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Classic DF – 5/31/02

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May 31, 2002: [•] India and Pakistan are on the verge of nuclear war. The US and UK are asking all their citizens to leave the area ASAP. [•] Lance Bass (N’ Sync) has been medically cleared to go into space. [•] Three people died on Oregon’s Mount Hood. [•] The fourth installment in the Indiana Jones series is a go. [•] I love you wife and daughter (My cats are evil so they aren’t getting any of my love today YO!). [•] A mother whose 5-year old child was thrown out of a Catholic school for her being a stripper has decided to pose naked for Playboy. Yee-ha! [•] Three employees of NEC Toshiba Space System Co. have been arrested and charged with spying on rival companies by hacking into their networks. [•] Bored? Maybe it’s time then to learn a new valuable skill that will change your life forever. Discover the Art of Bullshitting. You too can amaze your friends and family as you rattle on about subjects that you have no idea about like you studied them for years at a prestigious college. Never again will you be left out of the fold when conversation turns intellectual. You will not only own the room; you’ll own the room’s momma! — flAnnelmAn

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Classic DF – 12/18/01

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December 18, 2001: [•] Ramadan is over (BTW: I hope that all my Muslim viewers had a joyous Ramadan) and 90% of the war in Afghanistan has been won. However, Mohammed Omar and Osama bin Laden are both still missing. [•] US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warns all US citizens to be vigilant against terrorism as the nutjobs of the world begin to embrace new techniques of inflicting pain on others. [•] US Marines injured by a landmine encourage the world to worry about bigger problems instead of their wounds. [•] The Yemeni military has attacked an al Qaeda camp in its country. [•] Even though al Qaeda appears to have been beaten the US government continues to warn US citizens about the possibility of a terrorist attack. [•] US President Bush had several lesions removed from his face. None were cancerous. [•] Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is asking Arab leaders to meet him in Mecca to discuss Israel and Palestine. Go nutjob leader! [•] Siena Heights University has added a philosophy class that examines how The Simpsons handle theology. [•] India is mulling over its response to a terrorist attack on its government. [•] Arctic weather hits Europe. [•] Somali warlords are attempting to convince the US to attack their country’s government in hopes of achieving power. [•] Ebola continues to ravage Gabon. [•] The ousted government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide attempted to regain control of Haiti, but failed. [•] Oh those crazy civil liberty loving Canadians and their crazy civil liberty loving Canadian ways! [•] Thailand will only issue 17 visas this year in an attempt to stop illegal activities. [•] A heavy earthquake hit Japan and Taiwan creating a small tsunami. [•] Spain has arrested 7 suspected ETA members. [•] Princess Buniah al-Saud, the niece of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, has been arrested on charges of beating her maid. [•] A sewerage spill has closed a portion of Laguna Beach, California. [•] A first-grader who dresses as Santa Claus and distributes small toys in a local mall was kicked out by mall owners since (get this) he’s competition to the official mall’s Santa LOL. [•] The Space Shuttle Endeavour has landed. [•] Serious crime fell in the first 6 months of 2001, but murder went up. [•] An equipment failure has stopped progress in clearing anthrax from the Hart Senate Building. [•] Vivendi Universal has bought USA Networks. [•] Be careful, you could end up buying fake FDNY or PDNY goods. [•] Intel is sponsoring an open source code called OpenCV that they hope will allow computers to see in three dimensions. [•] A Japanese zoo’s panda gave birth to a male cub. [•] Utah has introduced the US’s first voice-recognition based travel information service for telephone users. [•] A genetically engineered mouse has been developed who’s milk contains the malaria vaccine. [•] Chicken feces and diesel fuel: What a mix! [•] CERT is warning UNIX administrators who are running Secure Shell on their systems to make sure that they are using SSH2 (full install not upgrade) with no SSH daemons running and all exploits patched. [•] Microsoft has released Service Pack 1 for Office XP. [•] RSA Security Inc. has developed the Wireless Equivalent Privacy protocol to encrypt individual data packets sent over 802.11 wireless networks thus fixing current security issue. [•] A new drug reduces cold symptoms within a day and knocks one day of the actual disease off. FDA approval is about a year away at best. [•] 3/4 of new HIV cases are resisting treatment. [•] Autism seems to be higher in Silicon Valley. Could tech savvy genes be responsible? [•] Google will allow you to now browse 600 catalogues online. [•] Universal Music Group’s new CDs won’t play in a PC. Their solution: Buy another copy in digital format for the PC through the Net. Hey, why not pay a third time just for fun! Hell, let’s go for four! [•] An ISP is claiming the FBI wants the e-mail logs for data logged by the BadTrans.B worm and sent to one of several e-mail addresses including one hosted by the ISP. Why would they want it? Well, they assert that BadTrans.B is actually the Magic Lantern virus developed by the FBI reported on earlier last week. [•] A captured al Qaeda member turned informant claims that Windows XP has backdoors inserted by the terrorist group. [•] Christmas may be here, but thoughts of September 11th still haunt Americans. [•] Everyone’s favorite anti-CVS group, It’s Our Town, has been sponsoring a gift drive for needy families of Warwick, NY. [•] The US Postal Service switches into high gear to meet last minute mail demands. [•] Will a correction officer who is charged with trash compacting a box of contraband kittens face jail time? [•] Newburgh, NY City Comptroller Ed Weber resigns because City Manager Harry Porr was fired. [•] Cory Jones is found dead in New Windsor, NY and police are ruling it suspicious. [•] Local Catholic school teachers are still on strike, a textile union pickets an employer over a wage dispute, a woman is charged after she crashes her auto with a young child unbelted, ’tis the season for ice, the Milford-Montague bridge toll gets raised, an elderly woman is killed crossing a highway, a high speed chase keeps things interesting for the Ulster County Sheriffs, robbers are defeated by a soda machine, the Sullivan County Family Violence Response Team arrested a man on charges of molesting a toddler, and Wurtsboro Police arrest John Kallajian stemming from charges in Connecticut. [•] Hank Williams Jr. and Kid Rock will appear together on CMT Crossroads. [•] Weezer has begun working on their new album. [•] Charlie Clouser has left NIN, but formed a new band called Revenge of the Triads that includes guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen and bassist Jason Slater from A Perfect Circle. [•] The Chevrolet Corvette Z06 rules, but then again you already know that don’t you? [•] Can’t afford the Corvette? Try the Ford Focus; it rules. [•] The 2002 Maserati Spyder is so damn kick ass that I don’t even have a wise ass comment to get you to click on the link. Just do it. [•] Intel has announced an official Pentium 4 chipset using DDR SDRAM. The new AMD Duron mobile ratchets cheap laptop speeds up to 1GHz. And Toshiba has quit the memory business. [•] Viisage Technology licenses its face recognition technology to the US Army. [•] Apple has released a PowerBook with a CD/DVD burner and more memory. [•] Adobe is putting the final touches on multimedia creation software for Mac OS X. [•] Azazel and I had an excellent time at my company’s Christmas party. The food was great and a good time was had by all! [•] C0il is home for Christmas vacation! [•] Sometimes a song can say it all. [•] Note that there is no planned updates for the next three days as I will be attending a three day seminar on VDSL. The next update will be this Saturday. Talk to you then.

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Classic DF – 7/28/01

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February 28, 2001: [•] Last night The Grammys were held. It was so exciting that I turned it off to play Legends of Wrestling a 1/2 hour into the show (I just won the Southern Title and moved to the Midwest zone!). [•] 10 Palestinians and 1 Israeli are dead after clashes between the two groups (basically I’m getting tired of reporting the same crap over and over– I kill you, you kill me, we’re an insane society). [•] Police believe that they may have found Danielle van Dam’s corpse. [•] Radovan Karadzic, a man charged with committing war crimes in Bosnia, has evaded a NATO sting operation. [•] The US economy is on the upswing (not that I can tell). [•] The US government is offering a $5 million reward for information leading to the capture of Daniel Pearl’s murderers. [•] UK forces were fired upon by a lone individual. [•] Hindus have begun torching Muslim areas in India because of Muslims attacking a train full of Hindus yesterday. [•] Cubans seeking asylum rammed their way into the Mexican embassy (literally). [•] A bomb explosion in Jordan killed 2 people. [•] Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court ruled that President Robert Mugabe doesn’t have the power to block auditors from monitoring the upcoming presidential election. [•] The UK will allow scientists to clone embryos for research purposes. [•] Turkey will no longer conduct virginity tests on young women. [•] Portions of Chicago are without heat after a gas main ruptured. [•] Vice President Cheney has unveiled a new “e-government” web site. [•] Adrian Lamo claims to have hacked the The New York Times‘ network. [•] John Sankus, the leader of DrinkorDie, has pleaded guilty to piracy. [•] The Tyrannosaurus Rex wouldn’t have been able to run 45MPH according to new research. [•] More serious security holes have been found in Microsoft Internet Explorer. [•] Firewalls for fun! [•] Become a looter (virtually anyhow). [•] 10 million years ago Mars was flooded. [•] A once a year shot could prevent osteoporosis in women. [•] Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones will premiere in a sneak peak showing on May 12, 2002 and the proceeds will benefit children’s charities. [•] The iPod is the perfect tool to steal applications from a store display Macs. [•] Dell refused to ship a computer bought online to Weigand Combat Handguns because the business sounded like a terrorist’s. I never knew terrorists purposely named their businesses’ after violent things. I guess than The Friendly Kitty Factory could never a terrorist front for anything LOL. [•] A recent upgrade knocked Morpheus off-line, but if the service isn’t centralized than how is that so? [•] I’ll have a blond- haired, blue-eyed, Anglo with a side of fries. [•] Not only can can an adult brain regenerate cells, but those cells fire like young ones once did. [•] US Congress has approved a bill that would make small telephone providers an exception to a law that requires open network access, but the Senate will most likely kill the bill. [•] Protesters gathered outside Stewart Airport in Newburgh, NY to show some breast feeding loving or something like that. [•] U2 not only ruled The Grammys, but The Gibson Guitar Awards too. [•] The tentative list for Prick’s upcoming album The Wreckard has been released, but it appears they have left Nothing Records. [•] The upcoming Ramones tribute album is shaping up to be pretty cool. [•] Detained al Qaeda and Taliban soldiers have gone on a hunger strike. Well, if you don’t have to feed them then you save money, right? 🙂 [•] I want the 2003 Infiniti G35, now! [•] I can’t say enough about the Ford GT40 except– Viper, prepare to die. [•] Intel notes some upcoming changes to PC architecture: Serial ATA, 8X AGP, integrated 802.11 wireless networking, and USB 2.0 by next year. The year after expect 3GIO to replace both PCI and AGP interfaces completely. [•] Microsoft and the DOJ continue to hash out a settlement. [•] An upcoming Linux update will add support for AMD’s upcoming 64-bit Hammer CPUs. [•] I love you wife and daughter! [•] Immy enjoys some Egg Stopper goodness. [•] Bored? Would you believe that Google has dedicated an entire section to “Your Momma” jokes? Well, they did– so there! 😛

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Classic DF – 8/25/00

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Aug 25, 2000: [•] Gulf Air Flight GF072 crashed due to an improper descent path. [•] Clinton is going to Nigeria. [•] Radiation levels around the sunken Kursk continue to read normal (Uh, what is normal?). [•] The state of Andhra Pradesh in India is being flooded. [•] World Intellectual Property Organization has ruled in 80% of cybersquatting against the squatter. [•] Several former LAPD officers are suing the department for harassment after reporting conduct violations to superiors. [•] A typhoon that hit China only caused some damaged, but fortunately no one was killed. [•] China has decided to release 3 imprisoned US citizens since they weren’t part of the Falun Gong (even though that is what they were arrested for). [•] The Mental Olympics are over. [•] A group of mountain climbers sponsored by Northface escaped rebels in Kyrgyzstan. [•] If it’s illegal to sell votes in the US why not move the deals offshore? [•] Nintendo has officially unveiled its N-Cube and Gameboy Advanced. They look very nice. [•] Prepare for AOLTV. [•] TRUSTe uses cookies on its website. Users are pissed. [•] The Duh Study of The Day: Computers are making life more stressful. Well, if you’ve ever used a computer then you know why… LOL. [•] Microsoft has developed a new CPU (Solo2) for its Web TV units. [•] Urban sprawl is ruining the view from our National Parks. [•] Population Action International thinks water supplies are getting smaller (and they are right). [•] A rare parasite has killed several dogs in New York. [•] PETA is still relying on cheap shock ads in order to get attention. (lamers) [•] A man attacked a family with a pitchfork and killed two child for no apparent reason. [•] If you find sex you can keep it. [•] PGP for Windows has a hole in it that leaves information unencrypted. [•] Battlebots is on Comedy Central. [•] Microsoft has closed a hole in Frontpage Server to prevent dOs attacks. [•] Yahoo! is going to offer encrypted e-mail. [•] Fallsburg Sgt. Melissa Freestone has been charged with stealing money. [•] The Chester Police Dummy is back. [•] Clean up that gas spill lamer! [•] The FBI attempts to catch a child molester on a tip and it ends up being the wrong person, but it also turns out that he too is a wanted felon LOL. [•] A pesticide is recalled. [•] An attacker found, a deadbeat dad is found, a disorientated senior hits another senior, Richard Castellano is going to be arraigned, a police dog finds a suspect, a cut phone line is fixed, a base jumper is arrested, Warwick is flushing its hydrants, and a man dies of a heart attack while jogging. [•] Ozzfest isn’t going to get to South America. [•] Godsmack will release Awake on Halloween. [•] Radiohead is previewing their new stuff online. [•] Live continues to work on its next album. [•] Check out SeemsLikeSalvation to find out new information on the next Nine Inch Nails album and a new Marilyn Manson song. [•] Bored? I’m not because it’s really busy! So I’m glad my vacation begins next week. All these newbies are driving me nuts! In fact, next week I will update you on my moving situation and what’s going on. Hopefully, everything will go good and I’ll get time to relax, but I doubt it 🙂 Till then… OH YEAH!

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Classic DF – 8/10/00

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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.

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