A wisecracking, prankish Bush

Journal Record, The (Oklahoma City), Feb 15, 2002

Conan O'Brien on NBC's Late Night demonstrated the principle this way: "The U.S. Senate has announced they are going to subpoena Ken Lay and make him testify. Apparently Lay received the subpoena this morning and then, out of habit, immediately shredded it."

You won't find the barbs aimed at the laid-off workers, or those who lost their nest eggs. "Jokes tend to get directed at the people at the top who are very easy to revile," Mintz says.

How does your music look in the dark?

SAN FRANCISCO (NYT) -- When engineers and designers at Fujifilm developed their latest recordable CD, the process was not dominated by the usual technical issues. Instead they debated what parts should glow in the dark. In the end they decided to give the new discs a glowing pattern. "We just thought it was a lot cooler," said Scott McNulty, director of marketing for the computer products division of the company's United States operations.

Users of Fujifilm's Glow Discs who have a CD player with a transparent lid will see "a 3-D, almost spherical'' image emerge from the pattern when the disc is spinning and the lights are out, McNulty said. Glow Disc CD-Rs will each hold 80 minutes of music or 700 megabytes of data and come in packages of 10 that sell for $10.