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

Happy Tree Friends

JANIS KARPINSKI IS A MAN BABY!!!!!!! (austin powers voice)

CNN Programs - American Morning

] It may just be pocket change for the richest man in the
] world, but Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has been fined
] $800,000 by the federal government for violating an
] antitrust rule.
]
]
] ] The technical incident has nothing to do with the
] government's massive antitrust battles with Microsoft
] (MSFT: Research, Estimates).
]
] Gates, whose fortune has been estimated at more than $40
] billion, ran afoul of the Federal Trade Commission and
] the Justice Department's Antitrust Division for his
] purchases of stock in a drug company and a waste-hauling
] firm.

Doh

Microsoft Gates fined $800,000 for antitrust violations - May. 3, 2004

] California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley ended five
] months of speculation and announced Friday that he was
] decertifying all electronic touch-screen voting machines
] in the state due to security concerns and lack of voter
] confidence.
]
] He also said that he was passing along evidence to the
] state's attorney general to bring criminal and civil
] charges against voting-machine-maker Diebold Election
] Systems for fraud.

Wired News: California Bans E-Vote Machines

] "While they may be cute and cuddly we need to get beyond
] emotion to reality...my suggestion is professional
] shooters do it quickly and cleanly," Kanck told Reuters
] on Friday of the proposed cull.

Damn

CNN.com - Call to shoot 20,000 Australian koalas - Apr 30, 2004

HAHAHA....oh yeah. This is not work safe...unless you have headphones:)

::ill Will Press:: NEUROTICALLY YOURS CARTOON: FAT-KINS DIET

] Because of growing cases of drug-resistant strains of
] gonorrhea, the government is expected to announce this
] week that common treatments against the sexually
] transmitted disease no longer work and other drugs should
] be used, top experts said Monday.

This is definitely *not* good news.

CNN.com - New drug needed for resistant gonorrhea - Apr 26, 2004

] Grad School Barbie is anatomically correct to teach kids
] about the exciting changes that come with pursuing a
] higher education. Removable panels on Barbie's head and
] torso allow you to watch as her cerebellum fries to a
] crispy brown, her heart race 150 beats per minute, and
] her stomach lining gradually dissolve into nothing.
] Barbie comes with specially designed eye ducts: just add
] a little water and watch Grad School Barbie burst into
] tears at random intervals. Deluxe Grad School Barbie
] comes with a "Snap" button, bendable arms and legs, and a
] small vibrating motor. Press the button to watch Barbie
] crumple into the fetal position and tremble
] uncontrollably. Fun for the whole family!

This is just damned funny......(/me bursts into tears)
;)
Nano

Grad School Barbie

] And, using a downloaded A9 toolbar for Internet Explorer,
] users can also tag their own notes to web pages and block
] popups. All these extras have impressed Chris Sherman, an
] editor at SearchEngineWatch. "I like the idea of
] personalisation," he told New Scientist.

This guy seriously needs to see memestreams. :)

New Scientist - Amazon's search engine impresses experts

] A new type of Blu-Ray digital video disk made largely
] from paper has been developed by Sony and Toppan Printing
] in Japan. The two companies say such paper-based disks
] will be cheaper to make and less environmentally harmful

I wasn't aware that the plastic that is used to make DVDs comes from crude oil. This is interesting though....using paper and some other polymer instead of the plastic. Paper DVDs....what will they think of next;)

New Scientist - New Blu-Ray video disk is made of paper