Explosion in San Francisco According to KGO News, there was an explosion at 10:45 tonight, in a building on Van Ness Avenue at Washington Street. The condominium was under construction, and no one was inside when the top-floor explosion occurred. The blast is thought to have been caused by a space-heater which had been left… Continue reading

CNN.com In-Depth Special: Power Crisis CNN.com has a special report on the power crisis in California. A severe winter throughout much of the country has heated up a debate over soaring utility rates. In California the utility market is especially chaotic. Wholesale electricity prices there average $330 per megawatt-hour, 11 times higher than a year… Continue reading

Escaped convicts cornered Jeff Cheney: “The last two Texas fugitives have been cornered at a Holiday Inn just a couple of blocks from where their van was found earlier yesterday! They were headed right towards My Mom‘s house!” Continue reading

Truck Hits CA Capital Building, Explodes Shortly after 9:00PM Tuesday, an 18-wheel truck/trailer crashed into the California State Capital building and exploded. One witness reports that having seen the truck circle the building twice before intentionally ramming into it, and exploding. It’s unknown at this time whether the incident is a suicide attempt, terrorist act,… Continue reading

ZDNet: Dot-com layoffs hit New York Times “New York Times Co.’s Internet division is laying off 69 employees, or about 17% of its work force, the company said. The layoffs are expected to affect the company’s Internet properties including NYTimes.com, the Web site of its flagship New York Times newspaper; Boston.com, a regional site linked… Continue reading

U.S. Supreme Court Halts Recount in Divided Decision CNN.com: The high court voted 5-4 to stop a recount that had been ordered Friday by the Florida Supreme Court to address claims by Gore that some votes cast for him on November 7 were never counted. One dissenter, Justice John Paul Stevens, wrote that “the legitimacy… Continue reading

Florida Supreme Court Reverses Recount Decision The Florida Supreme Court has reversed a decision made earlier today by Leon County Circuit Court Judge N. Sanders Sauls to stop manual recounts. The decision was reached by a 4-3 vote. Recounts are to begin immediately. The court also ordered 383 votes to be added to Gore’s total,… Continue reading

Scour Exchange Shut Down Somehow I missed this. Here’s the first paragraph of a Scour, Inc. press release from November 14th: LOS ANGELES, Calif — November 14, 2000 — Scour, Inc., the world’s leading Internet search destination for digital entertainment, announced today it will voluntarily shut down the Scour Exchange community within 48 hours to facilitate… Continue reading

Russian sub rescue operation ends; no survivors found CNN.com: “Norwegian divers have found that a Russian nuclear submarine lying on the bottom of the Barents Sea is flooded, and an official says there’s no chance of finding any survivors. “Norwegian spokesman Captain Rune Fredheim said that meant the rescue effort was over at the site… Continue reading

Napster has been issued a temporary stay on the temporary injunction which would have forced it to shut down its servers. AP: “A federal appeals court panel has granted Napster a stay allowing the music trading service to stay online at least temporarily. “A federal judge had ordered Napster earlier this week to stop its… Continue reading