Go Elonka:)

STLtoday - News - Story

] PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Cheap Trick Avenue
] instead of Boardwalk? Hernando's Chop Shop instead of
] Reading Railroad?
]
] Black leaders are outraged over a new board game called
] "Ghettopoly" that has "playas" acting like pimps and game
] cards reading, "You got yo whole neighborhood addicted to
] crack. Collect $50."

CNN.com - 'Ghettopoly' game causes outrage - Oct. 9, 2003

] A Princeton graduate student said Monday that he has
] figured out a way to defeat new software intended to keep
] music CDs from being copied on a computer %u2014 simply
] by pressing the Shift-key.
]
] In a paper posted on his Web site late Monday, John
] Halderman said the MediaMax CD3 software developed by
] SunnComm Technologies could be defeated on computers
] running the Windows operating system by holding down the
] Shift key, disabling a Windows feature that automatically
] launches the encryption software on the disc.
]
] Halderman said the protection could also be disabled by
] stopping the driver the CD installs when it is first
] inserted into a computer's drive.

LMFAO!!!

USATODAY.com - CD-copy protection system said to have simple flaw

] ATLANTA - Atlanta Thrashers forward Dan Snyder died
] Sunday night, six days after he was involved in a
] horrific car crash with teammate Dany Heatley.
]
] Snyder of Elmira, Ont., died at Grady Hospital from
] massive brain injuries without ever regaining
] consciousness, the team said.
]
] Police said Heatley was driving his Ferrari at about 130
] kmh on a narrow two-lane road last Monday night when he
] lost control, spun off the road and smashed into a brick
] and wrought iron fence.
]
] The car split in half. The players were thrown into the
] road.
]
] Heatley already was facing several charges, including a
] felony.

TheStar.com - Dan Snyder dies in hospital

flynn23 wrote:
] Pack your bags kids, and throw away the razor!

I have got to have a moustache or beard like that when I get old. Did you check out the gallery?

RE: World Beard and Moustache Championships Carson City 2003

] Washington, D.C. - The United States Postal Service
] surprised citizens and lawmakers today by filing
] thousands of lawsuits against netizens with active e-mail
] addresses. Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,
] the use of e-mail violates the government-approved
] monopoly the USPS currently enjoys.

Another good piece of satire from BBSpot.

BBspot - USPS Sues Internet Users

] In the future, local rescuers arriving at an emergency
] will have wireless access to floor
] plans and other important details about the building.

Just like in Max Headroom

Responders to get instant access to critical data

] Since the earliest research into the the English Language
] as spoken in North America was begun by Noah Webster in
] the early 18th century, the regional variations in
] dialect have always been the most challenging and
] difficult to explain field. Since the development of
] carbonated beverage in 1886, one of linguistic
] geography's most important and least investigated
] phenomena has been the sharp regional divisions in the
] use of the terms "pop" and "soda." Due to the domination
] of hard-line conservative lingusitic geographers in such
] leading institutions such as Harvard, Yale, Stanford and
] the University of the West Indies, this dilemma has been
] swept under the rug . . . until now. Using the new
] technologies of the Internet and the World Wide Web, I
] and my colleagues at the California Institute of
] Technology and Lewis & Clark College are undertaking a
] bold new research into this fascinating area.

Great maps to go along with this.

The Pop vs. Soda Page

] Satan signs two-year deal with Sabres
]
] BUFFALO (AP) - Restricted free agent forward
] Miroslav Satan signed a two-year contract with the
] Buffalo Sabres on Monday. Satan, who had 26 goals and a
] career-high 75 points last season, earned $3.55 million,
] and has said he wanted to be the team's highest-paid
] player.

Also, check out the url for his stats from the jokesters at espn.com:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/players/profile?statsId=666

and Sports Illustrated:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/hockey/nhl/players/666/

and Yahoo Sports:
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/players/666/

Never fails to get a chuckle out of me when I see his name in headlines.

USATODAY.com - Satan signs two-year deal with Sabres

] ATLANTA (AP) -- Atlanta Thrashers star Dany Heatley was
] charged with driving recklessly when he veered off a road
] and slammed his sportscar into a wall at about 80 mph,
] leaving him with a broken jaw and teammate Dan Snyder
] critically injured.
]
] The Thrashers said Snyder, a passenger in the car, had
] surgery early Tuesday at Grady Memorial Hospital for a
] depressed fracture in his skull. Heatley broke his left
] jaw and was in stable condition, the team said.
]
] Atlanta police spokesman Sgt. John Quigley said Heatley
] was driving his Ferrari shortly before 11 p.m. Monday
] night when the car left the road and struck a wall in
] front of an apartment complex.
]
] The vehicle broke in half, Quigley said. Heatley also was
] charged with serious injury by vehicle because a
] passenger was injured.

SI.com - NHL - Heatley, teammate injured in car accident - Tuesday September 30, 2003 5:08AM