- Over 100,000 people have already signed up for The Pirate Bay’s new anonymity service, Ipredator, designed to hide IP addresses from the authorities, the Bay's spokesman says.
- Blair O'Day had been around enough to know he did not want his only son to suffer the humiliations he had endured, simply because he hailed from the state of Iowa, and not New York nor Pennsylvania. The elder O'Day, despite these inane parochialisms, had achieved much success in business, for he was a hard-nosed son-of-a-bitch, whose sheer force of will propelled him to lofty heights and financial security. But, like so many fathers before him, he hoped his son's path would be eased. The way he figured it, Buzz would be sent to the finest schools. And when the time came for young Buzz to make a go of it, no Yalie, nor some half-cocked M.B.A. from Wharton, would be able to scoff at him. No. Buzz O'Day was going to be one of them.
