10.3.05
C|NET—Yahoo to digitize public domain books
USA Today—Google wants to offer free Wi-Fi to San Francisco
CNN.com—Guliani considering 2008 presidential run
BBC News—A primer on World of Warcraft
MSNBC—Customers growing increasingly unhappy with Dell's tech support
ABCnews.com—Man smashes display case at museum to read rare book contained inside

10.4.05
CBS News—Turkey moves closer to joining the EU
CNN.com—Bush nominates a woman who has never been a judge to take O'Connor's place on the supreme court
ABCnews.com—DeLay indicted again, this time on money laundering charge
MSNBC—Digital music sales have tripled in the last year
C|NET—Microsoft to add native support for Adobe's PDF format in next version of Office
ABCnews.com—Man smashes display case at museum to read rare book contained inside

10.5.05
CNN.com—Bush is using the threat of an avian flu pandemic as the spark to destroy an 1878 law that forbids the use of the US military in a law enforcement role. Everyone should be very, very afraid of this.
USA Today—Airports move one step closer to using private firms instead of federal screeners to staff security checkpoints
CBS News—Google and Sun team up to challenge Microsoft's desktop dominance
Wired News—Ray Kurzweil believes that within 20 years, the human life span will be significantly extended by advances in genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics
MSNBC—Peter Jackson will executive produce a movie based on the Halo video game
New Scientist—Man who funded the X-Prize is starting a rocket-plane racing league

10.6.05
ABCnews.com—Testimony in Intelligent Design trial reveals that early drafts of a textbook that includes this "idea" originally used the concept of Creationism and later replaced that word with Intelligent Design
CNN.com—Many artists are tellling their fans how to defeat the CD copy protection that prevents consumers from converting the songs to digital files for use on portable music devices. Do the record companies ever do anything right?
New Scientist—American researches have resurrected the 1918 flu virus and infected mice with it
BBC News—Eminem doesn't want his songs sold as ringtones
MSNBC—Apple may introduce video iPod at special event next week
USA Today—In a rare burst of candor, Chency admits that the war on terror will take decades

10.10.05
CBS News—Trojan horse written for the PSP renders the machines inoperable
USA Today—FEMA plans to build trailer communities for Katrina refugees, despite the failure of such communities for Andrew victims
CNN.com—Online game addiction a growing problem in hyper-wired South Korea
Fox News—FBI may relax hiring policy that prohibits anyone who has ever acknowledged using marijuana from holding a position with the agency
MSNBC—Microsoft and Time Warner considering a merger of their internet business units
BBC News—Bible translated to text-message speak in Australia

10.11.05
The Guardian—Foreign diplomats claim that Bush told them he was told to invade Iraq by god, but the White House denies that Bush ever made the statements
ABCnews.com—Latest measurement of Mount Everest finds it 12 feet shorter than previously thought
USA Today—Warehouse where Wallace & Gromit films were made burns, destroying all the props and models associated with the studio
MSNBC—Video game developers say they will fight the newly enacted California legislation banning the sale of violent video games to minors
BBC News—AOL to purchase weblog company
ZDNet—Yahoo to launch podcast search site

10.12.05
BBC News—Microsoft settles lawsuit with RealNetworks by paying them a quarter of a billion dollars
USA Today—Army offering bigger signing bonuses to help reverse deteriorating recruitment numbers
Fox News—Man hijacks train with bow and arrow
Wired News—New variant of mass spectrometry technique could detect trace amounts of explosives or narcotics in seconds
ABCnews.com—North Dakota may require eBay sellers to obtain auctioneer license
MSNBC—Radar glitch causing problems at Boston's Logan Airport

10.13.05
vrway.com—Very cool QuickTime VR image
MSNBC—Apple unveils iPod capable of playing video
ABCnews.com—Microsoft and Yahoo to team on IM efforts
Wired News—MIT researchers create machine that can make dishes, cups, and bowls on-demand
BBC News—Global launch of Xbox 360 causing headaches for Microsoft
CBS News—55% of Americans now believe that we were wrong to go to war in Iraq

10.14.05
CBS News—This year's September was the warmest on record
New Scientist—Company has developed a way to produce printable paper-like material that can be used to display changing graphics
USA Today—Spielberg signs deal to develop three video games for Electronic Arts
ABCnews.com—Argument over who gets to use microwave first results in stabbing
CNN.com—New Bond named
MSNBC—Palm has new color PDA for less than $100

10.17.05
BBC News—Chinese astronauts return home safely after spending five days in orbit
Fox News—Principal cancels prom after years of increasing alcohol use, sex, and extravagant spending
Sports Illustrated—Teen golf phenom Michelle Wie disqualified from her first pro tournament
USA Today—Bird flu shows resistance to an antiviral drug that was thought to be an effective counteragent to the virus
CNN.com—Samsung pleads guilty to price fixing and will pay a $300 million fine
CBS News—Supreme court blocks inmate's request for an abortion

10.18.05
BBC News—Hollywood unions want cut of sales from videos made for the new iPod
ABCnews.com—Stewardess phones in bomb threat to airline so she could have the day off
CBS News—Supreme court lifts its own stay and orders Missouri prison to drive a female inmate to get an abortion
CNN.com—Stallone signs to do sixth Rocky film
MSNBC—National Zoo's new baby panda gets a name
Wired News—New tax credit designed to get consumers to buy hybrid vehicles still favors SUV owners over those who purchase small, more effiecient cars

10.19.05
CNN.com—Baltimore tunnels closed for a short time due to unspecified threats
USA Today—Bush-endorsed tax panel recommends doing away with popular federal deductions for state and local taxes
BBC News—Nintendo will offer free wi-fi access for its DS handheld gaming machine in McDonald's restaurants across the US
Fox News—New documents show that Harriet Miers has been strongly opposed to abortion rights in the recent past
CBS News—Head of Homeland Security says he will crackdown on illegal immigrants, promising to deport all who are caught
MSNBC—Rove cancels public speaking appearances while waiting for the outcome of the Plame investigation

10.20.05
CNN.com—Arrest warrant issued for DeLay. I'm still not counting on it, but man would I love for a mugshot from his booking to show up on The Smoking Gun.
New Scientist—Intelligent Design proponent in landmark ID trial also considers astrology to be science
USA Today—More than half of all high school age teens have had oral sex, and most consider it to be less intimate than intercourse
MSNBC—Keith Olbermann points out some disturbing correlations between a negative event for Bush followed immediately by a "terror event"
CBS News—Rice admits that US troops could be in Iraq for another ten years and won't rule out invasions of Iran or Syria
BBC News—Gmail will change its name in the UK following a trademark dispute

10.21.05
MSNBC—Conflict between American Airlines and Southwest spills over into Wikipedia
CNN.com—DeLay smiles for the camera in his mugshot
ESPN—Braves pitching coach Leo Mazzone accepts deal to join the Baltimore Orioles
USA Today—Congress passes bill that will shield the gun industry from lawsuits
ABCnews.com—Police officer on trial for using his gun to speed up slow golfers in front of him on the course
BBC News—Google's labeling and relabeling of Taiwan on its map service sparks outcry from both China and Taiwan

10.24.05
CBS News—This country is so fucking stupid
C|NET—Yahoo ends promotional pricing for music service and returns to costs similar to competitors
CNN.com—Senator says Harriet Miers nomination in trouble
ABCnews.com—Asian bird flu detected in England
USA Today—Microsoft pulls back exclusive music contracts because of possible antitrust violations
Fox News—The last all-male military school will begin admitting women next year

10.25.05
USA Today—Bush names successor to Alan Greenspan
Wired News—More businesses are blocking their employees access to blog sites, along with porn and illegal download sites
CNN.com—Rosa Parks passes
BBC News—iPod Nano owner files suit against Apple, saying the micro music player is too delicate for everyday use
Fox News—Republican senator says Rove and Libby should resign if they are indicted
CBS News—Bush still refusing to release Miers' records

10.26.05
CBS News—Bush wants certain agents to be allowed to perform torture legally
MSNBC—Conservative group launches anti-Miers campaign
CNN.com—90% of Americans think that people in the Bush administration acted illegally or unethically in the Plame scandal
USA Today—Google testing service that would compete with eBay
ABCnews.com—McDonald's will start putting nutrition information on food packaging
New Scientist—Brain implants that release electical charges could be used to control blood pressure

10.27.05
Fox News—FDA may approve home AIDS test
CNN.com—Louisiana attorney general investigating claims of hospital personnel performing euthanasia during the Katrina fiasco
MSNBC—Catholic high school in New Jersey orders all of its students to stop keeping personal blogs
Sports Illustrated—WNBA MVP Sheryl Swoopes admits she's gay
CBS News—White pumpkins the new trend this Halloween
USA Today—Iran's president says Israel must be wiped off the map

10.28.05
CNN.com—Miers withdraws from consideration for the supreme court
CBS News—Disgraced former FEMA chief Michael Brown has his contract with the agency extended by another 30 days
Wired News—Judge denies Bush administration request to use cell phones to track people's movements without probable cause that they have committed a crime
BBC News—Lucas opens digital studio in Singapore to produce an animated Star Wars television series, due in 2007
ABCnews.com—Many states ban registered sex offenders from giving out candy on Halloween
MSNBC—French male golfer wants to play in the Women's British Open to protest women being allowed to play on the currently male-only British Open

10.31.05
CBS News—Fake flu shots given to Exxon employees at company health fair
CNN.com—Harry Reid demands apology from White House for actions of staff in the Plame affair
USA Today—MREs intended for disaster relief end up on eBay
Fox News—Man buys 1975 Ford Escort that used to belong to Pope John Paul II for nearly $700,000
ABCnews.com—Microsoft may stop selling Windows in South Korea due to antitrust issues
MSNBC—Sulu comes out of the closet