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 – 4/5/01

Apr. 5, 2001: [•] Through the magic of satellite vision I give you the missing spy plane. BTW: If we can spot a friggin’ plane on an airport field why do we need to use spy planes any how? [•] A British truck driver has been found guilty of manslaughter after he left 58 illegal aliens locked in his trailer with no vents open to let air in. [•] Hawaii’s public school teachers are striking. [•] Two hostages are freed in Somalia. [•] Lebanese Shiites celebrate the day of a honored Saint by slashing themselves. [•] I’m not dead yet! SHEESH. [•] Ford has been found not guilty for Explorer rollover accidents. [•] Marine pilots of Ospreys say the aircraft has both a software and hardware glitch. [•] A boy saves his own life by using a tourniquet to stop bleeding. [•] Congress isn’t happy about the US Postal proposal to close their offices on Saturday. [•] Yet another example of how our legal system needs an overhaul: A man who got drunk and passed out in the snow causing him to get frost bite on a business trip is eligible workmen’s compensation. He should get a swift kick in the ass and go to AA meetings instead. [•] A cyber-sqautter owes the original owner of sex.com $65 million. [•] Gay pride is fine, but straight pride… oh that is racist. Why? I have no idea. Because our society is backward probably. [•] A 14-year old girl who shot a classmate has been sentenced to a psychiatric hospital. [•] The fifth recount in Florida has confirmed Bush still won. No one stole this election people. He won. Face it and get over it! [•] A sailor found guilty of killing a hooker is sentenced to life in prison. [•] A husband who put his ex-wife’s name and number on the Internet in sex for hire ads has been arrested. [•] Why shouldn’t Microsoft jump on the music subscription boat? Here’s MSN Music. [•] AIM went down on Tuesday. [•] You know that open server you just hacked thinking all the while that you were getting away with the crime of the century? It may have been a trap. [•] Artists push for more digital rights through open distribution, Congress gets lost, and the RIAA does nothing except bitch about everyone as usual. [•] MIT will open source their courses. [•] Heavy hits take down MLB.com. [•] Intel sets up the world’s biggest peer-to-peer network. [•] Sony touts its new portable CD-RW. [•] A new pen style mouse promises to do less damage to your hand. [•] Colorado and Illinois share honors for the smartest math and science students. [•] Global warming is killing toads. [•] Ladies and gentleman, we may have found the cure for cancer. [•] Microsoft says that the Terms of Service for some of its products and services is outdated so don’t pay attention to them. Sure, right Mr. Wizard of Oz. [•] MTV has started selling downloadable music. [•] Welcome to the age of public school paranoia. Population: you. [•] The mother and son on trial for raping a teenage girl have had some charges dropped due to redundancy. [•] Nerds rule. We have cool webpages. We are l337. We are… ummm… yeah. [•] A house catches fire in Chester, kids shoot cars with paintballs on Thruway, a hunter accidentally shoots his finger off, fighting over rent, a man strikes a police car, a gang shooting in Newburgh, Mid-Valley Oil is fined $400,000 for storage tank violations, and no junk yards here. [•] System of a Down try and figure out what they want on their next album. [•] Fatboy Slim talks tour. [•] MSN reprograms their customers’ dialers and they end up dialing long distance. [•] A teen hacks ADDR.com resulting in 46,000 customers’ data being compromised.[•] Yahoo! joins Vivendi Universal and Sony to start a music service. [•] Tool will stream its first single Schism off its web site starting May 1st. [•] Volkswagen gets a soundtrack. [•] The PIII gets cooler, smaller, and faster. [•] Do-it yourself DSL? Oh great. [•] A look at the new Sebring Convertible. [•] Is Handspring switching to another OS. [•] Azazel is tired. The joys of motherhood. [•] Bored already? It isn’t even Friday yet! [•] Mermaid vs. the Psycho Bitch. [•] It’s a nice day out in lovely downtown Warwick, NY so why not take a walk? It’ll do you good. 🙂

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Classic DF – 8/21/09

Aug 21, 2000: [•] The submarine rescue mission has been called off after Norwegian divers opened the rescue hatch only to find the entire vessel had filled with water. [•] The Verizon strike is over. [•] A pipeline in New Mexico exploded killing 6 people. [•] Ford has been under-inflating Firestone tires (at 26 psi) on Explorers. Firestone says that they recommend 30 psi, but that Ford had to under inflate the tires in order to avoid rollover issues with the Explorer. [•] Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is proposing to modernize the government by giving women equal rights and removing Orthodox Jewish beliefs from law to religion. Most of Israeli’s conservative groups oppose the change. [•] Citizens of the Chiapas (Mexico) have elected a non-PRI Governor, Pablo Salazar, with hopes of ending the war between the Mexican Army and Zapatista rebels fighting for Native Mexican rights. [•] East Timor has set up a multiparty Congress. [•] 8 children have died when a bus crashed in Germany. [•] A train derailed that was carrying fuel and caused an explosion that has left 18 people dead in Kenya. [•] Tiger Woods is either very good or very evil. [•] The pilot of a Northwest Airlines DC-10 died of a heart attack in the middle of a flight, but his copilot managed to land the plane without anyone else dying. [•] The Duh Study of The Day: Most people want privacy policies that require users to “opt in” to give out personal data. That is how is should be, but greed makes companies do otherwise. [•] President Clinton got flashed for his birthday (needless to say he didn’t complain). [•] The top 15 PCs. [•] The Cell is a special effects bonanza, now if only the script didn’t suck. [•] Can metal detectors and video cameras prevent violence in the school? [•] Coming to a cable lineup near you: ZDTV. [•] Celebrex, an arthritis fighting drug, seems to prevent tumors and slow the growth of tumors already there. [•] A 7 year old boy was killed at the Grahamsville Fair by an SUV who didn’t see him. [•] E-mail killed the letter. [•] The Tri-State Car Club’s 13th annual car show was yesterday in case you missed it. [•] Dr. Mark McMahon hopes to give Democrats a choice beside Hillary Clinton in the NY Senate race. [•] Cornwall has a new high school in the works. [•] Newburgh is getting an infrared detector, which is used to find survivors in fires. [•] Warwick will be hosting several experts on revitalizing and improving towns (oh there’s an original idea… improvement). [•] Cops went to a house because of a cat problem and ended up finding illegal guns, hippies arrested for trespassing, teens arrested for smoke bombing a trailer, a man shot a puppy because he was afraid it would attack his kid, a teen surrenders, and a man who pushed a prostitute out of a moving car has been found. [•] U2 has issued the track list for All That You Can’t Leave Behind. [•] The Big Day Out lineup has been confirmed. [•] SeemsLikeSalvation News is reporting October 10th as the release date for the new Nine Inch Nails EP, Marilyn Manson’s Disposable Teens and The Fight Song are getting airplay early, and I get props for spotting a Skinny Puppy scoop. [•] If you’re looking for a Java based PDA check out Teapot. [•] Apple is offering to buy back faulty Powerbooks and sell you the new model $700 cheaper. [•] Cadillac will be producing a roadster based on the Corvette platform, the Jaguar F-type will only be produced if there is demand, Mercedes will offer a C-class coupe next year, Lexus has announced prices for the LX 470 and IS 300, and Toyota has raised prices on some of its 2001 models. [•] The Presidents will take over local TV stations. [•] Ministry will be releasing one final video on Warner Brothers entitled Tapes of Wrath. [•] Various Jeph.net News: In case you missed it Korpios has resigned as an administrator and they need a new IRC operator which can be voted on here. Of course you should vote for me to become Supreme Commander of Underwater Basket Weaving for All Things Jeph.net. [•] I love my wife (that’s not really new news, but I just thought you’d like to know) 🙂 [•] Daemon Immortalis will be posting the new Marilyn Manson songs since he likes them so much. [•] I think Red Raven has finally lost it LOL. [•] So following Immy’s tip I downloaded several of the new Marilyn Manson tracks (including a bunch of fakes) and I wasn’t disappointed. The new songs are hard like the Antichrist Superstar stuff, punked out like Portrait of an American Family, and at the same time funky like Mechanical Animals. I guess that means its the best of all worlds, but without all the crap there was in previous albums. This is exciting stuff. Talk to you tomorrow.

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