Suspects in Dartmouth Killings Accused of Targeting Others
HAVERHILL, N.H. (AP) — The teens accused of stabbing two Dartmouth College professors to death talked their way into the couple’s home and killed them in a plot to steal their ATM cards and PIN numbers, an indictment unsealed Tuesday charges.
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Ahhh…Los Angeles traffic reporting
There’s a SigAlert stacking up traffic on the Four Level and a jackknifed big rig putting a tight squeeze on the Orange Crush. The El Toro Y, meanwhile, is feeling the pressure from some heavy-duty police activity, while the Downtown Slot is filling up because of an overturned roach coach in the No. 3 lane.
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Supreme Court to Intervene in Internet Copyright Dispute
The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to intervene in a fight over copyrights, deciding whether Congress has sided too heavily with writers and other inventors.
The outcome will determine when hundreds of thousands of books, songs and movies will be freely available on the Internet or in digital libraries.
Groups challenging copyright law argued that justices should protect the public’s right to material.
VERY IMPORTANT CASE! Let’s hope that Lessig wins….

Happy Valentine’s Day!
XOXOXOXO
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cheese racing?
Don’t ask, just click

Borowitz Report: U.S. CONSIDERS MILITARY ACTION TO REMOVE SKATING JUDGES
President Issues Ultimatum to ÎAxis of CheatersÌ
Reacting to the outrageous awarding of the Olympic gold medal to a pair of Russian figure skaters over a more deserving Canadian pair Monday night, President Bush said today that the U.S. would not rule out military action to remove the figure skating judges involved.
ÏThe judges from Russia, China, Poland, and Ukraine represent an axis of cheaters,Ó Mr. Bush said to a standing ovation in a special joint session of Congress. ÏAnd donÌt even get me started on the judges from France.Ó
Mr. Bush did not set a timetable for a military campaign to remove the sneaky judges, but left little doubt as to his resolve.

Eve Andersson on the downfall of Arsdigita.
The technical and managerial incompetence of the VCs and those they hired drove the company into the ground. All but 10 of the 240 employees were fired, laid off, or quit. All of the $40+ million in venture capital was squandered. The monthly operating profit turned to loss as more talentless executives were hired who threw out the company’s old, useful products and put their blind faith in engineers who spent millions building complicated software that solved no business problems.
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Britney Spears to speak at MIT.
“I would like to restrict my talk only to literary issues in the art and history of music,” Britney told reporters. She added, “I would like to introduce people to the Three-B model of western music history. The Three-B model states that the three greatest musical composers of all time are: Bach, Beethoven, and Britney. Other composers are just details but I would give them a few footnotes in musical history.”

More food! Must go…
fried dumplings (like gyoza) at 99 Allen
My question on the best Cuban sandwiches in NYC came with a bunch of good replies.
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ArsDigita closes shop, sells assets to Red Hat
02/07/2002 10:39 AM
By Jeff Miller
ArsDigita, a privately held software company in Cambridge, was shut down on Tuesday. At least some of the companyÌs assets, primarily from its professional services division, will be sold to Red Hat Inc., an open-source Linux software company in Durham, NC, according to sources close to the company.
At least half of ArsDigitaÌs 119 employees lost their jobs entirely, sources say. Those let go were given two weeks of severance pay. Other employees will join Red Hat.
A Red Hat spokesperson declined to comment.
Philip Greenspun, an MIT faculty member and an early developer of Web applications, founded ArsDigita in 1997. In published reports, Greenspun has been quoted as saying that he led the company to profitability and $20 million in revenue on a seed investment of $10,000.
The company developed open source, database-intensive Web content management software which it distributed freely. ArsDigita made money by selling services related to the software platform, though it planned to shift toward selling proprietary enterprise collaboration software. The collaboration product was never launched.
In early 2000, ArsDigita took $35 million from two venture capital firms: Greylock, now located in Waltham, and General Atlantic Partners in Greenwich, Conn.
Greylock was also an investor in Red Hat before it went public.
Greenspun and his investors publicly butted heads in April, when Greenspun attempted to regain control of the company. Investors responded by filing suit in a Delaware court. The two sides settled out of court in June, and Greenspun gave up his fight for control. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but Greenspun has since purchased an RV and an airplane.
Dan Keshian, a venture partner at Greylock, became ArsDigitaÌs CEO in the second half of last year to lead the company to profitability. Keshian was not present when the shutdown and sale were announced to employees.
Keshian could not be reached for comment.
…”was not present” eh? VC’s who don’t take responsibility for their actions are spineless and cowardly. As much as I am glad I did not go to work at ArsDigita, I’m sad to hear of it’s demise.
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Six Priests Suspended After Claims of Sex Abuse
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston said today that it had suspended six more priests from all assignments because of accusations that they had sexually molested children in the past.
The suspensions come two weeks after Cardinal Bernard F. Law, in announcing a policy to report past accusations of abuse, said there were no active priests in the archdiocese who had been accused of that.
This whole thing gets worse and worse….