] 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

Lattes aren't the only steamy things at Starbucks these days. Much to the chagrin of Seattle-based Starbucks Corp., Playboy Magazine has issued an alert: "Calling all coffee-making cuties!" to pose nude for an upcoming issue featuring the "Women of Starbucks."
With the application process already percolating, the chain of more than 6,200 coffee shops worldwide, is anything but thrilled with the cattle call by the adult magazine to its coffee-making employees, known as baristas.

Playboy Looking for 'Women of Starbucks'

FEBRUARY 27--Joe Millionaire has been marked down to $15,000. But if that's too rich for your blood, his purported lady love is available for a mere ten grand. In a move to milk what's left of their 15 minutes, Evan Marriott and Zora Andrich have signed with an agent who will deliver the reality TV stars for personal appearances nationwide. Booker Mike Esterman told TSG that interest in Marriott is high and that the below sales pitch has already yielded 10 "tentative" dates for the half- millionaire. What will you get for 15k? There will, of course, be no speech, just a few hours of autograph signing and posing for pictures with the 28-year-old ex- underwear model. Esterman explained that the salary gap between Marriott and Andrich is purely market driven: nightclubs, for example, would rather be packed with women looking at Marriott than men ogling Andrich (because if a club is jammed with gals, the guys will invariably follow). How much for both of the TV lovebirds? Esterman said he is willing to negotiate the fee for a joint appearance. No word yet on whether "Joe" runner-up Sarah Kozer--star of those wonderful bondage and fetish videos--is also for rent. (3 pages)

The Smoking Gun: Joe Millionaire for Rent

Darwin wrote:
] Heist 'geniuses' got $100m gems
]
] The haul from Belgium's most spectacular diamond robbery in
] Antwerp earlier this month was worth more than 100 million
] euros ($107m), Belgian police have said.
]
] In what police authorities have called the heist of the
] century, 123 of the 160 vaults at the Antwerp Diamond Centre
] were emptied.
]
] Antwerp's judicial director, Erik Sack, called the crime on 16
] February "a piece of genius in its simplicity".
]
] He said the gang had learned to circumvent the alarm system
] and had copied master keys after renting an office in the
] Diamond Centre in the name of a phantom company.
]
] During the theft, they taped over security cameras and may
] have put old videotapes in the surveillance system, police
] said.

$5 says we'll see this come out as a movie within two years. Any takers?

RE: BBC NEWS | Europe | Heist 'geniuses' got $100m gems

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!

Larry G. wrote:
] Yesterday marked the 10th anniversary of Peter Cigéhn's
] Top Sample Lists, which catalogue all of those sound samples
] you hear in your favorite
] techno/industrial/dance/electronica/whatever music. It began
] its life on the Net as an e-newsletter, but is now maintained
] on the Web. To this day, the most popular sources for samples
] are still Blade Runner, NASA broadcasts, and Star
] Trek.

I remember when this was a vehicle to promote your shitty industrial band to the world... long before mp3.com.

RE: The Top Sample Lists

NOTE: The ISO news servers are still up, but currently have no nameservice. As soon as they do, I have a hunch the non-American servers will be back online, with nameservice. How pointless..

quoted:
===
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday it had seized a website that offered information on bootlegged video games and movies, but the site remained available to many Internet users.

The Justice Department said it had taken over the Iso News site after its owner pleaded guilty to selling computer chips that would enable users to play bootleg video games on Microsoft Xbox consoles.

Some visitors to the site found a warning against copyright infringement and a link to the Justice Department's computer-crime division, but others were able to reach a version of the original site, which serves as a meeting place for Internet users.

Wired News: Government Fails to Block Bootleg Site

] 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