Hey I’m not much of a riddler, but I know a lot of you are, and a friend of mine recommended
this riddle site to me last night. So I thought I’d pass it on to you…
It’s a riddle wrapped in a website (wrapped in a floury tortilla 🙂
Weffriddles.com.

Nice one: google romance.
I gotta tell ya, for a minute, they got me 🙂
Update: the tour actually has some ingenious ideas for selling stuff to online daters. For instance – sending emails where all they have to do is click to send flowers to their upcoming date, etc. Somebody’s gonna do this for real someday.

Reaction #1: This is so sad.
Reaction #2: Ouch! Bad timing guys. I thought Israel was supposed to be in the process of building goodwill towards the Palestinian people. This can’t be a step in the right direction.
New Law for Israeli-Palestinian Couples
By Gavin Rabinowitz for the Associated Press.

Israel’s parliament on Thursday passed a new law that would force Palestinians who marry Israelis to live separate lives or move out of Israel despite charges from human rights groups and Israeli Arabs that the law is racist.
The law would prevent Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip who marry Israeli Arabs from obtaining residency permits in Israel…
“This is a racist law that decides who can live here according to racist criteria,” said Yael Stein from the Israeli rights group B’tselem.
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have sent letters to the parliament protesting the law and urging lawmakers not to pass it, a statement from Human Rights Watch said.

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What they’re really saying when you read between the lines 🙂

Funny CNN Parody

It might not be up anymore by the time you read this, but it was located here as of shortly after midnight tonight (not sure how long it’s been up):
A New Vision for the Recording Industry

Our member labels will halt all plans to sell copy-restricted CDs. Restricting the use of CDs devalues the product, reducing the incentive for consumers to buy them. Also we believe that as time goes on, the public will realize, as we have, that due to the viral natural of distribution through file-sharing networks copy-restriction will never be effective at preventing online piracy but rather is indented to force our customers to buy the same music on multiple media.
We also vow to stop pursuing the companies behind file-sharing networks in court. In light of studies by reputable pollsters that have shown that most users of file-sharing networks reported that their music purchases increased in frequency, there seems to be little reason to continue spending millions in an attempt to shut down these services. Instead, we plan to propose to settle out of court in exchange for a royalty system based on a fraction of profit (only fair, given that these profits are derived in part from our products).
We will also stop lobbying politicians to impose draconian copyright laws on the American people. Last June, Rep. Rick Berman, who received more campaign donations from the entertainment industry than any other Congressperson, proposed legislation that would exempt rights-holders from anti-hacking law in order that they might exact vigilante-style justice on file-sharers. Initially we were thrilled at the display of the political might of our money, but later were sickened as we realized the implications for democracy in America. Morally, we cannot continue this manipulation of the political system.

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Nonprofit organization to oversee dot-orgs
As reprinted in the 10/15/02 San Francisco Chronicle from the NY Times.
The group that oversees the Internet’s address system has selected The Internet Society as the future operator of the .org domain. The Internet Society was chosen out of 11 bids to take over responsibility for .org addresses from VeriSign Inc., which agreed to relinquish .org at the end of 2002 as part of an agreement allowing the company to continue managing the lucrative .com domain.
The Internet Society, a nonprofit organization involved in developing technology standards for the Internet, has established a separate nonprofit organization, the Public Interest Registry, to serve as the .org operator beginning Jan. 1, 2003.

Ashcroft sings on CNN…

UFOs in D.C. See the Washington Post story by Steve Vogel:
F-16s Pursue Unknown Craft Over Region.