These Blues is Killing Me

Mon, 27 Oct 2003 02:57:10 GMT

Burrell unrepentant over book. Former royal butler Paul Burrell remains defiant despite a scathing attack by Princes William and Harry for betraying their mother. [ITN Online - Top Stories]

Sun, 19 Oct 2003 09:21:30 GMT

ITunes, Now for the Rest of Us. With his usual razzmatazz, Apple's Steve Jobs introduces the iTunes music download service for Windows PCs. He also announces marketing campaigns with Pepsi and AOL that could wean people off the illegal stuff. Leander Kahney reports from San Francisco. [Wired News]

Fri, 17 Oct 2003 08:20:39 GMT

"Coupling" Comes Undone (E! Online). E! Online - The Peacock is benching the heavily hyped sitcom for the next two weeks, throwing the program's future in doubt. [Yahoo! News - Most Emailed]

lj:) Idiots. I think back to when they wanted to do Fawlty Towers (they tried twice on the American TV) and how that missed the point. AbFab with Rosanne Barr, ugh!

Fri, 17 Oct 2003 08:16:24 GMT

Sun Microsystems Loss Widens, Sales Slide (Reuters). Reuters - Network computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc. (SUNW.O) on Thursday reported a wider quarterly loss as weak demand for its servers and tough competition caused sales to fall for the 10th consecutive quarter. [Yahoo! News - Technology]

Fri, 17 Oct 2003 08:15:53 GMT

Samsung Says Considering Sony LCD Deal (Reuters). Reuters - South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Friday it was positively considering a joint venture with Japan's Sony Corp to make television-use LCD (liquid crystal display) screens. [Yahoo! News - Technology]

Fri, 17 Oct 2003 06:48:53 GMT

InfoPath: Turn User Input into XML with Custom Forms Using Office InfoPath 2003. Office InfoPath 2003 lets you design your own data collection forms that turn user-entered data into XML. [MSDN Just Published]

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 07:51:24 GMT

Sony Shows 'Crossover' Video-Game Machine (AP). AP - Sony Corp. offered a preview Tuesday of its next-generation PlayStation, a hybrid gaming machine with digital media hub features: a TV tuner, DVD and hard-drive recording and photo album and music player functions. [Yahoo! News - Technology]

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 07:50:07 GMT

Sealaska and corporate socialism. INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY [10/08/03 11:19am] At a recent fundraiser in New York City, Rosita Worl was telling a lawyer from Salomon Brothers about her unusual corporate employer: Sealaska, she explained carefully, is required by federal law to share its profits with less successful Native... [more] [Indian Country Today]

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 07:48:10 GMT

Adding Design Time Support to ASP.NET Controls. Discover how you can add design-time support to your ASP.NET Server Controls. This allows your users to work with your controls as easily as they work with the built-in ASP.NET controls. [MSDN Just Published]

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 07:47:32 GMT

Alaskans Share the Oil Wealth From Fund (AP). AP - Robert Lague fingered the price tags on the guitars in the pawn shop as he fantasized about what he will do with his check for $1,107.56 in free money. [Yahoo! News - Most Emailed]

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 07:46:17 GMT

Microsoft Builds Lead in Server Systems (AP). AP - Microsoft Corp. has increased its share of the worldwide market for operating systems that run servers, despite high-profile competition from Linux, a new study shows. [Yahoo! News - Technology]

Tue, 07 Oct 2003 08:39:08 GMT

Chicago Garbage Piles Up During Strike (AP). AP - Rats and other vermin scurried through overflowing trash bins Monday as thousands of garbage haulers stayed off the job for a sixth day in a contract dispute. [Yahoo! News - Top Stories]

Tue, 07 Oct 2003 08:36:51 GMT

Pick an investment: Collectors see electric returns from playing guitar market

His sticky fingers grasping a diamond-studded file, Kari Nieminen applies a final touch to one of the $12,000 investments slung from hooks inside a ramshackle warehouse in Helsinki, Finland. Read...

LAURI OLANDER / BLOOMBERG NEWS

Kari Nieminen checks one of the guitars at his shop in Helsinki, Finland. The Versoul electric and acoustic guitars provide more than rhythm to the investment portfolios of corporate executives and musicians.

Sun, 05 Oct 2003 22:57:58 GMT

'Iron' Mike Tyson cried for Bruno. Mike Tyson has revealed he cried when he heard his rival and friend Frank Bruno was being treated in an Essex psychiatric hospital. [ITN Online - Top Stories]

Sun, 05 Oct 2003 22:53:58 GMT

Local sculpture irks some on Kansas campus

By The Associated Press
October 2, 2003

TOPEKA, Kan. - A sculpture from Longmont that depicts a Catholic clergyman in a cap bearing resemblance to a penis has drawn angry criticism from people who want it removed from the Washburn University campus.

lj:) Dick head, redux, he-he...

Sat, 04 Oct 2003 18:31:36 GMT

Pope is dying, Austrian cardinal says

One of Europe's top cardinals said yesterday that Pope John Paul was nearing "the last days and months of his life," the first ranking prelate to say the 83-year-old pontiff is dying and the second this week to express alarm over the Pope's health. Full Story

lj:) More like roting I'd call it...

Sat, 04 Oct 2003 07:55:41 GMT

Analyst: Sun Micro Facing 'Crisis' (Reuters). Reuters - Network computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc. (SUNW.O) should slash as much as 19 percent of its work force and tighten its product focus or it could become a takeover target, an influential Wall Street analyst said on Thursday. [Yahoo! News - Technology]

Sat, 04 Oct 2003 07:50:56 GMT

Beckham set to be fit to face Turkey. David Beckham looks set to win his battle to be fit to lead England against Turkey in their crunch Euro 2004 qualifier in Istanbul. [ITN Online - Top Stories]

Thu, 02 Oct 2003 07:14:53 GMT

lj:) Scorsese's "The Blues" gets better each night. Tonight was a drame version with a young Charles getting schooled in the blues, women, gambling, drinking and violence. It was mingled with the great history of the music around Mississippi and Memphis. They touched on the juke joints, fish frys, it was all in there. Rather be down south anyday than be on 405 taking this shit, baby I got the technology, working man blues...

Thu, 02 Oct 2003 07:10:31 GMT

School Apologizes for Nazi Display by Band (Reuters). Reuters - The Paris, Texas, school district apologized Tuesday for a performance by one of its marching bands which played an Adolf Hitler anthem and waved a Nazi flag during a football halftime show. [Yahoo! News - Most Emailed]

lj:) Another one for the "What the fuck!?" Department

Thu, 02 Oct 2003 07:04:47 GMT

Student May Wear Bush 'Terrorist' Shirt (AP). AP - A high school student has the right to wear a T-shirt to school with the face of President Bush and the words "International Terrorist" on the front, a federal judge ruled. [Yahoo! News - Top Stories]

lj:) and "It Takes a Village to Satisfy Slick Willy!"

Wed, 01 Oct 2003 06:42:42 GMT

Sun goes down on rise of cheaper rivals (FT.com). FT.com - Fresh evidence that Sun Microsystems may be the biggest casualty of the rise of Linux and a new generation of standardised computer systems prompted a sharp drop in the company's share price on Wall Street on Tuesday. [Yahoo! News - Technology]

lj:) Another FUSM article. CYA!

Wed, 01 Oct 2003 06:40:44 GMT

Dixie Chicks Turn Their Backs On Country Genre (LAUNCH). LAUNCH - The Dixie Chicks want out of the country music scene, according to comments group member Martie Maguire made to German magazine, Spiegel. She said, "We don't feel part of the country scene any longer, it can't be our home any more." [Yahoo! News - Most Emailed]

lj:) Madonna, Three more distraught and confused recruits to be frenched and signed to your harem!

Wed, 01 Oct 2003 06:39:14 GMT

Report: Nazis Used Hospitals for Killings (AP). AP - Nazi Germany used hundreds of hospitals and clinics to kill at least 200,000 handicapped, mentally ill and other institutional patients who were deemed physically inferior, researchers said Tuesday. [Yahoo! News - Top Stories]

lj:) Bloodbath

Wed, 01 Oct 2003 06:37:37 GMT

Microsoft's Media Center Targets Living Rooms (Reuters). Reuters - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) launched a major upgrade to its multimedia personal computer software on Tuesday, aiming to bring more computers out of offices and into people's living rooms. [Yahoo! News - Technology]