7.1.04
CNN.com—Bush backers try to get Nader on the ballot in Oregon, hoping that he will draw votes away from Kerry
Fox News—Greenspan raises interest rates for the first time in four years
USA Today—Dell is offering $100 off of their digital music player if you give up your iPod. I think I speak for the entire community of iPod owners when I say, "Fat fucking chance."
Wired News—Small software company says that Google stole the source code for orkut.com from them
Salon.com—Terror suspect received hazmat license in 2002, after he had already been identified as a potential terrorist
CBS News—Japanese company says it has developed device to help you choose what your dreams will be about

7.2.04
CNN.com—Court rules that the media can have access to a list of felons used by the state of Florida, which in the 2000 election was filled with thousands of errors that barred citizens from voting
USA Today—Saddam appears in court, declares that he is still the president of Iraq, and says that Bush is the real criminal
BBC News—Sony announces digital Walkman designed to compete with Apple's iPod, but it will be tightly integrated with the Sony online music store and it will not play MP3s
CBS News—Time Warner bidding for MGM
C|NET—Google bans selling of existing Gmail accounts with sought-after names, but not the bartering of Gmail invitations, which allow holders to set up new accounts
Salon.com—Kerry says he opposes laws that allow illegal immigrants to receive driver's licenses

7.6.04
The Register—The Electronic Frontier Foundation is seeking to overturn what it sees as ten of the most ludicrous software patents
CBS News—Neighbors of a suburban mayor are arrested after mailing food spiked with poison to his residence
BBC News—The BBC says that the Daleks will not be featured in its new Dr. Who show
Wired News—Ask Jeeves and MSN will no longer allow sites to pay for inclusion and high rankings
Salon.com—Coach Krzyzewski will stay at Duke
USA Today—Spider-Man 2 shatters box office records and takes in $180 million in its first week of release

7.7.04
ABCnews.com—Kerry selects John Edwards as his running mate
CBS News—And on a related note...the New York Post wrongly predicts that Gephardt would be Kerry's running mate
New Scientist—Researchers are working on software that can identify significant events in sports and put together game highlight packages without intervention from human operators
USA Today—Anti-piracy effort for next year's Oscars may involve sending out specially coded discs and DVD players to each of the 6000 members of the academy
Yahoo! News—The 9.11 commission sticks by its findings that there was no relationship between Saddam and bin Laden, despite BushCheney's continued insistence that the two were in league together
Fox News—2003 saw a record high number of new global HIV cases

7.8.04
Fox News—Enron scumbag and Bush crony Ken Lay finally indicted
CNN.com—Philadelphia school system finds valuable treasure trove of forgotten works of art stored in school basements and closets
Wired News—The ACLU and Florida voters groups sue to force state to allow manual recounts of e-voting machines
USA Today—Family demands return of donation to Princeton worth $600 million because they say the university is not using the money as they intended
MSNBC—Hooked on Phonics fined for selling customer data, including personal information on children
BBC News—Star Trek's Scotty has been diagnosed with the initial stages of Alzheimer's

7.9.04
Yahoo!—This is pretty fucking cool: a short Spider-Man movie done with Legos
Salon.com—The House keeps the Patriot Act intact
Fox News—Nader accuses the democrats of trying to keep him off the ballot
BBC News—Love letter James Joyce sent to his wife sells for half a million dollars at auction
Wired News—Some prominent bloggers are abandoning or scaling back their sites
MSNBC—Warner Brothers to release eighth Police Academy movie. Wait, why?

7.12.04
Foundphotos—Collection of photos downloaded from P2P services
CNN.com—US considers postponing November election in the event of terrorist attacks on or near election day
MSNBC—Audio files no longer the most swapped files on file trading networks
Salon.com—Former hostage of Iraqi insurgents says that his captors decapitated two english speaking white men in front of him
ABCnews.com—Current Jeopardy champion closes in on $1 million in winnings
C|NET—Microsoft employee accused of stealing code from Altavista

7.13.04
BBC News—Next PlayStation will debut at next year's E3 gaming conference
New Scientist—Technology originally developed for failed digital tape media finds new life creating filters for beer companies
Wired News—Yahoo buys small online email company in a bid to catch up quickly to Google's Gmail service
CNN.com—iTunes tops 100 million downloads
ABCnews.com—New documentary shows just how "fair and balanced" the Fox News Network really is
USA Today—Google chooses Nasdaq for IPO

7.14.04
USA Today—Cassini probe pummeled by particles as it passed through Saturn's rings; the sound file is really cool
Wired News—Tennesse to track paroled sex offenders' movements with GPS
CNN.com—Man loses driver's license after his doctor tells the state that he has a drinking problem
Salon.com—Fox to start all-reality cable channel next year
MSNBC—Woman who was arrested for scamming on eBay says she is a victim herself, falling prey to an online ad for a job that made her an unwitting go-between for the real scammers in London
AngryAlien—Alien in 30 seconds. With bunnies. Their version of the Shining is better, but this one's not bad, either.

7.15.04
FUH2.com—It stands for "Fuck You and Your H2". Hell yeah.
CNN.com—Same sex marriage ban doesn't make it through Senate
BBC News—Microsoft's latest OS update won't hit shelves as originally scheduled. If this is at all surprising to you, let me be the first to welcome you to planet Earth.
Wired News—Mexican officials have chip implanted in their arms, which both gives them access to a national database of criminals and allows them to be tracked via GPS if they are kidnapped
New Scientist—Stephen Hawking changes his mind about how black holes behave
ABCnews.com—Fertility clinic inseminates woman with the wrong man's sperm

7.16.04
Wonkette—Memos from Fox News execs detailing how the network is to play certain stories
CNN.com—Microsoft will open up its messaging service to Yahoo and and AOL
ACBnews.com—Two actors fired from CSI over contract dispute
MSNBC—New law creates harsher penalties for identity theft
BBC News—London museum may use waste from visitor bathrooms as source of energy
CBS News—Parents of son thought slain in auto accident find that the body in the coffin is not their child

7.21.04
CNN.com—Sandy Berger resigns as Kerry advisor after allegations that he tampered with documents important to the 9.11 commission
Wired News—Duke will give each freshman an iPod this fall
Salon.com—Two advocacy groups say that Fox News' "Fair and Balanced" slogan is false advertising
CBS News—Linda Ronstadt is thrown out of casino after praising Michael Moore during her show
USA Today—Dutch activists destroy field of genetically modified potatoes
CBS News—Tickets for the Athens Olympics not selling very well

7.22.04
MSNBC—CreditCards.com domain name sells for nearly $3 million
C|NET—Apple signs deal with three of europe's largest independent labels, adding tens of thousands of new tracks to their european iTunes store
USA Today—US to send hundreds of special forces troops to Athens to protect American Olympic athletes
CNN.com—Cruise ships are starting to offer cell phone service even while at sea, so now those morons who can't go five minutes without talking on the phone will be able to follow you on vacation
New Scientist—US Army has developed dehydrated rations that soldiers can rehydrate using dirty water or even their own urine
BBC News—New Zealand students develops cheap cell phone detector, which could help cut down on text message cheating in schools

7.23.04
10 Reasons to Stop Bush—In case you needed any more convincing
Wired News—If the copy of U2's new album that was stolen from a photo shoot last week shows up on file sharing networks, the band says it will release the CD immediately on iTunes and have it in stores within a month
CNN.com—Elderly woman accidentally puts rare gold coin in parking meter
New Scientist—UK government rules that parents may select specific embyros for full development based on the future child's compatibility as an organ donor to save a sick sibling
USA Today—Mid-calorie drinks by Coke (C2) and Pepsi (Pepsi Edge) aren't selling as well as expected
CBS News—Composer of Star Trek theme dies

7.26.04
USA Today—Al Qaeda threatens Australia with attacks unless it withdraws its troops from Iraq
Yahoo! News—Lance Armstrong wins sixth Tour de France
BBC News—Newsgroup posting purporting to contain images of bin Laden's suicide actually contains a virus
CNN.com—Title of final Star Wars film is revealed at ComicCon
USA Today—Former employees accuse Google of age discrimination
ABCnews.com—Japan approves research using cloned human embryos

7.27.04
Washington Monthly—An essay from Ted Turner on the dangers of media consolidation
Wired News—RealNetworks says it has a developed a way to let its protected media files be played back on Apple's popular iPod
CNN.com—Google's service is briefly impaired by a new variant of the MyDoom virus
USA Today—Soccer ref in South Africa shoots coach who disagreed with one of his calls
Salon.com—Kerry's wife tells reporter to shove it
CBS News—Nickelodeon will go off the air for three hours on a Saturday and encourage kids to stop watching television and go outside

7.28.04
ABCnews.com—The White House says that this year will see the largest deficit in US history
CNN.com—Driver who hit another car while watching a DVD to be charged with second degree murder
Wired News—SpaceShipOne will take a shot at the X Prize in September
Salon.com—Following the democrats' lead, the GOP will invite bloggers to attend its convention
USA Today—As Olympics approach, Athens restaurants charged with price gouging
CBS News—Sigfried and Roy will not perform their tiger act any longer

7.29.04
BBC News—KITT, the Knight Rider car, goes up for sale on eBay
CNN.com—Unknown woman with altered passport is detained after trying to enter the US illegally from Mexico
Salon.com—Judge says that authorities may continue random searches of people and their belongings in areas adjacent to the democratic convention in Boston
ABCnews.com—Sealed documents from the Kobe Bryant trial accidentally posted on web
USA Today—Harvard will return $2.5 million donation from a United Arab Emirates citizen after controversy over his anti-semitic stance
Wired News—US scheme to photograph and fingerprint all foreign visitors wins UK Big Brother award for its intrusive invasion of privacy

7.30.04
Salon.com—Florida republican party urges its members to vote using absentee ballots so that there will be a paper trail of their vote
Fox News—Woman in DC is handcuffed and detained for three hours after eating a candy bar in a metro station
MSNBC—Francis Crick, one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA, dies after a battle with cancer
Wired News—Apple says that RealNetworks has illegally hacked the iPod to make songs from Real's music service work on the popular music player
ABCnews.com—Miss America pageant to ditch the talent competition
BBC News—Some squirrels can emit ultrasonic squeaks to warn each other about nearby predators