] WASHINGTON, D.C. (AMP) %u2013 The U.S. government said
] it will seek to block the airing of a video found by Navy
] rescuers in Antarctica that purportedly reveals that a
] massive archeological dig is underway two miles beneath
] the ice. The @lantisTV production crew that shot the
] video is still missing. Attorneys for Beverly
] Hills-based @lantisTV stressed that the companys
] primary concern is for the safety and welfare of its
] crew. But they stated they will vigorously
] oppose any attempts to Ccensor material that
] is clearly in the public interest and public
] domain. The ice continent of Antarctica, they point
] out, belongs to no nation. The U.S. has no jurisdiction
] there. That video is the property... (read more)

Para-Normal.com - U.S. Denies Spectacular Ruinsin Antarctica Captured on Video

] Faced with the return of SARS, China on Monday ordered
] wild animals slaughtered by the thousands in the
] diseases suspected region of origin, a striking
] response that elicited calls for caution from
] international doctors concerned about safety and
] destroying medical evidence.
]
] The decision to kill up to 10,000 civet cats and related
] specialty-food creatures in the wildlife markets of the
] southern province of Guangdong animals suspected
] of being SARS carriers came as the first case of
] SARS in China this season was confirmed after more than
] two weeks of intricate tests.

SARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MSNBC - China orders mass killing of cats in response to SARS

] Google Inc. hired Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group
] Inc. to arrange its initial public offering, a sale that
] may raise as much as $4 billion, a banker involved in the
] transaction said.

Better be in the tech market in general, cause this is going
to keep the rally going.

Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs to Manage Google IPO

] Valencia, Spain - Williams Formula One team unveiled a
] radical new car on Monday which they believe will finally
] smash Ferrari's dominance in 2004.
]
] Team chief Frank Williams admitted they had fallen short
] last season when Michael Schumacher claimed his sixth
] world title but was confident the Williams F1 BMW FW26
] chassis and new BMW P84 engine would give Juan Pablo
] Montoya and Ralf Schumacher the edge when the season
] starts at Melbourne in March.

Williams unveil Ferrari-beater

] This petition is created to force Apple Computer, Inc. to
] admit there is a recurring and endemic problem with their
] Dual USB iBook computers, namely, the frequent and
] repeated failure of the logic boards in these machines.
]
] We petition that Apple provide recourse to this problem
] by either extending the warranty on the logic boards to
] cover all purchasers of said machines, or by offering
] reasonable replacement options other than the current
] replacement logic board, which has been proven faulty.

iBook Logic Board Failure Petition

Sign up for the petitiion for the class action suit against apple for the iBook problems.

Apple iBook Logic Board (motherboard) problems: Flickering screen? You're not the only one.

] SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan
] Greenspan said on Saturday that policymakers have been
] proven correct in their decision not to try to prick a
] 1990s stock-market bubble that subsequently broke on its
] own.
] "There appears to be enough evidence, at least
] tentatively, to conclude that our strategy of addressing
] the bubble's consequences rather than the bubble itself
] has been successful," Greenspan told the annual meeting
] of the American Economic Association in San Diego, Calif.

Greenspan Defends Fed Stock Bubble Policy

On May 4th, the Gumball 3000 will rally in Europe.
The event follows a 3000 mile route that begins in romantic Paris
(France), and travels south via Biarritz (France) and the Pyrenees
mountain range to Madrid (Spain) (see David Beckham), en route
to Marbella’s Golden Mile (Spain) before crossing the Mediterranean
Sea into Africa to Marrakech (Morocco). After partying with the
King of Morocco and negotiating the Sahara Desert the route then
returns to Europe heading to Barcelona (Spain) to catch the Formula
One Grand Prix before finishing with a major party in Cannes
back in the South of France. For those of you wishing to party
for another week the famous Cannes film festival begins the following day.

What is in store for the 2004 Gumball 3000

] NEW YORK (Reuters) - Although the Dow has closed above
] 10,000 11 times so far this month, it's likely to be
] years before the oldest and most widely watched U.S.
] market measure stays over the mark without falling back.
]
] "If there is a possible correlation, we can expect
] essentially a trading-range bound progression that could
] indeed last up to 20 years, or toward the years 2015-20,"
] said Alan Shaw, a technical analyst at Smith Barney, in a
] recent study.

I hope they are wrong.

Dow 10,000 May Be Ceiling for Years, Patterns Show

] "People are asking whether, ultimately, PowerPoint makes
] us all stupid, or does it help us streamline our
] thoughts?" said Norvig, who first saw Talking Heads in
] the late '70s. "My belief is that PowerPoint doesn't kill
] meetings. People kill meetings. But using PowerPoint is
] like having a loaded AK-47 on the table: You can do very
] bad things with it."

CNN.com - Does PowerPoint make us stupid? - Dec. 30, 2003