I loved this (courtesy of Random Walks). The Microsoft keyboard: 
(If you Mac users out there need an explanation of what’s funny here, write me…)
Daily Archives: 19 Sep 00
Amazon Dumps Yahoo at expiration of three-year partnership. Barnesandnoble rushes in to supplant Amazon as a Yahoo “premier merchant.” Wired
Trophy Photos Betray Israeli Police Abuse.
JERUSALEM, Sept. 18 – After they had finished pummeling their three Palestinian detainees, finished smashing them with their fists, elbows and boots, slamming their heads against a stone wall, forcing them to swallow their own blood and cursing their mothers and sisters, the young Israeli policemen did an unusual thing: Using a disposable camera, they took photographs of themselves with their victims, holding their heads by the hair like hunting trophies.
The three Palestinian detainees apparently did nothing to provoke this attack except to present their identity ards at a border checkpoint. The israeli border police apologize for the incident and underscore its rarity. Human rights workers beg to differ. But all in all, after an initial outcry there’s been remarkably little discussion or indignation in Israel about such brutalization. Washington Post
“Somehow the Bud Light ad in which a man is shot from a cannon into an elephant’s anus seems a model of tasteful cleverness by comparison”: NBC’s Summer Games Coverage “… is so packaged and overproduced as well as after-the-fact that by the time it reaches American TV screens it seems remote in the worst sense of the word. The hours and hours of features and profiles NBC has produced about participating athletes include footage from previous Olympic Games, and this blurs right into the new material, all of it becoming a seamless and wearying smear. Everything new looks old again.” Critic Tom Shales is one of my favorite curmudgeons, and I usually agree with him, as I do here. He’s got several other important complaints about the NBC coverage as well. Read on. My biggest objection is that, to judge from the NBC coverage I’ve watched, it would appear that only six or eight nations are competing. Weren’t the Olympics supposed to be about more than the superpowers? Washington Post
