01 Feb 04 LiveJournal — 02/01 08:45 PM

A judge issues a gag order in a sex toys case. This is amusing: a gag order in a sex toys case. What is further amusing is that the D.A. asked for it and the judge granted it with no seeming sense of irony at all …

The case itself is very disturbing, though. I can’t believe they’re trying to enforce an obscenity law that outlaws devices “designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs.” What are we living in, the 18th century? Scarlet letter! Scarlet letter!

Evidently, my cousin Terry, if he’s still in Tikrit, may be watching the Super Bowl in one of Saddam Hussein’s palaces.

TeeVee informs us, “Super Bowl XXXVIII is the longest name, Roman numerally speaking, until Super Bowl LXXXVIII in 2054.”

Evidently, if you want a copy of RealOne Player without all the advertising crap, you can get it off the BBC’s website. They made an agreement with Real … pretty cool …

DC and Marvel tell small little comic, “We own the word superhero. You wanna lawsuit?”

Good design tips, even if the site itself violates the last one …

It turns out that the “Dean scream” story was an entirely manufactured story! He was using a directional mike that didn’t reflect any of the crowd noise … so the recording the media played over and over again didn’t reflect that Dean was yelling over the crowd and was barely even audible, the crowd went so nuts. So, in other words, the media assisted in derailing the Democratic frontrunner for absolutely no reason at all. God-fucking-DAMN it.