5.3.04
CNN.com—Simpsons cast settles their salary dispute with Fox
USA Today—Justice Souter attacked while jogging
Salon.com—University of Chicago returns clay tablets to Iran that had been on loan for nearly 70 years
ABCnews.com—Boat tips over when passengers rush to one side to see nude sunbathers on nearby beach
ZDNet—Invitations from Google to be beta testers for Gmail go up for auction on eBay
Fox News—Female child rapist to be held in men's prison

5.4.04
CNN.com—Photos of British soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners may be fakes
BBC News—German band will release its new album in ringtone format only
ZDNet—New version of the Sasser worm has already infected thousands of PCs
USA Today—Woman charged with felony for breaking into her ex-boyfriend's email account
ABCnews.com—Woman who won over $4 million in the lottery ten years ago is now in debt
CBS News—Bill Gates must pay $800,000 fine for violating investment rules

5.5.04
ABCnews.com—Troop levels in Iraq will increase to nearly 140,000 and will stay that way for at least a year
Wired News—Will Google be able to retain their staff in the face of massive personal wealth from the IPO?
Salon.com—Al Gore starts cable network
USA Today—Sony will launch a music download service that will only work with Sony-branded music players
C|NET—Microsoft mistakenly receives a patent on a species of apple tree
CBS News—20% of young Brits admit to dumping a girlfriend or boyfriend by sending a cell phone text message

5.6.04
Salon.com—Bush wants $25 billion more for the Iraq war. What happened to that last $87 billion we gave you, mister?
CNN.com—Ads for Spider-Man 2 will be placed on bases for all MLB games played three days in June
Fox News—Disney says it will block the release of Michael Moore's new movie, which is critical of the Bush administration
Wired News—The major record labels want to increase the price of downloaded songs
CBS News—Arnold is suing a bobblehead company for selling an unauthorized version of his likeness
ABCnews.com—Computer bug lets drivers fuel up for free

5.7.04
C|NET—The rules governing internet campaign ads are more lenient than those in print or broadcast
New Scientist—$250 sneaker from Adidas uses computer chip to automatically adjust the shoe for best fit
Wired News—Mothballed bunker from the cold war will be reopened to house audiovisual collections from the Library of Congress
ABCnews.com—Hummingbirds may have been around for 30 million years
BBC News—French farmers threaten to sue over popular reality tv series
CBS News—Convicted sex offender arrested for handing out flyers offering to baby-sit kids

5.17.04
CNN.com—Colin Powell says that there is not enough outrage in the Arabic world over the beheading of a US civilian that was posted to a web site last week. But what about American outrage over the prisoner abuse? There's nothing that could justify such a brutal act, but we need to look at ourselves a little more closely before we start criticizing others.
Wired News—Rumsfeld may have known of and authorized prisoner abuse in Afghanistan and Iraq as an interrogation tactic
Fox News—Bald eagle no longer endangered
New Scientist—Programmer of anonymous file-swapping software is arrested
USA Today—Survivor fans award bonus $1 million to Rupert
Salon.com—Jerry Springer to be Democratic delegate

5.18.04
MSNBC—Morrisey will play a weeklong gig on Kilborn's The Late Late Show
Sports Illustrated—The IOC says that transsexual athletes can compete in the Olympics. Then why the hell can't everyone else use whatever performance enhancer they want?
Salon.com—Same-sex marriages given go-ahead in Massachusetts
ABCnews.com—Baseball teams that receive revenue sharing money often choose to invest in prospects rather than current stars
Apple.com—Trailer for the new Pixar movie, The Incredibles
BBC News—Scientists add new geological time period

5.19.04
C|NET—Geico sues Google over trademark violations, claiming that the search engine violated its rights by selling its trademarks as search keywords that would display ads for its competitors
CNN.com—High school student hospitalized after drinking unidentified chemical from a lab on a dare
ABCnews.com—Gas prices average more than $2 a gallon
USA Today—Wolfowitz says that our troops will be in Iraq indefinitely
BBC News—Amateur rocket goes beyond the earth's atmosphere for the first time in the history of spaceflight
CBS News—Five cities still in the running for the 2012 Olympics

5.20.04
ABCnews.com—Giuliani heckled while giving testimony before 9.11 commission
CNN.com—Airline will offer 5000 free tickets to nice passengers who travel with them in June
New Scientist—Nanobacteria may be a newly discovered form of life responsible for many human diseases
MSNBC—California considering bill that would require notification before spyware was installed
Fox News—Several teachers across the country have shown the Nick Berg video without getting parents' permission first
BBC News—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's personal papers sell at auction for over $1 million

5.21.04
ABCnews.com—By the end of April, Bush had already spent a record $126 million on his reelection campaign
Salon.com—Strip clubs in Wisconsin are asking their patrons to register to vote and encouraging them to vote against Bush
BBC News—Napster beats iTunes to europe, launching their service in the UK
Wired News—Some people are willing to trade just about anything for a Google Gmail beta account, which seems a little silly considering that anyone will be able to sign up for one for free when the service is launched
CNN.com—Man sues for discrimination after being fired for not being able to urinate in front of a doctor for a drug test
New Scientist—New high tech glasses can detect when someone is making eye contact with the wearer

5.24.04
Kuro5hin.org—A good compendium of all the suspicious circumstances surrounding the Nick Berg beheading
The Guardian—The text of a speech Michael Berg, Nick's father, gave to an anti-war gathering
CNN.com—Shrek 2 dominates the weekend box office
Salon.com—Kerry considering not accepting the democratic nominatioon until early September so the he and Bush will be on equal fiancial footing for the final two months of the presidential campaign
USA Today—Senate aide may be fired for writing about her sexual exploits on her blog
CBS News—Postal Service to sponsor NASCAR racer

5.25.04
New Scientist—A newly cleaned David is unveiled in Florence
ZDNet—More than two-thirds of all email sent is now spam
Wired News—Japanese bull has clones made from his clones, the first successful serial cloning of a large mammal
CNN.com—Sony introduces the Vaio Pocket, its competitor to Apple's iPod
Salon.com—Online advertising at an all-time high last quarter
USA Today—Agassi upset in first round of french open

5.26.04
News.com.au—Rumsfeld bans cell phones with cameras from all Iraq installations
CNN.com—Ringling Brothers clown Spanky is arrested on child porn charges. No, this is not a joke.
Salon.com—Chewing gum is once again legal in Singapore, but not without some restrictions
Wired News—US Army redesigning fatigues from scratch
ABCnews.com—Doctors' neckties may help pathogens spread around hospital
Yahoo! News—Latest Harry Potter director thinks the main trio of child actors should complete the whole series of movies

5.27.04
ABCnews.com—Hybrid vehicles could be more dangerous to emergency workers after an accident
CNN.com—Detroit zoo will send its elephants to an animal sanctuary because it believes keeping the creatures in a zoo environment is inhumane
USA Today—Massachusetts park will offer guided tours by cell phone
New Scientist—File sharers seem undeterred by lawsuits
CBS News—A father who did not put enough sunblock on his child charged with abuse
BBC News—People are spending more on their mobile phone bills than they are on gas or electricity

5.28.04
USA Today—Bush is planning cuts to the EPA, the Department of the Interior, the NIH, the VA, and—surprise, surprise—education. The catch? The cuts will only take effect after the election, so as not to cost him any votes this November.
Wired News—A new theory about the mass extinction of the dinosaurs still says that the effects of a major impact killed them, but suggests that it did it in a matter of day or hours rather than years
Salon.com—Man sues Atkins Diet after he develops heart problems while following its guidelines
New Scientist—The widespread use of antibiotics may be responsible for higher rates of asthma and allergies
Fox News—Baltimore woman finds her three kids decapitated after getting home from work
ABCnews.com—1 of every 75 American men is in prison

5.31.04
ABCnews.com—Oil companies have exceeded the number of acres they are legally allowed to lease for oil and gas wells, but the government continues to allow them to purchase more and also gives them years to get back into compliance with the law
Time.com—President Bush keeps the pistol that Saddam's pistol in his study off the Oval Office as a souvenir. Creepy.
Salon.com—Pat Tillman likely killed by friendly fire
USA Today—New Jersey's suicide rate is nearly twice as high as its homicide rate
New Scientist—Last year's east coast blackout gave the affected region cleaner air for a few days
CNN.com—Golfer struck and killed by lightning in Colorado