3.1.05
CBS News—Singapore zoo uses accupuncture to treat sick elephant
Wired News—One of the original designers of the Mac dies
The Guardian—Two Cornell students plan to spend their summer breaking ridiculous laws across America
MSNBC—Lebanon's government resigns
USA Today—Supreme court to decide whether cruise ships registered in other countries can be sued for not complying with US statutes when they are in US waters
C|NET—XM incorporates more features into its basic plan and raises monthly fees

3.2.05
CNN.com—Supreme court rules that the death penalty for juvenile offenders is unconstitutional
USA Today—Cigarette lighters will no longer be allowed on planes. Wait, you meanthey've been allowed up until now? Even after the shoe bomber? Yeah, we're real secure folks.
Fox News—Human rights groups file suit against Rumsfeld on behalf of men tortured by US agents in Iraq and Afghanistan
Wired News—Spyware writers are shifting their programs to take advantage of less popular browsers as more people make the switch away from IE
CBS News—Japanese intend to build manned base on the moon
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette—Profile of John Gilmore, a man fighting the good fight for privacy on behalf of all of us

3.3.05
World Jump Day—And you thought that new calendar idea was crazy...
USA Today—Should the driving age be raised to 17 or 18?
MSNBC—So the Red Sox really are a bunch of idiots, just like they said
New Scientist—US military working on non-lethal plasma weapon meant to cause excruciating pain
CBS News—Bill Gates to be given honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II
Business Week—Being slashdotted no longer brings the heavy traffic that it once did

3.4.05
CNN.com—Fossett completes first solo non-stop round-the-world flight with no refueling
Wired News—Long Island library is loaning out books-on-tape stored on iPod shuffles
ABCnews.com—The death toll for US troops in Iraq tops 1500
USA Today—Let's get something straight here, people: if you're talking strictly about dismantling key aspects of the check-and-balance system and concentrating governmental power in the executive branch, it is not out of line to compare the current Republican regime to Hitler's Nazi party. Read your history.
BBC News—British government will give money to farmers who help protect the environment
MSNBC—Segway releasing three new variations of its signature machine

3.7.05
BBC News—Commission in Britain says that black males might need to have a segregated education
ABCnews.com—More companies are taking actions against employees who write about the workplace on their blogs
CBS News—Italian journalist says her car was deliberately shot at by US troops, wounding her and killing a companion
CNN.com—Stripper puts implant up for auction on eBay. Gross.
New Scientist—Mix-up caused instruments meant for one Mars mission to be put on other craft and vice versa
Fox News—Bono being considered for position at World Bank?

3.8.05
Not Proud—Tales of shame and misery
CNN.com—Senate considers minimum wage raise
ABCnews.com—Boeing fires CEO after discovering that he had affair with female executive
CBS News—Nearly 20% of Americans relied on the internet as one of their primary sources of news for the 2004 elections
Wired News—Sites in England are helping amateurs become part-time sex workers
New Scientist—Laughter good for blood flow

3.9.05
BBC News—New cell transplant technique cures a man of diabetes
USA Today—New Jersey names the tomato as the state vegetable, despite the fact that technically it's a fruit
CBS News—Dozens of individuals on terrorist watch lists were able to legally buy firearms in the US last year
New Scientist—New cell phone virus can send copies of itself to uninfected phones in infected phones' address books
CNN.com—Blogger given White House press credentials for the first time
ZDNet—Yahoo preparing to launch iTunes competitor

3.10.05
C|NET—Creator of Linux now runs his OS on an Apple G5
CBS News—Baseball stars subpoened to testify before congress about steroids, but MLB plans to fight the summons
USA Today—Personal data on tens of thousands of Americans stolen from LexisNexis database
CNN.com—Lawsuit saying students shouldn't have to do homework in the summer is tossed out by judge
Wired News—Intelligence officer thinks we should use blogging technology to improve information gathering
Fox News—Mel Gibson to release shorter version of The Passion with some of the goriest material removed

3.11.05
CNN.com—Man who kills himself when stopped for traffic violation leaves note claiming responsibility for the murders of a judge's husband and mother
USA Today—McDonald's may outsource drive-thru orders to a centralized call center
CBS News—Road rage incident sparked by one driver's dislike of another's Bush/Cheney bumper sticker
Fox News—Iranian protesters who want current government overthrown are holding hunger strike on an airplane
ZDNet—Nintendo releases details about its upcoming console, including that it will be backward-compatible with GameCube games
Wired News—New coating for ships' hulls based on the texture of shark skin may help keep barnacles and algae from attaching to the ship

3.14.05
CNN.com—Lawmakers want political blogs to be seen as journalistic enterprises outside of the realm of campaign finance rules
New Scientist—Hopkins scientist nominated to be head of NASA
USA Today—New hotel opens in complex that Hitler used as a retreat in Austria
ABCnews.com—Los Angeles considers underground cisterns to capture rainwater
CBS News—4 year old shoots his 2 year old brother after dispute over toys
BBC News—119 applicants to Harvard's business school who tried to hack into the web site to find out their decisions early have been been denied admission to the program

3.15.05
CBS News—Final installation in the Star Wars series may get PG-13 rating
USA Today—Amazon's Jeff Bezos making pitch for commercial spaceport in Texas
CNN.com—Kweisi Mfume to make senate run
Fox News—Blackberry devices will soon feature IM interfaces to both AOL's and Yahoo's messenging services
BBC News—NASA working with European Space Agency to plan mission to Europa
New Scientist—New science of microspectometry could make it easier to identify stolen gems

3.16.05
USA Today—Indepedent engineering consultant hired to evaluate Boston's Big Dig says that he cannot guarantee the safety of the tunnels after his review
CNN.com—Wow. A greedy corporate bigwig who ripped off his customers and his employees is actually going to jail. But I won't believe the system works until I see Enron chief (and Bush buddy) Ken Lay in the slammer.
Wired News—Easy to erect building-in-a-bag could provide shelter in disaster and war zones
Fox News—TiVo signs agreement to provide DVRs and software to Comcast customers
New Scientist—Amazon has developed software that can guess your basic demographic information based on the items you buy online
C|NET—Apple wins lawsuit against British company, forcing it to hand over a european web address for iTunes

3.17.05
ZDNet—Apple wants a portion of the sales from iPod accessories made by third-party vendors
CNN.com—Cassini detects atmosphere on one of Saturn's moons
Fox News—Senate approves drilling in arctic preserve
USA Today—Scott Peterson sentenced to death
New Scientist—The human X chromosome shares significant swatches of code with bird chromosomes
BBC News—Hitler may have tested hybrid atomic weapon in the final months of WWII

3.18.05
ABCnews.com—Mark McGwire admits that there is a steroid problem in baseball, but refuses to say whether he used them himself
C|NET—Yahoo says it will support Firefox in all of its services
CBS News—Family gets $10,000 settlement from school district after son receives bad haircut at school
USA Today—PlayStation Portable due out next week
CNN.com—Man charged with plotting to kidnap David Letterman's son
MSNBC—Westlaw will place more restrictions on who can access SSN data on its system

3.21.05
CNN.com—John DeLorean dies. Weird, I just saw one of his signature aluminum cars parked in front of the museum on Friday.
New Scientist—3D printer can create new copies of itself
USA Today—North Carolina lawmaker wants games like Solitaire and Minesweeper deleted from all state government computers
C|NET—New software allows iTunes users to purchase music online without Apple's copyright protections
Fox News—NC State knocks out defending champs UConn in second round of NCAA tournament
ABCnews.com—Image of Satan appears on turtle's shell after it survives a pet shop fire

3.22.05
Wired News—Xbox 2 to feature a microtransaction system that will allow online players to buy additional content
CNN.com—Iceland grants Bobby Fischer citizenship
USA Today—Teens who pledge abstinence until marriage are just as likely to get STDs as those who don't
ABCnews.com—Yahoo to buy Flickr
CBS News—Newspaper misprint leads thousands to believe that they had won a jackpot of $100,000
BBC News—Ion collider in New York produces phenomenon similar to a black hole

3.23.05
ABCnews.com—French news agency sues Google, claiming that the search engines compilation of data pulled from their subscription-only site crosses the fair-use line
Sports Illustrated—Barry Bonds may be out for season after another surgery on his knee, and even hints at retirement
CBS News—35 hour workweek on the way out in France
USA Today—State trooper suspended after giving dismissive comment to and hanging up on a 911 caller
New Scientist—Contact lenses that react to blood sugar level could help diabetics avoid constant blood tests
Wired News—Hackers use the motion sensors in Apple's PowerBooks to make the machine do tricks

3.24.05
New Scientist—Unapproved genetically modified corn found in US crops
CNN.com—More engaged couples are choosing stores like Target over traditional department stores for their wedding registries
USA Today—Hyundai to include XM radios in all of its models
CBS News—Yahoo's free email service matches Google's perpetually-in-beta Gmail by upping storage to 1 gig
Wired News—The Decemberists use BitTorret to distribute their latest video
ABCnews.com—No traditional bloated annual bonuses for Google execs

3.25.05
Fox News—Woman finds human finger in bowl of chili
USA Today—A female librarian at Harvard says she was denied a promotion because she's too pretty
ABCnews.com—Scientists recover T. Rex tissue from broken fossilized bone
New Scientist—NASA to offer cash prize for inventions that could be used to make space elevator a reality
CBS News—Los Angeles DA says jurors who acquitted Robert Blake were "incredibly stupid"
MSNBC—European Union given the .eu domain name

3.28.05
USA Today—The army has decided not to prosecute 17 soldiers involved in detaineed deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan
CBS News—Reporters at NC newspaper launch blogs to be more in touch with their community
ZDNet—Electronics manufacturer enters into deal with Pez to sell MP3 players that look like Pez's signature candy dispensers
CNN.com—Woman awarded over $40 million in divorce settlement even though her unfaithfulness was reason for split
BBC News—Genetically modified "golden" rice could help alleviate vitamin A deficiencies in poorer countries
New Scientist—Face blindness seems to have genetic component

3.29.05
The Smoking Gun—Teen accused in Red Lake shootings posted violent Flash movie depicting a massacre ending with the gunman's suicide
BBC News—Another massive quake hits the same region that was hit by a tsunami a few months ago
CBS News—Report critcizes Kofi Annan for nepotism that led to corruption in the oil for food program sponsored by the UN
Fox News—Burger King to offer enormous breakfast sandwich with more calories than a Whopper
CNN.com—More musuems are using visible storage facilities to allow patrons to have a more complete understanding of the museum collections
MSNBC—Judge in patent dispute orders Sony to stop selling PlayStation and PS2 consoles

3.30.05
CNN.com—Top official with the Boy Scouts charged with downloadiing child porn
MSNBC—Lawmaker wants to reinstate Roger Maris' 61 homers as the official single-season record
Wired News—Passenger screening program for airports fails on 9 of 10 requirements laid out by Congress, but the government still plans to roll it out by the end of the summer
CBS News—Supreme court reviewing file sharing case
DavidByrne.com—Listen to a streaming version of David Byrne's current playlist
ABCnews.com—Legally blind golfer gets a hole-in-one

3.31.05
ABCnews.com—Monkeys get star-struck, too
CNN.com—Suge Knight ordered to pay $107 million to former business parter
USA Today—California fraternity suspended after members admit participating in porn film
MSNBC—Chinese man killed in dispute over virtual property
CBS News—Man accused of plotting to kill Bush will be given a medical exam to corroborate his allegations that he was tortured
ZDNet—HP wants to increase co-branding with Apple's iPod