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Month: November 2004

  • JFK Reloaded

    In the too-tasteless for words department, a new video game or interactive computer simulation that puts you in the rifle role as everybody’s favorite patsy, Lee Harvey Oswald. The demo is pretty pointless. But if you buy the full version ($9.99) you can enter a competition to when a cash prize if you can match […]

  • Completely Unsubstantiated

    Picked this up from Sam who picked if up from Trevor. A completely unsubstantiated, yet elegantly nightmare scenario: you read it here first: i predict that president bush nominates john ashcroft… to join the u.s. supreme court as soon as a vacancy opens. chief justice rehnquist is hanging on to life by only a thread, […]

  • ATTN: Directors and Choreographers

    There are few things that can throw me into a blind rage like shitty staging. Earlier in the week I’d read the Chicago Reader‘s picks which included the Dance Chicago festival featuring a piece performed by a man with no legs. He’d lost his legs in a manufacturing accident when he was 19 and happened […]

  • My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss

    I’m a big fan of comeuppance. I think it’s from being an early fan of The Twilight Zone as well as being raised Catholic, a religion summed up with the phrase Just you wait, you’ll get yours. And that is why I loved My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance. You see: I like seeing shallow, vaccuous […]

  • Man's Body Found in Freezer, 13 Years Later

    Talk about boxes of baking soda: Geraldine E. Kelley made a deathbed confession to one of her children in recent weeks that she had killed their father 13 years ago and disclosed where to find his body… Officers found the remains… in two garbage bags inside a 6-by-3-foot freezer, which was locked and bound with […]

  • French Soldiers Fire On Unarmed Civilians in Ivory Coast

    Graphic, 100MB MPG movie. (via Metafilter)

  • Target.com Listing for Anal Massage

    Obviously a sysadmin joke – but guess they didn’t count on the a search for ‘anal’ picking it up. Enjoy the joke before they pull it. Or if they have, here’s a full size screen capture. Heh. ‘Add to Wishlist.’

  • Opening the Valve

    Okay, I gave in and got a copy of Half-Life 2. The download and start-up was tiresome. I had to wait 2 hours for the game to download and then had to reboot my machine three times before the game started – along with a patch from Valve. I’ve only played the first 15 minutes […]

  • Bill Clinton, Peter Jennings Interview

    Paula Zahn just said: Do you think the press went too far in going with unsubstantiated rumors? TV off.

  • Senate Hearings on Pornography

    Mary Anne Layden, co-director of a sexual trauma program at the University of Pennsylvania, said pornography’s effect on the brain mirrors addiction to heroin or crack cocaine. Bullshit. So is chocolate and caffeine and cigarettes. And Ritalin. She told of one patient, a business executive, who arrived at his office at 9 a.m. each day, […]