August 20, 2002

Drop the kiddie menu, you’re under arrest Unable to locate an expected group of street racers in a K-mart parking lot, Texan police officers arrested everyone in the lot and nearby stores including a 10year old girl eating in a restaurant with her father. A total of 278 people were arrested in this massive civil rights violation. An investigation by the police into what occurred in underway. (From ExtremeTech, Plastic). 11:17:23 PM

Fred Kaplan of Slate.com proclaims that Super Audio CDs (SACDs) are the birth of a new era in home audio entertainment. A competing format is DVD-Audio that uses a DVD medium to hold audio information, leading to the possibility of a VHS/Beta style format war. The ability for multi-format discs to be playable SACDs or old style CDs is quite cool. 11:15:26 PM

Typical Eric Alterman column Bad Israel, blah, blah, blah, Israel started it, blah, blah, blah, I get nasty letters, blah, blah, blah, right-wing American Jews, blah, blah, blah, Israel must withdraw now, blah, blah, blah. 11:14:16 PM