Don Johnson, Mr. Miami Vice, stopped in germany with a suitcase containing bonds, stocks, and credit notes worth 8 Billion .. yes BILLION dollars.

The Miami Herald | 03/13/2003 | 'Vice' or price? TV star Don Johnson car-shopping with $8 billion to spend

] SALT LAKE CITY, March 12 (UPI) -- The search for
] Elizabeth Smart came to an end Wednesday when the missing
] teenager was found alive and well in the Salt Lake City
] suburb of Sandy. The teenager was kidnapped at gunpoint
] from her family's Salt Lake City home on June 5, 2002.

United Press International: Elizabeth Smart found alive in Utah

] The military confirmed Wednesday that 11 of the 13
] soldiers aboard a Black Hawk helicopter that crashed
] during training died when the helicopter went down in a
] remote, wooded area of a base in northern New York.

We haven't even gone to war yet and there's already fatality.

Military confirms 11 deaths in helicopter crash; 2 survivors hospitalized

playmobil hazmat!

Collectobil Catalogue - Playmobil® item 3180

] CBS) Sources tell CBS News that Great Britain %u2013
] America's closest ally %u2013 may find it politically
] impossible to commit its military to a U.S.-led attack on
] Saddam Hussein. And that could force the United States to
] go it alone in Iraq.

CBS News | Brits Backing Out? | March 11, 2003 20:45:41

] The Air Force has scheduled a test this afternoon in
] Florida of the biggest conventional bomb in the U-S
] military's arsenal.

The best thing on this page is the banner that says "Showdown with Iraq" What the fuck? Showdown?

abc7.com: Air Force to Test Biggest Conventional Bomb in U.S. Arsenal

] Sunday, March 09, 2003
]
] You are what you carry around
]
] I'm interested in hearing what kinds of gadgets you carry
] around and find indispensible. I hardly ever leave the
] house without my:
]
] Handspring Visor Edge I use it for my appointments and
] phone numbers, but I really use it to read article and
] books from Project Gutenberg and alt.binaries.e-book.
] When I'm waiting in line, or stuck in an office lobby,
] it's great to pull out. I'm reading Treasure Island right
] now. I'm tempted to buy the Sony Clie 665C, which has
] twice the resolution and is in color, but don't know if I
] want to spend almost $300. It has some pretty cool
] features, like being able to control your TV and VCR with
] the infrared port. It has an MP3 player, to, which would
] be nice to use when I didn't feel like hauling my iPod
] around. Anybody have one of these? I saw some
] beautiful-looking oranges ones at Fry's today.
]
] Sony Cyber-shot U This miniature digital camera is easy
] to slip into my pocket. I take pictures nearly every day.
] I think I've taken more pictures in the last two months
] since I've had it than the last five years without one.
] It's only two megapixels, but I've gotten decent prints
] from Ofoto using it. I love this camera.
]
] A crappy T-61 Sony Ericsson phone Why oh why did I ever
] get rid of my Ericsson T-28 and get this bulky hunk o'
] junk? Pro

http://www.quicktopic.com/19/H/5wA9rQE7qDf2 for discussion

You are what you carry around!

] Columbia Astronaut Laurel Blair Clark Buried at Arlington

Columbia Astronaut Laurel Blair Clark Buried at Arlington

] 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

"[It's] just like having drugs," said Al-Shalchi of his dependence on e-mail and Web access.

Despite not even getting access to the internet until 2000, their geeks are just as addicted to a "net fix" as we are. Interesting article on the current state of connectivity in Iraq and the seemingly ludicrous idea that they could wage a cyber-war against us.

Unleashing the dogs of cyber-war on Iraq!