Month July 2004

DNC2RNC. Democracy Uprising Starting June 30, nearly two hundred activists will walk 258 miles from the Democratic National Convention in Boston to the Republican National Convention in New York City. It’ll take about a month, and they will cross four…

Major oil deposit found off Cuba Drilling of an exploratory well in Cuba’s virgin Gulf of Mexico waters that could make the Communist nation an oil exporter and undermine the U.S. embargo has been completed. The senior Cuban official said Repsol…

The Democratic National Convention Zzzzz. What a snoozer. Maybe that’s the point. Be optimistic, appeal to the mainstream, and do nothing even vaguely controversial or even thought-provoking. The attack dogs will be set loose soon enough.

The Google IPO Don’t. Google says its 26.4 million shares will likely cost between $108 and $135 apiece, according to a pre-IPO filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. This is way way too expensive and the price will drop substantially…

Google gets MyDoomed Even the biggest and most prepared websites can get blown offline by a virus. In this case, a new variant of the MyDoom virus uses Google and other search engines to find email addresses to send itself…