We've updated the Submit News link to our permanent temporary bluesnews@abydos.com email address as our "normal" news address is having a pedicure or some such thing, and has gone AWOL again. We're hopeful that this will be cleared up quickly, but in the meantime if you really need to contact us, the alternative address is your most reliable avenue. We do have some progress towards creating a more fail-safe mail-safe, so hopefully this is one of the last times we'll need to play this silly game. While I'm on the subject of glitches, I'll work on another one. For the past couple of days, I am not able to see the second day's worth of news here using Internet Explorer, as the page ceases loading after the "eighth of a billion visitors" message unless I hit "escape." This problem is not reproducible by Frans or by me on different machines, so I can't figure this out. I've cleared my cache, uninstalled and reinstalled the last IE service pack, and even upgraded to version 6.0 with equal non-results, so I just want to make sure no one else is experiencing this before I go to the next extreme trying to address this. Update: In a rare fit of compound luck, both of these problems have now been cleared up.

Story of the Day: Rumsfeld Sold Up to $91M in Assets (thanks Luka). "The report showed Rumsfeld also owned millions of dollars worth of stock in computer graphics chip maker Nvidia, where he had been a business adviser before his Defense Department appointment." And of course now the U.S. Army is at work on a first-person shooter...
Story of the Day II: The Federation and the Governor's Race. Thanks Jamie Fullerton.
Story of the Day III: Larger Passengers to Pay Double on Southwest Air.
Follow-up: Thong-checking administrator demoted. Thanks SKLUZ.