] The very technology that revolutionized retail checkout -
] the bar code - is now being subverted by anti-capitalist
] protesters who fancy themselves cyberpranksters.
]
] The activists drew the ire of Wal-Mart Inc., the world's
] largest retailer, with a Web site that encouraged people
] to "name their own prices" by offering hundreds of
] substitute bar codes.
]
] Wal-Mart considered the ploy an incitement to theft and
] sent a cease-and-desist letter dated April 2 to one of
] the companies that was hosting the Web site, Re-code.com.
]
] Re-code.com's operators responded by disabling the link
] on their Web site that allowed users to print sheets with
] a selection of bar code labels that could be slapped on
] store items.

Prankster Web Site Draws Wal-Mart Ire

] APRIL 16--While all news organizations prepare obituaries
] in advance of the deaths of famous individuals, the folks
] at CNN inadvertently gave the Internet-surfing public a
] chance to preview how the network's web site would note
] the demise of Vice President Dick Cheney, Ronald Reagan,
] and a few other prominent figures. Until earlier this
] afternoon, a CNN server housed mock-ups of web pages
] announcing the yet-to-happen deaths. The CNN pages, which
] were discovered by the intrepid folks at fark.com, were
] yanked about 20 minutes after being exposed (though TSG
] was able to grab a few of the pages for posterity's
] sake). The premature obituaries, which were housed in a
] publicly accessible area of the CNN server, were
] apparently the work of Peter Rentz, a senior multimedia
] designer at CNN. The mock-ups are virtually identical to
] the obituary design currently used by CNN when a notable
] person dies (click here to see how CNN covered the Queen
] Mother's death). In fact, elements of the Queen Mum's
] obit template can be seen in the below Cheney mockup. In
] addition to Cheney and Reagan, CNN has also prepped
] online farewells to Fidel Castro, Bob Hope, and Nelson
] Mandela. (4 pages)

The Smoking Gun: Advance Obituaries

] How to get your Econobox into the 14's **A MUST READ**

It's so painful to watch a car get gutted like this. You'd think that all of my experience of watching Monster Garage would have jaded me at this point, but I guess not!

If you ever want to make something stop existing, the Milwaukee Sawzall is the tool.

How to GUT a 2001 Sentra

] Bioethicists and scientists contemplating the future fear
] that genetic engineering and other technologies are going
] to divide human beings into classes that may one day try
] to destroy one another.

Wired News: Will Genetic Engineering Kill Us?

] What happened to the majority of journalists living the
] Marine life is that we experienced it from the inside. I
] can honestly say that seven weeks as an embed has changed
] me forever. And I have often found many similarities
] between Marines and Arabs.

ArabNews: An Account of Marines' Incredible Gestures

Well you can put that big heavy copy of the CRC (http://www.crcpress.com/corphistory.asp) down. !Webbook is here, it's great! Research all your favorite chemicals, play w/ neat and interesting graph data for almost any chemical you can think of.

Chemical Formula Search

] UMM QASR, Iraq -- Ahmed Ali believes Saddam Hussein can
] never die. All his life, the 23-year-old laborer has
] heard about the dictator's powerful stone.
]
] Saddam, the story goes, had the stone made shortly
] after he came to power 24 years ago. Its powers were
] first tested inside a chicken. One of his soldiers pulled
] out a gun and shot at point-blank range. The chicken's
] feathers fell off, but it lived.
]
] So the dictator implanted the stone in his upper arm.
]
] As the curtain falls on Saddam's reign, many ordinary
] Iraqis are reluctant to believe that their much-feared
] dictator has lost power, much less that he is actually
] dead. Stories abound of Saddam's mystical powers that
] have helped him elude assassination attempts and missile
] strikes.
]
] "The stone makes him bulletproof," Ali, a slim man
] with a Saddam-style moustache, said in a serious voice.

Talk about urban legends . . .

Myths About Saddam Fuel the Fears of Iraqis

Linked from Penny Arcade. Not sure if this is real or not...
I could almost imagine it is...

Spiele: Steelhead Battalion

Pictures of the men and women who roam the digital frontier.

Hacker Pics, Pictures, Photos, Photographs

] You've seen these cards on the nightly news. They've been
] featured in newspapers worldwide. Now you can own the one
] true collector's item from Operation Iraqi Freedom. This
] is the same 55-card deck given to Coalition soldiers
] featuring the Iraq's 52 "Most-Wanted" leaders.

Yours for only $5.95

GreatUSAflags.com - Iraqi 'Most-Wanted' Deck of Playing Cards