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daily links: july 2003

7.1.03
BBC News—Genetically modified fish glows in the dark
Fox News—New laptop that runs on methane fuel cell is unveiled
Salon.com—Tom Ridge may move up ten places on the succession list
Wired News—Magic Online has been a surprise success for Wizards of the Coast
CNN.com—Police shoot and kill sword-wielding man in supermarket who murdered two and slashed three others
Norwich Bulletin—Man arrested after taking sexually explicit photos to Wal-Mart to be developed

7.2.03
USA Today—Photo archiving company owned by Bill Gates sues Amazon for violating copyrights
MSNBC—Irish poet and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney has kind words for Eminem
ABCnews.com—Pentagon developing urban surveillance system to track vehicles as they move through cities
CNN.com—Pentagon creating unmanned plane that will allow the US to strike anywhere on earth in two hours
Fox News—Director of Boy Scout summer camp arrested for possessing child porn
BBC News—Star Wars: Galaxies players have a hard time signing up for the new online game

7.3.03
BBC News—Giant unidentified sea creature washes ashore in Chile
CNN.com—This might be the most pointless thing we've done with our cars yet
USA Today—Yahoo to offer unlimited-play subscription to its online game service
MSNBC—Authorities suspect that a massive attack on the internet is planned for Sunday
New Scientist—New subatomic particle whose existence was predicted years ago is detected by labs in Japan and the US
ABCnews.com—Former Nazi camp guard arrested in Michigan

7.4.03
ComputerBytesMan—Analysis of the header info in a Word doc released by Tony Blair's office about Iraq reveals that much of it was plagiarised from the work of American researchers
Salon.com—Top draft pick LeBron James, a high school basketball player, signs with the Cavs for $4 million a season. The shocking thing: his salary is worth less than 5% of his endorsement deal with Nike.
ABCnews.com—SoundScan to include music downloads in its tallies
USA Today—Personal locator beacons are now available for consumers
Wired News—Activision wants out of its licensing deal for Star Trek games in the face of the waning popularity of the series
BBC News—New high speed walkway is being test in Paris

7.7.03
Government Information Awareness—A good idea, but will enough of us use it to make it work?
The Boston Globe—More information on today's first link
Wired News—The Sims Online is beginning to spawn serious virtual anti-social behavior
Salon.com—Hack attack that was predicted last week arrives on schedule on July 6
CNN.com—Bald eagle dies after attack at the National Zoo
Fox News—Kobe Bryant arrested on sexual assault charge

7.8.03
Christian Science Monitor—Troop morale in Iraq is very low
CNN.com—TNN will now be allowed to call itself Spike TV after reaching a settlement with Spike Lee
Wired News—Streaming radio station in London that adjusts its playlist to its listeners tastes
Salon.com—Radio talk show host Michael Savage is fired for on-air anti-gay remarks
ABCnews.com—Buddy Ebsen dead at 95
ZDNet—Adobe will drop Mac support for the new version of Premiere in light of Apple's iMovie and Final Cut Pro video editing programs

7.9.03
USA Today—Spammers could soon face jail time in the US
Fox News—Camp counselors accused of organizing fights between the children in their charge
Wired News—Next generation of camouflage could make soldiers nearly invisible
CNN.com—Bachelorette couple will get $1 million for the television rights to their upcoming wedding
Salon.com—Small radio receivers will replace product bar codes in the coming years and allow retailers to keep their shelves appropriately stocked, but are there privacy risks for consumers?
MSNBC—Britney Spears publicly acknowledges that she is no longer a virgin

7.10.03
CNN.com—Two boys die after being locked in car for five hours
Scoop—More evidence that the Republicans may be rigging elections by controlling the voting machines
BBC News—A new study suggests what I've believed all along: people who download music online are more likely to go on to purchase albums
USA Today—Nike to buy Converse
Wired News—New kind of RAM will be able to retain data when powered down, meaning that computer cold starts could be near instantaneous
Fox News—Marine who refused anthrax vaccination on religious grounds will have to spend seven months in prison

7.11.03
BBC News—China's Three Gorges dam starts generating electricity
CNN.com—New theory posits that Stonehenge's design was based on female genitalia
ABCnews.com—CNN exec says his network remains that dominant force in the news market despite Fox News' ratings lead
Salon.com—Ten thousand endangered turtles that would have been killed and eaten by the Chinese are seized in Hong Kong
New Scientist—Satellite images can help find buried archeaological sites
USA Today—House lets Bush administration move forward with new regulations that would cause more than half a million workers to lose overtime benefits

7.14.03
The Omaha Channel—Cops leave an answering machine message informing a woman of her son's death
Salon.com—Jerry Springer takes first steps towards a possible US Senate bid
CNN.com—A new bill would make all research papers funded primarily with federal dollars available for free even if the papers are originally published in for-profit scientific journals
ABCnews.com—Two sisters have been ordered to stay out of a retail chain they have shopped at for decades because they chain says they have returned too many items and made too many complaints about customer service
MSNBC—Tom Cruise says Scientology helped him overcome dyslexia
USA Today—Female customer spots a camera in the ceiling of a Toys R Us restroom in Atlanta

7.15.03
The Independent—On the heels of 10 lies we were told about Iraq comes 20 lies about the war
Washington Post—More on the uranium debacle: apparently the CIA cut a reference to this same "intelligence" in October, and are unsure why it was added back to the state of the union address three months later.
CNN.com—A decision by federal prosecutors to defy a judge's order could lead to a dismissal of the case against Moussai, the so-called "20th hijacker" from the 9.11 attacks
Wired News—Thousands of German Harry Potter fans are collaborating to create a translation for the latest book
Salon.com—Thanks to a non-existent domestic economic policy, America can expect record deficits for at least the next two years
Fox News—Cincinnati residents help monitor high-crime areas via web-enabled surveillance cameras

7.16.03
USA Today—Army division that led the Iraq attack has their homecoming delayed yet again due to continued unrest in the region
Fox News—New group wants to change the way organs are distributed to transplant hopefuls
Chicago Sun-Times—Gangs using scooters to get around
New Scientist—Genetically modified mice with thick skins seem to have super-healing
CNN.com—New web site will let you rent a cow so you can use it's production of fresh milk to make your own cheese
Salon.com—Newly unearthed recipe shows that the British may have invented lasagna before the Italians

7.17.03
New Scientist—British army planted 10 nuclear land mines in Germany in the 1950s to counter a possible soviet invasion
Wired News—Mathematicians use lava lamps and webcams to generate random numbers
BBC News—Mayor of London will give £100,000 to anyone who comes up with a good idea to cool down the Underground
USA Today—Robot to search for evidence of Noah's flood in the Black Sea
CNN.com—New cable boxes will come bundled with hard drives and DVD players
MSNBC—Disney is already planning a Pirates of the Carribean sequel

7.18.03
CBS News—Original prototype for G.I. Joe doll expected to go for more than half a million dollars at auction
CNN.com—New Illinois law will require police to tape all interrogations and confessions in murder cases
Salon.com—Tarantino's long-delayed Kill Bill will now be released as two separate movies
Fox News—Airport screeners in Orlando find loaded gun hidden inside child's teddy bear
BBC News—European winemakers will use satellite images to help them plan the planting of different varieties of grapes
ABCnews.com—Widow of Orioles pitcher who died during spring training is suing dietary supplement company for $600 million

7.21.03
CNN.com—British scientist who was primary source of erroneous WMD report on Iraq is found dead of apparent suicide. Hmmm...
Wired News—French Culture Ministry bans "e-mail" from the French vocabulary, replacing it with a word that is more appropriately French
SF Gate—Soldiers who complained about extended duty on Good Morning America are reprimanded, and several have ended their Army careers
Salon.com—Lobbyist for Freddie Mac staged over 50 fundraisers for GOP lawmakers who had regulatory power over the home financing company
MSNBC—Scientologists offer to detoxify Ground Zero cleanup workers
Fox News—Assistant who was dismissed from autopsy lab found with over 150 pounds of human remains

7.22.03
C|NET—Teen charged with scamming people out of thousands of dollars using fake web pages to harvest credit card numbers
USA Today—Microsoft will provide software for Comcast and AOL-Time Warner cable boxes
The Inquirer—US Navy will dump Microsoft for open source solutions
Wired News—Southeast Airlines will install cameras in the cabins of all its planes and store the digitized video for ten years
MSNBC—The Coen brothers' The Big Lebowski has become a cult hit with a festival centered on the real-life inspiration for the movie
ZDNet—Steve Wozniak will lead a new venture that will create wireless devices for ordinary consumers

7.23.03
CNN.com—Saddam's sons killed by US forces
Creative Loafing Atlanta—Man questioned by FBI after being spotted reading a web editorial in a coffee shop
ZDNet—Apple cuts educational prices in a bid to win back marketshare in one of its key demographics
Fox News—Even if California recall movement succeeds, it may not result in a new election
Wired News—BuyMusic.com unveils music service designed to compete with Apple's iTunes, but it remains hindered by restrictive licensing
ABCnews.com—Teenager streaks while attending party at Buckingham Palace with the queen

7.24.03
Wired News—House of Representatives approves bill that would reverse recent FCC decision to loosen media ownership rules
CNN.com—University of Texas puts a digitized version of its copy of the Gutenberg bible on the web
Free Republic—A purported email from a soldier in Iraq
Sports Illustrated—Radio talk show hosts names Kobe Bryant's accuser on air
USA Today—Doom III delayed until at least next year
New Scientist—US passports will be smart by 2004

7.25.03
CNN.com—A poll shows that a third of Germans under age 30 believe that the US was behind the 9.11 attacks
C|NET—Fatal flaw found in software that runs popular electronic voting machine
Wired News—Parents of the teen star of the infamous Star Wars Kid video sue his classmates for posting the file to the internet
USA Today—Religious order sells the naming rights to their monastery to raise money for their new facility
ABCnews.com—Cubans try to escape on boat crafted from 1951 Chevy pickup
MSNBC—Study shows that teens spend more time online than watching tv

7.28.03
kinematic.org—A video game based on 9.11 that runs on the lastest Unreal engine. This has got to be a joke.
Yahoo! News—Photo of Bush signing an American flag. Wouldn't this be illegal under the constitutional amendment to ban desecration of the flag that conservatives often support?
Salon.com—US government agency admits that it keeps a list of not only potential terrorists but political activists who are to be stopped and searched before boarding an airplane
CNN.com—Lance Armstrong wins fifth straight Tour de France
Optical Illusion—These things don't really move. This is totally freaking me out.
BBC News—Artist wants to add a lab-grown ear to his arm

7.29.03
Wired News—Canadian researchers have developed a smart pill that detects a person's health by sampling the blood and then releasing the appropriate amount of medication
CNN.com—New York will open first high school that only admits gays and bisexuals
USA Today—Mick Jagger turns 60
Salon.com—Telemarketers sue over national do-not-call list
ABCnews.com—Cubans try to escape on boat crafted from 1951 Chevy pickup
MSNBC—Arecibo radio telescope, the world's largest, is getting a million dollar makeover on its 40th birthday

7.30.03
BBC News—Rat brain in petri dish in US controls robotic arm in art exhibit in Australia
USA Today—Female panda at the National Zoo may be pregnant, but zookeepers won't be sure until she gives birth
Fox News—Three hospitals in Chicago are accused of exaggerating patients' symptoms in order to move them higher on the transplant list
css Zen Garden—Experimental site where you can try out different designs of the same site made entirely using CSS
New Scientist—Next year's national elections in India will be conducted exclusively with electronic voting machines
Fredricksburg.com—Performer banned from Borders after saying that Bush has "chicken legs"

7.31.03
USA Today—Thanks to the low cost and easy availability of mobile phones, pay phones may be phased out
Wired News—Israeli surgeons have harnassed sunlight to act as a scalpel for surgery
CNN.com—Despite backing off on support for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, Bush still only wants heterosexuals to be legally allowed to marry
Fox News—The last classic Volkswagen Beetle rolls off an assembly line in Mexico
C|NET—Best Buy will once again sell Apple computers
ABCnews.com—Fifth ultra-rare 1913 Liberty Head Nickel located