December 13, 2002

It’s movie sequel week as apparently Hollywood has run out of new ideas: Harrison Ford has agreed to star in fourth Indiana Jones movie, due to be released in 2005. Mel Gibson will appear in Fury Road, the fourth Mad Max movie. Sylvester Stallone will star in a sixth Rocky movie, that like the first will be a low budget affair. 11:45 EST update, Jay Leno mentioned these three movies also. "I hope they are not doing this just for the money" 11:45:17 PM

Down the Memory Hole Realizing that Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah’s speech calling for the worldwide spread of "the culture of suicide bombing" was showing even fence sitting governments such as Canada’s that it’s goal was worldwide terror and genocidal attacks on Jews, Hizbullah is attempting to destroy all references to it. As a result some people and organizations such as the Toronto Star’s Antonia Zerbisias and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Neil Macdonald are accepting Hizbullah’s claims that this statement was not true. However, Ben at StopOnlineTerror has tracked down the statements on the Sheihk’s own website. (via LGF) Expect that website to have been changed by now. 11:37:57 PM

In MSN Money, Jon D. Markman examines the investment potential of Wi-Fi networks for personal investors. Due to low prices, wireless equipment manufacturers may not benefit for awhile, while surprisingly optical network operators could benefit if Wi-Fi usage increase overall network demand. 11:36:41 PM

As a temporary member of the UN Security Council, Syria opposed a resolution commending the terrorist acts last month against Israeli targets in Kenya. As a the sole 14-1 holdout, Syria lost as the council urged all 191 UN member nations "to cooperate in efforts to find and bring to justice the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of these terrorist attacks." Syria on a UN Council, what a joke. 11:36:15 PM