] Steve Horowitz's quest for a wife is no secret.
] For the past few months, it has been advertised on a
] large, portable sign simply reading "WIFE WANTED" in
] front of his home.
] But after hearing from about 60 women and going out with
] three, the 53-year-old says all he's looking for now is a
] second date with one. So the sign has come down.

A few more years of bachelorhood and I may have to give this a shot ;)

ABCNEWS.com : 'Wife Wanted' Sign Fails to Net Spouse

] Popular culture has become one of America's biggest
] exports. Every year the U.S. sells more than $60 billion
] worth of music, books, movies, television programs and
] computer software to consumers abroad. And this estimate
] does not even include the revenues made by illegal
] copying and other forms of piracy. In Europe or Canada,
] one need only flick on the television, buy a compact disc
] or browse the entertainment section of a newspaper to see
] the ubiquity of American culture.

Scientific American: Digital Entertainment Jumps the Border

] Computer games are good for you, say researchers who
] studied the complex social interactions in the popular
] shoot-em-up Counter-Strike.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Gaming 'is good for you'

When the videotape in the VCR is replaced by a hard drive so that the copy made is as good as the original and can be shared over the Internet with a multitude of people, the right to record looks more--at least in the view of several media companies--like a license to steal.

Oh for CRYING OUT LOUD! Get out of the way and let it happen already. We've only been waiting 10+ years for this to happen. It's finally all here, and you idiots are still trying to stop it. You'd think after 10 years, you'd have figured out how to make the transition by now.

Recording Restricted

Your tax dollars at work.

DOJ may aid Microsoft in appeal by states

] A bacterial infection that overpowers most antibiotics
] has escaped the confines of hospitals and is showing up
] in alarming numbers among the general public in
] California, according to health officials.

For a long time now, this has been one of my pet issues.

Just in case you have not heard the line yet, unless you need them, I mean really need them, do not take antibiotics. You will be doing your fellow man a great disservice if you over use them. Also, (easy one) do not spend any more time in hospitals then is necessary. Remember, those germ things evolve faster then you do.

I didn't like the "Gay Men" slant of this article.. Left a bad taste in my mouth in reguard to how AIDS wasn't taken seriously till it started killing people enmass who were not gay.

Superbugs. Get used to that phrase.. You will have trouble finding someone skilled in the medical field who dosen't think we will see more of them..

The super-bugs have arrived!

] CIA Director George Tenet has warned of the threat of
] terrorist attacks against targets on U.S. soil or on the
] Arabian peninsula as early as this week.
] Testifying Tuesday to the U.S. Senate Intelligence
] Committee, Mr. Tenet said the United States has
] intelligence information on suspected al-Qaida plots that
] could include the use of radiological dispersion devices,
] known as "dirty bombs," as well as poisons and chemicals.
] The plots are timed to occur as early as the end of the
] Hajj Muslim pilgrimage late this week.

Great...

VOANews.com

] While global markets fret over the prospects of war in
] Iraq, an Irish Internet trading exchange is doing nicely
] offering futures contracts on how long Iraqi leader
] Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) will hold on to power.
]
]
] Dublin-based Tradesports, better known for taking punts
] on soccer, allows investors to bet whether President Bush
] (news - web sites) will be re-elected, who will win the
] Oscars (news - web sites) -- even how much snow will fall
] in New York.

Time Runs Out for Saddam at the Betting Exchange

w00t!

Lego Rave

] Mitnick said Monday that the hackers apparently exploited
] separate flaws in Internet server software from
] Microsoft. The person responsible for the company's
] website failed to apply the repairing patches available
] from Microsoft, Mitnick said.

Mitnick's site is on a shared hosting provider who runs IIS. Where has this guy been?! Oh... Yeah... Nevermind...

Wired News: Mitnick Amused By Website Hacks