Month September 2004

News bits Soldiers say they were told to re-enlist or face deployment to Iraq Mussels found Near North Pole in global warming signMicrosoft software implicated in air traffic shutdown   

Presidential polls and cell phones From Smart Mobs Is polling skewed by missing cell phones?. A question for the blogosphere: I’m hearing rumors that US presidential election polls are way off, since they’re not touching cell phones. I can’t get…

Narodniks? Basayev, Russia’s most wanted man, said he was behind the wave of recent attacks in Russia — including the school siege, the near-simultaneous downing of two passenger planes and a bomb attack in Moscow — in which well over…

Firefox drawing fans away from Microsoft IE Open-source browsers Mozilla and Firefox have won over a significant number of defectors from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer in the past nine months, Web site metrics suggest. I’ve been using Firefox and the companion Thunderbird…

Johnny Ramone dies from cancer I saw the Ramones many times. They were the first punk band y’know, as they had three albums out by the time the Sex Pistols released their first LP. They influenced countless bands. Get their double…