama from the summit of Everest
Wired News—James Cameron's next film will be a 3D effort shot entirely with digital cameras
New Scientist—New, cheap inkjet printers can make passable forgeries of banknotes
Sports Illustrated—A week after signing a high school basketball player to a $90 million deal, Nike signs a 13 year old soccer player to a $1 million contract
MSNBC—Phone number used in Bruce Almighty is the same as a cell phone owned by a Florida woman, who is now receiving hundreds of calls a day
BBC News—Researchers make supercomputing cluster out of 70 PS2s |
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5.29.03
ZDNet—Virus writing course at Canadian school comes under fire
ABCnews.com—The weak economy means a poor job market for new college grads
BBC News—Sony unveils an updated version of the PS2 with a hard drive that will allow users to store music and tv programs
USA Today—Curt Schilling smashes part of the Questec system that was being used to help call balls and strikes during one of his starts
Salon.com—Bravo will launch same-sex dating show
Fox News—Pennsylvania town orders local businessman to remove his hundred foot long neon "Jesus is Lord" sign from a historic downtown building |
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5.30.03
New York Times—Another good article about the obvious stupidity of the current round of tax cuts and the motivations behind them
Washington Post—Clinton thinks term limit for presidents should be modified to allow a person to serve more than two terms as long as they are non-consecutive
Wired News—Microsoft will pay $750 million to AOL to settle an antitrust suit filed by AOL on behalf of its Netscape subsidiary
ABCnews.com—Man who used a hidden camera to take nude photos of his daughter (which he then posted to the internet) will face no charges
CNN.com—Going against the organization's national policy, the Philadelphia Boy Scouts have announced that they will not exclude gays
Fox News—Man releases hostages and surrenders to police after he is given a six pack of Dr. Pepper |
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