Ben and Jerry's free cone day today 12 PM to 8 PM, and Baskin Robbins free scoop night tomorrow (Wednesday, April 28th) 6 PM-10 PM.

Food for thought about what would've happened if Bush had tried to preempt 9-11.

North Korea says standoff with US at "brink of nuclear war:

Washington is demanding the complete, verifiable, and irreversible dismantling of North Korea's nuclear prorgammes, both plutonium and enriched uranium schemes, before it will offer concessions to the impoverished state.

Pyongyang denies having a uranium programme and has said it will freeze its plutonium weapons programme in return for simultaneous rewards from Washington

Isn't that extortion? (from Agence France-Presse, via Yahoo! Singapore News).

Oh joy:

HAMBURG, Germany (AP) - The only person convicted in the Sept. 11 attacks was freed by a court Wednesday, pending the outcome of his retrial on charges of aiding the Hamburg al-Qaida cell that included three of the suicide pilots

(via myway).

Study: File-Sharing No Threat to Music Sales:

Internet music piracy has no negative effect on legitimate music sales, according to a study released today by two university researchers that contradicts the music industry's assertion that the illegal downloading of music online is taking a big bite out of its bottom line

(from Washington Post, via Yahoo News).

News of the weird: Airline Halts Plan for Lip-Shaped Urinals (from Reuters, via Yahoo News).

One year anniversary: this blog started one year ago right now.