] SAN FRANCISCO -- Silicon Valley needs to step up and
] protect the open traditions that have helped build the
] high-technology industry or run the risk of being
] dominated by "IP extremists" whose restrictions on the
] use of intellectual property (IP) would stifle
] innovation, Stanford Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig
] told an audience of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs,
] lawyers, and venture capitalists at the Open Source
] Business Conference here Tuesday.

InfoWorld: Lessig: Be wary of 'IP extremists':

] A woman is facing a drink driving charge after she
] crashed into a car pushing it into a police booze bus at
] Pakenham, south-east of Melbourne.
]
] Police said the bus, which is used to test drivers' blood
] alcohol levels, was turning on the Princes Highway about
] 8.20pm (AEDT) last night, when a car stopped behind it.

Woman faces drink charge after crashing into booze bus

] The Pentagon is considering beefing up the already
] enhanced technology U.S. forces are using to search for
] al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden along the mountainous
] border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
]
] CNN reported last week troops will start using ground
] sensors, U-2 spy planes and unmanned Predator drones to
] monitor the area 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Why didn't they consider doing this back in 2001?

U.S. may up high-tech ante in bin Laden hunt - Mar 10, 2004

] Wired is an open, modern and free version of the
] BBS-style client/server system, providing chat, messaging
] and file transfers. Zanka Software maintains the protocol
] standard, a UNIX server and a Mac OS X client.

Right on... I want to play with this....

Zanka Software | Wired - BBS client/server for OSX

] Here's some sobering math. If the Nasdaq were to surge 50
] percent a year (like it did last year) for the next three
] years, it would not reach 5,000 again until sometime in
] early 2006. Of course, a 50 percent increase in the
] Nasdaq is not exactly the norm.
]
] Even if the Nasdaq has several consecutive years of 20
] percent gains -- which would still be above the normal
] historical rate of return for stocks -- it wouldn't hit
] 5,000 again until the beginning of 2009.

Bye Bye .com it was good knowing you. We had a blast! Thanks for the ride and good memories! Back to the grind...

Investors have learned from Nasdaq 5K

] Chicken McNuggets® Made with White Meat:
] Boneless chicken breast, water, modified cornstarch,
] salt, chicken flavor (yeast extract, salt, wheat starch,
] natural flavoring (animal source), safflower oil,
] dextrose, citric acid, rosemary), sodium phosphates,
] seasoning (natural extractives of rosemary, canola and/or
] soybean oil, mono-and diglycerides, and lecithin).
] Battered and Breaded with: Water, enriched bleached wheat
] flour (flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate,
] riboflavin, folic acid), yellow corn flour, bleached
] wheat flour, modified corn starch, salt, leavening
] (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum
] phosphate, monocalcium phosphate, calcium lactate),
] spices, wheat starch, whey, corn starch. Breading set in
] vegetable oil. Cooked in partially hydrogenated vegetable
] oils, (may contain partially hydrogenated soybean oil
] and/or partially hydrogenated corn oil and/or partially
] hydrogenated canola oil and/or cottonseed oil and/or
] sunflower oil and/or corn oil). TBHQ and citric acid
] added to help preserve freshness. Dimethylpolysiloxane
] added as an anti-foaming agent.

Anti-Foaming agent?????? WTF????!!!

McDonalds Chicken McNuggets - this will make you hungry!

] Global hamburger giant McDonald's latest line in healthy
] looking salads may contain more fat than its hamburgers,
] according to the company's Web Site.
] For example, on the new menu to be launched in the United Kingdom
] at the end of this month, a "Caesar salad with Chicken Premiere"
] contains 18.4 grams of fat compared with 11.5 grams of fat in a standard
] cheeseburger.

All I have to say is look at the ingredents for a Crispy Chicken Bacon Ranch Salad.

Crispy Chicken Bacon Ranch Salad

Crispy Chicken Breast Filet: Boneless skinless chicken breast filet with rib meat containing up to 19.5% of a solution of water, seasoning (salt, spices and spice extractive), sodium phosphates. Battered and breaded with wheat flour, water,
modified corn starch, salt, spice, dried egg white, wheat gluten, and leavening
(sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, monocalcium phosphate).
Breading set in vegetable oil. Cooked in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils,
(may contain partially hydrogenated soybean oil and/or partially hydrogenated
corn oil and/or partially hydrogenated canola oil and/or cottonseed oil and/or sunflower oil and/or corn oil). TBHQ and citric acid added to help preserve
freshness. Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an anti-foaming agent. Salad Mix:
Iceberg lettuce, romaine lettuce, spring mix (may contain baby red romaine,
baby green romaine, baby red leaf, baby green leaf, baby red swiss chard, baby
red oak, baby green oak, lolla rosa, tango, tatsoi, arugula, mizuna, baby spinach, radicchio, frisee), carrots. Cheddar /Jack Cheese: Cheddar cheese [pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto (vegetable color)] Monterey jack cheese [pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, powdered cellulose (to prevent caking)]. Bacon Bits: Cured with water, salt, smoke flavoring, sodium phosphate, seasoning [gum acacia, smoke flavor, maltodextrin, hydrolyzed corn protein, natural flavor (vegetable source), autolyzed yeast extract, hydrolyzed corn, wheat, and soy protein, modified cornstarch, contains less than 2% of disodium guanylate, disodium inosinate, natural flavor (vegetable oil), salt, succinic acid, xanthan gum], sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite. Grape tomatoes.

McDonald's salad - Mar. 9, 2004

] Couples caught kissing passionately in public in
] Indonesia could spend five years in jail.
] Heavy kissing could carry a maximum penalty of five years
] in jail or a $29,000 fine. Anyone caught flashing would face similar penalties.

Now, I would have thought that flashing would be a more
harsh of a penalty than heavy kissing.

Kissing ban - Mar. 9, 2004

] ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - EchoStar Communications Corp. pulled
] the plug on CBS programs in more than a dozen cities and
] dropped MTV, Nickelodeon and other cable channels from
] its satellite network over a fee dispute with Viacom.

I WANT MY MTV!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DISH Network drops CBS, MTV, over dispute

] Georgia woman who tried to use a fake $1 million bill to buy $1,675 worth of
] merchandise at Wal-Mart was arrested, and police later found two more of the
] bills in her purse.
]
] Pike then tried to use two gift cards worth only $2.32 to buy the merchandise,
] but when that did not work she again asked to cash the $1 million bill, Cotton
] said. The store then called police.

oh come on... if you are going to go out in style, don't go to your local WalMart
and try to get change from a $1 million dollar bill. Go buy lots of lottery tickets
or visit your local authorized Bentley dealer in another country. Come on
be creative, you have a $1 million dollar bill! :)

CNN.com - $1 million bill leads to arrest