Weekly Review
Some of my favorite gems from the geniuses at
Harpers weekly review:
The Computer and Communications Industry Association released a report warning that the government's growing reliance on Microsoft operating systems and software was exposing federal computer networks to "massive, cascading failures." The author of the report was fired the next day by his employer, a consulting firm that does business with Microsoft.
The recording industry let it be known that it was promoting a "stealing is bad" curriculum for the nation's schools that will include classes on the history of copyright and games such as "Starving Artist," a role-playing game in which children pretend to be musicians who no longer receive royalties because their work has been copied on the Internet.
Six thousand Segway scooters were recalled because they tend
to throw their riders when the battery gets low. President Bush was photographed falling off one of the $4,950 scooters in June, though he had simply neglected to turn it on.
Charlton Heston was named as the first recipient of the Charlton Heston Prize.
* Rami, 9/30/2003 12:01:53 PM
