daily links: june 2005

6.1.05
CNN.com—Cheney says insurgency in Iraq will be put down by the end of Bush's second term
Wired News—Intel is set to unveil a copycat of the Mac mini
USA Today—Vanity Fair article claims to reveal the identity of Deep Throat
BBC News—British company develops a toilet for use in a car
MSNBC—New steering wheel includes a sensor that can detect whether the driver alcohol level. So, uh, what happens if they put on gloves?
Fox News—NC may halt executions for two years while a committee re-examines the death penalty


6.2.05
CNN.com—So Cheney calls Amesty International report on Guantanamo Bay conditions offensive, Bush calls it absurd, and now Rumsfeld calls it reprehensible. But none of them have said it's not true.
MSNBC—Neil Armstrong threatening to sue the barber who kept his hair after a trim and sold it for $3000
Wired News—New service makes it easy for people to trade DVDs through the mail, but there are still kinks to be worked out
BBC News—Recently unearthed documents reveal that the nazis may have been closer to creating a nuclear weapon than previously thought
New Scientist—Study finds that people who smell a specific hormone will become more trusting
USA Today—New law requires employers to destroy a credit report on an employee before throwing disposing of it


6.3.05
CBS News—Apple settles iPod battery class action suit
CNN.com—Dreamworks shareholders sue company over misleading statements about Shrek 2 DVD sales
Fox News—Microsoft web site hacked
Wired News—New top level domain, .xxx, being created for adult web sites
Yahoo News—Rare 1913 nickel sells for more than $4 million at auction
New Scientist—Study finds link between power lines and cancer in children


6.6.05
C|NET—Wow. Apple will supposedly announce today that they plan to move to Intel chips for all their computers by 2007. Just, wow. I've been hearing these rumors for 10 years, and I can't believe they're actually going to do it.
ABCnews.com—North Carolinians feud over eastern (vinegar) vs. western (ketchup) style barbecue. Eastern all the way—ketchup in barbecue sucks.
USA Today—Borrowers at Illinois library will soon have to give fingerprint when they want to use the facility's computers to browse the web
CNN.com—Homeless lured to farm in Florida where they were used as slave labor
New Scientist—Ebola vaccine is successful in monkey trials
MSNBC—Company dissects songs to develop music recommendation software


6.7.05
CNN.com—Supreme court rules that federal laws trump state laws and outlaw marijuana for medical use
CBS News—Missing Texas student found working at a Sam's Club in Kentucky after seven years
ABCnews.com—Police officer pulls over his own stolen car
ZDNet—Apple introduces in-store iPod recycling program
USA Today—Laptops outsold desktops for the first time ever last month
MSNBC—Two men arrested in England for trying to sell a copy of the new unreleased Harry Potter novel


6.8.05
CBS News—Global spending on the military topped $1 trillion in 2004
MSNBC—CVS to sell disposable digital camcorder for $30
CNN.com—Los Alamos whistleblower who was scheduled to testify before congress later this month is badly beaten in an attack many think was designed to silence him
USA Today—Katherine Harris to run for the senate after two terms in congress. Wow, subverting democracy to give Bush the White House really paid off for her.
ABCnews.com—Canadian man wanted for murder was allowed into the US carrying a blood-stained chainsaw
ZDNet—Apple's iTunes is as popular as many P2P networks for downloading music


6.9.05
Fox News—Philadelphia schools make african history a required course
New Scientist—Radio astonomers worry that cell phone use on planes could significantly hinder their work
USA Today—White House staffer accused of editing scientific reports to downplay the effects of global warming; the administration, of course, backs him up
CNN.com—Student discovers bug in calculators that could have given students an unfair advantage on standardized tests. Wait, kids are allowed to use calculators on standardized tests now?
ABCnews.com—Colombian scientists want to use moth catepillars to wipe out coca crops, but others say the potential for negative unintended consequences is high
MSNBC—Unemployed British teens offered an iPod for completing a summer work training program


6.10.05
New Scientist—Researchers want to use genes from the HIV and ebola viruses to engineer a new virus to treat cystic fibrosis
ABCnews.com—Republicans push for raising the Social Security minimum age and reducing benefits for high-income citizens
Wired News—Bush dismisses civil liberties concerns and pushes for renewal of Patriot Act
CNN.com—Researchers find wild dolphins using sponges as tools and teaching their young to do the same
USA Today—Dave Chapelle meets with Comedy Central execs to discuss the future of his show
CBS News—The US Catholic Church has paid out over $1 billion to victims of sexual abuse by its priests


6.14.05
CNN.com—Michael Jackson found not guilty on all counts. Did anyone not see this coming, even though we all know he's guilty (including, in all likelihood, most of the members of the jury)?
Wired News—McDonald's to offer drive-thru DVD rental along with Big Macs. Huh?
MSNBC—Microsoft censoring blogs on its chinese language MSN site
Fox News—Supreme court overturns Texas death penalty sentence
ABCnews.com—All your Katie are belong to us
New Scientist—Researchers make nano-brushes using carbon nanotubes


6.15.05
CBS News—Scientists germinate 2000 year old seed from palm tree
Fox News—Woman wins second $1 million jackpot from scratch-off lottery tickets after winning first earlier this year
USA Today—Boy dies on Epcot ride
Wired News—Art project gives participants one minute of anonymous speech, broadcast over loudspeakers in public locations
BBC News—eBay bans Live 8 ticket scalpers
CNN.com—Porn star who's planning to run for lieutenant governor of California next year attends high-level GOP fundraiser in DC


6.16.05
MSNBC—Online poker company expect to raise $2 billion in IPO on London stock exchange
USA Today—House votes to put limits on the Patriot Act. It's about fucking time.
Fox News—Arnold booed at commencement address
ZDNet—Even though it has been available for nearly four years, Windows XP is installed on fewer half of the business machines in the US
ABCnews.com—Connecticut governor vetoes bill that would have banned soft drinks and junk food machines from public schools. Why'd he veto it again? Oh, that's right: money.
CBS News—Panda at National Zoo may be pregnant


6.17.05
Fox News—Recently arrested child molester may have tens of thousands of victims
USA Today—Cingular thinks that cell phone use should continue to be banned on airline flights
Fortune.com—Michael Dell says he would sell Mac machines if Apple would license the OS to him
New Scientist—France and Japan to collaborate on new supersonic commercial jet
Wired News—New law requires operators of adult sites to keep records verifying that women featured on their sites were of legal age
CBS News—Brain dead woman kept alive on machines as doctors try to bring her fetus to term


6.20.05
C|NET—Microsoft working on its own P2P application
Fox News—Stories and photographs about Japan immediately after the atomic bombs were dropped are made public after being censored by the US government in 1945
CNN.com—Sony Online acquires rights to design games using DC Comics characters
USA Today—Biden throws his hat into the ring for the 2008 democratic nomination
New Scientist—Human evolution may have happened in bursts, not as a long, steady process
ABCnews.com—Email from university financial aid office notifying students that they were failing and would lose their funding allowed all recipients to see the names of all the other recipents


6.21.05
CBS News—Bush likely to circumvent senate approval for Bolton by installing him during July recess; still refuses to provide key documents from the nominee's past
C|NET—Apple moving to all dual-processor lineup for its G5 towers
CNN.com—Bush's new CIA head says he knows where bin Laden is hiding. Right. He's probably got all of Saddam's WMD with him.
Fox News—Foreign construction workers with forged documents allowed to enter sensitive area of nuclear power plant
USA Today—Adelphia founder sentenced to 15 years in prison for corporate wrongdoing
MSNBC—Bigger brains do seem to correlate with higher intelligence


6.22.05
CNN.com—Google working on service similar to PayPal
USA Today—LA Times pulls the plug on an experiment that let readers re-write editorials on the web Wiki-style
BBC News—Microsoft hopes to sell 10 million Xbox 360s in the first year or so of release
ABCnews.com—Miami suburb now lets you pay your parking meter using your cell phone
CBS News—Republican congressman calls democrats anti-christian
MSNBC—Lions protect ehtiopian girl who was abducted and beaten by several men


6.23.05
Wired News—ACLU sponsoring Wiki that will help review several thousands of pages of documents related to Gitmo
CNN.com—House approves constitutional amendment that would make flag-burning a crime
USA Today—Giant popsicle that was part of world record attempt melts and floods square in NYC
Fox News—Judge rules that Amtrak can charge higher fares for passengers with special needs due to disabilities
New Scientist—Hubbles captures images of what may be newly formed solar system
BBC News—Study shows that parents rarely pay attention to ratings and warnings on video games


6.24.05
CNN.com—Wow. I actually agree with Thomas and Scalia on something. I thought the conservatives were supposed to be on the side of big business, but not in this decision.
USA Today—After Cheney says the insurgents are in their last throes, Rummy admits that they are stronger than ever
New Scientist—Soy products may have adverse effects on fertility
Fox News—Democrats want Rove to retract remarks he made in a speech earlier this week
CBS News—Contest winner suing radio station for awarding her a 100 Grand candy bar instead of $100,000
MSNBC—Japanese security company will start using robot guards to supplement the human workforce


6.29.05
Wired News—TV show pilot rejected by the networks is finding a second life on P2P
ABCnews.com—Shuttle launch still on track despite a new report criticizing safety of the vehicle
New Scientist—Study finds that regular doses of vitamin C will not prevent colds, but may shorten duration
MSNBC—AMD files antitrust lawsuit against Intel
USA Today—Wal-Mart heir killed in plane crash
CNN.com—Google shares top $300


6.30.05
Google Earth—And I thought Google Maps was pretty cool...
BBC News—Shakespeare's hometown now features a wireless PDA tour
ABCnews.com—Thai fishermen catch world record catfish, then eat it
CNN.com—Patriots owner says that he gave his Super Bowl ring to Putin as a gift after the media speculated that the Russian president may have pocketed it without permission
New Scientist—New image may show lake on surface of Titan
USA Today—Craig Biggio sets record for being hit by a pitch

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