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Headlines for Friday, August 31, 2001

American middle class was relatively unchanged by 90s economy, except for increasing, looming debt.

Norway breaks impasse by offering to take in some of the 400 asylum seekers floating off Christmas Island.

Bush’s missile defense program could drop nuclear missiles on Europe, Canada, or middle America, warn Army scientists.

Britain to fine prostitutes up to 5,000 pounds for ads in phone boxes.

The gentlemen at thesmokinggun.com got scooped by Sports Illustrated on the baby bomber story, but still love their jobs.

Government report gives the Digital Millennium Copyright Act a passing grade, bypassing “first sale” rights for archivists.

The story behind Majestic, the Web game.

U.S. hopes to help Chinese citizens surf uncensored; question begged: why; answer shown: sell American stuff.

John Weir’s Smoking Gun has plenty of browser tools for you.

Helvetica Bold Oblique declared greatest font.

Headlines for Thursday, August 30, 2001

Israeli Army withdrew from Beit Jala after two days, leaving tanks nearby.

Two years after tragic elections, East Timor votes for “constituent assembly.”

U.S. government and environmental groups compromise on dying-species protection.

Milosevic rants in court and has a lawyer assigned against his will.

40,000 tax returns lost.

EU expands MS probe, claiming Windows Media Player tie-in deprives consumers of “free choice.”

The tell-all-trash-about-Tina-Brown-book is banned in England.

Upoc has a celebrity-tracking service that is somehow parlayed as a social service.

A wide collection of skateboard decks.

Many business magazines were launched after troubled economic times, not before them.

Good photo collection for “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

Headlines for Wednesday, August 29, 2001

Violence intensifies on both sides in West Bank; U.S. calls for Israeli withdrawl from Beit Jala.

NATO calls arms-gathering in Macedonia a success; government sees it as a “theatrical harvest.”

Australian troops board Norwegian freighter loaded with 438 refugees.

U.S. warns Israel that use of American-made weapons must be in self-defense.

The fight in Washington over broadband has Bell companies and AT&T lobbying like mad.

Industry Standard owes $10.4M to its 20 largest creditors.

459M people have Internet access at home.

Novelist Richard Russo finds his characters by following small-town routines.

An analysis for why the U.S. failed to respond to Rwandan genocide.

How to lane-split with a bike.

Correction: A TMN headline yesterday labeled Alberto Fujimori as a former President of Japan; he is a former President of Peru.

Headlines for Tuesday, August 28, 2001

Peruvian congress votes to charge Japan’s ex-President Fujimori with responsibility for two massacres; Japanese officials pledge cooperation.

U.S. continues mixed-message middle-east policy, now against Israeli seek-and-destruction.

Chicago citizens called on to read “To Kill A Mockingbird” simultaneously.

Open mouth, withdraw foot: Publishing companies listened to consultants and hype and staked too much on e-books.

Cruise planner schedules Mac Cruise, a boat for 400 geeks.

See all art by Stanley Donwood for Radiohead.

In an experiment, Indian street children quickly learned how to use the Internet.

Andante streams great classical performances.

Headlines for Monday, August 27, 2001

Taiwan’s Presidential panel calls for new trade with China.

Israel kills leader of PFLP, a radical PLO faction; Palestinians call for “comprehensive, unlimited war.”

Borders bookstores in U.K. use face-mapping security cameras to track shoplifters.

Established media giants increase their audiences on the Web as people search less.

The story of the Industry Standard’s fall is fascinating.

Migrating animals begin sending emails home.

IBM creates the first logic circuit made of a single molecule.

On the backs of billions: Bloomberg’s candidacy for mayor.

360 degrees of the Musee D’Orsay.

Partial interview with the great W.G. Sebald.

Headlines for Friday, August 24, 2001

“It’s like in a Hitchcock movie, you know, where they tie you up in a rubber bag and throw you in the trunk of a car.”: Bush says U.S. will withdraw from AMB Treaty, though at “a time convenient to America.”

“People say, ‘You must have been the class clown.’ And I say, ‘No, I wasn’t.’ But I sat next to the class clown, and I studied him.”: Elizabeth Dole being primed for Jesse Helms’s vacant, stretched chair.

“Blaine is the stool capital of the world”: Priest claims Philippine government working alongside hostage-holding rebels.

“Kids don’t like eating at school, but if they have a ‘Remains of the Day’ lunchbox they’re a lot happier.”: All seventh-graders in Maine will soon have a laptop.
“People don’t like to have fire poked, poked into their noses.”: Citizens worry that putting public records online has gone too far.

“Well, then, I just hate you, and I hate your ass face!”: Survey finds AOL to be the least trusted company on the Web.

“It’s a Zen thing, like how many babies fit in a tire.”: New Mercury Rev album streaming over Neumu.

“If there’s an empty space, just fill it with a line”: Photoshop Tennis: 9am—Noon.

“We consider ourselves bi-costal if you consider the Mississippi River one of the coasts”: Watch Manhattan’s skyline change over time.

Headlines for Thursday, August 23, 2001

NATO troops begin collecting weapons from ethnic Albanians.

Brooklyn tenant charged with beating and burning city marshall sent to evict her.

Israel continues seek-and-assassinate plan.

General Accounting Office issues warning on Bush’s move to cut federal environmental enforcement.

50+ music publishers and songwriters file suit against MP3.com.

Need more links? Use the list used by Times Reporters.

Doug Lenat has been teaching computers common sense, one fact at a time.

As Jesse Helms leaves the hallowed halls of congress, it’s important to remember how much he’s done to harm them.

French art: Blackeyed.com.

Headlines for Wednesday, August 22, 2001

NATO launches Macedonia mission—to last 30 days—with Brits at helm.

Senator Helms to announce that he will not seek re-election, and that he’s gay!

White House says surplus down forty-four percent from original estimates.

Citizens in South-Western Germany hear buzzing; some fear U.S. plan to make people dance on one leg.

The word no one’s saying begins with an R: Fed orders seventh interest rate cut this year.

Former employees of Cisco hacked $8M in stock, then got busted for opulence.

New York Public Library acquires Kerouac archive.

Old subway cars get dumped into the sea to become reefs.

Apple wins an Emmy for FireWire.

Linux beer hike begins in three days, celebrating the birth of the penguin.

Rick Moody explains what it’s like to have your novel made into a film.

Headlines for Tuesday, August 21, 2001

White House considers backing out of plans to remove 50 tons of plutonium from warheads.

Portugal favors treatment over incarceration for drug addicts.

Bush calls on Congress to approve his education and defense spending immediately.

Amazon will allow some purchased items to be picked up at Circuit City stores.

A French collection of vintage lunchboxes.

A look inside today’s teenager’s backpack: only “dorks” take laptops.

A car that will tap you when someone’s cutting you off: the application of Haptics.

First Fed-sponsored cyber-terrorists begin training this week.

Novartis goes under protest from dolls against genetically-modified ingredients.

A day in the life of a Palestinian doctor.

Pirate TV, brought to you by Coldcut and NinjaTune.

Headlines for Monday, August 20, 2001

Unless the White House redoes the numbers, it will spend billions from Social Security, and the Democrats can’t wait.

Hamas vows suicidal-revenge on Israeli-sponsored assassinations.

America sold half of the weapons bought last year.

Bush announces new initiative to destroy vampires.

Estimates say 60 percent of China has had Hepatitis B at one point, caused by unsafe injections.

How to make an Apple Cube look horrible.

Beast Magazine launches issue two for your PDF pleasure.

Urban archaeologists mine the bowels of Manhattan for traces of history.

Simply put, one of the oddest Web sites I’ve ever seen.

Headlines for Friday, August 17, 2001

“It’s easy to grin / When your ship comes in / And you’ve got the stock market beat”: Five Hollywood studios announce joint venture to rent downloadable films.

“When you buy a hat like this I bet you get a free bowl of soup, huh?”: Four states now offer campaign funding for candidates that refuse (or take little) private money.

“Free to kill gophers at will”: IRA informant says the RUC was warned in advance about the Omagh attack.

“I feel like a hundred bucks”: Industry Standard stops printing while searching for financial savior.

“Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it”: A top 10 ranking from Amazon says something about the book, but what about the bottom 10?

“I’m not quite sure where they are”: American Family Association accuses Yahoo of promoting rape and torture clubs.

“License to kill gophers by the government of the United Nations”: South Africa grants police broad access to Internet surveillance.

“The harmless squirrel and the friendly rabbit”: Photoshop tennis, live: Zeldman vs. XL5.

“Don’t be so hard on yourself, judge. You’re a tremendous slouch”: Industrial designers say American design, in general, is way off track.

“Wanna make 14 dollars the hard way?”: Mark And(erson) is sponsoring a bookmark competition.

Headlines for Thursday, August 16, 2001

The article that got its editor arrested: Zimbabwe police involved in pillaging.

Tentative peace in Macedonia before 400 U.K. troops arrive.

IMF believes Bush’s tax cuts to be twice as costly as the White House predicts.

White House education plan makes schools into businesses and education a matter of measuring profits versus loss.

Palm in talks to buy Be, the OS that never was.

Even adrift at sea, Web-masters pull all-nighters to finish a re-design.

A very strange picture: a field of pork.

Anti-abortionist who once posted “hit list” of doctors now has Web-cams outside clinics.

Booker Prize list released, including a children’s book; Guardian provides the odds for the gamblers.

Fading Ad Campaign tracks the signs of old.

Headlines for Wednesday, August 15, 2001

Israel plans a second ground attack at Palestine, suggesting war.

Japan’s PM Koizumi visited Yasukani, a shrine that honors former military masterminds, to court conservative votes but gained national wrath instead.

Bush decides to soften federal rules that would ensure basic care for those on Medicaid.

Floridians warned to avoid the beaches as hundreds of sharks gather on coast.

Cell phones depend on mud, and in turn, on madames in Africa, sort of.

Speed of light suddenly considered evolutionary.

Fantastic new story by Haruki Murakami.

Very strange portfolio: Lite Alley.

Headlines for Tuesday, August 14, 2001

Israel raids West Bank town Jenin; Palestine appeals for U.N. protection.

Charleston, SC, plans slavery museum.

America’s eldery head to Tijuana for cheap prescription drugs.

Leading South African businessman warns of Zimbabwean-style-attacks if white business doesn’t share more.

Eighteen percent of personal pages use Web bugs, some to gather marketing data.

Frank McCourt is on a blurbing splurge, all claws out.

Apple spends $85M on stores this year, planning to recap in Q1 2002.

A simplistic but decent explanation of color theory and how it’s used in design.

When it’s ridiculously hot outside, it’s nice to dream of ice climbing.

3D Ping Pong.

Headlines for Monday, August 13, 2001

Zimbabwe farmers evacuate as mobs take over, with federal approval.

Another suicide bomber strikes Israel, injuring 15.

The secret of Wintour’s confidence: Teen Vogue, unlike all other teenage girl magazines, begins accepting breast-enlargement ads, claiming teenagers know difference between ads and ads-nots.

School principals fear the days of low-slung jeans and Playboy tops, which are only weeks away.

A view from the future: Apple as a religion, Microsoft as a cult.

Mold may be inside your house right now, slowly killing you.

Nick Hornby likes Staind because he knows how they feel.

English man has “Stairway to Heaven” lyrics tattooed on back.

Headlines for Friday, August 10, 2001

Bush backs partial stem cell funding.

Israel strikes back with occupation of PLO hq in E. Jerusalem.

Heat wave pushes metro-area energy to utmost limits.

Mother of real “bubble-boy” calls for boycott on new Disney film.

Print is alive! Dan Rather claims tv-journalism too light-weight for explaining stem-cell research.

Hackers come together for mass gathering, still furious over negative moniker connotations.

Art project, space project, whatever: it’s KEO, the flying time capsule!

Make clients happy by walking through the iMACHINA process.

The story of Robert Gottlieb—President Clinton’s book editor of choice— is worth its own book.

Live! Photoshop tennis at Coudal: k10k vs. hopbot.

Headlines for Thursday, August 9, 2001

U.S. broke child-porn e-business Landslide and arrested subscribers.

Palestian suicide-bomber killed at least thirteen people in Jerusalem pizza parlor.

China admits AIDS crisis by sending health officials into the field.

The Times has a thin-coverage article on digital art, but at least mentions Jon Haddock’s “Screenshots.”

Kevin Smith sues Tim Burton over “Planet of the Apes” ending.

A partial history of Survival Research Laboratories: the home of fire-breathing robots.

Story-telling machine, named Author, could replace reporters, except, like most humans, it can’t tell the difference between fact and fiction.

Robots are better at trading stocks than humans: seven percent more money at close of day.

Comic-book makers mock Web-comic makers as sophmoric and short-lived.

Nice photography at Lightningfield.

We are having drinks with Exploding Dog tonight. Join us if you like.

Headlines for Wednesday, August 8, 2001

Federal judges dismantle federal snooping software on their computers.

Gore Vidal, convinced of secret police, calls McVeigh a hero.

NYTimes, in a very strange move, calls Bette Midler a “homo-name.”

Salon used Aeron chairs to measure dot-com delirium; readers responded, citing the chairs as better than the jobs themselves.

Soon he’ll be on Ally McBeal: ASCII man just keeps on walking.

There’s no shame in driving the Appalachian Trail.

It takes a while to load, but is well worth it: Insert Silence.

Enter Tenderoni: the work of Francine Spiegel.

Headlines for Tuesday, August 7, 2001

Euro RSCG declares “Dark, leathered big-hair preppies cooking fatless beef” IN, “Blond, anorexic models in tweed, playing video games and using VCRs” OUT.

Microsoft Chief asks to have it “given up” for him, imitates coked-up monkey.

Italian scientist to impregnate eight British women with cloned embryos.

Clinton lands $10M advance on his memoirs.

Armani can’t have Armani.com: a brief history of expensive URLs.

Britannica.com now requires subscriptions.

If you’re thirty and have published a novel, you live in Brooklyn: the writers of Smith Street.

PBS puts together site for Srebrenica massacre: over 7,000 deaths in five days.

The drawings of Little Rocket are superb.

Headlines for Monday, August 6, 2001

Palestine rejects Israeli’s most-wanted list after ten people wounded near Israel’s Defense Ministry.

Nearly 10,000 inmates in NY have Hepatitis C.

Bush takes month-long vacation in Texas, calling it “Heartland Tour.”

In the world of recent lay-offs, multi-tasking becomes managers’ new golden buzzword, until proven detrimental to productivity.

Theglobe.com is shutting down and selling off its game sites.

As Gehry’s Disney Concert Hall goes up in L.A., the workmen are cursing the design.

The romance of the New Jersey Turnpike.

Worth it for the moustaches: VolumeOne Summer edition.

Brazil encounters Bishop-mania as it embraces the ex-pat legacy of the American poet.

Sometimes the city’s underwater.

Headlines for Friday, August 3, 2001

“You’re not very tall, are you?”: U.S. man to amputate legs with homemade guillotine on Web broadcast.

“Not bad looking. Oh you probably know it.”: Gore prepares his re-entry into politics and grows a beard while in Europe.

“You’re made to order for the rap.”: London car bomb attributed to Real IRA guerrillas.

“I’ve got some cold meats set out that might interest ya.”: New Orleans subsidizes housing and health care for regional jazz musicians.

“Kissing is all right. It’s nice. I’d like to do more of it.”: 25,000 people have now paid RealNetworks for BigBrother 2 streams.

“Would you happen to have a Ben-Hur 1860?”: Watch “Shane” with Woody Allen before his new movie comes out.

“I’m getting cuter every minute.”: George Harrison’s dying fabricated by editor at news agency.

“How do you like your brandy sir? In a glass.”: Generic Prozac debuts; America rejoice!

“You’re beginning to interest me. Vaguely.”: Europeans correctly regard Americans as work maniacs.

“Well, so long copper. Wish me luck. I got a raw deal.”: Interesting photo essay of the L.A. River.

Headlines for Thursday, August 2, 2001

American scholar, accused of drug dealing and espionage, may be released on Friday.

House endorses Bush’s energy plan with limited arctic drilling.

White House heralds new deal on patients’ rights; co-author of bill says he was never consulted.

As people cry wolf, Code Red still remains a threat.

Does product design suffer at the hands of lawyers?

In its ever-questionable partnership with the Times that results in frequent, flattering coverage, IBM noticed for grid computing.

Burton Snowboards gets a great redesign.

Man sues after liver disease medication turns him white.

Great slide show of Ethiopian churches.

Good blog: All About Duncan.

sorry the news is late; clients were calling and blogger was down.

Headlines for Wednesday, August 1, 2001

EPA rules that GE must spend half a billion dredging the Hudson River.

Italy orders media to hand over film of G8 protests.

Serb police chief keeps finding freezer trucks full of bodies.

House bans human cloning, but what are the side effects?

Woman returns first edition of Darwin’s “On The Origin…” to Boston Public Library after 80 years of being checked out.

The nice thing about Buckyballs is they’re hollow, and you can stuff medicine in them.

An interview with the makers of “Final Fantasy.”

Ambient Machines: music made artfully.

John Irving has two tattoos and his new book lives in the world of tattoo artists.

Mighty Assembly has a nice graphic attitude.