Am I just being dense, or is this file (http://headlinenews.cnn.com/QUICKNEWS/virtual/swf.headline.txt) two months old ? (Fri Oct 13 17:53:45 2000)

update it doesn't look like I am, since this is the file that the ticker points to... but if you wait long enough, you'll see what looks like an error in their regexps whenever one of the state headlines has an '&' in it. the headline gets truncated at the '&'!

update Il Papa JCWren has kindly contacted the CNN folks about the stale news & apparently they've had a hung ftp server for a month+. Wow.

update It looks like somethings gone all b0rken again: headlinecount=0&&headlineload=done

"There is no news. Go away."

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