Day August 8, 2004

The election Bush approval ratings: raw poll data. Down, down, down Nader fails to make California ballot State election officials said Nader fell far short of the 153,035 signatures needed by Friday’s deadline. He submitted 82,923 with 56 of the…

Windows XP SP2 Service Pack 2 for XP has been released. It is will be a monster download from the Microsoft servers, and way too big for dial-up accounts to download in any reasonable amount of time. They will need to get the…

You don’t even need to take Prozac to get the effects from it! Peed-out Prozac detectable in UK water-supply. There’re so many Prozac-takers in the UK that urine-borne traces of unmetabolised antidepressent have contaminated the drinking-water supply.

Soldier convicted of manslaughter A U.S. soldier who shot a handcuffed Iraqi cowherd in the back of the head has been convicted in Iraq of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to three years in prison.

Dueling tornados Two tornados revolving *around* each other. Tornado Records (pdf) Highest Recorded Wind: 318 mph, Bridge Creek/Moore, OK, May 3, 1999.Widest Observed Path: 2.5 miles, Hallam, NE, May 22nd, 2004.Longest Observed Path: 219 miles, Tri State Tornado, March 18,…