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Tue 23 Dec -- Lenny
Bruce pardoned -- Mad
cow suspected -- Bill
Nye’s “Mars-dial”
Mon 22 Dec -- Berklee
file-sharing -- Greatest
week in rock -- H.R. 3687
Mon 15 Dec -- Minister of funk
-- U.S. patterned on Alberta
Wed 10 Dec -- 4.5
quake west
of Richmond
Mon 8 Dec -- November
17 -- Secret ingredient c13
-- New cheaters
Wed 3 Dec -- Disney
resigns -- FAT,
ClearType, for a start -- 2GHz
Pentium
Wed 26 Nov -- Hermit
hasn’t eaten or drunk for several decades -- Apes
Face Extinction
Tue 25 Nov -- Let It Be...
[re-]released
Naked
-- Jones
Soda: Turkey &
Gravy flavored beverage
Sun 23 Nov -- Rolling
Stone 500 -- DNA
computer chip -- Blair
on Simpsons
Thu 20 Nov -- Action
Stick-- Don’t igg
me -- Lt.
Gov. Novoselic
Wed 19 Nov -- New
whale species -- slingshot,
soda fountain, frog... 7 others
Tue 18 Nov -- NIH
NIAID Ebola vaccine
enters human
trial
Tue 11 Nov -- Dictionary hits McSore
spot with McDonald’s -- 1st
novel ever written by U.S. president
Thu 6 Nov -- Enola
Gay at NASM -- What do
you think?
Tue 4 Nov -- December
of 1903 -- TIPS
Wed 29 Oct -- Solar
Superstorm -- New junkyard
Sat 25 Oct -- Dylan or poorly-translated
Japanese? -- Chopsticks
harmful
Tue 21 Oct -- Seattle one-day
rain record
set yesterday
Sat 18 Oct -- Mother Teresa's
beatification -- Taipei 101
-- Shenzhou
5
Mon 13 Oct -- Many
soldiers, same letter? -- 178
years without winning
Sun 5 Oct -- Iraq War, MMO’s: misconceptions
about -- key
elements of
Wed 24 Sep -- 0
to 60 in 4.1 sec. -- AMD
64gives Intel a run for the money
Tue 23 Sep -- VeriSign
(and others) as Big
Brother?
Fri 19 Sep -- (Progressive) record
label -- Let
It Be ... Naked -- Nuke storms?
Mon 15 Sep --
Jerga Loca -- “... includes the right to have one’s vote
counted”
Fri 12 Sep -- R.I.P.
Johnny Cash
Mon 8 Sep --
Well, I suppose every
little bit helps
Tue 2 Sep -- Bringing up baby
bilingual -- “an event meriting careful
monitoring”
Thu 28 Aug -- “an
experiment that’s failed”? -- Unprepared?
Fri 22 Aug -- sponge
optics -- why
can’t i sit in the chair
Tue 19 Aug -- HUD
-- TPF
Fri 8 Aug -- Washington State’s gubernatorial
race?
Thu 7 Aug -- Bugs
stuck between
water & air
Wed 6 Aug -- Low-cost software
programming
Wed 30 Jul -- Adios
amigo vocho
Fri 25 Jul -- Mars will be as close
as it has been since 12
Sept 57,537 BC
Mon 21 July -- We climbed beautiful Mt
St Helens yesterday (view from Climbers’
Bivouac -- what
it looked like in ’76 -- 18
May 1980)
We didn’t have a camera (dang it), but our
view from the cornice at the summit was very similar (Mt Adams
in the distance)
Tue 15 Jul -- WMDs?
-- “I think we are losing
control”
Tue 15 Jul -- “librarians
aren’t known for Terminator-style stunts”
Sat 12 Jul -- Fear
& Uneasiness
Fri 11 Jul -- $3.9
billion a month -- “We’re Here
for Years”
Wed 9 Jul -- Act
of peace -- Nanotech
-- 20
years later
Mon 7 Jul -- Did
you know? 1820: Liberia
founded by freed
U.S. slaves
Tue 1 Jul -- But you can’t put ’em on bicycle
spokes -- Beans
-- Higgs
boson
Fri 27 Jun -- Free
wi-fi for Niue -- Telcos
in Iraq
Thu 26 Jun -- Crash
Course -- The invisible
Fri 20 Jun -- “Hope” for
Y chromosome -- Evolution of galaxies
Thu 12 Jun -- R.I.P.
Gregory “Atticus
Finch” Peck
Wed 11 Jun -- Homo sapiens idaltu:
oldest human
fossils found
Mon 9 Jun -- Hillary
Rodham Clinton:
author,
presidential-candidate
Mon 9 Jun -- Guardian
retraction about "Oil" [link: Wed 4 June 2003]
Sat 7 Jun -- “...an
understanding of why
this city is the way
it is...”
Wed 4 Jun -- Oil
[see Mon 9 June 03] -- Troubling
-- Unnecessary
Mon 2 Jun -- “It’s
getting stupid.”
Fri 30 May -- “The
war has not
ended” -- start of new
military push
Wed 28 May -- Pentagon
unearths WMDs... in Maryland
Wed 21 May -- “...it
makes sense to drink
more tea”
Tue 20 May -- Sesame Street breaks Iraqi
POWs -- Too
dressed up?
Mon 19 May -- “...more potent...
more dispersed...
force...”
Wed 14 May -- 75th
Exploitation Task Force winding
down ops
Wed 14 May -- Build
your own sign (note: requires Adobe Acrobat
reader)
Tue 13 May -- In the
event of
an actual emergency...
Sun 11 May -- Future
of shuttle
program under intensive scrutiny
Fri 9 May -- English
not 1st language -- Philoxenia?
-- Less-than
0.3mm thick
Thu 8 May -- Touch-screen
-- Robin
Hood? -- Tick,
tick, tick
Tue 6 May -- Runners
-- Ashleigh
Banfield rebuked -- Eater
of Meaning
Fri 2 May -- Something we Greeks
have always known
Thu 1 May -- “The president
will not be flying
it himself”
Tue 29 Apr -- iTunes
-- Satellite
expected to fall -- U.S.-Saudi
'uneasy' ties
Thu 24 Apr -- “The blood
in your veins comes from the birth
of civilisation”
Mon 21 Apr -- “...at
least $20 billion a year...”
Thu 17 Apr -- Oil
-- Oil
-- More oil
Wed 16 Apr -- Peace
prayer? -- Esthetics
of Iraq -- Tim
Robbins
Mon 14 Apr -- “...aims of reshaping
the Middle East...”
Fri 11 Apr -- View
From an Ancient Monastery
Thu 10 Apr -- Real
battle in Iraq may have only just begun
Wed 9 Apr -- Frank Schaeffer's Washington Post editorial
& OPF
response
Wed 9 Apr --More than a decade
of antagonism between Washington& Baghdad
Tue 8 Apr -- Radiyo
al-Ma'ulumat
Mon 7 Apr -- “Study
War No More”
Fri 4 Apr -- R.I.P
Rachel
Corrie
Wed 2 Apr -- "has
been very Delphic on this"
Tue 1 Apr -- Focus
on
prayer
Mon 31 Mar -- The
"Peace Train" rides again
Fri 28 Mar -- “...not
going to be around
too much
longer”
Thu 27 Mar -- Still
in business
Tue 25 Mar -- “These
are difficult
and complicated
issues”
Mon 24 Mar -- “Where
will it stop?”
Thu 20 Mar -- Doctrine
of
preemption?
Wed 19 Mar -- "...this war will only make the
world less secure..."
Tue 18 Mar -- Prayer
for peace
Mon 17 Mar -- Eve
of
war?
Fri 14 Mar -- R.I.P.
Lynne Thigpen ("Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?")
Thu 13 Mar -- "...wings held together with tin
foil and duct tape..."
Tue 11 Mar -- Elton John: "it's a very
good night
to be British"
Mon 10 Mar -- I never
forget
a face
Sun 9 Mar -- Chicxulub:
"smoking
gun" for Cretatious-Tertiary extinction?
Sat 8 Mar -- Jupiter stripes
theory
questioned
Fri 7 Mar -- Been
a while
since we
heard about
the monorail
Thu 6 Mar -- FBI agent
Rowley: war
could unleash
terrorism
Wed 5 Mar -- "Give Peace
a Chance"
at Crossgates
Mall
Mon 3 Mar -- Georgetown:
gene identified that promotes
metastases
Sat 1 Mar -- Play 20 questions
with a computer
Fri 28 Feb -- Happy
50th
(but new
twist in the helix?)
Thu 27 Feb -- R.I.P.
Fred 'Mister
Rogers'
Wed 26 Feb -- After 30 years, Pioneer
10 has sent
its last signal
Wed 26 Feb -- Chef's
apparent suicide
over ratings
Tue 25 Feb -- Duct tape Co. sees "doubling
and tripling" of sales
Mon 24 Feb -- Hail Hail Fredonia, I mean, Cascadia
Fri 21 Feb -- Hmmm, I can't decide which
one to use...
Thu 20 Feb -- Ebola
outbreak
in
Congo
Wed 19 Feb -- Il Papa,
George Ryan,
Jacques Chirac(?),
and, yes: Bono
Tues 18 Feb -- Snow,
snow,
and more snow
Fri 14 Feb -- NYC
peace march
nixed
-- St.
Patrick's Day parade on
Thu 13 Feb -- Holga:
twenty-dollar plastic camera
Wed 12 Feb -- Universe
13.7 billion
years old (+/- 200 million)
Tue 11 Feb -- "Reduce
judicial oversight
of surveillance,"
for example
Mon 10 Feb -- Top
nominees for
the Razzies
Fri 7 Feb -- Dell phasing
out floppy
drive
Thu 6 Feb -- Running
out of patience
Wed 5 Feb -- Rock family affair, e.g., Zappa,
The
Jacksons
Fri 31 Jan -- Imagination
at work
Thu 30 Jan -- Can’t anybody here play
this game?
Wed 29 Jan -- Draw: Kasparov
vs. Deep
Junior
Tue 28 Jan -- Billington:
fan of Grandmaster Flash & Furious Five? (see
#50)
Mon 27 Jan -- M-I-C
... K-E-Y
... M-O-U-S-E
...
Sat 25 Jan -- National
Geographic Goes Swimming (I
kid you not)
Fri 24 Jan -- Castro, McNamara:
we're damn lucky to be here
Thu 23 Jan -- Obesity
-- Sharpton
-- Kasparov
vs. Junior
Wed 22 Jan -- World's most
expensive cities (#5: Libreville?)
Tue 21 Jan -- Linux
goes corporate
Mon 20 Jan -- Not a blind
watchmaker, claim Williams
& da Silva
Sat 18 Jan -- To Mars
in a nuclear-powered rocket
Fri 17 Jan -- The New York Public library has a fine
image collection
Thu 16 Jan -- Arręt! Voici l'Empire
des Morts
Wed 15 Jan -- Bush
on North Korea (see Mon 6 Jan entry)
14 Jan -- 21st amino
acid
13 Jan -- Intel
outside
11 Jan -- Lost
Beatles
tapes?
10 Jan -- Magazine
work of Theodore Seuss Geisel (here's
one)
9 Jan -- Einstein passes quasar
test
8 Jan -- DNA
barcode? -- 13 billion light
years away
7 Jan -- OGLE-TR-56b:
Most distant planet
orbiting another star
6 Jan -- Ummm... because they
don't have oil?
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