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- The Advertiser reports that Lafayette police are searching for an attorney accused of stealing approximately $130,000 of his clients personal injury settlements. "William Aubrey, 55, 100 block of Horseshoe Drive, was charged with two counts of theft and is under investigation in connection with a third case, according to prosecutors." The police believe Aubrey, whose license was suspended last year in connection with misconduct allegations, has left town. |
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- George Lucas has stated recently that when Episodes IV, V, and VI are released on DVD they won't be the... |
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- MSNBC reports that Poetry is Dead. Any thoughts? I consider myself a pretty voracious reader and can't remember the last... |
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- Road map presented Just hours after a new Palestinian administration was in place, and a group of Palestinian terrorists launched their protest by blowing up some Israeli civilians in Tel Aviv, the long-awaited roadmap to peace was presented. Reactions are, to put not too fine a point on it, mixed. Hamas rejected the plan outright, without even seeing it. They were one of two groups claiming responsibility for the bomb attack. The sticking point of the plan is that the Palestinian Authority has to crack down on these militants. |
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- Seeking smaller ways to secure the peace in Baghdad, the U.S.-led team charged with rebuilding Iraq's civil society screened ministry employees trying to return to work Wednesday and canvassed neighborhoods for men and women to form the foundations of local government. |
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- April 30 - Got stomach ulcers? A recent study suggests you might want to take a glass of wine a day to aid your recovery. |
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- new phone... cool plastic cover over the keys... nokia.... in love... keeping it away from all water and dog teeth.... |
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- angryCoder writes: Stop The DataGrid MadnessASP.NET comes with a lot of server controls out of the box. One of them is the DataGrid server control. It offers some good packaged functionality, but it suffers from a lot of shortcomings. |
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Laziness (Apr 30 2003 17:58 GMT) - In the spring I tend to get lazy. complacent. I feel guilty for it, but no matter how hard I try, things just don't get easier. Getting out of bed... |
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Ex-id Q&A (Apr 30 2003 17:58 GMT) - Though id Software (interestingly) has declined the opportunity to be interviewed about the new Masters of Doom book, Voices from the Past on GameSpy.com is a Q&A with several former members of... |
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- Day of DefeatHomeLan Fed's Day Of Defeat Retail Q&A chats with DoD developer John Morello II and Valve's Doug Lombardi about the upcoming retail version of Day of Defeat, the popular Half-Life... |
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- Following up on the preliminary reports on this yesterday (story), Konami of America sends along the official announcement of plans for an enhanced version of Silent Hill 3, planned for release in... |
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- Face of Mankind on RPG Vault. Will Rock on Action Vault. Xenus on the Official Website. |
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- The debut release of the Public Enemy teamplay modification for Half-Life is now available. Here's the deal: "PE takes part in a dark future - which we know from books, cartoons, movies and games... |
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New FoxBot (Apr 30 2003 17:58 GMT) - As noted in the FoxBot Forums, a new version 0.698 Build #12 is now available (actually it's been out for about a week). The most noteworthy new features in this release are the addition of rocket... |
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- GameSpy.com's Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel Preview discusses the upcoming continuation of the fallout series of action/RPGs. There are some Xbox Return to Castle Wolfenstein movies on IGN. Also on... |
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Tech Bits (Apr 30 2003 17:58 GMT) - Futuremark has released a new patch for 3DMark03 adding DirectX 9.0a support to the benchmark. Thanks MajorGeeks. Windows, Less Fat Means Fewer Bugs. Thanks Mike Martinez. |
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- VisionTek Announces the "XTASY ULTIMATE GAMERS' CONTESTtm" in Their Search for the Ultimate Gamer: "Prizes include the Ultimate Gamers' card, the XTASY 9800 PRO 256MB graphics card and an Alienware... |
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- Devastation on LoadedInc, GameOver, and UK Gamer. Hegemonia: Legions of Iron on The Wargamer. IGI 2: Covert Strike (in German) on GamersUnitedNetwork. |
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- ATI RADEON 9800 PRO Video Card on OCAddiction.com. FIC A95P 9500 Pro Video Card on Envy News. Thermo MAXX 80mm Case Fan on OverClock Intelligence Agency. Zalman CNPS7000Cu Heatsink on BYTESECTOR. |
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etc. (Apr 30 2003 17:58 GMT) - March Video Game Sales Up 8 Percent, Analysts Say. Thanks the_culture... Video-Game Merchants Under Fire. Thanks Mike Martinez. |
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- Halfway through Hudson the wonder dog's two week treatment for her conjunctivitis and it's gotten almost impossible to administer her eye drops... Sometimes you see an old cartoon or movie that... |
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- One hell of a scoop, a week or so ago, for the Daily Telegraph. Correspondent David Blair - who I'm pretty sure used to write for me from Uganda when I was editor of Gemini News Service not so long ago - came across papers purporting to show British MP George Galloway was in league with Saddam. The outline of the story is pretty clear, and I should say upfront that Galloway himself is denying the charge, wrapped as it is by twaddle about treason and other bits of over-heated conspiracy theorising. Many have suggested a plant. If the reporter really is the guy I'm thinking of, I very much doubt he fixed it. |
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- $1.4 billion sounds like a sizable slice of change. Unless you're an investment bank, of course. Still, that's what 10 of them have coughed up in fines and subsidies for independent research and "investor education" (?) as a settlement for systematically lying to investors through the bubble years and afterwards. |
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- Surprise, surprise. Vladimir Putin isn't exactly an early adherent of the "we're all in this together" school of diplomacy. For the past few days, Tony Blair has been making a concerted effort to tick off what Donald Rumsfeld called "old Europe", warning of the dangers of creating an anti-US axis. Problem is, Blair's analysis stops short at "we're all basically, y'know, the same." But on the evidence of the past six months, it seems clear that we're not. |
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- The guy locked up in Oregon as a "material witness" has finally been charged. With flying to China and trying to enlist in al-Qaeda to assist in fighting the US-led forces there back in 2001, as far as I can tell. This is beyond bizarre. The bare outline is in an announcement from the Department of Justice (sorry, it's a pdf), suggesting he and several others travelled via Xinjiang (the predominantly Muslim bit of western China. Lots of bad people there, according to the US and Chinese governments) in October, before giving up and heading home the following month. |
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- Real life issues. I'd promise it won't happen again, but we all know that would be a lie. So apologies. |
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- Virginia has passed a new law making it illegal to send SPAM by deception with penalties ranging from 1 to 5 years in prision and the forfeiture of revenues gained via the SPAM. (Although it only applies to those who... |
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- "In the current Pocket PC market, it's hard for a manufacturer to make a dent anywhere. Since Dell's arrival at the low end of the market, competitors are finding it difficult to match the Axim's features at an acceptable price point. At the other end of the spectrum, Toshiba and HP hold down the fort with their feature-laden handhelds. Laptop heavyweight Acer have pitched their new n10 in the budget realm, in competition with Dell. Let's see how things stack up... |
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DaVinci (Apr 30 2003 17:58 GMT) - Hi there! |
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- Web Host Directory Apr 30 2003 11:48AM ET... |
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- Computer Weekly Apr 30 2003 11:12AM ET... |
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- Poynter Institute Apr 30 2003 11:51AM ET... |
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- How wooden have the first two Star Wars prequels been? They are bringing back two robots and a wookie to... |
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- Apr. 30 - NASCAR racing is much more than racing around an oval track at high speeds. Driver Jeff Gordon gives us a tour of the high tech side of racing. |
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- There's a debate going on over at Drum Corps Planet about the recent events surrounding Wichita state senator Susan Wagle's bill to cut funding from university departments that have classes with offensive material. It's targeted at a University of Kansas... |
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- "I explain to them that they are in my restaurant. And they must have the flounder the way I make it." One of Washington's top chefs draws the line with picky diners. Welcome rebellion or self-important rant? Discuss. |
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- Frontier Psychology - Does Frontier Psychology drive America in a direction that the rest of the world cannot comprehend? Roughly defined as "the effort on the part of Americans to come to grips with untamed elements of nature and, by taming them, to reorganize their society" We see it everywhere, even in Buffy. Europe appears to value stability over mobility and change, in opposition to America. |
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- Custom paperback editions of classic novels starring YOU! Now also available in a "happy ending" edition! Didn't like that Romeo and Juliet die at the end? |
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- Ever felt alone? No, I mean really alone, as in "13 year old girl has forgotten the lyrics to the national anthem in front of 20,000 restless fans on national TV" alone? Natalie Gilbert has, but suddenly someone was there, and she wasn't alone(3. |
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