January 19, 2006
The San Jose Mercury News is reporting the US Justice Department has asked a Federal court to force Google to provide them with search data for one million random IP addresses, and all search data for a one week period. Think about that…if you use Google once a week, your data will be going to the Feds. Why do they need this information? To protect the children! More specifically, to defend the Child Online Protection Act, a law which was struck down in 2004 when a Federal court ruled it “too broad”. Won’t someone please think of the children?
The government indicated that other, unspecified search engines have agreed to release the information, but not Google.
So if you search with Yahoo, MSN, or one of the myriad also-ran engines, you may already be a winner! And don’t forget, every search engine out there plants a cookie in your browser. Unless you clear out cookies on a regular basis, some of them will persist for 30+ years. So if you’ve been searching for anything the Feds might find interesting, it would be trivial for them to subpoena all searchees associated with the cookie on your machine. But that should only worry those with something to hide…
January 16, 2006
Day 1–Ackme-Our Man on the Ground
Ackme is on the Space Coast of Florida to witness the launching of the New Horizons Mission. Continuing Story on Alien Jesus Command
January 14, 2006
New Horizons: First Mission to the Last Planet
Rocket: Atlas 5 (AV-010)
Payload: New Horizons
Date: January 17, 2006
Site: Complex 41, Cape Canaveral, Florida
This Tuesday:
Time: 1:24-3:23 p.m. EST (1824-2023 GMT)
January 12, 2006
Man sues chatroom pals: I was humiliated beyond what ‘no man could endure’ - CourtTV.com - Top News
“Gillespie, 53, claims that Marlowe and Bob Charpentier, a 52-year-old Oregon resident, insulted him and harassed him in the AOL chatroom called ‘Romance %u2014 Older Men’ to the point where it inflicted ’severe emotional distress and physical injury that is of a nature no reasonable man could be expected to endure it.’”
George Gillespie is a total pussy. Sue me, ya wanker.
The internet has always been a mean place. Chat, IRC, usenet…anywhere you interact with people who sit miles away, faceless.
It’s not a place for the weak. You know what I did when I found usenet to be beyond what I could deal with?
I stopped doing it.
Fuck George Gillespie and let’s hope this case gets tossed out pronto.
CNN.com - Stardust of yesterday - Jan 12, 2006:
“(CNN) — NASA’s Stardust space probe is racing toward Earth, carrying a tiny payload of cometary and interstellar dust — particles that scientists believe are leftovers from the creation of our solar system.If all goes as planned, Stardust will release the 100-lb. capsule carrying the samples at 1 a.m. ET on Sunday. It would enter Earth’s atmosphere about four hours later and parachute to the ground in Utah at 5:12 a.m. ET.”
I certainly hope it goes allright. In space speed, the Desert Command is barely a hiccup away.
January 11, 2006
Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone From Yahoo! News: “”
“In November 2004, Sites became a flashpoint of controversy for one of the biggest stories of the current Iraqi war, when as an NBC News correspondent he videotaped a U.S. Marine shooting a wounded Iraqi insurgent in a Fallujah mosque. After the video’s airing, Sites was both praised as a journalist willing to reveal the harsh realities of war - and vilified as a traitor to both the Marine unit in which he was embedded and to his country.
Sites’ controversial and award-winning war blog, www.kevinsites.net, was one of the first to combine text, digital images, and audio to provide readers with an intimate, behind-the-lines look at the war in Iraq and how it was being covered.”
CNN finally gave him the boot for this above story and he disappeared from the airwaves.
Kevin is Yahoo’s first dedicated journalist and they’ve given him an incredible website. Kev supplies the incredible stories and pictures.
Keep an eye on this one.
January 4, 2006
Presidential Instant Messaging | Danielle Crittenden | The Huffington Post: “”
The Presidential IM archive. These are hilarious and so authentically delivered.
(Via .)
A new one every Tuesday on HuffPo.
(Bush)Kickass43: so wats ur resolushun 4 this yr?
(Blair)Sxybritguy10: just 2 get thru it frankly
Kickass43: me 2
Kickass43: sumtimes when im wrestlin cedar I think of wat its gonna be like when this is all ovr
Kickass43: didnt like 2 think of it b4
Kickass43: now I can’t wait 4 08
Sxybritguy10: wot u gonna do?
Kickass43: gonna kick back on the ranch
Kickass43: aint gonna b no world travellin xprez
Kickass43: tryin to drum up sum peace prize
Kickass43: reagan got it rite
Sxybritguy10: coz he retired 2 CA?
Kickass43: nope
Kickass43: cuz he forgot everything
Sxybritguy10: sounds good 2 me
Kickass43: Happy New Year bud
Sxybritguy10: u2
The President of the United States is offline.
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January 2, 2006
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The Rose Parade has a “never on a Sunday” policy so this New Year’s Weekend will be dragged out for your enjoyment. And are you enjoying it?
The weekend rabble seemed in less than cheery moods when I had to venture out.
I hope the lot of you have this Monday off and get some hap happy going.
It’s the New Year, give it a whirl.
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