"C.A.F.E. 2002: A benefit for the
Electronic Frontier Foundation, featuring
Wil Wheaton -vs- Barney Celebrity Boxing"

DNA Lounge Calendar: August 2002

THE INSIDE STORY OF THE MIT BLACKJACK TEAM'S CONQUEST OF THE CASINOS.

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"I try to control my breathing as I stroll through Logan International Airport. Terminal C is buzzing and chaotic, an over-air-conditioned hive of college students escaping Boston for a long weekend. I am dressed like everyone else: baggy jeans, baseball hat, scuffed sneakers. But in my mind, I have as much chance of blending in as a radioactive circus clown. There's enough money hidden under my clothes to buy a two-bedroom condo. And to top it off, there's $100,000 worth of yellow plastic casino chips jammed into the backpack slung over my right shoulder."

Wired 10.09: Hacking Las Vegas

"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Microsoft Corp. will tighten security around the personal information it collects from users of its Passport Internet services, as part of a settlement reached with the federal government. "

CNN.com - Microsoft settles Passport privacy case - August 8, 2002

Tom, could this be what we saw in Hong Kong when we were wandering around?

"Out of misery, some extraordinary lessons

ONCE a week, on Sundays, Hong Kong becomes a different city. Thousands of Filipina women throng into the central business district, around Statue Square, to picnic, dance, sing, gossip and laugh. They snuggle in the shade under the HSBC building, a Hong Kong landmark, and spill out into the parks and streets. They hug. They chatter. They smile. Humanity could stage no greater display of happiness."

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Wired News article on the potential for congressional crackdown on everyone's favorite Top 40 airwave homogenizer.

Murky Water for Clear Channel

Rules are as follows: Hairpulling is allowed. No elbows or knees to the head. No strikes to the throat. No eye strikes. No 'fish-hooking'. No headbutts. All bouts to be supervised by trained referee. "

What do you think? Am I tough enough?

TUFF GIRLS WANTED!!!

No, this roadside checkpoint wasn't looking for drunken drivers. The survey, which will cost about $150,000, was commissioned by the Florida High Speed Rail Authority to gauge public interest in riding a proposed 120 mph bullet train. "

This is downright strange...

`But Officer, I Didn't Do Anything!': From The Tampa Tribune

"At the University of St. Andrews, where he studies art history, the royal hottie Prince William can't even go out for drinks with friends without being tracked electronically by a pack of wired women."

Cell Biology (washingtonpost.com)

Alba, the glowing rabbit that made headlines two years ago for being, well, a glowing rabbit, has met an untimely death, according to the French researcher who genetically engineered her.

RIP: Alba, the Glowing Bunny

"BANGKOK, Thailand (Reuters) -- A Thai woman killed herself by jumping into a pit of more than 100 crocodiles, shocking crowds of onlookers at a Bangkok reptile farm. "

I think this beats the wood chipper method.

CNN.com - Crocodiles tear apart Thai suicide woman - August 11, 2002