Thursday 17 April 2003

Army 'colluded' with loyalist killers Tell us something we didn't know already. A report says a branch of British army intelligence and some police officers helped loyalists to murder Catholics. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition] 5:35:01 PM    comment []  Google It!

Fixing The Big Read As you may recall, A Nation Once Again was recently voted most popular song of all time and there was recently an attempt to get the Spire of Dublin included as one of the Wonders of the World. Sadly it was disqualified for being too new. Anyway, Lost Car Park carries a message from a certain Pádraig Ó Méaloid on the potential for further expressions of Irish solidarity. It seems that the BBC is running another poll as part of its Big Read campaign. The idea is to find Britain's favourite books. However, there is a regional aspect with voters in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland able to vote for local authors. [LostCarPark] 5:31:10 PM    comment []  Google It!

Time traveller doing time Remember that story about Andrew Carlssin who was arrested for insider trading after making over $350m from an initial investment of $800 in the stock market. His explanation that he was a time traveller from the 23rd century cut no ice with investigators who want to know where he got his information. Well according to today's Irish Independent, Carlssin has offered to divulge certain historical facts such as a cure for AIDS and the wherabouts of Osama Bin Laden in return for leniency. 4:44:50 PM    comment []  Google It!

Apple shows slight profit - denies Universal offer Apple Computer yesterday announced its results for the second quarter. The company recorded a profit of $14m or $0.04 per share, within the range predicted by Wall Street. This compares to $40m or $0.11 per share for the same quarter last year, but up from Q1 this year when the company made a loss due to restructuring charges. According to Apple,the company shipped 711,000 Macintosh units of which 40 pecent were notebooks. Activating his reality distortion field, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that Apple was leading the industry in shipping notebook computers. What he didn't say was that the company was lagging in shipping desktop machines. CFO Fred Anderson announced that inventory was down to 4.5 weeks and that the company's cash reservers had grown to $4.5bn. This would leave the company only needing $1.5 if it did buy record label Universal for the $6bn sum being reported. However, in a rare break from its policy of not commenting on rumours, Apple issued a statement denying it had made an offer for the troubled music publisher. 11:01:36 AM    comment []  Google It!

O2 tries out mobile video 02 becomes the latest mobile firm to trial video clips via phones, including highlights of Arsenal matches. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] 10:54:33 AM    comment []  Google It!

Microsoft co-founder building science fiction museum in Seattle SF Author Cory Doctrow (Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom), over at Boing Boing Blog reports that Paul Allen, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, wants to build a science fiction museum in his home town of Seattle. The board of directors will consist of SF writers, although Doctorow thinks they won't have much say in the project. Doctrow blogs this extract from the the New York Times. Plans call for a hall of fame for science-fiction heroes, another hall shaped like the interior of a spaceship and a third that would commemorate terrifying aliens and other evil creatures. SFX's advisory board includes the science-fiction writers Greg Bear, Ray Bradbury, Octavia Butler and Arthur C. Clarke. Link [Boing Boing Blog] 10:51:04 AM    comment []  Google It!

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