10.1.03
USA Today—Toddler survives three weeks alone on condiments and dry pasta
CBS News—Does increasingly obvious product placement in television shows need to be regulated by the FCC?
New Scientist—New preventative drug may cut breast cancer by 50%
Fox News—Halftime show at high school football game in Dallas features Nazi flag and "Deutschland Uber Alles"
Salon.com—Home screener DVDs and videos banned for this year's Oscar voting
ABCnews.com—Elton John auctions off contents of his home to make way for a new interior design

10.2.03
Salon.com—Radical environmental group ELF claims responsibility for string of arson attacks in the last year, saying they were targeting luxury homes and SUVs
CNN.com—New billboard in London (sponsored by Coke) can respond to the weather and interact with pedestrians
Fox News—In her new book, Dr. Laura says that wives should provide their husbands with sex whenever they want it
MSNBC—10 technologies that deserve to die. Some of these are clearly for shock value, but it's an interesting read anyway.
ABCnews.com—Hey! The Chinese no longer need permission from their employer to get married! Welcome to the 19th century!
BBC News—Virtual crime becoming increasingly common in online game worlds

10.3.03
Fox News—Rush Limbaugh, still smarting from the Donovan McNabb controversy, may be charged with purchasing large quantities of OxyContin illegally
USA Today—Federal court rules that states cannot compel prisoners to provide blood samples for the FBI's DNA databank
Maryville Daily Times—Driver ticketed for warning other drivers about speed trap by flashing his headlights
CBS News—New reality show from National Geographic sends US families to live in third world countries
CNN.com—Army officer stationed in Korea wins $150 million lottery jackpot while on leave at his home in Georgia
New Scientist—New drug could speed up the healing process and reduce the severity of scars

10.6.03
USA Today—San Francisco library wants to track borrowed books with RFID chips; privacy advocates are not enthused
Salon.com—Iraq unveils new currency without Saddam's likeness
Fox News—Tiger trainer Roy of Siegfried and Roy in critical condition after being attacked by a tiger on stage
CNN.com—Infamous Hope Diamond glows orange when exposed to ultraviolet light
Wired News—Source code for upcoming Half-Life 2 stolen and released over the internet
MSNBC—VeriSign ordered by ICANN to pull the plug on its controversial redirect service

10.7.03
CNN.com—The Pentagon has been selling surplus equipment over the internet that can be used to make biological weapons
USA Today—The White House will take an even more active role in the reconstruction of Iraq. Can anyone say nation-building?
Salon.com—Man wants to question parrot in court to prove that it's his
Wired News—New service will allow college sports fans to listen to game broadcasts over their cell phones
New Scientist—Controversial new study claims that we will run out of petroleum before we can produce enough CO2 to cause global warming
CBS News—CBS News web site hacked

10.8.03
Fox News—Arnold will apparently be the new governor of California. Is that state ever going to develop a sense of shame?
Salon.com—Federal appeals court says FTC can move ahead with do-not-call list
MSNBC—Microsoft has made a deal with Amazon.com to feature links to the retailer's site in the next version of Office
CNN.com—Police may have discovered an electronic listening device in the office of the mayor of Philadelphia
Wired News—New copy protection scheme for CDs is easily defeated
CBS News—Conservative Episcopalians, upset with the recent elevation of an openly gay man to a bishop, are considering a split from the church

10.9.03
Wired News—One of this year's Nobel Prize winners for Chemistry (who just happens to be a Hopkins professor) says that anti-terrorism laws like the Patriot Act will cripple scientific research
Salon.com—Remember that bug in the Philadelphia mayor's office that I linked to yesterday? Turns out it may have been put there by the FBI.
New Scientist—Military sonar may be killing whales
MSNBC—New pay version of Napster unveiled
CNN.com—Satellite images reveal warm spots in Antarctica where penguin colonies thrive
ABCnews.com—New device will allow workers to keep their browsing habits secret from their employers

10.10.03
ZDNet—Maker of copy protection for CDs may sue student who revealed that you could defeat the software by simply holding down the Shift key on your computer
CBS News—New anti-terrorism rules will require that food providers register their products
ABCnews.com—91 year old man charged with robbing a bank
CNN.com—Is our universe a finite size and shaped like a soccer ball?
Fox News—FBI confiscates Blackberry mobile device from Philadelphia mayor; both sides continue to deny that the mayor is the subject of an investigation
MSNBC—Parents sue school district after wireless network installed on campus, thinking that the radio waves will cause harm to their children

10.13.03
$87 billion—Just how much money is this?
The Guardian—The Vatican is telling people in underdeveloped countries stricken by AIDS not to use condoms because they don't help to prevent contraction of disease
Fox News—Suspected murderer escapes from Pennsylvania jail
CNN.com—70 pairs of shoes filled with butter found on remote mountain in Sweden
CBS News—Texas lawmakers again walk out of redistricting session
ABCnews.com—Former soviet republic may name mountain after California governor-elect Arnold

10.14.03
The Olympian—Newspapers around the country have been receiving identical letters supposedly written by hometown troops that paint a rosy picture of the Iraq occupation. Does this government ever stop lying to us?
Wired News—Diebold, the e-voting machine company under fire for major security holes in its software, may have installed uncertified patches on voting machines shortly before the 2002 elections in Georgia, which saw a Republican upset a heavily favored Democrat in the governor's race
Fox News—Fake bullet holes are the latest car accessory fad
The Guardian—Four burglars break into home of martial arts expert in Italy; two are dead and one other is in the hospital
USA Today—Libraries try to reclaim their spot as cultural gathering place
BBC News—Dutch female athletes pose nude for pay web site to help fund their athletic ambitions

10.15.03
The Independent—US soldiers bulldoze Iraqi crops
MSNBC—China launches its first astronaut into space
Wired News—LegoLand holding a nationwide competition to find its next master builder
CBS News—British man convicted of intentionally infecting two lovers with AIDS
CNN.com—Atlanta has highest concentation of cell phone users
The Guardian—German man who trained his dog to raise his right paw in imitation of a Nazi salute to appear in court (Nazi greetings are forbidden in Germany)

10.16.03
Boston Herald—Man stabbed in movie theater after putting his feet on the occupied seat in front of him and refusing to turn off his ringing cell phone
ABCnews.com—New purple frog discovered in India
The Smoking Gun—Here's the identity of the Cubs fan who kept Moises Alou from making a critical out in Game 6 of the NLCS. Have a nice life, guy. You might want to think about picking a new city to live in.
The Guardian—100 greatest novels of all time. Lists are fun!
Fox News—Chinese astronaut returns safely to Earth
New Scientist—Supercomputer made from 1100 dual processor G5 Macs is second-fastest ever

10.17.03
ABCnews.com—Victims of anthrax attacks two years ago are still suffering
Wired News—New drugs could help us battle drowsiness in critical situations without side effects
Salon.com—Florida fans offering safe haven to Cubs fan who may have prevented Moises Alou from making a critical play in Game 6
C|NET—Apple launches iTunes for Windows
BBC News—Three new approaches to saving the market for music singles
USA Today—A Virginia journalist is blogging his coverage of the sniper trial

10.20.03
New Scientist—Study suggests that long-lasting fame is exponetially related to one's achievements
CNN.com—Pope John Paul II beatifies Mother Teresa. My sister was apparently present for this ceremony, in Rome while on school holiday during her year studying abroad in Austria.
Wired News—New Zealand moms protest genetic engineering with controversial ad campaign
The Smoking Gun—New York Post mistakenly prints story mistakenly saying that the Red Sox beat the Yankees in Game 7 of the ALCS
Fox News—David Blaine completes his latest stunt in London
MSNBC—British citizens are growing increasingly angry about the large numbers of surveillance cameras that have sprung up in the UK over the past 10 years

10.21.03
UPI—Sick and wounded reservists from the second Gulf war are being housed in terrible conditions and often have to wait months for treatment
Wired News—Microsoft is up to its anti-competitive tricks again, this time in the fast-growing area of digital music downloads
EGM—Kids used to PS2 review games from the era of Pong and Atari
CNN.com—Letter from Princess Diana, dated almost a year before her death, states that she believes someone is going to kill her in a car crash to clear the way for Charles to remarry
Fox News—The older sniper suspect will represent himself
New Scientist—New method uses tiny tubes to squeeze electricity from water

10.22.03
CNN.com—Sci Fi Channel will sue NASA to get access to UFO documents
Salon.com—Nowegian government gives business grant to witch
Wired News—All about the reclusive Wachowski brothers, the writers and directors of the Matrix movies
Boston Globe—What does Bush the Elder think of his son's policies?
CBS News—Tammy Faye Baker and Ron Jeremy to star in second edition of reality show Surreal Life
ABCnews.com—Elton John signs three year contract to play Vegas

10.23.03
Salon.com—Songwriter Elliott Smith dead of apparent suicide
CNN.com—Sniper suspect is no longer representing himself
Fox News—Rumsfeld predicts long road ahead in Iraq
MSNBC—New stereo can download music for you
BBC News—Astronomers reveal design for world's largest telescope which would be capable of producing images 12 times sharper than Hubble
New Scientist—New version of Microsoft Office is aimed at preventing the unauthorized release of sensitive information

10.24.03
Wired News—New feature on Amazon will let you search the text of tens of thousands of books
Salon.com—Bush heckled by members of the Australian parliament
New Scientist—Urine samples from the World Championships in August will be re-tested for designer steroids
Fox News—Senate vote approves bill that would make it a crime to send unsolicited email
CBS News—College student pretended she had cancer in order to elicit donations of money
USA Today—The senate approves a fifth straight annual raise for itself

10.27.03
Wired News—Privacy advocates hire skywriter to write bank CEO's SSN in the sky to underline concerns about businesses freely sharing senstive consumer information with one another
CNN.com—Louis Vitton sues Google over the search engine's paid keyword advertising service
BBC News—The latest shameless strategy of spammers: leaving ads in the comments of weblogs
CBS News—Marlins win World Series
ABCnews.com—Spam is turning people off email
USA Today—New cable channel devoted to gambling set to launch next year

10.28.03
BBC News—Genetically modified blood could help defeat cancer
Scoop—Diebold memos suggest that there were significant problems with their voting machines in the 2000 Florida presidential election—more than enough to have changed the outcome
Wired News—There, an online world, attempts to become the first in the genre to become a real hit
MSNBC—MIT students develop way to legally share music files over the campus' internal cable network
CBS News—Marlins-Yankees World Series one of lowest rated ever
ABCnews.com—Colorado blood drive exchanges a pint of beer for a pint of blood

10.29.03
Kicking Ass—Weblog of the Democratic National Committee
New Scientist—New modular PC tries to combine desktop, laptop, and handheld in one device
WhiteHouse.gov—The robots.txt file discussed in a recent Kicking Ass entry
Wired News—Disposable DVDs not selling well and still face environmental concerns
CNN.com—NYC wants to eliminate dead zones for cell phones
Fox News—Rapper Nelly has $1 million in jewelry stolen from his hotel room

10.30.03
New Scientist—Researcher funded by US government using genetic engineering to create extremely lethal variants of viruses
Detroit News—New consumer device, previously only available to fire and police departments, will allow individuals to change a stoplight to green. This is not a good thing, and hopefully it will be illegal soon.
Wired News—Infrared light seems to help wounds heal faster, but no one knows why
USA Today—An al Qaeda member interviewed by the FBI said that forest fires were a possible terrorist act the group had discussed
CNN.com—The EA Sports game cover jinx
Fox News—Sex offenders in Texas ordered not to answer the door for children on Halloween

10.31.03
ABCnews.com—A high school student is expelled from a Christian school for being gay
BBC News—New study shows that 800 MB of data is created each year for every person on the planet
CBS News—The new $20 bills are being rejected by some machines
C|NET—Amazon says sales are up since it introduced its text searching feature
Pioneer—New device from Pioneer combines TiVo with a DVD burner
USA Today—Brookstone will sell Segways in its retail stores