] "What we heard back from him (Rosenberg) was that Eminem
] was fine with me having the parody on my album but said
] he was afraid that a Weird Al video might detract from
] his legacy, that it would somehow make people take him
] less seriously as an important hip-hop artist," Yankovic
] said.

Oh come on! Al's done parody videos of Michael Jackson, Madonna, Coolio, Dire Straits - and Eminem is afraid it's going to "detract from his legacy"? Even Kurt Cobain said "I knew we made it as a band when I saw the Weird Al parody on MTV." I'm firmly convinced that Eminem, whose name sounds like a candy, for chrissakes, takes himself much too seriously.

Yahoo! LAUNCH - News: Weird Al Disappointed Eminem Nixed Video

] In the end, the Republican Congress looks likely to force
] through a stimulus package that is largely based around
] tax cuts. Some of these measures may be sensible
] long-term reforms, and returning money to taxpayers is
] seldom unpopular. But the stimulus will not create many
] jobs now, whatever Mr Bush says.

Don't quit your day job. No, really. How many 'jobless recoveries' can we survive?

Another Bush, another jobless recovery

] I'm Saddam.
] Saddam I am.
]
] I do not like you,
] Uncle Sam.

Would you like to bomb Iran?

Read how those defending your rights weren't allowed to speak in opposition to this bill.

How Sausage Is Made - House Judiciary Committee OK's HB0457!

I love the expression on the cats face in the photo - "REEOOOW!" Sort of what I expect I'd look like if I suddenly had $160k dumped in my lap!

Laughing Boy

] LONDON, England (AP) -- Tinker really is the cat that got
] the cream.
]
] Thanks to his late owner, a wealthy widow, the former
] stray now lives in some splendor in his own house, valued
] at 350,000 pounds (US$560,000) and dines on fish bought
] from his 100,000-pound (US$160,000) trust fund.
]
] The will of Margaret Layne, 89, published in The Times
] newspaper on Tuesday, named Tinker as the beneficiary of
] a large chunk of her estate, including her house in
] Harrow, northwest London.

Cat inherits house, trust fund

] Earlier this month, I described a friend of mine who was
] responsible for a corporate network notable for its aging
] applications infrastructure. At the end of the column
] I proposed a contest and asked you all to send in your
] own entries to qualify for the "oldest living software"
] application. Needless to say, I got some great entries.

And I thought our accounting system was old.

Winners Of The 'Oldest Software' Contest

] Hiring in the information technology field is expected to
] remain soft through 2003--despite any recovery waiting in
] the wings, according to a survey released Monday by an IT
] trade group.
]
] Sixty-seven percent of hiring managers surveyed
] anticipate hiring demands to remain the same or decline
] during the next 12 months, according to the Information
] Technology Association of America. The ITAA surveyed 400
] hiring managers from technology and nontechnology
] companies between March 27 and April 14.
]
] The managers surveyed are expecting to hire a cumulative
] total of 493,000 IT workers over the next 12 months,
] compared with 1.1 million positions anticipated over the
] same period when the survey was conducted early last
] year.
]
]
] Of the IT positions that companies plan to fill, a number
] will be for jobs overseas, according to the survey. An
] increasing number of companies, including Hewlett-Packard
] and IBM, are moving work offshore, where labor is
] cheaper.

I love my job... I love my job... I love my job... Just gotta keep saying it, and maybe I'll believe it...

IT hiring lackluster through 2003 | CNET News.com

] In his new book, Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap
] Labor in the American Black Market (Houghton Mifflin, 310
] pp., $23), Schlosser examines three disparate
] commodities -- marijuana, strawberries, and
] pornography -- to burrow deep into the nation's
] subterranean economy, which racks up as much as $1
] trillion in off-the-books transactions each year.
]
] Schlosser intends Fast Food Nation and Reefer Madness as
] part of a trilogy, to be completed with a book on the
] U.S. prison system. %u201CThey%u2019re about the history
] of America over the last 30 years

Something I'll have to pick up soon.

The Village Voice: Features: Pot, Porn, and Strawberries by Jessica Winter

] Null said he discovered the vulnerability at Apple.com
] using the "view source" option in his Web browser while
] visiting a section of the online store designed to help
] people who have forgotten their passwords.
]
] After submitting his e-mail address, as requested by the
] system, Null said he noticed that Apple was hiding a
] string of letters and numbers in the source code to one
] of the pages designed to confirm users' identities.
]
] By cutting and pasting that "hash" into a separate page
] for specifying the new password, Null was able to change
] his password without answering the secret question used
] to authenticate him.

Well, at least Apple didn't want to arrest the guy.

Wired News: Apple Squashes E-Store ID Bug

] However, the big winner has been Marvel itself. This
] becomes its sixth consecutive licensed release to open as
] the top draw at the local multiplex after Spider-Man,
] Daredevil, Blade, Blade 2, and the original X-Men. For a
] company that was little more than a comic-book specialist
] making toys on the side, Marvel has come a long way.

Why didn't I have half a mil last year to drop into Marvel? I know what to invest in, now I just have to find the money to do it...

Fool.com: Marvel's Big Weekend [Motley Fool Take] May 5, 2003