Since he couldn't write any new articles in Arabic, he needed the FBI's help to keep the site alive. He said FBI officials in Baltimore and Salisbury, Md., encouraged his work but took too long to decide how to help him. Within a week, other Arabic Web sites outed Messner's site as a phony and warned visitors away. He shut it down.

Posted by GeeTee at July 31, 2002 08:13 PM

Math people are "poor approximations" of real people, he offered carefully, albeit with a bigger vocabulary. Real people are complicated by "limited rationality" and "limited perception, habit, instinct and custom."

Posted by GeeTee at July 31, 2002 07:35 PM

The Arts Report Israel has cancelled an upcoming Albert Einstein exhibit that was to tour China, after Chinese officials demanded the removal of all references to Einstein's Jewish heritage.

Posted by GeeTee at July 31, 2002 06:47 PM

7. Teal is a flattering color.

Posted by GeeTee at July 31, 2002 06:45 PM

Jackson, along with five members of the Globetrotters, including Curley Johnson, Lou Dunbar, Elmer Martin, Wun Versher, and Alex Sanders, presented His Holiness with a framed team jersey and an autographed ball. The jersey included the Pope's name and the number 75 stitched on the back, to celebrate the team's upcoming 75th Anniversary season in 2001.

Posted by GeeTee at July 31, 2002 06:04 PM

unintentionally released the e-mail addresses of more than 600 people taking Prozac

What kind of spam do you send to users of Prozac?

I'm going to start an anti-depressent mailling list. An anti-depressent message will be delivered to your inbox many times a day. You can read as many of them as you like, no worry about overdose with these things. These won't just be the normal recycled-for-the-100th-time joke email. These will be scientifically designed to fire off a sequence of nerons in your brain relieving depression instantly. Words and sentences, with punctuation, rhythm, and rhyme. Send me an email if you want to subscribe.

Life doesn't frighten me.

Life doesn't frighten me.

Life doesn't frighten me.

Life doesn't frighten me!

I'm ready to go now. Later.

Posted by Shad Muegge at July 31, 2002 07:59 AM

In a larger sense, while academics have slept, the content industries have systematically stifled flows of essential information, created artificial scarcity, and made certain areas of basic research potentially illegal.

Posted by GeeTee at July 31, 2002 07:22 AM

One of the attorneys who worked on the 1997 challenge to the CDA, Reno v. ACLU, when first asked about the new suit, told ABCNEWS.com he didn't believe there was anything left of the CDA to fight.

But after he reviewed the suit filed by Nitke and the NCSF, Paul Smith of Jenner and Block said that to his surprise, there still seemed to be aspects of the CDA that needed to be addressed.

Posted by GeeTee at July 31, 2002 07:19 AM

Eight states including Connecticut will divide $160,000 in a settlement with Eli Lilly and Co. over allegations the drug maker unintentionally released the e-mail addresses of more than 600 people taking Prozac.

Posted by GeeTee at July 31, 2002 07:15 AM

A main sticking point of the order is the since-discontinued line of products (including t-shirts, sweatshirts, etc.) that were offered for a brief period on this site, produced by CafePress.com and featuring the MetsOnline.net name but not the logo or writings of the New York Mets or Major League Baseball. While we recognize that this legal claim may have some independent legal merit, it is notable that revenues from such merchandise sales totaled just $16.00 (four orders), $12.00 of which was to Hoch's girlfriend.

Posted by GeeTee at July 31, 2002 07:06 AM

"We're living in a world where there's a lot of uncertainty and the brand name IBM is infinitely more certain than the brand name Monday."

Posted by GeeTee at July 31, 2002 06:37 AM