July 24, 2000: [•] George Bush Jr. is going to name his running partner. [•] A man killed himself and one of the people he was holding hostage in Florida. [•] Seven Concordes have been grounded after cracks were found in the wings. [•] The Yugoslavian Parliament has approved a law that will extends Milosevic’s term if reelected President. That sucks. [•] Another Caucasian farmer has been killed in Zimbabwe. [•] A wildfire has broken out in Colorado. [•] A building in Philadelphia collapsed killing two people. [•] LA is running low on firefighters and paramedics. [•] Though the government keeps uncovering businesses that commit fraud they don’t ban them or impose fines against them. [•] IBM has introduced the RS/6000 SP super-computer. [•] EMusic.com is offering unlimited downloads of legal MP3s for $9.95 a month. [•] A new bug has been found in Outlook Express that allows buffer overflows to force you machine to do whatever a hacker wants it to. Upgrade to Internet Explorer 5 SP1 to fix it. [•] Windows Me is reviewed. It looks pretty good (don’t they all). [•] Mattel has won a lawsuit against a porn site using the Barbie name. [•] What you missed at H2K. [•] The FBI says that since Carnivore only scans the “to” and “from” fields of a e-mail that it is perfectly safe and maintains privacy. [•] The Duh Study of The Day: Meditating can lower blood pressure. Yeah, relaxing tends to do that. [•] Senior citizen advocates are calling for more stringent nursing homes standards. [•] Harrison Ford will star in the next Indiana Jones installment! [•] China is trying to rescue 500 bears and put an end to bile farms. [•] Cat fish farmers can double profits by growing algae in the same tank. [•] Physicists have discovered a long theorized, but previously undetected subatomic particle. [•] A denial of service attack against cryptome.org has put the web site out of service. Did I mention that these attacks started after they published top secret intelligence papers? [•] Ad revenues are up in newspapers. Looks like the Net won’t kill print media (as expected). [•] Teenagers hanging out on the street are causing problem on Maybrook and Walden (Why should people be able to go outside? Can’t people lock their kids in the cellar? LOL). [•] Warwick’s unofficial soccer league is attracting players. [•] Beatings, robbings, stealing, and everything that makes The Times-Herald Record Briefs interesting. [•] The Arrested Rapper of The Day: Juvenile. [•] Kid Rock has to settle his custody rights with his ex-girlfriends over his child. [•] You can buy the limo in the Starsuckers Inc. video. [•] Posthuman Records is online now. [•] Go.com has gone open source with its engine. [•] Rage Against the Machine played a benefit concert. [•] Is Smashing Pumpkins making another album? [•] Guns ‘N’ Roses is being sued for stealing the melody to Sweet Child of Mine. [•] Apparently Woodstock 99‘s concert was on a toxic waste dump and [•] the water was in short supply. [•] The Radiohead tracks that don’t make Kid A, may be put on a follow up album. [•] Where’s coaxial going? [•] $99 for a RAID card? This must be a dream. [•] Where is Pentium IV headed? [•] It’s official: The Ford Focus is the world’s best selling car . [•] Motortrend is revamping its magazine. [•] Netscape Communicator 4.74 has been released. [•] Need I remind you that I love Azazel? I didn’t think so 🙂 [•] Red Raven got a manager’s position (congratulations). [•] Hoagie’s web page rules. [•] I jammed out with Kevin last night and went over some ideas. He has started telling people about this little project we dare call digitalflood.com™. That project currently called We Come In Peace can be described as (Kevin put it): a cat purring on Mars as an acoustic guitar plucks away. Weird, huh? So I guess if people don’t get it right now, there’s a damn good reason. I warn you– the new stuff is way out there. It definitely isn’t for the faint of heart or the poor of faith. However, I really think that what it can provide is a sense of where I stand and what I want to hear from a musician that no one right now is doing. If everything isn’t too foregone and hopefully we don’t make “bad” art then I believe that anyone who downloads our next MP3s will be happy. Need I say more?
