7.5.05
BBC News—British man convicted for hacking the Xbox
Fox News—Female serial killer released from jail in Canada
C|NET—Nevada casinos now allowed to offer wireless gambling to customers
CNN.com—ABC cancels reality show two weeks before its premiere amidst concerns of racism on the show
USA Today—Church of Christ endorses gay marriage
MSNBC—NASA's Deep Impact probe hits its target

7.6.05
Editor & Publisher—Evidence is mounting that Karl Rove is the administration source that outed Valerie Plame as a CIA agent to the media
ABCnews.com—Russian astrologer is suing NASA for $300 million over the Deep Impact mission, saying that the probe's collision with a comet upsets the natural balance of the universe. Ummm...what?
USA Today—GM's extends popular employee discount promotion for another month, and Ford is following suit
Wired News—Remote control devices that allow students to respond instantly to the material being taught are becoming increasingly popular in classrooms
New Scientist—Robotic hand could offer more reliable breast exams and also allow doctors to perform exams remotely
CBS News—Doctors say that abstinence-only sex ed programs are not effective at preventing teenage pregnancy

7.7.05
CNN.com—Time magazine reporter jailed for contempt after refusing to testify about her sources in the Valerie Plame leak
USA Today—London will host the 2012 summer Olympic games
Wired News—Idaho kidnapper/killer/rapist has a blog that has become a forum for public commentary in the wake of his apprehension
ABCnews.com—McDonald's working with high-end fashionistas on uniform redesign
MSNBC—Disney will launch its own cell phone service next year
Palm Beach Post—Map showing the hometowns of all the soldiers killed in Iraq

7.8.05
CNN.com—Al Qaeda group claims responsibility for London bombings
USA Today—Record sales down compared to last year. You know what, RIAA (and Hollywood, while I'm ranting about this)—instead of bitching about piracy and downloads, why don't you focus on giving us product that doesn't suck?
BBC News—Blogs help document that aftermath of the London attacks
Wired News—Morgan Freeman launching online movie download service that would let viewers watch movies in their homes while they were still playing at theaters
MSNBC—Scientists working on way to grow meat in the lab
CBS News—"Slugging" helps DC commuters take advantage of the HOV lanes

7.11.05
CBS News—Man arrested for using someone else's unsecured wi-fi signal without permission
CNN.com—Newborn panda at the National Zoo survives its first day
USA Today—Lufthansa testing biometric boarding passes
Wired News—Arbitrator awards domain names similar to Google's to the internet firm, taking them away from "typosquatters"
MSNBC—Parrot seems to grasp the concept of zero, putting his math skills on par with those of a young human child
ABCnews.com—Czech professor makes replicas of shoes found on prehistoric man frozen in glacier

7.12.05
CNN.com—Two years ago, Bush said he would fire the person who leaked Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA operative. But even though Rove admits to speaking to at least one reporter about Plame, he remains employed, and Bush remains silent. But I guess one more lie doesn't matter to the idiot Bush backers who are so good at ignoring all the huge lies about the war that have been exposed so far.
Fox News—GOP angry about Hillary's comparison of Bush to Mad Magazine's Alfred E. Neuman. Come to think of it, though...
ZDNet—Antitrust regulators to examine Adobe's proposed purchase of Macromedia
ABCnews.com—Rockstar games being sued over graphic sexual content in GTA:SA that can be unlocked by downloading a mod
MSNBC—Cell phone access has been disabled in key NYC subway tunnels since the London bombings last week
USA Today—High school in Arizona is completly abandoning traditional textbooks

7.13.05
Wired News—Drivers who are using cell phones are four times more likely to be involved in an accident; hands-free headsets seem to make no difference
USA Today—AOL and XM to team for online video offering
ABCnews.com—Early evidence suggests London bombings were carried out by suicide bombers
C|NET—Man selling homemade mechanical exoskeleton on eBay to fund a new version of the design
CNN.com—European offices of Intel raided by EU antitrust investigators
MSNBC—Missouri may have put innocent man to death

7.14.05
ABCnews.com—WorldCom CEO sentenced to 25 years in prison
CNN.com—Shuttle launch delayed
USA Today—Rehnquist hospitalized
Fox News—NHL reaches deal with players union
Wired News—Kozmo revived with focus on baby supplies
C|NET—Apple posts record earnings

7.15.05
Fox News—Rehnquist says he has no plans to step down; will serve as long as his health permits him to perform his duties
C|NET—Microsoft buys rights to make online games with Marvel characters
MSNBC—Sony makes some inroads against the iPod in its native Japan
CNN.com—Arnold criticized for consulting deal that nets him $1 million annually and may have conflict of interest with his duties as governor
ABCnews.com—Woman arrested for child neglect after giving birth when her blood alcohol level was three times the legal limit
CBS News—Health advocacy group wants warning labels on sodas with sugar

7.18.05
Fox News—Cheney's chief of staff also implicated in Plame leak
USA Today—Largest chuch in America opens in building that formerly housed basketball arena
Wired News—Privacy advocate believes the RFID tags may be a fulfillment of the bible's Mark of the Beast prophecy
CBS News—TSA baggage screener is fired after agency learns of his rap CD with rhymes about flying planes into buildings
CNN.com—First charges formally filed against Saddam
MSNBC—Blondie celebrates 75th anniversary in comics pages. And at least 35th anniversary since anyone cared.

7.19.05
CNN.com—So now Bush has gone from saying he'll fire anyone associated with the Plame leak to saying he'll fire anyone who committed a crime in association with the Plame leak. How much clearer does this picture need to be, people?
USA Today—Congressman from Colorado threatens to bomb the holy sites of islam if the US is attacked. Okay...
Fox News—Wisconsin lawmaker wants morning after pill banned from state-funded college campuses
ABCnews.com—CMT plans to air the Miss America pageant with significant changes
MSNBC—Apple may add video to both iTunes and the iPod
New Scientist—Faulty gene may be responsible for many cases of diabetes and obesity

7.20.05
USA Today—DuPont faces $5 billion class action lawsuit for not warning consumers of a dangerous chemical claimants say is found in teflon
Wired News—Chess variant invented by Bobby Fischer gaining ground among human players and programmers of machine players alike
CNN.com—TiVo to introduce new scheme to encourage subscribers to watch commercials
New Scientist—New british base on antarctica will be built on skis to enable mobility
CBS News—Gore says his new tv network won't have a political slant. Right. Just like Fox News is Fair and Balanced.
BBC News—Tech art project uses movement of fish to create music

7.21.05
USA Today—Microsoft suing Google for luring away one of its top executives
CNN.com—Star Trek's Scotty passes away
Fox News—Retired grocery store worker could become next Earl of Essex
BBC News—British 15 year old successfully appeals curfew law
CBS News—76 year old woman arrested for selling crack in police sting
MSNBC—Telemarketers lobbying for exceptions that would allow them to call people on the do-not-call list

7.22.05
CNN.com—Terrorists once again try to detonate bombs in London, but this time without success
New Scientist—Historians claim that new evidence shows that Truman dropped atomic weapons on Japan not to end WWII, but to jumpstart the Cold War
ABCnews.com—Volvo asks Swedish government for an exception to the country's strict drunk driving laws so that it's test drivers can drive while intoxicated on a closed track
USA Today—GTA:SA will have its ERSB rating changed from Mature to Adults Only after the company admits that sex scenes in the game were put there by the developers, not by hackers
C|NET—Major upgrade of Firefox delayed
MSNBC—New study concludes that Mars has been too cold to support life for several billion years

7.25.05
The Smoking Gun—Paint huffing FTW!
CNN.com—Daylight savings time to be extended
USA Today—Lance Armstrong wins seventh Tour de France
New Scientist—Huygens probe may have found signs of life on Titan
MSNBC—Brazilian police arrest 10 people who were using Google's Orkut social networking site to sell drugs
CBS News—Microsoft drops Longhorn codename for next OS, officially naming it Vista. Wow. That's a really sucky name.

7.26.05
Virtual Earth—Hi! We're Microsoft, and we're incapable of doing anything original. Here's our attempt to copy Google Maps.
ABCnews.com—Teamsters leaving AFL-CIO
USA Today—Bush's nominee to the supreme court declines to discuss his ties to a conservative judicial group
Wired News—British rappers use their cell phones as beatboxes, a place to write lyrics, and impromptu recording studios
BBC News—Butterfly species may offer clues to the processes that allow for evolution and speciation
MSNBC—Intel will build a $3 billion factory in Arizona

7.27.05
USA Today—Under pressure from NRA lobbyists, the senate puts work on defense spending bill on hold to work on bill to shield gun makers and dealers from liability in gun-related crimes
CBS News—Cola not as bad for teeth as lemonade or sports drinks
CNN.com—Man who kidnapped Elizabeth Smart is ruled incompetent to stand trial
Wired News—Microsoft's new mapping service shows a warehouse and a parking lot where Apple Computer's corporate campus should be
ABCnews.com—TV Guide relaunching as a large format magazine focused on entertainment, with less emphasis on channel listings
MSNBC—Episode III comes to DVD on November 1

7.28.05
CBS News—GOP group offers $10,000 reward for information that leads to the indictment and conviction of Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley
USA Today—OJ Simpson fined $25,000 for pirating satellite television signals
CNN.com—Doonesbury comic strip pulled from some papers for Rove's offensive nickname, Turd Blossom. But don't forget, it's Bush who made up and uses that nickname, not the Gary Trudeau.
ABCnews.com—Denver's enforcement of a ban on pit bulls has forced residents to choose between moving or keeping their pets
New Scientist—Study shows that giving expensive but worthless gifts (such as expensive dinners) is a good way for men to attract women and weed out the gold diggers
BBC News—Japanese scientists develop realistic looking female android

7.29.05
MSNBC—IRA says it is renouncing violence as a political weapon
ABCnews.com—Teenage pianist suing music teacher after she publicly berated him during a performance at Carnegie Hall
Wired News—Some think that we could have a settlement on Mars within 20 years
USA Today—Kenyan man offers Clinton a dowry of 40 goats and 20 cows to marry Chelsea
New Scientist—NASA says it will ground the shuttle fleet until it can fix the problem of insulating foam falling off during liftoff
BBC News—US teens prefer text messaging to email