28 June 2001

  • Microsoft will remove Smart Tags--automatic links--from Windows XP.
  • Sharon, used to American coddling, is offended over Bush's unclear commentary on Palestinian progress.
  • 500 anarchists beat Italian G8 blockade by chartering a French train.
  • 86 percent of Californians don't believe there is an energy shortage, though most agree there is a crisis and their politicians have dealt with it poorly.
  • South Carolinian Republican apologizes for enjoying "cold beer and hot girls."
  • ModernHumorist hosts BBQ for Bezos as thank-you gift; Bezos accepts.
  • Fed cuts rates by quarter point, 6th cut this year.
  • Jack Lemmon is dead; Affleck and Damon cast for Grumpy Old Men 4.
  • Britney Spears has been surgically exposed.
  • A.M, Monius paid tons of money for philosophers to read his/hers/its work; who/what/where is it?
  • A 24-hour blog in the life of MTV.