The Little Pound Coin that wanted to be a Million via rebecca. 02:21 pm

jason's 15 min of fame have arrived, photos of his car are on Car And Model's website. it's the yellow one 2nd from the right. 12:09 pm

The Actual Facts about the Mcdonalds' Coffee Case. i'm much too lazy to actually do more research myself, but i certainly never heard this side of the case. 11:04 am

reading through the first installment of gamespy's 25 most underrated games of all time, i realized to my horror that i'd never played wizardry 8. the reason being that wizardry gold (which came out after wizardry vii and so technically could have been thought of as wizardry 8 even tho it was actually just a jazzed up version of wizardry vii) has been sitting in our game box for the past, um, 7 years. naively, whenever i heard wizardry 8 mentioned, i assumed they were either talking about gold or wizardry for the ps2 (in and of itself a quite fun game). anyway, what it all comes down to is that i missed a really good game and am promptly rectifying that situation. 03:01 pm

The Bush Regime Card Deck. 11:33 am

i hadn't realized there was an actual term for it, but i wish i could stop Coprophagia in our dogs. they seem to think that the cat litter box holds special delicacies. thanks andrea. 10:58 am

80's Commercials. 05:52 pm

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Student cuts off penis and tongue after drinking hallucinogenic tea. i'm very curious as to why they couldn't be reattached. 01:09 pm

The Gospel of Supply Side Jesus. rofl. 01:06 pm

Court Rules Against Do-Not Call Registry. dammit. 09:27 am

California Moves to Ban Unsolicited E-Mail. we can only pray that it actually works. now, considering how much spam i get every day, i could make a fine living off of this. assuming i could find a lawyer... 05:15 pm

Not Science Fiction: An Elevator to Space 11:55 am

having just needed to search for a pizza place near home recently, google's new Search by Location hits the spot. too bad it's been /.ed so it's not working too well right now. 11:17 am

blogspot is now being used for advertising. while skimming through blogdex, i noticed a link to laura schlessinger's book. curious as to why people were linking to it, i checked out the trackback. the 10 links were all made by the same person "hank" using a wide variety of blogspot weblogs. the post directly under this obscure book link is an advertisement for his other blogspot weblog which is a innovative use of the weblog medium to create a "store".

while the twisted blog usage is mildly interesting, i'm more disturbed that the #7 link on blogdex is completely artificial. although it does explain the profusion of "talk like a pirate day" links. i think it's time to find a new aggregator. 06:22 pm

Horse, Blender, Car, Crockpot: Pick Your Gadgets. via rebecca. 05:48 pm

about a month ago i installed the latest google toolbar which has a wonderful popup blocker feature (along with a blogThis button if you're still using blogger). Anyway, the popup blocker was working great until recently stray popups started to appear. today i finally decided to track down the problem. google suggested that it was probably spyware causing it. so i downloaded SpybotSD. to my horror, i had about 150 spyware problems. most of them were trackback cookies, but some were evil programs and registry changes. if you haven't already, i highly recommend getting a tool like this. it'll clean up your system and block further problems. yuck. icky. bad. 01:09 pm

ok, so the Grand Canyon Monitor is quite stunning and made me drool, but what sane person would pay $17.5k for a monitor? 12:19 pm

Pride and Prejudices:

"Because the bitterest contradiction of all may be that this war was waged—first and foremost—to save face after the humiliation and suffering of September 11. It was meant to inspire awe in the Arab and Muslim world, as former CIA operative Marc Reuel Gerecht and others insisted it should be. And in that it truly has failed. Every day we look weaker. And the worst news of all it that it’s not because of what was done to us by our enemies but because of what we’ve done to ourselves."

MANties. hmmm. thanks andrea. 09:05 am

Oil services firm paid Cheney as VP 09:49 am

Camera specs take candid snaps. at least the sunglasses aren't nasty looking like most wearable computing. 09:33 am

more on an "animal" theme. (although technically the last post isn't on animals.) Lions 'close to extinction'. 09:30 am

'Dogging' craze sex disease risk.

"Dogging is an extension of "swinging" parties - and involves exhibitionist sex in semi-secluded locations such as car parks or country parks.

"We've talked to people who do this - they are having unprotected sex with nine or more people in a week."

Study: Sleeping Position Reveals Personality Traits. ok, i sleep in the freefall position, but i certainly wouldn't call myself brash and gregarious. 09:34 am

the more i read stuff like this, An Interview With Paul Krugman, the more scared i get. One thing that no one seems to talk about and something that i'd personally be interested in reading is what can we do to weather/survive a financial collapse like this. is it even possible? 02:24 pm

The Worst Jobs in Science. 01:27 pm

i'm not sure why it never occured to me before, but jesse ventura said on Real Time with Bill Maher last night that the reason the U.S. wouldn't legalize marijuana is because the drug companies want you to pay lots of money for their chemicals that do the same thing. 08:55 am

in other personal news, i'm on my third attempt at controlling my seizures with medication. first we tried increasing the gabitril i was already on. didn't work and made me depressed, tired, and generally icky. then we tried topomax which appeared to be working, but had a very nasty side-effect which involved emergency trips to the bathroom. no way i was gonna be doing that for the rest of my life.

so, i'm now taking felbatol. felbatol is a particularly nasty drug because it can cause aplastic anemia. they don't actually prescribe it very often because of this. except when you're running out of options. it's hard to say whether it's working on not but we'll see. 08:45 am

so i went and took my citizen test/interview last month. amazingly, i passed. i was positive that i would fail the civics test. i mean come on, how much history do you remember 20 years later? i'm not quite a citizen yet tho, i have to take the oath. in a couple of week myself and (probably) several hundred others will meet and the san jose civic auditorium to do just that. yay! i won't have to get a new photo for my green card and renew it every ten years. 08:39 am

gangstories. 08:33 am

Project Censored. the top 25 censored media stories of 2002-2003. 09:40 am

Eat More Dogs, Cambodians Urged. um. what can you possibly say about this? 08:46 am

'Three's Company' Star John Ritter Dies. I'm very sad to hear this. John Ritter was a huge, lovable part of my tv watching childhood. 08:45 am

Payment as phony as, well, a $200 bill. duh. 07:56 am

if accurate, this article: This war on terrorism is bogus is rather sickening. 09:29 am

andrea was good enough to point out that RedOctane does the same thing as gamefly but for $3 less. 08:39 am

gamefly is to console video games as netflix is to movies. i just wish i'd thought of it first. 05:34 pm