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Classic DF – 8/22/00

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Aug 22, 2000: [•] A major typhoon is battering Taiwan. [•] Due to wildfires most of Montana’s state property is being closed down. [•] If you kill someone when you are 17 years old and you are a paranoid schizophrenic do you deserve to die for it? [•] The National Transportation Safety Board is saying that TWA800 crashed due to an electrical malfunction. [•] A-ha is back! Oh joy. [•] The American Amusement Machine Association and the Amusement and Music Operators Association are filing a case against an Indianapolis law that is trying to ban violent video games from anyone under 18 years of age. [•] A new Outlook plug-in will allow you to send a message to someone that if they don’t read it in a specified amount of time it becomes unreadable. [•] Argentina’s cabinet is being coerced to cooperate in a bribery probe. [•] The UK is concerned that racism is increasing. [•] The US Military is is discussing a possible missile shield being established in Greenland. [•] Jamelle James has plea-bargained. He is the man accused of letting a 6 year old get a hold of a gun that he used to shoot another child in school. [•] An ex-US Mint employee stole misprinted gold dollars. [•] A minor earthquake hit Carmel, NY. [•] A fake bomb was part of a Martha’s Vineyard Airport security check. [•] Drinking restrictions are going into effect for the original Skid Row. [•] A mouse that lets you feel what’s on your screen. [•] 70% of Gnutella users are leeching files instead of sharing like nice kids. [•] The Philippines have dropped charges against the ILOVEYOU virus author due to lack of laws to prosecute him with (LOL). [•] Woman’s health in the US is lacking. [•] The new sport of choice: tree climbing. [•] A study has linked junk food to asthma and allergies. [•] More and more parents are having problems with their kids being labeled “learning disabled”. [•] The Egyptian Health Ministry will only hire you if you don’t smoke. [•] The Duh Study of The Day: Less workers are dying on the job. Lawsuits suck and liability is a big time problem. So it’s no longer cost effective to let people die on the job. [•] MP3Board is suing AOL-Time Warner because they created Gnutella so it’s their fault that the RIAA is suing MP3Board. LOL. [•] Intel is showing off a Pentium 4 overclocked to 2 GHz. [•] The NFL is going online. [•] Altavista UK doesn’t exist after all. A scandal ensues as a result. [•] Ty Whitney has pleaded not guilty to 72 counts of child molestation. [•] Why a new pesticide notification law won’t see the light of day in Orange County. [•] A boat backed over someone in Greenwood Lake killing them. [•] Seeger got his banjo back. [•] Whole lot of charging going on: A robber charged, an ATV thief charged, a break and enter suspect charged, and a DWI driver is charged. [•] Kim Mathers is saying it’s Eminem’s fault she tried to kill herself and that she wants sole custody of their child. [•] Billie Joe for President. [•] Danzig says no to a Misfits reunion. [•] Beck will play the Bridge School Benefit. [•] Vote for Nine Inch Nail’s Into The Void for Breakthrough Video at the Video Music Awards. [•] Nintendo has officially renamed the Dolphin Project to N-Cube. [•] A Perfect Circle rocks Boston. [•] The Smashing Pumpkins are offering a sneak peak of their new video Try, Try, Try. [•] A review of MDK2. [•] Why switches are going to kill off hubs. [•] A brief history of the first person shooter. [•] A former GM worker is accusing GM of not listening to his warning about faulty seatbelts. [•] Real Jukebox Basic 2 is out. [•] Netscape Communicator 4.75 is here. [•] Azazel rules. [•] Well, more useful news tomorrow. And then some more the day after. Life is easy like that 🙂

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Classic DF – 8/4/00

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Aug 4, 2000: [•] Last night George Bush slammed Al Gore and rallied the GOP to a frenzy. It was pretty cool. [•] Queen Mother Elizabeth turns 100 years old today. [•] Miloslevic is at it again. This time he is saying that 2 Britons and 2 Canadians are terrorists because they were carrying tools to make bombs. The truth is they train bomb squads (well, duh of course they have bomb making equipment). Montenegro believes Miloslevic is trying to take control by making a crisis. [•] Sears is pulling Firestone ATX, ATX II and Wilderness tires from its shelves due to safety concerns that we reported earlier last month. [•] California has been hit by a power crisis. [•] The good news is that more beaches are closing down before people get sick, but the bad news is the number of infected beaches is rising. [•] Brazil is being ravaged by mudslides and floods. [•] Luisa Farinon Caltagirone and her body guard were held hostage for a little bit by their servant Leo Bagasson in Italy before he escaped. [•] Ex-President Ford is doing better after suffering 2 small strokes, but a swollen tongue continues to plague him. [•] A man is trying to gain custody rights of his unborn child citing that the woman carrying the baby would be an unfit mother. [•] West Nile Virus continues to spread across New York and New Jersey. It’s amazing how fast one little bug can spread a disease isn’t it? [•] The US Navy has removed the latest group of protesters off of Vieques Island and resumed their war games. [•] You can now buy and sell real estate over E-bay. [•] A judge has ordered the FBI to disclose how Carnivore works. [•] A new breed of pirate is growing on the Net. They are low down and dirty. They are elderly and stealing needlepoint patterns. [•] The European Commission has filed an antitrust suite against Microsoft. [•] Online swap markets may be the next big thing. [•] Toys R Us is being sued for online privacy violations. [•] The US Navy has bought the world’s fourth fastest computer. [•] There is still a shortage of nurses. So if you’re looking for a job nursing may be for you. [•] Pravastatin, an anti-cholesterol drug, may also help with preventing strokes. [•] A man has filed a $800 million law suite stating that his cellphone caused his brain cancer. [•] A couple of months back Azazel tried a can of Slim Fast. It made her really sick. Apparently she isn’t alone. Slim Fast has recalled its drink products. [•] Regular inhalation of steroids can help relieve asthma. [•] If the California power shortage continues dams may be activated and that would be bad news for salmon. [•] Cornell University has been air conditioning its faculties by drawing water from the bottom of Cayuga Lake. Environmentalists worry that this will increase algae and disrupt the ecosystem. [•] Scientists hope to encase radioactive materials in a ceramic crystal so they don’t contaminate the Earth. [•] Warner Brothers and Sony Pictures are trying out sending animation over PDAs. [•] CNN.com is refusing to list Jerusalem as part of Israel on its weather maps. [•] Register.com is suing Verio Inc. for using whois information for spam and telemarketing. [•] Mafiaboy has pleaded not guilty to all 64 charges against him (he supposedly attacked Yahoo! etc…). [•] Web porn star Danni Ashe tells you how to keep you kids from seeing her hootchie. [•] The Communications Workers of America are going to strike shutting down many local telephone companies. [•] The Bruderhof Community is stopping children from talking with their fathers who have benn banned by the community for questioning the leaders. [•] The Orange County Sheriffs, New York State Police, and Washingtonville Police Department will be watching very closely over a rave in Washingtonville this weekend. Sounds like its going to be a not so happening party. [•] Two trucks collided closing down Route 9W. [•] Rifton Inc. is stealing water from fire hydrant water main that belongs to Stewart Airport and they think they can get away with it. [•] A Middletown teacher has been cleared of charges and will return to work this fall. [•] John Rudden, the ex-cop who pulled a gun on a group of teens who accidentally collided with him, will be allowed to go to Europe while his lawyer represents him in his trial. It must be nice to be old, retired while well-off, and crazy. [•] Some customers of Time Warner Cable got a free 15 minute porn fest. [•] Parents of a teenager who was killed after he stole a car won’t be able to sue the car’s owner for their son’s demise. [•] The SPCA has seized several animals from an Ulster County man who neglected them. [•] WTBQ (1110AM) is going onto the Net and needs a nighttime DJ. [•] The Times-Herald Record Briefs: A man has been found guilty on possession of a taser, a soy sauce factory catches on fire, a teen attempts to rob a man outside of KFC, all 3 dead people have been identified in a fatal car crash, and Unionville won’t get its bug spray just yet. [•] Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 will feature lots of mainstream hard rock artists. Oh joy. [•] The Spice Girls are back. Cover your ears. [•] Young MC is back too. [•] Hack your Tivo some more. [•] Compaq is trying to build a super computer. They haven’t even built a decent desktop one much less a super computer. [•] Chino Moreno (Deftones) is working on a song for Back To School with possibly Ozzy Osbourne (cool). The next Deftones’ single will be RX Queen. [•] Queens of The Stone Age and VAST are touring together. [•] Who wants to have sex with Regis? [•] Weezer is gearing up for a new tour and new album. [•] How to secure your DSL from hackers. [•] Gravis’s newest gamepad kicks ass. [•] Build a kick ass box that is cheap ass. [•] Mmmm… Porsche Boxster S. [•] The new and very nice 2001 Honda Accord has been announced. [•] The Daily Insider: Ford wants to know why Firestone’s tires are giving out and are now using Cray SV1 super computers to analyze customer data. [•] Winrar 2.71 is here. [•] The Shockwave and Flash Player 8.0.196a is out for both Communicator and Explorer. [•] Black Ice Defender 2.1 is a good firewall. [•] McAfee Virus Scan 5 is out. [•] WindowBlinds 1.3 is ready to go. [•] Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 1 is finally here. [•] Adobe Photoshop Pro 5.5 is out. [•] Mervernation officially has gone commune. [•] And Hoagie’s page is back up (yeah!). [•] Azazel, I love you 🙂 [•] Bored? The NeoScience Institute will keep you busy. It’s a pretty dumb page, but what do you want for free? Entertainment? HA! See you on Monday 🙂

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Classic DF – 7/21/00

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July 21, 2000: [•] Happy Birthday to my Mom! She was 50 years old yesterday. I love you Mom and congratulations 🙂 [•] The US House has passed a lift of the embargo of food, drugs, and travel to Cuba. [•] The US allowed infamous Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann to avoid capture for 4 years. [•] Stephen King will release the first shareware (pay to keep it) book. [•] Tom Welch (no relation to me) and David Johnson have been indicted in trying to bribe Olympics officials. [•] An earthquake hit Mexico City. [•] Augusto “I’m a lying scuzzball” Pinochet claims he never ordered any murders. Yeah, people are just making it up… sure (lying jerk). [•] A fire broke out in Mesa Verde National Park forcing an evacuation. [•] A gunman in Los Angelos shot himself. [•] Lots of tomatoes and no one to buy them. [•] Heroin deaths are up. [•] Namibia says it has to club 60,000 seals to death in order to preserve fish stocks, but wildlife activists say that its just because they want to sell seal balls to the orient for sex potions. [•] A new technique allows both strands of DNA to be analyzed at the same time. [•] Another study has labeled Napster as good for getting people to buy CDs. [•] Sega has stepped up its fight against software piracy and is closing down web sites hosting illegal games for sale. [•] Think you’ve seen the new G4 cube design before? You did. Back then in 1989 the design was called NeXT. [•] Computer enhanced “smart toys” may be the next big thing for Christmas. [•] Scientists have created man made diamonds so close to nature’s that even the atomic structure is nearly 100% of the real thing. [•] The West Nile Virus has come to Orange County, NY. [•] We want you for the Carnie Reserve. [•] A rape attempt was averted when a family shined its car lights on an attacker. [•] Once upon a time a student brought a pipe bomb to school and now he realizes it was stupid. This story even has a happy ending. [•] Monroe wants to add a K-9 cop to its police force. [•] Five people were caught smuggling drugs into the Orange County Jail. [•] A wanted child molester from Chester will see air time on American’s Most Wanted. [•] A missing man was found dead, a woman has been charged in stabbing her husband to death, and a street party is a brewing in The Times-Herald Record Briefs. [•] The new Palm M100 and VIIx have been announced. Both look very promising. [•] The first AutoCAD virus has been found. [•] The last British Ford Escort has rolled off the assembly line. As a proud driver of 3 generations of Escorts I can only say its a sad day in the motor industry, “sob”. [•] The cult of Mac continues. [•] A kid found a deep fried lizard in his Burger King Kid’s Meal. Yummy. [•] The NYC brick attacker has confessed. [•] Make money now! Sell stolen items back to their owners! [•] Creed has nicely told Fred “I’m a really big fat ugly loser” Durst to shut up and to stop thinking the world revolves around his fat ass. [•] Woodstock 99: Fans started the fire, but the promoters supplied the kindling. [•] Secure CRT 3.1 is out and if you shell, then you need. [•] Road & Track Online says that Nissan is upping its production in the US and GM is developing smart collision prevention systems to avoid crashes all together. [•] Learn the guitar styles of Tattoo The Earth. [•] Azazel, I love you! [•] I don’t know who is really into emulation anymore. Back in the day it was a big deal to play video games for Nintendo on your PC and such. Now it’s kind of a mute subject and played out. If you really want to get into some hard to configure stuff check out The Amiga Emulation Page. Since most of the ROMs have been removed they are hard to find, but that’s part of the fun. [•] Big news from the fish bowl– Heike has been banished! Now, this really starting to heat up. Did you see the shower cam? Pretty hot stuff 🙂 [•] Bored? I’m not going to be March 22nd. That’s when Azazel is due to give birth 🙂 And better yet– with my insurance it’s free! Talk to you either Monday or Tuesday. Keep it peachy.

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