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3.1.02
BBC News—UK scientists receive permission from House of Lords to create human embryo clones for research purposes
Wired News—Some iPod owners are using the devices to download software from display computers at CompUSA
CNN.com—Football hooligan video game hits store shelves in Europe
New Scientist—Will the new scoring system fix the flaws with figure skating judging?
USA Today—The fourth season of Survivor debuts on CBS
ABCnews.com—As a follow-up to the Glutton Bowl special, Fox will have Amy Fisher and Tonya harding face off in the boxing ring |
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3.4.02
CNN.com—Mom admits she rigged IQ tests for son to make him look like a genius
Wired News—California gubernatorial candidate sends out spam as part of his campaign and is surprised when it backfires
Salon.com—Nearly half of the 9.11 hijackers were pulled aside that day because of security concerns, but all were eventually allowed to board their planes
ZDNet—AltaVista will stop providing free web-based email to its customers and will also close down existing archives
New Scientist—Fallout from nuclear tests on American soil responsible for thousands of deaths in the last 50 years
ABCnews.com—New images of Mars indicate presence of frozen H2O |
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3.5.02
Wired News—Library of Congress plans to take hi-res digital images of its copy of the Gutenberg bible
Salon.com—Couple claims WTC flag was stolen from their yacht
ABCnews.com—Roundup of weird toys, including a Jesus action figure
BBC News—30 year old Pioneer 10 makes contact once again
MSNBC—Fraud affects 1 in 20 credit card users
USA Today—Fox network to debut new Star Wars trailer on March 10 |
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3.6.02
USA Today—Female hacker writes .NET worm to prove that women can write viruses, too
Salon.com—Columbine lawsuit against video game makers dismissed by judge
Wired News—Microsoft still insists that it cannot remove IE from Windows
MSNBC—Another article about weblogging
ABCnews.com—Bush to unveil color-coded terror alert system. Well that makes me feel a whole lot better.
CNN.com—Halo named game of the year |
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3.7.02
Salon.com—Three of America's top male gymnasts test positive for pot. Has anyone checked the snowboarders?
Wired News—Odd markings on rock could be oldest known Earth fossils, but many scientists have doubts
New Scientist—China claims to have dozens of cloned human embryos fit for stem cell harvesting
ZDNet—Burger King hopes to cut costs with its new web-based supply system
USA Today—Lucille Ball's childhood home up for auction on eBay
BBC News—New dinosaur fossil with feathers may change the way we think about the prehistoric creatures |
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3.8.02
New Scientist—The universe is actually beige. So much for the Bondi theory.
ABCnews.com—This spring could see the return of El Niño (which is spanish for...THE Niño)
ZDNet—US Army was tricked into paying for a T-1 line used to run a porn site, instead of base communications to Bosnia as they believed
MSNBC—Real Networks to offer 20 minute streams that compress baseball games by stripping away everything but the action (I didn't phrase it that way, but I think this is a horrible idea)
Wired News—Spies could theoretically monitor the blinking of some types of LEDs and capture the data being processed by the machine
CNN.com—Negative review of The Time Machine movie. Actually, I think they're being quite generous. |
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3.11.02
CNN—This might be the sickest and saddest story I have ever read
USA Today—Network Associates will no longer sell PGP, the world's leading encryption software
C|NET—After the success of Apple's new iMac, Gateway plans to release its own flat-panel consumer PC
Wired News—Hoping for a rebounding economy, a few net firms are ready for an IPO
ABCnews.com—NYC to get rid of recycling program in cost cutting measure
BBC News—London hackers use empty Pringles can to locate holes in wireless networks |
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3.12.02
C|NET—What really happens when you sign up for one of those once-in-a-lifetime spam offers?
Wired News—Performance artist implants microchips in her hands
Salon.com—Small e-publisher wins another round in court in their battle with Random House
CNN.com—Former Braves minor league coach Grady Little tapped to lead Red Sox
USA Today—Slate fooled by hoaxer claiming to be an executive at an auto manufacturer
Fox News—Team composed of Native Americans, Hispanics, and Anglos names itself the Fighting Whities to protest another local team's Indian mascot |
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3.13.02
First Monday—New journal about the internet
CNN.com—The concept might be cool, but the reality of the new Gorillaz stage show disappoints
ZDNet—Microsoft claims that it wants to change the way it behaves in the competitive marketplace. Forgive me for being a little cynical about this.
New Scientist—Twin towers of light mark site of WTC six months after the attacks
New York Observer—Jerry Seinfeld to spend over $1 million to build a special garage in New York for his Porsches
MSNBC—Rednecks everywhere are surely cutting off their mullets and tearing their wife-beaters to mourn the passing of an old friend: the Chevy Camaro |
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3.14.02
Wired News—New medical therapy uses light to heal a variety of injuries
ABCnews.com—2000 year old Mayan painting discovered inside a pyramid
BBC News—Scientists discover oldest galaxy yet
Space.com—Strange dark spot appears and then disappears near Jupiter's north pole
USA Today—After a Japanese launch marred by consumer complaints, Microsoft releases the Xbox in Europe
Fox News—Yugoslavia to change its name |
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3.15.02
Salon.com—I knew it...
ZDNet—Ugh. I guess I'll have to start coding for NS6 after all
CNN.com—Palm unveils proprietary browser for displaying web pages on handheld devices
New Scientist—Chewing gum may improve long and short term memory
C|NET—Oh goody. New high-bandwidth interactive Java ads that automatically play sound and video when you load a page.
BBC News—Russia unveils prototype for reusable spacecraft intended for space tourists |
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3.18.02
ZDNet—25 more states join the 9 who are already protesting the Microsoft settlement with the federal government
Wired News—Two pothead Mac enthusiasts from Austin turn one of their old Macs into a bong
Salon.com—Tom Ridge refuses to appear before the Senate to talk about the Homeland Security division (whose current budget, staff, etc., are unknown to anyone except members of the executive branch), continuing the Bush administration's policy of overriding the constitutional system of checks and balances through secrecy and illegal withholding of information
CNN.com—DMX convicted of animal cruelty
ABCnews.com—Are adoption fees for infants really sale prices?
Space.com—Amateur astronomer discovers new comet with backyard telescope |
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3.19.02
CNN.com—One of the new airport security machines being tested would amount to a virtual strip search, according to the ACLU
ZDNet—Some companies are considering abolishing personal email and web use at work
Wired News—European leaders may develop an alternative to the US's GPS array of satellites that would be even more accurate
New Scientist—British firm says that it will be able to provide weather forecasts for areas as small as one square kilometer in a few years. I'll believe it when I see it.
USA Today—Supreme court says man is not allowed to sell his urine online
MSNBC—Pennsylvania legislature says that ISPs must be responsible for the content that passes through their systems. This seems like it's probably unconstitutional, not to mention impossible to truly enforce. |
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3.20.02
MSNBC—Earth has a near miss with an asteroid that we didn't detect until after it passed us by
CNN.com—Donald Trump sells Empire State Building
Salon.com—Antarctic ice shelf breaks off and forms iceberg the size of Rhode Island
Wired News—Article about synesthesia. I have a mild form of this that affects my perception of numbers and months.
C|NET—Web surfers still unwilling to pay for online content
ABCnews.com—Car sharing service is catching on in metropolitan areas |
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3.21.02
Wired News—News organizations in Utah are suing the governor, claiming that he is destroying public documents by deleting his email
MSNBC—Pamela Anderson says she has Hepatitis C. Now how could that have happened? (It's not what you think, though.)
Fox News—Therapist fired after recommending that his sexual predator patients visit prostitutes to relieve their sexual urges
CNN.com—Magnetic North Pole on the move
BBC News—Controversial art show featuring real human corpses and body parts to open in London
ABCnews.com—Internet critic is given unauthorized sneak peek at new Star Wars film |
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3.22.02
ZDNet—Apple upgrades the iPod and paves the way for it to become more than just an MP3 player
CNN.com—Clintons will not be charged with Whitewater misdeeds. What decade are we in again?
USA Today—The bastards at the USPS to raise the price of stamps again
New Scientist—Scientists believe they will soon be able to "grow" meat on demand
BBC News—23 people charged with fraud for trying to illegally receive funds set aside for families of WTC victims
C|NET—Sony moving ahead on development of Playstation 3 |
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3.25.02
Wired News—Cell phone jamming now legal in France
ZDNet—Google is testing a new version of its toolbar that would allow users to participate in distributed computing projects
MSNBC—Even though his publicists denied it last week, it looks like N'Sync star Lance Bass is serious about going into space on a Russian rocket
New Scientist—One study finds that using a cell phone while driving may be more dangerous than driving drunk
Salon.com—The College Board may make major changes to the SAT
CNN.com—Dr. Scholl (yes, that Dr. Scholl) dies |
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3.26.02
CNN.com—Due to their constant use of game console pads, cell phones, and other small digital devices, young people's thumbs are their most dexterous digit
LA Times—NASA to begin testing anti-gravity device
ABCnews.com—Filmmakers are increasingly using digital effects technology on things like the color of the sky in a certain shot, or the expression on an actor's face
Salon.com—Playboy wants to put together a "Women of Enron" issue
MSNBC—Despite increased training, airport screeners still do a poor job at finding weapons and explosives
Fox News—Former Heaven's Gate cult member auctioning off a van that belonged to the group |
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3.27.02
C|NET—First spammer ponders what he has wrought
Fox News—Man who killed his wife hours after a Jerry Springer appearance convicted of second degree murder
CNN.com—Video game hall of fame finally locates all-time Asteroids champion, only to find that he died more than a decade ago
SF Gate—Article on the origin of common internet-related terms
MSNBC—AOL's switch to Netscape browser technology means big headaches for web developers
ABCnews.com—Study suggests that dogs may have taught humans how to be territorial |
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3.28.02
CNN.com—Mysterious black spot off the coast of Florida may be caused by a type of algae
Salon.com—Dudley Moore dead at 66
USA Today—Milton Berle dead at 93
Fox News—Study that finds that African-Americans are more likely to speed is denounced by the NAACP even before they've had time to review it
C|NET—Xbox falling short of sales targets
ABCnews.com—Spanish priest installs cell phone jammer in his church to keep mass from being interrupted by constant ringing |
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3.29.02
Salon.com—They always come in threes: one day after Milton Berle and Dudley Moore die, director Billy Wilder diees at age 95
CNN.com—Lyle Lovett hospitalized for broken leg after being trampled by bull at his uncle's ranch
USA Today—Windows users are writing their own software so they can use Apple's iPod on their PCs
New Scientist—European environmental satellite sends back first images
C|NET—Amazon auctions for the first three consumer Segway machines close, each with a bid of over $100,000
MSNBC—The next Star Wars film, which was shot and edited digitally, will nonetheless be released on film because not enough theaters support digital projection |
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