] ATLANTA -- Here's a way to really target a consumer.
]
] Next summer, Coca-Cola plans to use satellites to find
] U.S. buyers who happen to purchase special cans of Coke
] products.
]
] They will be winners in a giveaway that will feature
] Hummer H2 sport-utility vehicles. The giant vehicles will
] be presented in person, using satellites to locate the
] recipients. And in a promotion tied to the Summer
] Olympics, Coke's prize is likely to be $1 million in
] gold, again awarded on the spot.

neat

GPS will pinpoint Coke prize winners

standard teen angst + available guns == bad things happen

they haven't said shit about a motive, but the fact that it was an acne scarred loner type shooting some people in the weight room probably tells most of the story.

anyone placing bets that this kid is a gamer?

ABCNEWS.com : Teen Kills One, Wounds Another in Minn.

you're a female cashier or a corporate officer at Wal-Mart, age 18 and over, and you're not afraid to shed your inhibitions in front of the camera, Playboy wants you.

Playboy wants Wal-Mart women

] WASHINGTON - The new peach-hued U.S. $20 bill will be
] introduced at U.S. banks and businesses Oct. 9, officials
] plan to announce today, Tuesday's Wall Street Journal
] reported.

New Peach-Colored $20 Bills to Make Debut Oct. 9 - Sep. 9, 2003

] Power engineers, IEEE members, and
] the Spectrum reporters and editors
] who cover power and energy have been sounding the alarm
] about grid problems and potential
] cascading failures for nearly a
] decade. What follows is a compendium of feature articles,
] news reports, and essays that have
] appeared in IEEE Spectrum magazine
] about previous power outages, grid reliability and
] security, and electric power policy.

If you are interested in the grid failure, everything you need to know is here.

Special Report: IEEE says I told you so (re: the grid)

] Unreliable software exposes California recall to fraud

Hack the vote

] Like many teenage girls in Minneapolis, 17-year-old
] Stacey liked to hang out after school at the Mall of
] America, Minnesota's vast shopping megaplex. Cute,
] blond and chatty, she flirted with boys and tried on
] the latest Gap fashions. One day last summer, Stacey,
] which isn’t her real name, says she was approached by
] a man who told her how pretty she was, and asked if he
] could buy her some clothes. “He was an older guy,
] dressed really well,” she recalls. “He said he just
] wanted to see me in the clothes.” Stacey agreed, and
] went home that night with a $250 outfit.

Newsweek - This Could Be Your Kid

] Unabomber Ted Kaczynski has asked the U.S. government to
] return his personal papers and other materials, including
] a bomb confiscated by the FBI seven years ago.
]
] In papers filed at federal court in Sacramento, Kaczynski
] asked that the government ship the materials to a
] University of Michigan archive that already contains more
] than 15,000 of his papers.
]
] Those items include a pipe bomb and tons of documents
] including his voluminous autobiography, according to R.
] Steven Lapham, one of the federal prosecutors who tried
] the case. Also on the list: Kaczynski's tools, a can of
] matches, a pair of tweezers and a hatchet, which were
] confiscated when he was arrested at his Montana cabin.\

"GIMME BACK MY BOMB! Of course I promise not to detonate it in my cell."

Laughing boy

Unabomber seeks return of papers, bomb

] The surprise announcement came during a Wednesday
] afternoon taping of NBC's "The Tonight Show" with Jay
] Leno which was scheduled to air Wednesday night. Prior to
] the taping, it had been widely speculated that
] Schwarzenegger, 56, would announce he would not run.

Well I guess this speaks for itself. Arnold is going to enter the race after all.

CNN.com - Schwarzenegger announces bid for governor - Aug. 7, 2003

Porn king Larry Flynt wants to rule California.

The Hustler magazine publisher has filed initial paperwork to run in the gubernatorial recall election and says he may spend a large amount of his own money if people take his candidacy seriously.

The registered Democrat, civil libertarian and free speech advocate said he'd solve California's budget woes by expanding slot machine gambling. His holdings include several casinos.

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Sorry don't have the bookmarklets here right now so I am just doing a quick cut and paste on this one. Main point is Larry Flynt wants to be governor of California. They are needing a man with good business sense to get in there and clean up the budget but I am not too sure if Larry will be the right man for that job.

Hustler publisher Larry Flynt files to run in recall election