Daily Rotten Archives October 13, 2001 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Anthrax Plane Scare Associated Press | Submitted by: Soylent An airplane at SJC is grounded because an Arab passenger released a white powder into the A/C ducts, the plane was held on the tarmarc for two hours, reporters from local SJ channel 11 were kicked out of the airport. And now they are reporting it was merely "confetti". But does confetti really warrant a passenger getting strip searched? Read article... Russians admit it was a missile Jane's | Submitted by: Soylent When the Sibir Airlines Tu-154 from Tel Aviv was downed in the Black Sea, the U.S. stated the likely culprit as a Ukranian missile, but the Ukranians and Russians claimed terrorists were likely responsible. It now turns out that indeed it was a misfired missile, an S-200 Angara surface to air missile, filed by Ukranian forces. Oops. Read article... Girl Hackers? San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: Deth Vegetable "Gweeds, one of Marcelo's male hacker friends [and a rotten.com staff member!], confirms this. He wants to see more women hackers, and he tells me excitedly about an all-female-authored distribution of the operating system Linux called Cervix. "I like the idea of Cervix, because it says that girls can do this," he added. "It's like an all-girl band." Read article... Carlos The Jackal to Elope Reuters | Submitted by: Soylent The man who formerly held Osama bin Laden's position as most wanted terrorist is now an aging man in his 50's who has been jailed since 1994, when he was captured in the Sudan before he could undergo an operation on his testicles. And now, Carlos is in love, and he wants to get married! Read article... CBS Considering WTC Comedy E! | Submitted by: xase Just when you thought you couldn't have a sitcom based in a German prisoner-of-war camp, CBS is considering a comedy based on the aftermath of the WTC collapse. The series revolves around a couple who hook up after their spouses are atomized in the terrorist attacks. No decision has been made, yet. Read article... Anatomy of a Holy Terrorist Tehelka | Submitted by: Soylent A great article on Bin Laden's background and motives. "Osama bin Laden's icy violence has a certain genealogical validation: his father, having built the mosque at Mecca where the Kaabah is located, and the mosque at Medina, is doubly blessed. Osama sold himself to the conservative Saudi royalty by doing restoration work on the Dome of the Rock at half the cost price (and still, inexplicably, like Milo Minderbinder in Catch-22, made a killing)." Read article...