2.1.05
Fox News—Poll shows high schoolers care very little about free speech. Great: the republicans win—a crappy education system produces moronic, apathetic, and easily manipulated herds of sheep.
CNN.com—Hazmat truckers must now submit to fingerprinting and background checks
Wired News—The TSA wants a centralized airline passenger screening system
New Scientist—Our appetite for meat could have made our ancestors wean their children at a younger age than our primate cousins
ZDNet—Kodak buys commercial printing firm for nearly $1 billion
ABCnews.com—Barry Bonds will miss most of spring training while recovering from arthroscopic knee surgery

2.2.05
Wired News—Scientists create neurons from stem cells
CNN.com—Pope John Paul II hospitalized
BBC News—Xbox 2 unveiling pushed back to the summer
USA Today—Bush to raise death benefits for soldiers killed in Iraq
ZDNet—After months of beta testing, Microsoft finally releases its own search engine in hopes of dethroning Google and Yahoo
Fox News—Medicare will cover Viagra starting next year

2.3.05
Wired News—Bill Gates irritated that many of his employees use Apple's iPod at work
ABCnews.com—Rabbi may have given babies herpes during circumcision ceremony
CBS News—Suicide rates have dropped since Prozac hit the market
CNN.com—Six more weeks of winter. What a shock.
USA Today—eBay sellers frustrated over rising fees and increasingly thin profit margins
Fox News—North Korea may have sold processed uranium to Libya

2.4.05
MSNBC—NHL may cancel season after owners and players fail to reach agreement on salary cap. Yawn.
New Scientist—New technology can add computer-generated objects to live video footage
Sports Illustrated—Dante Culpepper gives jewelry to paralyzed teen during awards ceremony, then takes it back afterward
ABCnews.com—EA working on Godfather video game that will use voices of Brando, James Caan, and Robert Duvall
USA Today—Martha Stewart will host Apprentice spin-off after she gets out of jail
CBS News—Star Trek: Enterprise canceled. God, is that show still on?

2.7.05
BBC News—Gaming company holds auditions for video game cast
CNN.com—Cheney says he won't run for president in 2008. Well, duh—he'll just run for veep again behind Jeb and continue running things from behind the curtain.
MSNBC—University hospital considering use of barcodes or RFID tags to keep track of body parts from cadavers
USA Today—Grocery store will start carding for all cigarette and alchohol purchases, even for senior citizens
Fox News—Charlotte, NC, in the tobacco-friendly south, is considering banning smoking in restaurants and bars
ABCnews.com—AOL employee pleads guilty to selling 92 million email addresses to spammers

2.8.05
USA Today—Judge says the army's stop-loss policies are legal
BBC News—MIT professor says he is developing a laptop that will sell for less than $100
Wired News—Sony, IBM, and Toshiba unveil new Cell chip
CNN.com—Preacher steals over $9 million from hundreds of small churches
ZDNet—Gmail may be nearing official launch
Fox News—Female soldier demoted after mud wrestling party in Iraq

2.9.05
New Scientist—Man who cloned Dolly is given a license to clone human embryos
CNN.com—Google plans to release 176 million more shares of stock next week
CBS News—Mardi Gras' early date and poor weather have led to smaller-than-normal crowds in New Orleans
ABCnews.com—Sears will introduce stand-alone stores that focus on home and garden offerings
MSNBC—11 marines injured in Iraq have Purple Hearts revoked
USA Today—British military pilot uses helicopter to deliver pizza to his girlfriend

2.10.05
CNN.com—Huh. I always thought we'd be invading Syria next. But whatever. Hope you rural red state suckers who voted for Bush enjoy seeing your kids drafted and sent off to die in a new desert.
USA Today—Tampering in the Iraq elections? I am shocked! How could this have happened? /sarcasm off
ABCnews.com—Woman with mohawk scalped. That's right, scalped.
New Scientist—New night vision camera developed by Dutch military shows images in full color
Fox News—Baltimore mayor compares the cuts in Bush's new budget proposal to the 9.11 attacks. Finally, a democrat is inappropriately using 9.11 for political gain—the republicans have had a lock on that for the past three years.
CBS News—New bill in Virginia proposes $50 fines for people who wear low-riding pants that expose their underwear

2.11.05
CNN.com—North Korea is dropping out of nuclear disarmament talks and says that it will increase its arsenal
New Scientist—Chef has modified an ink-jet printer to print flavors onto edible paper
USA Today—Applicants for driver's licenses in the US will now be required to prove their citizenship or legal immigrant status
Wired News—Public school system in California agrees to test RFID tags in student IDs without telling parents or students first
ABCnews.com—Researchers believe the Hope Diamond used to be part of the french crown jewels
Snow Crystals—Some cool close-up shots of snowflake crystals

2.18.05
ABCnews.com—Army recruiter says draft would not improve quality of fighting force. Well duh—but it would improve the quantity, which is what the quantity, which the Bushies will need for their push into new occupations.
USA Today—New Jersey casino will fire any waitress it deems to heavy
Sports Illustrated—Hockey player files suit against another player for an injury that occured on the ice last season
ZDNet—Next version if IE will not be integrated into Windows OS
MSNBC—Random House to move into world of mobile phone text publishing
BBC News—Researchers developing natural breast implants using stem cells

2.21.05
Wired News—UN calls for ban on all forms of human cloning
MSNBC—New email scam targets families of slain soldiers
CBS News—New Jersey files suit against Blockbuster, saying that its new "end of late fees" ad campaign is misleading
BBC News—The US will use muons to detect nuclear material
CNN.com—Inventor of the crash test dummy dies
ABCnews.com—Science stifled by Bush administration

2.22.05
New Scientist—There may be a sea of frozen ice near the equator on Mars
ABCnews.com—Pakistani tribal council orders girl to marry man 40 years her senior to punish her uncle for having an affair with the man's current wife
BBC News—Bloggers try to use their voices to free two imprisoned Iranian bloggers who were jailed for entries they posted
CNN.com—Paris Hilton's mobile device hacked and the contents of her address book posted online
CBS News—New nuclear sub named after Jimmy Carter has the ability to tap into undersea cables to intercept transmissions
Fox News—Ohio State student puts university president up for sale on eBay

2.23.05
CNN.com—Japanese commuters will be able to pay for their train tickets with a wave of their cell phones
Wired News—Is email and instant messenging killing language?
ABCnews.com—Former agent Jeff Moorad is now a partial owner of the Arizona Diamondbacks
USA Today—Sirius wins rights to broadcast NASCAR
BBC News—Queen Elizabeth II will not attend Prince Charles' wedding to Camilla Parker-Bowles
MSNBC—Members of italian rock band sent to prison for satanic killings

2.24.05
CNN.com—Scientist thaws out 30,000 year old bacteria and they begin swimming
New Scientist—Synthetic enamel may replace the current drill-n-fill method of repairing tooth decay
ABCnews.com—Hunter S. Thompson's suicide was likely not an impulsive act, his family says
BBC News—Woman sues HP, saying that they have programmed their printer cartridges to say they are empty after a certain amount of time even if there is still usable ink remaining
MSNBC—Scientists think they have discovered first dark galaxy
Wired News—Jason Kottke will become full-time blogger supported only by his readers' contributions

2.25.05
CNN.com—Quentin Tarantino to direct season finale for CSI
MSNBC—Everquest 2 players can now order pizza in-game
USA Today—Apple is rumored to be making a run at TiVo
New Scientist—Surprisingly, hydroelectric power produces significant amounts of greenhouse gases
C|NET—Microsoft hires Final Fantasy creator to make games for Xbox 2
BBC News—British government creates official virus warning site for computer users

2.28.05
New Scientist—New technique will let couples exchange rings grown from each other's bone cells. Ew.
BBC News—SpaceShipOne to be enshrined at the National Air and Space museum
Wired News—Artist sells Negativland iPod on his own web site after eBay bows to pressure from Apple and pulls his auction
ABCnews.com—New soccer ball contains chip that will beep when ball crosses goal line
USA Today—AOL adding AIM plug-in for Microsoft's Outlook email program
MSNBC—Hasbro will release musical toothbrush with two-minute tune intended to encourage kids to brush longer