News – He Who Defends the Indefensable (2/2)

General

In a pleasing move, chipmakers are going to ditch the gigahertz measure of their processor selling. Rather than a fun, but generally inaccurate and sometimes misleading number, computer buyers will have to dig a little deeper to find what will give them the performance they need.

Politics and spam. Tis the season where Bush and Kerry want to flood your inbox.

The UN says that fertilizers and sewage are choking off the life from the seas. It creates dead zones where the oxygen in the water is cut off, suffocating the sea life.

Today’s Papers has the US military taking responsibility for the deaths of two Iraqi journalists, special forces troops retiring, much over testimony before the 9/11 commission and more in the one page news.

Amusements

Suck My News #94: No Breakup Sex for Tom Cruise

Fark Photoshop Challenge: Photoshop this holy man up to his neck in God

Fark Photoshop Challenge: Overcoming this Farker’s fear of heights. Difficulty: No crosses.

Janet Jackson gets bleeped for saying Jesus.

Photos of Madrid cell-phone bomb that failed to detonate because the timer was set to 7:40 PM instead of AM – Thank goodness for stupid mistakes.