Aug 24, 2000: [•] Second time is a charm, but not tonight it isn’t! Tonight I have to teach an Internet class for new users. That means that there isn’t anytime to post about the wonderful world that is ours. So instead… [•] Check out Daemon Immortalis’s web page to get a hold of some new Marilyn Manson and old Marilyn Manson MP3s. He rules. 🙂 [•] I love you wife! [•] Hopefully, tomorrow I will be able post some news to close off the week… maybe LOL.
Aug 23, 2000: [•] No news is good news 🙂 Due to excessive call volumes at work today I didn’t get breaktime to work on today’s post. So it looks like we go one post short for this week (I bet all my loyal viewers are heart broken LOL). Don’t worry, there is always tomorrow. So till then keep it fluffy boys and girls. [•] Azazel, I love you my beautiful wife!
Aug 22, 2000: [•] A major typhoon is battering Taiwan. [•] Due to wildfires most of Montana’s state property is being closed down. [•] If you kill someone when you are 17 years old and you are a paranoid schizophrenic do you deserve to die for it? [•] The National Transportation Safety Board is saying that TWA800 crashed due to an electrical malfunction. [•] A-ha is back! Oh joy. [•] The American Amusement Machine Association and the Amusement and Music Operators Association are filing a case against an Indianapolis law that is trying to ban violent video games from anyone under 18 years of age. [•] A new Outlook plug-in will allow you to send a message to someone that if they don’t read it in a specified amount of time it becomes unreadable. [•] Argentina’s cabinet is being coerced to cooperate in a bribery probe. [•] The UK is concerned that racism is increasing. [•] The US Military is is discussing a possible missile shield being established in Greenland. [•] Jamelle James has plea-bargained. He is the man accused of letting a 6 year old get a hold of a gun that he used to shoot another child in school. [•] An ex-US Mint employee stole misprinted gold dollars. [•] A minor earthquake hit Carmel, NY. [•] A fake bomb was part of a Martha’s Vineyard Airport security check. [•] Drinking restrictions are going into effect for the original Skid Row. [•] A mouse that lets you feel what’s on your screen. [•] 70% of Gnutella users are leeching files instead of sharing like nice kids. [•] The Philippines have dropped charges against the ILOVEYOU virus author due to lack of laws to prosecute him with (LOL). [•] Woman’s health in the US is lacking. [•] The new sport of choice: tree climbing. [•] A study has linked junk food to asthma and allergies. [•] More and more parents are having problems with their kids being labeled “learning disabled”. [•] The Egyptian Health Ministry will only hire you if you don’t smoke. [•] The Duh Study of The Day: Less workers are dying on the job. Lawsuits suck and liability is a big time problem. So it’s no longer cost effective to let people die on the job. [•] MP3Board is suing AOL-Time Warner because they created Gnutella so it’s their fault that the RIAA is suing MP3Board. LOL. [•] Intel is showing off a Pentium 4 overclocked to 2 GHz. [•] The NFL is going online. [•] Altavista UK doesn’t exist after all. A scandal ensues as a result. [•] Ty Whitney has pleaded not guilty to 72 counts of child molestation. [•] Why a new pesticide notification law won’t see the light of day in Orange County. [•] A boat backed over someone in Greenwood Lake killing them. [•] Seeger got his banjo back. [•] Whole lot of charging going on: A robber charged, an ATV thief charged, a break and enter suspect charged, and a DWI driver is charged. [•] Kim Mathers is saying it’s Eminem’s fault she tried to kill herself and that she wants sole custody of their child. [•] Billie Joe for President. [•] Danzig says no to a Misfits reunion. [•] Beck will play the Bridge School Benefit. [•] Vote for Nine Inch Nail’s Into The Void for Breakthrough Video at the Video Music Awards. [•] Nintendo has officially renamed the Dolphin Project to N-Cube. [•] A Perfect Circle rocks Boston. [•] The Smashing Pumpkins are offering a sneak peak of their new video Try, Try, Try. [•] A review of MDK2. [•] Why switches are going to kill off hubs. [•] A brief history of the first person shooter. [•] A former GM worker is accusing GM of not listening to his warning about faulty seatbelts. [•] Real Jukebox Basic 2 is out. [•] Netscape Communicator 4.75 is here. [•] Azazel rules. [•] Well, more useful news tomorrow. And then some more the day after. Life is easy like that 🙂
Aug 21, 2000: [•] The submarine rescue mission has been called off after Norwegian divers opened the rescue hatch only to find the entire vessel had filled with water. [•] The Verizon strike is over. [•] A pipeline in New Mexico exploded killing 6 people. [•] Ford has been under-inflating Firestone tires (at 26 psi) on Explorers. Firestone says that they recommend 30 psi, but that Ford had to under inflate the tires in order to avoid rollover issues with the Explorer. [•] Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is proposing to modernize the government by giving women equal rights and removing Orthodox Jewish beliefs from law to religion. Most of Israeli’s conservative groups oppose the change. [•] Citizens of the Chiapas (Mexico) have elected a non-PRI Governor, Pablo Salazar, with hopes of ending the war between the Mexican Army and Zapatista rebels fighting for Native Mexican rights. [•] East Timor has set up a multiparty Congress. [•] 8 children have died when a bus crashed in Germany. [•] A train derailed that was carrying fuel and caused an explosion that has left 18 people dead in Kenya. [•] Tiger Woods is either very good or very evil. [•] The pilot of a Northwest Airlines DC-10 died of a heart attack in the middle of a flight, but his copilot managed to land the plane without anyone else dying. [•] The Duh Study of The Day: Most people want privacy policies that require users to “opt in” to give out personal data. That is how is should be, but greed makes companies do otherwise. [•] President Clinton got flashed for his birthday (needless to say he didn’t complain). [•] The top 15 PCs. [•] The Cell is a special effects bonanza, now if only the script didn’t suck. [•] Can metal detectors and video cameras prevent violence in the school? [•] Coming to a cable lineup near you: ZDTV. [•] Celebrex, an arthritis fighting drug, seems to prevent tumors and slow the growth of tumors already there. [•] A 7 year old boy was killed at the Grahamsville Fair by an SUV who didn’t see him. [•] E-mail killed the letter. [•] The Tri-State Car Club’s 13th annual car show was yesterday in case you missed it. [•] Dr. Mark McMahon hopes to give Democrats a choice beside Hillary Clinton in the NY Senate race. [•] Cornwall has a new high school in the works. [•] Newburgh is getting an infrared detector, which is used to find survivors in fires. [•] Warwick will be hosting several experts on revitalizing and improving towns (oh there’s an original idea… improvement). [•] Cops went to a house because of a cat problem and ended up finding illegal guns, hippies arrested for trespassing, teens arrested for smoke bombing a trailer, a man shot a puppy because he was afraid it would attack his kid, a teen surrenders, and a man who pushed a prostitute out of a moving car has been found. [•] U2 has issued the track list for All That You Can’t Leave Behind. [•] The Big Day Out lineup has been confirmed. [•] SeemsLikeSalvation News is reporting October 10th as the release date for the new Nine Inch Nails EP, Marilyn Manson’s Disposable Teens and The Fight Song are getting airplay early, and I get props for spotting a Skinny Puppy scoop. [•] If you’re looking for a Java based PDA check out Teapot. [•] Apple is offering to buy back faulty Powerbooks and sell you the new model $700 cheaper. [•] Cadillac will be producing a roadster based on the Corvette platform, the Jaguar F-type will only be produced if there is demand, Mercedes will offer a C-class coupe next year, Lexus has announced prices for the LX 470 and IS 300, and Toyota has raised prices on some of its 2001 models. [•] The Presidents will take over local TV stations. [•] Ministry will be releasing one final video on Warner Brothers entitled Tapes of Wrath. [•] Various Jeph.net News: In case you missed it Korpios has resigned as an administrator and they need a new IRC operator which can be voted on here. Of course you should vote for me to become Supreme Commander of Underwater Basket Weaving for All Things Jeph.net. [•] I love my wife (that’s not really new news, but I just thought you’d like to know) 🙂 [•] Daemon Immortalis will be posting the new Marilyn Manson songs since he likes them so much. [•] I think Red Raven has finally lost it LOL. [•] So following Immy’s tip I downloaded several of the new Marilyn Manson tracks (including a bunch of fakes) and I wasn’t disappointed. The new songs are hard like the Antichrist Superstar stuff, punked out like Portrait of an American Family, and at the same time funky like Mechanical Animals. I guess that means its the best of all worlds, but without all the crap there was in previous albums. This is exciting stuff. Talk to you tomorrow.
Aug 10, 2000: [•] The US Army is sending more troops in to fight wildfires. [•] Did a strip of metal slice the fatal wound into the Concorde. [•] A group of rebels fighting for Kashmiri independence are claiming responsibility for a car bomb in India. [•] A university is being chosen to review Carnivore. [•] Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is visiting Saddam Hussein in Iraq. [•] Comet LINEAR has revealed that it was made up of a bunch of mini-comets at its core. [•] One sailor is dead after a US Navy helicopter crashed in the Gulf of Mexico. [•] British boys suck. [•] Communists everywhere are angry that a Vodka company is using Ernesto “Che” Guevara to sell their booze. [•] A fire in the US Capitol building was caused by a cigarette butt. So much for The Clean Air Act. [•] 319 miners have been laid off from the Willow Creek Mine. [•] A misprinted gold dollar featuring an erroneous Washington quarter front was auctioned for $29,900. [•] Panasonic has announced the first public DVD recording camera and it rules. [•] More tips on securing your PC. [•] A former Disney executive got a sentence of nine months home detention with electronic monitoring, a $20,000 fine, and five years probation for attempting to cross state lines to have sex with a minor. Once again, must be nice to be rich. [•] Netscape 6 Beta 3; it may not be perfect, but it’s a welcome improvement. [•] 50% of premature babies now have a chance for a normal life. [•] Cells have a switch which when turned on can make people obese. [•] The Reform Party Convention starts today. [•] The Alaska State Snowmobile Association is suing the National Park Service for their ban on snowmobiles. Can you say frivolous? [•] Spanish beaches are being hit by illegally dumped oil. [•] The first bald eagle has been born in Washington DC since the 1940s. [•] Isn’t it ironic that one of Jeph.net’s biggest proponents to censorship and oppression would support censoring others? Not really. [•] Adobe is suing Macromedia for making products that look too much like theirs. [•] Mitel has figured out how to carry more information over fiber optic networks. [•] AOL has closed down an MP3 search engine over concerns that they will get sued by the RIAA. [•] Dr. Khaja Naseeruddin has surrendered his medical license after being charged with 25 counts of professional misconduct by the Department of Health. [•] The Galleria at Crystal Run wants police on patrol in the mall. [•] Gerald Doolan Sr. killed himself before he could be tried for his indictment of 113 counts of rape, sodomy and sexual assault. [•] Selling crack to undercover police, a fallen tree cuts power to many people, a woman gets cut in a fight with her boyfriend, a disturbing diary is found, a cab driver is robbed, a women beats her child, an arrest is made for a drive-by shooting, and a missing man is found. [•] Slipknot will re-release its Slipknot album in a digipak with six previously unreleased tracks. [•] Marilyn Manson has begun previewing his new single Love Song on a web site. [•] Check out Chris Vrenna’s new song off the videogame Alice in MP3 format. [•] Rage Against the Machine to play the Democratic National Convention? [•] Johnathan Davis (Korn) is being sued by his ex-wife for half his income. Ouch. [•] STP has ditched its greatest hits album. [•] The White House staff has a secret addiction– porn sites. [•] Pictures from the Warped Tour. [•] How to setup your own e-commerce web page. [•] One keyboard, mouse, and monitor with many PCs hooked up to them. Nice. [•] Cool your Athlon. [•] GM is building a retro-pickup called the Chevy SSR and Ford is going to put traction control on their light trucks. [•] I love you Azazel :* [•] All is quiet on the Western Front. [•] The Mervernation continues to grow. [•] Mmmm… Mcrae ZX3 wallpaper. [•] Learn to talk Japanese like an anime character. Neato. [•] Talk to you tomorrow night. Okay, make that type to tomorrow night. LOL.