] For Ulan McKnight, it's being the first customer to enter
] Apple Computer Inc.'s flagship San Francisco store --
] after waiting two nights outside the entrance and braving
] the rain.
]
] McKnight, who turned 40 Saturday, was joined by hundreds
] of others who wrapped around a city block in the city's
] prime shopping district for the opening of Apple's
] two-story store, the computer maker's fifth major store
] worldwide.
]
] For McKnight, a self-proclaimed "Mac-head," waiting in line for two days was his way
] of showing his appreciation to Apple for products that he says have improved his life.
]
] The tab adds to the roughly $100,000 McKnight estimates he has spent on Apple
] products for himself since buying his first Apple product more than 20 years ago.

$100k?!?!?!??

CNN.com - Apple opens big store with pomp - Feb. 28, 2004

] One of Finland's richest men has been fined a record
] 170,000 ($217,000) for speeding through the center of the
] capital, police said on Tuesday. Jussi Salonoja, 27, heir
] to his family's sausage business, was caught driving
] 50 miles per hour in a 25 mph zone last Thursday, the
] police said.

Speeding pays -- for the traffic cops - Feb. 10, 2004

] "I'm glad I live in this luxurious burrow on the Knob
] and not in a dirty, smelly spider hole like a slob.
] When I come out I don't want to negotiate;
] But to just do my job and prognosticate.
]
] Today because my shadow I see,
] six more weeks of winter there will be."

Phil Says Expect 6 More Weeks of Winter!

] Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder and the world's
] wealthiest man, is to receive an honorary knighthood for
] "services to global enterprise".
] ...
] Other Americans to have received the KBE include George Bush, the f
] ormer president, Rudolph Giuliani, the former mayor of New York,
] Steven Spielberg, the film director, and Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the
] US Federal Reserve Bank.

Queen to give knighthood to Bill Gates, Alen Greenspan, former George Bush, etc.

] Bush acknowledged that some in Congress and in the
] country objected to what he called "the liberation of
] Iraq." But he forcefully defended his decision with this
] comment: "For all who love peace and freedom, the world
] without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer
] place."

I love peace and freedom. What about a world without John Ashcroft & George Bush regime? I think that would be a better and safer place for Americans.

CNN.com - Bush warns of 'work unfinished' - Jan. 21, 2004

More oddness and news of the weird!

The 22-year-old college student, pictured at right in a Dunn County Sheriff's Office mug shot, pleaded guilty last month to burglarizing a home in search of the barely-there underwear. After Scholfield's arrest last April, Menomonie cops discovered 854 thongs stashed in his home, with the garments stored in everything from a briefcase to a Pokemon lunch pail

Thong Thiever!

Interesting picture of Saddam just pulled from the hole he was hiding in.

Saddam down on the ground

] North Korea's Dear Leader Kim Jong Il, whose sayings are
] followed by his people with a religious fervor, has
] defined three types of fools in the 21st century: people
] who smoke, people who don't appreciate music and people
] who can't use a computer.

What about using nukes?

N. Korea's Kim Jong Il: Learn to use a computer, or be a fool

] A look at how Google's monopoly, algorithms,
] and privacy policies are undermining the Web.

Google Watch

] The Culture Ministry has announced a ban on the use of
] "e-mail" in all government ministries, documents,
] publications or Web sites, the latest step to stem an
] incursion of English words into the French lexicon.

The bloody French are at it again.

France bans 'e-mail' from vocabulary