] Brian Maxwell, founder of the multimillion-dollar
] PowerBar empire and a former world-class marathon runner,
] has died of a heart attack, friends said. He was 51.

Morpheus said it best... "Fate it seems, is not without a sense of irony." -LB

PowerBar founder Maxwell dies of a heart attack

] Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (news -
] web sites), D-Mass., snowboards during the first day of
] his vacation at Sun Valley in Ketchum, Idaho Thursday,
] March 18, 2004

John Kerry snowboarding

] Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism
] coordinator, accuses the Bush administration of failing
] to recognize the al-Qaeda threat before the Sept. 11,
] 2001, terror attacks and then manipulating America into
] war with Iraq with dangerous consequences.

And the hits just keep on comin'! -LB

Former counterterror adviser slams White House, Rumsfeld

Humble pie anyone??? -LB

Rumsfeld gets nailed.

Neoteric wrote:
] Wilpig was
] nice enough to set up a recorder on ConTV, but unfortunately
] it crashed a couple of times. Some of the best attended talks
] were lost.

TIP - next time consider rolling VHS alongside the DVR just to play it safe. That way if the DVR crashes, you have an analog backup that you can digitize later. Not trying to criticize Wilpig in any way. It was beyond cool of him to take the time to do this! But I've had numerous bad experiences with DVR software and learned this tip the hard way - this software is still very much in its infancy and just too prone to crash - as was found out at PN7. -LB

RE: Videos from PhreakNIC 7 Online

Decius wrote:

] ] "These people don't tune into today's radio channels
] ] which are aimed at a young audience. Our service allows
] ] them to discover their own music," Ashcroft said.

Good concept. **Bad** name for a spokesperson. -LB

RE: Sony to deliver collaborative filtered music over cellphones.

] Texas Safe Voting reviewed the videotapes of the January
] 2004 closed meetings used to review voting systems for
] certification (the videos were acquired by open records
] requests).
]
] What we saw may shock you. Here's a two minute clip, in
] Windows and Quicktime format. The clips show how the
] state of Texas examines voting machines for
] certification.
]
] A group of examiners reviews voting systems, and makes
] certification recommendations to the Secretary of State.
] You might think that these examiners would conduct a
] comprehensive testing process, assessing the voting
] machines against a set of detailed critieria and
] discussing the underlying code.
]
] But there was nothing on the videotapes that resembled a
] testing process. The examiners didn't start with a set of
] criteria to test against. They didn't even start with a
] comparison the new machines to the older versions.
] Instead, the Diebold representatives gave a demo.
] Reviewers voted on the machines and looked at the final
] output. A few of the committee members watched closely,
] while others chatted together.

This is a _must_ see.

Texas Safe Voting - Leaked Video of Texas Certification of Diebold Machines

] Software billionaire Larry Ellison has given his new
] bride a pricey gift of 911,744 shares of his
] company's stock.
]
] Ellison, chief executive of software giant Oracle, gave
] the shares to his fourth wife, novelist Melanie Craft, on
] March 1, according to a filing Wednesday with the
] Securities and Exchange Commission.
]
] The shares were worth $11.9 million when Ellison parted
] with them. Oracle's stock has since declined by 9%,
] reducing the value of Craft's holdings to $10.8 million
] Wednesday, based on Oracle's closing price of $11.85 on
] the Nasdaq Stock Market.

If I were her, I'd say "thanks honey, but I'd rather have the cash!" and sell immediately. -LB

USATODAY.com - Ellison gives wife rich gift of Oracle stock

Elonka wrote:
] ] For some little girls, it's a favorite doll; for others,
] it's a
] ] dress-up set. But when Elonka Dunin of St. Charles,
] Missouri,
] ] was little, her favorite toys were puzzles.
]
] Let's hear it for geek girls! :)

w00t!!!!!!! Go Elonka go!!! -LB

RE: Elonka in 'Woman's World' magazine

] As far as flying space rocks go, it's as close an
] encounter as mankind has ever had.
]
] A 100-foot diameter asteroid will pass within 26,500
] miles of Earth on Thursday evening, the closest-ever
] brush on record by a space rock, NASA astronomers said.
]
] The asteroid's close flyby, first spied late Monday,
] poses no risk, NASA astronomers stressed.
]
] "It's a guaranteed miss," astronomer Paul Chodas, of the
] near-Earth object office at NASA's Jet Propulsion
] Laboratory, said Wednesday.

Hopefully now people will wake up and realize more money needs to be spent on searching and indexing the orbits of Near Earth Objects (NEO's). -LB

CNN.com - NASA: 100-foot asteroid to fly by Earth - Mar 18, 2004