] TERRIFIED Iraqi soldiers have crossed the Kuwait border
] and tried to surrender to British forces - because they
] thought the war had already started.
]
] The motley band of a dozen troops waved the white flag as
] British paratroopers tested their weapons during a
] routine exercise.
]
] The stunned Paras from 16 Air Assault Brigade were forced
] to tell the Iraqis they were not firing at them, and
] ordered them back to their home country telling them it
] was too early to surrender.
]
] The drama unfolded last Monday as the Para batallion
] tested mortars and artillery weapons to make sure they
] were working properly.

SADDAM'S SOLDIERS SURRENDER

] OXFORD | Miami University police have arrested a student
] they said created an e-mail announcing the cancellation
] of classes. The message was sent to more than 31,000
] online addresses Wednesday night.
]
] Benjamin M. Field, 22, a computer science major, was
] charged with a felony count of unauthorized use of a
] computer and cited on charges of drug abuse and drug
] paraphernalia, both misdemeanors. He was released Friday
] on bond from the Butler County Jail. University officials
] said Field could face dismissal.

DDN | Miami student held in e-mail prank

] A REPORT declassified by the United Nations yesterday
] contained a hidden bombshell with the revelation that
] inspectors have recently discovered an undeclared Iraqi
] drone with a wingspan of 7.45m, suggesting an illegal
] range that could threaten Iraq's neighbours with
] chemical and biological weapons.

] US officials were outraged that Hans Blix, the chief
] UN weapons inspector, did not inform the Security
] Council about the drone, or remotely piloted vehicle,
] in his oral presentation to Foreign Ministers and tried
] to bury it in a 173-page single-spaced report
] distributed later in the day. The omission raised
] serious questions about Dr Blix’s objectivity.

UK Times - Iraqi drone 'could drop chemicals on troops'

] Industry veteran Gordon Walton, who ran online games for
] Kesmai, helped to build Ultima Online, and recently
] launched The Sims Online, spoke at length about what's
] it's like to wear those shoes.
]
]
] They're really uncomfortable shoes.

Ten Reasons You Don't Want to Run a Massively Multiplayer Online Game

Nanochick wrote:
] BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

hmm... sadly T-n-A is not listed as one of the advantages.

RE: HootersAir - We loves us some flying, and it be showing like a mofo

] The man who spoke Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s
] words in English during a CBS interview with Dan Rather
] late last month was an actor using a fake Arabic accent,
] the Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday.
]
] The paper said Steve Winfield is a member of the Screen
] Actors Guild (news - web sites) who bills himself on a
] Web site called "Fabulous Voices" as an expert in putting
] on foreign accents.

Hussein Translator on CBS Used Fake Accent?

] PRINCETON, N.J. - An online banking glitch gave a
] Princeton University student access to university
] accounts totaling $9.9 million when he tried to access a
] student publication's account.

Yahoo! News - Banking Glitch Gives Student $9.9 Million

] The blimp which was up until this moment a fun toy here
] embarked on a career of evil.

Amusing story about a family's encounter with one of those 3-foot helium blimp toys.

The Horror of Blimps

] Scientists have set a new internet speed record by
] transferring 6.7 gigabytes of data across 10,978
] kilometres (6,800 miles), from Sunnyvale in the US to
] Amsterdam in Holland, in less than one minute

BBC NEWS | Technology | Net speed record smashed

] It's not that I'm bitter. Oh alright then, I am. When I
] was doing a weekly round-up of interesting web links in
] 1996 (still the top search result for the phrase "GLR
] jokes", if you'd like to check), I found myself using
] something very similar to what experts now call the
] weblog format. And was I hailed as the pioneer of a brave
] new form of distributed grassroots journalism? No, I was
] not.
]
] I was regarded - quite rightly, as it turned out - as
] some sort of nut who re-used the same HTML to update his
] home page every now and again. Don't get me wrong: I'm a
] huge fan of fanzines, home pages, and the whole
] do-it-yourself attitude. But because publishing one of
] these usually requires some element of effort, sometimes
] that's reflected in their contents.
]
] On the other hand, it's getting so easy to update a
] weblog that some users seem to type in their thoughts
] willy-nilly, posting unimaginable banalities, like a
] nation of Alan Partridges trying to fill an internet's
] worth of dead air: CDs they're listening to,
] scintillating accounts of their day at work, URLs of
] sites they feel they should acknowledge, despite having
] nothing new to say about them. It is like one of those
] terrible Christmas family newsletters for every single
] day of the year.

I love the conclusion of this article. It's so true:
"People used to worry about the government compiling a database of everything they knew about you and everything you did. But who'd have thought we'd be so keen to keep updating our own entries?"

Guardian Unlimited | Online | A blogger is a stalker's dream