9.1.03
Fox News—Pizza deliveryman who robbed a bank dies after explosives strapped to his body explode. Before he died, he claimed he was forced into it.
Salon.com—America now has more vehicles than licensed drivers
Wired News—Minnesota teen arrested for unleashing a new variant of the Blaster worm, but the flooding of inboxes continues
ZDNet—MIT techies want to replace the bar code with a microchip
CNN.com—Woman dies at Burning Man after being run over by art car
MSNBC—Elton John signs two year deal to play Vegas

9.2.03
CBS News—Buying concert tickets is no longer the egalitarian process that it used to be, but Ticketmaster is about to make it much worse by auctioning off the best seats to the highest bidders
Salon.com—Shakespeare actor in full costume arrested for brandishing his sword in park
Fox News—Jesse Jackson arrested in protest march at Yale
Wired News—Slot machines will soon become thin clients that allow you to download the game of your choice
BBC News—New technology will allow you to sign your name online using your mouse
CNN.com—Thief is easily found and arrested after stealing GPS device used by police to track people under home detention

9.3.03
CNN.com—9th Circuit court of appeals overturns over 100 death sentences
Salon.com—Iraq occupation could cost up to $29 billion annually
ZDNet—Virginia Tech orders 1100 G5s from Apple
Wired News—Next generation of gaming consoles will focus on online play
C|NET—Canadian researcher uses cellophane wrap to turn laptop screen into 3D display
BBC News—Toyota unveils first self-parking car

9.4.03
ZDNet—In what could turn into a legal test of digital rights, a man auctions of a song that he purchased on iTunes
CNN.com—Arnold egged at a university campaign appearance
Wired News—Web site owner charged with luring minors to pornographic material online using variations of popular kid-oriented URLs
Salon.com—Original Beatrix Potter drawings discovered at Antiques Roadshow
BBC News—New digital camera can translate road signs in other languages
C|NET—Universal says it will cut prices on CDs

9.5.03
CBS News—IRS help centers often give tax payers bad information
Salon.com—Dutch officials find 2000 baboon noses in an abandoned suitcase at an airport
USA Today—Congress is giving itself another raise
Wired News—New British sports car doubles as a boat
ABCnews.com—Historic train used in Harry Potter movies as Hogwarts Express is vandalized
CNN.com—Boy killed after angry driver reacts poorly to annual tomato throwing prank in Amish country

9.8.03
Wired News—This is hilarious: Microsoft is complaining about unfair competition
ABCnews.com—Police in Shelbyville, KY, hired real-life ghostbusters to rid the station house of spooks
Salon.com—Librarians upset about "shushing" action figure
USA Today—GM will offer a free Dell computer to consumers who buy a 2003 Saturn before the end of September
BBC News—Google turns five years old
CBS News—David Blaine begins latest stunt in London

9.9.03
The Oregonian—Did black helicopters light fires in Oregon to serve as backdrop for Bush's speech on his "Healthy Forest" initiative? (There's some good coverage of this on Salon, too, but you have to pay to see.)
Wired News—Judge rules that it is legal for programs like Gator to display their own pop-up ads on top of the ads of other sites
Fox News—Grad students, who are increasingly relied on as teaching staff at large universities, are starting to unionize to get better pay and health care coverage
MSNBC—Scientology loses hyperlinking case, yet another attempt by the cultish church to shut down its critics
Salon.com—Two teens trying to call their pot dealer dial the police instead
C|NET—Apple says that technical problems will make it impractical to resell songs purchased on iTunes, whether it turns out to be legal or not

9.10.03
Fox News—Drug addicted mom convicted of killing baby with tainted breast milk
CNN.com—Man packed himself inside crate and had himself shipped from New York to his parents home in Dallas
Wired News—Biometrics is becoming increasingly common in schools, despite privacy concerns
New Scientist—Study that claimed that you could develop Parkinson's later in life even if you only took ecstasy once is retracted after researchers reveal that they were testing the wrong drug
MSNBC—Berkeley Breathed is resurrecting Bloom County's Opus for a new Sunday-only strip this fall
ABCnews.com—Black holes sing in a deep b-flat

9.11.03
when the walls fell

9.12.03
Salon.com—States attorneys general have created an anonymous form where people can submit suspected anti-trust violations by Microsoft
Wired News—Many people being sued by the RIAA thought file sharing was legal because they paid for the software that allowed them to do it
New Scientist—Smart fender can help protect pedestrians if they are hit by a car
CNN.com—Nearly finished $200 million weather satellite was dropped and damaged at Lockheed facility where it is being constructed
USA Today—Krispy Kreme stores will appear in some Wal-Marts by the end of October
ABCnews.com—Christian Bale will be the next Batman in a film by Memento director Christopher Nolan

9.15.03
MSNBC—Scientists will crash the Galileo spacecraft into Jupiter next week to prevent it from accidentally landing on Europa and contaminating the planet with Earth bacteria
Wired News—Disney will finish a collaborative animated film started decades ago by founder Walt and surrealist artist Salvador Dali
Salon.com—The expanded powers granted to law enforcement through the anti-terrorist Patriot Act have more often been used on traditional criminals
C|NET—BMG will release first commercial music CD in the US with copy protection
USA Today—Many Seattle residents outraged over proposed coffee tax
ABCnews.com—Older sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams shot to death

9.16.03
CNN.com—Court blocks recall election for now, although the ruling could be overturned on appeal
Wired News—One new strategy for cutting down on spam is to pay spammers not to send it to you
Fox News—More reasons why red light cameras suck
New Scientist—Most pirated films come from industry insiders, not home copying or illegal taping in theaters
ABCnews.com—Hole in ozone bigger than ever
CBS News—Should online use be licensed to prevent the spread of malicious viruses by inept users?

9.17.03
USA Today—VeriSign unveils new service that will redirect visitors to your domain even if they misspell it
Fox News—American flag placed on Colorado mountain as a memorial to 9.11 victims burned by vandals
C|NET—Sony will release 40 GB hard drive add-on for PS2 next March to coincide with the release of Final Fantasy XI
Salon.com—David Blaine's latest stunt in London almost comes to an end after a man tries to cut his water supply
CNN.com—Cigar shop suing P. Diddy for allegedly taping their secret cigar making process and putting the footage in a video
BBC News—Greek number system may have been borrowed from the Egyptians

9.18.03
CNN.com—This is weird: Bush makes a point of saying that Saddam was not involved in the 9.11 attacks, despite the fact that his administration led the public to believe this as part of their justification for invading Iraq
Wired News—Garage door manufacturer using Digital Millenium Copyright Act to sue a competitor
Salon.com—McDonald's is test marketing a health-conscious adult happy meal
New Scientist—Scientists may have created new form of life out of gaseous plasma
USA Today—Yet another study that shows that downloaders of music are also big spenders on retail music
MSNBC—Monkeys will go on strike if they see another monkey given a bigger reward for performing the same task

9.19.03
Wired News—JetBlue sold real passenger data, including social security numbers, to a defense contractor to test a passenger profiling system
Salon.com—New version of Beatles' album "Let It Be", stripped of Phil Spector's studio wizardry, is due out this fall
ZDNet—Google holding code contest, with winner taking away a cash prize and a potential job with the company
BBC News—Britain makes email spam illegal
MSNBC—Someone may have inside information on the winner of the new Survivor season
Fox News—AOL Time Warner officially drops AOL from the corporate name

9.22.03
Wired News—Many banks will switch their ATM software to the notoriously buggy and security-hole-ridden Windows OS by 2005
CNN.com—British firm bans internal email
Salon.com—New bill would allow FDA to regulate the content and packaging of tobacco
Fox News—Apple's iTunes music store accidentally labels Handel CD as explicit
MSNBC—Lunar rock that was diplomatic gift from US to Honduras in 1972 is returned to Honduran ambassador years after it was stolen and sold on the black market
BBC News—Intel has come up with a new solution to the problem of puttinng an alphabetic keyboard on a phone pad

9.23.03
CNN.com—The largest and oldest ice shelf in Antarctica breaks up due to warming of the atmosphere
Wired News—Companies that sold software to mass spamers to allow them to send ads over MSN's Messenger service are now trying to sell Messenger spam blockers to consumers
Salon.com—New poll shows Clark beating Bush if election were held today
New Scientist—Norwegian power station harnesses the energy of the tides
C|NET—Many ISPs are putting caps on downloads and uploads to keep a small percentage of users from overloading their networks
BBC News—Chatbot aims to pass Turing test and win Loebner Prize

9.24.03
CNN.com—Soldier who worked at Guantanamo Bay charged with espionage
Salon.com—Higher court rules that California recall election will move forward on October 7
Fox News—Suspended college football player sues for the right to enter the professional draft
MSNBC—Nintendo may cut the price of the GameCube to less than $100
ABCnews.com—Insect-eating mammal thought extinct is rediscovered in Cuba
USA Today—Vail cops will give up their trademark Saabs for Ford Explorers

9.25.03
ABCnews.com—Army may call up more reservists for duty in Iraq
CNN.com—Court delays implementation of national do-not-call list, scheduled to go into effect October 1
USA Today—IDT will offer no-limit local and long distance phone service for a flat fee of $40 a month
BBC News—New report will show that no WMD have yet been located in Iraq
Salon.com—Chinese language version of Hillary Clinton's memoir was heavily edited (read: censored) without her knowledge
CBS News—ACLU files suit against Secret Service, claiming they illegally kept protestors several blocks from public Bush speeches

9.26.03
Fox News—This is extremely childish but also extremely funny: after a CNN host gives out the Fox News main office number on the air, telling people it's his home number, Fox retaliates by posting his actual home phone number on their web site
New Scientist—New report claims that dominance of Microsoft software (not to mention the shoddy security associated with it) are what allow increasingly effective viruses to flourish
ABCnews.com—University shuts down bake sale that was staged as a protest of affirmative action policies
Wired News—Despite serious concerns raised in independent audit of Diebold electronic voting machines, Maryland will move ahead with purchasing them for use statewide
BBC News—New commuter smart card makes travel around London easier, but it also tracks users' movements around the city
C|NET—Nokia is planning new products that can display pictures taken using a cell phone on digital jewelry

9.29.03
USA Today—The long-awaited Half-Life 2 PC game is yet again delayed just days before an announced release date
Wired News—Segway scooters recalled to receive software update that keeps them from becoming unstable when their batteries are low
CNN.com—4 year old shoots 5 year old sister and 7 year old brother, killing the girl; the children were left home alone by their parents
Fox News—Gorilla escapes from Boston zoo
MSNBC—Maryland university to offer course on the science of Harry Potter
ABCnews.com—Man files suit after construction workers lock him in a portable toilet in retaliation for him not asking permission before he used it

9.30.03
CBS News—VeriSign's new redirect service has the unexpected side-effect of increasing spam
USA Today—Some small towns are making big money from trash
MSNBC—Band says terminally ill person will commit suicide during one of their upcoming concerts
BBC News—Seminal sci-fi drama Dr. Who to be resurrected
ABCnews.com—Missing cat returned to his owner after ten years thanks to tracking microchip
New Scientist—Sunscreen may not offer as much protection as previously thought