] A small ink-and-pencil sketch of Jesus Christ drawn by
] artist Salvador Dali was stolen from the lobby of the
] men's jail at Rikers Island and replaced with a copy

1010 WINS: Dali Sketch Stolen from Rikers Island

] IN A TYPICALLY DEFIANT move by the warez scene, no sooner
] does the US Department of Justice manage to shut down a
] site, it simply pops up somewhere else. Isonews had its
] collar felt yesterday with the DoJ promising to use the
] site to preach an anti-piracy message. The site simply
] upped and moved to the ironically named StoleMy.Com

Xbox pirate site torpedoed by DoJ is back online

This is soooo cool. So "cyber"!!!

Luminex

'nuff said

Man Cuts Off Penis, Tosses It to His Wife

Welcome to Reasonably Clever's LEGO Tarot. Possibly the goofiest attempt at a custom-made tarot deck. Ever.

Why a LEGO Tarot?

Out of all the different things out there, why the heck would anyone take the time to make a tarot deck out of LEGO? Well, mainly, because I hadn't seen it done yet. And I did quite a few searches looking for them on-line.

Plenty of Star Wars and Star Trek out there. There's even a masterfully done deck featuring the Peanuts Characters. But no LEGO. Oh, there were a couple of places where people suggested making a deck out of them, or had them on a "to do" list. But nothing concrete...

...Until now, that is.

Reasonably Clever Presents the LEGO Tarot! Another waste of time that's REASONABLY CLEVER

] Three weeks ago, in a stunning raid, Russian hackers
] seized control of the servers that support one of the
] Internet's largest online gaming operations, demanding a
] ransom. It was a real-life, high-tech version of the
] movie Ocean's Eleven. By the time the ransom was paid,
] one key server -- the one containing all operational data
] for 120 Internet gaming sites and a long list of
] consulting clients -- seemed to be stripped of its data.
]
]
]
] At stake were all the operational records of a gambling
] empire. "We didn't even have the names of customers,"
] says Juan Bonilla, executive vice-president of Grafix
] Softech F.A. of San Juan, Costa Rica. "We lost
] everything." To make matters worse, little, if any, of
] the data had been backed up off-site. Grafix Softech was
] losing an estimated US$75,000 a day in profits, and the
] incident left it open to lawsuits from customers whose
] businesses relied on Grafix Softech's services. What
] could have been a major disaster became a bump in the
] corporate road. In an amazing feat of ingenuity, CBL Data
] Recovery Technologies Inc. of Markham, Ont., managed to
] recover all the lost data. It was a close call, admits
] Bill Margeson, president of CBL

Russian hackers raid largest online gaming operation

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Fred Rogers, better known as television's "Mister Rogers," a cultural icon and kindly neighbor to generations of American children, died Thursday at the age of 74.

Rogers died at his home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, after a brief battle with stomach cancer, according to a spokeswoman for his production company.

David Newell, a Rogers family spokesman, told The Associated Press that Rogers was exactly as he appeared on TV.

"He was so genuinely, genuinely kind, a wonderful person," said Newell, who played Mr. McFeely on the show. "His mission was to work with families and children for television. ... That was his passion, his mission, and he did it from Day One."

CNN.com - 'Mister Rogers' dies at age 74 - Feb. 27, 2003

SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL
by
John Perry Barlow, Cognitive Dissident
Co-Founder & Vice Chairman, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Berkman Fellow, Harvard Law School

I remember a time years ago when I was as convinced that Dick Cheney was obscenely wrong about something I am now. Subsequent events raised the possibility that he might not have been so wrong after all.

With this in mind, I've given some thought lately to how all this
might look to the Vice President (who is, I remain convinced, as much the real architect of American policy as he was while Gerald Ford's Chief of Staff or George the First's Secretary of Defense).

Sympathy for the Devil by John Perry Barlow

quoted:
By Matt - 10/04/'02
I don't know what it is. I don't know what it's for. I don't know why it's pink. The Mysterious Pink Box has entered my life, changing it forever. I found this substantial plastic entity laying on a shelf, all alone, in one of our local closeout stores. It sat there, by itself, waiting for the right person to come along. It sat there, by itself, pondering it's master plan. It rested comfortably in aisle six of Mace's Closeout Outlet, confident in it's abilities, as the rest of the world went about it's business, unknowing. What is the Mysterious Pink Box? What will it mean for mankind? What will it mean for me?

I still don't know.

X-Entertainment - The Mysterious Pink Box.

] 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