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Classic DF – 8/4/00

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Aug 4, 2000: [•] Last night George Bush slammed Al Gore and rallied the GOP to a frenzy. It was pretty cool. [•] Queen Mother Elizabeth turns 100 years old today. [•] Miloslevic is at it again. This time he is saying that 2 Britons and 2 Canadians are terrorists because they were carrying tools to make bombs. The truth is they train bomb squads (well, duh of course they have bomb making equipment). Montenegro believes Miloslevic is trying to take control by making a crisis. [•] Sears is pulling Firestone ATX, ATX II and Wilderness tires from its shelves due to safety concerns that we reported earlier last month. [•] California has been hit by a power crisis. [•] The good news is that more beaches are closing down before people get sick, but the bad news is the number of infected beaches is rising. [•] Brazil is being ravaged by mudslides and floods. [•] Luisa Farinon Caltagirone and her body guard were held hostage for a little bit by their servant Leo Bagasson in Italy before he escaped. [•] Ex-President Ford is doing better after suffering 2 small strokes, but a swollen tongue continues to plague him. [•] A man is trying to gain custody rights of his unborn child citing that the woman carrying the baby would be an unfit mother. [•] West Nile Virus continues to spread across New York and New Jersey. It’s amazing how fast one little bug can spread a disease isn’t it? [•] The US Navy has removed the latest group of protesters off of Vieques Island and resumed their war games. [•] You can now buy and sell real estate over E-bay. [•] A judge has ordered the FBI to disclose how Carnivore works. [•] A new breed of pirate is growing on the Net. They are low down and dirty. They are elderly and stealing needlepoint patterns. [•] The European Commission has filed an antitrust suite against Microsoft. [•] Online swap markets may be the next big thing. [•] Toys R Us is being sued for online privacy violations. [•] The US Navy has bought the world’s fourth fastest computer. [•] There is still a shortage of nurses. So if you’re looking for a job nursing may be for you. [•] Pravastatin, an anti-cholesterol drug, may also help with preventing strokes. [•] A man has filed a $800 million law suite stating that his cellphone caused his brain cancer. [•] A couple of months back Azazel tried a can of Slim Fast. It made her really sick. Apparently she isn’t alone. Slim Fast has recalled its drink products. [•] Regular inhalation of steroids can help relieve asthma. [•] If the California power shortage continues dams may be activated and that would be bad news for salmon. [•] Cornell University has been air conditioning its faculties by drawing water from the bottom of Cayuga Lake. Environmentalists worry that this will increase algae and disrupt the ecosystem. [•] Scientists hope to encase radioactive materials in a ceramic crystal so they don’t contaminate the Earth. [•] Warner Brothers and Sony Pictures are trying out sending animation over PDAs. [•] CNN.com is refusing to list Jerusalem as part of Israel on its weather maps. [•] Register.com is suing Verio Inc. for using whois information for spam and telemarketing. [•] Mafiaboy has pleaded not guilty to all 64 charges against him (he supposedly attacked Yahoo! etc…). [•] Web porn star Danni Ashe tells you how to keep you kids from seeing her hootchie. [•] The Communications Workers of America are going to strike shutting down many local telephone companies. [•] The Bruderhof Community is stopping children from talking with their fathers who have benn banned by the community for questioning the leaders. [•] The Orange County Sheriffs, New York State Police, and Washingtonville Police Department will be watching very closely over a rave in Washingtonville this weekend. Sounds like its going to be a not so happening party. [•] Two trucks collided closing down Route 9W. [•] Rifton Inc. is stealing water from fire hydrant water main that belongs to Stewart Airport and they think they can get away with it. [•] A Middletown teacher has been cleared of charges and will return to work this fall. [•] John Rudden, the ex-cop who pulled a gun on a group of teens who accidentally collided with him, will be allowed to go to Europe while his lawyer represents him in his trial. It must be nice to be old, retired while well-off, and crazy. [•] Some customers of Time Warner Cable got a free 15 minute porn fest. [•] Parents of a teenager who was killed after he stole a car won’t be able to sue the car’s owner for their son’s demise. [•] The SPCA has seized several animals from an Ulster County man who neglected them. [•] WTBQ (1110AM) is going onto the Net and needs a nighttime DJ. [•] The Times-Herald Record Briefs: A man has been found guilty on possession of a taser, a soy sauce factory catches on fire, a teen attempts to rob a man outside of KFC, all 3 dead people have been identified in a fatal car crash, and Unionville won’t get its bug spray just yet. [•] Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 will feature lots of mainstream hard rock artists. Oh joy. [•] The Spice Girls are back. Cover your ears. [•] Young MC is back too. [•] Hack your Tivo some more. [•] Compaq is trying to build a super computer. They haven’t even built a decent desktop one much less a super computer. [•] Chino Moreno (Deftones) is working on a song for Back To School with possibly Ozzy Osbourne (cool). The next Deftones’ single will be RX Queen. [•] Queens of The Stone Age and VAST are touring together. [•] Who wants to have sex with Regis? [•] Weezer is gearing up for a new tour and new album. [•] How to secure your DSL from hackers. [•] Gravis’s newest gamepad kicks ass. [•] Build a kick ass box that is cheap ass. [•] Mmmm… Porsche Boxster S. [•] The new and very nice 2001 Honda Accord has been announced. [•] The Daily Insider: Ford wants to know why Firestone’s tires are giving out and are now using Cray SV1 super computers to analyze customer data. [•] Winrar 2.71 is here. [•] The Shockwave and Flash Player 8.0.196a is out for both Communicator and Explorer. [•] Black Ice Defender 2.1 is a good firewall. [•] McAfee Virus Scan 5 is out. [•] WindowBlinds 1.3 is ready to go. [•] Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 1 is finally here. [•] Adobe Photoshop Pro 5.5 is out. [•] Mervernation officially has gone commune. [•] And Hoagie’s page is back up (yeah!). [•] Azazel, I love you 🙂 [•] Bored? The NeoScience Institute will keep you busy. It’s a pretty dumb page, but what do you want for free? Entertainment? HA! See you on Monday 🙂

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Classic DF – 7/27/00

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July 27, 2000: [•] Napster has been shutdown until their trial with the RIAA is over. Of course, now the RIAA realizes that centralized services such as Napster, which can be controlled, are going to be replaced with distributed systems like Gnutella that can’t be controlled. [•] The FCC is investigating AOL-Time Warner as a possible monopoly. [•] Four major health groups have found a link between exposing children to violence in the media and a growing propensity for violent acts by children. The MPAA has no comment (why don’t you try suing them LOL). [•] A new exhibit details the Armenian Holocaust that occurred during the early 1900’s. [•] North Korea has been inducted into Asia’s top security forum and recognized by Canada as a country. [•] Now that Milosevic has secured his power in Yugoslavia he has scheduled elections for September 24. [•] Muslim Filipino rebels have a released a German reporter. [•] Wildfires are the worst in four years. [•] Massachusetts has been hit by the West Nile Virus. [•] US agents intercepted a $40 million shipment of ecstasy in LA. [•] An ex-LAPD officer, Rafael Perez, has testified that six fellow officers shot two people and killed another for no reason and then falsified evidence to clear themselves of wrong doing. BTW Perez is currently under investigation for stealing cocaine seized by the LAPD. [•] A Russian flight control specialist drowned after drinking too much. I guess it took a rocket scientist to figure out that drinking and swimming isn’t a good idea. [•] CBS and three newspapers are willing to pay for DNA testing to see if a man was wrongly executed. [•] Edgar Adamson of the US Customs Service explained to a House Committee that many nations lack the laws to prosecute computer crime. [•] If terrorists took out the biggest nodes of the Internet then the network would fragment rendering it useless. [•] TRUSTe is running an ad campaign to make web consumers more savvy and understand that TRUSTe Certification doesn’t mean your information won’t be shared with anyone. [•] Take a look at how CERN is upgrading to 1 GB LANs. [•] Macromedia Flash 5 is out and it looks great. Flash rules 🙂 [•] X-Men: Mutant Academy looks like a great one on one fighter game. [•] Scientists are launching microbes into space to test if life could have survived an asteroid ride to Earth. [•] Removing damaged lung tissue can give temporary relief to emphysema patients. [•] A stomach cancer vaccine is in human trials. [•] Methoxsalen slows the breakdown of nicotine in the bloodstream and therefore helps people quit smoking easier. [•] UPN is changing its name to The Paramount Network. [•] Duh Study of The Day: Big ships are a major source of pollution. Dirty smoke emitting engines tend to be pretty big polluters. [•] The EPA is making nine refineries owned by BP Amoco and three refineries owned by Koch Petroleum Group pay fines and reduce toxic emissions. More refineries are expected to do the same soon or else face similar fines. [•] The Valles Caldera National Preserve in New Mexico has been created to preserve 90,000 acres of land. [•] Another oil spill in Brazil is threatening beaches and resorts. [•] Norwegian whale meat is so contaminated with heavy metals that if the meat were soil it would be considered toxic waste. [•] A new wheelchair, the IBot, can do anything that someone without a wheelchair could do. Amazing. [•] Microsoft has reclaimed microsoft.org and proponents of Microsoft aren’t happy. [•] Bioware will be developing the first Star Wars role-playing video game for Lucas Arts. [•] Intel will abandon its Rambus only relationship when the Pentium 4 is released in 2001 as previously expected. [•] Cuba is now going online. [•] John Rudden of Monroe pointed a gun at a group of 13 and 14 year old kids after colliding with them on a bike path by mistake. He says he felt threatened. Okay then. [•] William Peoples has been sentenced to a year in jail for attempting to bury a puppy alive. [•] An escaped Otisville prisoner has been recaptured. [•] Drop one phone on kid’s head and the next thing you know you’re a child abuser. [•] Oakridge Shepherds in Williamsport, PA have been charged with selling sick animals and falsifying AKC papers. [•] EMS workers want the Town of Shawangunk to get 24 hour police coverage since it takes too long for Sheriff’s units to respond. [•] Did the police catch the wrong BMW? [•] A mother covers for her son’s possible raping of a girl, an illegally tinted car stop turns into a illegal gun and drug bust, a man dies in a head on collision when he tries to illegally pass a car, and police are looking for a thief. [•] Remember the live album that U2 wasn’t supposed to do from yesterday? Well, now they decided they’ll do it for a promo. [•] Prepare for Eminem: the movie. [•] Pras has formed a film company. [•] Digimon: The Movie is in the works and Len is contributing to it with a cover of Kids In America that should cause people to change radio stations rapidly upon its playing. [•] Attention ladies and gentleman– boycott the RIAA now! As today don’t buy another CD! [•] Kid Rock’s ex-girlfriend is suing him for slander. [•] Uncle Kracker is a dad. [•] Apparently the brick wielding homeless man who attacked a woman is still out there. [•] Cracker is back and touring. [•] Microsoft smashes a monster truck through a wall to stop piracy. Ummm… [•] Can the Duron beat the Celeron? [•] Cool your system down. [•] Maximum PC reviews the I-Jam 100. [•] Road & Track Briefs: Daimler-Chrysler says the PT Cruiser is safe; owners of Ford Explorers equipped with Firestone ATX, ATX II and Wilderness tires are having deadly crashes due to tire tread issues; and Mitsubishi denies they covered up customer complaints even though those complaints were found hidden in an employee locker. [•] Guitar.com teaches you how to play Phish style (Kevin’s favorite band). [•] Red Raven is going on vacation and won’t be posting (doh!). [•] Azazel, I love you! [•] Tomorrow we shall reconvene. Class dismissed.

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Classic DF – 7/21/00

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July 21, 2000: [•] Happy Birthday to my Mom! She was 50 years old yesterday. I love you Mom and congratulations 🙂 [•] The US House has passed a lift of the embargo of food, drugs, and travel to Cuba. [•] The US allowed infamous Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann to avoid capture for 4 years. [•] Stephen King will release the first shareware (pay to keep it) book. [•] Tom Welch (no relation to me) and David Johnson have been indicted in trying to bribe Olympics officials. [•] An earthquake hit Mexico City. [•] Augusto “I’m a lying scuzzball” Pinochet claims he never ordered any murders. Yeah, people are just making it up… sure (lying jerk). [•] A fire broke out in Mesa Verde National Park forcing an evacuation. [•] A gunman in Los Angelos shot himself. [•] Lots of tomatoes and no one to buy them. [•] Heroin deaths are up. [•] Namibia says it has to club 60,000 seals to death in order to preserve fish stocks, but wildlife activists say that its just because they want to sell seal balls to the orient for sex potions. [•] A new technique allows both strands of DNA to be analyzed at the same time. [•] Another study has labeled Napster as good for getting people to buy CDs. [•] Sega has stepped up its fight against software piracy and is closing down web sites hosting illegal games for sale. [•] Think you’ve seen the new G4 cube design before? You did. Back then in 1989 the design was called NeXT. [•] Computer enhanced “smart toys” may be the next big thing for Christmas. [•] Scientists have created man made diamonds so close to nature’s that even the atomic structure is nearly 100% of the real thing. [•] The West Nile Virus has come to Orange County, NY. [•] We want you for the Carnie Reserve. [•] A rape attempt was averted when a family shined its car lights on an attacker. [•] Once upon a time a student brought a pipe bomb to school and now he realizes it was stupid. This story even has a happy ending. [•] Monroe wants to add a K-9 cop to its police force. [•] Five people were caught smuggling drugs into the Orange County Jail. [•] A wanted child molester from Chester will see air time on American’s Most Wanted. [•] A missing man was found dead, a woman has been charged in stabbing her husband to death, and a street party is a brewing in The Times-Herald Record Briefs. [•] The new Palm M100 and VIIx have been announced. Both look very promising. [•] The first AutoCAD virus has been found. [•] The last British Ford Escort has rolled off the assembly line. As a proud driver of 3 generations of Escorts I can only say its a sad day in the motor industry, “sob”. [•] The cult of Mac continues. [•] A kid found a deep fried lizard in his Burger King Kid’s Meal. Yummy. [•] The NYC brick attacker has confessed. [•] Make money now! Sell stolen items back to their owners! [•] Creed has nicely told Fred “I’m a really big fat ugly loser” Durst to shut up and to stop thinking the world revolves around his fat ass. [•] Woodstock 99: Fans started the fire, but the promoters supplied the kindling. [•] Secure CRT 3.1 is out and if you shell, then you need. [•] Road & Track Online says that Nissan is upping its production in the US and GM is developing smart collision prevention systems to avoid crashes all together. [•] Learn the guitar styles of Tattoo The Earth. [•] Azazel, I love you! [•] I don’t know who is really into emulation anymore. Back in the day it was a big deal to play video games for Nintendo on your PC and such. Now it’s kind of a mute subject and played out. If you really want to get into some hard to configure stuff check out The Amiga Emulation Page. Since most of the ROMs have been removed they are hard to find, but that’s part of the fun. [•] Big news from the fish bowl– Heike has been banished! Now, this really starting to heat up. Did you see the shower cam? Pretty hot stuff 🙂 [•] Bored? I’m not going to be March 22nd. That’s when Azazel is due to give birth 🙂 And better yet– with my insurance it’s free! Talk to you either Monday or Tuesday. Keep it peachy.

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