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Saturday, February 08, 2003

Bush/No Bush
About 30 naked women lay down in the snow in Central Park forming the words 'No Bush' in an event described as a 'nude political action photo shoot' in New York on February 7, 2003.
posted at 7:01 PM

I just spent the last fifteen minutes with a telephone solicitor from Fidelity Mortgage.

Most of the time they will simply leave me alone when I tell them I would like to be removed from their calling list. This one just wouldn't stop. I decided to waste as much time as possible with him.

After a couple of minutes of arguing that the call should end, I told him I'd like to speak with his supervisor. First it was going to take a minute or two, then he said the supervisor was on the phone with the district manager and it was going to take a long time. He said he could leave me a phone number, (513) 942-7373. Who knows whether it's actually the boiler room he's calling from, but here's the address he gave me, which matches the phone number according to reversephonedirectory.com:

FIDELITY MORTGE
481 Circle Freeway Dr
Cincinnati, OH 45246

Looks like it's in an industrial park.

Anyway, he eventually started telling me that he had to get off the phone, that he had to move along and make more calls. I said, you're kidding, you want me to hang up because I'm wasting your time? I held him for a couple of minutes after that, discussing time-wasting, rudeness, who has to say goodbye first, stuff like that. I wasn't mean or abusive to him, but I definitely wasted his time, which he had complete control over.
posted at 12:51 PM

Flustar.com
A map which indicates the current flu conditions across the nation, the difference between flu symptoms and cold symptoms, flu news and more.

posted at 12:09 PM

Friday, February 07, 2003

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Fossil find stirs human debate
Dr Clarke ... argues that the fact the hominid was not a knuckle-walker suggests chimps and humans are not as closely related as we thought.
It pushes the last common ancestor of chimps and humans much further back in history, he says.
posted at 8:50 PM

The Village Voice: CityState: Writer Blocked by Rivka Gewirtz Little
Cops, staff, and security descended on the crowd, and in some bizarro replay from the segregated South, white cops pushed black protesters out. "Linda Fairstein has blood on her hands," a woman yelled as cops moved her. "She's a criminal and a liar too," bellowed a man.
posted at 8:36 PM

Powell Without Picasso
When Colin Powell goes to the United Nations ... to make his case for war with Saddam, the U.N. plans to throw a blue cover over Picasso's antiwar masterpiece, "Guernica."
posted at 6:41 PM

A 38-State Nation
The map reducing the U.S. to 38 States is the creation of C. Etzel Pearcy, geography professor at California State University, Los Angeles. The new boundaries totally erase the 104 lines currently separating the 50 States. Each State's new name, chosen with the help of a poll of geography students, represents a physical or cultural aspect of the new territory. For example, Cascade (named after a major mountain range in Washington and Oregon), Cochise (named after the Apache Indian chief of Arizona), and Alamo (named after the mission in San Antonio, Tex.).

posted at 5:57 PM

Wednesday, February 05, 2003

BBspot - Operating System Debate Causes Domestic Standoff
As of news time, Mr. Harrington has physically removed the reset and power buttons from the computer and hardwired the computer's power supply behind the wall socket. A source close to Mr. Harrington who declined to be named reported him as saying, "Let's see her get past this. She'll either learn to reboot properly or she won't be able to use it at all." Mrs. Harrington was unavailable for comment, but was last seen in the basement in the vicinity of the breaker panel.
posted at 5:26 PM

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