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Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:13:38 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/01/02/BU166284.DTL
s/Veritas/Make Money Fast!/
- https://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20011219S0016
"The RFID allows money to carry its own history," by recording
information about where it has been, said Paul Saffo, director
of Institute for the Future (Menlo Park, Calif.).
- https://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/world/story/0,1870,92909,00.html?
When the boy's psychologist canvassed opinion among colleagues, he
said there was an initial suggestion to organise 'a whip-round to
pay for a prostitute'.
- https://www.fema.gov/library/dd-1964.gif
- https://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/general/seismicity/us.html
Where not to live:
- https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/27/arts/design/27POMP.html
The eight surviving frescoes, painted in vivid gold, green and
a red the color of dried blood, show graphic scenes of various
sex acts and include the only known artistic representation of
cunnilingus from the Roman era, she said.
- https://www.salon.com/mwt/wire/2001/12/26/best_friends/index.html
And a girl he briefly dated in the 1970s was actually his sister.
- https://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=884121
The future of the company.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1723000/1723583.stm
"It is a time to reward people either with a card or one of our
girls," she said.
- https://www.cnn.com/2001/US/12/20/ret.bin.laden.translation/index.html
One more striking example of detail left out of the government
translation, according to Al-Ahmed and the independent
translator: Bin Laden's description of exactly what he said to
others just before the radio announcement that the first of the
attacks had succeeded.
Thu, 3 Jan 2002 09:05:00 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37263-2001Dec28.html
How Islam lost it's way
- https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1562199749/qid=1009756227/br=1-9/ref=br_lf_d_9/107-9483308-1503732
This movie has probably the finest songs and choreography ever
done for a Japanese movie on the theme of meteorology. Add to
that copious panty shots, female 'onani', and a welcomely
gratuitous maid's soap-tongue bath, and you have a winner.
- https://www.nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com/wcs/frm/leaf?CID=onair/asabt/news/162092
A lot of grounds from strained coffee beans are available,
estimated to be 300,000 tons annually, where coffee-in-a-can is
consumed in large quantities in Japan
- https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,42039,00.html
New Hole in AOL Instant Messenger Lets Hackers Take Over
- https://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20020102/tc/aol_security_2.html
The problem affects the newest versions as well as many earlier
iterations of AOL's Instant Messenger program. Only the Windows
version is at risk - Instant Messenger for Macintosh, Palm and
other platforms are not.
- https://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=01012002-053506-3828r
"We got these beautiful thermal images every time someone chewed
gum, and by accident we detected the very subtle changes that
occur in the face with fearfulness -- there was a loud bang when
a book fell on the lab floor," Levine told UPI. "The changes in
the face that came with that were very consistent with several
individuals. And we thought, 'My goodness, if this can detect
these very subtle changes instantaneously, perhaps we can see
these same changes with lying.'"
- https://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,3473426%5E12634,00.html
The moral minefield of a boy's dying wish
- https://www.huntofalifetime.org
- https://www.huntofalifetime.org/articles/Four_Corners_Outdoors1.htm
But as the woman Tina Pattison who founded Hunt of a Lifetime,
said, Not every child wants to go to Disney World.
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/674071.asp
What if, they asked, a car's engine only had to power the car?
The fuel savings could be dramatic.
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23518.html
MS struggles to discredit Linux.
Fri, 4 Jan 2002 12:05:00 -0500 (EST)Mon, 7 Jan 2002 09:05:00 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/29/hol.clinton.worst/index.html
No respectable worst-films list would be complete without at
least one movie starring Keanu Reeves
- https://www.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/29/hol.tatara.worst/index.html
If they ever remake "2001: A Space Odyssey," he should play the
monolith.
- https://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cn/20020104/tc/lawmaker_is_cd_copy-protection_illegal__1.html
A 1992 law allows music listeners to make some personal digital
copies of their music. In return, recording companies collect
royalties on the blank media used for this purpose. For every
digital audio tape (DAT), blank audio CD, or minidisc sold, a
few cents go to record labels.
...
"If you put technology in place that prevents people from using
their recording devices, then it seems that you should not be
eligible for the royalty payments" under the AHRA, said Fred
von Lohmann, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier
Foundation.
- https://www.newscientist.com/lastword/answers/802sound.jsp
The original question is, of course, the wrong one. It is
difficult to imagine playing the Scottish bagpipe in the
confines of a diving bell.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1742000/1742039.stm
Some confusion is anticipated.
- https://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=dish&script=410&item_id=241733
EchoStar simply cannot carry every service a programming
behemoth like Disney wishes to force upon EchoStar at costs
which bear little relationship to the value they provide to
consumers.
- https://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?bi20020104ks.htm
And hashiwatashi (to pass or receive items from someone else's
chopsticks) is an act permitted only inside crematoriums, where
the bones of loved ones are passed from one family member to
the other using o-hashi.
- https://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020103/od/coins_dc_1.html
Mathematicians Find Euro Coins Land Heads Up
- https://uk.news.yahoo.com/011230/80/cmtlc.html
Monetary unification lowers the price of hookers.
Wed, 9 Jan 2002 12:05:00 -0500 (EST)Thu, 10 Jan 2002 08:05:00 -0500 (EST)
- https://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/anthraxzap020108_wire.html
Ooops.
- https://www.emaglink.com/Articles/17Dec01.htm
"Atlanta (December 17, 2001) - eMag, the last manufacturer of
open reel (9-track) tape, is announcing its end of life program
for users of this product. eMag, which has produced open reel
(9-track) tape in its Graham, Texas facility for over 30 years,
has determined that the significantly decreased demand for this
once dominant magnetic media format mandates an organized end
of life announcement and program. To provide an orderly and
seamless transition for users of open reel (9-track) tape
technology, we have spent over 3 years developing alternative
solutions that have proven to be both operationally efficient
and cost effective. For a more detailed description of eMag's
alternatives please visit 9-track Retirement."
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/684463.asp
Boy meets girl.
- https://www.citypaper.com/current/feature2.html
Then the small talk comes to an end.
- https://www.americandialect.org/woty.shtml
- https://www.lssu.edu/banished/current/
Words O' The Year
- https://www.coincidencedesign.com/
You can't STALK her. But WE CAN.
- https://www.miami.com/herald/special/features/barry/2002/docs/jan06.htm
At least once per day, without fail, my computer, like every
computer I have ever owned, has some kind of emotional
breakdown. It simply stops working -- often when I'm not
touching it -- and it puts a message on the screen informing me
that an error has occurred. It does not say what the error is,
nor where it occurred. For all I know, it occurred in New
Zealand, and my computer found out about it via the Internet,
and became so upset that it could not go on.
- https://pacer.ca6.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=01a0057p.06
The followup to:
https://www.geocities.com/Paris/Chateau/6630/suit.html
... as a purveyor of smut to students of the college.
Fri, 11 Jan 2002 12:33:11 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-011002breakup.story
It's an industry that thrives because Japan is still a nation
that can't say no. For the right price, operatives will dump
your girlfriend for you, lose your husband, drive away that
mistress or fire that longtime employee.
- https://www.satirewire.com/features/poetry_spam/01free_winner.shtml
I Answered All My Spam
- https://digitalmass.boston.com/news/2002/01/10/ebiz.html
A dot-com company that recently emerged from bankruptcy,
Internet Advisory Corp., which trades on the over-the-counter
market, said it is in talks to buy the nudie bar and hopes to
build a nationwide chain of adult clubs using the Scores name.
- https://www.letsmow.com/
M) Starts will be LeMans style, with engines off. On the green flag,
drivers will cross the track on foot, start their mowers and start
racing. Crew members may only assist with pull starting after driver
is on the mower. Crew members may not go onto the track, or assist
or push the mower from the grid. Mowers with remote starters will
be moved to the back of the grid.
- https://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2002/01/02/tomo/index.html
"On the bright side, at least you're not wearing a unisex
leotard."
- https://www.oreilly.com/news/frank_0701.html
The Best of Frank:
"And the Europeans accept chaos and know how to live with it.
I came away from France believing in the strong faith of the
French people, not because of their magnificent cathedrals, but
because I saw them drive around L'Arc du Triomphe. As they
careened around this monument in vehicles that were little more
than motorized Altoid containers, they looked like a network
run by Linux servers: little packets hurtling within inches of
each other, traveling together for a time, separated by other
packets coming from other sources, reassembling as they sped
out of the circle and onto the Champs Élysées. It's no surprise
to me that much of the interest in IPv6 is coming from France
-- if they don't understand delay-sensitive traffic in France,
they understand it nowhere."
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/11/technology/11CYBERLAW.html
Divining the Future of Law and Technology
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1749000/1749441.stm
Red Flag Linux.
Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:05:00 -0500 (EST)Wed, 16 Jan 2002 08:05:01 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.ocregister.com/news/cool00114cci3.shtml
"I don't profess to know everything," Ha says. For instance, he's
not sure why midgets seem to make every male teen laugh, and why
they show up in everything from "Austin Powers" to skateboard
videos. "I don't know why midgets are funny, but they are, apparently."
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23667.html
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23548.html
Korea, China supporting Linux.
- https://news.cnet.com/html/ne/vs/0-1004-200-8247803.html?tag=st.ne.0-1004-200-8247431.vs.0-1004-200-8247803
In a recent interview with CNET News.com, the 47-year-old
co-founder exuded his trademark cockiness. "We're not in a
hole. A lot of companies would love to be in our hole," he
said.
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23661.html
Adobe chief threatens to abandon Asia over piracy.
- https://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/10/1711238
Well, please do what you can.
- https://www.cityrepair.org/ir.html
Residents of this Sellwood wanted a community focus in their
neighborhood, so they claimed a local street intersection as
their own public square. The neighbors first constructed
representational elements of a public square: a Tea Station ,
where free, hot tea is available 24 hours a day; an Information
Station; a Produce Station where people can get, give away or
exchange food freely, and the Tree of Life, which symbolized
the new feeling of community. The neighborhood then held a block
party and painted a design in the intersection to define the
space. Although the City bureaucracy was initially opposed to
the idea, the project soon won the support of the City Council
and the Mayor of Portland. In January 2000, the Council passed
a City ordinance that allows any group of citizens to convert
certain street intersections into public squares in their very
own neighborhood.
- https://dictionary.prisonwall.org/
"Language is ever-changing. This is particularly true in prisons,
where there is the motion of people coming and going, a culture
based on a unique set of circumstances, and the need to speak
in words that often carry depths of meaning. There are forms
of expression that can never be fully understood by the outside
world. There are also words that vary from race to race, prison
to prison -- as well as slang that find its way into prisons
from the outside. As a result, this list will never be
complete, and may contain some words that are not current or
others that are not used at a particular prison or in a
particular state. Please feel free to submit new words to this
list."
Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:05:00 -0500 (EST)Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:29:55 -0500 (EST)Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:22:56 -0500 (EST)Wed, 23 Jan 2002 14:05:01 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.paulgraham.com/lib/paulgraham/pgtalk-rev2.pdf
If you ever do find yourself working for a startup, here's a
handy tip for evaluating competitors. Read their job listings.
Everything else on their site may be stock photos or the prose
equivalent,but the job listings have to be specific about what
they want, or they'll get the wrong candidates.
During the years we worked on Viaweb I read a lot of job
descriptions. A new competitor seemed to emerge out of the
woodwork every month or so. The first thing I would do, after
checking to see if they had a live online demo, was look at
their job listings. After a couple years of this I could tell
which companies to worry about and which not to. The more of an
IT flavor the job descriptions had, the less dangerous the
company was. The safest kind were the ones that wanted Oracle
experience. You never had to worry about those. You were also
safe if they said they wanted C++ or Java developers. If they
wanted Perl or Python programmers,that would be a bit
frightening -- that's starting to sound like a company where
the technical side, at least, is run by real hackers. If I had
ever seen a job posting looking for Lisp hackers, I would have
been really worried.
- https://musiclub.cern.ch/cernettes/
Les Horribles Cernettes are the one and only High Energy Rock
Band. They sing about colliders, quarks, microwaves, antiprotons
and Internet. They are known and loved by some 20000 High Energy
Physicists worldwide. Check these few songs to have an idea,
and if you are music producer, you have found your gold mine!
www.cybergeography.org
- https://mappa.mundi.net/maps/maps_023/
Map O' The Day
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/22/science/space/22BLAC.html?pagewanted=print
In the meantime, perhaps in imitation of Boltzmann, Dr. Hawking
declared at the end of the meeting that he wanted the formula for
black hole entropy engraved on his own tombstone.
- https://www.reversespeech.com/home.htm
"This is my discovery. Truth is now upon us."
- https://sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-121flush.story?coll=sfla%2Dhome%2Dheadlines
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1775000/1775104.stm
Another Urban Legend comes to life.
- https://www.strandbooks.com/bbtfoot.php
Great literature by the foot.
Fri, 25 Jan 2002 08:05:00 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.govtalk.gov.uk/interoperability/egif_document.asp?docnum=430
Open Source Software (OSS) is software whose source code is
openly published, which is usually available at no charge, and
which is often developed by voluntary efforts. This paper
examines how the OSS movement could impact the UK Government's
policy towards the worldwide market in software infrastructure
and software applications.
- https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020122/1202600.html
"It's 'yes miss, no miss, may I please miss'," said Private Jodi
Smith, 30, a Camp X-Ray guard from San Antonio, Tex.
- https://www.silicon.com/bin/bladerunner?30REQEVENT=&REQAUTH=21046&14001REQSUB=REQINT1=50470
"Scientists have finally found a worthwhile use for technology and
placed a pub-detecting global positioning system inside a wristwatch."
- https://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fe20020124rh.htm
What was eating away at Judea's King Herod?
- https://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/live/01_16-11/TOP
Hope, it turns out, is the thing without legs.
- https://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20020125a5.htm
Japanese researchers have announced that they succeeded in
transplanting a spinach gene into a pig in order to change pig
fat into linoleic acid, a principal unsaturated fatty acid found
in plants and considered essential to animal nutrition.
ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixArchive/Caldera-license.pdf
V7, 32V released under BSD-style license.
- https://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Jan02/HP.lawsuit.patent.final.html
Cornell sues Hewlett-Packard
Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:23:34 -0500 (EST)
- https://beta.kpix.com/news/local/2002/01/24/Apple_Co%2DFounder_Starts_New_Company.html
He's baaa-aaaack.
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/23832.html
Touchpaper very decently suggests that this is simply because
they haven't been given adequate levels of training, which we
suppose is true enough as far as it goes. However, writes a
Register board level user, they're also to a great extent
pig-ignorant, self-important gits who claim they're too busy,
but who're really too scared of being made to look like prats,
to go on training courses."
- https://www.salon.com/books/wire/2002/01/24/hp_boycott/index.html
And these people are allowed to carry guns.
- https://www.salon.com/comics/boll/2002/01/24/boll/index.html
Just leave it to the Invisible Hand!
- https://www.mcsweeneys.net/2002/01/10deathstar.html
On the implausibility of the Death Star's trash compactor.
- https://www.humanclock.com/
It's addictive, that's what it is.
- https://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20020123/tc/tech_hewlett_nanochips_dc_1.html
HP said it was ahead on designing a complex nanochip as well as
the parts and could be making nano-computers smaller than a
bacterium, able to be weaved into a shirt, in the next decade
or so.
- https://arstechnica.com/
- https://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&frame=right&th=7030d28393e4cb3a&seekm=151020010937126493%25snipthisrdbridges%40swbell.net#link11
- https://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&frame=right&th=7030d28393e4cb3a&seekm=151020010937126493%25snipthisrdbridges%40swbell.net#s
- https://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=151020010937126493%25snipthisrdbridges%40swbell.net&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dg:thl3526155879d%26hl%3Den%26selm%3D151020010937126493%2525snipthisrdbridges%2540swbell.net
The protagonist of our story, one R. D. Bridges, had a sister
whose iMac was stolen. Luckily, she had Timbuktu, a remote
desktop application, installed. Originally Mr. Bridges was
planning to insert a death script into the stolen computer's
Startup Items folder to wipe out the computer's data. However,
after he stealthily deleted the computer's important personal
files when the stolen computer went online, Mr. Bridges focused
on the grander task of recovering the stolen computer. Long
story short, he made the computer phone home to his and his
sister's house, and, using the caller's phone number, police
were able to recover the stolen computer and printer. Don't you
love a happy ending?
Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:05:00 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Author%3DFrozen%20Horse/104-6478826-5211143
Surprisingly enough, there's no discount or reader reviews.
- https://www.satirewire.com/news/jan02/choking.shtml
"CORRECTION: BUSH FAINTS AFTER CHOKING "THE" PRETZEL, NOT
CHOKING "ON" PRETZEL
Presidential History Replete with Euphemisms for Staring at the Stars"
- https://www.satirewire.com/news/jan02/pretzel.shtml
"CHOKING BUSH CALLED CABINET MEMBERS FOR HELP, TOLD GOVERNMENT
COULDN'T INTERVENE IN COLLAPSE
Pretzels, Death "Part of the Genius of Democracy," Says O'Neill"
- https://www.satirewire.com/news/jan02/geography.shtml
"Washington, D.C. (SatireWire.com) - A delegation of American
high school students today demanded the United States stop
waging war in obscure nations such as Afghanistan, Kuwait, and
Bosnia-Herzegovina, and instead attack places they've actually
heard of, such as France, Australia, and Austria, unless, they
said, those last two are the same country."
- https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020124/1223816.html
Mr. McCoy is believed to be the first jockey to win a race in which
all the horses fell, including his own.
- https://news.com.com/2100-1001-823520.html
Intel is reportedly working on a long-rumored project to develop
an emergency backup plan for the high-end server market in the
event its Itanium processor fails to take off.
- https://www.sciam.com/2002/0202issue/0202kubey.html
Habit-forming drugs work in similar ways. A tranquilizer that
leaves the body rapidly is much more likely to cause dependence
than one that leaves the body slowly, precisely because the user
is more aware that the drug's effects are wearing off.
Similarly, viewers' vague learned sense that they will feel less
relaxed if they stop viewing may be a significant factor in not
turning the set off. Viewing begets more viewing.
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/01/22/computers.anthrax.ap/index.html
Scientists have discovered that the anthrax toxin is made up of
three proteins that are not toxic on their own but become toxic
after binding together.
The Oxford scientists want to scan 3.5 billion molecular compounds
to see if any can block the process and keep the toxin from
reproducing.
- https://www.ananova.com/yournews/story/sm_502441.html
Obvious to *them*, maybe.
Tue, 29 Jan 2002 08:05:00 -0500 (EST)Wed, 30 Jan 2002 08:05:00 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.arcataeye.com/police/020115police01.shtml
1:25 a.m. An underwear drawer may not offer the Fort Knox-like
security one assumes, and certainly nothing approaching the sock
drawer's vault-like impregnability. A Buttermilk Lane resident
is out $300.
...
Saturday, January 5 12:06 p.m. Me and you and a drug named Boo,
travelin' and a-doin' bong hits in the Redwood Park meadow and
a-gettin' cited by Arcata's own Danger Ranger.
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/US/01/29/town.satan/index.html
- https://www.cnn.com/video/us/2002/01/29/gt.satan.ban.cnn.med.exclude.html
Florida town casts out Satan.
- https://www.startribune.com/stories/535/1130636.html
Minneapolis rocks.
- https://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,50025,00.html
The rest of the story.
- https://my.aol.com/news/news_story.psp?type=1&cat=0200&id=0201281414089272
Canada is the only other country in the world to put pictures
on cigarette packages, although Brazil will not include such
shocking images as disfigured organs that Canada uses.
- https://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,1870,99653,00.html?
Damned embittered peasants.
- https://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020125/tc/tech_ibm_linux_dc_1.html
- https://www.internetweek.com/story/INW20020125S0001
IBM Unveils First Linux-Only Mainframes
Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:05:00 -0500 (EST)Thu, 31 Jan 2002 08:05:00 -0500 (EST)Fri, 1 Feb 2002 15:05:00 -0500 (EST)Tue, 5 Feb 2002 12:05:00 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.seruv.org/signers/tank.htm
NO PARKING.
- https://www.canada.com/edmonton/story.asp?id={303FB039-03BD-462C-84B0-98866C486050}
"This particular situation will probably turn into an urban myth,
where the story will be told and re-told countless times," said
William Koty, director of the division of applied technology for
the University of British Columbia's continuing studies.
- https://www.fao.com/products/detail.cfm?objectid=B1B04D84-2EBE-433F-9703277A823D9B49&subcategory=3949
- https://www.cardweb.com/cardtrak/news/2001/october/15a.html
Sorry, no gift wrap.
- https://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/02/04/talibanyouth/index.html
And there's America's Mideast policy, which upsets even teens.
- https://www.ariannaonline.com/columns/files/013102.html
Just how business-friendly is the provision? "They could be
putting liquid plutonium in children's food," says Moyers,
quoting a trade lawyer's advice to the Canadian government. "If
you ban it and the company making it is an American company,
you have to pay compensation."
- https://law.ato.gov.au/atolaw/view.htm?docid=PAC/19990055/165-55
Thanks for clarifying that.
- https://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/856fcmtf.asp
"Oh God no," he says. "Though there are some Air Force personnel
over there, so who knows what's going on?"
- https://www.isonews.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44354
Just tell her you were cleaning it and it went off.
[Sex: possibly offensive.]
Wed, 6 Feb 2002 08:05:01 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/696858.asp
The Tappets claim that NPR's management vetoed their first
choice: "Would You Drive Better If I Crammed That Cell Phone Up
Your Keister?"
- https://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020130/hl/monkeys.html
"In fact," she said, "we found that he became quite reluctant
to move his arm to the reach command once the cursor was
introduced into the game. Apparently it was easier just to
think about reaching."
- https://www.funnyname.com/
We've done all the work for you already!
- https://satirewire.com/news/jan02/axis.shtml
Bitter after being snubbed for membership in the "Axis of Evil,"
Libya, China, and Syria today announced they had formed the
"Axis of Just as Evil," which they said would be way eviler than
that stupid Iran-Iraq-North Korea axis President Bush warned of
his State of the Union address.
- https://satirewire.com/news/jan02/probitium.shtml
In a strong sign that Arthur Andersen finally understands the
extent of the trouble it has caused and is willing to do
something about it, company executives today announced the firm
has changed its name.
- https://apnews.excite.com/article/20020204/D7HFH5MO0.html
While millions of Americans watched the annual pro football
championship, TiVo Inc. was monitoring the viewing habits of
10,000 of its 280,000 subscribers.
- https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/cm/browse-communities/-/212022/book/103-8986724-4547030
Maybe #10 should have been higher on the list.
- https://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cn/20020205/tc/ibm_unifies_unix_intel_workstation_lines_1.html
IBM has made some progress, luring Pixar Animation Studios for
animation work once done on SGI machines. The Pixar deal is
important to IBM in part because the customer is using Linux,
a clone of Unix that's growing from a hobbyist curiosity into
a full-fledged corporate product. IBM said last week it nearly
recouped the $1 billion it spent on Linux in 2001.
- https://yahoo.com.com/2100-1001-826926.html
IBM committed itself to spending $1 billion on Linux in 2001, and
said Wednesday that it recouped almost all of that investment the
same year.
Thu, 7 Feb 2002 09:05:01 -0500 (EST)Mon, 11 Feb 2002 09:05:00 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/index192.htm
What kind of woman doesn't get wet when she sees a good-looking
man working swiftly and competently on some heavy machinery,
giving orders, or typing software code at light-speed with 10
different windows open, including the debugger? I
- https://www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/index217.htm
Not to sound whiny or feminist guys, but if a White women wants
to help out; let her.
- https://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,3734785%255E912,00.html
"They talked among themselves, talked about the burden they've
had in the background of their lives, and decided that none of
them would marry, none of them would have children," he said.
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cn/20020209/tc_cn/digital_dog_tags__would_you_wear_one_&cid=70
Digital dog tags.
- https://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=12712
"The vice president told me: `As far as I am concerned, you
can even hang him'," Ben Eliezer told the mass circulation
paper, adding that he heard similar comments from advisers of
US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
...
The White House, however, firmly denied Ben Eliezer's remarks
attributed to Cheney.
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/703106.asp
There have been no charges in any deaths -- only arrests on
suspicion of bribery.
- https://www.time.com/time/columnist/jaroff/article/0,9565,199773,00.html
Among those who have refused are Israeli psychic Uri Geller,
French chemist and mystical homeopathy buff Jacques Benveniste,
"Crossing Over" host John Edward and University of Arizona
scientist Gary Schwartz, who claims to have validated Edward's
claims that he hears from the dead. Noted psychic Sylvia Browne,
who months ago brashly promised on the Larry King show that she
would indeed take the Million Dollar Challenge, has since
avoided Randi's calls and has yet to be heard from.
- https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/316.html
Some have called Knuth's approach "the way of the cross section."
- https://www.calvin.edu/~adams/html/interests/professional/Xian/Essay95.html
Thus, there are a number of ways that the Christian computer
scientist can work to redeem computing
- https://www.technetcast.com/tnc_program.html?program_id=50
MIT God and Computers Lecture Series: Donald Knuth
Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:05:00 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.sltrib.com/02072002/utah/174397.htm
As a way to help journalists covering the Nordic events at
nearby Soldier Hollow unwind, the Homestead Resort in Midway
will stage daily games of "paintball biathlon" after the noon
media briefing. Given the immense number of surveillance
soldiers bivouacked in the hills around SH, is putting
foreign-speaking reporters in flack jackets, giving them a gun
and telling them to chase down and shoot screaming comrades
really a wise idea?
- https://www.gopbi.com/partners/pbpost/epaper/editions/wednesday/news_c3062ce721c8709a00d4.html
We're pleased to note that we correctly identified Laurel and Hardy.
- https://www.fcinet.com/ultimatetrends/
At last, indeed!
- https://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/02/11/020211opfoster.xml
You acknowledge and agree that Microsoft may automatically check
the version of the Product and/or its components that you are
utilizing and may provide upgrades or fixes to the Product that
will be automatically downloaded to your Workstation Computer."
...
Microsoft may "download onto your computer such security updates
that a secure content owner has requested that MS, Microsoft
Corporation, or their subsidiaries distribute."
- https://www.latimes.com/business/la-000010608feb11.story?coll=la-headlines-business
The suit filed by MGM, Fox, Universal Studios and Orion Pictures
goes furthest, arguing that it's illegal to let consumers record
and store shows based on the genre, actors or other words in
the program description.
- https://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,648024,00.html
Embryos successfully attached themselves to the walls of these
laboratory wombs and began to grow. However, experiments had to
be terminated after a few days to comply with in-vitro fertilisation
(IVF) regulations.
- https://www.le.state.ut.us/~2002/bills/hbillint/hb0100.htm
Commercial terrorism.
- https://www.spaceegg.net/pics/barbie_vacation.jpg
Digital cameras are a mixed blessing.
[Sex: possibly offensive.]
- https://slate.msn.com/?id=2061883
With the Olympics safely underway, gun battles in Utah are just
heating up, a LAT fronter reports. Gun advocates argued
unsuccessfully for lock boxes at Olympic venues, leaving no
place for them to store their concealed weapons. "Leaving your
weapon at home makes you defenseless during the many hours that
you will spend traveling to and from each Olympic event," opines
Gun Owners of Utah. A similar controversy is brewing at the
University of Utah, whose president has banned guns from campus.
"It's a two-edged sword," says a U of U student. "From his [the
university president] perspective, he thinks if professors or
students knew there were students who were concealing firearms,
they might not be at liberty to speak freely. But the Catch-22
is, those students who carry may feel like they can't speak
freely if you take away the power to defend themselves."
Watch for dissertation defenses to get more interesting.
Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:05:00 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2604-2002Jan31.html
Between Florida and Australia. No, wait. Brazil. Persian Gulf?
OK, Egypt then.
- https://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/stinkbomb020107.html
The worst smells, said Dalton, had some screaming in revulsion.
But, it turns out, not all rank odors are as universally
offensive as others. The smell of burnt hair, for example,
wasn't unbearably unpleasant to testers of South African origin.
And other testers showed a peculiar tolerance for the smell of
vomit.
- https://www.thesmokinggun.com/doc_o_day/nasaurine1.shtml
I don't think I want to be an astronaut anymore.
- https://mommensj.web2010.com/ctips3.htm
Primate Tips: How to diaper a monkey
- https://www.fecundswamp.net/~hatridge/stamps/
Many Enemies -- Much Honor!
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/02/11/hyperlink.claim.ap/index.html
At a preliminary hearing in White Plains, lawyers for BT and
for Prodigy Communications Corp. -- the Internet service
provider that's the first target of the lawsuit -- argued over
the meanings of words as simple as "central," as in "central
computer," and phrases as complex as "means coupled to said
further memory means."
- https://www.spe.sony.com/Pictures/SonyMovies/movies/Gattaca/design_child.htm
Design-A-Child
- https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Attacks-Ted-Turner.html
Brown University: if you ever get money, you can come back.
Thu, 14 Feb 2002 16:37:46 -0500 (EST)Fri, 15 Feb 2002 09:05:00 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,50428,00.html
"You know he loves you because he spell-checked this post."
- https://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=12825
The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention
of Evil has given shops all over the Kingdom three days to clear
red-colored gifts normally used to mark the day in which lovers
celebrate their love for one another.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/12/international/middleeast/12SAUD.html
In describing Saudi Arabia in its 2001 report on religious
freedom, the State Department was unusually blunt: "Freedom of
religion," it stated, "does not exist."
- https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,44067,00.html
Now that Taliban rule is over in Mullah Omar's former southern
stronghold, it is not only televisions, kites and razors which
have begun to emerge.
- https://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_506555.html
Legal Defense O' The Day
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/31/technology/31NAPS.html
The judge ... said she would allow Napster to explore whether the
record companies might not control all the copyrights they claimed
to own.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/13/business/13TRAV.html
"I've come to the conclusion that 2 percent of the traveling public
is certifiably insane," he writes, adding: "The percentage is slightly
higher for airline crew."
- https://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?thesection=news&thesubsection=&storyID=939017
Telecom has ordered an investigation after a customer received
an account charging him a "penalty for being an arrogant bastard".
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020214/ts_nm/health_cloning_cat_dc_1&cid=578
Copycat!
Mon, 18 Feb 2002 08:05:00 -0500 (EST)Tue, 19 Feb 2002 12:05:00 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/18/technology/18SONG.html
Because the sites are new, no payments have been made yet, but
the payment plan has so infuriated scores of best-selling pop
acts, including No Doubt, the Dixie Chicks and Dr. Dre, that
their lawyers have demanded their clients' music be removed from
the sites, with some even sending cease-and-desist orders.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1825000/1825593.stm
Am-bushed.
- https://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=11
Yet now he is shocked, shocked that his close friend Ken Lay
engaged in the same pattern of behavior.
- https://www.thesmokinggun.com/doc_o_day/bushlay1.shtml
Dear George.
- https://fyi.cnn.com/2002/fyi/teachers.ednews/02/07/plagiarism.dispute.ap/index.html
Pelton, 26, resigned days after the board ordered her to give
the students partial credit and to decrease the project's value
from 50 percent of the final course grade to 30 percent.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/17/national/17CREM.html
We have laws against desecrating graves, but we can't find one
against desecration of bodies," he said. "I guess nobody in the
Legislature ever thought something like this could happen.
- https://commondreams.org/headlines01/1113-03.htm
- https://www.goacta.org/
College and university faculty have been the weak link in
America's response to the attack.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/17/automobiles/17VIBE.html
Cars have taken the names of all sorts of places and things,
but the Mazda MP3 is probably the first model to be named after
a feature of its sound system.
- https://www.satirewire.com/news/feb02/israel.shtml
Jerusalem (SatireWire.com) - Sources on the set of "Israel,"
history's longest-running drama, say irascible stars Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
angrily walked off the set today, complaining that the show's
scriptwriters continually make their characters say and do
stupid things.
- https://www.extremeglow.com/toilet_seat.htm
Solve the problem once and for all.
Wed, 20 Feb 2002 09:05:00 -0500 (EST)Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:05:00 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/20/international/middleeast/20SAUD.html
In another part of Jidda, privileged young women have their
chauffeurs drive them to a chic restaurant where they flout
convention by dining on their own and imitating young men at
nearby tables by smoking water pipes filled with fruit-favored
tobacco.
- https://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/sauded.htm
College officials said that through high school, children spend
about one-third of their time on religious studies, one-third
studying Arabic and the remainder on other academic subjects.
- https://www.jlist.com/cgi-bin/shop.cgi?ss=kty100&function=search
Hello Kitty!
- https://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020214.html
How the Best Thing for Apple, for Users, and Even for Microsoft,
Would Be an Intel Version of OS X
- https://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/trivia/symmetry.htm
[OK, I was wrong, wrong, wrong! Ed.]
- https://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50455,00.html
The new Great Wall of Asia.
- https://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,1870,103317,00.html?
Companies are also asked to reduce the amount of overtime and
to urge their employees to take holidays.
- https://www.comics.com/webmail/RetrieveAStrip?mid=Merrylyn@aol.com_1014212451992.html
The perils of flossing.
- https://www.defenselink.mil/news/Feb2002/t02122002_t212sdv2.html
Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting
to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we
know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we
know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown
unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks
throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is
the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.
-- Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
- https://in.news.yahoo.com/020218/64/1gqy2.html
We must once again start exorcising those who are possessed by demons.
Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:05:00 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.nybooks.com/articles/15180
It appears that it was Marie Thérèse, not Marie Antoinette,
who greeted news that the people lacked bread with qu'ils mangent
de la brioche. (The phrase was cited in Rousseau's Confessions,
published when Marie Antoinette was thirteen years old and still
living in Austria.) And it now appears that Bill Gates never
said anything about getting along with 640K.
- https://www.bayarea.com/mld/bayarea/2692441.htm
Friday night, Bradbury e-mailed Ohno asking him to please give
the boots a plug when he won.
- https://www.routergod.com/
The online gossip rag and rumor mill for Cisco professionals.
- https://www.theonion.com/onion3806/infograph_3806.html
IHTWBSAP
- https://news.com.com/2100-1040-839524.html
Second, the pirates here have adopted the just-in-time manufacturing
ethos of Dell Computer. Often, you have to make your selection first
and then a guy on a mo-ped runs off with your order to his friend with
a burner.
- https://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/2714877.htm
Across Silicon Valley, 29 million square feet of office space
is available for lease.
- https://www.criticalmiss.com/backissues/issue5/PIMP2.html
Pimp, the free, collectible card game.
- https://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/dave_barry/
Dave Barry is filing a column each day from the Olympics.
- https://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/dave_barry/2705902.htm
I'm getting used to feeling like an outlaw here. I am an aging
white man, but here in Salt Lake City, I feel like a hip-hop
gangsta. Snoop Doggy Dave.
...
And that's not the only evidence of moral decay. Last week, a
big scandal here was an allegation that the local Olympic chief,
Mitt Romney, had, while dealing with a traffic snarl-up, said
some naughty words. I'm not kidding: This was an actual news
story, generating much controversy, and forcing Romney to make
the following statement to the newspaper: 'I used the `H-word.'
It takes a lot of frustration to get me to say the 'H-word.'
"Whoa! The H-word! Again, this does not seem so bad to me, as
a resident of Miami, where our official tourism motto is:
"Miami: Come On The [bleep] Down!" But here in Utah, it is
shocking.
Mon, 25 Feb 2002 12:05:00 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.fool.com/portfolios/RuleMaker/2002/rulemaker020220.htm
The companies we want to own have the same characteristics:
monopolistic, duopolistic, or oligarchic dominance, gilt-edged
brand name, technological superiority, economic scale, global
reach, price dominance, massive war chest, patents, proprietary
processes, and a pet alligator (you know, just in case.)
Our companies look like Switzerland, only bigger.
What does the opposite of this look like? Belgium. Flat, small,
unarmed, and otherwise undifferentiated. Don't invest in
Belgium. Invest in Switzerland. (No offense to the Belgians,
but the only thing you could do to make your country less
defensible is pave the whole thing.)
- https://www.mystcweb.net/the_philosophical_biker.htm
- https://www.mystcweb.net/the_political_biker.htm
The only good view of a thunderstorm is in your rearview mirror.
- https://www.nerve.com/personals/emlo/02_21_02/index.asp
I'm sure there are other perverts out there who are wrestling
with this very issue, namely: How does one discreetly pack sex
toys and BDSM paraphernalia for air travel?
...
If you want to take your sex toys around the world in eighty
days, it's a good idea to research some international laws
first. For example, can you believe it's illegal to own
handcuffs in Australia and Canada? (Though we're not sure how
much that's enforced.)
- https://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=ny&vol=I02&invol=0020
A body cavity search of a defendant's rectum to seize evidence
incident to an arrest, absent a showing of exigent circumstances,
is unreasonable and invalid under the Fourth Amendment, warranting
the suppression of any evidence seized as a result of the cavity
search.
- https://www.clearfour.com/condiment/
Culture comes in many forms.
- https://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50538,00.html
The Grid as an alternative to .Net.
- https://vwww.abo.fi/users/rpalmber/enclaves.htm
Enclaves of the World
- https://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp?story=120601
Laws being introduced by the [UK] Government would give it the
power to see academic papers before they are published and
suppress them. It could also prevent the use of e-mails between
foreign colleagues.
- https://www.advogato.org/article/435.html
Microsoft, Sun, Sony and Linux
- https://www.chillingeffects.org
Do you know your online rights? Have you received a letter
asking you to remove information from a Web site or stop
engaging in an activity? Are you concerned about liability for
information that someone else posted to your online forum? If
so, this site is for you.
Tue, 26 Feb 2002 14:05:00 -0500 (EST)Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:05:00 -0500 (EST)Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:05:01 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/23708.html
SGI insisted at the time these are "non core" technologies, but
sources close to the Mountain View are emphatic that these
represent the bulk of SGI's 3D intellectual property assets.
- https://dailynews.philly.com/content/daily_news/2002/01/17/local/lizzi17cx.htm
If you live alone, and you drop dead in your apartment one day,
you don't want to have six-feet-long, flesh-eating monitor lizards
running around the place.
You just don't.
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020227/od_nm/smithsonian_dc_1&cid=573
Enduring fame through spectacular failure.
- https://www.dovebid.com/assets/display.asp?ItemID=web519103
- https://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1063591381
Enron goes on the block.
- https://www.woz.org/letters/pirates/15.html
If my son wants to be a pimp when he grows up, that's fine with
me. I hope he's a good one and enjoys it and doesn't get caught.
I'll support him in this. But if he wants to be a network
administrator, he's out of the house and not part of my family.
- https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~insrisg/nature/nw01/1015Appleseed.htm
- https://reason.com/0202/cr.ts.the.shtml
"Johnny Appleseed (whose real name, back in 1806, was John
Chapman) is usually remembered as a saintly, peaceful figure
spreading wholesome food across the American frontier. There's
just one problem with the story: Two centuries ago, people
didn't grow apples for food. They grew them to make hard cider.
Johnny Appleseed's contemporaries loved him because he was
bringing them a cheap means of getting drunk."
- https://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/2002/02/26/propaganda-office-closing.htm
"The office is done. What do you want, blood?" he said at a
Pentagon news conference.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10015-2002Feb27.html
Someone within the bowels of the Pentagon -- or at least close
to the Pentagon -- decided that having an Office of Strategic
Influence was a very bad idea.
- https://www.aip.org/enews/physnews/2002/573.html
"Quantum gravitational states have been observed for the first
time. An experiment with ultracold neutrons shows that their
vertical motion in Earth's gravitational field come in discrete
sizes. Quantum properties -- such as the quantization of
energies, wavelike dynamics including interference, and an
irreducible uncertainty in the simultaneous measurement of
position and momentum -- usually emerge only at the atomic level
or under special circumstances (e.g., low temperatures) wherein
a particle is trapped in a potential well by a controlling
force. Observing such properties in phenomena governed by the
electromagnetic or the weak and strong nuclear forces is common
enough, but the strength of gravity, many orders of magnitude
weaker than the other forces, has not previously been strong
enough to enforce the kind of confinement needed to make quantum
reality manifest.
- https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=26338&cid=2852787
This is not what a quantum gravity researcher would call "a test
of quantum gravity", insofar as it does not demonstrate that
the gravitational field is quantized. What this is, is a test
of the effects on quantum matter of a classical gravitational
field. In other words, as the Nature article says, it shows
that gravity "can have a quantum effect" on other particles.
But it does not show that gravity itself is quantized."
Mon, 4 Mar 2002 14:05:00 -0500 (EST)
- https://daisyman.arsware.org/dms/
Anyway, there was a thread last week about what would happen if
one of us were to shuffle off to that Great Motherboard in the
Sky. Software which would act as a proverbial "Dead Man's
Switch" came up, which is basically a system that, if not reset
by a given time, will automatically carry out a series of tasks,
such as posting messages to websites like Ars, sending e-mails
to loved ones (or hated ones), and encrypting or destroying
sensitive files (*cough* pr0n *cough*). Interest was expressed
for the creation of such software, and well, here it is.
- https://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99feb/germs.htm
These Darwinian laws have led Ewald to a new theory: that
diseases we have long ascribed to genetic or environmental
factors -- including some forms of heart disease, cancer, and
mental illness -- are in many cases actually caused by
infections.
- https://www.miami.com/mld/miami/news/2654727.htm
His mom said she just went along with the group.
- https://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1710090913
Cities with "River Street" might find it particularly useful.
(And a bargain at twice the price.)
- https://www.cheese.com/
Venezuelan Beaver Cheese?
- https://web.eyesurf.net/~tomt/unh/index.html
Web Collection O' The Day
- https://brunching.com/features/feature-spelledorgasm.html
Doing their part to make the web a better place.
- https://www.johnnycash.com/billboard.htm
Acknowledged.
- https://www.cnn.com/video/us/2002/02/25/ashcroft.sings.wbtv.med.html
[From a radio station's newsletter:
JOHN ASHCROFT SINGS "LET THE EAGLES SOAR"
He wrote it, he sang it (during a recent speech at a North
Carolina seminary with no naked statues) and damn if he didn't
nail that sucker!
Tue, 5 Mar 2002 14:05:00 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,50688,00.html
The iPod is perfect for virtual shoplifting.
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020304/ap_on_hi_te/google_artist_1&cid=528
... especially those two Os no doodler could resist.
- https://www.dpreview.com/news/0202/02021101foveonx3.asp
Foveon announces world's first image sensor that captures three
colors at every pixel.
- https://www.forgotten-ny.com/streetnecrology/necrologyhomepage/necro.html
Street Necrology
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/04/celebrity.boxing.ap/index.html
Of course, that's my first concern as a woman, messing my face
up," she said.
- https://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/story/0,1870,106249,00.html?
So they start their baby albums with three-dimensional, colour
photographs of their unborn children.
- https://my.aol.com/news/news_story.psp?type=1&cat=0200&id=0203041755460422
- https://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=HJBVVPKNWR4SECRBAEKSFEYKEEARMIWD?type=topnews&StoryID=660563
Because the collapsing bubbles produced temperatures as hot as
those found in the sun, the experiment does not mean that the
long-sought goal of cold fusion has been achieved, scientists
warned.
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WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 1 Mar 02 Washington, DC
1. BUBBLE FUSION: A COLLECTIVE GROAN CAN BE HEARD. A report out
of Oak Ridge of d-d fusion events in collapsing bubbles formed by
cavitation in deuterated acetone, is scheduled for publication in
the March 8 issue of Science magazine. Taleyarkan et al. observe
2.5 MeV neutron peaks, evidence of d-d fusion, correlated with
sonoluminescence from collapsing bubbles. Pretty exciting stuff
huh? It might be, if the experiment had not been repeated by two
experienced nuclear physicists, D. Shapira and M.J. Saltmarsh,
using the same apparatus, except for superior neutron detection
equipment. They found no evidence for 2.5 MeV neutron emission
correlated with sonoluminescence. Any neutron emission was many
orders of magnitude too small to account for the tritium
production reported by the first group. Although distinguished
physicists, fearing a repeat of the cold fusion fiasco 13 years
ago, advised against publication, the editor has apparently
chosen not only to publish the work, but to do so with unusual
fanfare, involving even the cover of Science. Perhaps Science
magazine covets the vast readership of Infinite Energy magazine.
Wed, 6 Mar 2002 16:47:11 -0500 (EST)Fri, 8 Mar 2002 08:05:00 -0500 (EST)
- https://my.aol.com/news/news_story.psp?type=1&cat=0200&id=0203061909100277
They found that spouses of people who travel frequently for
their work have three times the level of stress-related
illnesses as partners of workers who don't.
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/News/03/06/attacks.cartoon.ap/index.html
A syndicated cartoon that portrays the widows of September 11
as greedy and superficial has outraged survivors of the
terrorist attacks.
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/03/06/feathered.dinosaur/index.html
- https://www.mhorton.net/~mah/images/Find_the_bird.jpg
Find the bird.
- https://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20020305_sprigman.html
THE MOUSE THAT ATE THE PUBLIC DOMAIN: Disney, The Copyright Term
Extension Act, And eldred V. Ashcroft
"Unless you earn your living as an intellectual property lawyer,
you probably don't know that the Supreme Court has granted
certiorari in Eldred v. Ashcroft, a case that will test the
limits of Congress's power to extend the term of copyrights.
But while copyright may not seem inherently compelling to
non-specialists, the issues at stake in Eldred are vitally
important to anyone who watches movies, listens to music, or
reads books.
If that includes you, read on."
- https://news.excite.com/article/id/216557|oddlyenough|03-07-2002::11:45|reuters.html
I'm going to have to come up with a new word. Indifferent isn't
enough."
- https://my.aol.com/news/news_story.psp?type=1&cat=0600&id=0203061828110302
"If you declare war against the Palestinians and think you can
solve the problem by seeing how many Palestinians can be killed
- I don't know if that leads you anywhere," Powell said.
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/720595.asp
For 12 hours or so I wasn't myself," Le Gougne said. "They made
me say what they wanted me to say."
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/business/04PATE.html?pagewanted=print
All the audience sees of the other musicians is "this super-cool
bluish glow on their faces from the computer screens."
Fri, 8 Mar 2002 15:05:00 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.ananova.com/entertainment/story/sm_491817.html
He said: "I'm going to make it officially known they dropped it
because people made a big deal about it.
- https://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20000907.html
"Shred it," said the lawyer. So they did.
- https://www.nationalreview.com/jos/jos011002.shtml
Which is where the euro comes in. As columnists like Stelzer
and William Rees-Mogg in the London Times pointed out, the euro
is an Argentine currency board on a much larger scale, uniting
the currencies of twelve European nations from Finland to
Sicily. This currency union also has a "one-size-fits-all"
monetary policy on the Argentine model. Which means that no
monetary policy set by the European Central Bank can possibly
suit both Germany (whose economy is faltering and needs the
boost of low interest rates) and Spain (which is inflating and
needs the correction of higher ones.)
- https://www.jwz.org/gruntle/dig.html
Call before you dig.
- https://slate.msn.com/?id=2062867&device=
We have removed the entries from the Diary section of Slate
because we believe them to be fiction. But because you can no
more unpublish an article on the Web than you can unring a bell,
we have also decided to post them here as a sidebar. We do this
in the interests of transparency, and as a reminder to ourselves
that we've failed your trust. Slate apologizes to its readers
and promises greater vigilance in the future.
- https://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3YFJWJHYC&live=true&tagid=ZZZLZDL1B0C&subheading=media,%20entertainment,%20%20sport
The world's most listened-to radio station on the internet is
Jazz FM, a US audience-measuring service has found.
- https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Kryptonite-Lawsuit.html
Superman will be weakened and suffer irreparably if a hair
company is allowed to keep marketing a green hair gel called
Kryptonite, the superhero's creator claims.
- https://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992012
The announcement lends weight to concerns of many cloning
scientists that while the research in the US and UK has been
bogged down by political and ethical concerns, it may be racing
ahead elsewhere in the world.
Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:05:00 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/721353.asp
... and announced a revamped "zero tolerance" policy.
- https://totl.net/VirusScanner/
TotL.net Human Virus Scanner
- https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-030902bombs.story
Dr. Strangelove is alive, well, and living in the White House.
- https://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0306TwinsKilled06-ON.html
Seventy-year-old twin brothers riding their bicycles were
killed, each one hit by a truck, in separate accidents hours
apart on the same highway.
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/721582.asp
Based on contemporary European maps and records, Chinese star
charts and archaeological finds, Menzies' case is that Chinese
sailors mapped the world in the early 1400s before abandoning
global seafaring in the middle of the 15th century.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/11/business/11BUFF.html
With no hesitation, he replies, "Reprice my options."
- https://www.reuters.co.uk/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=XJKKEFENQ4GMSCRBAEZSFEYKEEATIIWD?type=topnews&StoryID=683115
Researchers say they have isolated a "hunger hormone" that
dramatically boosts human food consumption, raising the
prospects of new treatments for both the obese and the
malnourished.
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/diet.fitness/03/11/fake.meat.ap/index.html
Yum!
- https://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0307fainting07-ON.html
The suspended students will have to do term papers on oxygen
deprivation and its effects on the body.
- https://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0214shooting-newjersey-ON.html
... because he thought she was about to say "New Jersey."
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/721114.asp
Just after last Thanksgiving, top Hollywood studio executives
one after another drove in secret to a secure location to
glimpse a document that each feared might fall into the wrong
hands. The latest threat from terrorists? No, they were scanning
the script of "T-3: The Rise of the Machines," the most
sought-after movie of the year.
Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:05:01 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.caranddriver.com/xp/Caranddriver/roadtests/2002/march/200203_roadtest_caddy_escaladeext.xml?&page=1
There are lots of things on which you could spend $49,990. This
is one of them.
- https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020312/310851.html
After 10 years of work, an aerospace engineer has invented an
all-wood, tripod-mounted firearm that unleashes 144 rubber bands
as fast as it is cranked.
- https://www.BackyardArtillery.com/
This stylish wristwatch has a medieval secret...
- https://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/universe_color_020308.html
Beige, I think I'll paint the ceiling beige.
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020311/170/18np1.html
... upset with the manipulation by sellers of wide-screen
television,
- https://fyi.cnn.com/2002/fyi/teachers.ednews/03/01/puppies.snake.ap/index.html
Patton approached the feeding from a scientific perspective,
Principal Dale Harper said.
- https://www.justgamerecipes.com/beaver/beav0007.shtml
Something to whip up this weekend.
- https://www.eyetap.org/hi/ENGwear/1999/frosh/images/grp_1380x900.jpg
X-Files must be shooting on location.
- https://www.applelinks.com/articles/2002/03/20020312160357.shtml
We'll bet they have plans, though.
- https://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,665861,00.html
Companies now demanding intellectual property rights were built
up without them.
Thu, 14 Mar 2002 15:05:00 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.usairways.com/dividendmiles/offers/space.htm
The Sky Is No Longer The Limit -- Earn or Redeem Miles To Fly
To Space
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23931-2002Mar13.html
Sometimes it's only a single word that separates men. In this
case, it's the placement of the word "lousy," as a modifier of
"review." Had Truman said, "I've just read your review of
Margaret's lousy recital," he would been both closer to the
truth and in agreement with most critics of Margaret Truman's
musical career.
- https://bananaking.net/humor/images/godkills.jpg
Please... think of the kittens. [Sex: possibly offensive.]
- https://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,661458,00.html
"Their boss, they explained, believes calico cats are signs of
the devil," Mr Tobias reported..
- https://www.animaltrustees.org/rewards.htm
Reward.
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/US/03/12/inv.flight.school.visas/index.html
Next week: Osama bin Laden gets his US tax refund.
- https://www.suntimes.com/output/ebert1/wkp-news-time08f.html
"They are obviously the result of 800,000 years of ugly brides."
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/721268.asp
"We think we can prove substantial economic damage, but I wouldn't
hazard to estimate at this stage, except to say that we can show
substantial damages. It would be north of a billion," said Sun's
general counsel, Mike Morris.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/14/technology/14PROT.html
- https://news.com.com/2100-1023-858991.html
- https://www.digitalconsumer.org/
- https://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1016069415668607840,00.html
That brought an angry retort from Andrew S. Grove, the chairman
of Intel. "Is it the responsibility of the world at large to
protect an industry whose business model is facing a strategic
challenge?" he said in an interview. "Or is it up to the
entertainment industry to adapt to a new technical reality and
a new set of consumers who want to take advantage of it?"
...
I believe if you say to these people, `You get us a system by
Dec. 31 or we'll do it for you,' you'll be surprised at how
innovative they'll become," Mr. Eisner told the lawmakers at
last month's hearing.
Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:05:00 -0500 (EST)
- https://my.aol.com/news/news_story.psp?type=1&cat=0100&id=0203131214301287
"I am not a policeman; I am a shepherd."
- https://www.sptimes.com/2002/03/14/State/_ATHEIST__plate_raise.shtml
Tweaking the unstable.
- https://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2106596,00.html
Making possible whole new kinds of antisocial behavior.
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020314/168/198g9.html
Reason #57 not to commute to work.
- https://www.thisislondon.com/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=521812&in_review_text_id=486644
- https://www.google.com/search?q=cache:XWG6X8dfUYQC:news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/monitoring/media_reports/newsid_1871000/1871182.stm&hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1
Like many husbands he often came home late from work and was
irritated if his wife tried to talk to him.
- https://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/24393_reward24.shtml
"... a super-brief pilot program that was admittedly stupid but
absolutely didn't share information" with law enforcers.
- https://dharma.henrysworld.com/vanity.html
Thank you for videotaping "Dharma & Greg" and freeze framing on
my vanity card. I'd like to take this opportunity to share with
you some of my personal beliefs. I believe that everyone thinks
they can write. This is not true. It is true, however, that
everyone can direct. I believe that the Laws of Karma do not
apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people
on a fairly regular basis. I believe that what doesn't kill us
makes us bitter. I believe that the obsessive worship of movie,
TV and sports figures is less likely to produce spiritual gain
than praying to Thor. I believe that Larry was a vastly
underrated Stooge, without whom Moe and Curly could not conform
to the comedy law of three (thanks, Lee). I believe my kids are
secretly proud of me. I believe that if you can't find anything
nice to say about people whom you've helped to make wildly
successful and then they stabbed you in the back, then don't
say anything at all. I believe I have a great dog, maybe the
greatest dog in the whole wide world, yes, he is! I believe that
when ABC reads this, I'm gonna be in biiiig trouble. I believe
that Tina Turner's "River Deep, Mountain High", is the greatest
rock song ever recorded. Once again, thanks for watching "Dharma
& Greg". Please be sure to tune in again to this vanity card
for more of my personal beliefs.
- https://www.thesmokinggun.com/doc_o_day/doc_o_day.shtml
So much for that Jamaican shaman crap.
- https://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,53%257E458922,00.html
"Every thang's gonna be all white!"
Tue, 19 Mar 2002 15:32:44 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,15410-10277492,00.html
It is it better to be pissed off, or pissed on?
- https://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0318yatesentencing-ON.html
As she was being sentenced, her husband, Russell Yates, and
members of his family who had been at the courthouse each day
of her trial were in New York to appear on NBC's "Today Show."
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34966-2002Mar15.html
He also said he doesn't know whether he will remain married to
Andrea or how often he will visit her in prison. He said he
misses the companionship of a wife and may like to have more
children.
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020319/168/19xte.html
A keyboard anywhere you want.
- https://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/27731_retina18.shtml
And the display to go with it.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/19/science/19DELP.html?pagewanted=print&position=bottom
In particular, the team found that the oracle probably came
under the influence of ethylene -- a sweet-smelling gas once
used as an anesthetic. In light doses, it produces feelings of
aloof euphoria.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_1864000/1864737.stm
H1-H4 are running.
- https://www.straightdope.com/columns/020315.html
... the notion of there ever having been 11,000 virgins in one place
at one time ultimately proved too much for even true believers
to swallow.
- https://www.spacedaily.com/news/oped-02b.html
OpEd O' The Day.
- https://members.tripod.com/~wbenton/humor/Jokeindex066.html
Here's your sign.
- https://cs1.cs.nyu.edu/ms_students/sals7812/jokes/misc00.html
I am thankful for any pediatric cough syrup guaranteed to "cause
drowsiness" in young children.
Thu, 21 Mar 2002 08:05:00 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=13627
Watching a stream of running water; hearing the birds sing;
marveling at Allah's creations: it's just not as exciting as
wearing a designer watch and buying diamonds and jewelry!
- https://uk.news.yahoo.com/020320/80/cuhm2.html
Spliff beats drink for drivers.
- https://www.hrc.org/newsreleases/2002/020221justice.asp
Homosexuality, he wrote in the opinion issued Feb. 15, is an
"inherent evil, and if a person openly engages in such a
practice, that fact alone would render him or her an unfit
parent."
- https://www.constitutionalreform.org/news/reformnews_flor111901_2.html
"Man is inherently evil, and the constitution restrains evil,"
said Kayla Moore, wife of Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice
Roy Moore.
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/03/20/north.pole/index.html
North Magnetic Pole could be leaving Canada
- https://www.restrooms.org/standing.html
- https://www.whizzy4you.com/
Recommended for... those who like a challenge.
- https://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51106,00.html
Patrick Ball, a 36-year-old "hacktivist," was armed with
mathematics, logic and a set of stark graphs in his appearance
as a prosecution witness last week at the trial of Slobodan
Milosevic, the former Yugoslav president accused of atrocious
war crimes.
- https://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itgic/1097/ijge/gj-7.htm
Everybody's entitled to a change of heart, I guess.
- https://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,48225,00.html
Asimov, here we come.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1880000/1880566.stm
"[It is hard] to believe that 500 billion tonnes of ice sheet
has disintegrated in less than a month."
Fri, 22 Mar 2002 15:05:00 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.freep.com/news/metro/maxim21_20020321.htm
"I felt a little guilty," admitted senior editor James Heidenry.
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/726891.asp
But as views of death and dying change, more people are thinking
outside the box.
- https://www.law.duke.edu/pd/papers.html
Conference on the Public Domain
- https://my.aol.com/news/news_story.psp?type=1&cat=0200&id=0203211332116583
Wind-tunnel tests had confirmed the company's computer
calculations of the optimal cruising speed for the plane, 95 to
98 percent of the speed of sound.
- https://www.suntimes.com/output/ebert1/wkp-news-blade22f.html
Blade, who is both human and vampire, is like a balanced meal.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A376-2002Mar21.html
I like to think of the great humanist French film critic Andre
Bazin. I like to think of his belief in the truth of cinema,
his conviction that through cinema could the world be healed.
Then I like to think of him seeing "Blade II."
I think it would go something like this:
"AIEEEEEEEEEEEEE-AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
There is no possible adult justification for the picture. It is
pure pagan glee, a raptor's flesh fest, a zesty paprika of
cannibal stew, stylized toward almost total abstraction, beyond
describing, beyond imagining except by its makers.
And that is why it's so good.
- https://www.internetnews.com/isp-news/article/0,,8_996341,00.html
"In one step your city has grid-locked the entire Internet, as
all the servers that subscribe to ORBZ are now rejecting nearly
all mail," he said in an e-mail sent Thursday evening. "...your
city IT person can brag that he gave you such bad advise that
he caused you both negative national attention for his
incompetence in not recognizing the good service ORBZ gave to
the rest of the world."
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/21/technology/circuits/21DRIV.html
Mr. Barclay bought the machine to keep out underage drinkers
who use fake ID's. But he soon found that he could build a
database of personal information, providing an intimate
perspective on his clientele that can be useful in marketing.
"It's not just an ID check," he said. "It's a tool."
- https://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51245,00.html
The Democratic senator from South Carolina finally has
introduced his copy protection legislation, ending over six
months of anticipation and sharpening what has become a heated
debate between Hollywood and Silicon Valley.
- https://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-866058.html
Yet another new and innovative use of the DMCA.
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24504.html
So I respectfully suggest that a proper remedy in this case
should not require the firm Microsoft, that has provided the
most popular and successful product, to adopt the business
models of those who have failed."
Mon, 25 Mar 2002 14:05:00 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.click2houston.com/hou/news/stories/news-124836820020222-130220.html
"But to me the most absurd part was that it worked."
- https://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/markets/dumbest/10014238.html
Aside from the title -- a euphemistic contraction that will have
library patrons struggling to find its entry in the card
catalogue, F'd Companies is a work of genius -- the creation of
an accidental writer whose insight, breadth of knowledge and
melodiously cranky voice puts all of us
journalism-school-educated wretches to shame.
- https://www.tecstandards.com/Contest_Results_2001/Contest_Results_2002/contest_results_2002.html
Worst Manual Contest.
- https://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/2920611.htm
Bell Labs said that, in a demonstration, it sent a massive 2.56
terabits of data a second over a distance of 2,500 miles, the
equivalent of sending the contents of 2,560,000 novels every
second across the United States.
- https://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_019.html
Now, you may regard borax as "pansy-ass," my boy, but that is
because you are young and ignorant and have not yet grasped the
subtleties of Total Insect Warfare, which requires fanatical
dedication. You must mix up oodles of this stuff and apply it
with the enthusiasm of Robert S. McNamara dumping Agent Orange
on the Mekong Delta.
- https://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4376826,00.html
Adding "dignity" to an otherwise boring prize ceremony.
- https://www.odessaoffice.com/wireless/mobile.htm
Mobile wireless.
- https://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2922154.htm
We are changing each other.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47134-2002Mar18.html
Girls might say a boy is "firefighter cute" instead of the more
common "hottie."
Tue, 26 Mar 2002 12:05:00 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11835-2002Mar24.html
Office on Linux.
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/729361.asp
"We are offering what you could view as a part-time job, or what
might turn into a new career."
- https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Voodoo-Union.html
Workers at Mount Sinai-St. Francis Nursing and Rehabilitation
Center testified they saw lines of pennies, half-empty water
cups and a union supporter twisting black beads in her hands
before the Feb. 28 vote.
- https://www.quantumpicture.com/Flo_Control/flo_control.htm
To put an end to this we have built a computer-controlled device
that visually determines if Flo is carrying anything in her
mouth when she enters, and if she does, it simply does not let
her in.
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/24569.html
EMC has committed the cardinal error of sending out a press
release to analysts in Word format, spilling details of draft
revisions that will cause acute discomfort for the company's
spin doctors."
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/26/science/26TAXI.html
"Taxidermy is the combination of art and science to recreate
the illusion of life."
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16966-2002Mar25.html
"Our government is saying, unless they show the sources of their
money, they're not going," Chu said. "Well, as far as I'm
concerned, let's put the dollar in the circle and deal. None
of these people want to say how they got their money. They're
rich, that's all that matters!"
- https://www.newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/?020401crat_atlarge
Science wasn't a form of proof. It was a style of quarrelling.
The reason science gave you sure knowledge you could count on
was that it wasn't sure and you couldn't count on it. Science
wasn't the name for knowledge that had been proved true; it was
the name for guesses that could be proved false.
Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:05:00 -0500 (EST)Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:05:01 -0500 (EST)Fri, 29 Mar 2002 16:57:39 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.sundaytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F02%2F10%2Fwnasa10.xml
Researchers say Pioneer 10, which took the first close-up
pictures of Jupiter before leaving our solar system in 1983, is
being pulled back to the sun by an unknown force. The effect
shows no sign of getting weaker as the spacecraft travels deeper
into space, and scientists are considering the possibility that
the probe has revealed a new force of nature.
- https://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/05/21/gravity.mystery/
"It's the same magnitude and the same direction, namely pointed
toward the sun. The force points to the sun in both cases," said
Anderson.
- https://physicsweb.org/article/world/12/1/5
The motion of these spacecraft is governed by the gravitational
fields of the known bodies in the solar system, and can be
calculated very accurately from general relativity. Anderson's
analysis shows a small but systematic departure from the
expected motion. Indeed, the spacecraft move as if they were
subject to a new, unknown force pointing towards the Sun. This
force imparts the same constant acceleration, ap, of about 10-7
cm s-2 to all three spacecraft, about ten orders of magnitude
less than the free-fall acceleration on Earth. Such a finding,
if it were not explained away by some mundane effect, would be
a major break with accepted physics.
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020313/en_nm/afghan_picture_dc_1016034264&cid=579
National Geographic used several scientific methods to ensure
they had found the right woman, including iris recognition in
which the colored portion of the eye is examined.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/13/national/13CHUR.html
"That's ludicrous," Professor Bane said. "What is this,
pedophile insurance?"
- https://www.calendarlive.com/top/1,1419,L-LATimes-Movies-X!ArticleDetail-54602,00.html
"The people who were scared to begin with are even more scared
right now."
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nyt/20020328/tc_nyt/as_the_web_matures__fun_is_hard_to_find&printer=1"
Boring Site O' The Day
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/03/27/docomo.muscle.idg/index.html
Your lips move, but I can't hear what you're saying.
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cn/20020328/tc_cn/unisys__microsoft_to_launch_anti_unix_ads&cid=70
- https://news.com.com/2100-1001-870805.html
Sun responded to the campaign in a statement. "Sun still does
not see Microsoft as a real threat in the datacenter market
where reliability, availability, serviceability and security
are key," the company said. "As for Unix being 'inflexible,'
'expensive,' and 'complex,' we feel those are terms much better
suited to the closed and proprietary world of Windows."
Mon, 1 Apr 2002 12:05:00 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0%2c7369%2c670832%2c00.html
"It was a mistake on our part. It was not intentional. The
public does not need to be concerned that the CIA is tracking
them. We're a bit busy to be doing that," he said.
- https://www.forbes.com/2002/01/29/0129tentech.html
- https://press.nokia.com/PR/200201/845684_5.html
- https://www.vertu.com/
Vertu intends to produce and sell a luxury mobile phone that
will sell for about $20,000 and up. That's not a typo. And yes,
it will be trimmed in gold and jewels.
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/731165.asp
THAILAND'S STATE-RUN drug maker plans to market next month a
pill combining three popular AIDS drugs at a cost of 20 baht,
or 46 cents, a dose. The drugs - stavudine, lamivudine and
nevirapine - are made separately elsewhere by three
multinational companies that hold patents on them in many other
countries. Each pill costs about $4 in the U.S.
- https://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,676700,00.html
Lord of the Flies.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44398-2002Mar31.html
The Army is building itself a better soldier, one eye at a time.
- https://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,677194,00.html
A practice of the unbelievers.
- https://www.snopes2.com/legal/kentucky.htm
The legislators officially agree this is good idea.
- https://www.spack.org/index.cgi/SaveThePlanet
Save the Planet
- https://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_556011.html?menu=news.latestheadlines
Mr Warrick wouldn't say how much the cars were sold for, only that
they went for about the market price. He added: "A lot of people
had a lot of negative feelings about those cars. It was time to
part with them."
Tue, 2 Apr 2002 15:20:30 -0500 (EST)Wed, 3 Apr 2002 15:05:00 -0500 (EST)
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/732349.asp
LONDON, April 1: Coca-Cola Co, the world's biggest soft drink
group, is secretly working on plans to launch a new vanilla-flavored
Coke drink, the Financial Times reported Monday.
- https://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=207024
We will explain these wacky revenue leaps.
-
High speed photography.
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&u=/nm/20020401/od_nm/jellybeans_dc_1
Jelly bean flavors were much the same for more than 75 years
until 1976 when Jelly Belly Candy Co., widely considered the
gold standard of the industry, introduced eight "true to life"
candies that used natural ingredients for flavoring.
- https://www.computerworld.com/cwi/sharktank/0,1130,NAV47-2057,00.html
"I couldn't get it to reset," he grouses. "I unbent a paper clip and
kept sticking it in the little hole, but it wouldn't reset."
"You mean this little hole with the microphone icon beside it?" fish
asks.
"Yeah, that's the one," sales director says. "Oh, and the voice
recorder doesn't work either."
- https://www.computerworld.com/cwi/Printer_Friendly_Version/0,1212,NAV47_STO69779-,00.html
"the solution is to get a real mail client and office applications."
- https://www.vnunet.com/News/1130552
... it is not illegal to pretend to be a mass murderer.
Thu, 4 Apr 2002 17:40:10 -0500 (EST)Mon, 8 Apr 2002 16:09:14 -0400 (EDT)Tue, 9 Apr 2002 12:05:00 -0400 (EDT)
- https://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-8159590.html?tag=tp_pr
The number that Cameron discovered -- 2 to the 13,466,917th
power minus 1 -- has 4,053,946 digits. In order to cram his
discovery onto a 29-inch-by-40-inch poster sold by Perfectly
Scientific, the number is printed in a tiny 1.37-point font and
read with a magnifying glass.
- https://www.isthe.com/largest.known/prime.html
In words.
- https://catalogs.google.com/
Catalogs online.
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/674933.asp
Now, who's Frodo again?
- https://www.earthtrust.org/delrings.html
The young dolphin gives a quick flip of her head, and an undulating
silver ring appears--as if by magic--in front of her. The ring
is a solid, toroidal bubble two feet across--and yet it does not
rise to the surface! It stands erect in the water like the rim of
a magic mirror, or the doorway to an unseen dimension. For long
seconds the dolphin regards its creation, from varying aspects and
angles, with its vision and sonar. Seemingly making a judgement,
the dolphin then quickly pulls a small silver donut from the larger
structure, which collapses into small bubbles. She then "pushes"
the donut, which stays just inches ahead of her rostrum, perhaps
20 feet over a period of up to 10 seconds. Then, stopping again,
she regards the twisting ring for a last time and bites it--causing
it to collapse into a thousand tiny bubbles which head--as they
should--for the water's surface. After a few moments of reflection,
she creates another.
- https://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-876822.html
InPhase Technologies, an offshoot of Lucent Technologies' research
arm Bell Labs, will be showing the first commercial holographic
video recorder at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)
Show on April 8 in Las Vegas. The device uses the company's Tapestry
technology to hold 100GB of data on a single CD-sized write-once
disc as a succession of 1.3MB holograms. That's enough for 20
full-length movies, or 30 minutes of uncompressed high-resolution
video.
- https://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,681296,00.html
Blame it on Lisa.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/08/business/media/08PENT.html?todaysheadlines
The explosion of pornography on the Internet in ever more
customized ways may accomplish what the Meese commission on
pornography, the Rev. Jerry Falwell and Andrea Dworkin, the
antipornography activist, failed to do: the shuttering of
Penthouse.
- https://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3IHT5EOZC
Monitoring of e-mails in UK offices to be banned
- https://www.bostic.com/devnull/apricot.jpg
Find the apricot. [Sex: possibly offensive.]
Wed, 10 Apr 2002 15:05:00 -0400 (EDT)Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:05:00 -0400 (EDT)
- https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/HPDOCS/misr/misr_html/vonKarmanVortexGallery.html
These MISR images from June 11, 2000 (Terra orbit 2569)
demonstrate a turbulent atmospheric flow pattern known as the
von Karman vortex street. This phenomenon is named after
aerodynamicist Theodore von Karman, who theoretically derived
the conditions under which it occurs. The alternating double
row of vortices can form in the wake of an obstacle, in this
instance the eastern Pacific island of Guadalupe.
- https://www.authorsguild.org/pramazon1200.html
- https://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,51676,00.html
If your aggressive promotion of used book sales becomes popular
among Amazon's customers, this service will cut significantly
into sales of new titles, directly harming authors and publishers.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/10/technology/10BOOK.html
"The biggest problem is that it is legal, I think. I wring my
hands, pound my desk and say, `Aargh.'"
- https://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991679
A high percentage of cloned monkey embryos that look healthy
are really a "gallery of horrors" deep within, says a researcher
at Advanced Cell Technology, the company that last month published
the first paper on cloned human embryos.
- https://www.sun.com/desktop/products/ultrapromo.html
Guess the Feds ordered a product recall.
- https://groups.google.com/groups?selm=2odj9q%2425q%40herald.indirect.com
The Golden Age of Usenet
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/736392.asp
Cut the cord.
- https://www.cbn.com/communitypublic/shake.asp
You'd think a man with his connections wouldn't need a health
disclaimer.
- https://people.debian.org/~branden/official_motto.jpg
System Admin Site O' The Day
- https://www.knology.net/~carlos/redneck.htm
Unfortunately, my wife wakes me up to bad news again. "Something
weird is happening at JD8s house. His dog is chasing some chickens
around the back yard." Unfortunate indeed.
- https://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/3062425.htm
Merrill Lynch denies it all, as you'd expect.
- https://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2002/apr/apr08b_02.html
Spitzer cites dramatic evidence that the firm's stock ratings
were biased and distorted in an attempt to secure and maintain
lucrative contracts for investment banking services. As a
result, the firm often disseminated misleading information that
helped its corporate clients but harmed individual investors.
- https://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_566545.html?menu=news.quirkies
The hospital says it was an unfortunate accident.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/15/national/15CALI.html
Father White was a screamer.
- https://www.pillowfightbloodbath.com/home.html
The bloody scenes were shot first to help the actresses to
understand their inner characters. [Sex: possibly offensive.]
- https://www.valleyofthegeeks.com/Features/BannerAds2.html
Banner Ads we'd like to see.
- https://www.suntimes.com/ebert/greatmovies/sho-sunday-ebert141.html
Our rating system is held hostage by sick crypto-moralists.
- https://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q310510
This update resolves the "Playback and Copy-Protection Issues
When You Try to Play the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs DVD
Movie" issue in Windows XP and is discussed in Microsoft
Knowledge Base (KB) Article Q310510. Download now to be able to
play Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" Platinum
Collection DVD.
- https://www.bayarea.com/mld/bayarea/entertainment/3029974.htm
Arizona-based Integrated Information Systems Inc., which ran a
dedicated server permitting employees to access and distribute
thousands of music files over the company network, agreed to
pay the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) $1
million rather than face the music in court.
Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:05:00 -0400 (EDT)
- https://www.stockroom.com/a657.htm
Add this item to my toy bag. [Sex: possibly offensive.]
- https://www.nytimes.com/specials/advertising/movies/tolkien/index.html
The Tolkien Archives
- https://www.nytimes.com/1938/03/13/books/tolkien-hobbit.html
March 13, 1938 -- A Delightfully Imaginative Journey
- https://www.nytimes.com/1954/10/31/books/tolkien-fellowship.html
October 31, 1954 -- The Hero Is a Hobbit, By W. H. AUDEN
- https://www.stupid.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=store&Product_Code=MARZ
In parts of Europe, it's a tradition to give these out as a
symbol of prosperity.
- https://www.cbn.com/SpiritualLife/understandingislam/IslamUnveiled.asp
I found the Lord on a Thursday and went back to the mosque on
Friday assuming they wanted to hear about this grace that I had
received from Christ. That was not the case.
- https://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992151
"The water activity of the different sandwich components
needs to complement each other," explains Michelle Richardson,
project officer at the US Army Soldier Systems Center in Natick,
Massachusetts. "If the water activity of the meat is too high you
might get soggy bread."
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/diet.fitness/04/11/couch.potato.pill.ap/index.html
"Pharmaceutical companies are very good at that," he said.
- https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Axenu.net+xenu
- https://www.google.com/dmca.html
- https://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/notice.cgi?NoticeID=232
In response to a complaint we received under the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act, we have removed 5 result(s) from this page. If you
wish, you may read the DMCA complaint for these removed results.
Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:05:01 -0400 (EDT)
- https://www.artawakening.com/soundworks/price.html
Susan playing a sound sculpture.
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/16/roth.hagar.tour.reut/index.html
The flashy Roth, dressed in black nylon trousers and shirt, was
accompanied by three bodyguards, three masked catwomen in
fluorescent unitards and a beer-drinking midget sporting an Andy
Warhol wig. Hagar turned up solo in jeans and T-shirt.
- https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Scotus-Child-Porn.html
Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on Virtual Child Pornography
- https://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=000&invol=00-795
Both themes -- teenage sexual activity and the sexual abuse of
children -- have inspired countless literary works. William
Shakespeare created the most famous pair of teenage lovers, one
of whom is just 13 years of age. See Romeo and Juliet, act I,
sc. 2, l. 9 (She hath not seen the change of fourteen years).
In the drama, Shakespeare portrays the relationship as something
splendid and innocent, but not juvenile. The work has inspired
no less than 40 motion pictures, some of which suggest that the
teenagers consummated their relationship. E.g., Romeo and Juliet
(B. Luhrmann director, 1996). Shakespeare may not have written
sexually explicit scenes for the Elizabethean audience, but were
modern directors to adopt a less conventional approach, that
fact alone would not compel the conclusion that the work was
obscene.
- https://www.theonion.com/onion3814/it_hurts_my_feelings.html
How wrong I was.
- https://www.fourmilab.to/documents/ohmygodpart.html
Nature remains rich in mysteries.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1931000/1931120.stm
The total cost of any email sent or received by an African
internet user is borne entirely by African ISPs, Mr Bell said
on the BBC African service programme Talkabout Africa.
- https://www.iterature.com/adwords/
The Google AdWords Happening
- https://www.qedata.se/e_js_n-cdrom.htm
At about 52x, i.e. 27,500 rpm, most manufacturer's CDs blew up
in a rain of plastic particles, leaving their marks on the
premises. The result was a pile of shimmering plastic chips.
- https://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2002-03-01/screens_feature2.html
Information Wants to Be Worthless.
Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:05:00 -0400 (EDT)
- https://www.straightdope.com/columns/020412.html
I take this to mean that in Kinsey's day, when you saw a happy
couple walking down the aisle in Wyoming, it was better than
even money that the groom had had sex with a sheep
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/739365.asp
Three tries and a guitar solo later, the implant reluctantly
slid in.
- https://www.computerworld.com/cwi/sharktank/0,1130,NAV47-2057_STO70197,00.html
"The user still had an incredulous look on his face. Apparently
he was still dealing with the fact that he had watched 50GB of
un-backed-up data -- all his project and code development -- going
'Poof!' right in front of him."
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A839-2002Apr17.html
- https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/03/0328_0328_TVstickinsect.html
For the first time in nearly a century scientists have
discovered a new order of insects.
- https://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/2220437p-2614222c.html
"The five naked-eye planets are converging in one part of the sky
and from now until mid-May you can see all five at one glance,
which is pretty unusual," said John Mosley, an astronomer at the
Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/18/international/africa/18NIGE.html
AAAAUUUUGGGHHHH!!!! All those emails were true! I let 10,
15, 20 or 25% of a billion dollars slip through my fingers!
- https://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-041502sleep.story
When is sleepiness a sickness?
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56556-2002Apr15.html
Should History Record the Unvarnished Bush?
Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:57:19 -0400 (EDT)
- https://www.111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111.com
The web lends itself to abuse.
- https://www.parnasse.com/ideal.htm
Jeff Harrington's work is best known to the public as the
causative factor behind Dan Rather's unfortunate "What's the
Frequency, Kenneth" incident.
- https://www.ananova.com/yournews/story/sm_569669.html
Apparently God does exist.
- https://www.mola.org/mola/10baset.html
I be routin' yo packets like a Cisco.
- https://www.espacelotto.com/prizes.htm
Unlike most lotteries, we guarantee that one ticket in 250,000
will win the variety of cosmonaut training. We do not depend on
statistical odds of a correct combination of numbers being
picked, the one who trains the best gets to fly on the Russian
Soyuz.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14391-2002Apr19.html
It used to be that they only lost luggage.
- https://www.bostic.com/devnull/dogs.jpg
They'll probably kill themselves when they get home.
- https://hometheaterinfo.com/mpaa.htm
Initially, the ratings had no X rating. The feeling was a parent
should be able to take a child to any film they chose. Giving
in to pressure from NATO the 'X' was added as an Adult Only
category. (The X comes from ancient Rome were you had to be over
ten -X- to enter the Coliseum). At this point the impotent Hayes
code was finally abandoned.
- https://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,51842,00.html
But the best thing about Quorn is that "it has a really fabulous
bite," said David Wilson, Quorn's U.S. vice president. He means
that it has the firmness of meat -- when you chew into a nugget
of Quorn, it pushes back against your teeth a little, like beef
and chicken do.
Mon, 22 Apr 2002 12:05:00 -0400 (EDT)
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020415/ap_on_re_eu/super_ant_colonies_1&printer=1
A supercolony of ants has been discovered stretching thousands
of miles from the Italian Riviera along the coastline to
northwest Spain.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/20/technology/20COMP.html
A Japanese laboratory has built the world's fastest computer,
a machine so powerful that it matches the raw processing power
of the 20 fastest American computers combined and far outstrips
the previous leader, an I.B.M.-built machine.
- https://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0419HarvardGrades-ON.html
Last June, a record 91 percent of Harvard seniors graduated with
some kind of honor on their diploma
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20642-2002Apr20.html
Young Louis's plan: build a zoo in a vacant apartment in his
public housing complex.
- https://www.bostic.com/devnull/optical.jpg
Optical Nazarene O' The Day.
- https://www.freep.com/sports/albom/mitch16_20011216.htm
Well, being the disgusting one in the room, and also the only
one who actually had any real clothes on, I was pretty
uncomfortable by this point.
- https://news.findlaw.com/court_tv/s/20020419/19apr2002121719.html
The "Amish inbreeding defense".
- https://news.com.com/2100-1023-885552.html
U.S. Patent #6,368,227, issued April 9, describes a method for
swinging "in which a user positioned on a standard swing
suspended by two chains from a substantially horizontal tree
branch induces side-to-side motion by pulling alternately on
one chain and then the other."
- https://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/front/1377004
"Veterinarians are charging customers $36 million a year for
vaccinations that are not necessary," said Bob Rogers, a vet in
Spring who adopted a reduced vaccine schedule. "Not only are
these vaccines unnecessary, they're causing harm to pets."
Tue, 23 Apr 2002 14:05:00 -0400 (EDT)
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1930000/1930950.stm
A new generation of electronic violins and cellos could replace
traditional wood instruments.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/21/magazine/21LEO.html?homepageinsidebox=&pagewanted=print&position=bottom
The bar he had chosen -- smoky, overpriced, packed with an
early-evening crowd of tourists and couples who looked married
to other people -- seemed perfect for guilty revelations, though
I couldn't imagine what these might be.
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020422/168/1fjje.html
Yeah, well, you just have a dirty mind.
- https://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0418PregnantPreteen-ON.html
Police say the man admits having had sex with the child -- but
claims she enticed him.
- https://www.shankman.com/sealpt.html
More tomorrow. I'm off to grind and snort Ibuprofin.
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020422/hl_nm/heart_anger_1
Truly surprising correlation O' The Day.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1943000/1943837.stm
New evidence confirms last year's indication that one type of
neutrino emerging from the Sun's core does switch to another
type en route to the Earth.
- https://www.business2.com/articles/mag/print/0,1643,38604,00.html
69. Why You Still Don't Have Broadband, Part 1: Last June, DSL
provider Northpoint Communications, already operating under
Chapter 11 protection, abruptly ends service after it fails
to secure additional funding. The move leaves 100,000
customers (including 20,000 businesses) without Internet
access.
70. Why You Still Don't Have Broadband, Part 2: In April 2001,
Rhythms NetConnections CEO Catherine Hapka resigns, one day
after the company reveals in a regulatory filing that she
received a 10 percent raise while leading the company to a
Nasdaq delisting and is in line for a $400,000 golden
parachute. Hapka also reaps $21.5 million from the sale of
Rhythms stock. Company officials claim that the company has
enough cash to last well into 2002. Five months later, the
DSL provider closes up shop.
71. Why You Still Don't Have Broadband, Part 3: "There will
always be crybaby boobies who are unhappy with any company."
-- Martha Sessums, spokeswoman for DSL provider Covad,
illustrating in an interview with News.com the
customer-service strategy that helped her company plummet
into bankruptcy.
72. Why You Still Don't Have Broadband, Part 4: "I don't get up
in the morning and crunch numbers." -- Excite@Home CEO Patti
Hart, to the New York Times, shortly before her company
files for Chapter 11.
Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:20:19 -0400 (EDT)Thu, 25 Apr 2002 18:38:15 -0400 (EDT)Mon, 29 Apr 2002 14:05:00 -0400 (EDT)Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:05:00 -0400 (EDT)Wed, 1 May 2002 09:05:00 -0400 (EDT)
- https://www.stadiumpal.com/
Should I stay or should I go?
- https://my.aol.com/news/news_story.psp?type=1&cat=0100&id=0204301440240328
"It's a perfectly safe park in a perfectly safe community,"
resident Suzanne Torrence said as she played with her 3-year-old
son, Gabriel, in the area where Jahi disappeared. "But you just
don't leave your kids alone for 15 minutes, even in Beverly
Hills."
- https://www.thistothat.com/
Because people have a need to glue things to other things.
- https://www.internetnews.com/fina-news/article/0,,5_1016551,00.html
The drop is attributable to a "dramatic" decline in domain name
renewals, as customers drop VeriSign and go to any number of
other accredited registrars instead. According to one former
customer, his defection to another registrar comes from the
company's high prices and inferior service.
- https://www.bostic.com/devnull/passion.jpg
They were alone in the house. It was a cold, dark, stormy night.
The storm had come up quickly and each time the thunder boomed
he watched her jump.
She looked across the room and admired his strong
appearance. She wished he would take her in his arms, comfort
her, protect her from the storm, she wanted that...
Then the power went out. She screamed. He raced to the sofa
where she was cowering. He did not hesitate to pull her into
his arms. He knew this was a forbidden union and expected her
to pull back. He was surprised when she didn't resist but
instead clung to him. The storm raged on, as did their growing
passion...
There came a moment when each knew they had to be together.
They knew it was wrong... Their families would not understand...
but... so consumed in their passion, they didn't hear the door
open... the click of the light switch... the power was back on,
and...
- https://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/religion/doemahoney42902cmp.pdf
Defendant Archdiocese of Los Angeles, a corporation sole, is a
non-profit religious organization with its principal place of
business in Los Angeles, California.
- https://www.farmjokes.com/email/extra/marriage.jpg
You look, you're a dead man.
Thu, 2 May 2002 12:05:00 -0400 (EDT)
- https://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/usawdllh42902opn2.pdf
A consensual encounter ripens into a seizure, whether an
investigative detention or an arrest, when a reasonable person
under all the circumstances would believe he was not free to
walk away or otherwise ignore the police's presence.
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/US/04/30/pagans.vs.christians.reut/index.html
"When we yelled 'Sacrifice the chocolate rabbit' they jumped
out of their parked cars and started to circle us."
- https://www.computerworld.com/cwi/sharktank/0,1130,NAV47-2057_STO70689,00.html
Fish's conclusion: "Time for some ethics training."
Q: Where do the Sharky tales come from?
A: From readers. Sharky just reads and rewrites and basks in
the reflected glory of you, our readers. It is as that famous
fish-friendly philosopher Spinoza said, "He that can carp in
the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human
mind is held by his fellows as almost divine."
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/04/29/france.safrica.reut/index.html
France returns 'Hottentot Venus' to South Africa.
- https://orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-asecjebdrug1050102may01.story?coll=orl%2Dhome%2Dheadlines
"Bush men always cry, and I apologize," Bush added with a smile.
"It's a genetic problem I got from my dad. He cries a lot."
- https://sport.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4240366%255E9787,00.html
"The case has been described as the most distasteful sporting
incident since Wests Tigers rugby league winger John Hopoate
was outed for "bottom poking" last year."
- https://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=291019
"One can think of the guided rat as a very good robot platform
capable of traversing terrain that modern robots are unable to
do," Dr Talwar said yesterday.
- https://news.findlaw.com/ap/ht/1700/5-1-2002/200205011020270311.html
Write a virus, go to jail.
Fri, 3 May 2002 08:05:00 -0400 (EDT)
- https://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast21nov_1.htm
Guess we'll be coming back to the planet to breed.
- https://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/usawdllh42902opn1.pdf
Having committed no crime -- indeed, without any claim that
there was probable cause to believe he had violated any law --
Awadallah bore the full weight of a prison system designed to
punish convicted criminals as well as incapacitate individuals
arrested or indicted for criminal conduct.
- https://www.timelessmail.com/
Making money from the cron command.
- https://pi.nersc.gov/
Search the first 4 billion binary digits.
- https://www.sciencenews.org/20010901/bob9.asp
Absolutely normal.
- https://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4242976%255E2761,00.html
Ms. Kenworthy said she wished the US sailors would arrive in
smaller numbers.
- https://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020425.html
Chase Cringely sounds like the name of a NASCAR driver. Chase
Cringely was my son. He died this week after 74 days of life,
a victim of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). He literally
stopped breathing lying in my lap while I did e-mail. There
was no sound, no struggle. I just looked down and he was no
longer alive. I have no idea whether he had been dead for one
minute or 10, but we were unable to revive him. He was never
sick, he just died, and now there is a void in our lives that
we can never fill.
- https://www.inside.com/product/product.asp?entity=CableWorld&pf_ID=7A2ACA71-FAAD-41FC-A100-0B8A11C30373
JK: Because of the ad skips.... It's theft. Your contract with
the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the
spots. Otherwise you couldn't get the show on an ad-supported
basis. Any time you skip a commercial or watch the button you're
actually stealing the programming.
CW: What if you have to go to the bathroom or get up to get a
Coke?
JK: I guess there's a certain amount of tolerance for going to
the bathroom. But if you formalize it and you create a device
that skips certain second increments, you've got that only for
one reason, unless you go to the bathroom for 30 seconds.
They've done that just to make it easy for someone to skip a
commercial.
Tue, 7 May 2002 09:05:00 -0400 (EDT)Thu, 9 May 2002 14:05:00 -0400 (EDT)
- https://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/11/16/wvid16.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/11/16/ixhome.html
I wish I had never watched this film. I wish it weren't so good.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/new_media/newsid_1669000/1669097.stm
Hello and welcome to Dorchester where a very good crowd has
turned out to watch local boy Thomas Hardy write his new novel
'The Return of the Native' on this very pleasant July morning.
This will be his eleventh novel and the fifth of the very
popular Wessex novels. And here he comes! Here comes Hardy
walking out toward his desk, he looks confident, he looks
relaxed very much the man in form as he acknowledges this very
good natured Bank Holiday crowd. And the crowd goes quiet now
as Hardy settles himself down at the desk, body straight
shoulders relaxed, pen held lightly but firmly in the right
hand, he dips the pen in the ink (the announcer becomes
excitied) and he's off, its the first word, but it is not a
word... oh no its a doodle way up on top of the left hand
margin. It is a piece of meaningless scribble, and he's signed
his name underneath it. Oh dear what a disappointing start, but
he is off again and here he goes the first word of Thomas
Hardy's new novel, at 10:35 on this very lovely morning, it's
three letters it's the definate article and it's THE, Dennis
- https://store.yahoo.com/rockcheeseandhoney/christhemhan.html
For that special someone who already has everything.
- https://www.vwvortex.com/news/04_02/04_17/index.shtml
The objective was to develop a vehicle with a fuel consumption of
no more than one litre per 100 kilometres, using all technical
possibilities available. The principal point was to show how
state-of-the-art technology can be used to reduce fuel consumption
and still come up with a safe, usable and roadworthy vehicle.
- https://news.findlaw.com/ap/o/1110/5-6-2002/200205061020713411.html
"If you are going to judge somebody's dress at Mardi Gras, you
must not be from here," Luquette said.
- https://www.ananova.com/yournews/story/sm_581266.html
Mr Parr, who is considered one of Australia's leading artists,
is taking Panadol for the pain.
- https://www.petitiononline.com/twotower/
The title is clearly meant to refer to the attacks on the World
Trade Center.
Fri, 10 May 2002 14:05:00 -0400 (EDT)Mon, 13 May 2002 16:16:00 -0400 (EDT)Wed, 15 May 2002 12:05:00 -0400 (EDT)
- https://www.ipl.org/
The Internet Public Library (IPL), is a public service organization
and learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School
of Information.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/hi/english/health/newsid_1981000/1981026.stm
With best wishes from Bruce Sterling, William Gibson and Walter
Jon Williams, I guess.
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/25274.html
Music disc copyright protection schemes such a Cactus Data Shield
100/200 and KeyAudio can be circumvented using tools as basic as
marker pens and electrical tape, crackers have discovered.
- https://kbase.info.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/kbase.woa/wa/query?searchMode=Assisted&type=id&val=KC.106882
You may be unable to eject certain copy-protected audio discs,
which resemble Compact Discs (CD) but technically are not.
- https://news.com.com/2100-1001-912666.html
Sun works to converge Linux, Solaris
- https://www.apple.com/
- https://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0205/14.server.php
Designed to unleash the cutting-edge capabilities of Mac OS X
Server, these rack-optimized servers offer phenomenal processing
power, jaw-dropping storage capacity, high-bandwidth I/O, and
remote management tools that make them a snap to deploy and
maintain.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/13/international/asia/13CHIN.html
"It's like the difference between heaven and earth," he said as
he emerged adjusting his trousers, just down the block from the
Confucius Temple.
- https://www.worldrps.com/gambits.html
This move took the 1967 RPS World Championships by surprise and
is arguably still one of the great surprise offensive moves.
- https://www.guidehorse.com/
... demonstrate excellent judgment and are not easily distracted
by crowds and people.
- https://www.securityedition.com/
You need to get used to offering up the bill of rights for
inspection and government workers need to get used to deciding
if you'll be allowed to keep the Bill of Rights with you when
you travel.
Thu, 16 May 2002 12:05:00 -0400 (EDT)Fri, 17 May 2002 12:05:00 -0400 (EDT)
- https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002/05/16/everest.htm
Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded.
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/25300.html
- https://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0205.html#5
Here comes the clever bit.
- https://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/135/metro/At_MIT_they_can_put_words_in_our_mouths%2B.shtml
"There is a certain point at which you raise the level of
distrust to where it is hard to communicate through the medium,"
said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of the Annenberg School for
Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. "There are
people who still believe the moon landing was staged."
- https://webcenter.newssearch.netscape.com/aolns_display.adp?key=200205161631000175473_aolns.src
... things didn't go quite as we expected," chairman Steve Case
said.
- https://go.hotwired.com/news/mac/0,2125,52559,00.html/wn_ascii
The traitor's identity was a revelation that took most viewers
by surprise, but not those who had spotted the producers' new
device to denote villainy in the shady world of spies: The
baddies use computers running Microsoft Windows; the good guys
use Macs.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1984000/1984793.stm
The first attempt to fly a spacecraft driven by the light of
the Sun is on target for an autumn launch.
- https://www.globalbeauties.com/gb/n_mar02.htm
"I am the happiest woman in the world, especially because I have
been able to take part in one evening devoted to beauty during
such a difficult time for the Israeli people", declared Har-Noy
after the announcement of the results in an allusion to
Intifada. The Palestinian rising, which began September 28 2000,
has cost the life to 343 Israelis, including 88 colonists, and
1.180 Palestinians.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_720000/720419.stm
Television favourite Bob the Builder is to have his fingers
doctored for the Japanese market -- because he looks like a
gangster.
Mon, 20 May 2002 09:05:00 -0400 (EDT)Tue, 21 May 2002 14:05:00 -0400 (EDT)Thu, 23 May 2002 12:05:00 -0400 (EDT)Fri, 24 May 2002 14:23:22 -0400 (EDT)Tue, 28 May 2002 08:05:00 -0400 (EDT)
- https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/24/national/main510079.shtml
We're from the government, and we're here to help you.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1998000/1998334.stm
"Employees in the UK spend more time wading through their
messages than playing with their children, according to a
government study.
- https://www.nypost.com/seven/05202002/health/48309.htm
Dr. Feelgood is in residence.
- https://www.icir.org/vern/papers/cdc-usenix-sec02/index.html
How to 0wn the Internet in Your Spare Time
- https://newyorker.com/archive/content/?020527fr_archive01
Mr. Sarnoff next gave a little talk, in which he cheerfully,
and with enormous self-effacement, admitted that the real
problem of television was not its mechanical vagaries but
finding programs for it when it finally gets ironed out.
- https://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52512,00.html
Some experiments are difficult to run.
- https://www.gnu.org/cgi-bin/license-quiz.cgi
Test your knowledge of the GPL!
- https://www.pagesix.com/celebritynews/16712.htm
"Is it consistent with the Gospel to spend millions on a copy
of the sacred symbol of the Christian faith," the agency asked,
"and perhaps forget there are people all over the world who
suffer and die of hunger?"
Wed, 29 May 2002 14:05:00 -0400 (EDT)Mon, 3 Jun 2002 09:05:01 -0400 (EDT)
- https://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20020527/1004530.asp
Wengerd was charged with ... unsafe passing and failure to keep
right.
- https://dictionaraoke.mirrors.gweep.net/
Audio clips from online dictionaries sing the hits of yesterday
and today. The fun of karaoke meets the word power of the
dictionary.
- https://www.salon.com/books/int/2002/05/30/talbott/index.html
"Strobe Talbott says Clinton deserves much credit for Russia's
warming to the West -- and recalls a drunken Yeltsin calling
for pizza in his underpants."
Well, I want pizza in my underpants! And I want it there
right now!
- https://go.hotwired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52818,00.html/wn_ascii
The Internet service provider bullied by the FBI last week has
put the Daniel Pearl video back online, saying it won't be
pressured about content that isn't illegal. By Declan McCullagh.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30027-2002May29.html
Is there anybody not covered by "weeding out those who may pose
a risk"?
- https://go.hotwired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,52721,00.html/wn_ascii
The 21 women who took part in the initial trial had been
diagnosed with inoperable and inflammatory tumors. Seventy
percent of the victims of this type of breast cancer do not
survive past five years.
At the end of the four-session, 12-week trial, there were no
visible signs of tumors in seven of the women; and in all the
rest, the tumors had diminished to an operable size.
- https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/jf/MF.pdf
Taking the Copy Out of Copyright
- https://www.urbanreflex.com/may24_02/record.html
Music bosses have unveiled a revolutionary new recording format
that they hope will help win the war on illegal file sharing
- https://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1143317
Open your mind.
Tue, 4 Jun 2002 15:32:30 -0400 (EDT)
- https://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0603/news-fbi-06-03-02.asp
The FBI has selected "investigative data warehousing" as a key
technology to use in the war against terrorism.
- https://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0603/web-net-06-03-02.asp
New investigative guidelines permit the FBI to tap commercial
databases, employ data mining and search the Internet for
evidence of terrorist activity.
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/761330.asp
MIT grad student hacks into Xbox
- https://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/3385439.htm
In a speech by Kofi Annan, the U.N. secretary-general, in
addition to deletions about the United States' unpaid debt to
the United Nations, any mention of wine and drinking was
removed. Instead of praising "fine California wine and seafood,"
he ends up praising "fine California seafood." In Carol Saline's
"Mothers and Daughters" a daughter no longer says she "went out
to a bar" with her mother; on the Regents, she simply "went out"
with her mother.
- https://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020527/cat.html#
Meow.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/hi/english/health/newsid_2018000/2018444.stm
Clone tissue transplant success.
- https://www.pick-me.com/specialeffects/firebible.htm
Fed-Ex shipping is available.
- https://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/ToiletPaperAlgorithms.html
The design of everyday things.
- https://www.savannahsays.com/kizombe.htm
Have you ever thought about marrying, Kizombe? Don't you long
for a wife, a beautiful woman who may be carrying a little too
much weight on her hips and thighs but nevertheless could be
called "handsome" in her own way? A competent, sturdy woman who
could bear your children and chop your wood? Perhaps I could be
that woman for you, Kizombe.
Thu, 6 Jun 2002 08:05:00 -0400 (EDT)
- https://dsc.discovery.com/news/reu/20011203/cuba.html
- https://www.earthfiles.com/earth310.htm
"However, it would be totally irresponsible to say what it was
before we have evidence," Zelitsky told Reuters.
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=68&e=2&cid=68&u=/nyt/20020602/ts_nyt/the_elderly_man_and_the_sea__test_sanitizes_literary_texts
Was something sinister afoot?
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36355-2002May30.html
Unlike silkworms, fiercely territorial spiders can't be farmed
because they will eat each other before satisfying demand for
their valuable proteins.
- https://news.findlaw.com/entertainment/s/20020529/filmterrordc.html
"I don't know what the hell you are talking about," the
spokesman told Daily Variety when asked about "Godzilla."
- https://vitanuova.loyalty.org/latest.html
- https://cryptome.org/hrcw-hear.htm
Now, the question comes, well, all right, what is wrong with
the VCR. One of the Japanese lobbyists, Mr. Ferris, has said
that the VCR -- well, if I am saying something wrong, forgive
me. I don't know. He certainly is not MGM's lobbyist. That is
for sure. He has said that the VCR is the greatest friend that
the American film producer ever had.
I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and
the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home
alone.
- https://www.jinjapan.org/trends/article/011005sci_r.html
Shiny Mud Balls.
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25569.html
- https://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.053002/221502375
A Washington think tank calling itself the Alexis de Tocqueville
Institution is preparing to release a 'study' warning that the
widespread use of open source software will allow international
terrorists to have their way with us.
- https://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2002/06/05/forward/index.html
"I mean, I love them and everything. Don't get me wrong. They're
my people. Without them I'm nothing. But come on, we all know
that they're just shaved apes. You can't expect a miracle of
evolution to happen overnight. You see what I'm saying?"
- https://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52971,00.html
Ray Leticia and Ty Beeson, Las Vegas natives and preschool pals
who say they financed the $50,000 film by maxing out their
credit cards, hatched the idea in 1999 while witnessing some
homeless men fighting in a run-down section of Vegas known as
Naked City.
- https://club.aopen.com.tw/News/News_showAnswer_New.asp?RecNo=713&Language=English
- https://www.aopen.com/products/mb/ax4b-533Tube.htm
Notes: VACUUM TUBE AUDIO OUTPUT
Wed, 12 Jun 2002 08:05:00 -0400 (EDT)
- https://www.smartmoney.com/Techwise/index.cfm?story=20020530
You can smell the desperation.
- https://www.ratemykitten.com/?kitten=7144
The "rate my" genre may be played out.
- https://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/06/10/web-links.htm
Such disputes reflect "a frustration certain people have with
a loss of control" once they post something, said Michael Geist,
law professor at the University of Ottawa.
- https://www.fidai.clara.net/lies/goat.htm
Fiend Dennis - to his lasting shame - figured out that a sleeve
glass with Guinness suds in the bottom would distract an
insistent goat while one drank one's actual pint in peace.
- https://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/06/11/1022982836568.html
The AdTI's very weak and poorly-researched paper opens no
debate. It simply confirms that Microsoft paid AdTI to come up
with something - anything - to stem the growing adoption of
open-source (especially GPL'd) software by business and
government.
- https://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/mitdoors/mitcold.html
#5 Is a Corker.
- https://news.findlaw.com/ap/i/1103/6-11-2002/20020611063004_06.html
The court, however, is in doubt that the barking was so loud
that it disturbed the peace," the ruling said.
- https://go.hotwired.com/news/politics/0,1283,53102,00.html/wn_ascii
"This is not suing the spam-blocking service," the lawyer said.
"It's suing someone who is alleged to have reported the spammer
to the spam blocking service so they are going one step back in
the food chain and attacking the individual Internet user rather
than the spam blocking service. That's a worrying trend."
- https://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,731121,00.html
Defibrillators in public places.
Fri, 14 Jun 2002 14:05:00 -0400 (EDT)
- https://www.phdtop.com/magic/
So given that you, the magician, are naked, and that your lovely
assistant is also naked, where does the handkerchief disappear
to, and how does it get from the front to the back?
[Sex: possibly offensive.]
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/hi/english/health/newsid_2041000/2041525.stm
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has recommended
that only patients who suffer from age-related macular
degeneration (AMD) in both eyes should receive treatment.
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/06/14/safrica.internet.reut/index.html
Net boss hides '.za' domain key.
- https://www.jacuzzi.com/products/baths/private/la_scala72.htm
An ideal complement to your master suite or home fitness center,
La Scala is available in white, black or high-luster platinum.
- https://www.public-i.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=189&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0
- https://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,736462,00.html
The distribution of this material is handled by the United
States and we're content that they're following appropriate
levels of security.
- https://www.mineralarts.com/artwork/eclipse.html
Coolest way to project a partial eclipse through a pinhole.
- https://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/speech020606.html
So, there are these, uh, psychologists who believe that um, I mean,
they're trying to prove that those little stops and starts that are,
you know, used in conversational speech are, like, legitimate words.
- https://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/caffeine/5a65.shtml
For those that need a jolt to get to their morning coffee.
- https://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020612/4185665s.htm
His 14-paragraph statement mentioned radiation or dirty bombs
five times, and said Al Muhajir was being detained by the
military "for the safety of all Americans."
Mon, 17 Jun 2002 08:05:01 -0400 (EDT)
- https://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,53121,00.html?tw=wn_ascii
Virus Girl Finds Hacker Boyfriend
- https://www.ppbfh.com/index.htm
Powers Phillips is somewhat peculiar in that six of its lawyers
are, to put it most politely, uppity women, who through various
shenanigans and underhanded schemes control the firm.
- https://www.canada.com/ottawa/news/story.asp?id={12DF4813-9CA5-44D8-B752-A029AA0D5948}
The debate has divided Ottawa's only clown support group.
- https://sg.news.yahoo.com/020613/1/2zivx.html
US astronomers announced the discovery of a solar system similar
to our own, at a press conference at NASA's headquarters here.
- https://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,53071,00.html
The sex cements the relationship between Gates and Jobs, Apple
and Microsoft. "We're compatible," the fictional Gates tells
the fictional Jobs. But the sex simply lures Jobs into a false
sense of security, which, of course, is exploited by Gates.
- https://satirewire.com/news/june02/greenpeace.shtml
"It's all bad, it all needs to stop."
- https://lwn.net/Articles/2376/
SCC, in its implementation of SELinux, used a technology that
it calls type enforcement. As it turns out, SCC has a patent on
this technology
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/15/technology/15NET.html
"Is this a public trust or a public trough?" Mr. Malamud asked.
- https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Falwell-Community.html
Don't drink the kool-aid.
Tue, 18 Jun 2002 08:05:00 -0400 (EDT)Wed, 19 Jun 2002 08:05:00 -0400 (EDT)
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2033000/2033324.stm
Not even Stalin himself" was affiliated with so many
anarchic-communist groups, the letter said.
- https://www.sfgate.com/campus/
Yeah, these guys definitely need more power.
- https://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1834314676
Bidding starts at $80,000.
- https://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/toptease_1.html
Of course it may be misused by some wicked people.
- https://slate.msn.com/?id=2066786&device=
Not only is our time on Earth an ephemeral flare, an awful
trajectory along which we are blasted, naked and screaming all
the while; not only is its climax sudden and meaningless?but
there's nothing you can do about it!
- https://computerworld.com/careertopics/careers/consulting/story/0%2C10801%2C71900%2C00.html
Fortunately, there are still six other days to choose from.
- https://go.hotwired.com/news/technology/0,1282,53035,00.html/wn_ascii
As predicted by theory, one new doubly-charmed baryon has two
charm quarks and one up quark. The other has two charm quarks
and one down quark.
- https://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/06/06/replaytv-sue.htm
Users of a digital video recorder sued media companies Thursday
to win a guarantee that they are not breaking the law when they
skip commercials and record television programs for later
viewing.
- https://news.findlaw.com/entertainment/s/20020615/techpiracycddc.html
It also follows criticism from some members of Congress and from
Dutch consumer electronics maker Philips, co-creator of the
compact disc, that the anti-piracy CDs are technically flawed
and could impinge on consumers' rights to copy music for their
own use.
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=&ncid=721&e=10&u=/ap/20020617/ap_on_re_au_an/australia_teleportation_1
Scientists Report 'Teleported' Data.
Thu, 20 Jun 2002 09:56:27 -0400 (EDT)
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/06/opinion/06HERB.html
The administration has been so poor when it comes to climate
change that this odd bit of news was initially seen as some sort
of progress.
- https://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/134461374_nude25.html
"You hold them, you strip them and you wash them."
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_2029000/2029151.stm
After studying the family, the researchers found that the gene
coding for ear wax was located on the same area as chromosome
16 as the gene responsible for paroxysmal kinesigenic
choreoathetosis.
- https://webcenter.newssearch.netscape.com/aolns_display.adp?key=200206070142000220533_aolns.src
Gotcha.
- https://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/3136922p-4179403c.html
I think her mind was made up before we even got there," Yvette
Figueroa said.
- https://www.adn.com/alaska/story/1128948p-1236373c.html
Somebody makes a peanut butter dispenser that puts a dab on the
stuff," said Jim Posey, city parks director. "You only have to
do it for a short period of time because when everybody realizes
what their dog is really eating there out in the bushes, there's
that camaraderieship, I-like-my-dog-to-lick-me-in-the-face
thing."
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14858-2002Jun7.html
"You made a mistake."
- https://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0605perot-enron-ON.html
Among the examples was one dubbed "Game," which described how
companies could purposely clog transmission pathways by
scheduling to send electricity that, in reality, is never sent
anywhere but helps to drive up prices and leads to profits for
energy companies.
- https://www.attrition.org/gallery/news_clippings/tn/worldcup.jpg.html
Picture O' The Day [Sex: possibly offensive.]
- https://www.washtimes.com/business/20020619-692750.htm
"It is, unfortunately, a judgment call," she said.
- https://web.tiscali.it/ladiesweapons/weapons.html
Every artwork has a name of a woman ("Claudia", "Tamara").
Fri, 21 Jun 2002 12:29:38 -0400 (EDT)
- https://al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/news/102456451543190.xml
The beverage is commonly called Many Weed Tea.
- https://www.drmatlock.com/
Hymenoplasty (reconstruction of the hymen) can repair the hymen
as if nothing ever occurred. The Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation
Institute is sensitive to the needs of women from all cultures
that embrace these particular issues because of cultural,
social, or religious reasons.
- https://msn.com.com/2100-1105-937329.html
Despite its similarity to high-tech gadgets dreamed up by Bond's
faithful "Q" sidekick, the inventors believe the gizmo could
become the first in a whole suite of nonmedical devices
implanted into the human body.
- https://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,53406,00.html
VHS is dead.
- https://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/06/20/seeking-company.htm
Will work for pay.
- https://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1901-1950/ab_1941_bill_20020515_amended_asm.html
Have a party, go to jail.
- https://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,53358,00.html
- https://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,53355,00.html
Said permission, incidentally, could take "a while."
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14399-2002Jun19.html
Confessions Of an Unabashed Bandwidth Hog
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/06/20/exoplanets.jupiter/index.html
Exoplanet toll hits 100 as another Jupiter found.
Mon, 24 Jun 2002 08:05:00 -0400 (EDT)
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_2027000/2027120.stm
The Chinese state's once total control on information has been
broken and hard as it may try it has little hope of regaining
that control.
- https://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg053102.asp
In fact, as others have noted, he fits the profile perfectly.
He may not have super-powers, but plenty of super-villains
didn't (Lex Luther, the Kingpin, the Joker, etc.). He may be
nuttier than an orgy at Mr. Peanut's poop party but, again, that
too is often a requirement for villains.
- https://www.reason.com/0206/fe.jw.cyberspaces.shtml
"Also, the conferences had better coffee."
- https://www.spacedaily.com/news/020620121339.dc05vk7l.html
You know, I thought I heard a "whoosh".
- https://www.monday.com/
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/25815.html
Rebranding
madness
provokes
savage
comedy
backlash
- https://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/6/21/164954
- https://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0620wiener20-ON.html
Obviously, this was a mistake," said Virginia State Police
spokeswoman Lucy Caldwell. "This hot dog posed no threat to us."
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1848000/1848553.stm
Like shooting political fish in a barrel.
- https://www.villainsupply.com/
Planning on ruling the world? Shop here for the supplies you
need!
- https://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/front/1445856
Texas Republicans argued over whether their state convention
was mainstream or filled with "religious zealots" Saturday as
delegates approved a party platform that called for the repeal
of the state lottery, declared the United States a Christian
nation and favored posting the Ten Commandments on public
property.
Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:05:00 -0400 (EDT)
- https://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/encryption/story/0%2C10801%2C71721%2C00.html?nlid=PM
Langstoyl, librarian at the Ivar Aasen Centre for New Norwegian
Culture in Oresta, Norway, is trying to unlock a database that
has been closed for about nine years since the death of the man
who compiled it.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/hi/english/business/newsid_2024000/2024157.stm
But the White House is refusing to hand the documents over
physically until an agreement is made to restrict their release
to the public.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2058000/2058053.stm
New maps show that Ma'adim Vallis, one of the biggest valleys
on Mars, formed when a large lake overflowed over a low point
in its perimeter.
- https://web.mit.edu/6.033/1997/www/triolets.html
Deadlocking processes - Out of my code!
- https://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/a/2002/06/20/national1406EDT0697.DTL
We don't like unitarians much, either.
- https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/05/14/international1557EDT0705.DTL
Lithuania drops requirement of gynecological tests for women
drivers.
- https://sfgate.com/news/bondage/
The complete list.
- https://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/3531007.htm
Microsoft, Oracle annoyed. Details at 11.
- https://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=307449
But my silence is original silence, not a quotation from his
silence.
- https://www.coloradonocall.com
Naturally the various telemarketing associations waited until
this week to sue, hoping to get an injunction.
- https://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/6/17/23933/5831
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25824.html
The grocer doesn't care if the tomatoes would rather be closer
to the display window, and successful media organizations don't
really care what you think of them, just as long as you're still
watching.
Tue, 25 Jun 2002 12:05:01 -0400 (EDT)Thu, 27 Jun 2002 16:07:56 -0400 (EDT)
- https://www.extremeironing.com
New to the sport?
- https://www.worldcom.com/about_the_company/press_releases/display.phtml?cr/20020625
With mention of "the new management team".
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/25888.html
At the risk of stating the bleeding obvious.
- https://go.hotwired.com/news/ipo/0,1350,53425,00.html/wn_ascii
A slew of tech stocks have recently moved from the Nasdaq
National Market to a Nasdaq exchange for smaller firms.
Companies cite looser restrictions for staying listed. By Joanna
Glasner.
- https://www.computerworld.com/departments/opinions/sharktank/0,4885,71928,00.html
Shark O' The Day
- https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.07/start.html?pg=14
"Your inbox is awash in spam, your boss is chuckling over your
credit report, and you've got a sneaking suspicion that Uncle
Sam counts how many Löwenbräu you chug. Yes, your privacy's
shot to hell, and you're tempted to shrug and settle for an open
source life. But privacy isn't like virginity, forever lost
after the first trespass. With some work, "reprivatization" is
possible. Use this three-tiered guide to pick a level of
solitude. But be warned: Going all the way off the grid is more
Ted Kaczynski than Howard Hughes."
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54630-2002Jun27.html
...but even the most cautious seldom scan the heavens for livestock.
- https://www.microsoft.com/traincert/mcp/mous/default.asp
Microsoft Office User Specialist (MOUS) certification, the
premier Microsoft desktop certification, is a globally
recognized standard for demonstrating desktop skills. The MOUS
program is helping meet the demand for qualified and
knowledgeable people in the modern workplace.
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/25874.html
A five year old boy in Thailand has passed Microsoft's Office
User Specialist examination (MOUS)... He scored 984 out of a
possible 1000 in the Microsoft PowerPoint proficiency test...
"'My father told me that if I passed the exam, I would get a new
bicycle,' said the schoolboy, beaming with pride at his reward."
- https://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/
Warchalking.
Fri, 28 Jun 2002 10:48:47 -0400 (EDT)
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020628/od_nm/phone_dc_1&e=1&ncid=573
Out of nowhere, a phone company solicitor is calling on his cell
phone, asking if he would like to buy more time.
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020628/od_nm/dog_dc_1&e=3&ncid=573
Lassie well, and living in Austria.
- https://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,53388-2,00.html
"What people look for tells you a lot about them."
- https://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/review/2002/6/25/wireless-find.htm
The location service is set up in much the same way as the
"buddy lists" used for instant messaging on a computer. Each
cell phone user can decide on a person-by-person basis if and
when to be "findable" by another AT&T Wireless customer.
- https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/06/26/national1451EDT0725.DTL
"Millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every
city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the
dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty."
- https://go.hotwired.com/news/politics/0,1283,53505,00.html/wn_ascii
A federal appeals court Wednesday declared the Pledge of
Allegiance unconstitutional because of the words "under God"
added by Congress in 1954.
[With respect to the clause being added in 1954: "I think this,
once again, proves the second rule of 'sysadmin-ing'. Always
balk at providing new services. They'll never miss it if
they've never had it, but once you give it to them they'll bitch
up a storm when you take it away."
-- Adam Shand]
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020627/ap_to_po/pledge_reaction_10
And President Bush denounced the ruling as "out of step with
the traditions and history of America." He promised to appoint
judges who would overturn such rulings.
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25918.html
Signing up to do my part.
- https://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/worldcom/secwrldcm062602cmp.pdf
By improperly transferring certain costs to its capital accounts...
- https://www.forbes.com/2002/06/26/0626topnews.html
17,000 people voted off the island.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/hi/english/business/newsid_2068000/2068865.stm
WorldCom "accounting error": $3.8bn US.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/hi/english/business/newsid_2068000/2068945.stm
G8 debt relief: $1bn US.
- https://www.cluelessmailers.org/spamdemic/
Spammer org chart.
Mon, 1 Jul 2002 12:05:00 -0400 (EDT)Tue, 2 Jul 2002 12:05:00 -0400 (EDT)
- https://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/index.shtml
On one occasion King James the Fifth of Scotland, when alone,
in disguise,
Near by the Bridge of Cramond met with rather a disagreeable
surprise.
- https://www.novica.com/region/elephantartists.cfm?from=home
The elephants, it turned out, loved to paint -- apparently an
extension of their natural tendency to doodle on the ground with
sticks and pebbles.
- https://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3576927.htm
Venture capitalists attending the International Business Forum
said they are bracing for a traumatic contraction that will wipe
out up to half of the nation's roughly 800 venture capital firms
in the next few years.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61747-2002Jun28.html
The goal, the anticipated source of these staggering sums of
money, is a women's equivalent to Viagra. "Staggering" is not
my hyperbole; I have heard it from more than one pharmaceutical
company official, along with "huge," "enormous," "blockbuster,"
"megablockbuster" and "nice," which was the laconic observation
of a company CFO who was showing me a bar graph for potential
investors.
- https://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?source=blq/yhoo&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo&guid=%7B2E29F4D4%2D1A0B%2D4794%2DB785%2D154AFDD029EE%7D
Action in WorldCom stock alone almost equaled the daily volume
of the entire exchange.
- https://www.satirewire.com/news/june02/worldcom.shtml
SUPREME COURT RULES EARNINGS SHOULD BE PROTECTED AS "ART"
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/02/science/physical/02MATH.html?pagewanted=print&position=top
Dr. Wiles, as it happens, dropped in on the conference, but when
asked if this meant he was now attacking the hypothesis he
shrugged and said, "Well, it's a spectator sport, you know."
- https://www.infowarrior.org/articles/2002-09.html
An offer you can't refuse.
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/zd/20020627/tc_zd/940104&printer=1
A group of publishers this week sued the Gator online
advertising network in a bid to bar the company from serving
pop-up ads on their Web sites without their permission.
- https://uber.nu/2001/05/24/
Reactions to The Eliminator are wide ranging.
Wed, 3 Jul 2002 12:05:01 -0400 (EDT)Thu, 4 Jul 2002 16:28:23 -0400 (EDT)
- https://www.bookcrossing.com/
P2P paper.
- https://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/3585015.htm
He gives al-Qaeda a 50-50 chance of toppling the United States --
reducing the nation to frightened, fragmented territories focused
on their own survival.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5577-2002Jun30.html
Like "Q," the gadget-maker who keeps James Bond perpetually
ensconced in the latest high-tech gear, Gilman Louie is looking
for technologies and ideas to give American spies an edge.
- https://www.snopes2.com/rumors/cool.htm
Any depiction of two similar, side-by-side objects taller than
they are wide.
- https://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,53593,00.html
- https://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,53594,00.html
HIV is spreading at alarming rates in Eastern Europe and Asia
and "now outstrips even the worst-case scenarios" projected by
epidemiologists tracking the deadliest disease in human history,
the report says.
- https://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,53249,00.html
Free-software advocates, when arguing their views, have a
favorite question they like to ask: Would you buy a car with
the hood welded shut? While this question is meant to be
rhetorical, it's closer to true than one might think.
- https://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/07/02/MN125855.DTL
Even the most liberal supervisors went along with the ban on public
urination and defecation, despite lobbying by homeless advocates and
calls for more public toilets.
- https://www.boston.com/news/daily/03/odds_fugitive.htm
IQ Test O' The Day.
Fri, 5 Jul 2002 12:05:00 -0400 (EDT)
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/583297.asp
Merrick found them through "something called the phone book,"
says Howard Kissel, author of "The Abominable Showman,"
Merrick's biography. "He took the group to dinner and to the
musical and got them to endorse quotes like `the most marvelous
show I've seen in years.' " Merrick's clever publicity stunt at
least had the virtue of imagination. Sony's deception was just
lame.
- https://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war.html
Oh! I'd also say, "Monotheistic religion has always brought out
the best in us humans; thank you so much for the idea of a vengeful
supernatural entity who rewards people in the afterlife!
[Possibly offensive: GL, SSC]
- https://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/07/02/gilmore/index.html
It's time for ICANN to go.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50540-2001Nov18.html
Red Cross has pattern of diverting donations.
- https://www.newscientist.com/lastword/answers/339top20.jsp?tp=top
British Standard 6008 and International Standard ISO 3103 advise
that tea is made with water that is freshly boiled. Prolonged
boiling of water, or water that is boiled twice, drives off the
dissolved oxygen in the water, making the tea taste flat.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/19/weekinreview/19FOUN.html
More than half think that the dinosaurs and the earliest humans
coexisted, and that lasers work with sound waves.
- https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.06/superrust.html
Hyper-accelerated corrosion is the inevitable result when unforgiving
chemistry meets the harsh economics and tangled industry politics of
transporting fossil fuels.
- https://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,52674,00.html
Human consciousness is actually wireless communication between
the cells of your brain, according to a professor of molecular
genetics at the University of Surrey in Great Britain.
Tue, 9 Jul 2002 12:05:03 -0400 (EDT)
- https://alice.sunlitsurf.com/ (pick the "talk to Alice" link on the right)
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/07WALLACE.html?todaysheadlines=&pagewanted=print&position=top
"It depends," Alice responded, "on what you mean by 'think.'"
- https://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,750783,00.html
Earth's population will be forced to colonise two planets within
50 years if natural resources continue to be exploited at the
current rate, according to a report out this week.
- https://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/humanoid-robotics-group/kismet/kismet.html
Kismet
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/business/yourmoney/07AOLL.html?pagewanted=print&position=top
"In hindsight, we can all look back and ask, `What were we
thinking?'"
- https://starbulletin.com/2002/07/07/news/story6.html
The prime enemy is the coqui frog, an import from Puerto Rico
that can reach concentrations of 8,000 per acre and every night
can gobble 46,000 other creatures per acre, including native
species. Its close relative, the greenhouse frog, is much less
noisy but equally prolific and hungry.
- https://www.columbia.edu/kermit/george.html
I don't think that this dude is going to be gettin' a Dell.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/07FAT.html?pagewanted=print&position=top
Or maybe it's this: they find that their very own dietary
recommendations -- eat less fat and more carbohydrates -- are
the cause of the rampaging epidemic of obesity in America.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A36816-2002Jul7
Wool's team took chicken feathers and plant oils and molded them
into a composite material that approximates the shape and feel
of silicon. When the researchers tested it for speed, they found
that the composite allowed movement at about twice the rate of
silicon.
- https://atheism.about.com/library/decisions/religion/bl_l_WVABarnette.htm
As part of instituting a required program of teaching American
values, the state of West Virginia required both students and
teachers to participate in saluting the flag during exercises
at the beginning of each school day.
- https://www.iso.ch/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=8250
The method consists in extracting of soluble substances in dried
tea leaf, containing in a porcelain or earthenware pot, by means
of freshly boiling water, pouring of the liquor into a white
porcelain or earthenware bowl, examination of the organoleptic
properties of the infused leaf, and of the liquor with or without
milk or both.
Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:05:00 -0400 (EDT)Fri, 12 Jul 2002 13:17:48 -0400 (EDT)
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/
We add at least five entries to the Edited Guide every working
day.
- https://www.usatoday.com/money/columns/maney.htm
Telecom companies now are so reviled, and Buffett is so
worshiped, the investment is like the prom queen deciding to
dance with the greasy kid who broke both legs of the star
quarterback by accidentally running him over in the school
parking lot before the first game.
- https://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992539
Building polio from scratch.
- https://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$13H5AOYAABONLQFIQMFSFFWAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2002/07/05/nvit05.xml&_requestid=76473
Vitamin pills a waste of time and money.
- https://www.pilotonline.com/news/nw0704doc.html
"In my career, I have studied trace gases on Mars, trace gases
in 300-year-old sealed lead coffins, used airplanes and
helicopters to study trace gases produced by fires in Africa
and South America, and now had an opportunity to apply some of
this technology to looking for trace gases in the encasements
holding the seven most important documents in American
democracy," Levine said. "It was a unique experience."
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/07/06/iran.village.com.ap/index.html
Her father, Ali Akbar, is a 60-year-old illiterate farmer who
is learning to read so he can Net surf, already knows how to
download a file.
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/776886.asp
Fans, family unite to oppose plan to freeze Williams.
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020709/od_nm/buttocks_dc_2
"The bottom is much more intense."
- https://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/ioweek/iow.htm
Flag Day.
Mon, 15 Jul 2002 09:05:00 -0400 (EDT)
- https://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_079.html
Harvard is a veritable gold mine when it comes to flatulence.
- https://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,1870,131540,00.html?
Board chairman Shaari Mohamad Noor said the films had
contributed to the country's rising crime rate, including rape.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2124000/2124946.stm
The Darpa, which develops future technologies for the Pentagon,
has at least half-a-dozen other drones under development, some no
larger than a cake tin.
- https://www.topnic.com/cgi/read.cgi/t38971753
Leahy said the X-45 would "hunt in packs," carrying up to 3,000
pounds of guided bombs to drop on enemy radar and surface-to-air
missile batteries.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2115000/2115887.stm
"We've been profitable since the summer of 2001 so from a
commercial standpoint we can continue forever," said Mr Lackey.
- https://go.hotwired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,53626,00.html/wn_ascii
- https://go.hotwired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,53659,00.html/wn_ascii
... dat many European teenagers, responsible 4 sndN $MMz of txt
msgz evry year, disagree w him, dey have developed a language of
their own.
- https://www.bostic.com/devnull/newstamp1.jpg
- https://www.bostic.com/devnull/newstamp2.jpg
- https://www.bostic.com/devnull/newstamp3.jpg
- https://www.bostic.com/devnull/newstamp4.jpg
- https://www.bostic.com/devnull/newstamp5.jpg
- https://www.bostic.com/devnull/newstamp6.jpg
New stamp designs. [Possibly offensive: AC, AL]
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/hi/english/business/newsid_2125000/2125856.stm
Back in the red.
- https://www.imago.iwarp.com/athena.html
I am on the crew of 10 people that are working on the statue.
- https://www.ojcaught.com/
Guess he should have taken the money. [Possibly offensive: SSC]
Tue, 16 Jul 2002 09:05:00 -0400 (EDT)Fri, 19 Jul 2002 08:05:00 -0400 (EDT)
- https://www.improvisation.ws/mb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4475
But my well-meaning liberalism can pretty much go screw itself,
as the series is cheerfully (and heavily) rented by all races.
...
All of us abuse the hand sanitizer.
[Possibly offensive: AC, SSC]
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/14/business/yourmoney/14VIEW.html
"I would be very surprised," Mr. Arnott said, "if bonds don't
outperform stocks over the next decade or so."
- https://www.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2002.htm
It was a dark and stormy night.
- https://www.rich.frb.org/pubs/equilibria/issue5/logic.html
The Bank at the End of the Universe.
- https://web.uccs.edu/ur/mediawatch/May%202002/reuters_05_10_02.htm
The report, which detailed such activities as one professor
hosting a reception for singer Paul Robeson or another watching
a Soviet-made movie, offered a glimpse of the 1950s Communist
scare in America when people were suspected of being communists,
sometimes based on the flimsiest of evidence.
- https://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA0F9ORR3D.html
"I want you to disregard all the opposing counsel has said. I
think they're delusionary. I think they've had something funny
for lunch in their meal, I think they should be handcuffed,
chained to a fence and flogged, and all of their hearsay
evidence should be thrown the hell out. And if they lie again,
I'm going to go over there and kick them in the crotch. Thank
you very much."
- US Congressional Rep (D-Ohio) James Traficant's
closing statement to the House Ethics panel.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/17/business/17PLAC.html
"There are many who argue, of course, that it is not prescience
but wishful thinking," he said. "History will judge."
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/07/17/giant.stinky.flower.ap/index.html
For eight hours, it emits a nauseating odor to attract
pollinating, carrion-eating beetles.
- https://www.ipipu.org/npn.htm
Creating the New Public Network
- https://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/prot_res/PR2/Acoustics_Program/Sound.htm#Sonar
The exemption would allow the Navy to harass or disturb whales,
dolphins or other marine mammals during its operation of the
sonar over a five-year period, if the agency determines that
the SURTASS LFA sonar's effect on marine animals will be
negligible. The MMPA allows the incidental disturbance, called
a take, of small numbers of marine mammals under section
101(a)(5) of the MMPA
Wed, 24 Jul 2002 08:05:00 -0400 (EDT)Fri, 26 Jul 2002 14:05:00 -0400 (EDT)Wed, 31 Jul 2002 08:05:01 -0400 (EDT)
- https://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,1870,134628,00.html?
Dog-meat for microwave cooking latest fad in Seoul.
- https://abcnews.go.com/wire/BackPage/reuters20020730_412.html
- https://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_215916.html
Darwin Award Nominees O' The Day
- https://www.uq.edu.au/news/index.phtml?article=2160
The work involves injecting hydrogen into the turbulent boundary
layer over the body of a craft under conditions when the
hydrogen burns in the layer.
- https://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/usnews/20020727/ts_usnews/a_curse_to_last_10_000_years&e=3
A curse to last 10,000 years.
- https://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html
Weblogs -- a history and perspective.
- https://www.tampatrib.com/MGA5WPU8Z3D.html
"The bottom line is, we can do it. It's well within the law."
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/787226.asp
Blood usually isn't a highly contested item in most divorces,
but Angelina is reportedly concerned that Billy Bob's mother -
a professional psychic - will use the blood to put a curse on
her. "As long as I have your blood, I'll always have control of
you," Thornton allegedly told Jolie, according to the London
Sun.
www.spudtech.com
Outlaw potatoes, and only outlaws will have potatoes.
- https://www.tomatonation.com/catbreath.asp
"So what you're telling me, without a hint of irony, is that the
cat's breath completely depilated your face."
Thu, 8 Aug 2002 08:05:01
- https://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2002/020806-iraq1.htm
"I can't think of anything funnier than a handful of congressmen
walking around. They'd have to be there for the next 50 years
trying to find something,' said Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld. "It's a joke."
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/786016.asp?0dm=C15KT&cp1=1
What the person across the room hears is, well, unbelievable:
all of a sudden, the sound of a waterfall has materialized in
his head. And, it turns out, no one else in the room can hear
it but him.
- https://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992646
I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked!
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/2167495.stm
Everything's getting fatter.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/health/2167316.stm
Maybe cold showers would help.
- https://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2002/08/01/highway_lan.html
Making a phone call from Pittsburgh to New York while both
parties are coasting down I-70 in Illinois wasn't my idea of a
smart move. I'd be more inclined to run into them to get their
attention; it would have cost the same.
- https://www.realbeer.com/news/articles/news-001741.html
"When Shaun came round he reminded me that years of boozing had
saved his life."
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/04/travel/MUSH.html?pagewanted=print&position=bottom
I went to bed early and unfortunately missed the merriment that
followed dinner and went on until 3:30 in the morning, but I
heard that it included the singing of many more love songs and
some unprintable jokes having to do with fungi.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/06/health/06MUSE.html
"We have moved with the times, so we have a more contextual
approach."
Mon, 12 Aug 2002 08:05:00
- https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/UTCS/notices/dijkstra/ewdobit.html
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra: 1930-2002
- https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/al-udeid-imagery2.htm
New imagery from Space Imaging's Ikonos and DigitalGlobe's Quick
Bird reveal continued construction at Al Udeid Airbase
- https://home.uchicago.edu/~jjsocha/flyingsnake/flyingsnake.html
Keep looking up, and to the left.
- https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2026.txt?number=2026
A specification that has been superseded by a more recent
specification or is for any other reason considered to be
obsolete is assigned to the "Historic" level. (Purists have
suggested that the word should be "Historical"; however, at this
point the use of "Historic" is historical.)
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/08/08/dui.third.party/index.html
Legal analysts say it would be unprecedented if Powell were
convicted for drunken driving deaths if he was neither in the
car, present at the accident or provided any alcohol.
- https://go.hotwired.com/news/technology/0,1282,54394,00.html/wn_ascii
"But two of the cherished laws of the universe are the law that
electron charge shall not change and that the speed of light
shall not change, so whichever way you look at it we're in
trouble," Davies said.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/08/science/08MATH.html
- https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/news/primality.html
Three Indian computer scientists have solved a longstanding
mathematics problem by devising a way for a computer to tell
quickly and definitively whether a number is prime -- that is,
whether it is evenly divisible only by itself and 1.
- https://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2002/08/07/deal/index.html
"A touching sentiment, charmingly expressed."
[Possibly offensive: AC]
- https://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=humannews&StoryID=1307881
Arndt acknowledged he had "exercised remarkably horrible
judgement."
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2180419.stm
Risks include ... the removal of too much skin.
Tue, 13 Aug 2002 08:05:00
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/12/international/europe/12BRIX.html
Mr. Haind, the sign painter, agreed. "There'd be a full-scale
riot here if we weren't all stoned," he said.
- https://drunkgamers.com/switch0001.shtml
On the Mac I can play plenty of great games that you just can't
find on the PC now. Like Zork, Breakout... Super Breakout...
Photoshop...
- https://news.findlaw.com/ap/o/fe/1120/8-12-2002/20020812050006_12.html
Since being rehired, O'Kane switched to her maiden name,
Whitaker.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/2182783.stm
These initial findings clearly indicate that this growing
cocktail of soot, particles, aerosols and other pollutants is
becoming a major environmental hazard for Asia.
- https://www.tomatonation.com/confeline.asp
Do you think I can't hear you futzing around on the table? I
can hear you. Would you like to know why I can hear you? I can
hear you because the table is only eight feet away, and because
you meowed, loudly, and because when you sit your fat ass down
in my jewelry box and start stirring my necklaces with your paw,
the hinges of the box make a sad groaning sound, so get your
hairy grey butt down from there RIGHT THIS INSTANT or I will
rig up a catapult and fire you hiiiigh into the air, and then
I will laugh the laugh of sweet freedom as you get sucked into
the engine of A PASSING JET PLANE."
- https://www.tylerpaper.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=5017933&BRD=1994&PAG=461&dept_id=226369&rfi=8
Mason, playing from the red tees, aced the 106-yard No. 4 hole
Saturday at Eagle's Bluff Country Club, using his Big Snoopy driver.
- https://dailynews.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=569&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20020812/tc_nm/tech_sun_linux_dc_1
- https://www.sun.com/2002-0812/feature/
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and I hate Microsoft."
- https://news.com.com/2010-1071-949275.html?tag=politech
"They're much better off doing what they do best, writing code."
- https://asia.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/08/09/crow.betty
- https://users.umassmed.edu/ian.york/weirmovie.mov
The feat, it is said, makes her the first animal other than a
human that has shown a clear understanding of cause and effect,
and fashioned a tool for a specific task using new materials
not encountered in the wild.
Wed, 14 Aug 2002 14:05:00
- https://www.sltrib.com/08052002/monday/759135.htm
"My operating costs have gone up 1,000 percent this year just so
I can figure out how to get around all these filters," said
Balan, a former truck driver and pinball machine mechanic.
- https://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-376704,00.html
"A woman whose debit card was stolen found herself in profit
when she checked her bank balance - because the thief had used
it to bet on the horses and his winnings were paid directly into
her account."
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2514-2002Aug10.html
The three police officers in the one-stoplight town have stopped
patrolling and public works vehicles have been pulled off the
road. But water and sewers are still operating.
- https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Attacking-Squirrel.html
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2523-2002Aug10.html
Authorities believe they have put an end to a squirrel's reign
of terror.
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/08/11/thailand.crocodile.reut/index.html
Hundreds of people were visiting the crocodile farm, a popular
tourist attraction, when the woman committed suicide
- https://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/08/12/BA162444.DTL
No toy guns, no knives, so they never played cowboys and Indians.
"Sometimes we played custodial officer and inmate," he said.
- https://www.staronline.com/vcs/state/article/0,1375,VCS_122_1315779,00.html
The only way to avoid triggering the sensors throughout nine
Bay Area counties is to stash the transponder in Mylar bags,
which will be provided to nervous motorists.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8846-2002Aug12.html
Villagers also have formed protection squads that patrol Shanwa,
beating drums and shouting slogans such as, "Everyone alert.
Attackers beware."
- https://channels.netscape.com/ns/news/ns/story.jsp?floc=FF-PLS-PLS&id=404744312&dt=20020813134400&w=RTR&coview=
Former British pop star Adam Ant on Tuesday admitted threatening
pub customers who laughed at his cowboy attire and mocked him by
humming the theme tune to spaghetti Western "The Good, the Bad
and the Ugly."
Thu, 15 Aug 2002 08:05:00Fri, 16 Aug 2002 08:05:00Tue, 20 Aug 2002 12:05:00
- https://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/08/13/ED145605.DTL
Ah, yes, the defendant -- Whole Foods Markets which, as alleged
in the suit, has failed to warn the public about the presence of
acrylamide, a chemical found on California's list of chemicals
known to cause cancer and reproductive toxic effects. Acrylamide
is present in minuscule amounts in the organic whole-wheat bread
baked and sold by the defendant.
- https://www.motherjones.com/magazine/JA02/texas_texts.html
After decades of focusing on hot-button topics like evolution,
right-wing activists in the state are taking on a broader set
of issues-challenging curriculum materials that warn of an
"environmental crisis" or promote such "un-American" concepts
as restricting urban sprawl to protect wildlife.
- https://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_652900.html?menu=news.latestheadlines
woman in New Zealand was accidentally set alight while giving
birth by Caesarean section on a hospital operating table.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/19/business/19SLEU.html?pagewanted=print&position=bottom
"She said he used to carve fruits and vegetables into lewd
shapes and use them to taunt her," the investigator said. "We
put it in the report. I don't think it stopped him from getting
the job. I think it just raised eyebrows."
- https://spacewatch.lpl.arizona.edu/contour.html
These trails were discovered and measured by Jeff Larsen during
his re-examination of the data. The curvature of the trails is a
natural characteristic of the drift scanning process at this high
declination. The images are oriented with north at the right and
west up. The positive images (white) are the earlier time. The
fact that there are two trails indicates that the spacecraft must
have separated into two pieces that are still moving in nearly
parallel directions.
- https://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,54464,00.html
Under current federal regulations, they're only required to ask
for ID, not to make it a condition of travel.
- https://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/08/19/1029114077782.html
The use of expensive fibre-optic surgical equipment, such as
endoscopes and colonoscopes, could pose a risk of transmitting
the human version of mad cow disease, medical experts admit.
- https://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,482-389173,00.html
Turkmenistan's President, Saparmurad Niyazov -- a name which,
until a few months ago, would have meant little to the world
save possibly someone trying to say "Vosene my trumpets"
backwards -- has, in remarkably little time, risen to be one of
Earth's leading exponents of cuckoo.
- https://www.lostbrain.com/justin/
Funny only if you're very, very immature.
[Possibly offensive: AC, AL, SSC]
Wed, 21 Aug 2002 12:05:00
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/20/jerry.springer.opera.ap/index.html
"One night I was watching the show, and I realised there were
eight people screaming at each other, a chorus baying for blood,
and I thought -- that's opera," Thomas said.
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=817&ncid=757&e=10&u=/ap/20020820/ap_on_fe_st/cremation_gems_1
"An urn is beautiful in its own right, but you certainly can't
take it wherever you go."
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/19/technology/19MAIL.html?ex=1030420800&en=b5298de813582dac&ei=5038&partner=ASAHI
But can it be long before you open an e-mail to find someone's
face on your home computer selling you "Over-the-Counter Viagra,"
and a "Way to Make $2,000 a Month Without Ever Leaving Home"?
- https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/lake/orl-asecgrasshoppers20082002aug20.story?coll=orl-news-headlines
Need to get them out of your back yard? You might try offering
some to a local school -- they're commonly used for dissection
in biology courses because of their size.
- https://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/s_86503.html
The district attorney also said police departments that have
videotaping equipment in cruisers to record traffic stops have
"almost eliminated civil rights claims" against officers.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/opinion/18DOWD.html
His proudest legacy, after all, was painstakingly stitching
together a global coalition to stand up for the principle that
one country cannot simply invade another without provocation.
Now the son may blow off the coalition so he can invade a
country without provocation.
- https://www.theonion.com/onion3621/quilting_society.html
The first rule of the quilting society is: You
don't talk about the quilting society.
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/08/11/traficant.day.ap/index.html
Former Congressman Traficant played a vital role in attracting
the franchise to the Mahoning Valley," general manager Andy
Milovich said. "We felt a Jim Traficant Night would show our
sincere gratitude for his efforts."
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27728-2002Aug16.html
Much of the Blue force's ships ended up at the bottom of the
ocean. Oakley said Joint Forces Command officials had to stop
the exercise and "refloat" the fleet in order to continue.
- https://shinza.com/imirror.html
Who, indeed?
Fri, 23 Aug 2002 15:37:22
- https://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=326515
In a study published today in the journal Nature, the scientists say
that the system, which monitors the gaze of the user's eye to type
up to 34 words a minute, is faster and more reliable than similar
"on-screen" keyboards that rely on eye movements.
- https://www.drugwar.com/pburninghouse.shtm
"I guess it just goes to show how dangerous marijuana is."
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020819/ap_on_fe_st/property_value_1
A mistake that caused the property value of a home to be
inflated by $200 million has left local governments scrambling
to refigure their budgets.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2209763.stm
Last week, India's Supreme Court asked the two companies to explain
why their advertisements were painted on the rocks.
- https://www.informationwave.net/news/20020819riaa.php
Let the games begin!
- https://go.hotwired.com/news/technology/0,1282,54231,00.html/wn_ascii
Their goal is to devise ways in which timber companies can
better manage and harvest tree crops, while not destroying the
habitats of bats and other forest denizens in the process.
- https://www.bcentral.com/articles/isyn/default.asp?newsid=200281616&cobrand=msn&LID=3800
"I'm worried that just as clothes dryers have the knack of
making socks disappear, the federal government has discovered
a core competency of losing computers,"
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/796225.asp?pne=3Dmsn&cp1=3D1#BODY=20
Well, duh.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2173295.stm
Many scientists agree that the Earth's surface appears to be
warming, while low atmosphere temperatures remain unchanged.
Mon, 26 Aug 2002 08:05:00
- https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2131428812
- https://users.ev1.net/%7Eehcalk/ebay/sim/panels.htm
How would you like to do the next best thing?
- https://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0823curcumcision23-ON.html
"Under the circumstances, I think God would understand."
- https://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,1870,139056,00.html?
'I'm very happy as I feel that I have done the Chinese proud
with this feat,' said the boy. He also said he had tried to
break the record four months ago but failed because he was too
excited.
- https://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0822Satans22-ON.html "It's hard
The 5-0 school board vote this week to change the name brought
applause, hugs and a few tears of joy from an audience that was
largely pro-change.
- https://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0819virgin-ON.html
"The holding out makes you feel like you've been a good girl."
- https://www.fursuitsex.com/
- https://www.beastpaint.com
This is the stuff you have heard of, but never been able to get
your hands on. [Possibly offensive: AC, SSC]
- https://www.ilovebacon.com/082202/d.shtml
Not for the shy.
- https://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/index.htm
Another way to get your research done.
- https://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=323&invol=214
'... we cannot reject as unfounded the judgment of the military
authorities and of Congress that there were disloyal members of
that population, whose number and strength could not be
precisely and quickly ascertained. We cannot say that the
war-making branches of the Government did not have ground for
believing that in a critical hour such persons could not readily
be isolated and separately dealt with, and constituted a menace
to the national defense and safety, which demanded that prompt
and adequate measures be taken to guard against it.'
We cannot shut our eyes to the fact that had the petitioner
attempted to violate Proclamation No. 4 and leave the military
area in which he lived he would have been arrested and tried
and convicted for violation of Proclamation No. 4. The two
conflicting orders, one which commanded him to stay and the
other which commanded him to go, were nothing but a cleverly
devised trap to accomplish the real purpose of the military
authority, which was to lock him up in a concentration camp.
Tue, 27 Aug 2002 12:05:01
- https://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,1870,139050,00.html?
The stream of people leaving the hall midway through his talk
was reminiscent of a public lecture given five days ago by
renowed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, whose speech
dulled some in the audience to sleep and drove even more to walk
out.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/25/fashion/25VIEW.html
A lawyer friend, who like Mr. Ames is near 40 and single,
eventually retired his knapsack after his bosses ribbed him
about going to argue in the United States Court of Appeals
for the Second Circuit with something that looked as if it
belonged on the back of an 11th grader.
- https://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$TPRVIMXYKL4EFQFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2002/08/26/wirq26.xml&_requestid=327540
Although the weapon is still in the final stages of development,
American defence sources said they were interested in acquiring
it for immediate deployment in any attack on Iraqi chemical and
biological weapons sites.
- https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-08/lcc-sph082202.php
"Two millennia later, we have solved the puzzle of how geckos
use millions of tiny foot hairs to adhere to even molecularly
smooth surfaces such as polished glass," says Kellar Autumn,
lead author of an article in this week's Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences. Our new data prove once and for
all how geckos stick."
- https://protest.net/activists_handbook/
Activists Handbook
- https://www.startribune.com/stories/614/3176905.html
"It was a little rough at first, but my parents know I'm very
strong-minded. They don't love me any less."
- https://therunabout.com/
Boat man.
- https://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0823ENTERTAINMENT-LEISURE-PUPPETS-DC.html
"Son, I've been waiting years to laugh at a penis like that."
- https://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mspotteddick.html
... you got a problem with "dick" being also derived from "pudding"?
Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:24:37
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/28/opinion/28FRIE.html
What would Osama bin Laden do if he found out that the
University of Riyadh had asked incoming freshmen to read the
New and Old Testaments?
- https://www.savekaryn.com
- https://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/bosnak1.html
Iam nice. I am cheery. I am the girl at the office that makes
you smile
- https://www.boston.com/dailynews/239/region/N_H_police_chief_wants_dorm_fo%3A.shtml
Police arrested nine current and former McIntosh College
students on drug charges Tuesday, as the city police chief said
he was pushing federal prosecutors to seize a college dorm under
federal drug forfeiture laws.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/28/international/28CND-CHINA.html
Through his work, Dr. Wan has earned the admiration of
foreigners and the enmity of Chinese officials.
- https://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/kournikova/levinak82602cmp.pdf
Plaintiffs are of Russian descent and were interested in the
photos of Ms. Kournikova.
- https://asylumeclectica.com/morbid/
Excerpt from "Retreat, Hell! - The Epic Story of the 1st Marines
in Korea": Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Regiment,
Yudam-ni, 4:00 A.M.: PFC LeRoy R. Hintsa was in a tent, resting,
in the valley when the fighting erupted in the hills. "We heard
explosions and then a piece of shrapnel came through and hit a
water can. From here on, all hell broke loose that night," he
said. "We didn't know what was going on until early morning."
Hintsa jumped into the nearest foxhole and stayed there the rest
of the night. Just before dawn the wounded began slipping,
sliding down the hillsides toward the aid tents. Many couldn't
get out of their holes and were freezing. So Hintsa and others
started toward the top with stretchers to help out. He made
several trips, then rested briefly. A marine staggered by toward
the aid tent. "His lower jaw was missing. All he had was frozen
red icicles on his face," Hintsa said. A corpsman came over,
told the wounded marine there was nothing he could do, that when
he thawed, he would die. Then he handed him a pencil and a piece
of paper and told him to write a letter home. "The last time I
saw him," Hintsa remembers, "he was sitting outside the aid tent
writing a letter." ("Retreat, Hell! - The Epic Story of the 1st
Marines in Korea" by Jim Wilson, Pocket Books, 1988, ISBN
0-671-67866-3, generously donated by Xavier)
- https://www.jaguaro.org/feature/03-09-02_wesk.shtml
We understand that from time to time, people make mistakes.
- https://www.abc.net.au/am/s659750.htm
Whether we like it or not.
- https://sdoctrine.org/loser/index.htm
This symbol helps weed out the weeds.
Fri, 30 Aug 2002 12:34:28
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9235-2002Aug28.html
... in search of a "multi-generational family of five or more --
parents, children and grandparents -- who will be relocated for
at least a year" to a mansion in Beverly Hills, said CBS
spokesman Chris Ender.
- https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.09/vegas_pr.html
"It started the summer after my junior year," Lewis recalls. "I
had these two friends who were always disappearing for long
weekends. Both had dropped out of MIT, and neither one seemed
to be interested in getting a job. And yet they always seemed
to have tons of money. Hundred-dollar bills, all over the
apartment."
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/30/opinion/30KRIS.html
- https://www.rahowa.com/index2.htm
Hate, American style.
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/799990.asp?0dm=C18ON
The woman has been granted until her child born out of wedlock
has finished breastfeeding before she is executed.
- https://www.bbspot.com/News/2002/08/ride_sharing.html
Ride piracy.
- https://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,104550,tk,dn082802X,00.asp
The Recording Industry Association of America's Web site
apparently was hacked Wednesday, forcing the music industry
backer into a most unnatural act: Providing free music for
download.
- https://news.com.com/2008-1082-955417.html
Verizon and other telecommunications giants have ordered their
phalanx of lobbyists to oppose the entertainment industry's
demands for new copyright laws. The company is also fighting
the Recording Industry Association of America's request for
information about a subscriber.
- https://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20020829&Category=NEWS17&ArtNo=108290058&Ref=AR
Longtime Village Council President Howard Lashuay said council
members were aware of the incident and may discuss it at the
next council meeting Sept. 4.
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=573&ncid=757&e=1&u=/nm/20020829/od_nm/comicbook_dc_1
However, MIT's lawyers have argued in at least one letter to
the comic book's Canadian creators that the university was
within its legal right when it copied the "Radix" image and
submitted it to the Pentagon.
- https://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/world/1551255
The Saudi men seem to have more fun. The women wear veils and
waterproof robes, even on Marbella's topless beaches. A woman
riding a Jet Ski while covered head-to-toe in a black robe is
not an uncommon sight.
Tue, 3 Sep 2002 08:05:00Wed, 4 Sep 2002 08:05:00
- https://www.ironycentral.com/archives/babyvol/babyvol4.html
Chapter Thirteen - Child smashing his head against the walls of
the crib? Perfectly reasonable. Child occasionally holding his
breath until he passes out? 1 in 5 kids do this.
- https://www.sltrib.com/2002/jul/07312002/utah/757937.htm
AT&T Corp. wanted to get rid of The Salt Lake Tribune by selling
it to the LDS Church-owned Deseret News because of "serious
threats to AT&T's political interests in the state," according
to court documents unsealed Tuesday.
- https://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1028140095328962480,00.html
But as with so many matters in Utah, the power behind the putsch
-- some five years in the making -- was the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Working secretly to avoid a public
backlash, the Mormon church wielded its clout to vanquish a
publishing family that church leaders have long regarded as
hostile to Mormons, according to documents freshly unsealed by
a U.S. District Court judge in Salt Lake City. The breakthrough
came in December 2000, when AT&T Corp., which had inherited the
Tribune as an unintended consequence of its 1999 merger with
Tele-Communications Inc., agreed to sell the Tribune to the
church's chosen buyer, MediaNews, for $200 million.
- https://go.hotwired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,54385,00.html/wn_ascii
Recall O' The Day
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/25/fashion/25WRES.html
Mr. Palumbo said that he and his partner, Monty Sopp, who plays
Billy in the ring, are heterosexual in their nonwrestling lives.
- https://www.nature.com/nsu/020826/020826-7.html
The spasm theory turned out to be wrong, but the stretching
habit stuck. It is one of the "many superstitions about how to
prevent injury and improve performance", comments
physiotherapist Rob Herbert of the University of Sydney,
Australia.
- https://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7362/451
It used to be so simple. Prevention of musculoskeletal injury
during exercise meant conditioning, warm up, and stretching. We
could not argue with these basic principles -- until we began
to look for the evidence to support such advice.
- https://wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,54598,00.html
"Privacy has been one of the issues that has prevented this from
being placed in airports until now," said Greg Koller, PNNL's
media manager. "However, engineers understood the concern
expressed by some on privacy and have worked to reprogram the
system so that the concealed objects could be placed on a
genderless wireframe mannequin or a human silhouette, giving
the operator a view of only concealed items and not the person's
image."
- https://www.bostic.com/devnull/pit.jpg
- https://www.dogbitelaw.com/PAGES/art_pit_flight.html
- https://www.vetcentric.com/magazine/magazineArticle.cfm?ARTICLEID=1844
Woof!
- https://www.guardian.co.uk/child/story/0,7369,785073,00.html
After the news of Holly and Jessica, we sat down as a family
and discussed what we could do," Mrs Duval said.
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/09/03/norway.whale/index.html
Kill Willy.
Thu, 5 Sep 2002 09:05:00
- https://www.boston.com/dailynews/246/wash/President_Bush_gifted_with_boo%3A.shtml
But his was for riding a camel.
- https://www.bostic.com/devnull/culverts.jpg
- https://www.bostic.com/devnull/drainlinesafety.jpg
OSHA probably has rules about this.
- https://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=18260
I think the language of this Quranic verse is self-explanatory.
- https://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,405027691,00.html?
Brendan likes Halloween because it's scary, and he likes the
Grim Reaper, he says, because it's the scariest of the holiday's
scary guys.
- https://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2002410055,00.html
Scraping the bottom of a very deep barrel.
- https://news.com.com/2100-1040-956357.html?tag=fd_top
- https://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/news/0,10870,2879092,00.html
Internet cafes will be allowed to continue to operate, providing
no games-playing takes place. If a customer is found to be
running any sort of game, including online chess, the cafe owner
will be fined and the place closed.
- https://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=3&art_id=qw1031053321332B234&set_id=1
Police said the man probably slipped on some steps and banged
his head on a slate of marble and died instantly.
- https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/toys/B00005NEBW/qid=1031185017/
What were the creators of this toy thinking? She'll keep playing
with the Nimbus 2000, but with the batteries removed.
- https://www.habeas.com/
Habeas is revolutionizing the way in which people deal with
spam. Based in Palo Alto, California, Habeas is a private
company with venture funding that offers a user-based service,
founded on simple legal principles, which is designed to
eradicate spam.
Fri, 6 Sep 2002 08:05:00
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/04/books/review/04BARTUST.html
A matter of degrees.
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26957.html
In an odd twist, strange at least to most non-lawyers, US law
says that a domain name is a piece of property that can be sued
in its own right.
- https://www.henry.martinez.net/misc/femaleorshemale.htm#
Only her hairdresser knows for sure.
- https://biz.yahoo.com/ap/020905/palm_lawsuit_refund_3.html
The Milpitas-based company apologized to customers recently and
acknowledged that the m130 supports about 58,621 color
combinations -- not the "more than 65,000 colors" the company
had advertised since the product came out in March.
- https://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?ek20020906ks.htm
The word employed when referring to oneself was temae (in front
of the hand), which called polite attention to the person
attached to the hand.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/05/national/05SEX.html
"High levels of mother-teen connectedness," the second study
found, "were not significantly associated with delays in sexual
intercourse among 10th- and 11th-grade girls."
- https://www.ilovebacon.com/090502/a.shtml
When cultures collide.
- https://www.btinternet.com/~scrofula/
"There weren't any particular standards regarding who was hired.
I suppose the only requirement was an ability to stand erect
after being kicked in the balls." [Possibly offensive: AC]
- https://www.frammis.com/bio2002.htm
- https://www.frammis.com/bio_horse2002.htm
Steve Tibbetts.
Marcus Wise works each summer as a mason; tuck-pointing
chimneys. He saves enough money to spend the entire winter
playing tabla. He tours about four months of the year with
Coleman Barks and Robert Bly, accompanying their spoken word
performances. He's played with, among others, Sultan Khan, Zakir
Hussain, and members of the Grateful Dead and the Doors.
Marcus is a real pest. He calls me up and says, "Let's play,
I'm coming over." I'm never too sure if I want to do this, until
he gets here and we start playing. He plays fast, and so do I.
It's fun. Faster! Faster! "Let's try something in 9, but fast."
He brings a six-pack of Moosehead beer, and drinks four of them.
After two beers he says, "Hey, let's record something." That's
how those two pieces got on the CD. Out of 50 hours of recording
we had two things that really worked. Finally, after four beers
he gets up, goes to the toilet and urinates loudly, leaving the
door open. He'll shout out something like "You know why I like
Moosehead?" I say, "No, why do you like Moosehead, Marcus?" He
says, "Because you can just PISS IT RIGHT OUT." Wow. Talk about
pleasure. Now my wife, whenever we go out says, "You know why
I like Moosehead?"
[The title of the new CD is, perhaps inevitably, A MAN ABOUT A HORSE.]
Mon, 9 Sep 2002 12:05:00
- https://slate.msn.com/?id=2070360
I remember back during the Florida election hell how I was
rescued by a professor from North Florida, whom I'd never have
found on my own, who knew more about Florida electoral
intricacies than anyone on earth. On a daily basis, he'd help
me get things right.
- https://www.ispr.net/surveys/psitest.html
Do not worry if you do not get psychic hits on each category,
they are provided to you as guidelines.
- https://www.frozencritters.com
One stop shopping.
- https://www.washtimes.com/national/20020906-92356678.htm
It is, he believes, "in the spirit of Susan B. Anthony."
- https://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/05/020905hnmssecure.xml
"Our products just aren't engineered for security."
- https://www.straightdope.com/columns/020906.html
This was back in the era of leeching, mercury cures, and so on,
when the line between health-care provider and murderer was less
clear than it is now
- https://www.earthviewer.com/
Nude sunbathing soon to be a thing of the past.
- https://starbulletin.com/2002/09/08/news/story5.html
"I only lost one small window downstairs, and that was to flying
debris. The house next door, which was all locked up, lost
every window including the window frames," Chuan said. "But I
wouldn't recommend trying what I did unless you have a very
thorough understanding of aerodynamics."
- https://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_665829.html
Second careers.
Thu, 12 Sep 2002 13:13:35Fri, 13 Sep 2002 14:24:07Mon, 16 Sep 2002 08:05:00
- https://www.nationalfamilies.org/update/dau-090302.html
TV ANNOUNCER:
OK Bob, for another 100 keys. How many joints are in a lid?
BOB: Two.
TV ANNOUNCER:
Two?
BOB: Yeah, I roll big joints.
TV: ANNOUNCER:
Our judges say, that's right! They roll big joints, too!
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2002/leicester_2002/2246450.stm
I'm talking about the remarkable change that has occurred in
man's evolution in just the twinkling of an eyelid," he told
the BBC.
- https://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20020913.html
Repeal the 17th Amendment!
- https://ls-l.net/misc/gel.html
Man, that's gotta hurt.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/14/opinion/14RICH.html
"From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new
products in August."
- https://homepage.mac.com/leperous/PhotoAlbum1.html
A Message from the Ministry of Homeland Security.
- https://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,1870,143434,00.html?
Oppressive burden O' The Day.
- https://www.nme.com/news/102948.htm
It features church organ music, the sound of gargling with water
and John Lennon shouting "Barcelona".
- https://my.aol.com/news/news_story.psp?type=1&cat=0200&id=02091311215345106
"To my knowledge it is the oldest penis. I don't know of any older,"
- https://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1855723656
"How's the internet for the last word BIIIITCH."
Tue, 17 Sep 2002 09:05:00
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/01/travel/GULCH.html
I just wanted a comfortable place to stay during a brief visit
to San Francisco last March.
- https://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~springer/
Once the image was ready, writing the decoder was very simple.
- https://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=122&art_id=qw1031153581310B265&set_id=1
There's some question of fraud, too.
- https://www.defectiveyeti.com/iraqevite/
Party!
- https://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=207855&contrassID=2&subContrassID=15&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
The idea of hackers in the service of jihad holds great
attraction for some Muslim youth living in the West. It gives
them a way to develop a sense of belonging and to feel that
they, too, are contributing to the struggle. And they can do it
all from the comfort of their homes in London, Paris, Los
Angeles or wherever. No need to go to Afghanistan and risk their
lives.
- https://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2051863a12,00.html
How about a "couples room"?
- https://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,54204,00.html
"I was trying to assess my situation and realized we could
appeal to abortion abolitionist people to convert from companies
like AOL that aggressively support abortion," he said, signaling
AOL Time Warner vice chairman Ted Turner's hefty cash grants to
Planned Parenthood.
- https://www.forbes.com/2002/09/16/0916test_2.html
What is a welcome relief about it is that it takes its status
as a SUV seriously.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/09/international/asia/09THAI.html
"They'll come for hip replacement or knee replacement or
cataracts and, yup, while they're here they'll take a vacation,"
said Ruben Toral, director of international programs at
Bumrungrad Hospital in Bangkok. "They get their cosmetic surgery
or their dental work and, boom, they're off to the beach."
Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:05:00
- https://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,1870,143888,00.html?
Announced on Monday, the rule bans women betel-nut sellers from
wearing transparent or belly-revealing tops from Oct 15.
- https://www.backwoodshome.com/columns/wolfe0207.html
Are you ready for liberty in your lifetime?
- https://www.freestateproject.org/
What can be done in a single state? A great deal. We will repeal
state taxes and wasteful state government programs. We will end
the collaboration between state and federal law enforcement
officials in enforcing unconstitutional laws. We will repeal
laws regulating drugs and guns. We will end asset forfeiture
and abuses of eminent domain. We will privatize utilities and
end inefficient regulations and monopolies. Then we will
negotiate directly with the federal government for more
autonomy.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A28414-2002Sep17?language=printer
The simple, three-color spectrum of chocolate -- milk, semisweet
and bittersweet -- has been transformed dramatically in the last
three years. Some manufacturers are making milk chocolate
stronger, beefing it up with more cocoa and less sugar. But even
more dramatic changes are being made by those who are now
calling their product simply "dark chocolate."
- https://www.speedstacks.com/qt_lg.html
With practice, a person can stack at lightning speed that has
to be seen to be believed!
- https://www.pimprig.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=72
The Caffeine Machine
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34725-2002Sep18.html
The paper, which describes one patient's visions while she was
being evaluated for epilepsy, does not wrestle with issues of
the soul.
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=519&u=/ap/20020918/ap_on_re_us/sept_11_statue_1&printer=1
A statue of a falling woman -- designed as a memorial to those
who jumped or fell to their death from the World Trade Center
-- was abruptly draped in cloth and curtained off Wednesday
because of complaints that it was too disturbing.
- https://mmd.foxtail.com/Pictures/ryder1.html
Secondary marketers are likely spying this major oversight and
removing any labeling.
- https://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/dave_barry/4018055.htm
"I'm gonna make him an offer that will shiver his timbers."
- https://msnbc-cnet.com.com/2100-1001-958679.html?type=pt&part=msnbc&tag=alert&form=feed&subj=cnetnews
We recognize that the government neither owns nor operates most
of the critical infrastructure in the U.S.
Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:05:00
- https://www.nature.com/nsu/020916/020916-17.html
Governments should consider their role in public health beyond
spending.
- https://www.sportcompactcarweb.com/features/0208_scared/
Of these hundreds, our tradition is to cherry pick the easiest
to answer, write a trite response, print it in our letters
column and go home early.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/24/science/24BEAU.html?pagewanted=print&position=top
When Robert P. Crease, a member of the philosophy department at
the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the historian
at Brookhaven National Laboratory, recently asked physicists
to nominate the most beautiful experiment of all time, the 10
winners were largely solo performances, involving at most a few
assistants. Most of the experiments -- which are listed in this
month's Physics World -- took place on tabletops and none required
more computational power than that of a slide rule or calculator.
- https://www.aviationpics.de/
Unusual Aviation Pictures.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/24/international/24CND-NATO.html
Mr. Rumsfeld, continuing the Bush administration's war of pique
with the re-elected left-wing German government of Chancellor
Gerhard Schröder, refused to meet with his German colleague,
Peter Struck, but did shake his hand at a NATO cocktail party
on Monday evening
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/25/opinion/25DOWD.html
Do we really want to punish the Germans for being pacifists?
- https://wired.com/news/business/0,1367,55329,00.html
This struck Poet as a reasonable proposition.
- https://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992781
Hope for women everywhere.
- https://www.kadath.org/
One for the haters.
- https://www.henrylim.org/Harpsichord.html
Two years of theorizing.
- https://www.msnbc.com/local/WMAQ/A1331515.asp
Being totally stupid is not a crime.
Thu, 26 Sep 2002 12:05:00
- https://www.kurtspace.com/boothbabes/
Obsession isn't just a fragrance.
- https://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/09/22/wsurf22.xml
The diploma is intended to train the next generation of promoters,
event managers, lifeguards and coaches for Australia's burgeoning
surfing industry.
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/811411.asp
It took over a year to whittle roughly 700 name candidates down
to Levitra, which was formerly know by its generic name
vardenafil.
- https://www.commutercars.com/
0 to 60 MPH, under 4 seconds. 1/4 mile time under 12 seconds
at a speed of approx. 120 MPH
- https://www.floraco.com/organs/monkey/
The purchase of this outfit is a serious undertaking to the man
interested. He consults all his friends and asks their advice,
especially in the selection of the monkey.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/24/nyregion/24YOKO.html?ex=1033531200&en=dc210313110e9de8&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
In the music business, everything is property.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/24/technology/24GOOG.html
- https://news.google.com/
The site brings together headlines, and makes its automated news
judgments, from information appearing on 4,000 sites.
- https://microsoft.com/office/clippy/
Clippy needs to be straightened out.
- https://computerworld.com/newsletter/0%2C4902%2C74566%2C0.html?nlid=AM
So the result[s] just show the mood of many Web site authors.
- https://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blpedophilepriests.htm
Late night humor.
- https://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/09/24/003.html
Just four months after Oksana Fyodorova was crowned Miss
Universe, she has been stripped of her title for refusing to
fulfill her duties and for gaining weight, pageant organizers
said Monday.
Mon, 30 Sep 2002 08:05:00
- https://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/269/metro/Boston_team_finds_way_to_grow_new_teeth_in_lab+.shtml
A team of Boston scientists has found a technique for growing
living teeth in the laboratory, a discovery that could contain
the makings of a dental revolution.
- https://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,145528,00.html?
IF YOU are a single woman in your 30s, the Government is worried
about you.
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/813350.asp
Last week, they came to town with a new CD in hand. On it was
Lindows version 2.0. Improved in every way, Lindows now is
improved enough for me to begin taking it seriously.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2284846.stm
An answer to a question you're afraid to ask.
- https://www.usaenews.com/usaenewsfrms.html
["Now that is MARKETING." -- Gene Spafford]
- https://www-bcs.mit.edu/people/adelson/checkershadow_illusion.html
As with many so-called illusions, this effect really demonstrates
the success rather than the failure of the visual system. The
visual system is not very good at being a physical light meter,
but that is not its purpose. The important task is to break the
image information down into meaningful components, and thereby
perceive the nature of the objects in view.
- https://treesit.org/campaigns/strip_pages/strip_index.html
Striptease to save the trees.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/28/sports/ncaafootball/28BROW.html
A Button for All Occasions, Including Brown vs. Harvard.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/28/international/europe/28COMF.html
Mr. Comfort tends to speak about sex in the abstract, as if it
is something that happens to other people.
- https://www.vcinstitute.org./bookstore/deathtraps.html
Entrepreneurial death traps.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/24/science/life/24OCTO.html
If all of your big brothers get eaten, it makes sense to stay
home and get small.
Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:15:49Tue, 8 Oct 2002 08:05:00
- https://www.suntimes.com/output/answ-man/sho-sunday-ebert06.html
Q. In your review of "Sweet Home Alabama," you note the
La-Z-Boy reclining rockers in the home of Reese Witherspoon's
parents, and then write: "La-Z-Boy: the sign of a home where
the man makes the decisions." If the La-Z-Boy company doesn't
license this slogan from you, then they are not the shrewd
organization I've grown to know and love. Here is a corollary
to your observation: A La-Z-Boy in anything referred to as "the
rumpus room" doesn't count. And how do you know for sure that
the woman makes all the decisions in a relationship? You walk
into the house and it's not immediately obvious where the TV
is.
Andy Ihnatko, Norwood, Mass.
A. Thank you for the photo of your tastefully-appointed living
room, with the old NeXTCube UNIX workstation serving as an end
table. I also enjoyed the colorful aquarium made from a
recycled Macintosh. Is there a Mrs. Ihnatko?
- https://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?021007ta_talk_dellinger
"Part of the secret for us personally is that we don't go out
on the field too stoned," Bloom said the other day.
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/biztech/10/07/copyrightchallenge.ap/index.html
Disney has come under special criticism because the company
reaped a fortune making films from such public domain fairy tale
characters as "Snow White" and "Cinderella," but is fighting to
prevent others from doing the same with characters like Mickey
Mouse and Donald Duck.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2306945.stm
- https://www.smh.com.au/cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/10/08/1033538897644.html
- https://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=15587
- https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1003_021007_quaoar.html
Where are we going? Planet 10! When are we going? Real soon...
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/06/opinion/06DOWD.html
"This is a grim comedy of mutual condescension," says Leon
Wieseltier, the Jewish scholar and literary editor of The New
Republic. "The evangelical Christians condescend to the Jews
by offering their support before they convert or kill them. And
the conservative Jews condescend to Christians by accepting
their support while believing that their eschatology is
nonsense. This is a fine example of the political exploitation
of religion."
- https://www.naimark.net/projects/zap/howto.html
Camera zapping.
- https://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/279/focus/The_southpaw_solution+.shtml
All of which makes "Right Hand, Left Hand" less like a
textbook and more like a 3 a.m. dorm-room bull session with
the most passionate, unnervingly polymathic stoner around - or
perhaps like swallowing the red pill that reveals the Matrix.
- https://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,794163,00.html
They came, they saw, they conquered.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/03/technology/circuits/03TECH.html
"Because I once did something in networking many years ago,
that's a favorite question for people to ask me," admits Nat
Goldhaber, who ran a successful, but now obsolete networking
business before the era of the World Wide Web. "People assume
that if you know something, you know something, which
regrettably is only partially true."
Fri, 11 Oct 2002 12:05:00Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:05:00
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/11/opinion/11FRI2.html
NY Times Editorial: An Abuse of Copyright
- https://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/10/10/stark/index.html
"How prophetic, Ms. Ivins."
- https://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/Stories/011.2/
These tiny creatures have nothing to give but a little package of
sodium, but this they give with all their heart. It is their life,
their hope, their future, and they give it, asking nothing in
return, that their children might have a better start in life. I
suppose it should be uplifting, but somehow it just seems terribly
sad to me.
- https://www.mrcranky.com/
QOTD: "If you haven't seen this excellent movie review site,
it's worth a look. I'm buying a cap since the logo is quite
general purpose."
- https://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/2002/10/100401.html
There are stabbings, shootings, fires, explosions, tortures,
mutilations, and a flaming corpse in a wheelchair, but within
reason.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/13/politics/campaigns/13POLY.html
"We'd as soon put our trust in a cockroach."
- https://starbulletin.com/2002/09/15/news/story5.html
Since the ship is in the horizontal position, the shower is on
the ceiling and one of the sinks is vertical. The toilet is
hinged to swing when the ship goes vertical.
- https://www.wiley.com/legacy/college/phy/halliday320005/pdf/leidenfrost_essay.pdf
My failure may have been due to a lack of film boiling on the
feet, but I had also neglected an additional safety factor. On
the other days I had taken the precaution of clutching an early
edition of Fundamentals of Physics to my chest during the walks
so as to bolster my belief in physics. Alas, I forgot the book
on the day when I was so badly burned.
I have long argued that degree-granting programs should
employ "fire-walking" as a last exam. The chair-person of the
program should wait on the far side of a bed of red-hot coals
while a degree candidate is forced to walk over the coals. If
the candidate's belief in physics is strong enough that the feet
are left undamaged, the chairperson hands the candidate a
graduation certificate. The test would be more revealing than
traditional final exams.
- https://www.minca.cz/suzuki/
One of the drawer's duller knives.
Wed, 16 Oct 2002 17:12:24Thu, 17 Oct 2002 12:05:00
- https://weblog.burningbird.net/archives/000581.php
You think you have it bad, said C++. Try being me.
- https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/10/14/national1441EDT0608.DTL
- https://my.aol.com/news/news_story.psp?type=1&cat=0200&id=021014161126195512
Duct tape occlusion therapy.
- https://www.mightycheese.com/
The cheese was a huge gyroscope. All of the behavior was
predictable and expected. Just not from a cheese.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/15/national/15CAME.html?ex=1035259200&en=bee0407b2e298da3&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA1
"I don't think most people object to the recording of the
information, as long as it's not abused."
- https://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,811027,00.html
The radical new system, which has outraged civil liberties
groups, uses mobile phone masts to allow security authorities
to watch vehicles and individuals 'in real time' almost anywhere
in Britain.
- https://www.nyjacks.com/jxindex.html
The Jacks hold special theme parties once a month like our No
Pants DiscoDance. [Possibly offensive: SSC, N]
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/821405.asp
"It's tragic what MTV has done to the world," opined Mitchell.
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=816&ncid=816&e=2&u=/ap/20021009/ap_on_re_us/god_s_name
"That's kind of wordy, so I'm just going for 'I Am Who I Am' as
my full legal name," he said. "My first name, of course, would
be 'I Am.'"
- https://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/10/09/021009hnballmerkey.xml?1010tham
"Our goal when we started out was to simplify things. We
learned that when you clean things up, sometimes it ends up
costing customers more money."
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/15/science/physical/15ELEM.html?pagewanted=print
The initial suspect was the analysis software, nicknamed Goosy,
a somewhat temperamental computer program known on occasion to
randomly corrupt data.
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27644.html
MS kills another clip-art fan rave.
Fri, 18 Oct 2002 12:05:00Wed, 23 Oct 2002 14:05:01Thu, 24 Oct 2002 14:05:00
- https://my.aol.com/news/news_story.psp?type=1&cat=0200&id=021018083157217455
"At first I thought it was one of those old-time Otter planes,"
the paper quoted Moses Coupchiak, 43, a heavy equipment operator
from Togiak, as saying. "Instead of continuing toward me, it
banked to the left, and that's when I noticed it wasn't a
plane."
- https://www.suntimes.com/output/eb-feature/sho-sunday-anderson13.html
So quickly do big issues shrink with the passage of time.
- https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000070S1/ref=pd_gw_qpt_c_5/102-2348324-6933758?v=glance
Music Reviews O' The Day
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/822525.asp
When you think about how good salmon really is for you, you have
to wonder, why would you ever eat anything else?
- https://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00065FEA-DAEA-1D80-90FB809EC5880000&pageNumber=2&catID=2
After several hours the rat realized it no longer needed to
press the bar. If it just looked at the bar and imagined its
forelimb pressing it, its neurons could still express the firing
pattern that our brain-machine interface would interpret as
motor commands to move the lever.
- https://my.aol.com/news/news_story.psp?type=4&cat=0800&id=021018121825218508
He also said President Bush had advance knowledge of the attack.
"If you don't think President Bush knew, man, you are back in
the cartoon days."
- https://www.sciencenews.org/20021019/fob3.asp
Focusing on the important stuff.
- https://www.exile.ru/152/152151802.html
As far as I can remember, money ruled in California. Politics was
something for millionaires and land developers. The rest of us were
just suckers. The Herbalife anorexic, the exhausted middle manager who
still expects to get rich-these are the ordinary characters of
middle-class American life. The only difference is that in Siberia,
Blakely was able to see the transformation in a matter of years. In
California, the oligarchy has ruled so long that it blends softly into
the landscape. In Siberia, Blakely saw it gouge its way like a
fast-motion glacier. But most of us have spent our lives inside that ice.
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:02:51Fri, 1 Nov 2002 08:05:00
- https://www.boring.com/
No irony here.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/29/national/29BAR.html
"I don't know, we just seem to attract them," said Millie Ulmer,
the early morning bartender.
- https://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20021027a2.htm
And although hospital officials may acknowledge there is a
problem, they have their priorities -- and angel-care makeup is
not one of them."
- https://www.californiacoastline.org/?
Welcome to the website of the California Coastal Records
Project. Our goal is to create a aerial photographic survey of
the California Coast and update it on a periodic basis.
- https://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-963869.html
Mitre likes open source for the Department of Defense.
- https://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,56078,00.html
Real Networks releases media player source code.
- https://www.sltrib.com/2002/oct/10302002/utah/11853.htm
- https://www.myriad.com/
- https://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=mygn&script=410&layout=9&item_id=350345
Polygenic diseases such as obesity were thought to be prohibitively
complex and unyielding to discovery by molecular techniques. With
this discovery, Myriad has demonstrated that, using its proprietary
technologies coupled with multi-generational Utah family pedigrees
and medical databases, complex diseases with multiple contributing
factors can be untangled and the causative elements identified.
The HOB1 gene's role in diabetes was demonstrated through Myriad's
protein interaction and drug target discovery technologies. Myriad's
high-throughput, industrial-scale protein interaction technologies
have developed a diabetes disease pathway that involves a network
of over 300 human proteins. Myriad scientists discovered that the
HOB1 gene was directly involved in the diabetes pathway and that
it interacted with a key protein in the pathway.
- https://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,56096,00.html?tw=wn_ascii
And the little girl fell out of bed and woke up.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/2381935.stm
First generation stars.
- https://www.blackpeopleloveus.com
- https://www.geocities.com/byebyekarla/
The Internet, love it or hate it.
[Possibly offensive: AC]
Wed, 6 Nov 2002 09:05:00Fri, 8 Nov 2002 08:05:00
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/10/23/fortune.ff.us.tech/index.html
Perhaps the current downsizing of the U.S. IT industry is not
a temporary thing.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/28/national/28SERI.html?pagewanted=print
Serial Killing's Squarest Pegs
- https://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200211/msg00003.html
The Bell Labs fiasco points out that the duties of coauthors
are not clearly defined. But could spelling them out put a chill
on collaborative research?
- https://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200211/msg00047.html
Take a deep breath, and give the following sentence a go. "We
demonstrate that the lorentzian signature of the space-time
metric (+ + + -) is not fixed at the Planck scale and shows
'quantum fluctuation' between the lorentzian and euclidean (+ + + )
forms until the 0 scale where it becomes euclidean (+ + + +)."
- https://www.aquila.net/berthickman/frames/shrinker.html
Makin' small change.
- https://www.svtarot.com/net/consultant.html
Reversed: incompetence, waste, arrogance, expensive lunches.
- https://www.preventcancer.org/colossalcolon/
Visitors who crawl through the colon, or look through the
viewing windows, will see healthy colon tissue, colon disease,
polyps and various stages of colon cancer.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2379105.stm
Two companies based in the United States have been given government
grants of $3m to investigate whether cloned cows could provide a
defence against bio-terrorism.
- https://www.xs4all.nl/~egbg/counterscript.html
Removing their unfair advantage.
- https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/a/2002/10/30/notes103002.DTL
This is how it started. This is how it was for hundreds of
years. Then came the Romans who added their own harvest fest,
all apples and the goddess Pomona, and then the angry scowling
Church swept through Europe like a nasty email virus and tried
to ruin everything what wasn't patriarchal and depressing and
sexually oppressed and appropriately frumpy.
Tue, 12 Nov 2002 12:05:00
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/09/opinion/09GATE.html
Op-Ed O' The Day
- https://doody36.home.attbi.com/liberty.htm
You'll have to work for your fun.
- https://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,837058,00.html
How long a reversal might last is a matter of scientific
controversy, however. Records of past events, embedded in iron
minerals in ancient lava beds, show some can last for thousands
of years -- during which time the planet will have been exposed
to batterings from solar radiation. On the other hand, other
researchers say some flips may have lasted only a few weeks.
- https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,69477,00.html
"Technology has certainly had an impact on counterfeiting,"
said Marc Connolly, a special agent with the Secret Service in
Washington.
- https://www.computer-museum.org/exhibits/lavine/index.html
Real computers.
- https://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/4482489.htm
"It's a miracle gone sour is what it is," said Leroy Lepley.
- https://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=1254152002
The population of cod in the North Sea has fallen by half, and
this takes away the dolphins' main source of food," he said.
- https://www-tech.mit.edu/V122/N54/54hdtv.54n.html
I can see how it would be perceived as a conflict of interest,"
Gast said.
- https://call.army.mil/fmso/FMSOPUBS/ISSUES/sh-paraguay/paraguay.htm
Understandably, Paraguay did not attend the American hemisphere
forum on auto theft held in Bogota, Colombia in October 2001
Wed, 13 Nov 2002 16:07:29Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:05:00
- https://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1037138679220447148,00.html
Fortunately, we don't have to love her.
- https://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAGK6BIA8D.html
When Rudy Giuliani comes to Mexico City this month, he'll find a
law enforcement system with an Alice in Wonderland quality where
cops sometimes are not cops, and it's often better to avoid them
than ask for protection.
- https://www.ms-studio.com/typecasting.html
The movie is set in a small town in provincial France, mid-1950s.
About halfway through the film, the town's mayor puts up notices
forbidding anyone to eat anything but bread and weak tea during
Lent (which of course coincides with the opening of the new
chocolaterie). I almost laughed when they showed a close-up of
the notice. The headline was set in ITC Benguiat, a typeface which
debuted in 1978 and was mainly popular in the '80s.
- https://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,56292,00.html
In providing e-mail service to Saddam's son, Yahoo is likely in
violation of U.S. trade sanctions against Iraq.
- https://www.biosecuritysummit.com/news_research/index.php?issue=24
- https://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-962937.html
"COMPUTING PROJECT FIGHTS BIOTERRORISM
Anyone with a computer can now join the war on terror by allowing
excess processing time to be used by the Bioterrorism Antidote
Project. As reported by ZDNet Australia, the non-profit organization,
Find-a-Drug, will use a distributed computing network similar to
SETI@home to form its Bioterrorism Antidotes project, designed to
find new drugs that are effective against antibiotic-resistant forms
of diseases such as plague, smallpox and anthrax. So far the network
has 1,982 registrations, defined as successful installs, and 640
members, defined as those who have returned results."
- https://www.bfi.org/EveryThing/everything_i_know1.htm
Everything I know.
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/US/West/11/07/offbeat.historic.trailer.park.ap/index.html
However, it will restrict the owner's ability to make changes
without city approval.
- https://tinyurl.com/rrj
An eyeball looking through a keyhole in a flag. There's a
message here for all of us.
- https://news.com.com/2100-1001-965649.html
"Tom's appointment is a significant step in establishing
Microsoft as a strategic partner to the government as it
evolves its homeland security strategy." All they need
now is a foreign policy and a nuclear arsenal.
Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:16:04
- https://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/TGAM/20021107/SHOCKX/sports/sports/sports_temp/4/4/25/
"He was so sure of himself he took $50 of his own money to buy
a nice shirt and tie to look good that night," he said. "And he
was just humiliated."
- https://www.forbes.com/2002/11/13/cx_da_1113ad.html
"We've struggled with this for years and years -- how do you
keep charlatans off the air?"
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/14/opinion/14SAFI.html?ex=1037854800&en=3778829e1bec3dc2&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
Remember Poindexter? Brilliant man, first in his class at the
Naval Academy, later earned a doctorate in physics, rose to
national security adviser under President Ronald Reagan. He had
this brilliant idea of secretly selling missiles to Iran to pay
ransom for hostages, and with the illicit proceeds to illegally
support contras in Nicaragua.
- https://www.dressings-sauces.org/folklore.html
Salad dressings and sauces have a long and colorful history,
dating back to ancient times.
- https://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1113NET-TECH-SPAM-DC.html
Addresses left in chat rooms were certain to receive spam, they
found. In one instance, an e-mail address posted in a chat room
started to receive spam eight minutes after it was posted.
- https://www.nasajobs.nasa.gov/jobs/astronauts/aso/forms/jf498.htm
Bored with your day job?
- https://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/living/1102/14wyman.html
Cease and desist.
- https://bantha.cjb.net/john/
Oh, Canada!
- https://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA5EHYNH8D.html
"Absurd," says Lee Adler, one of Savannah's preservation leaders.
Mon, 18 Nov 2002 16:17:48
- https://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/leonids021118.html
Late tonight and early tomorrow morning, a collision between
Earth's atmosphere and a cluster of comet debris will produce
a flurry of shooting stars that won't be matched for nearly a
century.
- https://www.straightdope.com/columns/021115.html
Where do chain restaurants get their antiques?
- https://www.bouldernews.com/bdc/nation_world_news/article/0,1713,BDC_2420_1545202,00.html
"It was sending a message of omnipotence," said Arkin. "That kind
of message had an enormous impact."
- https://www.local6.com/orlpn/news/stories/news-178798320021115-081102.html
- https://www.wnbc.com/news/1787785/detail.html
Criminal mischief, indeed.
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=574&u=/nm/20021108/wl_nm/afghan_un_eyes_dc_1&printer=1
"We used female staff and we tried to give the families privacy
by dividing the enrolment centers, so a man from one family
could not see a woman from another just at the moment she lifted
her veil."
- https://my.aol.com/news/news_story.psp?type=1&cat=0200&id=021118100618373746
A runaway black hole is streaking through the Milky Way galaxy,
dragging an aging star along to snack on as it heads in Earth's
general direction, astronomers reported Monday.
- https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29655
The CIA plans to make thousands of satellite images available
on the Internet, but it's unclear whether they will include
photos of Mount Ararat.
- https://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/satellitepics021113.html?partner=earthlink
In a move that has surprised but pleased researchers, the
National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) has released a trove
of about 50,000 images snapped during the 1960s, '70s and '80s
by two U.S. spy satellites.
- https://www.christies.com/LotFinder/search/LOTDETAIL.ASP?sid=&intObjectID=4005670
The miniature shows Erasmus, naked but for a loincloth, tied to
a trestle table with two men operating the windlass which is
extracting his entrails from the large opening in his abdomen.
A third man stands on the table to tighten his bonds. The
torturers are in clear colours -- red, green, blue and pink --
and the scene is set in a rich interior hung with blue and red
and gold cloths. The space is carefully defined behind the
fictive picture frame, with the table angled against the corner
of the room on a tiled floor.
Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:05:00
- https://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,56219,00.html
"You can get to a page that is not supposed to be there for you,
but that is unprotected, without being called an evil hacker,"
Champagne wrote.
- https://www.udap.com/markfullstory.htm
I heard Bahnson say, "Are you all right?"
- https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Ten-Commandments.html
He easily won election as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme
Court in 2000 and installed the monument the next year without
telling any other justices.
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/021107/161/2mugz.html&e=7
Holy George!
- https://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,56409,00.html
I love my Mac.
- https://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,56409,00.html?tw=wn_ascii
Images.
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/836619.asp
Amazon to sell Segway transporter.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/19/business/media/19ADCO.html?8hpib
What Would Jesus Drive?
- https://www.rock103.com/crew/pics/?pow=082602
Topical Picture O' The Week.
- https://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1118sexworkers-ON.html
"... like trying to trap a ball of mercury on a tabletop with
the underside of a spoon."
Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:05:00
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/837653.asp
In some households there may be a battle for the remote.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2496527.stm
She told the court: "I walked into something that was horrific.
I saw a mirror on the floor with some pliers and some teeth and
a bowl."
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/11/20/asteroid.threat/
Space boulders big enough to wipe out a major city slam into
the Earth about once every 1,000 years, much less frequently
than previously thought, scientists said Wednesday.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16040-2002Nov20.html
"Someone once said that war is God's way of teaching geography, but
apparently today neither war nor the threat of war can adequately
teach geography."
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/837665.asp
But show organizers and exhibitors had to plan carefully because
Wi-Fi, or 802.11b, networks must share limited airwaves. To
solve the problem, the range of access points were throttled
down so that they would cover a more limited area than usual.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17496-2002Nov20.html
Their intent is to create a single-celled, partially man-made
organism with the minimum number of genes necessary to sustain
life.
- https://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health/story.jsp?story=354249
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2494643.stm
- https://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/2119303?source=Evening%20Standard
Asked why he did not remove his hat as a sign of respect, the
professor pointed to a portrait of a Renaissance surgeon
performing a similar procedure -- he also wore a hat.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/18/technology/18PORN.html?pagewanted=print&position=top
This practice, which gives new depth to the term "buyer's
remorse," often occurs, for example, when a husband incurs a
charge and his wife discovers it.
- https://news.com.com/2100-1023-966307.html
A coalition of technology companies warned on Monday that cable
companies might try to interpose themselves as gatekeepers
between customers and Internet content.
Mon, 25 Nov 2002 14:05:00
- https://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,56504,00.html
- https://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,56504,00.html
According to FatWallet owner Tim Storm, the retailers all cited
the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act as the legal basis
for serving FatWallet with "takedown" notices.
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/11/22/offbeat.laptop.burn.reut/index.html
Apparently, it's called a laptop for no reason at all.
- https://www.activedayton.com/ddn/local/daily/1122flesh.html
Self-censorship.
- https://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/MSD-full-spectrum-solar-cell.html
It's as if nature designed this material on purpose to match
the solar spectrum.
- https://www.daltonghetti.com/
- https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/features/scn-sa-pencil1nov10.story
He's been doing it for so long, it's almost second nature.
- https://www.neimanmarcus.com/store/catalog/prod.jhtml?itemId=prod5551015&parentId=cat000629
Unfortunate Font Choice O' The Day
- https://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/11/20/political_spam/
So Pugh wrote to the Dole campaign demanding $80 in reparations --
$10 for each unsolicited message, as the state statute specifies.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36679-2002Nov25.html
The roughly 400 pages provide a window on the Senate from 1790
to 1881, beginning at a time when senators were paid $6 for each
day they attended a session of Congress. In those first years,
senators also received a maximum daily allotment of $6 for
travel to the capital, calculated at 30 cents per mile for a
maximum of 20 miles.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/24/national/24CRAS.html?ex=1038805200&en=e7273bf0ae3f9f99&ei=5038&partner=ASAHI
"Sometimes, it makes the hair stick up on the back of your neck."
- https://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=20609
Starbucks also supports the Israeli government propaganda
programs in universities all over America in an attempt to win
popular support for Israel.
Mon, 2 Dec 2002 15:05:00Thu, 5 Dec 2002 08:05:00Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:05:00
- https://society.guardian.co.uk/alderhey/story/0,7999,450736,00.html
The Alder Hey inquiry, chaired by Michael Redfern QC, points
the finger at the "rogue" Dutch pathologist Dick van Velzen.
During his time at the hospital he systematically ordered the
"unethical and illegal stripping of every organ from every child
who had had a postmortem".
- https://www.browndailyherald.com/post/stories.asp?ID=269
Ellen Feiss is a lot like most 15-year-olds, with one notable
exception: Some guy in Holland is wearing a T-shirt with her
face on it right now.
- https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sfl-1122snake,0,5829385.story?coll=sfla-news-fringe
Pork #1.
- https://www.naplesnews.com/01/01/neapolitan/d551697a.htm
Pork #2.
- https://www.ciesm.org/newsroom/2811.html
A volcanic island submerged off the coast of Sicily for the last
170 years could reappear in the coming weeks if furious seismic
rumblings continue.
- https://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1035774801436&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News/News
A media adviser to the Alberta government has apologized for
referring to George W. Bush as "that idiot" in an internal memo
commenting on the controversy over a senior federal aide who
called the U.S. president "a moron."
- https://canada.com/national/story.asp?id={AFC42C56-BB5F-457B-AEAF-5D58F21AB39C}
And somebody ought to remind you guys what happened the last
time you invaded us.
- https://www.concealcarry.org/stingerpengun.htm
The pen is mightier than the sword.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/26/health/nutrition/26EAT.html
But side effects always loom, and one drug tested in animals
made them lose weight but also caused erections.
- https://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1038261936872356908,00.html
Mr. Iwanyk, 32 years old, first suspected that his TiVo thought
he was gay, since it inexplicably kept recording programs with
gay themes.
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/840607.asp
"Most of them who want us to take the cremated remains like the
idea of seeing their relatives on a nightly basis," Laurie said.
- https://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfromthepast/escher2001.jpg
Escher 2001
Tue, 10 Dec 2002 08:05:01
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/20/dining/20WINE.html?8hpib
"The 21st Amendment has its limitations."
- https://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=353595
"This demonstrates how little we know about the effects of one
of our most popular beverages."
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/09/technology/09SPAM.html?todaysheadlines
Habeas & Bonded Sender.
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/843626.asp
"Able-bodied adults should save enough on a regular basis so that they
can provide for their own retirement and, for that matter, for their
health and medical needs."
- https://www.suntimes.com/output/eb-feature/cst-ftr-coburn20.html
"Thank you so very much for giving us all those wonderful
films," and fell back on the bed again.
- https://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_10-12-2002_pg2_20
"This is a stunning indictment of honesty to be penalised for
telling the truth," Ratliffe said.
- https://politicalhumor.about.com/library/bldailyfeed3.htm
"President Bush said it's now time for a change in Iraq and he wants
them to have a Western-style democracy like ours. So right now in Iraq,
the economy is collapsing, businessmen are corrupt, and Hussein wants
his son to take over as president. Sounds like mission accomplished."
-- Jay Leno
"President Bush's press secretary Ari Fleischer just got married
and, believe it or not, one of the wedding presents he was
registered for was a DVD of 'Forrest Gump.' He wanted to watch
'Forrest Gump.' You'd think he'd get enough of that at work."
-Jay Leno
President Bush told his staff 'Don't be sore winners.' He said
'Don't gloat about the vote.' But you know I think secretly he's
enjoying this. Like today he said he'd like to work with both
sides of Congress, the Republicans and the Democrat." -Jay Leno
"Call me sentimental, but wasn't it nice to see Walter Mondale
come out of retirement for one last ass whoopin'?"
-David Letterman
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/06/technology/06WIRE.html
The wireless technology known as WiFi, which allows users of
personal and hand-held computers to connect to the Internet at
high speed without cables, got a significant stamp of approval
today when AT&T, I.B.M. and Intel announced a new company to
create a nationwide network.
- https://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,56742,00.html
Attention, Wi-Fi users: The Department of Homeland Security sees
wireless networking technology as a terrorist threat.
Wed, 11 Dec 2002 09:05:00
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/10/science/physical/10COMP.html?pagewanted=print
Rogue computer programs masquerading as teenagers were
infiltrating Yahoo chat rooms, collecting personal information
or posting links to Web sites promoting company products.
- https://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/oddball/enlarge.cgi?date=2001-08-17
- https://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/oddball/?date=2001-08-17
Rifleman.
- https://www.msnbc.com/news/845822.asp
Embrace and extend.
- https://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,496270,00.asp
Apple did not return calls requesting comment.
- https://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/news_story.php?id=36263
Although relations between the two companies are good, it is
understood that if it worsens significantly, Marklar would be
released in an effort to hit Microsoft's core operating system
business.
- https://onset.com/haiku2002/
What were you thinking:
Tornadoes will make pigs fly?
That was not my deal.
- Naked Quiddicth - very, very funny for HP fans
When good fans go bad.
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/biztech/12/10/meta.linux.reut/index.html
A healthy skepticism is the hallmark of the scientific mind.
- https://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021204S0002
"We'll beat the pants off of Microsoft in TCO given enough time."
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28408.html
Windows 2000 servers are cheaper to run than Linux ones,
sometimes, says an IDC study which was by strange coincidence
sponsored by Microsoft.
- https://www.zdnet.com.au/itmanager/technology/story/0,2000029587,20270376,00.htm
The question of whether Linux?s total cost of ownership (TCO)
is lower than that of Windows or other operating systems has
inspired many fierce debates among enterprise IT professionals.
- https://news.com.com/2100-1023-976296.html
But after a law clinic at the University of California at
Berkeley stepped in and said it would represent FatWallet and
fight the subpoena, Wal-Mart backed down.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/08/travel/08rep.html
Online, onboard.
Fri, 13 Dec 2002 15:05:00
- https://wired.com/news/print/0,1294,56784,00.html
As some parents already know, the hot item on many 8- to
12-year-olds' wish lists this holiday season isn't Barbie
or a Hot Wheels car, but a cell phone.
- https://www.stanford.edu/~bthomas/vamp/vampecology.htm
We are gathered here today to ponder the ways in which the
humans and vampires of Sunnydale interact.
- https://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=29&art_id=qw1039603141546B235&set_id=1
"We think it's a nice Christmas gift."
- https://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=1896485
Both men were computer technicians, German newspapers said.
[Possibly offensive: GL, GV]
- https://www.thewavemedia.com/pagegen.php?pagename=article&articleid=22646
By now, you've hopefully heard of Turkey's proud history of
stealing American films and remaking them with no money and
their own unique set of production values.
- https://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist2002.html
What's hot, what's not.
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/28507.html
There's the usual 30 per cent of $18.5 million dollars at stake
here, so it's no surprise that "Normy" is straining at the leash
to get his sweaty paws on the loot.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/10/national/10PRIV.html
Faced with defending the request before a judge, the prosecutor
handling the matter notified Reef Seekers' lawyer that he was
withdrawing the subpoena.
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/06/burning.bush.ap/
Loose lips go to prison.
Wed, 18 Dec 2002 08:05:00
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021214/ap_on_re_us/attacks_the_toll_2
Police found Khemraj in late September this year and have
encouraged her to call her mother, Lt. Kenneth Ling said
Friday.
- https://www.straightdope.com/columns/021213.html
Claiming Silent Spring (1962) is full of lies is a bit harsh.
Let's say it contains certain statements at variance with the
facts as we now understand them.
- https://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,56860,00.html
Keeping Track of John Poindexter
- https://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html
Google has fully integrated the past 20 years of Usenet archives
into Google Groups, which now offers access to more than 700
million messages dating back to 1981. This is by far the most
complete collection of Usenet articles ever assembled and a
fascinating first-hand historical account.
- https://www.eet.com/sys/news/OEG20021213S0034
Use an A/D converter, go to jail.
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=571&e=12&u=/nm/20021216/hl_nm/carpaltunnel_steroids_dc
Giving patients low-dose oral steroids for 2 to 4 weeks is an
effective way to treat carpal tunnel syndrome, a painful
condition affecting the wrists and hands, according to new
research.
- https://www.uq.edu.au/education/extra/all.html
If I bring it in can you fix it?
- https://www.suntimes.com/output/eb-feature/cst-ftr-ebert17.html
Others will nod with an ironic smile. I will end this article
with a piece of advice. If you attend the movie on a date,
and one of you is all worked up at the end and the other has
an ironic smile, your relationship is going nowhere.
- https://news.com.com/2100-1023-978176.html
Not guilty.
Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:05:00Mon, 23 Dec 2002 09:05:00Tue, 24 Dec 2002 16:00:58
- https://nytimes.com/2002/12/23/national/23NUTR.html
"These trappers won't even eat it, and it says something if they
won't eat it."
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/12/23/new.zealand.reut/index.html
Queen Elizabeth, acting as trustee for former British colony
New Zealand, lost a legal battle to claim the Internet domain
name newzealand.com from a U.S. firm, international arbitrators
have ruled.
- https://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/sports/4796100.htm
He had eaten two hot dogs and drank four Mountain Dews during the
first two periods. He had been at the rink since 8 a.m. tending to
uniforms, equipment and players, without a chance to dine.
- https://news.findlaw.com/ap/o/1110/12-23-2002/20021223113006_091.html
"I'm very concerned about that; he was a young person. But it's
quite different from being with a parishioner."
- https://boston.com/dailynews/356/economy/Tiny_implanted_monitors_black_%3A.shtml
"A lot of the pull for the device came from patients, people
who were frustrated, weren't able to drive, in disarray because
fainting messed up their lives,"
- https://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_732378.html?menu=news.latestheadlines
She said: "I'm twice happy, first because my prosthesis saved
my life and also because now I look even more beautiful."
- https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/12/1220_021224_rudolph.html
Moore is also the one who named the reindeer, as "Santa whistled
and shouted and called them by name: Now Dasher! Now Dancer!
Now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet, on, Cupid! On Donder and
Blitzen."
- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/21/technology/21PRIV.html
"There isn't a role for intelligence gathering on Catholic nuns."
- https://sweetfancymoses.com/wade_nick.htm
Nick: What Went Wrong.
- https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/12/22/MN242772.DTL
The billboards -- in Palo Alto, Daly City and Fremont -- will
pick up which radio stations are being played and then instantly
access a vast databank of information about the people who
typically listen to those stations. The electronic ads will then
change to fit listener profiles.
Wed, 25 Dec 2002 14:05:00
- https://www.straightdope.com/columns/021220.html
So what's the deal with cohabiting lesbians?
- https://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/12/20/canada.marijuana.reut/index.html
- https://www.marijuanahomedelivery.ca/
The Web site, www.marijuanahomedelivery.ca, offers two formats
of "highest quality therapeutic cannabis" with a THC content of
8 percent or more. A two-gram package sells for $30 Canadian
($19) while Internet surfers can order a 10 gram shipment for
$120 Canadian.
- https://www.solotrek.com/mjet/news/index.htm
Seven years ago the SoloTrek XFV idea was born on the back of
a napkin in Silicon Valley. On December 18, 2001, the SoloTrek
POC (proof-of-concept) aircraft demonstrated its first manned
flight. Although the altitude was only about two feet, and the
duration only about 25 seconds, it nonetheless showed that the
machine could get off the ground and be controlled in hover
flight.
- https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=15825&item=1791801094
It may, in some instances, be able to function as a remarkable
tax shelter, check with your accountant.
- https://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=357300
The absolute quantification of "too much information".
- https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/12/22/MN35888.DTL
This forced SangStat to change its target from Sandimmune to
Neoral, and that posed a problem: SangStat had tested its
generic with chocolate milk. Neoral was chased with apple
juice. Did that matter?
- https://www.salon.com/mwt/wire/2002/12/24/teens/index.html
I saw Sister kissing Santa Claus.
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20021224/ap_on_re_us/pregnant_doll&e=1
The pregnant version of Midge, which pops out a curled-up baby
when her belly is opened - has been pulled from Wal-Mart shelves
across the country following complaints from customers, a
company spokeswoman said Tuesday.
- https://roofcam.bren.ucsb.edu
First, some background: The Bren School of Environmental Science and
Management at UC Santa Barbara is housed in the Bren building. The
Bren building is the greenest building in the state -- it incorporates
all kinds of environmentally intelligent techniques into its
construction and operation. It's a real showpiece.
The school has just installed a roofcam on Bren that provides realtime
images of the ocean across the road. The update rate is ten or fifteen
images per second. It's not top-quality video, but you *can* watch the
waves breaking on the Santa Barbara beach in real time. You can even
see the cars go by.
It's more fun to watch in the daytime than at night.
"Michael A. Olson"
- https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20021216/od_uk_nm/oukoe_life_israel_moshav
"I don't encourage people to cheat, I just give them a nicer
place to do it."
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