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I haven't seen anyone mention this yet - the list is a *suggestion* to local markets, something of a red flag list for stations to review what they're playing. There's NO BANNING going on here people - a simple scan of some factual news sites would have settled this. Why Slashdot is running unverified reports coming off of FuckedCompany.com, I can't imagine.

Here's a link with better info for the curious.

Clear Channel suggests 150 songs for stations to avoid

Movies and TV aren't alone in reviewing the content of their entertainment in the wake of last week's terrorist attacks. Clear Channel Inc., which owns over 1,200 stations including seven in the Twin Cities, is circulating a list of 150 songs its local programmers might consider avoiding for the time being.

Clear Channel managers here say the list is merely a "memo from the main office," not something they must adhere to.

Many of the songs on the list are heavy-metal warhorses like "Sweating Bullets" by Megadeth, "Seek and Destroy" by Metallica and a half-dozen cuts from AC/DC including "Safe in New York City," "Highway to Hell," "TNT" and "Shot Down in Flames."

Some of the 150 song titles "suggested" by Clear Channel are baffling. John Lennon's "Imagine" and The Youngbloods' "Get Together" would seem to be precisely the sort of message people might like to hear in difficult times. Likewise, who could possibly object to Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World"? Several Beatles songs -- "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," "Obla Di Obla Da" and "Ticket to Ride" -- are also on the list.

"You know what this is?" says KEEY-FM's operations manager Gregg Swedberg. "It's a bunch of people sitting in a room saying, "Think of anything, anything, anywhere that might possibly be a little too much, that people might be sensitive to.' This is just another idea we get. Something for us to 'consider.' Nothing more than that."

Swedberg adds that K102, a country-music format, returned Garth Brooks' early '90s tune, "We Shall Be Free," to its rotation in reaction to the crisis. Rob Morris, program director for Clear Channel-owned KDWB-FM, said he expected few if any changes to his station's playlist. ABC-owned KXXR-FM, aka 93X, did not respond to several calls asking what changes they might be making to their playlist.

The St. Paul Public School District was basically unaffected as well, said Judith Franklin, assistant director of management information systems for the district. One ``ILOVEYOU'' e-mail was received and deleted immediately. The district does not use Microsoft programming to handle its e-mail. That also spared Washington County offices.

I read an article today on The St. Paul Pioneer Press about the influx of females, young and old, on the Internet and how they are just not interested in any of that icky technical stuff. They even had a teacher saying that her female CS students blame themselves if something unexpected happens when they are using a machine. This attitude was, disappointingly (I always liked the Pioneer Press), presented as "just the way it is with those girls."

I'm a female and have been programming, designing and screwin' around on the Net for many many years now. What I see is women and girls using the Internet the same way they use telephones (talking, chatting, gossiping, blah blah blah) and television (Ally McBeal, Providence, "Why would I want to watch the /news/? Yuck!"). If that is what females want with the Internet, more power to them, but, keep in mind, that perhaps they are stereotyping themselves just a little bit too.

Sorry about the other garbled version.

According to this article, SGI isn't selling all of Cray Instead they're just selling the vector lines, and keeping the parallel lines (BTW try not to cringe too much at the scaler/scaler mix-up in the article).

So SGI is keeping the T3E line, which has most of Top 500 Computers that Cray still had on the list. Plus, the T3E line meshes much more closely with the SGI Origin line anyway.

So SGI's sale of Cray for $100 Million is not quite as bad as it seems.

at least in out local (twin cities) paper, that is. then again, so is some wrestler dying in some pay-per-view wrestling stunt, so take it for what you will. anyway, the article in our local paper is a lot longer than the abc one. here's the url it basically confirms what everyone else says: that 40 lbs. isn't even close to the actual weight (more like 60 lbs.), plus it was spliced together on a 3 ft. reel at the time. it also suggests an interesting use of the film: selling frames at $20 a pop (x 190,000 frames)

A letter referencing Slashdot was quoted in today's St. Paul Pioneer Press. I suppose some non-geeks will come by now and look at what we're saying...