12.1.03
ABC Australia—Bush's Thanksgiving visit to the troops viewed cynically by foreign news organizations
WKMG TV—Holiday shopper trampled by other bargain hunters at Wal-Mart in Florida
USA Today—New format approved for DVDs
Salon.com—The album that Lennon signed for Mark David Chapman just before he shot Lennon being sold at auction
Fox News—McCain criticizes Congress for overspending
New Scientist—Opte project tries to create color-based map of traffic on the internet

12.2.03
BBC News—Did a German scientist invent the telephone before Alexander Graham Bell?
MSNBC—What's in the files that Howard Dean had sealed from his Vermont governorship
Fox News—Security guard found shot dead at UN headquarters in New York
Wired News—Military investigating ways to use Segways on the battlefield
Salon.com—A second grader is reprimanded and told never to use the word "gay" again after using the term to describe his mother's lesbian lifestyle
CNN.com—Pirated copies of Microsoft's next OS, not scheduled to be released until 2005, are already on sale in Malaysia

12.3.03
SiliconValley.com—California uses eBay to dispose of unclaimed property
Wired News—New virus uses infected machines to launch DoS attacks against anti-spam organizations
New Scientist—Largest prime number yet identified was discovered using distributed computing
USA Today—New theory on why Stradvarius instruments have such a unique tone
MSNBC—Spike Lee criticizes rap music in speech at Brown University
CBS News—DNA test proves that Charles Lindbergh fathered three children in an affair with a German woman

12.4.03
ABCnews.com—US soldiers in Iraq threaten to bulldoze civilian homes to get information out of villagers. Hearts and minds, people.
news.com.au—Despite the precise enemy casualty count reported by the US military, no bodies were actually recovered after the widely reported convoy shootouts earlier this week
BBC News—Are seniors the next demographic that will get hooked on gaming?
Wired News—Man will spend 18 months in jail for helping to coordinate web attacks against his former employer following his dismissal
CNN.com—German man on trial for murder also accused of cannibalizing his victim
USA Today—Wal-Mart will no longer accept debit MasterCards, citing high transaction fees

12.5.03
ABCnews.com—Prosecutor in drug case involving rappers found murdered
CBS News—Dean has a big lead in New Hampshire
Max Lyons—Photographer creates first gigapixel image
USA Today—Goodyear blimp crashes
C|NET—AOL to offer $299 PC/monitor/printer bundle to people who sign up for a year of service
MSNBC—First grade substitute teacher tells her class that Santa Claus is make-believe

12.8.03
USA Today—John Edwards wants Bush to return campaign contributions from official at Diebold, the manufacturer of many of the electronic voting machines used in elections
CBS News—Pharmaceutical manufacturers have run out of flu vaccine for this season
CNN.com—Priest who admitted to molesting boys found beaten to death in his home
Salon.com—The California legislature rejects Arnold's proposed spending cap
BBC News—The classic Space Invaders arcade game will soon be back in the US
Wired News—Yahoo has a new approach to fighting spam

12.9.03
WKMG TV—Woman who was trampled at Wal-Mart during a holiday sale has a history of claiming injuries at stores, including 8 claims against other Wal-Marts
Salon.com—Gore will reportedly endorse Dean
New Scientist—Genetic encyclopedia is made of water-soluble pages containing mice genes
Wired News—Coke (?) is entering the online music business
CNN.com—In one of the more groundless lawsuits in recent memory, Rosa Parks is suing Outkast
BBC News—A new blogging game called Googlebombing has made George Bush synonymous with miserable failure

12.10.03
ZDNet—Worm infects Windows-based ATMs
CNN.com—Man excommunicated from Mormon church sues his ex-wife for the right to teach his 10 year old daughter about polygamy
USA Today—eBay will start to sell price data generated from the online auctions it hosts
ABCnews.com—Should plastic grocery store bags be taxed?
CBS News—Major casino chain to ban people with known gambling problems
Salon.com—Another of ABC's Bachelors breaks up with the fiance he met on the show

12.11.03
MSNBC—Supreme court upholds campaign finance reform law
Wired News—Scientists have discovered how to freeze light in its tracks
Salon.com—Pennsylvania priest ordered to stop distributing an anti-gay pamphlet
CNN.com—JenniCam will go offline on December 31
USA Today—The popularity of high-protein diets has driven up the price of eggs
ABCnews.com—Countries who opposed the Iraq war will not be allowed to bid on reconstruction contracts

12.12.03
Wired News—Data collected by the government when you register to vote is being resold to marketers and anyone else who wants it
CNN.com—California city to offer free wireless internet access within its borders
Salon.com—More than a third of Iraq's new homegrown army have quit over poor pay and working conditions
CBS News—Daredevil pilot is stranded in his homemade plane at the South Pole
BBC News—Humans have been warming the earth since the start of agriculture
MSNBC—Virginia arrests man on charges of sending unsolicited emails

12.15.03
CNN.com—Saddam captured by US forces
ABCnews.com—This could be the worst flu season in decades
New Scientist—Pedestrians hit by SUVs have double the fatality rate of people hit by normal cars
Fox News—Mixed-race woman claims to be daughter of Strom Thurmond
Salon.com—Ashton Kutcher says Punk'd is done, but some are suspicious that it's a trick to dupe more victims
MSNBC—The magnetic field of the earth is weakening

12.16.03
LA Times—Many celebrities turn a profit from their appearances for charities
New Scientist—Tunnel linking Europe to Africa could be started in the next decade
USA Today—Canada will tax MP3 players and give the proceeds to artists and record labels to cover possible copyright infringements
MSNBC—MIT professor creates world's largest published book
CNN.com—Workers at a shoe factory get a bonus of $1000 for each year they worked for the company
ABCnews.com—Nurse says he has killed 30-40 patients since 1987

12.17.03
Salon.com—Bush would like to see Saddam executed. Well of course he would. It's been years since he's gotten to preside over an execution.
CNN.com—Madonna backs Clark for president. Is she even a citizen of this country anymore?
ABCnews.com—Micro-needles on a patch could replace syringes as a drug delivery method
LA Times—The Apple Store will sells blank CDs with images from the Lord of the Rings so that users who purchased the soundtrack to the movie online can burn the songs to a similarly-themed medium
MSNBC—Two more Americans have bought tickets to space
USA Today—Joe Horn to be fined $30,000 for end zone celebration

12.18.03
C|NET—Orbitz IPO falls flat
ABCnews.com—San Francisco man is setting up free wireless net access for his neighbors
USA Today—Computer programmer creates treasure hunt game that satirizes the search for WMD in Iraq
CNN.com—Bush plan to allow more snowmobiles in Yellowstone is temporarily halted by judge
Salon.com—Bank robber claims that his crime was too stupid to qualify for punishment
Fox News—China sentences two people to life in prison for organizing sex party for Japanese tourists

12.19.03
CNN.com—Governor Arnold declares a fiscal emergency in California, meaning he can now cut programs without the approval of the legislature
DEBKAfile—Was Saddam being held prisoner by his own people while they negotiated for the $25 million reward?
Apple.com—Spider-Man 2 trailer
USA Today—RealNetworks sues Microsoft
Wired News—Wal-Mart begins testing its own music download service aiming at a formal launch next year
Salon.com—Paris Hilton's reality show beats Bush's interview with Diane Sawyer in the ratings

12.30.03
The Globe—US government is blurring certain areas of commercially available aerial photos of Washington DC for fear of their use by terrorists to plan attacks
C|NET—Hackers extort money from office workers by threatening to delete key files from their machines
CNN.com—Woman desperate to be pregnant kills expecting mother and cuts the fetus from the womb
USA Today—Michael Jackson says cops roughed him up during interrogation
Salon.com—Clark's new campaign ad features Bill Clinton
New Scientist—Gamer who had his character looted in online game goes to court and wins back his virtual items

12.31.03
San Antionio Current—Bush signs Patriot II into law while distracting us with the sideshow of the spider hole
Washington Post—"Stop-loss" orders are keeping many in military service beyond their contractual enlistment term and may amount to a secret draft
Wired News—Web-saavy people are using online auction sites to get rid of unwanted Christmas presents
Salon.com—Ephedra banned by FDA
Fox News—New Florida law will require elderly drivers to pass a vision test in order to renew their driver's licenses
CNN.com—French author claims Pixar plagiarized Finding Nemo from his ideas