] "As I speak to you, we are cruising across where the
] Iraqi desert meets the Jordanian desert, though a desert
] wind and a rain storm," Dan Rather said. "I haven%u2019t
] had as much sleep as I sometimes do."
]
] It was late on Tuesday, Feb. 25, and Mr. Rather, 71, was
] speaking via a crackling cell phone from a car racing
] himself and his CBS News colleagues away from Baghdad,
] barely a day after they had scored one of the most
] sought-after journalistic exclusives of the year: an
] interview with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Set to air
] on 60 Minutes II on Feb. 26, it is Mr. Hussein%u2019s
] first interview with an American journalist in more than
] 10 years.

I'm not sure if anybody else has posted a similar article. I found it very interesting.

Dan Rather: How I Bagged Saddam Chat

Bugtraq for people? This could be interesting. Beta code is "coke".

Friendster

] PITTSBURGH - Fred Rogers, who gently invited millions of
] children to be his neighbor as host of the public
] television show %u201CMister Rogers%u2019
] Neighborhood%u201D for more than 30 years, died of cancer
] early Thursday. He was 74.

I was never allowed to watch Mr. Rogers when I was a kid. ;-(

NY Daily News - Breaking News - Sad day in 'Neighborhood' as Mister Rogers dies

] PARIS, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- The apparent suicide of a
] celebrated French chef late Monday has relaunched a
] debate in France on the pressures of securing -- and
] keeping -- the coveted acclaims of restaurant guides such
] as Michelin or GaultMillau.
]
] Popular chef Bernard Loiseau was found shot dead Monday
] evening at his home in Saulieu, a gastronomic center in
] Burgundy. A hunting rifle lay beside his body.

They take cuisine very seriously in France.

United Press International: Feature: Suicide sparks ratings debate

University networks already stressed by file-sharing programs, viruses and hackers now face a new threat: students who sublet their network access to spammers for as little as $20 per month.

Tufts University, a 151-year-old school in Medford, Mass., last month discovered spammers were paying students to offer up their PCs as relay points that helped mask the true source of the spam. While university network executives interviewed were not aware of other cases on U.S. campuses, the phenomenon has cropped up in Israel.

Spammers hiding behind students

] Cleveland said Google's acquisition of Pyra would, quite
] simply, help Google create a more accurate search engine
] by adding rich new sources of data gleaned from weblogs.
]
] The secret, Cleveland said, is in the scores of links
] webloggers create every day to content on the Web.

Wired News: Why Did Google Want Blogger?

quoted:
Shut up, antiwar people. Shut up, pro-war people. Shut down your computers and shut your goddamn pieholes. No one gives a shit what you write, so stop writing about the war. Shut up, all of you.

Just Shut Up, Nobody gives a shit what anti-war or pro-war writers think. Really. So shut up. That goes double for poets. Shut the hell up, poets. Everybody just shut up., by (02/20/03)

] (AP) Federal authorities charged 55 people Monday with
] trafficking in illegal drug paraphernalia from coast to
] coast, using both traditional stores and the Internet.
]
]
] A federal grand jury in western Pennsylvania handed up
] indictments against 27 people as part of "Operation Pipe
] Dreams," an investigation stretching from Pittsburgh to
] Phoenix to southern California, Attorney General John
] Ashcroft said.

CBS News | Feds Smoke Out Paraphernalia Peddlers | February 24, 2003 15:30:54

Though you didn't do the crime, yer gonna do the time!

Hackers do it with longer sentences!

From Boing Boing (http://www.boingboing.net/):

Zed sez: "An Indian-born Canadian citizen was flying home from India to Toronto, and transferring at O'Hare. INS decided her passport was funny-looking, destroyed it, denied her access to the Canadian consul, and deported her to India via Kuwait with her papers in such disorder she might not have been able to get into India if Kuwaiti and Indian authorities hadn't been so co-operative."

Permanent link to Boing Boing post: (http://boingboing.net/2003_02_01_archive.html#90351481)

You know, it's a good thing that, when I was living in both Ireland and Canada, none of their customs officials ever voided my passport due to "funkiness" and sent me to Japan or Germany.

US INS destroys Canadian woman's passport, sends her to India