21. May, 2003 - Moo, damnit!

• U.S. bans Canada beef after mad cow disease found last January. There’s no explanation for the delay. But the USDA are busy reassuring people that BSE won’t spread to the US. More on the Mad cow case in Alberta, pointer courtesy Mr. Cosh. [colby cosh]
• RIAA Radar is a tool that music consumers can use to easily and instantly distinguish whether an album was released by a member of the Recording Industry Association of America. Handy if you’re still buying CDs. [boing boing]
• There’s been a lot of talk [among the audio geeks, at least] about Apple’s new AAC compression format. Well, the AAC vs. MP3 comparision. Is it as good as CD? Not quite, but for many people, it’s good enough. Me, I can’t really hear the difference unless I turn many switches and knobs and stuff that’s generally more work than I go to just to hear some tunez.
• Pentagon changes the name of its new anti-terror surveillance system. See, it’s Terrorism Information Awareness now, so you’ll feel a lot better about it when you’re being spied upon, in spite of none of the details of the program having changed. You will feel better, won’t you? [fark!]
• Man Gets Ticket For Sitting On Milk Crate. The actual ticket reads unauthorized use of a milk crate. This dangerous criminal was sitting on it outside of the salon where he worked. [jim] [He was probably a terrorist. Definitely up to no good. Can’t have people sitting. Don’t you know there’s a war on? -DaveP]
• BBC correspondent defends Lynch documentary that says (among other things) that Kelly Lynch’s ambulance was fired upon by US troops the day before her rescue. Lileks [you’ll need to scroll down a bit] is not so convinced, and the InstaPundit collects tons of links if you want to investigate further. [fark!]
• In An appalling magic, Jonathan Freedland confronts [Ann Coulter] and recognises a truth about the United States today: Bush isn’t an aberration and Coulter expresses what many Americans think. And she’s cute.

Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek. Last updated on Wed, 21 May 2003 07:14:08.