] A man was charged with trespassing in a mall after he
] refused to take off a T-shirt that said "Peace on Earth"
] and "Give peace a chance."
]
] Mall security approached Stephen Downs, 61, and his
] 31-year-old son, Roger, on Monday night after they were
] spotted wearing the T-shirts at Crossgates Mall in a
] suburb of Albany, the men said.

My sister sent me this link also, since it's "her" mall. She said she wants to do the same thing. She won't stop talking about it. I think she should just do it.

Man Arrested for Wearing Peace T-Shirt

] Those attending the conference also planned to assess the
] threat of using mosquitoes to spread bioterrorism agents.
]
] Osterholm agreed that such a scenario was a remote
] possibility, but also was concerned that terrorists might
] use mosquito-spraying trucks to spray harmful chemicals.
]
] "Next time there is a spray truck ... make damn sure you
] know whose truck that is," he said. "We have to make
] certain that all of us are the good guys."

Remember, kiddies: terrorists are EVERYWHERE.

Mosquito experts: West Nile is just the beginning

How appropriate! I was just saying last week how I made it through the winter without getting a cold, and BAM! I missed work yesterday because I'm sick as all hell. An interesting article.

How Come We Can't Cure The Cold?

MAZDA TRIED something radical: it launched the RX-8 in Sony’s Gran Turismo 3 videogame two years before the real car debuted at January’s Detroit auto show. Mazda execs admit it was risky, revealing their shark-nose sports car in pixels so long before it hit pavement.

Neat! Kinda makes me want one even more....

Pixels to Pavement

] Imagine Iraqi commanders getting misleading text messages
] on their cell phones. They appear to contain orders from
] Saddam Hussein but are actually sent by the U.S. military
] in disguise, directing Iraqi troops to a trap.
]
] Or how about a radar that confuses the Iraqi air defense
] system by showing U.S. bombers in the wrong locations, or
] heading in the wrong direction?

Or how about we put a whole bunch of secretive ideas up on the web and hope nobody but our allies read CNN.com? I'm sure the military already has a web page up somewhere with classified strategy on it. How do I know? Because the Navy does it all the time. Stuff I need to get briefed for is already up on the web. The Navy likes to brag about their innovations. That's just dumb.

Fierce cyber war predicted

] "Ty is now free to tour the world," band manager Paul
] Wollnough told mourners at Corner House Christian Church
] in Hubbard, 60 miles southeast of Cleveland.
] Some of the hundreds in attendance wore ribbons
] emblazoned with "Rock on, Ty." As they filed into the
] church, brief laughter interrupted tears and sniffles as
] a recent picture appeared on a screen above an altar of
] Longley, 31, and his sister, Audrey Dinger, grinning for
] the camera with their cheeks stuffed to bursting with
] grapes.
] The Rev. Jim Burks, related to Longley by marriage, said
] that whenever Longley couldn't make it to Ohio and
] western Pennsylvania from Los Angeles for holidays, he
] would spend his day delivering peanut-butter-and-jelly
] sandwiches to the homeless in Venice Beach.
] "His heart was as big as his hair," Burks said, quoting
] Longley's mother.
] Longley joined Great White about four years ago. None of
] the four surviving band members attended his service.

I had dinner in West Warwick on Friday night. And even though I REALLY REALLY wanted to, we did not drive past the ruins of The Station. Although we did drive past the "Station Fire Family Resource Center", which is being housed in an abandoned car dealership. Warwick is just sad now.. flags at half mast, signs and ribbons everywhere. One of the guys my boyfriend works with escaped the fire, but two of his friends did not. It's still all anyone talks about around here, everyone knows someone who was there, it seems. I still sort of want to see the scene. Is that wrong?

His heart was as big as his hair???

] If you're in a contaminated building with no exits
] whatsoever, at least book it to the opposite corner.

I simply cannot get enough of the ready.gov parodies.

Unready.net - Be Amused - Chemical Threat - Visual Guide

] That pocketknife you surrendered to airport security
] screeners might now be tucked away in someone else's
] pocket -- someone who bought it on EBay.

Bureaucrats get EBay fever / State sells penknives confiscated at airports at online auction

] CAPPS II will collect data and rate each passenger's risk
] potential according to a three-color system: green,
] yellow, red. When travelers check in, their names will be
] punched into the system and their boarding passes
] encrypted with the ranking. TSA screeners will check the
] passes at checkpoints.
]
]
] The vast majority of passengers will be rated green and
] won't be subjected to anything more than normal checks,
] while yellow will get extra screening and red won't fly.

U.S. plan: Threat level for every flyer

] Hoping to capitalise on a wave of nostalgia for Communist
] East Germany, a Berlin company is planning to build a
] theme park that revives life behind the Iron Curtain in
] the country that disappeared nearly 13 years ago.

I smell a field trip!

Fun for the whole family