] "Saddam Hussein said in a statement Tuesday that Iraqis
] were ready to fight a holy war against the United States"

Bring on the Jihad Mr. Saddam. I don't think this President
Bush is going to stop when he gets to Bagdad and run away.
When is he done there...off to North Korea we must go.

Too bad the Gipper didn't really build some "Star Wars"
where we could just shoot some "lasers" from space. :)

Saddam says Iraq ready for holy war

] "Suppose you endured the checkout line at the grocery
] store only to find that you were short on cash, or you'd
] forgotten your wallet. What if you could settle the bill
] with just the touch of your finger?
]
] Kroger Co. (NYSE:KR - news), the largest U.S. supermarket
] chain, is offering some customers just that opportunity,
] testing finger imaging as a method of payment in three of
] its Texas stores."

Its bad enough that Kroger knows my address and all the food I buy, but now they want our fingerprint. I think not.

Kroger Lets Shoppers Pay Via Fingerprint

] "North Korea, mired in a dispute with the United States
] and its allies over its nuclear program, warned
] Washington on Tuesday that internationalizing the issue
] would only lead to an "

N. Korea hits back in war of words

] "Late last week, two soldiers of the U.S. Army's 9th
] Psychological Operations Battalion began doing just that
] in Salang, a tiny northern village surrounded by towering
] mountain crags.
]
] The Americans lifted a 21-inch TV from the back of a
] green camouflage Army Humvee and showed a five-minute
] propaganda video in the Dari language to 100 villagers.
] Nearby sat two destroyed Soviet-era tanks - rusted relics
] from the decades of war that have wasted the country."

U.S. troops ask Afghans what they think of them

] "The answer, according to Haub's calculations, is that a
] total of 106.4 billion people have lived on the planet
] since homo sapiens is first believed to have appeared
] about 50,000 B.C.

Always wondered that....

World population 5.8% of people who have lived on Earth

] "Sun Microsystems Inc. (NasdaqNM:SUNW - news) won a major
] antitrust victory against Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT
] - news) on Monday when a federal judge ordered Microsoft
] to distribute Sun's Java programming language in its
] Windows operating system.

Go Sun!

Sun Wins, Microsoft Ordered to Carry Java

] "Says cinematographer Bill Pope: “It’s going to make ‘The Fast and the Furious’ look like ‘The Slow and the Dimwitted’.”

Excellent read! Can't wait!

Make a mental note: 2003 is going to be the year of “The Matrix.”

] "A woman in Santa Monica, California, is attempting to
] lose weight in a manner others may not be able to stomach
] -- an all-semen diet.
]
] Starting December 1, a plump porn star named Kim Kelly
] hopes to lose between 10 and 20 pounds by spending 30
] days on a diet consisting largely of semen -- or as she
] prefers, "man juice.""

Those crazy Californian's and their crazy diets. :D

Woman Attempts All-`Man-Juice' Diet

] "Want to have some fun? Get a copy of Connectix Virtual
] PC and add a few virtual operating systems to your
] computer, without the hassle of dual boot or complex
] incompatibilities. The system, free for 60 days from
] www.connectix.com, lets you create memory partitions on
] which you can run Linux simultaneously with Windows XP.
] You can run multiple versions of Linux at once to see if
] you like Linux enough to take the plunge."

Microsoft, Innovation, and Linux

] "Russian FSB (Federal Security Service, successor to KGB)
] is preparing regulations and technical requirements to
] facilitate field operative work in computer networks.
] SORM (in Russian - System for Conduct of Investigations
] and Field Operations) is a set of regulations and
] technological equipment facilitating access of FSB to all
] computer communications and internal documents of telecom
] providers (including phone and internet companies). The
] technology provides an effective mechanism to by-pass a
] Constitutionally required process of court authorization
] for wire-tapping of electronic communications."

Bush is learning from these guys!

SORM at Moscow Libertarium