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Classic DF – 4/3/01

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Apr. 3, 2001: [•] Of course it’s the US’s fault that a Chinese pilot rammed a surveillance plane because God forbid that the Chinese government admits it did something imperfectly. “Sigh” [•] The US Senate approved a campaign finance reform bill. Now it must pass through the House. [•] A US F-16 crashed off the coast the Japan, but the pilot is okay. [•] The Philippine Supreme Court has voted unanimously to oust President Joseph Estrada. [•] Peace talks in Macedonia have begun. [•] A murderer is hung in Botswana. [•] Mexico has arrested a drug czar. [•] Fighting in Colombia continues. [•] 87 anti-globalization protesters were arrested in Ottawa, Canada during a peaceful protest. [•] Four people were killed in riots in Bangladesh as citizens continue to demand that prime minister Sheikh Hasina resign. [•] Ex-LAPD officer Nino Durden has pleaded guilty to three counts of conspiring to violate civil rights and one count of possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number. [•] Chinese stowaways are found hitchhiking in a ship. [•] The Duh Study of The Day: The US Census says our population grew. I could have told you that! [•] Two bodies are found floating off the coast of Alaska. They are believed to be part of the crew of a missing boat. [•] Providence, Rhode Island Mayor Vincent Cianci Jr. has been indicted on accepting bribes. [•] Try playing kick ball in this park. [•] The ex-Chevron employee charged with trying to blow up a plant has pleaded innocent. [•] Today the digital music battle goes to Congress. [•] ICANN has granted Verisign extended rights to manage dot com domains. [•] Cisco releases its web capable cell phones. [•] AIM 4.5 Beta for Mac is out. [•] FCC Chairman Michael Powell overhauls the FCC. [•] The lawsuit against IBM by holocaust victims has been dropped in hopes that they can settle out of court. [•] Black & White has been described by my colleagues as addictive, incredible, and everything a game should be. [•] What the hell is with Japan? Are you guys retards or something? First you want to kill whales so you can eat them even if it means making them extinct and now you want to do the same with elephants for their ivory. When does the stupidity end? [•] Two of the three cows cloned at Chico State University have died. [•] When lakes attack. [•] Overheating a child can kill them (duh). [•] If you have sinus pain like me right now chances are it’s allergies. [•] Be likes Popeye Da Sailor and eatz your spinach, but spell poorly! [•] Stress can ruin sleep. [•] No matter what the patch for the Internet Explorer hole says install it! [•] Dredging draws both support and protests. [•] Get your drugs here. [•] Warwick Police arrest a man accused of raping a woman. [•] A pit bull attacks a mentally disabled man. [•] Sex, lies, and… lies. [•] Sean Kinney (ex-Alice in Chains), Mike Inez (ex-Alice in Chains), Vin Dombroski (Sponge), and Chris DeGarmo (ex-Queensryche) have formed Spys4Darwin. [•] Here come the new albums: Run DMC kicks it old school and Rammstein kicks it hard. [•] The AMD Duron hits 900MHz. [•] Maxtor has bought Quantum’s hard drive division. [•] 2002 Acura TL Type S rules. [•] I love you wife! [•] Poor Immy 🙁 Hope you have a better day soon! [•] BTW: I made an OOPS. I said I was off today and I wasn’t! I’m off tomorrow. Anyhow, that means our next update will be Thursday. See you then.

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Classic DF – 2/28/01

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February 23, 2001: [•] Poor Li’l Pooh is still sick! The poor kid gets better only to catch another cold (Deja vu). She’s still smiling though 🙂 [•] Mermaid gives us an update over the AOL verses Trillian situation. [•] What is with Russia? Of all of sudden if they don’t win an Olympic event they demand a recount and when they do win it turns out to be because of “pressure” on judges. Can you say “spoiled sports”. Sheesh. [•] Chuck Jones, the man who nearly single-handedly created all of the Warner Brothers cartoon characters, has died. [•] Wonder why the US puts up with Saudi Arabia’s harsh treatment of its citizens? Wonder no more! [•] Bored? Well, obviously you haven’t looked hard enough at last week’s link. Try right clicking on the page. [•] I doubt that totally cleared up your boredom, so why not check out uComics too? Now, you can get your daily fix of Garfield from the safety of your PC (whatever that means). BTW: Check out Captain Ribman. It’s an… ummmm… interesting (I think that’s the word I’m grasping for here) comic to say the least. [•] Things are looking good on the “My family needs more living space” front. Most likely we’ll be getting the smaller of two apartments we looked at, but it is larger than our existing one so I can deal with that. They are currently completely remodeling it so we’ll have to wait two months before we could move in, but that’s perfect since our lease has four months left anyhow. Just a little too perfect if you ask me 😉

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Classic DF – 8/25/00

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Aug 25, 2000: [•] Gulf Air Flight GF072 crashed due to an improper descent path. [•] Clinton is going to Nigeria. [•] Radiation levels around the sunken Kursk continue to read normal (Uh, what is normal?). [•] The state of Andhra Pradesh in India is being flooded. [•] World Intellectual Property Organization has ruled in 80% of cybersquatting against the squatter. [•] Several former LAPD officers are suing the department for harassment after reporting conduct violations to superiors. [•] A typhoon that hit China only caused some damaged, but fortunately no one was killed. [•] China has decided to release 3 imprisoned US citizens since they weren’t part of the Falun Gong (even though that is what they were arrested for). [•] The Mental Olympics are over. [•] A group of mountain climbers sponsored by Northface escaped rebels in Kyrgyzstan. [•] If it’s illegal to sell votes in the US why not move the deals offshore? [•] Nintendo has officially unveiled its N-Cube and Gameboy Advanced. They look very nice. [•] Prepare for AOLTV. [•] TRUSTe uses cookies on its website. Users are pissed. [•] The Duh Study of The Day: Computers are making life more stressful. Well, if you’ve ever used a computer then you know why… LOL. [•] Microsoft has developed a new CPU (Solo2) for its Web TV units. [•] Urban sprawl is ruining the view from our National Parks. [•] Population Action International thinks water supplies are getting smaller (and they are right). [•] A rare parasite has killed several dogs in New York. [•] PETA is still relying on cheap shock ads in order to get attention. (lamers) [•] A man attacked a family with a pitchfork and killed two child for no apparent reason. [•] If you find sex you can keep it. [•] PGP for Windows has a hole in it that leaves information unencrypted. [•] Battlebots is on Comedy Central. [•] Microsoft has closed a hole in Frontpage Server to prevent dOs attacks. [•] Yahoo! is going to offer encrypted e-mail. [•] Fallsburg Sgt. Melissa Freestone has been charged with stealing money. [•] The Chester Police Dummy is back. [•] Clean up that gas spill lamer! [•] The FBI attempts to catch a child molester on a tip and it ends up being the wrong person, but it also turns out that he too is a wanted felon LOL. [•] A pesticide is recalled. [•] An attacker found, a deadbeat dad is found, a disorientated senior hits another senior, Richard Castellano is going to be arraigned, a police dog finds a suspect, a cut phone line is fixed, a base jumper is arrested, Warwick is flushing its hydrants, and a man dies of a heart attack while jogging. [•] Ozzfest isn’t going to get to South America. [•] Godsmack will release Awake on Halloween. [•] Radiohead is previewing their new stuff online. [•] Live continues to work on its next album. [•] Check out SeemsLikeSalvation to find out new information on the next Nine Inch Nails album and a new Marilyn Manson song. [•] Bored? I’m not because it’s really busy! So I’m glad my vacation begins next week. All these newbies are driving me nuts! In fact, next week I will update you on my moving situation and what’s going on. Hopefully, everything will go good and I’ll get time to relax, but I doubt it 🙂 Till then… OH YEAH!

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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 – 8/10/00

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Aug 10, 2000: [•] The US Army is sending more troops in to fight wildfires. [•] Did a strip of metal slice the fatal wound into the Concorde. [•] A group of rebels fighting for Kashmiri independence are claiming responsibility for a car bomb in India. [•] A university is being chosen to review Carnivore. [•] Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is visiting Saddam Hussein in Iraq. [•] Comet LINEAR has revealed that it was made up of a bunch of mini-comets at its core. [•] One sailor is dead after a US Navy helicopter crashed in the Gulf of Mexico. [•] British boys suck. [•] Communists everywhere are angry that a Vodka company is using Ernesto “Che” Guevara to sell their booze. [•] A fire in the US Capitol building was caused by a cigarette butt. So much for The Clean Air Act. [•] 319 miners have been laid off from the Willow Creek Mine. [•] A misprinted gold dollar featuring an erroneous Washington quarter front was auctioned for $29,900. [•] Panasonic has announced the first public DVD recording camera and it rules. [•] More tips on securing your PC. [•] A former Disney executive got a sentence of nine months home detention with electronic monitoring, a $20,000 fine, and five years probation for attempting to cross state lines to have sex with a minor. Once again, must be nice to be rich. [•] Netscape 6 Beta 3; it may not be perfect, but it’s a welcome improvement. [•] 50% of premature babies now have a chance for a normal life. [•] Cells have a switch which when turned on can make people obese. [•] The Reform Party Convention starts today. [•] The Alaska State Snowmobile Association is suing the National Park Service for their ban on snowmobiles. Can you say frivolous? [•] Spanish beaches are being hit by illegally dumped oil. [•] The first bald eagle has been born in Washington DC since the 1940s. [•] Isn’t it ironic that one of Jeph.net’s biggest proponents to censorship and oppression would support censoring others? Not really. [•] Adobe is suing Macromedia for making products that look too much like theirs. [•] Mitel has figured out how to carry more information over fiber optic networks. [•] AOL has closed down an MP3 search engine over concerns that they will get sued by the RIAA. [•] Dr. Khaja Naseeruddin has surrendered his medical license after being charged with 25 counts of professional misconduct by the Department of Health. [•] The Galleria at Crystal Run wants police on patrol in the mall. [•] Gerald Doolan Sr. killed himself before he could be tried for his indictment of 113 counts of rape, sodomy and sexual assault. [•] Selling crack to undercover police, a fallen tree cuts power to many people, a woman gets cut in a fight with her boyfriend, a disturbing diary is found, a cab driver is robbed, a women beats her child, an arrest is made for a drive-by shooting, and a missing man is found. [•] Slipknot will re-release its Slipknot album in a digipak with six previously unreleased tracks. [•] Marilyn Manson has begun previewing his new single Love Song on a web site. [•] Check out Chris Vrenna’s new song off the videogame Alice in MP3 format. [•] Rage Against the Machine to play the Democratic National Convention? [•] Johnathan Davis (Korn) is being sued by his ex-wife for half his income. Ouch. [•] STP has ditched its greatest hits album. [•] The White House staff has a secret addiction– porn sites. [•] Pictures from the Warped Tour. [•] How to setup your own e-commerce web page. [•] One keyboard, mouse, and monitor with many PCs hooked up to them. Nice. [•] Cool your Athlon. [•] GM is building a retro-pickup called the Chevy SSR and Ford is going to put traction control on their light trucks. [•] I love you Azazel :* [•] All is quiet on the Western Front. [•] The Mervernation continues to grow. [•] Mmmm… Mcrae ZX3 wallpaper. [•] Learn to talk Japanese like an anime character. Neato. [•] Talk to you tomorrow night. Okay, make that type to tomorrow night. LOL.

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