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4.1.02
MSNBC—Games to avoid on PS2, GameCube, and Xbox
Wired News—Federal judge says law prohibiting mail order alcohol sales in Virginia is unconstitutional
BBC News—Air Canada being sued by self-proclaimed cyborg
ABCnews.com—JetBlue Airways to install suveillance cameras in passenger cabins
Fox News—Some are worried that a nuclear weapon lost at sea in the late 50s could be retrieved by terrorists
USA Today—Star Wars soundtrack to be released with four different covers |
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4.2.02
CNN.com—Coca Cola working on vanilla Coke for launch later this year
Wired News—Digital camera that was dropped in a pond now produces colorful, visually stunning images
USA Today—Man selling his mother's wisdom on eBay
Fox News—O'Hare shut down after metal detector malfunctioned
MSNBC—Macromedia is hoping web developers will choose Flash over HTML
ABCnews.com—Many DVDs hide easter eggs |
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4.3.02
Wired News—New scripting language lets developers create robust Linux apps using only HTML and JavaScript
USA Today—Don't they get it yet? Saturating our desktops with ads just makes us hate whatever company sponsors them. Argh.
Salon.com—Israelis seize control of Bethlehem as Palestinian conflict intensifies
ZDNet—FTC cracks down on spammers. I'll let you know when I stop receiving 80+ junk emails a day.
New Scientist—After their recent successful rocket launch, China announces its intentions to build a space station
Fox News—The University of Nevada at Reno removes students from its graduation program who chose to opt out of the university's plan to sell students' information to credit card companies. That's just evil. |
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4.4.02
Excite News—Saddam Hussein has been rewarding families of suicide bombers against Israel with thousands of dollars in payouts. What's really scary is that these payouts are also given out by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, who are supposedly our allies in the war on terror.
Wired News—Woman plans to sue Sony, claiming that his addiction to the online RPG Everquest played a role in his suicide. How many more lawsuits like this have to be dismissed before people quit trying to blame the entertainment industry?
New Scientist—Hormones in shampoos could be causing girls to enter puberty prematurely
CNN.com—Chicago janitor is suing Eddie Murphy, saying Murphy based a character in the show on him
Space.com—Researchers will attempt to grow wheat on the International Space Station
MSNBC—Japanese firm is working on a cell phone that can read your lips so you don't have to talk out loud when you're on the phone. But do you really think this will get all those annoying loudmouths to shut up? |
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4.5.02
USA Today—Fox News still on top in the cable news wars
CNN.com—Bill Gates fooled by two DJs in April Fool's hoax
Wired News—FDA says that implantable computer chip is not a medical device, clearing the way for its use in humans
New Scientist—Smart glass could tell your waiter the moment your beverage needs refilling
ZDNet—Will Microsoft extend its technology deal with Apple?
ABCnews.com—New gold dollar coin still not catching on |
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4.8.02
New Scientist—Italian scientist claims he has implanted a human cloned embryo into one of his patients, who is 8 weeks pregnant with the fetus
Salon.com—Taliban offering cash rewards to Afghans who bring them Westerners, dead or alive
CNN.com—Cloth keyboard for handhelds can be folded up and used as a carrying case when not in use, but still has some shortcomings
Wired News—Video game designers explore more artistic uses for game technology
MSNBC—New law threatens to shut down even legal forms of digital copying
BBC News—Scientists may have found evidence of chlorophyll on the surface of Mars |
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4.9.02
ABCnews.com—Thanks to increasing globalization, thousands of languages are in danger of dying out
Salon.com—Another very rich man pays $20 million for trip into space
C|NET—Apache 2.0 released
Fox News—Judge overturns lower court order that tried to force a bookstore to hand over purchasing records of their customers
Space.com—Japanese asteroid observatory spots unregistered spy satellite, probably belonging to the US or China
MSNBC—The Osbournes is MTV's newest hit |
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4.10.02
CNN.com—Dairy farmer gives his cows water beds in an effort to boost their milk production
ABCnews.com—Mayor of Rio may sue the Simpsons
Fox News—Yale, Bush's alma mater, will reimburse students who have lost financial aid because of a controversial drug-possession law enacted by the president last year
ZDNet—Sun says Microsoft could use its soon-to-be-ubiquitous .NET framework to dominate the internet the way Windows monopolizes desktops
New Scientist—New study indicates that even heavy marijuana use does not have any long-term effects on IQ
Yahoo! News—The Recording Industry collects $1 million fine from company that set up an internal server where its employees could exchange music files |
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4.11.02
Wired News—Microsoft says that it will continue to develop software for the Mac
New Scientist—Magnetic poles could be in early stages of switching
CNN.com—FDA says nicotine lollipops and lip balm sold on the internet are illegal
MSNBC—Shoes heated by built-in battery pack cause airpors scare
C|NET—Memory cards still hard to find for PS2 owners
ABCnews.com—US military develops sandwich that will stay fresh for up to three years |
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4.12.02
BBC News—GameCube selling well for Nintendo
C|NET—Napster lays off 30 employees. God, are they still around?
Wired News—New Gateway ads may cross the line in encouraging consumers to illegally copy and distribute digital music files
CNN.com—This is hardly news, but I feel obligated to report it anyway: fans have already begun lining up for Episode II
New Scientist—Australian ski resort recycles its sewage into snow
Fox News—Woman jailed for overdue library books |
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4.15.02
New Scientist—Inkjet printers filled with a special polymer ink can be used to print circuits
CNN.com—New G4 cable channel focuses solely on gaming
ZDNet—O, lord. Mozilla, the open source browser based on Netscape technology, set to respark the browser wars, along with AOL's upcoming adoption of Netscape 6 as its core browsing technology
USA Today—Tree-sitting environmental activist dies after falling from her perch, not realizing that the timber harvest she was protesting had already been canceled
C|NET—Times Square building owners sue makers of new Spider Man movie for digitally deleting ads on the sides of their buildings and replacing them with sponsors of the movie
Fox News—Tiger wins third Master's |
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4.16.02
CNN.com—Scientists have discovered a 3600 mile long ant colony that runs throughout southern Europe
Fox News—A mob's attack on a synagogue in the Ukraine is the latest in a wave of anti-semitism sweeping across Europe
C|NET—Is eBay in negotiations to purchase PayPal?
Space.com—Japanese noodle makers Cup Noodle are developing a space-compatible version of their product for the Japanese astronauts who will spend time on the ISS
ABCnews.com—Riding a recent surge of popularity thanks to his new show on MTV, Ozzy Osbourne is given a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
BBC News—Cracks have begun to appear in China's Three Gorges dam |
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4.17.02
Wired News—Quorn, a fungus-based protein food, is on its way to the US
CNN.com—MGM allows latest Austin Powers flick to go ahead with "Goldmember" title
MSNBC—Google cuts access for certain Comcast users in an effort to keep their results from being improperly manipulated
Fox News—10 year old boy and 15 year old girl charged with murdering their 6 year old brother
Yahoo! News—New bill would create video privacy, making it illegal to film someone for a "lewd purpose" without their consent
ESPN.com—Detroit Tigers finally win their first game of the season |
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4.18.02
Salon.com—Federal government has one car for every three workers, and has more total cars than Hertz
CNN.com—David Fincher to direct next Mission: Impossible movie
C|NET—New restrictions governing eBay's message boards lead to cries of censorship from users
New Scientist—A boy's patent for swinging on a swing sideways exposes the flaws in the US Patent Office
MSNBC—Mark Burnett is planning to bring back the most memorable players for an all-star edition of Survivor
ABCnews.com—A rundown of 9.11 conspiracy theories |
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4.19.02
Wired News—"Deep linking", a practice upon which the web was built and in which I am engaging in right now, is being attacked by a Danish publishing group
CNN.com—Kon-Tiki author Thor Heyerdahl dead at 87
Salon.com—Senate rejects ANWR drilling
ZDNet—Sega plans to bring its games to cell phones and handhelds
Fox News—Actor Robert Blake to be charged with the murder of his wife
ABCnews.com—Court rules that calling someone a skank is not libel |
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4.22.02
ABCnews.com—How did Google survive the dot-bomb era?
USA Today—Yahoo! being sued by singer of their signature yodel
Fox News—Even if a DNA test proves that a man is not the father of a child, California laws still forces that man to provide child support
Wired News—Some of the world's poorest regions are adopting Linux as their offcial OS in hopes of being able to participate in the technological revolution
BBC News—Australian researchers claim to have invented a "thinking cap" that can improve people's creative abilities
Scientific American—Scientists discover new order of predator insects |
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4.23.02
Fox News—Saddam making aggressive moves in no-fly zones
CNN.com—Yahoo! settles with yodeler
USA Today—Networks going back to the reality well looking for a summer television hit
MSNBC—Father of the Xbox resigns from Microsoft
BBC News—A controversial field of genetically modified crops in Scotland is destroyed by vandals
ABCnews.com—Panel recommends that Claritin be sold over the counter |
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4.24.02
BBC News—Toy Story lands at the top of a poll of Disney's most popular animated films, beating out Bambi and 101 Dalmations
ABCnews.com—Light reflected off the moon could prove to be another source of solar power
Wired News—Sites created with new version of Flash are finally accessible to the blind
Salon.com—Girl goes to prom in dress made of duct tape
CNN.com—Woman held captive by trucker for 6 months is rescued after leaving a message on a restroom wall
ZDNet—Bill Gates admits that earlier remedies suggested by the courts would have prevented some monopolistic behavior by Microsoft |
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4.25.02
CNN.com—Atlanta testing out Segways for use by the police force and other civic agencies
ZDNet—Under examination, Gates admits that modular versions of Windows that do not include the browser component already exist, contradicting his oft-repeated insistance that without IE, Windows won't work
Fox News—Despite the patriotism displayed since 9.11, the military has seen no increase in recruitment
Space.com—Mice will be first mammals to give birth in space
BBC News—Scientists now believe that there are far fewer species of insects that previously estimated
Scientific American—NASA to send probe to Pluto, the last unexplored planet in our solar system |
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4.26.02
MSNBC—Baltimore's BWI airport will be the first to have an all-federal security security force
Wired News—Biodegradable plastics are still a few years away, but they could eventually help reduce our growing trash problem
CNN.com—Dr. Atkins, creator of the famed high-protein diet, suffers a heart attack
New Scientist—New biodegradable sutures can be tied loosely because they will tighten themselves as they are heated by the patient's body
Fox News—Federal judge may declare the death penalty to be unconstitutional
ABCnews.com—The House approves a bill that would break up the Immigration and Naturalization Service |
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4.29.02
Salon.com—Three teens take credit for hacking AIM so that clicking on ad links from within the software take you to pornographic content
CNN.com—Barbie creator dies
Wired News—Sharp reduction in domain name renewals is bad news for VeriSign
MSNBC—Nestle testing self-heating cans
Fox News—OJ claims civil judgement against him is cruel and unusual punishment
USA Today—E-ZPass system still has lots of bugs to work out |
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4.30.02
ABCnews.com—Senate finds that the oil companies improperly kept gas prices at a high level
ZDNet—Apple unveils the eMac, and old-school iMac with a 17" screen, for the educational market
CNN.com—Teen arrested after planning to poison the drinks at his prom
C|NET—Internet radio broadcasters plan to go silent for a day to protest a new royalty fee that is being considered
BBC News—British pets may soon get their own "Bill of Rights"
Reuters—Anna Kournikova says topless pictures of her that will appear in the next issue of Penthouse are fakes and she plans to sue |
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