8.1.05
ABCnews.com—Jimmy Carter condemns Guantanomo Bay detentions and calls Iraq war "unnecessary and unjust"
Wired News—Astronomers may have discovered a tenth planet in our solar system
CNN.com—Killer bees found in Louisiana
USA Today—The past two months have been the hottest ever
Fox News—Dennis Rader to represent himself in wrongful death civil lawsuits related to his BTK killings
MSNBC—Australia bans GTA:SA

8.2.05
CNN.com—Bush avoids senate confirmation and appoints Bolton to the UN while the legistlators are in recess
MSNBC—Rafael Palmeiro suspended for steroid use
Fox News—Saudi Arabi's King Fahd dies
ABCnews.com—Al Gore's tv network debuts
CBS News—New information shows that Hendrix pretended to be gay to get out of army service in 1962
USA Today—HP will no longer sell the iPod, but it will still bundle iTunes on the desktops it sells

8.3.05
CNN.com—Astronauts will attempt an in-flight repair to the exterior of the shuttle before returning to earth
Fox News—Bush backs Intelligent Design theory. I'm getting pretty sick of this moron.
USA Today—Apple unveils its first mouse with multiple buttons and a scroll wheel
ZDNet—Next version of IE still won't be standards-compliant
Wired News—Proponets of the Electric Universe model say that data from the Deep Impact comet collision gives evidence that supports their claims
New Scientist—One way to make people eat healthier is to implant false memories about having gotten sick after eating fattening food

8.4.05
CNN.com—Girl charged with felony assault after throwing a rock
Wired News—Bloggers help story of missing pregnant woman receive national attention
BBC News—South Korean scientists clone a dog
CBS News—Thanks to the housing boom, Americans are richer than ever even though they have stopped putting money into savings
USA Today—Harvard board member resigns to protest the university president's raise
Fox News—Adidas buying Reebok

8.5.05
CBS News—Civil liberties group sues New York City over subway bag searches
MSNBC—Robert Novak suspended by CNN after storming off the set during a taping of Inside Edition
USA Today—Orioles fire manager Lee Mazzilli
CNN.com—Apple launches iTunes in Japan
ABCnews.com—Rehnquist hospitalized again
Yahoo News—Dozens of trees felled to help save rare woodpecker

8.8.05
CBS News—Justice Stevens denounces the death penalty
ABCnews.com—Colorado bans the use of cell phones among young drivers
MSNBC—iTunes sells its first 1 million songs in Japan after just 4 days
CNN.com—Peter Jennings succumbs to lung cancer
Yahoo News—Two Jackson jurors say they regret acquitting the pop star
USA Today—Shuttle landing pushed back

8.9.05
New Scientist—Iran restarts its nuclear program, which it says is for peaceful purposes only
Fox News—The Fed expecting to raise interest rates
CNN.com—Cheerleading squad use their cheering skills to help them remember the license plate of a hit and run driver
Wired News—Scientists analyzing the Po river in Italy estimate that the locals are ingesting four times as much cocaine as previously thought
USA Today—Mother of soldier killed in Iraq plans to camp outside of Bush's home in Texas for the duration of his August vacation there in hopes of speaking to the president
ABCnews.com—Bush signs massive giveaway to the energy companies into law

8.10.05
Wired News—British government testing license plates with microchips that could track a vehicle's movements
MSNBC—Universities may be able to ban military recruiters from their campuses because of the military's anti-gay policies
ABCnews.com—Google says it will not speak to any of C|NET's reporters for a year after the online news outlet publishes a Google exec's personal details
CNN.com—Thanks to the rapid growth of Wi-Fi, more and more people are getting their internet for free by hopping on a neighbor's connection or using public hot spots
USA Today—Spammer settles lawsuit with Microsoft by paying the software giant $7 million
BBC News—Two new species of lemurs have been discovered in Madagascar

8.11.05
MSNBC—Yankees fan is arrested after jumping from the upper deck to the netting behind home plate
ABCnews.com—Korean man dies in internet cafe after playing Starcraft for 50 hours straight. Now if it was World of Warcraft I could understand, but Starcraft? That's so ten years ago.
Sports Illustrated—NCAA bans the name and mascot of FSU's seminole teams, along with several others it deems offensive to native american tribes
Wired News—Man who used video games as an excuse for his killing of three police officers is convicted of murder
USA Today—Company selling trips for moon orbits
New Scientist—Alcohol tolerance gene identified in fruit flies

8.12.05
BBC News—Yahoo pays $1 billion for stake in chinese online auction firm
CNN.com—Lobbyist with close ties to Tom DeLay to be indicted on fraud charges
USA Today—Japanese musicians whose record labels won't offer their songs for sale on iTunes are breaking their contracts to get their music onto the download service
New Scientist—Nasal spray could help reduce brain plaque associated with Alzheimer's
CBS News—27 year-old man shoots 17 year-old wife in the head after an argument over dirty dishes
MSNBC—KFC and Pizza Hut make all of their restaurants smoke-free

8.15.05
CNN.com—Israel begins pullout from Gaza
CBS News—Fraternity members could face torture charges in hazing death
Fox News—Bush's neighbors in Crawford are getting aggressive towards the war protestors who have taken up residence there during Bush's month-long vacation
USA Today—White House hires first female head chef. Wow, slow news weekend.
MSNBC—Google halts book scanning project because of copyright concerns from publishers
ABCnews.com—Experimental hybrid car gets 250 mpg

8.16.05
Wired News—Feds push for less oversight of an airline passenger screening program that was recently found to have violated privacy laws. That's right, they want LESS oversight.
CNN.com—Deadline extended on new Iraq constitution. Yep, that whole democracy thing is going real well.
USA Today—Several prominent authors will use eBay to auction off the rights to name characters in upcoming books
New Scientist—EQ2 struck by dupe bug
ABCnews.com—Privacy advocates think that security cameras should be registered and regulated
BBC News—Another possible source for the Atlantis myth

8.17.05
BBC News—Fiona Apple will finally release Extraordinary Machine with one new track and the previously leaked songs re-recorded
CNN.com—Sale of cheap used laptops from school district turns into a mob panic
USA Today—Swallowable sensor keeps track of core body temperature in athletes to help identify signs of heat stroke
New Scientist—Cosmonaut on the ISS sets new record for time spent in space
Wired News—A review of the Windows Vista (god I hate that name) beta
Fox News—Cindy Sheehan's husband files for divorce while she continues her protest in Crawford

8.18.05
USA Today—Ohio governor charged with four misdemeanors for ethical violations, but he has no plans to resign
Fox News—Marine returning from a tour in Iraq is told that he no longer qualifies for the Texas in-state tuition rate because he was out of state too long
CNN.com—Microsoft will sell two different versions of the Xbox 360: a budget model, and one with all the bells and whistles
MSNBC—Next shuttle launch likely won't happen until at least next March
C|NET—New company wants to sell ad space (via temporary tatoos) on the bodies of attractive young people
BBC News—Nintendo's latest Zelda title will miss the Christmas sales period, but the GameBoy Micro will still go on sale in September

8.19.05
MSNBC—North Carolina legislation encourages people seeking a restraining order to also apply for a concealed weapon permit
ABCnews.com—Woman recieves cable bill addressed to "Bitch Dog" after calling several times to complain about her service
BBC News—Scientists have trouble fitting ancient fossil into our current divsions of animals
CNN.com—Group of ecologists want to transplant some native african species to north america
USA Today—Google announces that it will soon sell an additional 14 million shares
Wired News—Sony's blu-ray DVDs look to be winning the next round of format wars

8.22.05
CNN.com—Army general says we will need to keep 100,000+ troops in Iraq for at least four more years
MSNBC—Echoing his master Bush, lapdog Bill Frist also says that Intelligent Design should be taught in schools. Remember, this guy is a Harvard-educated doctor. But I guess we should also remember that Bush is Harvard and Yale-educated himself.
USA Today—Cloned cats have kittens together, becoming the first clones to reproduce
Fox News—Hunter S. Thompson's ashes shot from a cannon as part of a memorial service for the late writer
New Scientist—Method being tested in England would use heat stored in summer to keep roads clear of ice in the winter
ABCnews.com—GOP senator says that Iraq is looking more and more like Vietnam

8.23.05
USA Today—Connecticut sues the federal government over the No Child Left Behind Act, saying the act is illegal because it requires expensive testing but provides no funds to pay for the tests
MSNBC—Students still downloading illegal music, even on campuses where legal music downloads are offered for free
CNN.com—Moog, famous for his pioneering work creating synthesizers, dies at 71
Wired News—Star Trek themed cell phone will mimic the communicators used by the crew
New Scientist—Hubble's ability to precisely record ultraviolent frequencies is being used to scout the moon for potential base locations
C|NET—Warner to start up new e-label that offers only downloads in three-song clusters

8.24.05
Boing Boing—Flying Spaghetti Monster FTW!
CNN.com—Pat Robertson says that the US should assassinate Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela. Are these guys even pretending to call themselves christians any more?
Fox News—Google planning IM service
Wired News—Study shows that asian and western eyes may literally see the world differently
USA Today—Book aficianados are appalled at a woman's plan to sell a rare, intact first edition of the Book of Mormon page by page rather than as a single volume
MSNBC—Monkeys prefer high-stakes gambling over steady, safe rewards

8.25.05
Fox News—Head of the Tour de France says he can prove that Lance Armstrong was doping his blood during his first win in 1999
CNN.com—Sony integrates a web browser into the latest PSP software update
Wired News—Liquid titanium necklaces that claim to have health benefits are popular among ballplayers
ABCnews.com—The Dish Network is offering free service to all citizens of the first town to rename itself Dish
MSNBC—Doctor sued for tellling one of his patients that she was obese
New Scientist—Japan working on supersonic airliner

8.26.05
BBC News—Chinese government to set limit on how many consecutive hours people can spend playing online video games
CNN.com—Latest round of base closings to include Walter Reed
USA Today—Microsoft signs deal to make two movies based on the Halo video game
Wired News—Yomango movement uses shoplifting as the foundation for performance art pieces commenting on consumer culture
MSNBC—Sirius unveils portable player to compete with XM2GO
CBS News—Hawaii wants to put a cap on gas prices

8.29.05
BBC News—More evidence for a theory that global warming caused the last mass extinction, rather than a meteor hit
CNN.com—California files a lawsuit to force french fry vendors to put a warning label on their product
Fox News—11 year old boy charged with carjacking
USA Today—Professor has found a way to turn dark meat chicken into white meat
C|NET—One month in, Sony's online auction site for goods and accounts for EverQuest 2, is doing booming business
MSNBC—Chris Farley gets posthumous star on the walk of fame

8.30.05
USA Today—Bush's supreme court nominee could have to sit out many important cases because his extensive stock holdings would present conflict of interest issues
Wired News—Some Flickr users are annoyed at the tighter integration with new owner Yahoo
CNN.com—Despite the fact that it happened in a crowded club, police have no witnesses willing to come forward about the Suge Knight shooting
ABCnews.com—Michigan judge uses black boxes to keep tabs on drivers with multiple traffic convictions
C|NET—New deal will allow consumers to order photos online with Snapfish and pick them up from their local Walgreen's one hour later
BBC News—Earth's core seems to be spinning faster than the crust

8.31.05
CNN.com—Wow. Bush cuts short a vacation. Now that IS news.
USA Today—New Orleans beset by looters in the chaos that followed the devastation of Katrina
Wired News—Man who had his cell phone stolen finds movies and photos taken by the new owner uploaded to the web account for the device
Fox News—Britain mulling pornography ban
ABCnews.com—New Bob Dylan CD is being sold exclusively at Starbucks
MSNBC—In the wake of Katrina, gas prices nationwide could climb above $3 per gallon