Here's a pretty addictive game that's a twist on the old Othello formula -- Disinfect the Memory Core has you battling a fictitious virus for control over a computer's memory.

• Some political posters around the Web (click the one above to enlarge): 1 2 3
• The war profiteering has begun. Check out how it works. That connected companies can always claim to have "experience" seems a no-brainer to me.
• A lot of flag-wavers these days seem to think America is the end-all, be-all of world democracy. They are wrong. We have room to improve, not freedom to spare (as Bush Co. seems to think).
• Here is a truly great piece by Arianna Huffington, sometime Salon columnist, about why smug claims of vindication from the hawks is not only stupid, but fallacious. Almost perfectly sums up my feelings.
• In a similar vein to my own commentary on the Iraq looting situation, Mark Fiore provides another top-notch Flash commentary.
• With every right-winger in the nation riding France for its alleged sanction-busting, lookie what other country had companies breaking the sanctions as well. Bushco pushed this one out of the public eye pretty quick.
• Speaking of the French, here's why the government-silence-backed French goods boycott is stupid. Here's more. We're really just kicking ourselves in our ignorant American asses. And hell if I'm going to stop buying Bics.

Now this is disturbing. The military is figuring on using wireless technology to create self-healing minefields. The Flash sales pitch is pretty unnerving, IMO.

The parting shot: Just about all you need to know about Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles.

MONDAY, 4/14/2003, 9:Ish pm HST by Penfold

Hockey times

Hockey times for the week of 4/14/03

• "Colorado Avalanche at Minnesota Wild" ESPN2, Mon Apr 14 09:30pm HST
• "Detroit Red Wings at Anaheim Mighty Ducks" FSWH, Tue Apr 15 12:00am HST
• "Detroit Red Wings at Anaheim Mighty Ducks" FSWH, Tue Apr 15 11:00am HST
• "New Jersey Devils at Boston Bruins" ESPN, Tue Apr 15 01:00pm HST
• "Tampa Bay Lightning at Washington Capitals" ESPN2, Tue Apr 15 01:00pm HST
• "Dallas Stars at Edmonton Oilers" ESPN2, Tue Apr 15 03:30pm HST
• "New Jersey Devils at Boston Bruins" ESPN, Tue Apr 15 09:00pm HST
• "Tampa Bay Lightning at Washington Capitals" ESPN2, Tue Apr 15 10:00pm HST
• "Colorado Avalanche at Minnesota Wild" ESPN2, Wed Apr 16 01:30pm HST
• "Detroit Red Wings at Anaheim Mighty Ducks" ESPN2, Wed Apr 16 04:30pm HST
• "Detroit Red Wings at Anaheim Mighty Ducks" FSWH, Wed Apr 16 04:30pm HST
• "Colorado Avalanche at Minnesota Wild" ESPN2, Wed Apr 16 08:30pm HST
• "Conference Quarterfinal, Game 4" ESPN, Wed Apr 16 09:00pm HST
• "Detroit Red Wings at Anaheim Mighty Ducks" FSWH, Thu Apr 17 01:00am HST
• "Detroit Red Wings at Anaheim Mighty Ducks" FSWH, Thu Apr 17 09:00am HST
• "Boston Bruins at New Jersey Devils" ESPN, Thu Apr 17 01:00pm HST
• "Edmonton Oilers at Dallas Stars" ESPN2, Thu Apr 17 01:30pm HST
• "Boston Bruins at New Jersey Devils" ESPN, Thu Apr 17 09:00pm HST
• Edmonton Oilers at Dallas Stars" ESPN2, Thu Apr 17 10:00pm HST
• "Washington Capitals at Tampa Bay Lightning" ESPN, Fri Apr 18 01:00pm HST
• "St. Louis Blues at Vancouver Canucks" ESPN2, Fri Apr 18 03:00pm HST
• "Washington Capitals at Tampa Bay Lightning" ESPN, Fri Apr 18 09:30pm HST
• "St. Louis Blues at Vancouver Canucks" ESPN2, Fri Apr 18 10:00pm HST
• NHL Hockey KITV, Sat Apr 19 09:00am HST
• "Conference Quarterfinal, Game 6" ESPN, Sat Apr 19 02:00pm HST
• "Conference Quarterfinal, Game 6" ESPN2, Sat Apr 19 09:00pm HST

Got a 3.5 floppy and lots of time, how about making the Starship Enterprise out of it.

Mix a cell phone with a vibrating ringer and a female and what do you get? You decide.

Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf

In an age of spin, al-Sahaf offers feeling and authenticity. His message is consistent -- unshakeable, in fact, no matter the evidence -- but he commands daily attention by his on-the-spot, invective-rich variations on the theme. His lunatic counterfactual art is more appealing than the banal awfulness of the Reliable Sources. He is a Method actor in a production that will close in a couple of days. He stands superior to truth.

Need to build a piece? To complex for the average machine shop monkey? Try the Emachine shop (No relation to the POS computers).