15 June 2001

  • White House education (or, testing) bill passed, including Helms's amendment to block funding to schools that block boy scouts for discrimination.
  • Mbeki, looking for investments in South Africa, rules out sanctions against Zimbabwe.
  • Riots follow Bush's trail at EU Summit.
  • Apple and The Church of Satan at war over thinking different.
  • Marketing, marketing, marketing: Interactive TV simply means different ads for different people.
  • DSL provider Speakeasy starts MP3 subscription service with Emusic.
  • Sun CTO claims Kubrick's '2001' the next Nostradomus.
  • Palm set to launch 'Michael Jordan' Pilot; lease for $30M a year!
  • Japanese cell phones catch virus that calls 911.
  • What could be a beautiful iMac.
  • Homer Simpson makes it into the dictionary.
  • The new Prate has alpine illustration work, all open-source.