Classic DF – 7/2/01

July 2, 2001: [•] So much for a Mideast cease fire. [•] VP Cheney returns to work after receiving a pacemaker. [•] The IRA has been accused of not disarming. [•] So much for a Macedonia cease fire. [•] Hong Kong celebrates 4 years of Chinese rule. [•] A bomb exploded in a theater in Karachi, Pakistan killing 1 person. [•] Algerian rebels kill 6 people at a night club. [•] South Africa buries the last Rain Queen. [•] Argentina has put a warrant out for ex-Navy Captain Alfredo Astiz for torturing and killing pregnant women. [•] Gun fights in Kashmir leave 7 people dead. [•] Iran has arrested 11,892 drug addicts and traders, not to mention killed 9 drug traffickers in a major 4 day drug crackdown. [•] Forget Delia’s! The main attraction in Saudi malls is the beatings. [•] A teen picks up a hand grenade left over from a 1994 civil war in Yemen and gets blown up. [•] Japanese police may issue a warrant for a US soldier believed to have raped a woman. [•] A man killed 2 of his children and critically injured another before being shot dead by police in Syracuse, New York. [•] A car is hit by a train killing 5 people. [•] Tampa, Florida is using 36 cameras to scan crowds for wanted people. [•] A prostitute admits to killing 6 people in Florida. [•] Famous guitarist Chet Atkins has died. He was 77. [•] Dust from Africa is crossing the Atlantic Ocean and bringing germs to the US. [•] Sony drops the price of the Playstation 2 to $280. [•] Japan Telecom launches a Mini-disc music download service at train stations. [•] Cisco routers and switches running the IOS HTTP server are vulnerable to hackers. A patch is available to fix the issue. [•] Microsoft is dropping Smart Tags from Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6. [•] Scientists believe there is a link between testicular cancer and infertility. [•] ICQ gets hacked. [•] Smells like… crap. [•] Major thunderstorms take out power and phone service in the Mid-Hudson. [•] Jack C. Morgan is charged with the negligent homicide of his brother, two men are charged with burglary, a riot almost breaks out in Newburgh, a man runs from cops for no reason, and an auto accident leaves 2 people in bad shape. [•] Courtney Love continues to be a huge bitch and insist she is the sole owner of Nirvana’s music. Hello! Courtney you were no where to be found when Kurt Cobain hooked up with Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic. You’re a greedy self-centered liar. I can see making sure Francis (Cobain’s son) gets something, but she deserves nothing. [•] Ministry turns up in A.I. and kicks some major robot ass! [•] Hey! I patented the wheel first! [•] The 2002 35th Anniversary Camaro will be Chevy’s last run of the car. [•] Nissan revises its Z concept. [•] The NICB says that import cars cause insurance fraud (No comment). [•] A guitar lesson from Edge of U2. [•] The uphill battle against porn and search engines. [•] Intel says that 1.8GHz and 1.6GHz Pentium 4 processors should be available to you right now. [•] Azazel and I went to the Warwick Fire Department’s carnival this past weekend. It was all right. The fireworks, however, were awesome. I still hate carnies though. 🙂 [•] We even saw Immy! [•] And Mermaid! [•] And Verona! [•] And Flying Moose! [•] Hey, that’s a run on sentence! [•] Finally, the brand spanking new V.90 Help is up and running for your nerd loving pleasure.

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Classic DF – 6/28/01

June 28, 2001: [•] Wang Guoqi, a Chinese doctor, has testified that China harvests organs from executed prisoners whether they consent to donate or not. [•] Comedian Paula Poundstone has been charged with child molestation. [•] US Secretary of State Colin Powell and Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat are meeting today. [•] The ETA blew up a package bomb in Spain injuring 10 people. [•] Possibilities of land invasions loom in South Africa. [•] For the first time in 10 years police begin patrolling Mogadishu, Somalia. [•] Ethnic violence is spreading across Nigeria. [•] In light of a recent kidnapping, Colombia has suspended the Copa America soccer tournament. [•] A bus crash in Haiti kills at least 40 people. [•] Peru has called their ambassador to Japan home. [•] Kamel Naji Kamel goes on trial for being a suspected terrorist with links to Osama bin Laden in Jordan. [•] A bus collides with a truck killing 17 people in Iran. [•] A man convicted of murder in Yemen is forgiven at the last second. [•] Jack Lemmon has passed away. He was 76. [•] V.90 Help is officially remodeled and hardcore to the bone (Ummm… OK). I hope you like the new design. We’ll be adding more features as time allots.[•] Bored? Pissed cause Napster has been over filtering music? No problem. Hungry Bands offers you a chance to listen to underground and unsigned artists looking for listeners. Check it out! [•] Today’s post is short (as you can tell). Lots of going ons at work! So we’ll close this post out for now. We’ll be back next Monday with more fun and frolic. Word!

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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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