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 – 6/28/01
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!