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Tuesday, Jul 02, 2002

our kind of guy

"Almost everyone who has encountered the F.B.I. anthrax investigation is aghast at the bureau's lethargy. Some in the biodefense community think they know a likely culprit, whom I'll call Mr. Z. Although the bureau has polygraphed Mr. Z, searched his home twice and interviewed him four times, it has not placed him under surveillance or asked its outside handwriting expert to compare his writing to that on the anthrax letters."

best damn advertisement ever

"In the latest example of how television programming and advertising are becoming increasingly indistinguishable, Levi Strauss & Company paid for an actor featured in a commercial for its Dockers pants brand to appear on the show on Fox Sports Net, a cable TV channel owned by the News Corporation and Cablevision Systems."

Monday, Jul 01, 2002

second citizen

"Vice-President Dick Cheney, having briefly assumed President Bush�s duties while the President underwent a routine colon procedure on Saturday, told reporters today that he �enjoyed the downtime immensely.�"

striker

ronaldo to refinance brazilian debt. says better than sex and world cup referees.

width knell

"Members of the Toledo police computer crimes task force and FBI agents served search warrants at 13 residences, including an apartment, a condominium, and single-family houses. Investigators believe cable modems that connect Buckeye Express customers to the Internet were altered, allowing computer users unauthorized access to excessive amounts of bandwidth."

copywrongs

"Berman's proposed legislation calls for a myriad of measures including stronger digital rights management laws, lawsuits by copyright owners, and prosecutions against the most gregarious infringers. Additionally he calls for "technological self-help measures" including redirection, decoys, spoofing and file blocking."

take a flyer

"Checkpoint screeners at 32 of the nation's largest airports failed to detect fake weapons � guns, dynamite or bombs � in almost a quarter of undercover tests by the Transportation Security Administration last month, documents obtained by USA TODAY show."

just being neighborly

"The US Ambassador to Bolivia has told the Bolivian people not to vote for the indigenous Indian candidate for the Movement for Socialism (MAS), Evo Morales Ayma. If he is elected next Sunday, the USA will suspend economic aid and will review its agreements."

aztlandia

"It is, of course, true that some of the Bush administration's policies regarding our southern border are dictated by a desire to woo the Hispanic vote. However, there is a deeper and even more insidious motivation. The administration, building upon the work of its predecessor, is seeking to erase our border with Mexico as a prelude to consolidating the Western Hemisphere into a single political bloc modeled after the European Union."

redd stripe bier

redd cross member adds bass to white stripes song and posts online as installation piece.

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