] World chess champion Garry Kasparov defeated computerized
] challenger Deep Junior on Sunday in the first of six
] games pitting human wit against computer logic.

Awesome! Go Kasparov!

Kasparov 1, chess computer 0

] CAJUN CORN" Where Cajun is a flavor, NOT a temperature!
] This isnt like a restaurant where your mouth
] becomes a flame-thrower, it%u2019s just full of that
] Louisiana flavor.
] "PEPPER CORN" It's like putting cracked pepper on a baked
] potato. A nice sharp edge, just shy of being hot.

Good stuff! They sell it at HG Hills.

Kennys Cajun PopCorn

] RECEP TAYYIP Erdogan, chairman of the governing Justice
] and Development Party, said eliminating nuclear,
] biological and chemical weapons in Iraq was a worthy
] goal.
] This sounds good,%u201D he said in his first
] appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos,
] Switzerland. But lets not kid ourselves.
] No one is interested in eliminating their
] own weapons of mass destruction. They're interested
] in strengthening their own weapons of mass
] destruction.
] Asked if he was accusing the United States of
] hypocrisy, Erdogan said: I meant all the countries
] in the world. The United States is also included.

Turkish chief sees U.S. hypocrisy

Despite the dotcom boom and bust, the computer and telecommunications revolution has barely begun. Over the next few decades, the internet and related technologies really will profoundly transform society

Finally, someone who gets it.

We've only just begun

this is great!

The Barrow-Downs: Middle-Earth Name Generator

] Is President Bush's "axis of evil" campaign about to be
] undermined in his own backyard? A proposed uranium
] enrichment facility planned in Hartsville, Tenn. (pop.
] 2,395) raises just that question. One of the plant's
] principal backers is URENCO, a European consortium linked
] to leaks of enrichment technology to, yes, Iran, Iraq,
] and North Korea %u2014 as well as to Pakistan.

TIME.com: Nukes: To Pyongyang from Nashville?

] Police are investigating a burglary at the home of
] Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan in which an
] intruder made off with jewelry belong to Greenspan's
] wife, NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell.

I bet he was looking for secret master plans on the economy. ;)

Greenspan's home robbed

] -- A man who erased his drunk-driving record from a
] police computer and replaced it with a winking "smiley
] face" graphic ended up with a suspended license and a
] fine when police failed to see the funny side.
] The 19-year-old computer whiz had been arrested for drunk
] driving and summoned to appear in court in Besancon, in
] eastern France, the French daily Liberation reported
] Tuesday. Finding an unmanned computer as he arrived at
] the police station for his hearing, the man decided to
] test the good humor of the court by sneaking into the
] database.

Cops not amused at drunk driver's smiley

Information in the article that appears in the current issue of the online hacker magazine Phrack potentially puts at risk GPS devices used for commercial navigation and military operations, authorities said.

The Phrack article provides a detailed guide to building a low-cost, portable GPS jammer out of components that can be easily obtained from electronics supply houses. According to the article, the "onslaught of cheap GPS-based navigation (or hidden tracking devices) has made it necessary for the average citizen to take up the fine art of electronic warfare." Electronics and GPS experts who read the article this week called it technically competent and said amateurs with a certain amount of technical skill could build a GPS jammer from the plans.

Homemade GPS jammers raise concerns - Computerworld

] In a move praised by conservatives and criticized by
] abortion rights activists, President Bush declared
] January 19 "National Sanctity of Human Life Day."
] Tuesday's presidential proclamation was issued in advance
] of next week's 30th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade
] Supreme Court decision, which legalized abortion in the
] United States. Conservatives have sought for years to
] overturn that decision.

So do we get a day off from work?

Bush declares National Sanctity of Human Life Day