Classic DF – 8/1/02

August 01, 2002: [•] Fired ex-Worldcom CFO Scott Sullivan has turned himself in. [•] The FBI has raided an apartment of an ex-military microbiologist. [•] LA police are trying to find the whereabouts of two teenage girls kidnapped in LA. [•] US leaders are concerned about regrouping al Qaeda cells that are now merging with other terrorist groups. [•] I normally don’t print gossip news, but considering what a scum ball ex-Sen. James A. Traficant Jr. is I will make an exception: He wears a toupee! HAAHAHAHHA! [•] The US is concerned with Russia’s nuclear ties to Iran. [•] A UN report says there is no evidence to support the claims that Israeli soldiers massacred Palestinians at the Jenin refugee camp. [•] US troops faced with potentially deadly situations in Afghanistan have turned to robot scouts called Packbots. [•] Ugandan rebels are threatening journalists. [•] 62 people in Madagascar have died from an unknown sickness. [•] Rebels kidnapped an entire town in Colombia and the army isn’t sure where they went. [•] The US has signed a pact with Southeastern Asian nations to fight terrorism. [•] 13 people were found dead on a Spanish beach. [•] Police are searching for a white pickup truck in relation to a kidnapping in Louisiana. [•] The wife of a US Army Special Operations officer who shot dead has been charged with murdering her husband. [•] 2002 has become the second warmest year ever recorded by humankind. Great… [•] US President Bush’s computer and network security advisor, Richard Clarke, spoke at the Black Hat hackers conference (sometimes called Defcon) where he encouraged hackers to act in good faith when discovering vulnerabilities. [•] A robot named Pearl is helping elderly people keep tabs on their eating habits. [•] Even a few extra pounds is bad for your heart. [•] Scientists are going to send mice into space to subject them to Martian-type gravity. [•] Barnes & Noble’s web site has some pretty big holes in security and they know about them. Even worse yet, they don’t care they exist. Nice. [•] Two hackers at Black Hat showed off a Dreamcast converted into a port sniffer tool. [•] Wal-mart will build a distribution center in Wallkill, NY. [•] The Consolidated Iron and Metal scrap yard in Newburgh, NY has been listed as a superfund site. [•] Ex-NYC police officer Matthew Leuck has been sentenced to three years in prison for sodomizing a 16-year old girl. [•] Port Jervis is trying to clean up an unsightly junkyard. [•] Matt Sullivan, one of my associates, speaks out against communism interfering with the free market in Warwick, NY. Go Matt! [•] Radiohead is allowing fans to chose the songs for their next album. [•] Secondhand smoke has been linked to causing cancer in cats. [•] Linkin Park is hoping to complete their new album by this year’s end. [•] Jessica Simpson will join the cast of That 70’s Show for three episodes as Kelso’s new girlfriend. Even better news is she’ll be in a bathing suit. Go FOX! LOL [•] Compaq and HP are having lots of problems getting along. [•] Intel is blaming Microsoft for the death of its AnyPoint wireless line. [•] I love you Klez. Oh no, wait… I meant to say I want you to die in a deep water filled ditch on some back road in Canada, Klez. [•] With the trend of more people buying online maybe I can finally get my mail order e-dead skunk service up and running! Maybe not. [•] I love you wife and daughter! [•] Yes, I updated The CVS & Warwick, NY site again. I rule.

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Classic DF – 7/7/01

July 7, 2001: [•] China has sent the US a bill for $1 million for “storing” the formerly detained spy plane. If they think that the US will pay for it they are bigger morons than I previously thought. [•] Rebels in Nepal killed at least 34 police officers and kidnapped several people. [•] For every person who gets gored at Pamplona’s Running of the Bulls it brings a smile to my face. You get what you deserve. [•] Hanssen has pleaded guilty to spying. [•] Clashes in Bangladesh between rival political party members have left at least 200 people injured. [•] The UN has a video tape that may explain the disappearance of 3 Israeli soldiers. [•] The Royal Zulu Biosphere and Game Reserve hopes to preserve South Africa’s natural habitat. [•] Gunmen have killed 11 people at a roadblock in Algeria. [•] North Korea has admitted to fighting against the US with Vietnamese. [•] Dozens of corpses have been found in Indonesia, but no one is fessing up to killing them. [•] 10 people died at a concert in France when a storm knocked a tree down onto the tent they were staying in. [•] Iran has evacuated 656 villages struck with drought. [•] A tornado has hit Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. [•] West Nile Disease has spread to Florida. [•] An armored vehicle rolls over killing 2 Marines. [•] Apple has recalled 570,000 G3 notebook AC adapters. [•] Evenflo has recalled their Joyride carrier/car seats. [•] 15 illegal immigrants are caught at Kennedy Space Center. [•] Jenna Bush has been fined $600 and had her license suspended for underage drinking. [•] An Air Force pilot was killed during a training mission. [•] Playstation 2 may cure the intellectual woes of the third world. [•] Usenet newsgroups are keeping viruses alive. [•] A trip to the water park could kill you. [•] Embryonic stem cell clones have serious flaws in their DNA that could lead to abnormalities later in life. [•] Before you sign up for a vacation filled with prostitutes and drugs you better check the local HIV concentration. [•] A runaway teen has been returned home thanks to some good old fashion telephone records. [•] New York State Police describe the not so fun time of patrolling the Hudson River. [•] Illegal drag racing is becoming a pain in the ass. [•] Convicted killer Michael Ross has agreed to be tried in Orange County for the rape and murder of a teen in 1982. [•] A man arrested for threatening to kill his neighbor hangs himself in a Monticello jail cell. [•] A car accident leaves 2 people injured, Joseph Belford is arrested after a woman accuses him of rape, Robert Ballinger is charged with selling crack to undercover cops, 2 teens are charged with burglary, 9 people were arrested for bringing fireworks into New York State, and Robert DeGroat is arrested for breaking into a house only to then attack its occupants. [•] Epic Records has forced Ozzy Osbourne to cancel his post-Ozzfest Black Sabbath tour so he can finish his next album. [•] The Crystal Method prepare to tour in support of their upcoming album Tweekend (BTW: I heard the first single, Name of the Game, yesterday and if it’s signs of what’s to come off this album– it will rule.). [•] Jewel hopes to retool her sound. [•] Sony has announced a hard drive add-on for the Playstation 2. [•] The Butthole Surfers return. [•] Sun International Lotus Elise Type R. Nuff’ said. [•] Opel is considering returning to the US auto market. [•] Azazel baked up some fine pork chops yesterday that kicked so much ass! I don’t know why I’m telling you this… I just am. 🙂 [•] Bored? Fine. Be that way. Check out The Mullet, a cable-access TV showed dedicated to ignorance and its all inspiring bliss. On a side note: I once had a mullet. It ruled. My blonde mullet of fury (Business on top, party in the back BIG TIME!) struck fear in the heart of the un-elite. I so rule.

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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 – 8/8/00

Aug 8, 2000: [•] Ex-Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for corruption and sodomy. Many people feel that Anwar is being singled out by the current government and has been unfairly tried. [•] Police have determined that Thomas Jones did not fire the shot that injured a police officer in Philadelphia and has led to Jones’ defense claim that he didn’t have a gun when police shot him. [•] Iraqi President Saddam Hussein praised those who fought in the Iraq-Iran War and cursed those who foiled his evil schemes in the Gulf War (Oh, you darn kids!). [•] Ocean temperatures are rising destroying coral reefs, contributing to global warming, and increasing the chance of hurricanes. [•] The majority of web sites are not screen reader compliant. [•] A car bomb in Spain killed an important business leader. [•] Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is touring his fellow OPEC nations and is making a controversial stop in Iraq. [•] The Confederate H.L. Hunley Submarine has been raised out of the water 136 years after it was sunk. [•] Alabama is worried about their drought. [•] New York City police commissioner Howard Safir has decided to step down next month. [•] 2 Cuban doctors have defected to the US. [•] The World Health Organization is trying to stop people from buying tobacco products. Good luck. [•] Ah, this is my kind of summer camp. [•] Yahoo! and E-bay have stopped an auction of a mailing list citing privacy concerns. [•] Time Warner -EMI have won a cybersquatting dispute. [•] Icebox.com is receiving complaints that its Mr. Wong is depicted in a stereotypical manner (duh). [•] A baby is more likely to die of SIDS in a day care center than at home. [•] The recent wildfires have taken both physical and mental affects on health. [•] A ocean protection panel has been created. [•] China is using dogs to nurse baby pandas. [•] Sea otters are on the rise again, but fisherman are losing out. [•] New Zealand law enforcement have taken to the Net to fight a local mob. [•] A new hole in Netscape Communicator 4.5-4.74 allows hackers access using Java to your hard drive. It is even launchable through e-mail. Very bad stuff. [•] Can BBSs manipulate the stock market? [•] Norfolk Men’s Clinic has been charged by FDA of selling illegal prescription drugs to people without a prescription. [•] A judge threw out the Model E vs. Ford case citing that Michigan isn’t the proper venue for the case. [•] Mr. Francois has been sentenced to 8 terms of 25 to life for first degree murder. Good job (asswipe). [•] Who threw a puppy from a third story window? [•] The Brotherhood Winery Music Festival ended 45 minutes early when 2 people passed out (1 was overdosed), but prior to that police made 14 drug arrests. Party! [•] The Times-Herald Record Briefs: Caught stealing plates, buying beer illegally, not caught stealing, a drive-by shooting, and corrections officers wanted. [•] See what bitches be going to the MTV Video Music Awards. [•] Iron Maiden, Halford, and Queensrÿche have launched a tour. [•] A fan injured themselves at a No Doubt concert (and that is odd how?). [•] You can remix Foetus at S-MTV. That rules. [•] REM is finishing up their new album in Ireland. [•] The Rolling Rock Fest rocked. [•] VH1 lets you create your own music awards. [•] De La Soul is back. [•] Luke Virbert spun some Aphex Twin for a museum concert. [•] The Offspring will have a web cam in their studio so you watch them record their next album. [•] Ultra ATA hard drives just keep getting bigger. [•] How not to clean a hard drive. [•] Customize Unreal Tournament. [•] What’s the difference between the Create Labs Sound Blaster Live! MP3+ and X-Gamer? [•] Another look at the very nice 2000 Nissan Sentra. [•] Road & Track News Briefs: Gas prices are down, tire deaths are up, Daimler-Chrysler is pausing production of the Neon to fix inventory, Toyota is adding a sequential manual transmission to the MR-2 Spider (very cool), and Ford has recalled the Escape, as well as, the Mazda Tribute due to steering defects. [•] The Audi TT Roadster, BMW M Roadster, Honda S2000 and Porsche Boxster S fight it out. [•] The new Corvette and Viper are here. [•] How to use a guitar effects chain. [•] I love you Azazel! [•] Daemon Immortalis talks about life and consequences. [•] Red Raven is back, but the reason why the page was removed is still there in a cryptic form– someone is scared of the truth. (BTW it isn’t me so keep going down the list LOL). [•] Mermaid is addicted to vinyl. [•] Do you own a Ford Focus like I? Do you want to read about how to snap-on some parts to make it fly? Focaljet is your new best friend. [•] Well, everyone has been worried about censorship lately. I guess the right to free speech comes with a price and that price is persecution. That’s life. Welcome to adulthood. It sucks doesn’t it 🙂

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