Musings and rants about politics and geekery with a distinct Chicago flavor.
The RIAA is suing one of Moby’s fans. He’s not pleased about it.
Wow, this is kind of weird. Coke is going to use GPS positioning to track the winning can in a prize! (Um, so they’ll be able to figure out which garbage can it’s been thrown in?)
Far be it from me to criticize someone putting too much effort into a timeline, but I think this guy put way too much thought into this …
Evidently, part of a marching band performance involved a Paris, TX high school student running across a field waving a Nazi flag. It was evidently historical in concept, but it was still damn dumb, especially since, HELLO, it was the start of the Jewish New Year?
Wowzers. Droooooooool.
And, once more, droooooooooooooool. I WANT A G5!
What to do if you’re ever dropped in the middle of the Sahara, or faced with burning lava, or …
I ride elevators to and from work every day. This is so true.
John Perry Barlow, a man whose ideas I strongly respect: “[T]he Internet is counterproductive to peace. [...] You vent online and then you dust your hands off in satisfaction and that’s the last you do.” A very fascinating interview … go read this guy, you won’t be sorry.
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This is a tale that is right out of 1984: it is an extremely frightening tale of the FBI using the USA PATRIOT Act to really f—k with some journalists. And, of course, check out what Slashdot has to say about it.
If you are an identity thief, make sure you don’t steal the identity of a sex offender. (Heh heh heh … )
Ah. Dubya’s uncle, Uncle Jonathan, likes to give out remote-control fart machines. No, seriously. (Why am I not surprised?)
Milk and cereal, milk and cereal …
If you like the surreal, and you work in an office, a good site. 
Do you remember me kvetching about Verisign breaking the Internet? Well, now they’re going to break the electoral system. Huzzah. 
Damn! (That’s a good ‘damn.’) Howard Dean + great Internet minds (e.g. Lessig, etc.) = good.
An interview with the creator of Google News. Apparently, September 11 inspired its creation …
I especially love the part about the comic book actually Jimmy Neutron: “Cindy’s pants are goin’ down!”
About 0.001% of worldwide file swappers are taking the RIAA’s “amnesty” offer. Such a resounding success!
*snicker*
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Well, I’m using a new LiveJournal client; let’s see how I like it. I need something that’s updated a bit more than iJournal, the one that was officially linked on the LiveJournal page.
I’m sorry, but I can’t help but be gleeful when an entity who I strongly disagree with repeatedly shoots itself in the foot. First, the RIAA sued a 12-year-old girl. Now, it sued a 66-year-old grandmother who owns a computer that can’t run Kazaa (Mac, hurrah) and who was a major newbie and hadn’t even tried to download anything. Boy, they are just doing themselves wonders in the public relations department, aren’t they?
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Dell is ripping off Apple. The “Dell DJ” is the Apple iPod. The “Dell Music Store” is the iTunes Music Store. Come on.
“Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!” (John Ashcroft? No, actually, Big Brother from Apple’s old “1984″ ad.)
That’s a hell of a lot of corn.
One good prank deserves another, evidently. But they evidently did far worse … he gave out their bureau’s number, they originally gave out his home number. Classy as always, FOX News.
Sometimes good things happen.
Jesus!
An article from today’s New York Times, about Columbia:
“It was Tuesday, Jan. 21, five days after the foam had broken loose during liftoff [note from Mike: remember, the Columbia didn't blow up until February 1], and some 30 engineers from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and its aerospace contractors were having the first formal meeting to assess potential damage when it struck the wing.
“Virtually every one of the participants — those in the room and some linked by teleconference — agreed that the space agency should immediately get images of the impact area, perhaps by requesting them from American spy satellites or powerful telescopes on the ground.
“They elected one of their number, a soft-spoken NASA engineer, Rodney Rocha, to convey the idea to the shuttle mission managers.
“Mr. Rocha said he tried at least half a dozen times to get the space agency to make the requests. There were two similar efforts by other engineers. All were turned aside. Mr. Rocha (pronounced ROE-cha) said a manager told him that he refused to be a ‘Chicken Little.’
“The Columbia’s flight director, LeRoy Cain, wrote a curt e-mail message that concluded, ‘I consider it to be a dead issue.’”
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A good chuckle from today’s Sun-Times: “R.B., a Columbus, Ohio, reader, wants you to know he is against picketing but doesn’t know how to demonstrate it.”
Apple may be redesigning their logo. If so, yuck.
“Sum ‘Pincerna’ nominatus, Famulari … nunc paratus!”
George Plimpton has passed away.
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The “Mini Pops” kids sing a medley of ABBA songs. Like the archive maintainer notes, it is really quite disturbing to hear a bunch of little children sing “gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight.” Hell, the entire thing is disturbing. (Okay, editorial note: that link is not going to work until he puts up tomorrow’s link, but I’d rather put that up because it’s a permalink, as opposed to a link to the main page which changes daily.)
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I like Howard Dean. I like Dennis Kucinich. And I’m quite happy that I’ve got a Democratic primary shaping up where more than one candidate is attractive. But any candidate that says “[Rush] Limbaugh’s full of shit” is someone that I’m going to watch a hell of a lot more closely.
Alanis Morrissette’s last words at her concert in Peru: “Thank you, Brazil!”
Fake website + sexy yet underendowed photos = yeah, SURE it’s going to them.
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“Hey, you whipper-snapper! Back in MY day, we had decent authors! None of these newfangled Rowlings or Kings. Children read good DECENT authors like Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling and James Thurber! Gawddamnit!” — paraphrase of Los Angeles Times commentary by Harold Bloom
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If you check out one link, check out this one, but you’ll need QuickTime. But it’s amazing. It’s a panaroma of the Tribute in Light at Ground Zero …
Hey, yes! Disney finished Destino, the six-minute short they worked on with Salvador Dali! Don’t miss the one still that’s posted with the story.
A 1,500-pound prehistoric guinea pig. I just keep hearing these deep basso profundo versions of modern guinea pig sounds … *squeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaak*
If you live in New York, or even if you don’t, you might really dig the Forgotten NY website. And these people explore abandoned buildings …
Renders like crap in Camino, but here’s a link to the Global Rich List. Makes me feel a little bit better about my salary.
Watch a Nightline special on the PATRIOT Act, online. What’s amazing, more than the heartening site of Koppel’s semi-disgust, is Barbara Comstock, the Justice Department spokesperson. She is just so perkily sure of her mindset, assuring Americans they don’t need to worry unless they’re terrorists. (”Suspected terrorists.” “Sorry?”)
It’s … stealth disco!
Oh, YEAH. Didn’t we just do a peachy-keen job in Afghanistan?
This is a very, very interesting article about the images and event that has been actively censored in post-9/11 coverage: those who jumped. Also censored because it was uncomfortable: Tumbling Woman, by Eric Fischl.
The Space Exploration Act of 2003. Here, here.
Latest favorite tagline: I got a dog and named him ‘Stay.’ When I called him, I’d say, ‘Come here, Stay!’ After awhile, the dog went insane and wouldn’t move at all.
I’m not a fan of Michael Moore: I was before, for his very well-crafted anti-Bush vitriol, until he pulled this last November. But I caught this open letter he wrote to Gen. Wesley Clark on another website (I can’t remember which, perhaps Salon or Slate, so I’ll begrudgingly link to Moore’s website), and must agree with him: the prospect of a Bush-Clark debate has a lot of potential and would be hellishly fun. I’d love to see how Bush would handle the A.W.O.L. issue in such a debate.
Okay, so, here’s the deal: if you have a hero who is the Kikkoman Soy Sauce Fighter, then you have villains who are a banana and a frozen shrimp who have their own musical number. That’s just how it goes.
I just imagine putting a bar of this out in a bathroom and then watching people’s reactions as they casually pick it up, begin sudsing, and then have the inevitable reaction …
A webpage with some of the more amusing video clips I’ve seen. Unfortunately, requires Windows Media Player. Check out the Landau, Funny Cats, Home Improvement, TechTV Blooper. This one was obviously serious and not funny, but still quite interesting … I wonder how it turned out.
It’s Angle-Grinder Man!
Proof that automatic Web-based translation isn’t always the best way to go. Typing in “Does anyone actually visit and read this website?” yielded “All the equal ones that really reads to the presence and this site of the Web?”
Very clever: Howard Dean + Apple’s “Switch” Campaign = Site.
Some interesting ideas about technological innovations that could be made with the democratic political process. It’s interesting. A little weird, and, well, I don’t know, but it’s good there are people thinking about how the status quo could be improved. It’s a serious effort to address some of the real problems existing with our current democratic process, and for that, at least, I applaud it.
Evidently, Homes & Gardens considers their November 1938 article about Hitler’s summer estate such valuable intellectual property that they demanded they be pulled off the Web. Story.
Do you remember Cypher in “The Matrix”? The actor has a very cool website with a very creative URL.
Here is an interesting article about the computer imagery involved with the surgery performed on those two conjoined twins. I know, I haven’t made it sound that interesting, but it actually is pretty revoluntionary.
The Adventures of SARS the Cat.
*snort*
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Amusing mock-up.
I was shocked and saddened by John Ritter’s death. I’m now saddened again at ABC’s decision to continue the show, although I can’t say I’m surprised. When lately has a corporate entity made a decision not designed to wring every bit money out of one of their products? The show will most certainly suck very badly.
A.V. Phibes has a new comic up.
What if the real world was more like the cartoon world? I bet you can guess my favorite.
They’ve discovered the the cause of the common cold. Not the cure, the cause.
Why don’t we nuke hurricanes? Your tax dollars paid for the answer, so go read it.
As a Mac user at home and a Windows user at work, this columnist nailed it.
Remember that wonderfully sweet crack about a “really good reality show for gay people” being “five gay men dying of AIDS” that I mentioned? Here’s a bit more on it. Not surprisingly, the author’s a proponent of one of the nuttier campaigns I’ve read about, the idea that you can “cure” homosexuality.
Weird yet fun comic #1: It’s Supply Side Jesus!
Weird yet fun comic #2: RIAA raids!
What if Frodo had used MapQuest?
Wow. You know, sometimes, I don’t know if there’s a god. And I still am not sure. But natural beauty like this sure works on convincing me …
VeriSign has pretty much taken over the Internet. I’m not kidding. Go to your browser and make a typo, or type some sort of nonexistent website. It’s going to go to http://sitefinder.verisign.com, and give you a Verisign-spammy error message. No matter where I go on the Internet, people are PISSED as hell. Verisign doing this broke one important spam test — whether the mail exists or not. And it’s causing a lot of collateral damage. Slashdot story, and petition.
If you’re not a techie, you should understand this: what they did pretty much is a fundamental change to the way the Internet works. And it was done without discussing anything with the community, and it was done to benefit one company and one company only. It is perhaps the most egregious act of corporate disrespect for the Internet that you have ever seen, and it is going to make a very, very big hubbub over the next few days. And if you value the independence of this brave and still relatively new communications medium, and don’t want to see it become a nasty playground for corporations only, you need to keep your eye on this story.
And, on a lighter note, the wit and wisdom of the 1960s “Batman” series.
Robin: “Gosh, Batman, this camel grass juice is great.”
Batman: “Beware of strong stimulants, Robin.”
An article about how Bayesian spam filtering is making it really, really, REALLY, really hard for spammers to spam. *insert very unmanly tickled-pink giggle here*
This excerpt from a recent Ladies’ Home Journal interview of Dubya and Gal strikes me as being right up there with the callousness of the infamous “let them eat cake” quote. Hey, I mean, about 3,000 people died that day, but let’s not forget what was foremost on the President’s mind that day: how they must’ve looked in fuzzy house slippers and unkempt from sleep. CRAP. I’m movin’ to Canada, I frickin’ swear …
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“Dear America: Thanks for all the money. Sorry about your kids. — Halliburton Oil.” From Boing Boing.
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LifeSavers 5-Flavor Roll, 1935 - Present: Lemon, lime, orange, pineapple, cherry.
LifeSavers 5-Flavor Roll, 2003 - : Raspberry, blackberry, watermelon, pineapple, cherry.
Article.
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I don’t have anything but the vaguest memory of the characters of “G.I. Joe,” but, nevertheless, at the risk of sounding very judgmental, I just really didn’t need to know that people felt this way bout them.
Ick.
Liked this column of Richard Roeper’s.
Now, how many times is this particular search actually going to turn up results in a Google News search? What an odd world we live in sometimes …
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A few other goodies from Zay N. Smith today:
“A lawyer in Egypt announced he will sue the world’s Jews, seeking reparations for gold, jewelry, cooking utensils, clothing and silver ornaments taken during the Exodus from Pharaonic Egypt, as recounted in the Old Testament.”
“White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan referred to a $1 trillion deficit over this fiscal year and next as ‘manageable’ midway through the second week of National Humor in Business Month.”
A rather amusing $200 bill.
Make your own silly putty.
In case you were curious, 100 sample citizenship questions from the INS.
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Steve Lutz, TeeVee: “Because if there’s one thing I always felt emanated from John Ritter, it was a basic decency. It’s why he was so likeable onscreen. Jack Tripper was a horny lech, but you knew he would sooner die than let Janet and Chrissie down. And you knew the reason Jack was like that was because John Ritter was like that. You could see it in his eyes.”
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Boy, I just really sucked at this.
Bon Jovi is releasing their greatest hits in both original and reworked form. This actually sounds interesting … I didn’t like all of their stuff, but you have to love stuff like “Bad Medicine” and “You Give Love a Bad Name,” and I’ve always been a fan of remixes …
It’s, er, one or two days after he died, guys. Little respect, please. Frankly, they really should just do the honorable thing and end the series. The season hasn’t started, they can do that.
Ohio, interestingly enough, is re-ratifying the 14th Amendment.
It’s official. Halliburton is getting about $2 billion from their sweetheart contracts with the government that Cheney negotiated …
This is what a California recall ballot looks like.
The comic strip Mallard Filmore usually has a fairly Republican stance that I don’t enjoy, but I though totday’s commentary was rather clever: “Texas congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee is upset that more hurricanes don’t have black-sounding names … Ms. Jackson Lee is reportedly almost as upset as she’d be if a white person were to suggest that there is such a thing as a black-sounding name.”
And, for some balance, I gotta say, I love today’s “Tom the Dancing Bug.”
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And, in case you were wondering what I meant about stupid f—king mindsets that will hopefully be incomprehensible to a later generation:
“To me, [Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is] not a reality show about gay people. A really good reality show for gay people would be five gay men dying of AIDS.” — Julie Millam, executive director, Montana Family Coalition
More.
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Wow. Kinda puts my salary in perspective.
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I finished Boss, by Mike Royko, today. It’s easy to compare RIchard J. Daley (the first Daley, not his son, the current mayor) to America … definitely full of bluster and self-interest, an immensely powerful figure accustomed to imposing its will on all those around, but nevertheless an accomplisher of great good. Were that we a country of better people … but it is a very generational process, and God willing, we’ll find ourselves better. Look at the evils (racism) and the misconceptions (sexuality) that were perfectly acceptable to our forefathers. I hope that someday my grandchildren will look back at the people of my time with great puzzlement, entirely unable to understand the mindsets involved …
A blogger and Mac software developer has a shocking experience about gullibility and spam …
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In case you ever wondered.
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(Prepare for a very long-ass, non-’link blog’ post.)
Well, the second anniversary of September 11 is about to roll around. This time next year, the Republican convention will be in New York, specially moved so that Bush can be in New York campaigning at Ground Zero three years after the tragedy. I think that sort of move pretty much cements me as a lifetime member of the anti-Bush brigade.
At 7:46 am, American #11 hit the north tower. At 8:03 am, United #175 hit the south tower. At 8:38 am, American #77 hit the Pentagon. At 8:59 am, the south tower collapsed. At 9:28 am, the north tower collapsed.
Most of the above happened while I was completely out of touch, on a subway traveling southbound into Chicago.
I was pretty much in the dark until about 8:20 am or so, after the two towers were hit; I usually don’t have the television or radio on when I’m getting ready for work. I heard someone talking to another person about it on his cell phone, and I said, “Excuse me?”, shocked, and turned around. This caught the attention of a few other people, and he told us that the Towers had been hit by planes … needless to say, more than a couple cell phones were whipped out. Thanks to the ‘cell phone’ net that was quickly cast, we learned pretty quickly that the Pentagon was hit shortly after it happened.
I walked into work, and they had a television there … I walked in literally a minute or two after the south tower collapsed. I tried to go back to my desk and do some work, but couldn’t concentrate. We soon heard an announcement from the firm’s managing partner telling people that while the firm wasn’t officially closing, anyone could go home without it being deducted from their vacation days. I tried to stay a little longer, but couldn’t … being in downtown Chicago was a little freaky, and my nerves were getting too jumpy.
I took the subway home, and watched news for the remainder of the day. It was a very effective definition of ‘information overload.’ I tried to ascertain the well-being of a few New York-based friends, one of whom didn’t return my call for a few days and promptly worked me into a heart attack (I finally left him a semi-panicked black humor “do me a favor and call me so that I know you’re not DEAD!” message, to which he finally responded). He mentioned that he had actually been on the NYC subway going through the World Trade Center subway station about a half-hour before the first plane impacted.
My family was worried about me living in Chicago, understandably. If I remember right, I told them I was considering leaving, but at the moment didn’t see much reason to … if anything was going to get hit, it would have been the (evacuated by that point) Sears Tower, which was very far from where I lived. I pointed out that they weren’t going to aim for an apartment building eight miles away from downtown, and that I was safe.
That’s all I can recall about that day so far … I remember being proud of my fellow Americans for a while. Ann Coulter and Jerry Falwell began to break up that feeling of unity pretty quick, though.
“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.”
— conservative columnist Ann Coulter, September 13, 2001
“The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way — all of them who have tried to secularize America — I point the finger in their face and say ‘you helped this happen.’”
— Rev. Jerry Falwell, September 13, 2001
But for a while, people lined up nationally in huge, huge lines to donate huge amounts of blood. We didn’t need it, unfortunately … but for a while, we were expecting huge fatality counts, weren’t we? I remember people bandying about 6,000 and 7,000 and 10,000 … the final count was 3,025, I believe. 2,792 for the World Trade Center, 189 in Washington, and 44 in Pennsylvania.
Here’s an incredibly thorough timeline.
And, if you want to be seriously freaked out … guy on the ‘Net by the name of Xineohpeol posted a ‘prophecy’ on August 31, 2001 entitled “911″ saying … well, I’ll just point you to a Google Search on it.
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God bless you, Sally Baron! “Oh, Bush, he’s such a whistle ass!” I’m going to laugh about that one for a while.
This sounds like an Onion parody. But it’s not: RIAA sues 12-year-old girl. Yup, it’s true.
(And, a recent development: they’ve rushed to settle. They’ve convinced this public-housing family to fork over $2,000. Aw. Don’t they have hearts of frickin’ gold?)
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Okay, I just need to evilly chuckle here …
DMNews
The Online Newspaper of Record for Direct Marketers
Dave Barry’s Humor Column No Joke to ATA
Sept. 09, 2003
By: Scott Hovanyetz
Senior Reporter
scotth@dmnews.com
Syndicated columnist Dave Barry’s Aug. 31 article on telemarketers may have been in jest, but it’s been no laughing matter to the American Teleservices Association, which blames the article for jamming up its toll-free number.
Barry’s article, titled “Ask not what telemarketers can do to you” in the Miami Herald where it was originally published, included the ATA’s toll-free telephone number and invited readers to call and “tell them what you think.” Hundreds of newspapers also published the article, which was distributed by Tribune Media Services.
The article generated thousands of phone calls to the ATA number, said Tim Searcy, ATA executive director. As a result, the association switched the number, which it formerly answered live, to a voice recording. The recording advises callers that the organization is unable to take the call because of “overwhelming positive response to recent media” and asks that they leave a message.
Some of the calls were from people in the teleservices industry offering their support, he said. Others were negative, and some contained profanity.
The ATA received no warning about the article from Barry or anyone connected with him, Searcy said. The association first learned about the column when it received calls from fact checkers at about 100 newspapers checking whether the phone number was correct prior to printing the article.
Though meant as a prank, the Barry column has had harmful consequences for the ATA, Searcy said. An ATA staffer has spent about five hours a day for the past six days monitoring the voice mail and clearing out messages.
Nevertheless, Searcy said the effect on the ATA has been minimal and that it hasn’t complained to Barry or taken follow-up action.
A spokeswoman for Tribune Media Services said efforts by Tribune Media to contact Barry’s representatives for comment were unsuccessful yesterday.
“I certainly respect First Amendment rights,” Searcy said. “Those are the same rights we’re fighting for right now.”
Calls appeared to slow near the end of the week after the article initially published but seem to have surged again this week as more newspapers printed the Barry piece, Searcy said. He said he expected the calls to last another few weeks and had no plans to change the ATA phone number.
“If it continues for a greater period of time, we might have to choose another solution,” he said.
So, let me get this straight. Their lines are jammed with people giving them an “overwhelming positive response” to Barry’s column?
Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuureeeeeeeee …
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The Supreme Court of the United States of America. Judges. Granters of presidencies. Wearers of black. And … opera performers?
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Pretty cool picture of Hurricane Fabian.
Did you watch Inspector Gadget when you were young? If so, did you ever wonder what Dr. Claw looked like? Wonder no more.
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Neil Gaiman wrote about something I did today, calling it a “remarkable thing.”
Consequently, I am now doing the Snoopy dance with insane, manic glee. And am very happy.
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Apple’s prices in 1977.
Rest peacefully, America! The Idaho Bureau of Homeland Security has been formed! Hoo-ah!
The Brick Testament has now covered “The Law.” Visit and read it. It’s worth it. The one about newlyweds is particularly humorous …
A very nice review of “Scrubs.” And it made me realize that I had indeed seen Sarah Chalke before on “Roseanne,” and, indeed, I had never even thought she looked familiar, she immersed herself in this new character so well (as the article suggests).
It’s official: there are no Mac OS X viruses. [My sister pointed out in a comment to this entry that there have been comments that the columnist's methodology was flawed.]
I really, really want a G5!
On September 21, 2003, at 1:57 pm (Central), the Galileo will crash into Jupiter … Slashdot story and NASA countdown.
Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupercow! Actually, this is a little sick, if you read about it. They’ve genetically altered some cows so they can produce nearly 3,700 gallons in a single lactation. (Eeek!) (Conversion courtesy of Google Calculator.)
I’m not normally one to think tattoos are cool, but damn, these are good tattoos.
The normal-to-12-year-old-AOLer translator. (Too bad you can’t get one of these to work in reverse.)
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http://www.donpixel.com/video/?v=030822061503
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Interesting that Snopes.Com appears to have its political bias become rather evident. Original. Changed. Analysis/commentary.
Someone whose LiveJournal I follow rather regularly, A.V. Phibes, just posted a “best of” entry about an old love interest of hers, Sparky Del Rio. It’s worth reading … very, very surreal and very, very funny.
Not a joke: Ozzy Osbourne doing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game“. Of course, that tune bears the same resemblance to the actual song as Bush does to an actual President …
I read this and had a brief moment where I thought of Marsha from The Brady Bunch going, “Oh, my nose!”
This is a little sick, I think. 1,800 people die per day who have at some point in their life served in the military. They only have 500 buglers on duty. Solution: hire more buglers? No. Solution: create an artificial bugle.
You know the “five-second rule,” wherein if you drop something edible on the floor, if you pick it up within five seconds, it’s “safe”? Someone did a scientific study on that.
*chuckle* Something Awful’s summary of a fictional new “Star Trek” series. (It doesn’t seem to be that far off!)
Star Trek: Space Adventures In Space (Sci-Fi) - Gene Roddenberry’s corpse is raped again to produce yet another undead fetus of a science fiction series which will offend hardcore Star Trek fans while simultaneously not appealing to anybody else. Certain “creative liberties” are taken by the writers of Star Trek: Space Adventures In Space which allow them to create the most exciting and action-packed tales this side of the Nebulon galaxy! For example, the Klingons are now all Germans with British accents and the Vulcans participate in a sport called “Mazeball” which is exactly like baseball except it’s called “Mazeball” and has Vulcans instead of pitchers. Also, women don’t wear shirts in space, producing sexy futuristic results. When Captain Cooldude and the crew of the SS Awesomeprize are threatened by a new and futuristic race of creatures named “The Moglins,” who are humanoid in shape and appearance but the camera uses the blue filter whenever showing them, it’s a race against time and the stakes are great - the future of the Federation! The good news: the producers of Star Trek: Space Adventures In Space have made a deal with the viewing audience that for every Neilson point they drop below 2, they’ll show a main character getting naked in the Holodeck and having sex either in or with a lawn chair. The bad news: the first character to agree to this is Captain Cooldude, played by Lance Hendrickson.
A neat quote brought to my attention by one of the blogs I follow:
“First they came for the verbs and I said nothing, for verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns and I speech nothing, for I no verbs.” — Peter Ellis
I’m seeing a lot of disturbed reaction to this “creationist science fair.” Looking through the site, however, I’m fairly sure this is a hoax.
Who says Apple knowledge base articles can’t be funny?
Well, crud.
Joe Panoliano — Cypher from “The Matrix” — has one of the better actor websites I’ve seen …
My first reaction to seeing this photograph: HOLY CRAP! What the heck happened to him?
Um … 11 billion pages, huh? This, too, merits a “holy crap” reaction. It’s obviously still in beta — frankly, I’d even say alpha.
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I really don’t know if I can get my head around these calculations …
Clever bit of sentencing …
I swear to God, they’re not rabbits, they’re tribbles …
That’s my dad …
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Tonight was the very last time “Buffy” will ever air in its first-run slot … the rerun of the series finale. It was good solid, well-written fantasy television that was resoundingly popular … its presence will be missed on the prime-time schedule. “Enterprise” certainly isn’t going to fill the “well-written” slot … oy.
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Ah, there is justice. Evidently Sen. Lieberman is pretty much getting booed wherever he goes. It’s not too surprising. The man is pretty much a Republican campaigning as a Democrat. I really don’t see why he just doesn’t switch sides …
Very, very, VERY interesting psychological analysis of George W. Bush.
The outcome of this childhood was what psychologists call an authoritarian personality. Authoritarianism was identified shortly after the second world war as part of research to discover the causes of fascism. As the name suggests, authoritarians impose the strictest possible discipline on themselves and others - the sort of regime found in today’s White House, where prayers precede daily business, appointments are scheduled in five-minute blocks, women’s skirts must be below the knee and Bush rises at 5.45am, invariably fitting in a 21-minute, three-mile jog before lunch.
Well, shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
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After looking at the trailer, it appears that “Underworld” is a Romeo and Juliet tale with Juliet being a vampire and Romeo being a werewolf … although I don’t know as it has the same ending, so perhaps it’s premature to liken it to the great Shakespearean tragedy …
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Amazing that a convicted pedophile is still producing popular entertainment in Hollywood without being shunned … in this case, Victor Salva, the writer-director of Jeepers Creepers 2. I refuse to see it, but this critic explains why Salva’s pedophilia comes through in the film’s sequel very clearly.
Of course, look at how few articles covered Salva’s conviction: check out articles mentioning his name in connection with the film (86) versus articles mentioning his name and either the word “molester” or “pedophile” (6).
More information can be read here. I find it amazing that this guy continues to work …
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