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6.2.03
CNN.com—The FCC will likely further ease media ownership restrictions, despite vocal objections from the public
BBC News—McDonald's is suing an Italian "slow food" critic that has been highly critical of their offerings
ZDNet—Lucas will launch a subscription-based Star Wars site next week that will allow fans to watch the making of Episode III via webcam
C|NET—Microsoft will no longer make a standalone version of IE
Wired News—Hackers wreak havoc in the online world of Shadowbane
King County Journal—Two teens filming their own version of a Jackass stunt are assaulted by an angry golfer |
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6.3.03
Fox News—A man who was late for his flight phoned in a bomb threat, hoping to delay the plane long enough for him to get on board
Wired News—TiVo will sell user viewing habits to advertisers, although it will not get any more specific than zip code
CNN.com—Mexican sues US government for selling him a car with pot hidden in it and then arresting him for possession when he tried to cross the border with the car
ABCnews.com—Body of young woman found in an abandoned suitcase on the streets of NYC
Hickory Daily Record—Boy escorted from graduation ceremony of raising his arms after receiving his diploma. Watch the video for yourself to see how ridiculous this was.
BBC News—Iraqi artists put up new sculpture where Saddam statue used to be |
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6.4.03
New Scientist—Genetically engineered tobacco plant produces human rabies antibodies
USA Today—J. K. Rowling will do a free webcast of her reading from the new Harry Potter book days after its release
Wired News—American Museum of Natural History will open 3D virtual universe exhibit this summer
CNN.com—Notaries may soon be able to digitally witness documents
ZDNet—Benchmarking firm says Nvidia didn't cheat on tests after all
Fox News—Mexican drug cartels are increasingly using public parklands to grow marijuana rather than smuggling it over the border |
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6.5.03
BBC News—Marth Stewart resigns from her lifestyle company after she is indicted for securities fraud
Wired News—Palm will merge with rival Handspring
Sports Illustrated—76 of Sosa's bats check out okay after he is discovered using an illegally modified bat during a game
Salon.com—Spike Lee is suing Viacom, the owners of TNN, after they announce that they plan to change the name of the network to Spike TV
MSNBC—Developer of the Sims signs television development deal with Fox
CNN.com—One of the original Sputnik satellites may be up for auction on eBay |
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6.6.03
Philadelphia Enquirer—Girl who sued school district to remain sole valedictorian of her class is caught plagiarising
MSNBC—Now that they have fulfilled their contract, Pearl Jam will leave Epic and release their albums on their own
CNN.com—Ford's average vehicle now gets fewer miles to the gallon than the Model T did 100 years ago, thanks to SUV behemoths like the Explorer, the Expedition, and the Excursion
Fox News—Conservative group that wanted to fly banners over Disney World during the annual Gay Days event is prevented by FAA anti-terror flight regulations
New Scientist—Scientists may be able to stop the spread of cancer by activating a protein that makes cells sticky
USA Today—Two top editors at NY Times resign in wake of Blair scandal |
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6.9.03
USA Today—Colin Powell is angry at media reports that the case for WMD in Iraq was overstated by the Bush administration. Now, I completely belive that Saddam had them, but since the Bushies used WMD to justify what I consider an unnecessary war, the had damn well better show us some, or else I (and the rest of the world) will be inclined to believe that we just made them up.
Fox News—Poland is latest country to join European Union
Wired News—DARPA is working on a translation engine that would quickly convert any language into English
Salon.com—New Hampshire Episcopalians elect openly gay man as bishop
MSNBC—Morrissey has a new record deal, his first since he delivered his last record to Mercury in 1997
CNN.com—Cursive handwriting is falling out of favor with younger students, who prefer to write using a computer keyboard |
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6.10.03
ABCnews.com—RIAA goes after life savings of teen who set up search engine on his college network
Wired News—80% of children receive inappropriate spam, including links to porn sites with graphic images in the email
Salon.com—Britain will stay away from the Euro for at least another year
ZDNet—Merrill Lynch says companies can save millions by switching to Linux
USA Today—New star of NBC's reality tv dating show was thrown out of the Marines for groping a female officer
MSNBC—The new GameBoy Advance has sold over a million units in two months |
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6.11.03
Los Angeles Times—Sizzler employee follows family home after vegetable substitution dispute
ABCnews.com—40 year old mom arrested after she provided beer and hotel room for her eighth grade daughter and her friends after a school dance
Wired News—After a lot of initial publicity, the web panhandling trend died fast
Salon.com—Wanted man arrested after his parole officer spots him on a stadium scoreboard
CNN.com—Netflix expects its first profit this quarter
C|NET—Yahoo introduces image verification technique into its free email service in an effort to keep spammers from using their servers to send bulk email |
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6.12.03
KUSA Denver—Man receives death threat from telemarketer after hanging up on him mid-pitch. Courtesy of CS Jeff.
Salon.com—FBI believes cell phones were used to trigger the bombs in the attack on the American compound in Saudi Arabia
CNN.com—Inmate sues for the right to read computer magazines in prison
BBC News—Egypt bans The Matrix: Reloaded, in part because of the religious themes
Wired News—Atronomers pinpoint exact date and time of moonrise in Van Gogh painting
USA Today—Columbia house will now sell mail order video games in addition to movies and music |
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6.13.03
ABCnews.com—In order to deal with their budget crises, many states are planning stealth tax hikes using things like cigarettes and speeding tickets
BBC News—After a six-year court battle, sex.com finally has a legal owner. I wonder what he'll use it for?
Fox News—Child used by mom for shoplifting is abandoned when store manager stops the theft
CNN.com—A short audio clip from the audiobook version of the new Harry Potter is now available online
Salon.com—Broadway theater screens Wizard of Oz and encourages attendees to dress up and sing along, Rocky Horror style
USA Today—Spike Lee wins a temporary injunction against TNN to keep them from using their new moniker, Spike TV |
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6.18.03
Wired News—Microsoft files suit against spammers
ABCnews.com—Silhouette of Virgin Mary in window turns hospital into pilgrimage site
New Scientist—Even though the resevoir is just beginning to fill, there are already cracks in China's enormous Three Gorges dam
Fox News—Mom acts as getaway driver for twin 14 year old girls who robbed a bank
CNN.com—Florida woman dies after competing in Toughman contest
MSNBC—Hot game titles for consoles may soon cost more |
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6.19.03
CNN.com—J. K. Rowling and her publisher sue the New York Daily News for publishing a plot synopsis and excerpts from the new Harry Potter book three days before its official release. I guess I should wait to write a review of the copy I bought last weekend from a small independent bookseller who was trying to stick it to the local Barnes & Noble.
Wired News—Orrin Hatch thinks music companies should be able to remotely destroy the computers of people who download music illegally
Salon.com—The Russians are offering up two more space tourist seats at $20 million a pop
USA Today—An industry group recommends that brokers keep all clients IMs for three years
ABCnews.com—House votes to permanently repeal the estate tax, another cut that would heavily favor the rich
Sun-Sentinel—Radio show hosts fool Castro with prank call |
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6.20.03
Wired News—Orrin Hatch's web site was shown to be using unlicensed software shortly after the senator made comments calling for the destruction of the computers of people who downloaded and used copyrighted material illegally
CNN.com—Even after a big crackdown a year ago, there is still abuse of the internet at work by IRS employees
ZDNet—Microsoft unleashes its search bot on the web in preparation to do battle with Google for search engine supremacy
ABCnews.com—Woman stopped by police after she is spotted breastfeeding her infant while driving
MSNBC—The next version of the Xbox won't be ready until 2006
BBC News—Children who go to school near England's famous Glastonbury music festival will be brought to school by helicopter in order to avoid the crowds and traffic |
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6.23.03
CNN.com—DVD rentals outpaced tape rentals for the first time last week
Steve Ferris—This is a guy who linked together 12 monitors for an ultra-realistic experience in a flying sim. Wouldn't it be cheaper to just buy a plane?
Wired News—More problems for Orrin Hatch's web site: in addition to the unlicensed software it was found to contain last week, the site also contained a link to a pornographic web site
Fox News—The new Harry Potter book sold an estimated 5 million copies its first day of release
BBC News—The patent on the GIF file format expires this month
ABCnews.com—Two MIT students build men's urinal with interactive videogame component. Really. |
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6.24.03
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting—US general says that White House urged him to link 9.11 attacks to Iraq without any evidence only a few hours after the terrorist attacks
MSNBC—The new Harry Potter book has already been pirated and released as a free ebook on the web
C|NET—eBay integrates UPS shipping tools into its site
ZDNet—Apple unveils the G5, what it calls the world's fastest PC
Wired News—Drivers are installing increasingly dangerous distractions in the dashboards of their cars
ABCnews.com—MTV has ordered up another season of Ashton Kutcher's Punk'd |
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6.25.03
New Scientist—The United Kingdom will make it a crime to steal someone's DNA
CNN.com—Another famous Spike files suit in the Spike Lee/Spike TV legal battle, saying that no one individual Spike should have ownership of the name
Silicon Valley.com—Many libraries say they will forgo grants in order to avoid putting web filters on their public internet terminals
MSNBC—Male characters on EverQuest are worth more than similarly equipped female ones
BBC News—Could a meteor impact be connected to Constantine's vision that led him to Christianity
USA Today—Tiger Woods thinks his competitors are using illegal clubs |
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6.26.03
Boston Herald—Boston woman runs roadblock and hits copy with her car because she is late for work
USA Today—New survey reveals that Americans want more privacy protections
C|NET—Man who uploaded the new Hulk movie to file trading sites before its theater release faces three years in prison
CNN.com—The RIAA will start suing individual users caught distributing music online illegally
Wired News—Scientists discover new kind of lightning
ZDNet—Foldable LCD screens will be released later this year |
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6.27.03
Wired News—Sony and LucasArts quietly launch their MMORPG based on the Star Wars universe
CNN.com—New X-Ray scanners at airports could reveal more than many passengers would be comfortable with
Slate.com—I just liked the title of this article: "Can Bush be both ignorant and a liar?". The author posits that the answer is "Yes".
ABCnews.com—A trend is on the rise where car owners give up their cars to thieves for insurance purposes
New Scientist—Researchers think that if everyone over 55 took a six drug superpill, millions of premature deaths could be prevented
USA Today—Video games to get new, clearer rating labels |
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6.30.03
Washington Post—US forces cancel local elections in Iraq, instead installing their handpicked leaders for municipal governments
AlterNet.org—10 lies we were told about Iraq
Wired News—New bill would force corporations and government agencies to notify consumers if hackers gain access to sensitive information
CNN.com—In light of last week's supreme court decision, the University of Texas has announced that it will once again use race as a factor in the admissions process
New Scientist—Experimental unmanned NASA aircraft that held the altitude record for non-jet aircraft crashes into the ocean during a test flight
MSNBC—A web site that let consumers opt-out of telemarketing calls is swamped in its first day online |
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