Classic DF – 7/2/01

July 2, 2001: [•] So much for a Mideast cease fire. [•] VP Cheney returns to work after receiving a pacemaker. [•] The IRA has been accused of not disarming. [•] So much for a Macedonia cease fire. [•] Hong Kong celebrates 4 years of Chinese rule. [•] A bomb exploded in a theater in Karachi, Pakistan killing 1 person. [•] Algerian rebels kill 6 people at a night club. [•] South Africa buries the last Rain Queen. [•] Argentina has put a warrant out for ex-Navy Captain Alfredo Astiz for torturing and killing pregnant women. [•] Gun fights in Kashmir leave 7 people dead. [•] Iran has arrested 11,892 drug addicts and traders, not to mention killed 9 drug traffickers in a major 4 day drug crackdown. [•] Forget Delia’s! The main attraction in Saudi malls is the beatings. [•] A teen picks up a hand grenade left over from a 1994 civil war in Yemen and gets blown up. [•] Japanese police may issue a warrant for a US soldier believed to have raped a woman. [•] A man killed 2 of his children and critically injured another before being shot dead by police in Syracuse, New York. [•] A car is hit by a train killing 5 people. [•] Tampa, Florida is using 36 cameras to scan crowds for wanted people. [•] A prostitute admits to killing 6 people in Florida. [•] Famous guitarist Chet Atkins has died. He was 77. [•] Dust from Africa is crossing the Atlantic Ocean and bringing germs to the US. [•] Sony drops the price of the Playstation 2 to $280. [•] Japan Telecom launches a Mini-disc music download service at train stations. [•] Cisco routers and switches running the IOS HTTP server are vulnerable to hackers. A patch is available to fix the issue. [•] Microsoft is dropping Smart Tags from Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6. [•] Scientists believe there is a link between testicular cancer and infertility. [•] ICQ gets hacked. [•] Smells like… crap. [•] Major thunderstorms take out power and phone service in the Mid-Hudson. [•] Jack C. Morgan is charged with the negligent homicide of his brother, two men are charged with burglary, a riot almost breaks out in Newburgh, a man runs from cops for no reason, and an auto accident leaves 2 people in bad shape. [•] Courtney Love continues to be a huge bitch and insist she is the sole owner of Nirvana’s music. Hello! Courtney you were no where to be found when Kurt Cobain hooked up with Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic. You’re a greedy self-centered liar. I can see making sure Francis (Cobain’s son) gets something, but she deserves nothing. [•] Ministry turns up in A.I. and kicks some major robot ass! [•] Hey! I patented the wheel first! [•] The 2002 35th Anniversary Camaro will be Chevy’s last run of the car. [•] Nissan revises its Z concept. [•] The NICB says that import cars cause insurance fraud (No comment). [•] A guitar lesson from Edge of U2. [•] The uphill battle against porn and search engines. [•] Intel says that 1.8GHz and 1.6GHz Pentium 4 processors should be available to you right now. [•] Azazel and I went to the Warwick Fire Department’s carnival this past weekend. It was all right. The fireworks, however, were awesome. I still hate carnies though. 🙂 [•] We even saw Immy! [•] And Mermaid! [•] And Verona! [•] And Flying Moose! [•] Hey, that’s a run on sentence! [•] Finally, the brand spanking new V.90 Help is up and running for your nerd loving pleasure.

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Classic DF – 12/7/99

Dec. 7, 1999: I promised Daemon Immoratlis I’d make fun of Marlin to cheer him up (poor Immy is still sick), so… he’s a dork. On to the news! For those of you who think it is only Midwestern kids who shoot up schools, Holland is having the same problem now too. Cuba claims that the US is holding a child found floating in the Atlantic Ocean hostage and they demand we send him back… okay if you say so 🙂 The Russians are still trying to take over Chechena (didn’t they learn anything about Vietnam from us?). Newflash: Teens who drink and use drugs are more likely to have sex… obviously the people who take these polls never belonged to a frat or else this would be common sense. The Babylonian virus is out, chatters beware! Microsoft isn’t the only one in trouble for antitrust violation, Apple of Japan has been brought up on monopoly charges. People who fear Echelon… relax, the NSA says they’d never use it on a US citizen (ummmm…). IBM wants to build a machine to figure out protein structures; sounds peachy. NIN just finished their new video for “Into the Void”. A court ruling says that Providers can’t be held for volatile content. Lego has been declared the toy of the century, ohhhh! The IE5.5 Beta is now out, download here. As far as DF’s revamped web page I’ve been playing with several formats and even showed one to Rock… he seemed okay with it (but it wasn’t like he did a jump for joy or anything). Look for the new Y2K compatible (sort of) DF2K to premiere at the end of December (coincidentally in time for the Year 2000 ohhhh:) In the mean time to keep the natives quiet I’ve removed the status bar Java crawler.

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