6.1.04
CNN.com—A Pentagon email seems to indicate that Cheney helped secure a multibillion dollar no-bid contract for Halliburton, but his office denies it
New Scientist—A new system that converts the heat from smokestacks into electricity could boost the efficiency of power stations while simultaneously cutting emissions
Fox News—Art gallery owner threatened and assaulted after displaying a painting about the Iraq prisoner abuse
ABCnews.com—Movie ushers in Britain issued night vision goggles to help them identify patrons trying to pirate the film
C|NET—Yahoo! founder plans to sell 8 million shares
BBC News—Microsoft cuts benefits and irks staff

6.2.04
Pop vs. Soda—What do you call it?
Salon.com—Federal judge says that Bush's partial-birth abortion ban is unconstitutional
Fox News—Plagiarizer is suing university because he says no one ever told him handing in other people's work was wrong
CNN.com—Scientists have genetically engineered a cow resistant to mad cow disease
New Scientist—Distributed computing effort yields new 7 million digit prime number
CBS News—New tapes offer proof that Enron employees manipulated the California energy market during the energy crisis of 2000

6.3.04
CBS News—Bush consults an attorney concerning the Plame/Wilson CIA leak last year
CNN.com—The House rejects a proposal that would have created a constitutional amendment allowing state governors to appoint new members of Congress in the event of a catastrophic terrorist attack
Salon.com—Don King is stumping for Bush
Wired News—Free stock given away as a promotional effort by a dotcom years ago is now trading at $20 a share
Fox News—New Jersey official says it is illegal for bars to let in women for free while forcing men to pay a cover charge on ladies nights
BBC News—New cell phone attachment will let you write in the air using LEDs

6.4.04
New Scientist—Much to the surprise of researchers, deleting large chunks of mouse DNA seems to have no discernible effect on their development or lifespan
Wired News—Microsoft releases beta of Windows Media Player 10, which is expected to be an integral part of Microsoft's attempt to challenge Apple's dominance in the online music arena
CNN.com—Pennsylvania cops wear fatigues to hide in the woods and snare speeders
USA Today—CIA director resigns
C|NET—Hotmail failure deletes customer files, underscoring the dangers of using free services to store critical files and correspondence
MSNBC—Ubi Soft to release video game allowing you to become campaign manager for Kerry or Bush

6.7.04
Salon.com—Kerry says he will suspend his campaign for a few days to honor Ronald Reagan
New Scientist—US says it will cut its stockpile of nuclear weapons in half over the next eight years, but due to loopholes, it's hard to tell exactly how many will be destroyed
The Guardian—British punk band member questioned by their version of the FBI for text messaging Clash lyrics to singer
CNN.com—Man goes on rampage in armored bulldozer
BBC News—Researchers uses satellite photos to make a case for yet another potential location of Atlantis, this time in southern Spain
CBS News—Smarty Jones just misses Triple Crown win at Belmont

6.8.04
Capitol Hill Blue—Is Bush starting to crack?
Wired News—Over 300 cities and 4 states have decried the Patriot Act as unconstitutional
CNN.com—AC/DC to have street named in their honor
Fox News—Camping Cub Scout killed by falling tree as he slept
MSNBC—Apple will launch the iTunes music store for europe next week
BBC News—London hospital puts barcodes on patients' wristbands to try to reduce medication errors

6.9.04
CNN.com—Conservatives are proposing to put Reagan on the $10 bill, the $20 bill, or the dime. Ugh.
USA Today—A consumer group is suing three cell phone companies for installing software locks on their phones that prevent users from switching carriers and keeping their old numbers
Wired News—Competition challenges web site operators to score the top Google rank for an obscure phrase
CBS News—David Hasselhoff arrested for DWI
BBC News—New kind of glass uses the power of the sun to clean itself
Stay Free Magazine—Public Enemy talks about how restrictive sampling rules have changed hip hop. Great interview, but I have to ask, couldn't they have picked a less feminine-hygiene oriented name for their publication?

6.10.04
USA Today—The Pentagon wasted over $100 million on unused airline tickets over a six year period
Wired News—New web traffic analysis tool uses SimCity-like graphical interface
CNN.com—Clear Channel to pay $1.7 million indecency fine
MSNBC—Nintendo working on new game console
ABCNews.com—Mel Gibson sues theater chain, claiming they owe him $40 million in profits from The Passion
ZDNet—Apple updates its G5 line

6.11.04
CNN.com—Bush says that he never authorized the use of torture, despite a memo prepared for Rumsfeld where lawyers argued that the US was not bound by treaties and international law when dealing with terror suspects
Salon.com—Ray Charles dies at 73
Wired News—A dog that can fetch over two hundred items by name is proof that dogs have a better understanding of human language than previously thought
USA Today—Microsoft files more lawsuits against spammers
ZDNet—Several hackers are arrested for stealing the Half-Life 2 game code last year and posting it on the net
BBC News—Stealth ships, which are nearly invisible to radar, are making their way into modern navies

6.16.04
Salon.com—Supreme court decides not to hear pledge case, ruling that the father who initiated the suit does not have standing to speak for his daughter
Wired News—Man behind the free Weblogs.com service suddenly shuts down the service, leaving thousands without access to their blogs
New Scientist—First cell phone virus is created
CNN.com—Couple gets married using videoconferencing technology
ABCnews.com—FTC decides not to create a do-not-spam list
USA Today—Original Duran Duran members reuniting for new album

6.17.04
Wired News—The BBC will post its archive of audio and video clips to the net this fall, allowing people to download them and uses them in non-commercial projects
Salon.com—Kerry has raised $100 million in the last three months, but his total is still well behind Bush's
Fox News—Registered Traveler program would allow frequent fliers to skip security checks at airports in exchange for submitting to a more thorough background check
New Scientist—New stun guns may enable police and military forces to immobilize crowds, but their potential for abuse and their lack of independent testing has raised concerns among human rights groups
CBS News—Yahoo! beefs up its free email service to compete with Google's Gmail
USA Today—Steve Jobs says that an iPod with video capabilities will not be released this year

6.18.04
ABCnews.com—Bush still insists that there was a link between Saddam and bin Laden, even though numerous studies have found no substantive ties between Iraq and al Qaeda, especially in regards to the 9.11 attacks
CNN.com—Culprit behind a series of mysterious horse throat slashings turns out to be another horse using his teeth to kill
Wired News—Many Word users still prefer version 5.1, which is more than a decade old
Salon.com—French activists cut power to the Eiffel Tower to protest the privatization of the national utility companies
USA Today—Thousands of postal workers are overpayed due to computer error
BBC News—Napster is giving away a free MP3 player to anyone who subscribes to the online music service for a year

6.21.04
Wired News—The military wants an exemption to the privacy act that would allow its intelligence agents to spy on American citizens
Salon.com—After Cheney says he has more information about ties between Iraq and al Qaeda than the 9.11 commission does, they invite him back to give more testimony. Any bets on whether he'll show?
ABCnews.com—Bill Clinton defends Bush's decision to go to war, but says he should have waited until the UN inspectors had finished their job
CBS News—Police in Texas looking for suspects who set homeless man on fire
Fox News—McDonald's testing kiosks where customers can place their orders directly with the kitchen
MSNBC—Woman claims to have seen face of saint appear on the chest of a bronze statue of Christ

6.22.04
Salon.com—The supreme court rules that citizens do not have the right to withhold their names from police, even if they are not under suspicion for anything
USA Today—Privately financed plane becomes first civilian aircraft to make it to space
Wired News—Some political bloggers will be issued official press credentials at this year's democratic convention
ABCnews.com—British man is auctioning off his virginity on eBay
CBS News—Commercial jet accidentally lands at air force base
CNN.com—Record labels to market 3 inch CDs with hit singles and ringtones on them

6.23.04
MSNBC—Star Trek star says her husband, a senator, asked her to perform public sex acts
Fox News—Judge approves class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart concerning its pay and promotion of women
USA Today—Ben Affleck wins $350,000 poker tournament and a chance to play in next year's world championships
Salon.com—Ratings board keeps R rating for Farhenheit 9/11
CNN.com—Mary-Kate Olsen receiving treatment for eating disorder
ABCnews.com—Italian school uses cell phone blocker to prevent cheating with text messaging and camera phones

6.24.04
CNN.com—The Saudi government offers amnesty to terrorists
Wired News—More airlines turned over passenger data to the TSA after 9.11 than previously thought, including credit card numbers, home addresses, and phone numbers
New Scientist—Some fans claim that there is spyware on the new Beastie Boys disc, but the band and their label deny it
C|NET—First week sales for the european version of iTunes dwarf sales by competitors who have been in the market for months
MSNBC—AOL employee accused of selling 92 million member email addresses to spammers
CBS News—The ABA recommends abolishing mandatory minimum sentences

6.25.04
USA Today—The army plans to build a supercomputer using 1500 of Apple's G5 Macs
New Scientist—A plant that naturally grows decaffeinated coffee beans has been discovered, and it could be bred into commercial crops within a decade
Wired News—Consumer group will investigate election officials who may have conflict of interest ties to companies that make voting machines
CNN.com—Oklahoma judge accused of masturbating at bench while court was in session
ABCnews.com—Student who hid box cutters on planes to expose security holes is sentenced to probation
BBC News—Toshiba unveils miniature fuel cell

6.28.04
Fox News—Fahrenheit 9/11 comes in first at the box office and breaks the box office record for a documentary
Wired News—Congress passes laws that give copyright holders even more power over how, where, and when copyrighted materials can be used by consumers
Salon.com—Bush didn't the increase in approval ratings he was expecting after the intense media coverage of the death of Ronald Reagan
CNN.com—The Green Party chooses not to nominate Ralph Nader as its candidate for the upcoming election
USA Today—Best Buy will partner with Napster to sell music online
CBS News—New theory says that Shakespeare's works were authored by a British nobleman

6.29.04
Seattle Times—Bill Gates is considering starting a blog
CNN.com—The handover of authority to Iraqis happens two days ahead of schedule. So who's in charge now? Oh, that's right, it's still the US military.
Wired News—New online game, currently in beta testing, allows players to commit virtual crimes, such as rape, and also has a judge and jury system if the offender is captured
ABCnews.com—Students accustomed to taking notes and writing papers on the computer are worried about how poor handwriting might affect their scores on the longhand essay required by the new SAT
MSNBC—Woman embezzles hundreds of thousands from law firm by setting up a bank account with a name similar to the firm's
C|NET—Software developer says that Apple's new OS copies features from their program

6.30.04
MSNBC—DC enacts law that restricts cell phone use in cars
Salon.com—The Pentagon will call up thousands of retired and discharged soldiers for duty in Iraq and Afghanistan
USA Today—Two people are suing Southwest after being humiliated in front of other passengers and being told that they would have to buy extra tickets because of their obesity
Fox News—23 year old teacher accused of having sex with her 14 year old student
Wired News—Potentially fatal glitches in car software are increasingly common as the auto industry transitions to computer controlled vehicles
ABCnews.com—J.K. Rowling tells web site fans title of next Harry Potter book