20,000 tickets still unsold for Seahawks home opener

Sunday's Seahawks home opener against New Orleans is likely to rival the 1996 opener against Denver -- the year ex-owner Ken Behring tried to move the franchise to Southern California -- for the lowest attendance to start an NFL season in Seattle. Read...

10:00:57 PM    

Music giant plans to drop CD prices. The day after a report suggests the CD is heading the way of the 8-track tape, the world's largest music label conglomerate promises a cut in music CD pricing. [CNET News.com]

Hmmm, right...

9:58:38 PM    

Writing Your Own Functions in XSLT 2.0. In this month's Transforming XML column Bob DuCharme explains how to write arbitrary XSLT functions in XSLT 2.0. [XML.com]

Of course you can do this, but be careful, the perf implications can be severe!

9:56:31 PM    

Empowerment through Gambling Revenue

I like this!

Tribal members began lining up outside the former Ace Hardware Store building the tribe now owns to register for the Dell computers at 6 a.m. By mid-afternoon , tribal officials had processed 361 applications.

9:55:11 PM    

Get a Life

Comparing technology to fiction (Snow Crash), California Idiot Debra Bowen ride the "bash MS" bus to legislating spam prevention. This is the state that could not control it's own electricity grid, it's government is fiscally broke and broken with their own governor. I don't think so!

Debra Bowen may hail from a Southern California coastal enclave a few hundred miles south of Silicon Valley, but that's just the right distance from which to lob a few bombs at the Redmond, Wash.-based software company.

9:52:17 PM    

From the "You must be fucking Jokin!" Department

Jessica Lynch Agrees to $1M Book Deal (AP). AP - Jessica Lynch has struck a $1 million deal for a book that will tell the story of her capture and rescue in Iraq. But questions remain over how much she remembers. [Yahoo! News - Most Emailed]

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