Archive for August 2nd, 2003

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Nine Songs Whose Titles Rhyme

It took me a long time to come up with these.  Additions appreciated:
Wooly BullyHanky PankyThe Name GameHelter SkelterDo the Hokey Pokey(special Donovan section)Mellow YellowHurdy Gurdy ManJennifer JuniperLittle Boy in Corduroy
Additions? Corrections?

Hackers Huddle in the Desert

Increasingly nervous about an escalating series of security flaws with the potential to make the Internet insecure at best and unusable at worst, an elite group of “black hat” hackers and security experts are meeting in Las Vegas to try to secure the underpinnings of the system. Although hackers are known to love virtual [...]

Takeover Makeover

Glow-in-the-Dark Mice (the live kind)

A Healthy Glow
A fluorescent mouse family is on display during the Bio
Taiwan 2003 show at the World Trade Center in Taipei, Taiwan, on July
26.
The mice, provided by Level Biotech Inc., had a fluorescent gene
[...]

SEVIS Takes Form

After several false starts and software glitches, SEVIS, the national system to track foreign students in the United States, has gone online. As the Aug 1 deadline passed, there are isolated reports of long waits for the now-obligatory interviews and increasing difficulties for foreign students just beginning to arrive for the ‘03-’04 academic year.
When [...]

COPYRIGHT APATHY ON THE RISE

A new survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project shows that
67 percent of file sharers are unconcerned about copyright issues, up
from 61 percent in 2001. Among high-school and college students, the
number rises to around 80 percent.
One researcher at the Pew project said she was surprised that recent attention to legal issues of file
sharing [...]

DEAD NAKED RUNNING MAN VIDEO

DEAD NAKED RUNNING MAN VIDEO – A 19-year-old man was shot
dead as he ran naked through the streets of Mayfield Heights, Ohio, wielding a 5-inch hunting knife. Good
video
of the man leaping [...]

Saddam Buried Weapons – NYTimes

According to a "bold and entirely plausible theory " just posted by the
New York Times, Saddam ordered his weapons of mass destruction destroyed
before allowing in the UN weapons inspectors, to deny the US an excuse
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