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Saturday April 26 2003

paper rock scissors

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if you're a big fan of the game paper, rock, scissors you should definitely check out the world rock, paper, scissors site, and read their advanced strategies. then head over here and play a flash version of the game.

new palm : tungsten c

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i have a pda. it's a casio cassiopoeia which runs on the pocket pc operating system. it's cool. it does everything i need it to do. i use it daily to keep up with appointments, cause i'm sooo busy, and addresses and to play games on when in meetings that i'm not really all that needed in except to warm a seat. but mine doesnt have bulilt in wi-fi (wireless internet).

this one does. and even if mine had wi-fi, which i could add with a $90 card, it doesn't have the nifty thumboard. it would be incredibly slow scribbling out emails or instant message or blog entries with the stylus. plus, it's smaller than mine. so if i had this one i wouldn't have to play games during those meetings, i could do any of the before mentioned much more productive things.

i like this new palm.

no show for o.j.

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it looks like neither of those reality shows i talked about earlier are gonna happen now.

Former sport and movie star OJ Simpson has confirmed he will not be taking part in a planned 13-part reality TV series on his life.

"I have no plans in any way to do a reality show even though people have approached me about it," Simpson said on Thursday.

news.bbc.co.uk

guess i'll have to stick with mr. personality

Friday April 25 2003

the price is right

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fan of the price is right? well i'm not a big fan either, but here are some clips of bloopers from the show. they're pretty funny. my favorites are at the top left of page 7 and top right of page 8.

zombo

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turn on your speakers and get ready to experience the coolest, most exciting and incredibly interactive website you'll ever see. it's absolutely amazing how the webmaster has created an experience for the user beyond anything i've ever seen. truely amazing!

new reality shows

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can you guess which one is the fake?
the o.j. simpson show or appointed by america : who will be the new leader of iraq?

Thursday April 24 2003

prime number bear

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a bit of profanity but a great way to visualize the importance of prime numbers and one man's creative way of... ok so it's just weird.

exploding veggies

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i knew there was some really good reason i avoided those things.

An Italian woman is recovering from shock after an artichoke she was peeling exploded.

She says the vegetable gave off sparks, then a small flame and then blew up in her hands.

ananova.com

Wednesday April 23 2003

senator santorum

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in case you've missed it senator rick santorum, a republican from pennsylvania is getting blasted in the news and most media for stating what the majority of the american public holds to be true. below is the specific part of the interview he's being hung for, follow the link to more of the conversation. AP is the associated press reporter.

AP: I mean, should we outlaw homosexuality?

SANTORUM: I have no problem with homosexuality. I have a problem with homosexual acts. As I would with acts of other, what I would consider to be, acts outside of traditional heterosexual relationships. And that includes a variety of different acts, not just homosexual. I have nothing, absolutely nothing against anyone who's homosexual. If that's their orientation, then I accept that. And I have no problem with someone who has other orientations. The question is, do you act upon those orientations? So it's not the person, it's the person's actions. And you have to separate the person from their actions.

AP: OK, without being too gory or graphic, so if somebody is homosexual, you would argue that they should not have sex?

SANTORUM: We have laws in states, like the one at the Supreme Court right now, that has sodomy laws and they were there for a purpose. because, again, I would argue, they undermine the basic tenets of our society and the family. And if the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does. It all comes from, I would argue, this right to privacy that doesn't exist in my opinion in the United States Constitution, this right that was created, it was created in Griswold -- Griswold was the contraceptive case -- and abortion. And now we're just extending it out. And the further you extend it out, the more you -- this freedom actually intervenes and affects the family. You say, well, it's my individual freedom. Yes, but it destroys the basic unit of our society because it condones behavior that's antithetical to strong healthy families. Whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, where it's sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family.

Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships. In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing. And when you destroy that you have a dramatic impact on the quality --

cnn.com

peta's plea

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do they actually think that this is going to work? or that it actually matters?

A leading animal-rights group has offered the town of Hamburg, N.Y., $15,000 in veggie burgers if it officially changes its name to "Veggieburg."

worldnetdaily.com

not a double murder

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the national organization for women (NOW) aren't really all that concerned with protecting women. in fact, they're not at all concerned about protecting pregnant women. it stands to reason that in the case of laci peterson and her unborn child, the killer should be charged with two murders. but NOW doesn't want that, cause that hurts their stand that abortion isn't murder.

The head of the National Organization for Women's Morris County chapter is opposing a double-murder charge in the Laci Peterson case, saying it could provide ammunition to the pro-life lobby.

"If this is murder, well, then any time a late-term fetus is aborted, they could call it murder," Morris County NOW President Mavra Stark said on Saturday.

dailyrecord.com

fullterton's finest

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shame, shame, shame

The incident occurred about 5:30 a.m. Feb. 1 when the four officers were called to the home of a woman who was suspected of having attempted suicide. The officers had been to the location before and found the woman in her bed, apparently unconscious.

One officer squatted near her face and passed wind and said, "This ought to wake her up," according to a portion of the memo made public.

ocregister.com

Tuesday April 22 2003

foreign animal sounds

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ever wondered what a chinese pig sounded like? how bout a finnish bird? well now you can find out.

gameboy advance sp...now showing movies

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i think i'll have to have a gameboy advance sp now.

Pocket PC Films will distribute Pocketainment's Pocket Pix Cartridge, which allows videos to play on Nintendo's GameBoy Advanced and GameBoy Advance SP.

The new adaptor is designed to fit into the device's plug-in card slot, and operates as easily as swapping out video games. The unit's advanced compression software enables it to fit up to 75 minutes of video and audio onto a standard 64-Mbyte Secure Digital flash card, the company said.

extremetech.com

the limitations on the video this can show are fairly significant. however, it is only a matter of time before someone will come up with a way to make it play bigger and better things.

Monday April 21 2003

pizza hut and burger king capture baghdad

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apparently the remaining pockets of resistance aren't enough to keep out fast food.

Basra: Fastfood giants Pizza Hut and Burger King have set up their first franchises inside war-torn Iraq, even as many aid convoys waited on the borders for the war to officially end.

The arrival of the two restaurants - sited inside giant trailers on a British military base near Basra - won a rapturous welcome from soldiers, whose limited range of rations lost their appeal many weeks ago.

smh.com.au

time traveler outrage

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this is an outrage. i'm sure there's nothing really illegal at all about this.

IN NEW YORK, federal investigators have arrested a Wall Street whiz on insider trading allegations after he turned an initial $350 stock market investment into a portfolio valued at more than $800m in just two weeks.

Andrew Carlssin, 44, claims in his defence that he is a time-traveller who has come back from 2256, when it is common knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history.

scotsman.com

Sunday April 20 2003

hold the button

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if you think you've found the ultimate time waster...this site's much worse.

which monty python character are you?

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i was sir rob.

When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled!


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