6 July 2001

  • U.S. grants dead children medical coverage, despite many live people denied.
  • Air Force rape suspect delivered to Japan.
  • U.N. considers classifying Zionism as "movement based on racial superiority."
  • CBS begins charging for Big Brother Web feeds.
  • Freelancers sue NYTimes again, this time for fear of blacklisting.
  • Apparently, cats hate you.
  • Improbable Phones: Japanese renditions of cell phones never to be made.
  • Holes are appearing in France, caving roads, lawns; Gnome Liberation Front claims responsibility.
  • The Google Zeitgeist claims to measure the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era; meaning, most popular searches.