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March/April 2003

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Subject: B-List: Steve Bell Cartoons
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 07:58:32 +0930

Steve Bell is cartoonist with The Guardian in the UK.  Here a
are a couple of his recent cartoons:
* Blair and Bush's vision thing
  < http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/0,7371,913211,00.html >
* The UN's relationship with the US
  < http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/0,7371,918058,00.html >
If you like his stuff, you can view more online at:
  < http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/archive/stevebell/0,7371,337764,00.html >

"Violence is the last resort of the incompetent"
 - Isaac Asimov, 'Foundation'

Subject: B-List: April Fool's Day Hoaxes
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 08:05:32 +0930

Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time
   < http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/top100.html >

April Fools' Special: History's Hoaxes
   < http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/0331_030401_aprilfool.html >

Subject: B-List: Word Power
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 08:02:29 +0930

1. "Top Ten Word Lists of 2002 Announced by yourDictionary.com"
   < http://www.yourdictionary.com/about/topten2002.html >

2. "Trendy terms sneak into language"
   < http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s686181.htm >

3. "'Bling bling' makes English dictionary"
   < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_765279.html >

4. "'Bushisms' make university's banned list"
   < http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/01/01/banned.bushisms.reut/index.html >

5. "Wordsmiths take aim on Bush's assault on English language"
   < http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s763814.htm >

Word of the Week: Floccinaucinihilipilification
   < http://www.quinion.com/words/weirdwords/ww-flo2.htm >
"The action or habit of judging something to be worthless."

Subject: B-List: Name Changes and Other Names in the News
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 07:58:33 +0930

1. "National guardman changed his name to a toy"
   < http://wkyc.com/news/news_fullstory.asp?id=3828 >

2. "Man changes surname to protest war"
   < http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2003/03/28/53290-ap.html >

3. "Norway's Saddam changes name"
   < http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2908255.stm >

4. "New name for man sick of sausage jibes"
   < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_764034.html >

5. "Tiddleywink gets new name signs"
   < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_752182.html >

6. "Bridge name dispute turns ugly"
   < http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s767590.htm >

7. "Mr Jack Ass sues US show"
   < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_734962.html >

8. "Man with 'offensive' name refused passport"
   < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_762764.html >

Subject: B-List: celebdaq, Hollywood SX and Virtual SX
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 08:03:00 +0930

1. celebdaq - celebrity stock exchange
   < http://www.bbc.co.uk/celebdaq/ >

"CELEBDAQ is a celebrity share-trading game - buy and sell 'shares'
 in listed celebrities. Every week, the shares you own will pay out
 a dividend, depending on how much press coverage those celebrities
 received."
   < http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/celebdaq/trade.cgi?about=1 >

Market lists
   < http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/celebdaq/trade.cgi?showIssues=1 >

Current market leaders ...
 + Pops:   Ms Dynamite (who?)    £16.55
 + Movies: Catherine Zeta Jones   £5.93
 + Sports: David Beckham          £7.74
 + Others: Prince Charles        £13.36


2. Hollywood Stock Exchange
   < http://www.hsx.com/ >

"Buy shares of your favorite actors and their new movies and watch
 their values rise or fall based on their success. Stocks soar with
 a blockbuster opening at the box office and plummet with a bomb no
 one went to see."
   < http://www.hsx.com/about/whatishsx.htm >

Current Top Moviestock:
  The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King  H$236.64
Current Top Starbond:
  M. Night Shyamalan (Director: The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable)  H$118.10


3. VirtualStockExchange
   < http://www.virtualstockexchange.com/ >

A more traditional stock market simulator.
"Build and manage a virtual portfolio - conduct market, stop and limit
 orders on the actual NYSE and NASDAQ securities."

----

Related articles

1. "The fame game"
   < http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/03/02/nceleb02.xml >

2 "Stockmarket getting you down? Then let's pretend!"
   < http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2003/02/08/cmceleb08.xml >

Subject: B-List: Electioneering
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 07:56:31 +0930

1. "Pop Idol set for politics?"
   < http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2944173.stm >

2. "Harry Ivanovich Potter to run for Russian governor"
   < http://in.news.yahoo.com/030302/137/21p65.html >

3. "Saddam and Donald Duck get Finnish votes"
   < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_761837.html >

4. "Rabindra Reang wins election... against Rabindra Reang"
   < http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s796145.htm >

5. "Woman, 103, bidding to enter politics in Norway"
   < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_766061.html >

6. "Belgian mayor sets up Department of Tenderness"
   < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_764985.html >

7. "Politicians debate whether to employ cat to catch mice"
   < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_761872.html >

8. "Portillo takes on check-out role"
   < http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2939843.stm >

9. "Dumont overshadowed by marriage proposal"
   < http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2003/04/09/61359-cp.html >

10. "Wild elephants threaten election in Indian state"
   < http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s782051.htm >

11. "Cynics to get the vote?"
   < http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2190112.stm >

Subject: B-List: Happy Easter
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 08:19:28 +0930

Wishing you all have a happy and safe Easter break.

A site offering free cards and virtual Easter eggs:
   < http://www.marlo.com/easter.htm >

Easter Egg Hunt:
   < http://funnygreetings.com/egghunt.htm >

Subject: B-List: Driven To Distraction
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 08:06:05 +0930

Driving is a very relaxing activity for me.  Not!  I notice lots of
bad driving, and I definitely need to listen to soothing classical
music to keep my blood pressure from rising.  Just yesterday this
guy in a Lancer was ducking and weaving in traffic without indicating.
Then, at the traffic lights, he had his left foot on the dash next
to the left-hand passenger window.

1. "Woman motorist runs into mooning rugby player"
   < http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2384707a11,00.html >

2. "Fast music linked to car crashes"
   < http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/cars/article.jsp?id=99992032&sub=Designing%20for%20safety >

3. "Back-seat drivers are biggest cause of in-car road rage"
   < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_765844.html >

4. "Driver awarded for accident free motoring had no licence"
   < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_771157.html >

5. "Austrian in hospital after running himself over"
   < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_766331.html >

6. "Cops put brakes on high rollers: Arrests, tickets mark start
    of notorious coast-to-coast race"
   < http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/04/18/BA272954.DTL&type=printable >

7. "I-94 driver fowls out as turkey crashes into windshield"
   < http://www.leadertelegram.com/story.asp?id=25056 >

8. "Flying moose lands on car's roof"
   < http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=496559 >

9. "Shopper returns to find fighter jet on top of her car"
   < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_757950.html >

10. "For Motorist, Haste Makes Chased"
   < http://www.newsday.com/mynews/ny-lichas173240912apr17.story >

Subject: B-List: Some Modern-day Maladies
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 07:53:05 +0930

1. "Email 'becomes huge burden' to computer users"
   < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_771499.html >

2. "Study: Spell-check can worsen writing"
   < http://www.etni.org.il/news/spellcheck.htm >

3. PowerPoint is Evil
   "Ban It Now! Friends Don't Let Friends Use PowerPoint"
   < http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,9265,00.html >
   "PowerPointless"
   < http://www.citypaper.com/2001-03-28/cyber.html >
   "The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation"
   < http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/index.htm >

4. "Office workers give away passwords for a cheap pen"
   < http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/30324.html >

5. "Computer users at risk of 'e-thrombosis'"
   < http://abc.net.au/news/scitech/2003/01/item20030129094715_1.htm >

6. "Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS)"
   < http://www.allaboutvision.com/cvs/ >

7. "Digital memory threatened as file formats evolve"
   < http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/tech/1739675 >

8. "A bad case of DVD rot eats into movie collections"
   < http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/01/31/1043804519345.html >

Subject: B-List: Great Escapes and Other Survival Stories
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 07:47:00 +0930

1. "The dog that would not die"
   < http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2003/04/23/71625-ap.html >

2. "Dog missing for ten hours after it was carried off by a tornado"
   < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_753026.html >

3. "Cat survives 20 miles under the bonnet"
   < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_771211.html >

4. "Cat falls from tree"
   < http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=1222150&nav=5kZQF76o >

5. "Centuries-old turtle out of the pot, back in the ocean"
   < http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s797239.htm >

6. "Woman rescued after three weeks in sewer"
   < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_773425.html >

7. "Woman crashes into stinky sinkhole"
   < http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20030415-1818-sinkhole.html >

8. "Climber falls 1,700ft down mountain and climbs up again"
   < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_754784.html >

9. "More than 400 Russian fishermen rescued from breakaway ice floe"
   < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_526063.html >

10. "Escapologist sets world record"
   < http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/2970019.stm >

11. "'Nature Quest' courses leave survivors"
   < http://www.courier-journal.com/cjsports/news2003/04/27/sp042703s401777.htm >

12. "Celebrities fly out for TV jungle survival show"
   < http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5014985.html >

Subject: B-List: New iPods + April Followups
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 07:52:20 +0930


1. New iPods
   < http://www.apple.com/ipod/ >

Three new slimmer and lighter models: 10GB, 15GB and 30GB.
Touch-sensitive and backlit controls.  2 extra games and notes.
Plus: new version of iTunes, and Music Downloads (US-only for now). 


2. Follow-ups to April Postings

[Electioneering]
 * "Masked wrestler will continue with disguise after election win"
   < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_770459.html >
 * "Comedian to stand for reality TV party in elections"
   < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_771174.html >
 * "Social worker launches political party for lovers"
   < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_771094.html >

[Easter]
 * "Trail of Easter bunnies led police to thieves"
   < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_773074.html >
 * "Software secrets revealed"
   < http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2953619.stm >
 Includes links to Software "Easter Egg" sites:
   < http://www.eeggs.com/ >
   < http://www.eggheaven2000.com/ >
   < http://www.eggscentral.com/ >
   < http://www.dvdeastereggs.com/ >

[Driven to Distraction]
 * "20% fear spouse's driving" - link is now broken, but headline will do
   < http://www.canada.com/national/story.asp?id={D75FBB85-86AC-43EB-8A0A-9FD9CF4D6A08} >
 * "Man with 5 calves in Toyota Camry jailed"
   < http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0424cowarrest24-ON.html >

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