] "As I speak to you, we are cruising across where the
] Iraqi desert meets the Jordanian desert, though a desert
] wind and a rain storm," Dan Rather said. "I haven%u2019t
] had as much sleep as I sometimes do."
]
] It was late on Tuesday, Feb. 25, and Mr. Rather, 71, was
] speaking via a crackling cell phone from a car racing
] himself and his CBS News colleagues away from Baghdad,
] barely a day after they had scored one of the most
] sought-after journalistic exclusives of the year: an
] interview with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Set to air
] on 60 Minutes II on Feb. 26, it is Mr. Hussein%u2019s
] first interview with an American journalist in more than
] 10 years.

I'm not sure if anybody else has posted a similar article. I found it very interesting.

Dan Rather: How I Bagged Saddam Chat

Bugtraq for people? This could be interesting. Beta code is "coke".

Friendster

] PITTSBURGH - Fred Rogers, who gently invited millions of
] children to be his neighbor as host of the public
] television show %u201CMister Rogers%u2019
] Neighborhood%u201D for more than 30 years, died of cancer
] early Thursday. He was 74.

I was never allowed to watch Mr. Rogers when I was a kid. ;-(

NY Daily News - Breaking News - Sad day in 'Neighborhood' as Mister Rogers dies

For "Net-genners," Microsoft learned that using the Internet for socializing is a way of life.

Microsoft aims to tap 'Net generation' | CNET News.com

] PARIS, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- The apparent suicide of a
] celebrated French chef late Monday has relaunched a
] debate in France on the pressures of securing -- and
] keeping -- the coveted acclaims of restaurant guides such
] as Michelin or GaultMillau.
]
] Popular chef Bernard Loiseau was found shot dead Monday
] evening at his home in Saulieu, a gastronomic center in
] Burgundy. A hunting rifle lay beside his body.

They take cuisine very seriously in France.

United Press International: Feature: Suicide sparks ratings debate

University networks already stressed by file-sharing programs, viruses and hackers now face a new threat: students who sublet their network access to spammers for as little as $20 per month.

Tufts University, a 151-year-old school in Medford, Mass., last month discovered spammers were paying students to offer up their PCs as relay points that helped mask the true source of the spam. While university network executives interviewed were not aware of other cases on U.S. campuses, the phenomenon has cropped up in Israel.

Spammers hiding behind students

] Cleveland said Google's acquisition of Pyra would, quite
] simply, help Google create a more accurate search engine
] by adding rich new sources of data gleaned from weblogs.
]
] The secret, Cleveland said, is in the scores of links
] webloggers create every day to content on the Web.

Wired News: Why Did Google Want Blogger?

Here's how you can play music with your wireless network card.

Poor Man's Theremin

quoted:
Shut up, antiwar people. Shut up, pro-war people. Shut down your computers and shut your goddamn pieholes. No one gives a shit what you write, so stop writing about the war. Shut up, all of you.

Just Shut Up, Nobody gives a shit what anti-war or pro-war writers think. Really. So shut up. That goes double for poets. Shut the hell up, poets. Everybody just shut up., by (02/20/03)

] Saddam Hussein indicated on Monday that he does not intend
] to follow U.N. orders to destroy his Al-Samoud 2
] missiles, and challenged President Bush to an
] internationally televised debate via satellite linkup.
]
] In a three-hour interview with CBS anchor Dan Rather, the
] Iraqi leader said he envisioned a live debate with Bush
] along the lines of those in a U.S. presidential campaign,
] according to the network.
]
] Rather reported on the interview during the evening
] newscast. CBS said it planned to broadcast excerpts on
] Tuesday and the entire interview on Wednesday.

This interview might be interesting...

Newsday.com - In Interview, Saddam Challenges Bush to Debate