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me yet.)
6-29-02
HELLO MOTO
Motorola cuts 7,000 jobs in an effort to improve its financial situation. [Somebody spend a little too much on advertising this year?]
6-27-02
CYBER SCARE TACTICS
"Infrastructure infiltration...Cyber warfare attacks...Al-Qaeda's next frontier? It may sound like innocuous e-mail viruses you're used to getting at your office that may destroy a file or two...But imagine a massive attack like 9-11 and then criticial [sic] infrastructure systems going haywire: an entire power grid shutting down, hospitals without power, or the water supply shutting off, or the 911 emergency response breaking down...According to senior government officials and terrorism experts, it's a possibility..." and "WashPost: Cyber-attacks by al-Qaida feared...Unsettling signs of al-Qaida's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed." [Hardball Newsletter][article]
[Remember when our parents built fallout shelters and we crawled under desks in school practicing for an atomic disaster? Get the point?]
6-24-02
"EARLY RETIREMENT: IS THE DREAM DEAD?
Let's face it. Your stock options are kindling and there's no golden parachute
in sight. Still, you dream of retiring early -- a goal that seemed feasible
during the bull market stampede." (CNN QUICK NEWS) [article]
[It's a dream come true for me, but now I'm beginning to wonder. Am I going to have to go back to work because the Fed believes that cheap money promotes business opportunity in a country that can't accept the facts of life about true competition even as it professes a blind faith in capitalism?]
"STUDY: EATING NUTS LESSENS HEART RISK Eating a handful of nuts twice or more a week may cut one's risk of deadly heart disease, based on a study of male doctors released on Sunday." (CNN QUICK NEWS) [article] [Where were the doctors released from? The nut house?]
6-21-02
NPR PROHIBITS DEEP LINKING
"So, National Public Radio wants to control who links to their pages,
just as a Dallas newspaper tried earlier this year. What is this, the
Iron Curtain Wide Web?" (Wired News) [article]
[Hereafter, permission is explicitly denied to NPR or any of its representatives or employees to link to this site from any other site. Anyone else may link here, as deeply as they wish. Too bad, too. I like NPR. When did they start to act like conservatives?]
6-20-02
CLINTON GETS OFF, AGAIN
"The federal government has closed its probe -- with no charges filed -- into former President Bill Clinton's grants of clemency to four men accused of bilking the government of millions of dollars, authorities said Thursday." (Hardball Newsletter) [article]
[Another probe bites the dust.]
NEW YORK NEW YORK ACTION ACTION
"NYPD and FDNY brass were warned that terrorists may try to use police cars, fire trucks and ambulances as high-speed bombs after two Middle Eastern men tried to buy an ambulance with cash this month, the Daily News has learned." (Hardball Newsletter) [article]
[Imagine it. Two Mid-eastern looking men dressed in ill-fitting police uniforms speeding down a New York street toward a designated target building, wild looks in eyes focused straight ahead as the police car veers in a crooked line spraying pedestrians right and left. Sounds like a scene from a Dino de Laurentis film.]
HEY! WHAT WAS THAT?
We didn't know it until after it had passed, but a huge asteroid came very close to the Earth. It was the size of a football field, sped along at 6.2 miles per second, and was more than half again as close to the Earth as the moon. [article]
[Wow! And to think that I was actually outside at the time.]
6-17-02
HOMOFAMILIAPHOBIA
"Don't Ask, Don't Televise. Linda Ellerbee's 'Nick News' special about children who have gay parents has been the object of outrage ever since its topic was announced" (Hardball Newsletter) [article]
"Despite a staggering 100,000 e-mails and phone calls in protest, Nickelodeon will telecast a special for children about same-sex parents on Tuesday night." (Yahoo News) [article]
[What they really fear is their own latent homosexuality.]
"INDIA TECH'S PLEA: COME BACK
Indian software companies, hurting after the U.S. and British governments tell their nationals to leave, mount a PR campaign to get them back." (Hotwired) [article]
[You don't need PR. Just stop fucking threatening to nuke Pakistan and they'll come back.]
6-14-02
FROM THE OCEAN DEPTHS
Scientists listening under the sea have recorded a sound of a 'giant beast.' They've named the monster 'Bloop,' for the sound that it makes, which is much stronger than any known animal on Earth. [article]
[Way cool. I think I saw that movie.]
6-7-02
"MONKEY BRAINS MOVE CURSOR
Monkeys implanted with special electrodes moved a cursor on a computer screen
just by thinking about it, and learned how to do it better with practice,
scientists reported on Thursday." (CNN QUICK NEWS) [article]
[Pretty soon we'll all have monkey brains.]
6-2-02
"GOP LEADER BLASTS LOOSER FBI RULES
The Justice Department's plan to give the FBI more domestic surveillance power
'has gone too far,' House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner
said Saturday." (CNN QUICK NEWS) [article]
[This must be serious. Even the Republicans are against it.]
"COURT CLEARS WAY FOR CAPITOL PROTESTS
A federal court upheld the right to free speech by striking down a 30-year-old
ban on demonstrations on the sidewalk by the east steps of the Capitol." (CNN QUICK NEWS) [article]
[What's going on here? Now the courts are getting in on the act. Is the country turning liberal again? This could be it, folks. The Fourth Turning.]
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