]
] Plot Outline: A no-holds-barred, ultraviolent car race,
] set in 2020.

In production, apparently...

Deathrace 3000 (2006)

] The Bush administration, facing a series of recent
] provocations from North Korea, is debating a plan to seek
] a United Nations resolution empowering all nations to
] intercept shipments in or out of the country that may
] contain nuclear materials or components, say senior
] administration officials and diplomats who have been
] briefed on the proposal.

White House May Go to U.N. Over North Korean Shipments

]
] NASA officials have loosened the standards for what
] constitutes an acceptable risk of damage from the kind of
] debris that led to the disintegration of the shuttle
] Columbia as it was returning from space two years ago,
] internal documents show.

NASA Is Said to Loosen Risk Standards for Shuttle

] Google late on Thursday reported its first-quarter
] revenue nearly doubled to $1.26 billion. By comparison,
] Clear Channel Communications Inc., the No. 1 U.S. radio
] station owner, in its most recently reported quarter had
] radio revenue of $964.5 million.

GOOG is around $218 right now.

Google Stock Jumps 11 Pct After Results

]
] Like Thoreau and the band Devo, psychology professor
] Schwartz provides ample evidence that we are faced with
] far too many choices on a daily basis, providing an
] illusion of a multitude of options when few honestly
] different ones actually exist.

This is something that Negativland has been saying for a long
time, actually...

Books: The Paradox Of Choice: Why More Is Less

] Year after year, Wal-Mart's low pay and meager
] employee benefits force hundreds of thousands of
] employees to resort to Medicaid, food stamps, and public
] housing. Call it the Wal-Mart Tax. And it
] costs you $1.5 billion in federal tax dollars every year.

They had a full-page ad in the Times today.

Welcome to the new WalmartWatch.com

] As the Senate heads into a showdown over judges, Senator
] John W. Warner of Virginia is one of a select few
] Republicans at the center of a bipartisan courtship.

As Vote on Filibuster Nears, G.O.P. Senators Face Mounting Pressure

] Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected pope today, taking
] the name Benedict XVI, after the tolling of bells rang
] out over St. Peter's square and white smoke drifted from
] a Sistine Chapel chimney signaling that the cardinals
] meeting for a second day had chosen a new leader of the
] Roman Catholic Church.

Super conservative. At least he's way old -- he turned 78 just recently.

Cardinals Elect Joseph Ratzinger as New Pope

] There are about 10 million blogs out there, give or take,
] including one belonging to Niall Kennedy, an employee at
] Technorati, a small San Francisco-based company that,
] yes, tracks blogs.

When the Blogger Blogs, Can the Employer Intervene?

] Video-game retailer GameStop Corp. has agreed to buy
] rival Electronics Boutique Holdings Corp. for about $1.4
] billion in cash and stock, creating a chain of about
] 3,800 stores worldwide.

GameStop to Acquire Electronics Boutique