Month: March 2003

Thanks Joe.

Iraq shows off Apache crew. The Pentagon confirms that two men paraded on Iraqi TV are the crew of a missing helicopter gunship. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition] Ok! That headline just sounds…um….ga…hom…alter…BAD! I can see it now… Saddam:”Thith ith our new Apashe crew. Bruth ith wearing thith darling green jumpsuit that…

The Sound of Things to Come: “Norris is demonstrating something called HyperSonic Sound (HSS). The aluminum plate is connected to a CD player and an odd amplifier — actually, a very odd and very new amplifier — that directs sound much as a laser beam directs light. Over the past few years, mainly in secret,…

Rare, Remote Chimps Found Chimpanzees in a remote Central African rainforest may have had little or no contact with humans until recently, said a report in the April 2003 issue of the International Journal of Primatology. The so-called na?ve chimpanzees were discovered in Goualougo Triangle in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo. The 100-square-mile rainforest…

Microsoft Pulls Ad Found Misleading. Microsoft has yanked an ad implying its major software packages would render computer hackers as extinct as saber tooth tigers and the dodo bird. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology] You know somewhere some 12 year old kid just decided to hack a MS server after reading that…

I listen intently to the war. Not to revel in the death and destruction of another culture, but to find out where my brother is. You see, my brother is in the 82nd Airborne. Last contact with him he was leaving on a boat for Kuwait with all his gear and equipment. He told my mom…

Interesting. “l:dane”‘s weblog has reverted to a previous design with content from November of last year.

Seeking God’s Fish, a k a Tigris Trout. The little-known trout of the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in eastern Turkey present a fascinating evolutionary puzzle for trout biologists. By James Prosek. [New York Times: Sports] Isn’t it interesting how fly fishing seems to have a part in everything? Trout in Iraq! What…

There is a report on AP that American troops are taking the weapons from the captured Iraqi soldiers and sending the soldiers home. I’m looking for this story online so I can link back to it. If you find it, send me an email.

Iraq kicks out CNN reportersCNN said Friday that its reporters have been expelled from Baghdad by the Iraqi government. The news network had two reporters, Nic Robertson and Rym Brahimi, who had remained in the Iraqi capital after most other American news networks had sent their correspondents out for safety reasons. [MSNBC]