8 June 2001

  • With brash, sustained naivety, Rumsfeld will install Star Wars systems before they work; Bush considers sending first man to moon by 2005.
  • Belgian jury convicts four Rwandans for Hutu/Tutsi slayings.
  • Big surprise: Blair's Labor sweeps the Tories, Producers style.
  • Treasury Secretary O'Neill may have made $62M off Bush policies.
  • NetZero and Juno combine, forming second largest ISP.
  • Great art from bad places: Kentridge's art (film, writing, everything?) documents tragedy in South Africa.
  • Dancing about Technology: Travolta's Swordfish fails both geeky and general audiences.
  • IBM's strained silicon improves chips by stretching their skin; Joan Rivers cited as inspiration.
  • Microsoft's XP will link your site's text to its own sites.
  • New Yorkers contend they're tough: even their romance is harder to manage.