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Interesting…  Yahoo! keeps! Overture!. Rejects in-house, Google [The Register]

Wow.  Report details Anaconda fighting [CNN]

Don’t go making waterfalls.  Lisa Lopes killed in car crash. 30-year-old TLC singer dies in Honduras; hits include Waterfalls, No Scrubs and Creep. [USA Today : Front Page]

Yeah!  Charlton Heston wants to keep NRA job. 78-year-old actor expected to be elected president of gun-owners group for fifth term. [USA Today : Front Page]

Star Wars: Jedi Knight II is a fucking awesome game.

Tesla was a kewl mo-fo.  Paleotech 02: The Man Who Built Tomorrow. He was a bona fide genius and self-avowed benefactor of humanity, who gave away one of the single most important inventions ever patented so it could be developed for our benefit. He was a practical mystic who harbored the oddest imaginable ideas about the energy of thought, life forces, and the propagation of electrical energy. He was an inspired theorist who imagined the most awesome machines, and a skilled mechanic who made them real and tamed them with his own hands. When Nikola Tesla died in 1943 he left behind an enduring legacy, a haunting list of unfulfilled dreams, and a vast enigma. [kuro5hin.org]

Then give them more money.  It’s pretty amazing to me that we’re so willing to criticize stuff but not willing to come up with any solutions.  The Commonwealth of Massachusetts spends millions per year on what I’d kindly call crap…  It’s far past time they spent money on things that matter.  Backlog at state crime lab delaying Truro slay case. Boston Globe Apr 20 2002 7:28AM ET [Moreover – moreover…]