Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 7, 2003 at 4:15:45 PM CEST
Media Watchdogs Caught Napping
In the run up to a conflict in Iraq, foreign news websites are seeing large volumes of traffic from America, as U.S. citizens increasingly seek news coverage about the coming war.
"Given how timid most U.S. news organizations have been in challenging the White House position on Iraq, I'm not surprised if Americans are turning to foreign news services for a perspective on the conflict that goes beyond freedom fries," said Deborah Branscom, a Newsweek contributing editor, who keeps a weblog devoted to media issues.
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Topic: Terror - on April 7, 2003 at 4:09:19 PM CEST
Al Qaeda Website Refuses to Die
Al Neda eventually lost ownership of the Alneda.com domain in August when Jon David Messner, a hacker who runs porn sites, took it over.
But the website formerly known as Alneda.com is still online. For the past eight months, it has functioned as a so-called Internet parasite -- a site that is embedded within another website without the site owner's knowledge. Al Neda recently showed up buried inside the websites of a 14-year old student, a software security company and a horror movie fan's tribute pages to director Clive Barker.
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Topic: - on April 7, 2003 at 4:03:40 PM CEST
This is just a scene from hell
The BBC's world affairs editor John Simpson was accompanying a convoy of US special forces and Kurdish fighters when it come under attack from an American warplane.
At least 10 people were killed, including a Kurdish translator working with the BBC team, Kamaran Abdurazaq Muhamed.
Moments after the 'friendly fire' attack, in which he was wounded, John Simpson broadcast live by satellite telephone on the BBC news channel, News 24.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 7, 2003 at 3:56:17 PM CEST
How much is "cyber-slacking" costing
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 7, 2003 at 3:18:11 PM CEST
Homeless man's blog a place to call his own
Five months ago, Barbieux, started a Web log about his life. His goals for the "blog" were modest. Mainly, he wanted to show people a different side to homelessness.
But a strange thing happened. Barbieux's site, TheHomelessGuy.net, took off. What started as a few dozen hits a day grew to a few hundred a day, then a few thousand. At last count, more than 195,000 people from around the world have visited, and the number continues to grow.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 7, 2003 at 3:03:20 PM CEST
1 in every 142 U.S. residents was in prison or jail
The number of people in U.S. prisons and jails last year topped 2 million for the first time, driven by get-tough sentencing policies that mandate long terms for drug offenders and other criminals, the government reported Sunday.
The federal government accounted for more inmates than any state, with almost 162,000, according to a report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, part of the Justice Department. That number includes the transfer of about 8,900 District of Columbia prisoners to the federal system.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 7, 2003 at 2:56:25 PM CEST
RIAA asking $97.8 TRILLION from one college student
The damages sought by the suits are astronomical: $150,000 per song, the maximum allowed by law. Multiply that by the 652,000 or so songs the RIAA alleges student Joseph Nievelt offered to other Michigan Tech students on his service, and the scope of the suit is clear.
That total? About $97.8 trillion -- yes, trillion with a T -- or enough money to buy every CD sold in America last year over again for the next 120,000 years, according to RIAA statistics. And that's just Nievelt's case.
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 7, 2003 at 2:44:24 PM CEST
Jamaica to Decriminalize Marijuana ROFL
Two years ago Jamaica’s National Ganja Commission recommended the decriminalization of marijuana for private use. The recommendation came after months of hearings and fell short of full-scale regulation aimed at undermining the illicit market in illegal drugs. In addition to recommending decriminalization, the Commission also called for education programs to reduce demand and increased efforts to eradicate large-scale marijuana cultivation.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 7, 2003 at 2:41:44 PM CEST
Detecting disinformation, without radar
How to tell genuine reporting from an article manufactured to produce the desired propaganda effect? The war in Iraq provides us plenty of interesting samples for a study of disinformation techniques.
Take the article "Basra Shiites Stage Revolt, Attack Government Troops", published on March 26 in The Wall Street Journal Europe. Using its example, we will try to arm readers with basic principles of disinformation analysis that hopefully will allow them in the future to detect deception.
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Topic: War and Peace - on April 7, 2003 at 2:22:00 PM CEST
Sweet
Candy Bomber wants to fly over Baghdad
The pilot known as the Candy Bomber for air-dropping handkerchief-tethered chocolate and gum to the children of Berlin in 1948 wants to do the same for the kids of Baghdad.
''I'd give my right arm to do it,'' said retired Air Force Col. Gail Halvorsen. ''I've had the experience of the reaction of the kids on the ground. It's just incredible.''
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on April 7, 2003 at 2:19:06 PM CEST
Rasta - Punk Version of Romeo And Juliet
Marley's son to star in Shakespeare film
A son of reggae legend Bob Marley is to star in a British-made movie which pitches Romeo And Juliet in modern day Jamaica. The love story features Ky-Mani Marley who plays the hero in a version of the classic Shakespeare tale. One Love – named after one of the late music legend’s posthumous hits – is being made by Don Letts, a long-time collaborator of The Clash.
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Topic: DOPE HEAD - on April 7, 2003 at 2:13:17 PM CEST
Don´t eat the wrong fish
Foolish fisherman feasts on fugu for fatal last supper Fugu, or pufferfish, have long been a tasty treat for the Japanese palate, but the highly toxic nature of the spiked fish capable of expanding its lungs to grow to several times its normal size to scare off threatening enemies proves it's hardly full of hot air. And the fearsome fugu has struck again.
"It seems this gentleman had made a habit of preparing fugu and ate it without ever worrying about being poisoned."
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