September 23, 2004

Jail time for California file swappers?. Any California resident who sends copyrighted works without permission to at least 10 other people must include his or her e-mail address. [CNET News.com] 3:02:44 PM

Kuwaiti Prof: Jews tamper with Koran Jpost - A leading Kuwaiti religious scholar has accused Jews of "manipulating" the text of the Koran by deleting various passages and then distributing the revised versions to unsuspecting Muslims. "Jews have been plotting against Muslims using various means," said Dr Mohammad Abdulrazek Al-Tabtabaei, Dean of the College of Sharia and Islamic Studies at Kuwait University. "They did not stop until they reached the point where they have been damaging the holy book by changing and deleting verses with the aim of hiding the truth," he said, according to a report in the Kuwaiti Arab Times newspaper. Who wants to bet that if "Doctor" Mohammad Abdulrazek Al-Tabtabaei stubs his toe in the dark, he would blame the jews for moving his furniture?  "Nope no anti-semitism here, move along..." 2:58:30 PM

Iraqi's optimistic message to world Christian Science Monitor - Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's whirlwind trip to Washington is a visit probably designed to bolster both Mr. Allawi and his White House host. Allawi gets what foreign leaders always want when they come to the US: a stage on which to appear the equal of an American president. Allawi may have to be careful, though: He needs to appear to be his own man, and not a US puppet. President Bush, for his part, could benefit from the Iraqi leader's relentless optimism. Since his arrival in the US earlier this week, Allawi has insisted that the situation in his country is getting better by the day - and that most Iraqis are grateful that the US has freed them from Saddam Hussein. 2:43:49 PM

Browsing a la Google? PC World's Techlog - Word on the Web is that Google may be thinking of releasing a Web browser--possibly one based on the open-source Mozilla code. The company now owns www.gbrowser.com, a URL that would certainly make a logical companion to GMail's home at www.gmail.com. 1:04:55 PM