] Simple queries using the Google search engine can turn up
] a handful of sites that have posted credit card
] information to the Web, CNET News.com learned on Tuesday.

Ubiquitous data searching has its costs.

Google queries provide stolen credit cards | CNET News.com

] William Shatner has covered 'Common People'
]
] Ben Folds is pushing back the release date of his
] next solo album to early 2005 in order to give 'Star
] Trek' veteran William Shatner's upcoming collection, 'Has
] Been', his full attention. The set is being targeted for
] a September release by Shout! Factory.
]
] Shatner's album was produced and written mostly by
] Folds and includes cameos by Henry Rollins, Aimee Mann
] and Joe Jackson, who duets with Shatner on Pulp's 'Common
] People'.

This track will be played on our show today... It is *shatner pause* amazing

chachacha.co.uk - William Shatner has covered 'Common People'

] Matt Damon, who's been in New York with new girlfriend
] Luciana Barroso, admits that he's never voted.
]
] The "Bourne Supremacy" star tells Playboy, "My reasoning
] has always been that because I'm from Massachusetts,
] everyone I would have voted for didn't need my vote.
] That's changing now because of where we're going in this
] country. I'll vote for John Kerry."

Similar reasoning didn't make me too upset that my absentee ballot didn't arrive until the day after the 2000 election (Gore got over 60% in MA). Similar reasoning has also made sure my registration is active here, and that I've voted in all subsequent electoral foo.

New York Daily News - Daily Dish & Gossip - Rush & Molloy: Usher and date in the tunnel of love

] Duquesne University, under a National Science Foundation
] Grant (NSF), has initiated a unique learning opportunity
] for chemical engineering undergraduate, post graduate and
] doctoral fellows by purchasing two SGI® Altix®
] supercomputers and an SGI® InfiniteStorage system from
] Silicon Graphics. Dr. Jeffry Madura,
] associate professor and chemistry chair at Duquesne, and
] his colleague Dr. Jeffrey D. Evanseck, associate
] professor of chemistry, have teamed up to create a
] state-of-the-art learning and research environment to
] enable their students to conduct research of the highest
] caliber in both quantum chemical computation and
] molecular dynamic simulation.

Duquesne University Selects SGI Altix Supercomputers and SGI InfiniteStorage Solutions for State-of-the-Art Research Environment

] The TNT was supposed to be planted in the bags of a
] Montreal security agent. Instead, it somehow ended up
] stuffed into the luggage of an unsuspecting overseas
] passenger who arrived at Pierre Elliot Trudeau
] International Airport last Friday. The unnamed passenger
] went to a friend's house where he found the explosives
] concealed in a jam jar and placed inside his suitcase.

alibi . may 20 - 26, 2004

] That's because no other member of the Japanese company's
] money-making characters has what Hello Kitty has managed
] to attract and keep drawing back for more, year after
] year -- legions of girls eager to spend their pocket
] money generously on products that are seen as fun,
] affordable and unabashedly cute.

ASIAN POP How Hello Kitty Came to Rule the World / With little advertising and no TV spinoff, Sanrio's 30-year-old feline turned cute into the ultimate brand

] General Motors' solution seems to be to cut costs though
] alliances with Subaru, but in doing so, it could lose the
] upwardly mobile crowd now interested in Saab vehicles.
] After all, much of this group is striving to move up the
] car food chain to more expensive vehicles, and if the new
] car ends up being a Subaru in Saab clothing, these folks
] may be turned off.

Funny. That "Subaru in Saab clothing" may sound like a bad thing, but from where I sit, that doesn't speak highly to prospective Saab owners. I wouldn't really be interested in a GM Saab that wasn't really a Subaru, because I like reliable fun cars.

Fool.com: GM's Saab Job [Motley Fool Take] July 12, 2004

] Ilarie Coroiu was taken to hospital in the Transylvanian
] town of Cluj after his girlfriend, Magdalena, 18, "felt
] something strange" and noticed that the bed was covered
] in blood.

Who's seen A Chinese Torture Chamber Story?

Ananova - Penis explodes during sex

] Alfa-Bank imposed a 10 percent commission on depositors
] who want to withdraw cash early as authorities fought to
] prevent a run on banks and bring calm to the sector.

The investor chatter I'm reading indicates that despite what
the government says, this could be /very/ bad for the russian
banks and for Putin's career.

MSNBC - Putin adviser says Russian banks in crisis

] The U.N. agency said it would put forward examples of
] anti-spam legislation which countries can adopt to make
] cross-border cooperation easier. Many states currently
] have no anti-spamming laws in place, making it difficult
] to prosecute the international phenomenon.

CNN.com - U.N. takes aim at spam epidemic - Jul 6, 2004