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Classic DF – 8/1/02

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August 01, 2002: [•] Fired ex-Worldcom CFO Scott Sullivan has turned himself in. [•] The FBI has raided an apartment of an ex-military microbiologist. [•] LA police are trying to find the whereabouts of two teenage girls kidnapped in LA. [•] US leaders are concerned about regrouping al Qaeda cells that are now merging with other terrorist groups. [•] I normally don’t print gossip news, but considering what a scum ball ex-Sen. James A. Traficant Jr. is I will make an exception: He wears a toupee! HAAHAHAHHA! [•] The US is concerned with Russia’s nuclear ties to Iran. [•] A UN report says there is no evidence to support the claims that Israeli soldiers massacred Palestinians at the Jenin refugee camp. [•] US troops faced with potentially deadly situations in Afghanistan have turned to robot scouts called Packbots. [•] Ugandan rebels are threatening journalists. [•] 62 people in Madagascar have died from an unknown sickness. [•] Rebels kidnapped an entire town in Colombia and the army isn’t sure where they went. [•] The US has signed a pact with Southeastern Asian nations to fight terrorism. [•] 13 people were found dead on a Spanish beach. [•] Police are searching for a white pickup truck in relation to a kidnapping in Louisiana. [•] The wife of a US Army Special Operations officer who shot dead has been charged with murdering her husband. [•] 2002 has become the second warmest year ever recorded by humankind. Great… [•] US President Bush’s computer and network security advisor, Richard Clarke, spoke at the Black Hat hackers conference (sometimes called Defcon) where he encouraged hackers to act in good faith when discovering vulnerabilities. [•] A robot named Pearl is helping elderly people keep tabs on their eating habits. [•] Even a few extra pounds is bad for your heart. [•] Scientists are going to send mice into space to subject them to Martian-type gravity. [•] Barnes & Noble’s web site has some pretty big holes in security and they know about them. Even worse yet, they don’t care they exist. Nice. [•] Two hackers at Black Hat showed off a Dreamcast converted into a port sniffer tool. [•] Wal-mart will build a distribution center in Wallkill, NY. [•] The Consolidated Iron and Metal scrap yard in Newburgh, NY has been listed as a superfund site. [•] Ex-NYC police officer Matthew Leuck has been sentenced to three years in prison for sodomizing a 16-year old girl. [•] Port Jervis is trying to clean up an unsightly junkyard. [•] Matt Sullivan, one of my associates, speaks out against communism interfering with the free market in Warwick, NY. Go Matt! [•] Radiohead is allowing fans to chose the songs for their next album. [•] Secondhand smoke has been linked to causing cancer in cats. [•] Linkin Park is hoping to complete their new album by this year’s end. [•] Jessica Simpson will join the cast of That 70’s Show for three episodes as Kelso’s new girlfriend. Even better news is she’ll be in a bathing suit. Go FOX! LOL [•] Compaq and HP are having lots of problems getting along. [•] Intel is blaming Microsoft for the death of its AnyPoint wireless line. [•] I love you Klez. Oh no, wait… I meant to say I want you to die in a deep water filled ditch on some back road in Canada, Klez. [•] With the trend of more people buying online maybe I can finally get my mail order e-dead skunk service up and running! Maybe not. [•] I love you wife and daughter! [•] Yes, I updated The CVS & Warwick, NY site again. I rule.

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Classic DF – 12/11/01

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December 11, 2001: [•] The Eastern Alliance has issued an ultimatum to al Qaeda forces; surrender by 8 AM local time or die. Meanwhile, US President Bush is marking the 3 month anniversary of the September 11th attacks today and has decided to release a videotape that definitively proves Osama bin Laden is responsible for that aforementioned attacked. [•] The UK will lead postwar peacekeeping forces in Afghanistan. [•] Ex-Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has entered a not guilty plea in his genocide trial. [•] China has joined the WTO. [•] The 2 major parties in Trinidad have both won 18 seats each in the 36 seat Parliament. [•] US military officials met with Somali warlords to discuss terrorism issues. [•] Kenyan authorities have arrested Ahmed Hassan Mursal for unspecified charges. [•] Colombia is trying to rehabilitate and educate captured rebel minors. [•] A fireworks factory explosion in Guatemala City has left 7 people dead. [•] Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo has apologized to his people for a government sponsored massacre 19 years ago. [•] Nauru has agreed to allow Australia to detain illegal immigrants in detention centers on the tiny island. [•] Saudi Arabia has begun issuing identification cards to its female citizens to prevent fraud. [•] The Syrian government has resigned to clear the way for reform. [•] A KFC/Taco Bell worker led several of his coworkers into the woods where he shot them in Malvern, Pennsylvania. [•] Norman Pyle McCann was killed when a 15-foot trench wall collapsed on him during construction in Rising Sun, Maryland. [•] The Honda Accord and Toyota Camry are the most often stolen autos. [•] The Lion & Lamb Project, an nonviolent toy advocacy group, has listed the top ten toys it sees as violent and thus harmful to children. [•] Everything is peachy keen up in space. [•] New high resolution images of Jupiter’s moon Io show incredible volcano eruptions. [•] Anonymous e-mail services are on the rise. [•] An international treaty will bring 30 countries into synch as far as copyright laws go. [•] Napster has signed a license agreement with Matador Records. [•] Oracle says that it’s software is unhackable. [•] The Interior Department shut down Net access by court order to protect an Indian trust fund. [•] Another hole has cropped up in Microsoft Outlook Web Access software that can allow unauthorized access to users’ accounts. [•] Can worms create a better fertilizer? [•] Retirees may not realize just how expensive long-term care is. [•] A new device makes facial defects nearly a thing of the past for newborns. [•] Court scribes are protected from libel just like journalists. [•] Life as an accused child porn trader sucks. [•] The Duh Study of The Day: Teens are as likely to trade music online as to seek health information. Isn’t that the point of the Net? [•] A new X-ray machine lets you see bone structure in real time. [•] Nigeria will be the first country to issue inexpensive generic anti-retroviral drugs to HIV and AIDS patients. [•] The New York DMV says that a National ID card wouldn’t be a big deal to issue. [•] Just down the street from me an idiot hunter almost killed a kid simply by being reckless. Please watch where your shooting before you fire! [•] 3 men plead innocent to a murder indictment in Monticello, NY. [•] Orange County Executive-elect Edward Diana defends choosing Justice Catherine M. Bartlett as his pick for county attorney. [•] Melvin Canales is charged with having sex with a minor, Jazmin Roberts poses as someone else, Town of Lloyd historian Dot Gruner is calling it quits after 15 years of service, a pedestrian drug down the street by a car has been identified as Bonnie Flores, 2 men held up the Country Convenience Food Store in Monroe, a basketball tournament will benefit the victims of WTC, Richard Beach gets 15 years for committing burglary, Joseph Rivera is charged with maliciously killing a cat, Daryl Watkins is charged with falsifying his ATV ID number, Milton Munroe is caught with stolen items, and Kenny Mitchell is put in jail for selling drugs. [•] J. Lo, Kid Rock, and Ja Rule performed at a USO show for US troops stationed in Germany. [•] Ocean’s Eleven may be a movie remake, but the music is all original. [•] Eminem’s boyhood bully is suing the rapper for using his name on a track citing that it ruined his potential rap career. Are you buying this crap because I’m sure not! [•] Google will allow you to look up Usenet articles all the way back from 1981 (Now, that’s a news archive). [•] Zacarias Moussaoui has been charged with conspiring with Osama bin Laden in the September 11th attacks. [•] Guns N’ Roses tickets for their New Year’s Eve Concert didn’t sell out in record time like last year. Frustration over lack of new material may be to blame. [•] Why the Acura RSX made Car & Driver’s Top Ten Autos list. [•] Microsoft’s Window Media format will be supported by some DVD chipset makers. [•] I love you wife and daughter! “Phew” Another busy day 🙂

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Classic DF – 7/6/01

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July 6, 2001: [•] A truce has been called between ethnic Albanian rebels and the Macedonian government. Fighting does continue though. [•] A tropical storm batters China. [•] Hubble takes an incredibly detailed picture of Mars. [•] Nepal police are scrambling to stop a bombing campaign. [•] Colombia has decided to let the Copa America soccer tournament take place after all. [•] China has put more people to death in 3 months than the rest of the world in 3 years. Then again… they do have the largest population in the world. [•] Someone has been illegally selling land in South Africa that they don’t own. [•] Nigeria will conduct its first amputation on a convicted thief. [•] Villagers in Congo blamed diseases on “witches” and hacked accused people to death. Over 200 people are believed to have been injured or killed as a result. [•] An earthquake hits southern Peru. [•] The UN tells Israel that cease fires won’t hold until they stop killing Palestinians. [•] Stupidity is trying to win the title of World’s longest time spent living with scorpions. [•] A man dies when a cave collapses on him. [•] President Bush has named Robert Mueller as his nominee for Director of the FBI. [•] The Consumer Product Safety Commission has fined the Lane Company $900,000 for failing to recall products known to be dangerous. [•] President Bush has asked China to be fair about a trial over whether two US citizens committed espionage or not. [•] MSN Messenger users have been reporting poor connectivity and missing buddy lists. [•] A quick overview of how Napster’s new song fingerprinting technology works. [•] Robots and the future of war. [•] Scientists researching orbits believe that a gravitational interaction between Mercury and Earth could have pulled the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs down. [•] Eli Lilly and Co. accidentally releases the addresses of 600 patients on Prozac on its web site. [•] The Duh Study of The Day: Teen drinking is a wide spread epidemic. When you can look at 50% of the people you know who are under 21-years old and say they are alcoholics– you’re in trouble. [•] The question is finally asked: Do animals have to suffer for medical research? [•] Something they don’t tell you in school: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that you read isn’t the original version. [•] The US Commerce Department web site that is supposed to teach companies how to protect consumer privacy reveals its database online by accident. Doh! [•] Ximian, maker of the Linux Gnome desktop, plan a Linux based version of Microsoft’s .NET initiative called Mono. [•] Orange County District Attorney Frank Phillips is finally joining in on a probe of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. [•] Forget malls: Cows own Wallkill bitch! [•] The Village of Goshen has bought the Salesian property at last. [•] A horrible fire has left two families in Warwick homeless. The Village of Warwick is collecting items for them. Azazel and I donated a blanket, but they need lots of stuff. Please help them out… it’s a worthy cause. [•] An electrical fire burns down a house, a search warrant gets police a chance to nab some marijuana fiends, Christopher Bickham gets arrested for being a little over protective of his fishing spot, a teen ends up in jail after using another person’s checking account to order DirecTV, Thomas McGlynn is charged with shooting at ATV riders, 3 people are killed in a head-on collision, the fight that never ends, Ricardo Ramos gets 15 years for shooting his girlfriend, Kenneth Trosclair is charged with sexually abusing a toddler, and Zoe Zimmerman finds out DWI sucks. [•] Garbage pushes its album back until September, but reveals track listings. [•] Raphael Gray, an admitted hacker, gets psychiatric treatment as a sentence. [•] Tori Amos’s next album will rework male artists’ songs from a female point of view. Expect Slayer and Eminem to be covered (sort of). [•] The much anticipated return of techno master Aphex Twin is near. [•] A sneak peak at the new BMW 7-Series. [•] Azazel contemplates the glory and frustration of parenthood. [•] Immy does the 4th thingy. [•] Rock ignored me at the carnival… evil Rock. [•] Poor Mermaid’s fish keep dying. [•] Tomorrow we’ll sum the week up.

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Classic DF – 6/28/01

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June 28, 2001: [•] Wang Guoqi, a Chinese doctor, has testified that China harvests organs from executed prisoners whether they consent to donate or not. [•] Comedian Paula Poundstone has been charged with child molestation. [•] US Secretary of State Colin Powell and Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat are meeting today. [•] The ETA blew up a package bomb in Spain injuring 10 people. [•] Possibilities of land invasions loom in South Africa. [•] For the first time in 10 years police begin patrolling Mogadishu, Somalia. [•] Ethnic violence is spreading across Nigeria. [•] In light of a recent kidnapping, Colombia has suspended the Copa America soccer tournament. [•] A bus crash in Haiti kills at least 40 people. [•] Peru has called their ambassador to Japan home. [•] Kamel Naji Kamel goes on trial for being a suspected terrorist with links to Osama bin Laden in Jordan. [•] A bus collides with a truck killing 17 people in Iran. [•] A man convicted of murder in Yemen is forgiven at the last second. [•] Jack Lemmon has passed away. He was 76. [•] V.90 Help is officially remodeled and hardcore to the bone (Ummm… OK). I hope you like the new design. We’ll be adding more features as time allots.[•] Bored? Pissed cause Napster has been over filtering music? No problem. Hungry Bands offers you a chance to listen to underground and unsigned artists looking for listeners. Check it out! [•] Today’s post is short (as you can tell). Lots of going ons at work! So we’ll close this post out for now. We’ll be back next Monday with more fun and frolic. Word!

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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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