] The Bush administration stepped up criticism of Israel
] Thursday for its operations in Gaza, and called on the
] government to exercise restraint.
]
] President Bush said during a Cabinet meeting he was
] seeking clarification from the Israeli government about
] the innocent loss of life in Rafah on Thursday.
]
] "I continue to urge restraint. It is essential that
] people respect innocent life, in order for us to achieve
] peace," Bush said.

CNN.com - U.S. sharpens criticism of Israeli action in Gaza - May 20, 2004

] After eight years of marriage, the 36-year-old man and
] his 30-year-old wife went to the campus' fertility clinic
] to figure out what was wrong.
]
] Doctors gave them a battery of tests and were baffled
] - both husband and wife were healthily fertile.
]
] Then came the important question.
]
] "When we asked them how often they had had sex," said a
] clinic spokesman, "they looked blank, and said: 'What do
] you mean?'"

FOXNews.com - German Couple Finds Out Stork Isn't Real

] Unitarian Universalists have for decades presided over
] births, marriages and memorials. The church operates in
] every state, with more than 5,000 members in Texas alone.
]
] But according to the office of Texas Comptroller Carole
] Keeton Strayhorn, a Texas Unitarian church isn't really a
] religious organization - at least for tax purposes. Its
] reasoning: The organization "does not have one system of
] belief."

KRT Wire | 05/17/2004 | Texas official says Unitarian church not a tax-exempt religion

] Essentially, Mac browsers (including Safari, Mozilla, and
] Firefox) are all designed to launch the Help Viewer
] program when the help: protocol is invoked in a web link.
] Unfortunately, the Help Viewer program, in turn, is able
] to run scripts. What this means is that a malicious user
] can set up a page with an automatic redirect that runs a
] dangerous script. More details for the tech-minded can be
] found on this MacNN thread. And if you want a terrifying
] (but harmless) example of this, go to
] http://bronosky.com/pub/AppleScript.htm. It will launch
] Terminal and run a harmless du command

mamamusings: serious os x 10.3 security problem

] A six-lane highway bordered by two service roads with no
] homes, schools, churches or hospitals nearby generated
] more automated speeding citations and fines than any
] other area in the District's photo-radar program last
] month.

Traffic enforcement cameras are for revenue not safety

] Scientists have created a miniature medical computer out
] of DNA that can detect cancer genes in a test tube and
] respond by releasing a drug. Proving what had been only a
] concept, the feat offers a vision of how medicine might
] look in the future.

Injectable Medibots: Programmable DNA could diagnose and treat cancer: Science News Online, May 1, 2004

] Field 13.02.2004
]
] 1301 fluorescent light tubes powered by the electro
] magnetic field emitted from the overhead powerlines.

This is illegal as hell, but it does make for pretty pictures.

Richard Box- Archive

They are cute. They are happy. And they bleed. Best Flash Ever.

Happy Tree Friends

] What we need are corresponding mechanisms to prevent
] abuse. This is the proper question: "Should we allow law
] enforcement to use new technology without any judicial
] oversight, or should we demand that they be overseen and
] accountable?" And the Fourth Amendment already provides
] for this in its requirement of a warrant.

[ Yeah, accountability is the most critical thing here. The judges need to be in charge of this, and if a warrant turns out bad and violates an innocent mans privacy, then the judge gets the smackdown. There's a bigger problem with this, however, which is that judges are already overworked, and finding competent judges is not that easy. Anyone who's had to go to court for anything knows just how backed up and inefficient the whole thing is... that's gonna have to get fixed too, or the accountability Schneier argues for will be hollow, applied to persons we can't afford to lose... -k]

Newsday.com - Opinion

Archaeologists have found what they believe to be the site of the Library of Alexandria, often described as the world's first major seat of learning.

Library of Alexandria discovered