February 2007 Archives

The Great Firewall of China connects to a server within China, and lets you know if your site is blocked or not, per the government's internet censorship.

Dummy explosives were placed in transparent bags and kept at different locations inside the shopping mall in clear sight of passing crowd.

Dorothy Parker in her own words. Audio clips of Ms. Parker reading her own work in 1964, near the end of her life.

"Inexplicably, a man in a Superman costume could be seen walking around the car, but he did not stop to help the driver or any of the victims."

Thanks to the Boston Police bomb squad, this is one traffic counter box that won't get a chance to kill anyone.

So... My site was down for a couple weeks. Not my fault. Normally when it goes down, the host is back up in a couple days max, so i waited per the norm for things to go back to normal. after 3 weeks I said "Ok, time to move it", which I did. Sadly, I also had my linux box freak on me and I lost my local backup of the site. So I'll be starting again from scratch until I can get access to my previous host.

Which means, I'm forced to pick a new site style for now. I was thinking of doing it, but I guess I'm forced to now. Oh well.

I'm sorry to do this to you, but you must share my agony. Let me know if you get #41 (I have to skip it every time).

Is Porn out of Control? As the internets exploded, Clinton didn't seem to care.. Should the government now focus on shutting down the industry? Some loudly think so.

Vanity on the rise among young people today. Findings from a recent San Diego State University workshop shows that a couple decades worth of self-esteem parenting, may have engendered an entire generation of narcissists.

If your idea of an ideal romantic partner is a deceased canine and you live in Michigan, well, better start thinking about internet dating instead. A state judge has rejected the argument that "a dead dog is not an animal and therefore cannot be violated against its will."

Here's some video from a Current TV segment about a biodiesel boat race to circumnavigate the globe. The boat featured in the video runs on a mixture of fuel from various sources -- 4 gallons of the stuff was produced from liposuctioned butt blubber (a hundred grams of that came from the captain's own backside). Welp, there's a renewable fuel source America has plenty of. Here's a blog post with more info about EarthRace.

Disney is launching a line of $1,100 - $2,900 "Princess" wedding dresses. Talk about life-cycle marketing -- from tiny costume dresses you can put your toddler in all the way up to the wedding gown. All that's missing is a burial tiara and sceptre to take to your grave.

Parks and Resorts Chairman Jay Rasulo said he expected the dresses to be a hit among brides to be, especially given the increasing popularity of weddings at Walt Disney World, the site of about 2,000 nuptials each year.

"If you do 2,000 weddings a year, think of all the people who say, 'I can't, I have to get married in my hometown, my own church,' but they certainly may still have that princess dream as part of it," Rasulo said.

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