Heartmaker

Make your own valentine candy with the ACME Heartmaker...via forty.something.

1:48:44 PM     

Up close and personal with man's best friend

12:50:47 PM     

Be My Anti-Valentine

Valentine's Day is one of my favorite holidays - no suprise, since I'm a hopeless romantic!  For those of you who despise Cupid and his little bow too, take a look at these Anti-Valentine cards.

"This year, celebrate or commiserate by sending an anti-valentine. Send it today, tomorrow, or any day you damn well please. This year, say it with bile."

11:06:21 AM     

Cyber Warfare Directives

President Bush has signed a secret directive ordering the government to develop, for the first time, national-level guidance for determining when and how the United States would launch cyber-attacks against enemy computer networks.  
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"We have capabilities, we have organizations; we do not yet have an elaborated strategy, doctrine, procedures," said Richard A. Clarke, who last week resigned as special adviser to the president on cyberspace security.

10:42:18 AM     

Surprise Van Gogh Brings High Price in Japan

"From neglected old painting to sought-after masterpiece. Excitement ran high in the Tokyo art world on Saturday as a painting, first thought worth less than $100 dollars but now believed to be a work by Vincent Van Gogh, fetched more than $550,000 in auction.

The unsigned painting, a portrait of a heavy-set, grim-faced peasant woman in a white cap, was greeted with a buzz of excited conversation as it was placed on the auctioneer's stand, just a day after the dramatic revelation that it appeared to be a previously unknown early work by the Impressionist master."   FULL STORY

8:51:03 AM