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Classic DF – 4/7/01

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Apr. 7, 2001: [•] A bomb has killed a boy and injured several people in Thailand. [•] Pacific Gas & Electric has declared bankruptcy. [•] The Hunley Confederate submarine crew apparently went down with the ship quite fast. [•] Russia wants its independent TV. [•] Filipino rebels have released their last hostage. [•] Growing food isn’t the problem in Angola; it’s getting to it without being shot. [•] Two students are being held in connection to a dorm fire in Kenya. [•] Security concerns have closed the US embassies in Paraguay, Uruguay, and Ecuador. [•] Indonesian separatists have bombed an Exxon Mobil natural gas field. [•] Vietnam’s school are under attack by chemical weapons, but no one why knows why. [•] 33 police officers were killed by Maoist rebels in Nepal. [•] This evening the Jewish holiday of Passover begins. For most Jews it is a joyous holiday, but not so in worn torn Israel. [•] Iraq claims that US and UK jets once again bombed them. [•] Meanwhile, Amnesty International has charged Iraq with massive human rights violations. [•] Algerian national Ahmed Ressam has been found guilty of plotting to bomb New Year’s Eve celebrations. [•] President Bush’s tax cut proposal has passed Senate (sort of). [•] About 100 college students have caught a respiratory infection from going to Spring Break in Mexico. [•] Roosevelt Junior and Senior High School has been closed as teachers and administrators try to figure out how to regain control over students. [•] A child escapes a kidnapper in New York City. [•] A man attacks the Liberty Bell with a ball peen hammer. [•] Four Spidey costumes were stolen from the set of Spider-man: The Movie. [•] The FCC has almost explained exactly what indecent or patently offensive programming is. “Almost” being the operative word. [•] Get your own brothel! [•] A shop lifter dies fighting security guards. Is it really worth a couple of chocolate bunnies and a box of Cheez-Its to die? I think not. [•] Beware of tumbleweeds. [•] Linux users beware: The Adore Virus is out and looking for holes in your system. [•] EMI has teamed up with HitHive to deliver downloadable music to wireless devices and PCs. [•] Microsoft is developing an add-on for Outlook that will sort your mail by preference and priority. Great. Just great. “Sigh” [•] SunBlade 1000 workstations have a data corruption issue. Downloading a patch will fix the issue. [•] Microsoft is licensing their text-to-speech software to third parties. [•] The last of ten Norway wolves has eluded hunters. [•] Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance brings half assed Dungeons & Dragons: Third Edition rules to the Playstation 2. [•] Once again, NASA is going to send another probe to Mars to poke around for two days and then break down when they realize they forgot to include that one vital component. [•] Houston, Texas is low on blood causing both doctors and vampires to worry. [•] Some anorexia may be genetic. [•] Smoking raises the risk of bladder cancer in women. [•] Two teenage girls are suing MTV after they were shit on (literally) during a pilot taping. Nice. [•] Now, I’m Mr. Pro-Life. However, the whole posting doctors’ home addresses on the Net thing just doesn’t sit right with me. Legally it is allowed. So why can’t you do the same thing with the Feds? It’s not right either way. [•] Linus Torvalds says Mac OS X sucks. [•] Nothing is safe. [•] Back Orifice gets a Middletown teen in trouble. [•] Roy Lee Elliott is sentenced to 15 years in prison for tying up his wife and beating her. [•] A child molester is caught, the usual traffic stop turns into drug bust story, Middletown Schools has its budget approved, a man falls asleep while his house is on fire, a woman hits a senior citizen, police save a girl’s life, and a cocaine bust. [•] Creed sends kids to space camp. [•] It turns out Weezer wasn’t on the Warped Tour at all. [•] MaximumPC walks you through how to build the ultimate PC entertainment system. [•] The PT Cruiser gets topless. [•] Other distributed file sharing systems are following Napster’s lead and blocking copyrighted material. [•] My wife so rules. [•] That is this week’s flurry of postings. Once again we’ll return next week with more furry fun! See you on Monday.

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Classic DF – 4/6/01

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Apr. 6, 2001: [•] US Military personal have been granted access to the spy plane crew members. Ummm… why can’t they go home yet? What’s the deal bitch?! [•] Just another day in war torn Israel. [•] The UN has handed Miloslevic a warrant. [•] Croats have attacked UN peacekeepers. [•] A riot broke out on a South African court house’s steps when a team of Caucasian rugby players were found innocent of killing a black man. [•] Ecuadorians return home. [•] A convicted rapist, Joji Obara, has been charged with killing a US woman in Japan. [•] A self-admitted murderer, Guy Georges, has been sentenced to life in prison. [•] A mine explosion killed seven people in Iraq. [•] The return of Linda Tripp. [•] Hey, Anthony Spero has been convicted over here. [•] President Bush doesn’t use e-mail. Smart man. [•] The USDA will continue to have schools test for salmonella. [•] Electrical failures have taken out AIM again. [•] China isn’t protecting its pandas. [•] Last year 155 government computers were hacked. [•] A composite material made of copper and fiberglass has been created and it has a negative index of refraction. This is against the laws of physics. [•] Hollywood and hackers. [•] Eleven new planets have been discovered. [•] Fear the TOS! [•] Fear the Swordfish! [•] Anthony Schroedel has pleaded guilty to killing Barbara Vogt and now faces a life sentence. [•] A whole lot of warrants going on. [•] A mother and son are cleared of charges that they raped an 11-year old girl. Turns out she was just a slut or something. [•] A 9-year old is hit by the people who are supposed to save your life. [•] A couple has been charged with using their son’s social security number to lease a car. [•] A purse snatcher is caught. [•] A teen is caught selling fireworks in Cornwall High, a police impostor is soliciting for “donations”, a fire in Kingston destroys a home, a convicted felon is caught getting frisky with a minor, Freddy Squires is found guilty of violating an order of protection, a 12-year old boy steals a girl’s shoes, and two more suspects from the multi-million dollar fraud scheme surrender. [•] Stone Temple Pilots is done recording their next album. [•] Godsmack and the Deftones will tour this summer. [•] Megadeth has filmed the video for Moto Psycho. [•] Area: One has added Outkast and New Order to their line up. [•] Chevy is recalling 2002 Chevy Trailblazers, GMC Envoys, and Oldsmobile Bravadas due to steering failures. [•] Oh those Europeans and their crazy supercars! [•] A 489MPH Porsche. Of course that’s by scale since it’s an R/C car, but any how. [•] Mac offered a firmware upgrade to G3/G4 users and as a result many of their SIMMs are no longer recognized as valid due to a software glitch. [•] My wife and I hung out with Immy and Sylance yesterday. We went to mall and in generally had a really fun time. Shopping rules. [•] Bored? Forget Napster! Who needs MP3s anyhow? We have cassette tapes! Yeah, you heard me right. Everyone knows analog rules. So there 😛 [•] On a sad note: E-front USA has declared bankruptcy and taken SomethingAwful.com with it. Lowtax is looking for a new server, but it looks like we won’t have a Cliffy Y. fix for awhile. My week has been ruined!

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Classic DF – 4/5/01

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Apr. 5, 2001: [•] Through the magic of satellite vision I give you the missing spy plane. BTW: If we can spot a friggin’ plane on an airport field why do we need to use spy planes any how? [•] A British truck driver has been found guilty of manslaughter after he left 58 illegal aliens locked in his trailer with no vents open to let air in. [•] Hawaii’s public school teachers are striking. [•] Two hostages are freed in Somalia. [•] Lebanese Shiites celebrate the day of a honored Saint by slashing themselves. [•] I’m not dead yet! SHEESH. [•] Ford has been found not guilty for Explorer rollover accidents. [•] Marine pilots of Ospreys say the aircraft has both a software and hardware glitch. [•] A boy saves his own life by using a tourniquet to stop bleeding. [•] Congress isn’t happy about the US Postal proposal to close their offices on Saturday. [•] Yet another example of how our legal system needs an overhaul: A man who got drunk and passed out in the snow causing him to get frost bite on a business trip is eligible workmen’s compensation. He should get a swift kick in the ass and go to AA meetings instead. [•] A cyber-sqautter owes the original owner of sex.com $65 million. [•] Gay pride is fine, but straight pride… oh that is racist. Why? I have no idea. Because our society is backward probably. [•] A 14-year old girl who shot a classmate has been sentenced to a psychiatric hospital. [•] The fifth recount in Florida has confirmed Bush still won. No one stole this election people. He won. Face it and get over it! [•] A sailor found guilty of killing a hooker is sentenced to life in prison. [•] A husband who put his ex-wife’s name and number on the Internet in sex for hire ads has been arrested. [•] Why shouldn’t Microsoft jump on the music subscription boat? Here’s MSN Music. [•] AIM went down on Tuesday. [•] You know that open server you just hacked thinking all the while that you were getting away with the crime of the century? It may have been a trap. [•] Artists push for more digital rights through open distribution, Congress gets lost, and the RIAA does nothing except bitch about everyone as usual. [•] MIT will open source their courses. [•] Heavy hits take down MLB.com. [•] Intel sets up the world’s biggest peer-to-peer network. [•] Sony touts its new portable CD-RW. [•] A new pen style mouse promises to do less damage to your hand. [•] Colorado and Illinois share honors for the smartest math and science students. [•] Global warming is killing toads. [•] Ladies and gentleman, we may have found the cure for cancer. [•] Microsoft says that the Terms of Service for some of its products and services is outdated so don’t pay attention to them. Sure, right Mr. Wizard of Oz. [•] MTV has started selling downloadable music. [•] Welcome to the age of public school paranoia. Population: you. [•] The mother and son on trial for raping a teenage girl have had some charges dropped due to redundancy. [•] Nerds rule. We have cool webpages. We are l337. We are… ummm… yeah. [•] A house catches fire in Chester, kids shoot cars with paintballs on Thruway, a hunter accidentally shoots his finger off, fighting over rent, a man strikes a police car, a gang shooting in Newburgh, Mid-Valley Oil is fined $400,000 for storage tank violations, and no junk yards here. [•] System of a Down try and figure out what they want on their next album. [•] Fatboy Slim talks tour. [•] MSN reprograms their customers’ dialers and they end up dialing long distance. [•] A teen hacks ADDR.com resulting in 46,000 customers’ data being compromised.[•] Yahoo! joins Vivendi Universal and Sony to start a music service. [•] Tool will stream its first single Schism off its web site starting May 1st. [•] Volkswagen gets a soundtrack. [•] The PIII gets cooler, smaller, and faster. [•] Do-it yourself DSL? Oh great. [•] A look at the new Sebring Convertible. [•] Is Handspring switching to another OS. [•] Azazel is tired. The joys of motherhood. [•] Bored already? It isn’t even Friday yet! [•] Mermaid vs. the Psycho Bitch. [•] It’s a nice day out in lovely downtown Warwick, NY so why not take a walk? It’ll do you good. 🙂

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Classic DF – 4/3/01

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Apr. 3, 2001: [•] Of course it’s the US’s fault that a Chinese pilot rammed a surveillance plane because God forbid that the Chinese government admits it did something imperfectly. “Sigh” [•] The US Senate approved a campaign finance reform bill. Now it must pass through the House. [•] A US F-16 crashed off the coast the Japan, but the pilot is okay. [•] The Philippine Supreme Court has voted unanimously to oust President Joseph Estrada. [•] Peace talks in Macedonia have begun. [•] A murderer is hung in Botswana. [•] Mexico has arrested a drug czar. [•] Fighting in Colombia continues. [•] 87 anti-globalization protesters were arrested in Ottawa, Canada during a peaceful protest. [•] Four people were killed in riots in Bangladesh as citizens continue to demand that prime minister Sheikh Hasina resign. [•] Ex-LAPD officer Nino Durden has pleaded guilty to three counts of conspiring to violate civil rights and one count of possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number. [•] Chinese stowaways are found hitchhiking in a ship. [•] The Duh Study of The Day: The US Census says our population grew. I could have told you that! [•] Two bodies are found floating off the coast of Alaska. They are believed to be part of the crew of a missing boat. [•] Providence, Rhode Island Mayor Vincent Cianci Jr. has been indicted on accepting bribes. [•] Try playing kick ball in this park. [•] The ex-Chevron employee charged with trying to blow up a plant has pleaded innocent. [•] Today the digital music battle goes to Congress. [•] ICANN has granted Verisign extended rights to manage dot com domains. [•] Cisco releases its web capable cell phones. [•] AIM 4.5 Beta for Mac is out. [•] FCC Chairman Michael Powell overhauls the FCC. [•] The lawsuit against IBM by holocaust victims has been dropped in hopes that they can settle out of court. [•] Black & White has been described by my colleagues as addictive, incredible, and everything a game should be. [•] What the hell is with Japan? Are you guys retards or something? First you want to kill whales so you can eat them even if it means making them extinct and now you want to do the same with elephants for their ivory. When does the stupidity end? [•] Two of the three cows cloned at Chico State University have died. [•] When lakes attack. [•] Overheating a child can kill them (duh). [•] If you have sinus pain like me right now chances are it’s allergies. [•] Be likes Popeye Da Sailor and eatz your spinach, but spell poorly! [•] Stress can ruin sleep. [•] No matter what the patch for the Internet Explorer hole says install it! [•] Dredging draws both support and protests. [•] Get your drugs here. [•] Warwick Police arrest a man accused of raping a woman. [•] A pit bull attacks a mentally disabled man. [•] Sex, lies, and… lies. [•] Sean Kinney (ex-Alice in Chains), Mike Inez (ex-Alice in Chains), Vin Dombroski (Sponge), and Chris DeGarmo (ex-Queensryche) have formed Spys4Darwin. [•] Here come the new albums: Run DMC kicks it old school and Rammstein kicks it hard. [•] The AMD Duron hits 900MHz. [•] Maxtor has bought Quantum’s hard drive division. [•] 2002 Acura TL Type S rules. [•] I love you wife! [•] Poor Immy 🙁 Hope you have a better day soon! [•] BTW: I made an OOPS. I said I was off today and I wasn’t! I’m off tomorrow. Anyhow, that means our next update will be Thursday. See you then.

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Classic DF – 2/28/01

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February 23, 2001: [•] Poor Li’l Pooh is still sick! The poor kid gets better only to catch another cold (Deja vu). She’s still smiling though 🙂 [•] Mermaid gives us an update over the AOL verses Trillian situation. [•] What is with Russia? Of all of sudden if they don’t win an Olympic event they demand a recount and when they do win it turns out to be because of “pressure” on judges. Can you say “spoiled sports”. Sheesh. [•] Chuck Jones, the man who nearly single-handedly created all of the Warner Brothers cartoon characters, has died. [•] Wonder why the US puts up with Saudi Arabia’s harsh treatment of its citizens? Wonder no more! [•] Bored? Well, obviously you haven’t looked hard enough at last week’s link. Try right clicking on the page. [•] I doubt that totally cleared up your boredom, so why not check out uComics too? Now, you can get your daily fix of Garfield from the safety of your PC (whatever that means). BTW: Check out Captain Ribman. It’s an… ummmm… interesting (I think that’s the word I’m grasping for here) comic to say the least. [•] Things are looking good on the “My family needs more living space” front. Most likely we’ll be getting the smaller of two apartments we looked at, but it is larger than our existing one so I can deal with that. They are currently completely remodeling it so we’ll have to wait two months before we could move in, but that’s perfect since our lease has four months left anyhow. Just a little too perfect if you ask me 😉

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