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8.1.02
Fox News—Angry mob in Chicago beats to death two men who were driving a van that jumped a curb into a crowd of people
CNN.com—Prisoners sue for right to watch R-rated movies
ABCnews.com—San Francisco may grow its own pot to provide to medical users
Wired News—Lasers may replace radio waves as the method by which satellites relay data
MSNBC—Undersea crater could be impact site from ancient asteroid hit
C|NET—AOL 8.0 will use Google as its search engine |
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8.2.02
Yahoo! News—Ozzy can't watch his wife receive chemo, so he hits the road instead
ABCnews.com—Michael Jackson's album sales are no longer enough to support his spending (yes, it's a slow news day)
Fox News—Teachers who fail kids are increasingly subject to lawsuits by parents
CNN.com—Airlines to cut flights near anniversary of 9.11 attacks
ZDNet—New monitoring systems to be installed in GM cars raise privacy concerns
USA Today—Far too many institutions use SSN to identify people, making it easy for identity theft to occur |
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8.5.02
Don'tLink.com—A catalog of stupid linking policies
New Scientist—British firefighter has developed a device that will help emergency vehicles maneuver through traffic by temporarily interrupting car stereos
Fox News—All four of the recently slain Ft. Bragg wives wanted out of their marriages
MSNBC—GPS renews property disputes with its improved accuracy
C|NET—Sega will release compilation of old Sonic games for Nintendo's GameCube
ABCnews.com—Thanks to Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, SETI will get a new array of 350 telescopes in California |
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8.6.02
CNN.com—Despite protests from its citizenry, Japan launches a national ID card system
Wired News—The department of defense is missing hundreds of laptops, many of which contain sensitive material. Oh, and they're missing a bunch of guns, too.
Salon.com—Over 100 NYC residents stole millions of dollars using a computer glitch that occurred in the days immediately following 9.11
Fox News—Mom sues school after son forbidden to write about Jesus in an assignment
MSNBC—Parents sent to jail after creating a suggestive web site featuring their 12 year old daughter
C|NET—Judge rules that the makers of the Spider-Man movie were within their rights to digitally alter billboards in Times Square |
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8.7.02
Wired News—Iowa college is going all digital and getting rid of paper—including textbooks
CNN.com—Air Force base is using worm farm to dispose of food scraps
Salon.com—Man arrested in Rome for stealing coins out of the Trevi fountain
Fox News—Alan Greenspan to be knighted
ABCnews.com—High-end winery experimenting with screw-cap bottles
MSNBC—More Americans turning to eBay to get good value for their treasures |
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8.8.02
ACLU.org—Operation TIPS phone calls being routed to Fox tv show America's Most Wanted
Business Week—What would happen if Microsoft stopped making software for the Mac?
Wired News—Australian physicists put forward the idea that the speed of light might not be a constant after all
MSNBC—American pop singer might not be allowed on Russian space trip if he doesn't pay up soon
CNN.com—Yikes. Customized SUVs include machine guns and grenade launchers.
USA Today—Baseball players agree to undergo testing for steroids |
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8.9.02
ABCnews.com—Brackish water from deep under the desert can be used for fish farms and agriculture
CNN.com—Vapor trails left behind by jets can affect the climate
Salon.com—Fax.com fined $5.4 million by FCC for sending junk faxes
ZDNet—New hack that affects every version of Windows since Windows 95 is discovered; possibly biggest security problem for the OS yet
Fox News—Saddam spews vitriolic rhetoric at us concerning our possible invasion. I'm don't think invading Iraq is really a smart idea at this point, but isn't this the same kind of stuff Saddam said 10 years ago right before he got his ass seriously kicked?
BBC News—Satellite photos show construction of secret new US air base in Qatar, which could be used in attacks on Iraq |
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8.12.02
ABCnews.com—Angry squirrel responsible for attacks on at least four people is finally captured
Wired News—Ellen Feiss, star of one of Apple's "Switch" ads, is fast becoming an online celebrity
New Scientist—Experiment shows that crows can not only use tools, but can make them as well
Salon.com—Operation TIPS overhauled and put on hold. Maybe there are a couple of reasonable people in DC after all.
Fox News—Every board member from a popular Atlanta recreational swimming league resigns, fearing lawsuits from family of one-legged boy who swims with a prothesic leg with a flipper on the end of it. Other swimmers had complained that the flipper gave him an unfair advantage in competition.
CNN.com—Jogger in Brazil decapitated by private aircraft |
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8.13.02
CNN.com—Domino's is thinking about ending free delivery
Wired News—Homes made out of garbage called Earthships take only 1/10 as much energy to make and 1/10 as much energy to heat and cool
USA Today—Neighbors are turning in neighbors who repeatedly violate water restriction rules in drought affected areas of the US
MSNBC—Nicolas Cage marries Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis and ex-wife of Michael Jackson
ABCnews.com—Ancient chess piece may give insight into the origins of the game
New Scientist—Brand names engage emotional side of brain |
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8.14.02
Fox News—Grandfather kills 2 year old granddaughter by leaving her locked in car for 8 hours
O'Reilly.net—Will the growing weblogging trend soon give rise to professional bloggers?
CNN.com—Woman commits suicide by jumping into crocodile pit at zoo
Forbes.com—The list of dead celebrities who made the most money last year
Salon.com—Rabbits dig up rare window
ZDNet—The current proposed specs for XHTML 2.0 will complete the transition from HTML to XML, but will not be backwards compatible with either HTML 4.0 or XHTML 1.0 |
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8.15.02
Trouserpress.com—The best music review site on the planet is finally back online
CNN.com—Companies may use cell phones to track the movements of their employees
Anomalies Unlimited—A history of Michael Jackson's face
ZDNet—The open source version of Netscape 7 (called Mozilla) has incorporated a feature that gets rid of pop-ups, but the feature is not likely to be incorporated into the official AOL-endorsed release
MSNBC—The creator of the Frisbee dies and requests that his ashes be incorporated into special discs which will be distributed to family and friends
BBC News—Free hi-res digital version of rare medieval manuscript goes online |
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8.16.02
CommonDreams.org—Editorial from the Los Angeles Times about Ashcroft's push for internment camps
Salon.com—Bush wants broad powers to defend the homeland. Or lock away dissenters. Whatever. He says he doesn't want his hands tied, but maybe the rest of us do. Are war, suppression of free speech, and economic turmoil the only things this family is good at?
Wired News—New York politician wants cell phones banned in most public places. It's about freaking time. When was the last time you went to a movie when you didn't have to sit through at least one cell phone call in the row behind you?
CNN.com—Air marshals dissatisfied with their jobs
Fox News—PETA sues to prevent fishing in national parks
BBC News—British study finds that closed circuit cameras in public places are not a deterrent to crime |
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8.19.02
Gizmodo—Oooh...gadgets
CNN.com—Woman is arrested after sending poison to Ted Kennedy and Prince William
USA Today—Some car customizing shops are under investigation for removing air bags in steering wheels and replacing them with television screens. Let's see: removing a safety device and replacing it with something that dramatically increases your odds of having an accident. It scares me to think that there are already drivers out there with this setup.
Fox News—Canadian anti-terrorism consultant is arrested after $54 million worth of missiles are discovered at his business
ABCnews.com—Ashcroft is stripping Americans of their constitutional rights by declaring them enemy combatants, a disturbing precedent that I pray the courts will put a stop to soon. These suspects are certainly bad people, but they deserve a right to a lawyer and a jury trial just like everyone else.
New Scientist—Winged robot teaches itself the basics of flying in a few hours |
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8.20.02
ZDNet—Was Ginger/IT really the Segway? Some people think inventor Dean Kamen has another trick up his sleeve.
Washington Times—NASA wants to install equipment at airports that would read data like brainwave patterns and heartbeats to identify possible threats
Wired News—One of Palm's color PDAs doesn't have as many colors as promised
ABCnews.com—Carjacker subdued when he tries to take vehicle from Judo team
MSNBC—Gateway to release flat-panel consumer machine intended to compete with Apple's iMac
C|NET—Cox Cable to unveil all-informercial channel |
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8.21.02
Private and Public—A cool little art project. Summer is far and away my favorite. Link via Scott.
Wired News—Canadian students protest required course in C# that was announced after Microsoft gave the university a sizable grant
Houston Chronicle—425 kids arrested in K-Mart parking lot in Houston, many of them mistakenly
Salon.com—New York shock jocks targeted by Catholics after they broadcast a live description of a couple having sex inside of St. Patrick's cathedral
CNN.com—New Smokey the Bear campaign will target adults
Fox News—Mom arrested after allowing her children to get severely sunburned |
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8.22.02
Fox News—Firm will turn cremated human remains into diamonds
MSNBC—Hack of a security firm that works with the government and police results in the names of secret service agents and undercover cops being posted to the web
Salon.com—Several cable channels are planning to go dark on the anniversary of the 9.11 attacks
Wired News—French company is developing a video game that will be released as serial episodes
ABCnews.com—Nutrition group gives high marks to fast food chains
New Scientist—A thin coating of selenium could allow contact lenses to be left in for months |
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8.23.02
Apple.com—X-Men 2 trailer
Space.com—Moon could be future home for nuclear waste
Salon.com—This is such a prototypical Bush response to a problem that it sounds like a joke. In response to the recent wildfires, Bush proposes relaxing environmental regulations and letting logging companies thin national forests with little oversight.
CNN.com—Microsoft to release a version of MSN for the Mac
ABCnews.com—Michael Jackson reportedly has third child
BBC News—Spielberg in domain name dispute with Indian company |
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8.26.02
Washington Post—Secret court reprimands Ashcroft and refuses to give him more power to spy on Americans. Not that I'm in favor of secret courts or anything, but at least this one seems to be doing the right thing this time.
The Smoking Gun—The audio of a couple having sex in St. Patrick's cathedral that got Opie and Anthony thrown off the air
Wired News—Some webloggers abandon old works and start new ones as frequently as other people change the channel, which makes getting an accurate count of active webloggers difficult
Salon.com—FBI finds human remains in home of man suspected of involvement in the disappeances of two teens in Oregon
CNN.com—School drops "Satans" as team name
ABCnews.com—US prison population at all-time high |
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8.27.02
USA Today—Orders for the new 17" iMac far outstrip supply
CNN.com—In a new book, Katherine Harris claims that Gore's protests cost him the election
Wired News—Sites where you can download term papers are among the elite few moneymaking enterprises on the web
ZDNet—One in four employees spends an entire day out of every work week surfing the web
Fox News—Swedish flight circles airfield awaiting clearance to land, but air traffic controller never shows up
New Scientist—New tiny, seedless melons were creating using old fashioned cross breeding, not genetic manipulation |
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8.28.02
The Guardian—Did bin Laden take some of the ideas for al Qaeda from Isaac Asimov's Foundation books?
CNN.com—Sony finally gives up on Betamax
Houston Chronicle—Police in Delaware are creating a database of people they believe are likely to break the law at some point
USA Today—MLB tests out internet video streams of baseball games
ZDNet—Mac OS X 10.2 is flying off the shelves
ABCnews.com—How do the big online sites handle customer complaints? |
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8.29.02
Louisville Courier-Journal—Jim Beam employees put on scheduled bathroom breaks
Wired News—Happy Mac startup icon on Apple's Macintosh machines is laid to rest after 18 years
ZDNet—Despite strong new offerings, Netscape continues to lose market share in the browser wars
Tolerance.org—New clothing line available at Target prominently features the number 88, white supremicist gang speak for "Heil Hitler" (H is the eighth letter of the alphabet)
Fox News—Churches, foreign ministries, and government agencies may be targets in Pakistan on anniversary of 9.11 attacks
ABCnews.com—Canadian man wins Elton John tickets by catching 38,000 grasshoppers |
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8.30.02
CNN.com—Beverly Hillbillies to be reconceived as reality show
ZDNet—Spam now makes up 36% of all email traffic, up from 8% a year ago
New Scientist—Electronics manufacturers spar over two different proposed formats for next generation DVDs
C|NET—There is a mountain of electronic evidence against a Xerox engineer accused of swapping child porn online, but it may have been tampered with after it was in the hands of the prosecutors
MSNBC—New software will let your boss spy on your private, web-based email accounts like Hotmail
ABCnews.com—Texas firm claims it owns the patent to the JPEG standard, and it wants to start collecting licensing fees |
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