Catch Me If You Can Catch Me If You Can was entertaining, but disappointing.

U.S. Ready to Unleash New Weapons in Iraq "The Army plans to quickly deploy its new Shadow 200 spy plane if the United States goes to war against Iraq. In the Persian Gulf, the Navy has America's newest attack jet - the F-18 Super Hornet - ready for its first extended wartime action. In all, the military would bring a new array of weapons, infrared sensors and communications gear to any conflict to change the regime in Baghdad. The new gadgets promise to make the war quicker and less bloody than Desert Storm a decade ago, military analysts say."

Bush Grants Seven Pardons President Bush has pardoned seven Americans for an array of mostly minor offenses, from a Mississippi man who tampered with a car odometer to a postal employee who stole $10.90 from the mail, the White House announced Monday. The seven were the first pardons of his administration. The seven people Bush pardoned:

- Kenneth Franklin Copley of Lyles, Tenn. Sentenced to two years probation in 1962 for manufacturing untaxed whiskey.

- Harlan Paul Dobas of Portland, Ore. Sentenced to three months in jail in 1966 for conspiracy involving the sale of grain stolen from his employer.

- Stephen James Jackson of Picayune, Miss. Sentenced to three years probation and fined $500 in 1993 for altering an odometer.

- Douglas Harley Rogers of Brookfield, Wis. A Jehovah's Witnesses minister sentenced to two years in jail in 1957 for failing to report for military induction.

- Walter F. Schuerer of Amana, Iowa. Fined $15,000 in 1989 for making a false statement to the Social Security Administration regarding his employment.

- Paul Herman Wieser of Tacoma, Wash. Sentenced to 18 months probation in 1972 for stealing $38,000 worth of copper wire.

- Olgen Williams of Indianapolis. A postal worker sentenced to one year in jail in 1971 for stealing $10.90 from the mail.

Catch Me If You Can Spielberg's new movie is getting good reviews.

Rumsfeld Warns N. Korea: U.S. Can Fight Two Wars "U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned North Korea Monday not to take advantage of America's preoccupation with Iraq, as the United States is capable of fighting and winning two wars at once. "We are capable of winning decisively in one and swiftly defeating in the case of the other," he said. "Let there be no doubt about it." (via Drudge)

Microsoft Must Ship Sun's Java "Sun has won a preliminary injunction in its private antitrust case against Microsoft, requiring the monopolist to carry Sun's Java and not Redmond's feral version."

Takeout or Delivery? Anyone for Domino's?

Thrillogy Jack Matthews reviews The Two Towers.

IE Rules Love it or hate it, IE rules. Yes, I posted this specifically for all of my Mozilla Buddies, and I've enabled comments. Let's hear more about Mozilla taking over the planet, etc, etc, ad nauseam.

Population Control Well, whadda you know? The herd is getting thinner!

LOTR: The Two Towers We saw The Two Towers last night. (Technically, this morning.) What can I say? Epic. Go to MetaCritic for more praise.

MP3 Download Links For your listening pleasure, here are a few MP3 download links, courtesy of AlltheWeb. To download a song, simply right-click on the link and choose Save Target As: (1) J Lo - Jenny From the Block (2) Christina Aguilera - Beautiful (3) Santana (featuring Michelle Branch) - Game of Love

3 Free Alternatives to MS Office Three Free Alternatives to Microsoft Office

Spam ZDNet: Spam Saturation Hits 40 Percent

U.S. Public to be Offered Smallpox Vaccination "President Bush plans to announce Friday that he is directing 500,000 members of the U.S. military to receive vaccinations against smallpox, a senior administration official said Wednesday, and to later offer the vaccine to all Americans who choose to be inoculated. The directive will be the first part of a program to protect Americans against a possible bioterror attack."

Spammer Can't Take What He Dishes Out Jason sums up the matter rather nicely.

Man Trapped in Snowy Wreck Survives "A West Virginia man whose car plunged 150 feet into a snowy ravine told today how he ended up trapped in his car for six and a half days, surviving on melted snow, taco sauce packets and small fires he started to keep warm. Ward, 32, was driving to his security guard job at the Pen Coal mine last Monday when he lost control of his car. He found himself stuck in his wrecked car, five miles from his workplace, and two miles from the nearest residence in the backcountry of Wayne County. Neither the headlights nor the horn of the 1985 Ford worked, and though he could sometimes hear searchers nearby he was too weak to call out."

Scot's Newsletter Scot's Newsletter, Number 36

Fellowship of the Ring: Extended Version Just watched the special extended version of Fellowship of the Ring. It's about 40 minutes longer than the theatrical version. If you've never seen the original, then, of course, you should see this longer version. However, in my opinion, there is no must-see footage in the longer version. It's all really cool, but doesn't really add anything particularly significant. If you've got 208 minutes to kill, go ahead and check it out. Otherwise, the original is just fine.

Smith, Wesson & Segway? These officers sure do look menacing. "Um, yeah, we're responding to an assualt. We should be there in 40 minutes. Over."

U.S. Set to Cite Iraq for Breach "The Bush administration is set to declare Iraq in violation of the U.N. resolution requiring Baghdad to give up weapons of mass destruction, The Washington Times has learned. "It is going to be 'material breach,' not as a casus belli [cause for war] but as a basis to begin hammering Unmovic to do more," said an administration official familiar with the internal debate. Unmovic, or the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, is the arms-inspection group for Iraq. Administration officials said a material-breach declaration will depend on whether Iraq fails to mention in its U.N. report some banned weapons programs identified in U.S. intelligence reports."

How to Be Mean to Kids


LOL! (Thanks, Krispy!)

BitTorrent BitTorrent: Giddy- Up!

Michigan Deer Hunter Here's a priceless photo!

Back to the Future DVD Set DVDFILE has a review. You can compare prices of the trilogy here. (via Dan)

Thirty Bucks for a Hardcover! Salon: Why Do Books Cost So Much?

Smallpox in Iraq? "American intelligence officials are investigating whether a Russian scientist transferred a particularly lethal strain of smallpox to the government of Iraq in the 1990s."

DayPop Top 40 The DayPop Top 40 listing has returned.

194 Sick in Latest Cruise Ship Outbreak "A Carnival cruise ship returned from a three-day voyage Monday carrying nearly 200 people sickened by a gastrointestinal virus, with symptoms similar to those plaguing other cruise liners. A total of 190 passengers and four crew members on the Fascination reported vomiting and diarrhea, but experts had not yet confirmed whether they had a Norwalk-like virus. So-called Norwalk-like viruses have plagued more than 1,000 people on other cruise ships in the past few months, including Holland America Line's Amsterdam and Disney Cruise Line's Magic, causing those companies to cancel one sailing each to thoroughly disinfect the ships."

DM! Milestone: DangerousMeta turns three!

B-52 Bombers Aid Besieged Special Forces "U.S. B-52 bombers pounded suspected enemy positions Sunday in western Afghanistan after an American special forces patrol came under fire, a U.S. army spokesman said. No U.S. casualties were reported. A convoy of special forces was patrolling near Shindand air base at midday when unknown gunmen fired on them, said Col. Roger King, a spokesman at Bagram Air Base, the headquarters for U.S. military operations in Afghanistan. The Americans called for air support as they escaped under fire, King said. The B-52s dropped seven bombs."