12 June 2001

  • Israel and Palestine are close to agreeing on cease-fire, despite Israel's reservations about Mitchell-plan and Palestine's objections to Israeli ideas.
  • U.S. continues to reject Kyoto pact, arguing it will solve global warming problem by funding research and letting the market find profits in preservation; Greenpeace begins selling T-shirts.
  • Despite alleged fluency, Bush mispronounces Spanish Prime Minister's name; claims fluency in Mexican.
  • Test how your website looks to the color-blind.
  • Death Row prisoners use websites to beg for their lives.
  • Slate Magazine begins internal investigation on Jay Forman's monkey-fishing.
  • Supreme Court rules that police must have warrants to use thermal-imaging and other high-tech tools.
  • An interesting article on the challenges in computer science to create randomness.