Thu Tu’s Blog

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/22/law.order/index.html
This article describes the writer’s addiction to Law & Order. My siblings and I can relate. When we’re at home, we can watch hour after hour of L&O, especially on TNT.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/US/Side_crash_test_040419-1.html
Hopefully, we won’t have to ever use side airbags, but some recent tests show the importance of side airbags in some cars when hit on the side by an SUV or pickup truck.

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/SciTech/ap20040420_1079.html
There’s a vulnerability at the very heart of the Internet, which could be brought down by hackers who know how to exploit the flaw. Now, why would hackers want to bring down the internet? Isn’t the internet as important to them as… water? Wouldn’t knocking out the Internet be the same as poisoning the water [...]

Gifts to councilmen raise ethic’s questions
In this article, they raise ethics questions because Stanford gave free tickets to council members. The value of the tickets, however, were below the legal limit, $350.
Palo Alto is such an ungrateful city. I don’t know officially, but I have a feeling that it would be nothing without Stanford University.
As [...]

Bye Bye barriers - Residents protest removal of traffic barriers, take home pieces as souvenirs 
This story highlights how obnoxious and pathetic some Palo Alto residents are. First of all, some of these people want to barricade streets with barriers. It is so annoying how these people think they own everything. The streets belong to all [...]

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A bunch of college newspapers got into trouble for their April Fool’s editions. That’s too bad. When I worked on my high school newspaper, that was one of my favorite editions… to read and to publish. The article mentioned that one of the problems was that the student newspapers didn’t have professional [...]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/04/05/laney/index.html
Deanna Laney stoned her two sons to death because she said God commanded her to. She was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity.
So, was she insane because she believed in God? Or, if God exists, was Laney insane for following a crazy command from God? If it was God’s [...]