Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. -- Bernard Berenson Go Dave: DAVE'S BURNING OVER PARIS DAVID Letterman is seething after Paris Hilton's publicist convinced her to cancel a hotly anticipated appearance this week on Letterman's show. "The reason she canceled, she hired a publicist, this no-good, beady-eyed, weasel thug putz, publicist got ahold of her and forced her to cancel her appearance," Letterman raged. "I'm telling you, this guy is really lower than pond scum. This guy is, you know live bait? This guy is dead bait. You couldn't be oilier than this guy." Is Linux Desktop-Ready Yet...or Not? I had only two criteria: 1. My DVD player needed to work 2. My SMC 802.11g card needed to work Well folks, I can report that Linux is as useless on an off-the-shelf laptop as it was six months ago. Bombing Anywhere On Earth In Less Than Two Hours The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the US Air Force share a vision of a new transformational capability that aims to provide a means of delivering a substantial payload from within the continental United States (CONUS) to anywhere on Earth in less than two hours High-tech passport unveiled A NEW high-security passports featuring "floating" kangaroos and other anti-tampering technology said to help foil terrorists, people smugglers and other criminals, has been unveiled by Foreign Minister Alexander Downer. Tot locks up mum to watch TV TO have the television all to herself, a two-year-old girl in southwest Germany locked her mother in a bedroom, police said. Women inmates get paid makeover TAXPAYER are footing the bill for Christmas makeovers for a group of female Northern Territory prisoners, it was claimed last night. (C) Shouting Red Goanna Inc. A wholly subsidiary of Screaming Blue Wombat Inc. / Avenging Green Seahorse Industries