Thursday, February 17, 2005

Bird flu cases 'underestimated'. Scientists say the number of cases of humans being infected with bird flu may have been underestimated. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 9:07:26 PM    comment [] The big crimes and the small ones aren't unconnected of course. Bush and Company practice the small crimes -- propaganda and intimidation -- to facilitate the large ones. 8:56:36 PM    comment [] Microsoft on 'rootkits': Be afraid. Be very afraid.. Microsoft security researchers are warning about a new generation of powerful system monitoring programs, or "rootkits," that are almost impossible to detect using current security products and that could pose a serious risk to corporations and individuals. [InfoWorld: Top News] 8:09:50 PM    comment [] Times Company to Buy About.com for $410 Million. The New York Times Company announced this afternoon that it had agreed to acquire the online consumer information provider About Inc. By By THE NEW YORK TIMES. [NYT > Business] 7:12:47 PM    comment [] The White House Stages Its 'Daily Show'. By Frank Rich / NYT — Permalink THE prayers of those hoping that real television news might take its cues from Jon Stewart were finally answered on Feb. 9, 2005. A real newsman borrowed a technique from fake news to deliver real news about fake news in prime time. Let me explain. Read remarks from Steve Clemons, Kos @DailyKos, Josh Marshall, and Jeralyn Merritt. [memeorandum] 7:02:37 PM    comment [] James Roosevelt Jr: Hume's "outrageous distortion" of FDR "calls for a retraction, an apology, maybe even a resignation". Media Matters for America — Permalink MSNBC host Keith Olbermann and former Social Security associate commissioner James Roosevelt Jr. examined how FOX News Washington managing editor Brit Hume and other pundits distorted a quote by Roosevelt Jr.'s grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in order to claim that the former president would have supported privatizing Social Security. Read remarks from Kos @DailyKos, Kevin Drum, Atrios, and Oliver Willis. [memeorandum] 7:11:59 AM    comment [] http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050216/phw018_1.html CIGNA Health Quality Initiative - possible business opportunity? 6:57:51 AM    comment []

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