Classic DF – 7/6/01

July 6, 2001: [•] A truce has been called between ethnic Albanian rebels and the Macedonian government. Fighting does continue though. [•] A tropical storm batters China. [•] Hubble takes an incredibly detailed picture of Mars. [•] Nepal police are scrambling to stop a bombing campaign. [•] Colombia has decided to let the Copa America soccer tournament take place after all. [•] China has put more people to death in 3 months than the rest of the world in 3 years. Then again… they do have the largest population in the world. [•] Someone has been illegally selling land in South Africa that they don’t own. [•] Nigeria will conduct its first amputation on a convicted thief. [•] Villagers in Congo blamed diseases on “witches” and hacked accused people to death. Over 200 people are believed to have been injured or killed as a result. [•] An earthquake hits southern Peru. [•] The UN tells Israel that cease fires won’t hold until they stop killing Palestinians. [•] Stupidity is trying to win the title of World’s longest time spent living with scorpions. [•] A man dies when a cave collapses on him. [•] President Bush has named Robert Mueller as his nominee for Director of the FBI. [•] The Consumer Product Safety Commission has fined the Lane Company $900,000 for failing to recall products known to be dangerous. [•] President Bush has asked China to be fair about a trial over whether two US citizens committed espionage or not. [•] MSN Messenger users have been reporting poor connectivity and missing buddy lists. [•] A quick overview of how Napster’s new song fingerprinting technology works. [•] Robots and the future of war. [•] Scientists researching orbits believe that a gravitational interaction between Mercury and Earth could have pulled the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs down. [•] Eli Lilly and Co. accidentally releases the addresses of 600 patients on Prozac on its web site. [•] The Duh Study of The Day: Teen drinking is a wide spread epidemic. When you can look at 50% of the people you know who are under 21-years old and say they are alcoholics– you’re in trouble. [•] The question is finally asked: Do animals have to suffer for medical research? [•] Something they don’t tell you in school: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that you read isn’t the original version. [•] The US Commerce Department web site that is supposed to teach companies how to protect consumer privacy reveals its database online by accident. Doh! [•] Ximian, maker of the Linux Gnome desktop, plan a Linux based version of Microsoft’s .NET initiative called Mono. [•] Orange County District Attorney Frank Phillips is finally joining in on a probe of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. [•] Forget malls: Cows own Wallkill bitch! [•] The Village of Goshen has bought the Salesian property at last. [•] A horrible fire has left two families in Warwick homeless. The Village of Warwick is collecting items for them. Azazel and I donated a blanket, but they need lots of stuff. Please help them out… it’s a worthy cause. [•] An electrical fire burns down a house, a search warrant gets police a chance to nab some marijuana fiends, Christopher Bickham gets arrested for being a little over protective of his fishing spot, a teen ends up in jail after using another person’s checking account to order DirecTV, Thomas McGlynn is charged with shooting at ATV riders, 3 people are killed in a head-on collision, the fight that never ends, Ricardo Ramos gets 15 years for shooting his girlfriend, Kenneth Trosclair is charged with sexually abusing a toddler, and Zoe Zimmerman finds out DWI sucks. [•] Garbage pushes its album back until September, but reveals track listings. [•] Raphael Gray, an admitted hacker, gets psychiatric treatment as a sentence. [•] Tori Amos’s next album will rework male artists’ songs from a female point of view. Expect Slayer and Eminem to be covered (sort of). [•] The much anticipated return of techno master Aphex Twin is near. [•] A sneak peak at the new BMW 7-Series. [•] Azazel contemplates the glory and frustration of parenthood. [•] Immy does the 4th thingy. [•] Rock ignored me at the carnival… evil Rock. [•] Poor Mermaid’s fish keep dying. [•] Tomorrow we’ll sum the week up.

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Classic DF – 7/3/01

July 3, 2001: [•] Milosevic is learning just how ironic life is. [•] Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is all too eager to call off a cease fire with Palestine. [•] The US serviceman in Japan accused of rape by a woman has been handed over to Japanese police for questioning. [•] It has been 30 years since Jim Morrison (The Doors) died. [•] The US has asked a jury to sentence Khalfan Khamis Mohamed to death for bombing a US embassy in Tanzania in 1998. [•] Uganda has reopened the Rwenzori Mountains National Park citing that it has evicted rebels from the area. [•] UNITA rebels have asked the US and Russia to help end the civil war in Angola. [•] Alfredo Astiz has surrendered himself. [•] Mexican President Vicente Fox married his spokeswoman, Martha Sahagun. [•] Muslim rebels in the Philippines say they will continue taking Europeans and Americans hostage until the government withdraws its forces from the Basilan island. [•] Cheetahs in Iran are endangered. [•] Quick! Arrest that woman! I can see her ankle! [•] Lebanon plans to eradicate cannabis crops… maybe. [•] The Department of Consumer Protection is looking into claims that ACME Rent-a-car did not provide fair warning to consumers about its speeding policy. [•] The TechX Tradeshow showed off upgrades a plenty. [•] Having wolves in Yellowstone has cut the coyote population in half, but that may not be a bad thing. [•] The Duh Study of The Day: 5.2 million children/teens have hearing loss. What did you say? What? Huh? 🙂 [•] An old story I missed, but should note: Scientists have engineered mice that are immune to certain breast cancers. [•] Laid off workers are reporting their former employers’ pirated software habits to the authorities. He who laughs last indeed. [•] New Mexico teenager Jason Schwab has been charged with hacking into NASA in April of 2000. [•] The world gets a taste of what happens when crazy people get a hold of powerful technology. [•] Did a missing 14-year old girl run off with boys she met on the Internet? [•] Short Line/Coach USA wants a piece of the Metro-North Railroad and Woodbury Common Premium Outlets planned commuter parking lot. [•] The Warwick Town Police lost their case against a man they charged with DWI for driving his truck down his driveway to pick up his trash cans. LOL [•] Do me a favor tomorrow: Don’t be stupid with fireworks and blow off a limb or something! [•] A drug raid in Deerpark yields 3 arrests, Sean T. Pennell gets arrested after crashing his car because he was DWI, and the Tappan Zee Bridge goes online. [•] Creed says its next album will be comparable to U2’s The Joshua Tree. I don’t know, those are big shoes to fill. [•] At last count there are 120 unreleased recordings of Kurt Cobain. Tu Pac eat your heart out. [•] Chino Moreno (The Deftones) decided it would be cool to drink lots of vodka, throw up, show his penis to the crowd, and get beat up. Sounds… ummm… interesting. No wait, let me amend that. Sounds retarded and interesting. [•] Signals to Noise has a very promising line up. [•] A very large ice covered object has been discovered between Pluto and Neptune. [•] The 2002 Ford Thunderbird: It doesn’t suck. [•] Ford recalls 1997-2001 model E150, E250 and E350 trucks due to fuel tank crack issues. BMW recalls models equipped with four-cylinder and six-cylinder engines that were built between October 1998-March 2000. [•] You can now buy an Acura RSX (Kick ass!). [•] A sneak peak at the new VW Microbus. [•] Napster has shut down its file trading service to update its databases. [•] Azazel finally updates! GASP! 🙂 [•] Mermaid gets new fish. [•] I would just like to wish everyone a Happy Fourth of July. Freedom rules!

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Classic DF – 5/17/01

Two years ago I embarked on a journey. I decided that I wanted a media presence. I was frustrated by the lack of technical and artistic information on the web. No one was talking about MP3s or Napster yet. There was little help with computers. You were on your own. After a long walked that ended in Daemon Immortalis’s apartment I founded DigitalFl00d Studios. I declared (with him as my witness) that I would decimate our art to the world and provide a place where our viewpoints could be displayed. The next day I bought digitalflood.com and with the help of Rock we set up an account on Jeph.net.

I have had a web page before. Infact, I’ve been on the web for five years. My previous iterations were simply lots of links and poor HTML. I was learning. What do you expect? With digitalflood.com my main intention was a simple yet effective layout with interactive features. V1.0 was very ruff and probably deserved beta status. V2.0 incorporated layer and DHTML, which works horribly under Netscape. V2.1 switched back to tables and standard HTML4. V3.0 (the current version) added DHTML that was Netscape compatible, but still had some Internet Explorer goodies. V3.5 is in the works. I’m mum on that subject still though.

We started by simply ranting. Then we would fight with the locals. Then we started fighting with other web pages. More ranting. Finally I started covering the News since things slowed down on the art front. Since then we have two main outputs: News and Computer/Internet Troubleshooting. Who would have thunk it? 🙂

The day of rant and E/N may have passed. Today I try to focus on art and world issues. Our recent CVS vs. Warwick page is an example of local activism in action. When we aren’t causing trouble we are making art. Music and art are still regularly produced works. We have a large network of supporters and friends who help us out (You guys rule).

We have over 80,000 hits since our inception. We average 400 hits a day. It is the you the viewer who really deserves the most credit. You keep me working and producing. Without viewers I would have no reason to create. I thank you for your time and your persistance. In reality this is not just digitalflood.com’s birthday– It is the day we celebrate art and technology as one.

As a special treat digitalflood.com would like to present to you our animated short All Your MP3 Belong to US! Based on the short video intro for the Nintendo video game Zero Wing the animated short brings you to a place where the evil RIAA rules. Lars of Metallica fame finds himself thrust into the role of an evil overload for the RIAA. His rule is being threatened by a small band of infidel haX0rs called Digitalflood. Their MP3 might has grown too strong. Lars grows weary of their lies and attacks our heroes at Digitalflood. Can they survive? Find out now.

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Classic DF – 4/3/01

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 – 8/25/00

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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