] IN A TYPICALLY DEFIANT move by the warez scene, no sooner
] does the US Department of Justice manage to shut down a
] site, it simply pops up somewhere else. Isonews had its
] collar felt yesterday with the DoJ promising to use the
] site to preach an anti-piracy message. The site simply
] upped and moved to the ironically named StoleMy.Com

Xbox pirate site torpedoed by DoJ is back online

] That pocketknife you surrendered to airport security
] screeners might now be tucked away in someone else's
] pocket -- someone who bought it on EBay.

Bureaucrats get EBay fever / State sells penknives confiscated at airports at online auction

] Jim Wasserman - AP Writer - Feb 27, 2003 -- SACRAMENTO,
] Calif. (AP) -- With a state budget deficit that could hit
] $35 billion, California Gov. Gray Davis is rethinking his
] long-standing objection to imposing sales taxes on
] Internet commerce -- a reversal that could ignite similar
] steps around the nation.
]
]
] Lawmakers around the nation are increasingly eyeing
] online revenues to plug shortfalls that could
] collectively top $50 billion this year and $70 billion
] next year.

I know this is inevitable but I'm really going to hate to see it happen.

News: California Edging Toward Internet Sales Tax - Feb 27, 2003

] Hoping to capitalise on a wave of nostalgia for Communist
] East Germany, a Berlin company is planning to build a
] theme park that revives life behind the Iron Curtain in
] the country that disappeared nearly 13 years ago.

I smell a field trip!

Fun for the whole family

] A frightening scene occurred Thursday afternoon at an
] Inglewood grocery store. Shoppers called police after
] witnessing a bizarre incident on the parking lot.
]
] "I was pulling up to go to the store, [when] this
] gray car pulled up, trunk popped up, guy jumped out with
] handcuffs on. A boy and girl chased him around, threw him
] back in the car, then took off down Gallatin Road,"
] said Tim Wright, eyewitness.
]
] Tim Wright was not the only one who saw it -- others
] told officers the same story. Police are asking others
] who may have information to come forward.

Shoppers witness strange incident

] Compared to most holiday snaps of London, this one's out
] of this world.

Yahoo! News - Glittering London snapped from space

In case you missed it, here are the transcripts and Real Video of the Saddam Hussein interview with Dan Rather.

Transcript and Real Video for the Saddam interview with Dan Rather

This is extremely belated. You may have noticed the orange XML icons in the lower right corner of some of the MemeStreams pages. We've added RSS support. This means you can view MemeStreams using RSS aggregators and headline scrollers (AmphetaDesk, NewsMonster, Faust's Friend). The topic pages and user weblogs are supported. The XML icons link to the RSS output. However, you can reach it by adding "?type=rss" to the end of a MemeStreams URL.

Rattle did this feature in some sort of insane 24 hour coding binge. He deserves props.

You can now submit your MemeStreams page to weblog aggregators like Blogdex and Daypop. We'll be turning the main page in to these services this weekend.

MemeStreams has RSS support!

] E-mail is a great tool of communication but sometimes
] just a click of the send button can spell disaster.
]
] When Devon schoolgirl Claire McDonald logged on to check
] her e-mails she was taken aback to find an urgent missive
] from the Pentagon among the chatty greetings from her
] friends. It contained confidential information not
] intended for civilian eyes.
]
] Claire replied to point out the error, but the e-mails
] kept coming, from the Pentagon, the Ministry of Defence
] and elsewhere. One detailed communications problems on
] British warships; another New Zealand's defence strategy.

BBC NEWS | UK | E-mails you wish you'd never sent

] Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keys. The foundation of rock music.
] Occasionally strings are used to give a lush, orchestral
] feel. But we all know when a song needs that extra oomph,
] that extra push over the top, there's only one thing that
] will satisfy: The Cowbell.

The Cowbell Project