Then it came to me. I said I used to be an executive vice president and a director of interactive marketing for Rapp Digital, a digital media company with 300 employees and a P. and L. of $40 million."

Commute to Nowhere

GENEVA (Reuters) - At least 1,526 people were executed worldwide last year, with 80 percent of all known executions carried out in China, Iran and the United States, Amnesty International said on Friday.

Let's hear it for the axis of evil, everyone...

Yahoo! News - China, Iran and U.S. Top Executioners, Amnesty Says

Here's a great story detailing the history of Saddam Hussein. Feel free to forward to anyone who says that Bush is worse than Saddam..

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Tales of the Tyrant
by Mark Bowden

What does Saddam Hussein see in himself that no one else in the world seems to see? The answer is perhaps best revealed by the intimate details of the Iraqi leader's daily life

The Atlantic | May 2002 | Tales of the Tyrant | Bowden

] THREE WEEKS AGO, based on early reports from Iraq, I
] suggested that war against repressive regimes no longer
] necessitates massive casualties. Opponents of the war
] fired back. Some argued that war was always immoral;
] others argued that this war was hasty or unjust. All
] agreed that the immorality of war was based on the
] immorality of killing. Now that Baghdad has fallen,
] here%u2019s my question to peaceniks: Are you against
] killing, or are you against war? Because what happened in
] Iraq suggests you may have to choose.

The redemptive side of war

] MOSCOW, April 11 (RIA Novosti correspondent Viktoria
] Prikhodko) - On Friday head of the State Duma committee
] on international affairs Dmitry Rogozin stated to
] journalists that the statement made by US Deputy
] Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz regarding the necessity
] for Russia, Germany and France to write off Iraqi debts
] "most probably was a careless rather than a well-thought
] idea." Rogozin stated that to forgive Iraqi debts to
] France, Germany and the Russian Federation was like
] mocking at common sense which would never be accepted.
] The head of the Duma committee was confident that it was
] the USA that should repay to Russia USD 8.5 billion of
] the Iraqi debt and about USD 2 billion for losses which
] Russian companies incurred in connection with military
] actions in Iraq.

RUSSIAN DEPUTY SPEAKS IRONICALLY OF WASHINGTON'S DEMAND TO WRITE OFF IRAQI DEBTS TO RUSSIA, GERMANY AND FRANCE

] A caffeine and alcohol cocktail similar to an Irish coffee could
] prevent severe brain damage in stroke victims, new research has
] revealed.

] The experimental drug, called caffeinol, has the potency of two
] cups of strong coffee and a small shot of alcohol. When injected
] into rats within three hours of an artificially stimulated stroke,
] brain damage was cut by up to 80 per cent.

Here's for DeStimulation!

'Irish coffee' injection prevents stroke damage

] The protesters said Fox's sentiments only proved their
] point: that media coverage, in particular among the
] television networks, is so biased as to be unbelievable.

I don't think Fox News even knows the meaning of the word "bias". Just a few days ago I watched a commentator on Fox go on a diatribe against some professor who sent in a letter saying he should be ashamed of being biased in his coverage. The warped and depraved thing about it is that if what the man on Fox News said were posted to Slashdot, it would be virtually guaranteed to be a -5 Flamebait/Troll within minutes.

Fox news ticker speaks out against NYC protesters

Whee! Looks like I'll be able to finally take the apps I don't ever use right the heck out of the firmware in my Handspring Visor with this little puppy. Mebbe even do something about that freaky P logo thingie...

Romeo: The Palm ROM Tool

Sony has trademarked the term "Shock and Awe" for future use in video games.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/marketingandpr/story/0,7494,933239,00.html

Sony registers 'Shock and Awe' term

] "There is no plausibly protected constitutional interest
] that...outweighs N2H2's right to protect its copyrighted
] property from an invasive and destructive trespass," U.S.
] District Judge Richard Sterns wrote.

Reverse Engineering is illegal.
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