January 6, 2004

The New York Times looks at the continuing issue of who will pay for digital movie projectors- the theatre chains or Hollywood. 11:35:25 PM

No $100 mini-iPod, but there will be the smaller 4GB iPod mini in several colors for $249. Meanwhile the larger full size 10 GB version will get a boost to 15GB for $299. 11:05:08 PM

Toronto, Canada – a snowball free zone. How do you get trapped in a giant snowball? 10:57:50 PM

More Guardian Bias The Guardian frequentlu chooses its wording in a biased manner. For example In Chris McGreal’s article on the Women of the Wall, a women’s that is trying to get the right for women to pray with a Torah at the Western Wall in Jerusalem he uses the term, "Wailing Wall" to refer to the Jewish holy site. This use of a British Mandate term that does not appear on the group’s web site (they use Western Wall) is an attempt to undermine Israel’s control of this Jewish holy site and to minimize the size of the structure under Israeli control. A second point is to question who was the moron that decided to use the headline; "Jewish women fight holy war ". It may sound cute but the actions of this group have no relation to others using this term – such as to describe how they blow up buses and coffee shops. 10:54:48 PM

Breaking news - straight to your desktop within 18 months This ad for MSN Alerts from MSNBC appeared on Slate.com today. The Breaking News occurred on June 15, 2002, concerning a covert plan to overthrow Saddam. Next up - NASA plans to send rover to Mars. 10:34:39 PM