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I imagine that The State of the Union Address Drinking Game is the only thing that could make me enjoy watching W’s address tonight. That and making fun of him (and drinking 3 times!) when he stumbles on 5+ syllable words… 🙂
Convicted “computer criminal” Kevin Mitnick’s parole ended Monday, finally allowing him to use a computer for the first time since 1995. Can you imagine? As the Wired article points out, when he last surfed the Web was mostly text, and Mosaic (the precursor to Netscape Navigator) was pretty much the only browser. I think it’s cool that his first surfing was done live on Tech TV’s program Screen Savers with “legendary hackers Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, and Emanuel Goldstein, publisher of the hacker quarterly 2600, a vocal supporter of the long-running ‘Free Kevin’ campaign” as guides.
In a cruelly ironic twist, on Tuesday, one day after his parole expired, “two federal appellate courts ruled Internet prohibition was too broad a punishment for computer criminals. The Internet is as essential as a phone, the courts said.” Now that just sucks…
Slant Magazine present its list of the 100 Greatest Music Videos. It’s way Madonna-heavy for my tastes, and I admittedly have an ‘80s bias so more recent entries are a little foreign to me, but overall I think they’ve compiled a pretty good list. I’ll have to go through it more thoroughly and bitch about some missing ’80s classics… 😉
Have you ever been stalking a deer, only to have it suddenly spooked by the blinding glare of a page from the Book Of Deuteronomy? Well, worry no more, as a camouflage Bible geared to outdoorsmen is in the works at Thomas Nelson Publishers. Now you can be at peace with God and kill His creatures at the same time!
South Korean researchers, tired of the inaccuracy of robot vacuum cleaners, developed a solution: they installed a cruise missile guidance system into the vacuum cleaner, allowing it to measure its position with optical and infrared sensors that compare images with those in its memory. I guess the dust bunny warhead is optional…
In today’s surreal news, “Whiplash the rodeo monkey earned his spurs this week at a stock show in Fort Worth, Tx., according to a Local 6 News report.” (with video!)
Through sustained editorial pressure I we have forced the CEO of the RIAA to announce her resignation.
Visit X-Entertainment and download fifty ‘80s commercials! There are a bunch of classics here; stop reading this and go there now!
I’ve said that for a while now, but last night’s game was yet another strike against him. Last night’s Lakers 108-104 loss to the Rockets in overtime was primarily due to a flagrant foul called on Shaq. And what was Shaq’s contrite response? “A whole bunch of people who paid a lot of money had to see a game that was decided by someone who doesn’t make a lot of money. That’s unfortunate.” I guess to him it’s always been all about the Benjaminz, cuz he ain’t got no skillz…
Do you trade music through filesharing online? If so the RIAA now has a new legal precedent to bring charges against you. As another sign that 1984 is approaching, a judge in Washington has ruled that Verizon Internet must divulge the account name of a subscriber who used their backbone to download songs using Kazaa. The RIAA and the Republican controlled government are teaming up to put an end to the notions of public domain and fair use. The recent decisions in the Supreme Court and this right-field interpretation on the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act put control of innovation, adaptation, and individual rights squarely in the hands of a few needy… I mean greedy corporations.
