December 12, 2001: [•] Al Qaeda has failed to surrender by yesterday’s deadline. [•] Taliban and al Qaeda fighters who escaped Afghanistan left behind clues to where they disappeared to. [•] Federal authorities are checking out university labs to determine the risk of terrorists getting a hold of biological agents. [•] 69 Salt Lake City Airport employees have been indicted on charges of lying to their employers about their immigration status. [•] Despite filling the Hart Building with deadly chlorine gas minor anthrax tainting still exists. [•] Israel refuses to stop killing accused terrorists. [•] US warplanes continue to bomb Tora Bora. [•] The US is expected to announce its withdrawal from a 1972 ABM treaty with Russia. [•] BTW: Check out that AP photo in the aforementioned CNN.com article of President Bush. Look real close. Closer. That’s right– that’s c0il over Bush’s shoulder! Don’t see him. Click the link. 🙂 [•] Myanmar has freed 200 Chinese prisoners as a sign of good faith since Chinese dignitaries are visiting the country. [•] Jamaican police use force to quell violence as gangs continue to fight each other over politics. [•] Zimbabwe’s government has started expelling foreign reporters, beating native reporters, and basically shutting down any sort of free speech. [•] Canada celebrates kicking out Guglielmo Marconi out of Newfoundland after he successfully sent the first trans-Alantic wireless communication 100 years ago. [•] Colombian presidential candidate Luis Eduardo Garzon was marked for assassination by opposition paramilitary forces. [•] Peru is considering overhauling its constitution. [•] Malaysia has named its new king as Syed Sirajuddin Syed Putra Jamalullail. [•] Russian prosecutors are urging for Chechen warlord Salman Raduyev be sentenced to life. [•] Ukrainian reporters have been authorized to carry rubber bullet guns to defend themselves due to the recent rise of physical attacks on journalists. [•] The Pope is asking the US to end its sanctions against Iraq. [•] Iranian students protested government reforms. [•] New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani says that after his term is up next year he’s going to start his own firm specializing in fixing failing companies. [•] The US Coast Guard is searching for 4 missing men who’s boat capsized off the coast of Oregon. [•] Robert M. Schwartz, a leading expert in DNA sequencing, has been murdered. [•] Byron Ashley Parker, a man convicted of murdering and raping a young girl in 1984, has been executed by lethal injection. [•] Police are still looking for the fast food worker reported on yesterday who murdered his coworkers.[•] The Duh Study of The Day: The number of obese children in the US is drastically climbing. We like to eat! What can I say? [•] A Louisiana state law allowing a moment of silence or silent prayer in school has been ruled unconstitutional. [•] Ex-DeKalb County Sheriff Sidney Dorsey has been indicted on charges that he killed his successor.[•] The FBI is upping its online surveillance. [•] Microsoft has unveiled its Corona project, a set of multimedia tools that are intended to deliver digital media over the Net. The software promises to deliver non-buffered media streams with twice the visual quality of the DVD format at half the size with 5.1 audio support. [•] The amount of acid rain and ozone damaging gases in the UK is down 14%. [•] Poachers in Cambodia are driving native species into extinction. [•] The US government is asking fisherman to install devices on their fishing lines to deter albatrosses from getting tangled in the lines. [•] The 9 states who refuse to settle with Microsoft want Office ported over to Linux to increase that OS’s ability to compete (Then again, Mac has had Office for years now and it’s no better off). [•] Compaq refuses to integrate with HP and insists it will release its own independent products whether they stay merged or split again. This is quickly becoming the merger that should have never been! [•] Return to Castle Wolfenstein may lack in story line, but with kick ass graphics and gameplay who cares?! [•] A solar eclipse and a meteor show in the same week? That rules! [•] Mar’s ice caps are melting and eventually the planet may even have water on it. [•] Could a secure computer network elevate doctor’s woes over lack of information about patients? [•] Fox News Channel correspondent Geraldo Rivera has landed in the middle of the debate over whether journalists should carry guns in war zones or not. [•] Part 2 of life as an accused child porn trader. [•] Kourosh Hamidi has been found guilty of trespassing after he spammed his former coworkers at Intel with complaints concerning his dismissal. [•] Using a Microsoft TV product? It’s watching you too. [•] The US military is worried about a new high-resolution map of the Earth since it could reveal military targets. [•] Daniel Searfoss, a man caught using a “sneaker-cam” to look up women’s skirts, just can’t kick his habit. [•] Does the universe have a horizon or does stuff simply get eaten by a black hole? [•] Fired Newburgh Housing Authority chief Julius Bannerman has plead guilty to taking bribes. [•] Michael Zito and Rosemary Hirsch led Middletown, NY police on a high-speed car chase that ended with authorities puncturing the pair’s car tires. [•] Michael D. Bloom is charged with stealing jewelry from his friend, one of the two unions who represent NY Catholic school teachers has reached an agreement with the archdiocese, a landfill is capped, police are looking for 2 suspects who robbed SCCC students, and Michael W. Armato is charged with sexually molesting a minor. [•] Eminem’s upcoming movie has been titled 8 Mile. [•] A list of some of the bands that will be playing New Year’s Eve parties. [•] You can hear a 30 second teaser clip of the new NIN song Still at NIN.com right now. [•] Microsoft Internet Explorer has a security hole that allows downloaded files to run without authorization. [•] Limp Bizkit wants you to remix their song. [•] Why did the Audi A4 make Car & Driver’s Top Ten Autos List? Find out. [•] Dodge will sell the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van under the Freightliner line in the US. [•] The US Senate doesn’t like the DOJ’s settlement with Microsoft. [•] Hackers are trying to push the Xbox to its limits. [•] Microsoft flames Oracle by pointing out that the only site they own that doesn’t run on a Windows server is Hotmail and even that uses Microsoft proprietary programs for UNIX. Ouch. [•] Attention MSN GameZone users: If you don’t switch to Passport you’re screwed. [•] Microsoft has developed an update for Windows XP to support both Bluetooth and USB 2.0. Expect OEMs to start shipping it by early 2002 and an official update by mid-2002. [•] I love you wife and daughter!