22 Aug 06 Net Crap (8/22)

• 365 tomorrows » I Won’t Let Her Kill Me!
  “Death by reheated pizza–how poetic. Someone should write a story about that!”
  (tags: scifi funny)
• Register: Dear Sir Bill Gates: invoice enclosed
  “The fact that they feel able to ignore this sort of complaint shows clearly that Redmond regards itself as above criticism. The word for this behaviour is ‘arrogant’. It will come back to haunt you.”
  (tags: insightful microsoft)
• Reuters: Smoking cuts for classic cartoons after UK complaint
  “1,500 classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons, including old favorites ‘Tom and Jerry,’ ‘The Flinstones’ and ‘Scooby-Doo,’ to edit out scenes that glamorize smoking [...] The review was triggered by a complaint to British media regulator Ofcom by one viewer … “
  (tags: nostalgia cartoons whaddafuck weird censorship)
• Think Progress » Bush Now Says What He Wouldn’t Say Before War: Iraq Had ‘Nothing’ To Do With 9/11
  Reporter: “What did Iraq have to do with it?” Bush: “What did Iraq have to do with what?” Reporter: “The attack on the World Trade Center.” Bush: “Nothing.” Whoops. Looks like someone slid off the talking points.
  (tags: military dumbass video neocon politics)
• BBC NEWS | Middle East | Dangers await Lebanon returnees
  “[S]he found a 1,000lb Israeli bomb lying unexploded in her living room [...] the young boy pushed forward to stand reluctantly next to it while we get our cameras out and record the scene for posterity.” Excuse me, wait a minute, WHAT?
  (tags: whaddafuck photos dumbass)