10.1.04
ABCnews.com—Vioxx sales halted as new studies show significant increase of risk for strokes and heart attack
C|NET—New virus the exploits JPEG vulnerability in Windows is being spread using AIM
CNN.com—The recent hurricanes in Florida make it much more difficult to predict election outcomes there
Wired News—A former high-level employee of e-voting machine manufacturer Diebold, which is currently being sued by California for installing untested machines, is now an elections manager for the state
CBS News—MLB announces that the Expos will move to DC next year
USA Today—Amazon is suing spammers who tricked consumers into thinking they were doing business with the online retailer

10.4.04
NPR.org—Top 10 secrets the candidates don't want you to know about the debates
CNN.com—Latest polls show that voters think Kerry won the first debate and has now pulled even with Bush
CBS News—Fox News posts fake Kerry quotes on its web site after the debate
Wired News—The postal service ends its print-your-own postage trial run after some users make stamps out of people like the Unabomer
New Scientist—New test claims that it can detect blood-doping among athletes 100% of the time
USA Today—First debate drew over 60 million viewers

10.5.04
ABCnews.com—SpaceShipOne claims the X Prize
Salon.com—Woman's obituary asks mourners to vote for Kerry in lieu of sending flowers
USA Today—Supreme court won't hear challenge to national do-not-call list brought by telemarketers on free speech grounds
Yahoo! News—Kerry accuses the GOP of trying to suppress the vote in swing states
BBC News—Sony to abandon its trial run of CDs that limit the number of times they can be copied
CNN.com—Bush signs yet another tax cut

10.6.04
ABCnews.com—Republicans want Michael Moorse charged for bribing people for their votes, specifically for giving away ramen noodles and potato chips nonvoters and encouraging them to vote
USA Today—Ricky Williams may return to the NFL
Salon.com—Rodney Dangerfield dies
Wired News—Kerry campaign to increase web spending in the month before the election
Fox News—House votes down bill that would have reinstated draft
CNN.com—Hundreds of thousands of dollars available to professional video gamers in tournaments each year

10.11.04
CNN.com—Bush camp denies that the president was illegally wired during first debate after bloggers point out suspicious bulge in the middle of the president's back
Salon.com—Election results in Afghanistan challenged by nearly every candidate except the winner
Wired News—Minneapolis art center giving away microtransmitters to encourage revolt on the FM band
C|NET—Apple rumor site says that a new 60 gig iPod with a color screen and the ability to display digital photos will be on sale soon
USA Today—Howard Stern will move to satellite radio in 2006
CBS News—Washington investigator solves 11 year old John Doe hit-and-run mystery using Google

10.12.04
BBC News—Schoolchildren in Russia will soon have to wear metal dogtags for security purposes
New Scientist—Study finds that switching off a single gene in cancerous cells in mice turned them into normal cells
CNN.com—High school teacher pays students to stage robbery which he then tried to foil to impress his wife
ABCnews.com—Christopher Reeve dies
Wired News—British scientists want people to be considered "superorganisms" because of the mix of human, bacterial, viral, and fungal cells found in all of us
USA Today—New service will let users access their media files on any internet-enabled device

10.13.04
Salon.com—Saudi women will not be allowed to run for office or vote in the country's first elections
USA Today—Physics professor says Pollock's paintings are filled with complex fractal patterns
CNN.com—France will jam cell phone calls in movie theaters
CBS News—Mary Kay Letourneau engaged to the student that she started an affair with when he was only in sixth grade
MSNBC—Oil prices set record high
ZDNet—Virgin to offer a competitor to the iPod mini

10.14.04
ABCnews.com—Bill O'Reilly sued for sexual harrassment by former producer
CNN.com—Senator closes his office until after the election for fear of terrorist attacks in DC
Wired News—New emulator may let you run OS X on a PC, but that's only if it can clear legal hurdles
Fox News—Flu shots skyrocket in price
USA Today—Sale of 9.11 commemorative coins halted by New York's attorney general
Salon.com—Activists post locations of surveillance cameras around Manhattan in an effort to make people more aware of when they are being watched

10.15.04
KLAS TV—Former employee alleges that a private voter registration company threw away applications from Democratic voters in Nevada
USA Today—Pre-election trials of new e-voting machines in Florida are not going well
BBC News—Google releases a search tool for your hard drive
CNN.com—Former teacher at Eton says that she was ordered to help Prince Harry cheat on one of his exams
ZDNet—Halo 2 surfaces on warez sites
Salon.com—Chris Rock will host the next Academy Awards

10.18.04
CNN.com—Jon Stewart for President!
CBS News—18 soldiers in Iraq refuse to carry out a mission because they said it was an unnecessary risk and the army had not given them proper equipment
USA Today—UNC to test pilot program that allows students to legally share copyrighted digital files
ABCnews.com—Sony may follow Apple's model and open it's own branded retail stores
ZDNet—Google may be working on an instant messaging client
MSNBC—Tommy Lee joins Nebraska marching band

10.19.04
USA Today—Supreme court orders review of unorthodox redistricting in Texas that could, if implemented, give six more seats in the House to republicans
Salon.com—The are already problems with the e-voting machines in Florida on the first day of early voting
CNN.com—New Jersey town to use lottery system to distribute flu vaccine
Wired News—I Love Bees! I love saying that.
BBC News—Singer Robbie Williams will release his greatest hits album on a memory card for cell phones
MSNBC—Churches in Mexico installing Israeli cell phone jammers

10.20.04
MSNBC—Microscopic diamond found in Montana could be evidence of a larger deposit
USA Today—Sinclair now says it will not air "Stolen Honor" in its entirety
Salon.com—Two reporters suspended after attending an anti-Bush concert
New Scientist—New vaccines will not have to be refrigerated
CNN.com—Astronaut living on space station will be allowed to vote in the upcoming election using a secure email connection
Fox News—Google saves a hostage's life

10.21.04
C|NET—GOP sites suffer outage for several hours; it's not clear if hackers are to blame
USA Today—Americans heading to Canada for flu shots
Salon.com—Clinton to campaign for Kerry in final weeks
Sports Illustrated—XM signs deal with MLB to broadcast all games for the next 11 years
CBS News—Pat Robertson warned Bush that going into Iraq would be messy, but Bush said there would be no casualties
BBC News—Number of genes in the human genome revised downward

10.22.04
Salon.com—West Virginia elector says he might not vote for Bush if Bush wins the state
Wired News—US Passports will soon feature RFID chips
ZDNet—Apple will force iTunes users to update the free software by disabling access to the iTunes music store for older versions
ACBnews.com—Soldier accused in Abu Ghraib abuses sentenced to eight years in prison
CNN.com—Wal-Mart won't carry Daily Show book
Fox News—Paul Hamm gets to keep his gold medal

10.25.04
CBS News—Army reservist suing to avoid assignment that would send him to Iraq, arguing that he resigned in June
CNN.com—Briefcase of lyrics for U2's "October" that were stolen in 1981 is returned to the band intact
Salon.com—Bush quietly signs huge corporate tax cut bill over the weekend
MSNBC—William Shatner signs up for future space flight on Virgin Galactic
New Scientist—Russia's parliament approves Kyoto accords
ABCnews.com—Was Ashlee Simpson lip-syncing on SNL this weekend?

10.26.04
BMJ.net—Video of Ashlee Simpson's SNL screwup
Salon.com—Rehnquist diagnosed with thyroid cancer
ABCnews.com—Hundreds of tons of explosives missing from Army depot in Iraq
Wired News—File sharers undeterred by music industry lawsuits
CBS News.com—Yahoo! and Adobe create partnership to take on Google
BBC News—Cassini to give us first good look at Titan

10.27.04
C|NET—New Amazon feature will let customers post photos along with their product reviews
Wired News—Apple unveils custom U2 iPod and a new iPod with a color screen and 60 gigs of storage
Salon.com—Democrats hope Republican support for a national sales tax, which would place more of the tax income on the lower and middle class, will help them win back the House
MSNBC—XM releases portable satellite music player than can also record up to five hours of audio for later playback
CNN.com—Judge throws party for captured fugitive before sentencing him to life in prison
ABCnews.com—Jay-Z in final negotiations for deal that would make him president of Def Jam

10.28.04
USA Today—Red Sox end Curse of the Bambino with World Series sweep of Cardinals
Salon.com—Genetically modified cats will be safe for allergy sufferers
CBS News—Man arrested for trying to run down Katherine Harris with his Cadillac
C|NET—RIAA issues first certifications for gold, platinum, and multiplatinum downloads
MSNBC—Bush web site blocking foreign visitors, but campaign won't say why
Fox News—Bonds' 700th home run ball sells for $800,000 at auction

10.29.04
Palm Beach Post—Man attacks girlfriend after she tells him she intends to vote for Kerry
Wired News—Many repairs on the new iMac can be performed by consumers, part of a growing trend among computer hardware manufacturers
USA Today—Gee, what a surprise: after vowing to fight sexual harrassment allegations in court, Bill O'Reilly quietly settles out of court less than two weeks after the charges were made public
Sports Illustrated—Odd coincidence has the democrats rooting for Green Bay this Sunday
Salon.com—Implementation of new check-clearing system between banks mean your transactions will post much faster in the future
Fox News—FBI looking into how Halliburton's no-bid contracts were awarded