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Saturday, January 11, 2003

Dan Rodricks in The Baltimore Sun:
Spotted another variation on the white-on-black Baltimore BELIEVE bumper sticker.
Attached to the rear window of a pickup truck parked outside a building on North Avenue housing a special police unit: BEHAVE.
posted at 10:05 PM

Cavalcade of Bad Bridal Fashion @ Going Bridal
I can't find my bouquet. I've looked everywhere for it!
posted at 7:56 PM

Family's Profits, Wrung From Blood and Sweat
New York Times, January 11, 2003
McWane Inc., one of the world's largest makers of cast-iron water and sewer pipes, is also one of the most dangerous businesses in America. The company has by far the worst safety record in an industry that, for three of the last four years, has had the highest injury rate in the nation. McWane has been cited for more than 400 safety violations since 1995, four times more than its six major competitors combined.
posted at 7:23 PM

Venezuela Crisis Complicates Iraq Situation, Experts Say
New York Times, January 11, 2003
"A few months ago everybody thought that if we went to war in Iraq oil wouldn't be a major problem, because there was enough spare capacity to make up for lost Iraqi oil," said Larry Goldstein, president of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation Inc., a research organization. "But no one then was contemplating lost Venezuelan oil."
"Now," he said, "we won't have enough spare capacity to take care of both those events."
posted at 7:16 PM

TiVo Press Release
The TiVo Home Media OptionTM will be available in Spring 2003 for a one-time fee of $99 to TiVo subscribers with Series2 units. Activating the service on additional TiVo units within the home will require a one-time fee of $49 per DVR. The Home Media OptionTM is a basic software download, sent by broadband or phone line to any TiVo Series2. To be notified when TiVo’s Home Media Option is available for purchase, consumers can sign up now at www.tivo.com/CES.
Once the TiVo Home Media OptionTM has been downloaded to the DVR and activated at the TiVo website, the DVR will be capable of linking over a network with either Apple or Windows PCs. Applications necessary for completing this network link to the PC can be downloaded from the TiVo website (www.tivo.com) once a subscriber has completed the TiVo activation process.
posted at 5:19 PM

Friday, January 10, 2003

EPA issues questionnaire to workers with puzzling questions (washingtonpost.com)
e.g., "I've often imagined being sexual with a friend, colleague or acquaintance."
posted at 7:20 PM

50 Reasons Lord of the Rings Sucks
23. The heroes are shown eating again and again, and yet no one ever goes to the bathroom throughout their entire quest.
posted at 6:39 PM

Chickadees
Imagine a bird that grows a brand-new brain every fall so it can remember all the places where it will stash tens of thousands of insects and seeds.
Imagine a bird that appears to make conscious decisions about when and where to store food.
posted at 6:21 PM

Thursday, January 09, 2003

Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus
See words in 3-dimensional moving relationship with each other.
posted at 6:31 PM

Gas-hogging SUVs aid terrorism, new TV ads say / Columnist Huffington starts campaign
An advertising campaign asserting that those who own gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles are supporting terrorism -- because Iraq, Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich nations that support terrorism benefit -- will begin airing in San Francisco and other major cities Sunday.
The 30-second spots are parodies of the U.S. government's provocative antidrug advertising, which argues that drug money benefits terrorists. The anti-SUV spots were produced by syndicated newspaper columnist Arianna Huffington and a group of like-minded people in the entertainment industry.
posted at 5:29 PM

Wednesday, January 08, 2003

Its End Near, Galileo Takes NASA on Wild Ride (washingtonpost.com)
For the hundreds of men and women who built, launched and cared for Galileo over the course of its long and productive life, Sept. 21 will mark the end of an era.
"People note things like when they got married and when they had kids during, you know, which orbit Galileo was on," said project scientist Torrence Johnson. "When we really get down to September, when the spacecraft is just going to go away, there will be a few moist eyes around."
posted at 4:10 PM

Monday, January 06, 2003

Stop Alien Abductions!
“Since trying Michael Menkin’s Helmet, I have not been bothered by alien mind control. Now my thoughts are my own.I have achieved meaningful work and am contributing to society.My life is better than ever before.Thank you Michael for the work you are doing to save all humanity.”
- Jon Locke

posted at 9:11 PM

Sunday, January 05, 2003

GOP never learns
"WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (AP) - A candidate for chairman of the California Republican Party apologized for circulating an article that suggested the nation would have been better off if the South had won the Civil War.
"I should have been more sensitive regarding issues raised in this piece and not included it in the e-mail,'' Bill Back, the current vice chairman of the state GOP, said Saturday." "
Translation of this facile non-apology: "I should have realized someone who wasn't a racist might get their mitts on this and raise a stink."
posted at 6:31 PM

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