January 24, 2003
January 22, 2003
January 17, 2003
A sharp history lesson
A man in England has apparently committed suicide with a guillotine.
I'm about to pass out from refraining from making really bad jokes about this.
January 16, 2003
More fun for bored bloggers
Which tarot card are you?
Yeah, it's kind of weird and the questions are redundant, but it's still a kick.
Besides, you don't have any fan mail to answer, so why not click and take it now?
[Link via Very Black.]
China blocks BlogSpot
ZDNet is reporting that China has blocked BlogSpot, a blogging site where a lot of us got our starts. It's also a service that still powers some of us.
Regardless of how one feels about BlogSpot, this is still a sad story. Go read.
January 13, 2003
More fun for bored bloggers
Don't feel like posting? Have you checked your stats too much already today? Well it's time for you to take this quiz!
Which Mulder Are You?
brought to you by Quizilla
[Link via The American Idle.]
January 08, 2003
' 'Cause when he got that feeling...'
... He needed sexual healing.
Really.
The doctor's diagnosis said so.
Kiss the girls good-bye
HBO will be abstaining from a seventh season of “Sex and the City” it was announced Tuesday.
The popular HBO series' end will coincide with the end of HBO's other criminally popular hit -- "The Sopranos." Considering these two shows made HBO a serious contender in the ratings game, breaking things off with "Sex and the City" probably isn't the smoothest move HBO could have made.
Eeewww!
"A 77-year-old German prostitute was mugged after leaving a brothel at the end of her night shift." That just sends chills down my spine.
January 07, 2003
Aim your headlights on this great headline
The copy editors at PageSix.com came up with a doozy of a headline for this latest story on Martha Stewart: "CHRYSLER SLAMS DOOR ON MARTHA DEAL."
Evidently, Chrysler and Martha had been cooking up an advertorial deal and since Martha's legal battles have heated up, Chrysler has cooled on the idea.
It's a juicy read, damn near succulent. Well, it's not quite all that, but go read anyway.
This just in
Anna Nicole Smith's cups have runneth over so much that she's been Blackwell-listed on Mr. B's Worst Dressed List.
This really doesn't come as a surprise.
What is kind of a surprise is that Mr. Blackwell hasn't updated his site since 1998 it seems.
Good thing this guy isn't a blogger.
January 04, 2003
Happy anniversary (?)
Drudge links to a story on Yahoo! (ugh) about the Internet's birthday.
It was on Jan. 1, 1983, that the 400 or so computers hooked to what was then called ARPANET had to switch to a communications protocol called TCP/IP, said Vint Cerf, the protocol's co-inventor.
It was TCP/IP that allowed multiple networks to coexist and permitted applications like the World Wide Web to develop and thrive. In other words, it made the Internet what it is today.
I tried to find a more in-depth story about this, but alas, this is all I could find. I still consider the 'Net to have been around for much longer than 20 years.
So do others.
Some, however, consider the Internet's age to be a more mature 33.
On Sept. 2, 1969, two computers at the University of California, Los Angeles, linked by a 15-foot cable, sent data back and forth, showing that the Internet could work.
And it does work. Thankfully.
News that's not 'fit' to print
Houston, you have a weight problem.
Men's Fitness magazine ranks America's top 25 "fattest" and "fittest" cities here, and Houston ranks number 1 among the fattest cities.
January 02, 2003
January 01, 2003
Fun for Bored Bloggers
Take the What Should Your New Year's Resolution Be? Quiz
This is about right ... My boyfriend might have some problems with it, though.
Bon Appetit?
This is so gross, but I guess it does pose one with the question: What is art?
I'm sorry, folks, but on any given day I'll take "Dogs Playing Poker" over a Chinese man eating a dead baby on television.
