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I can’t believe people are still talking about this. Does anybody care? Did anybody care last year? How about the year before? There’s one. Yes, you in the fifth row: Can you tell us what year she died, because I can’t remember back that far. It was 1996? Great, thanks.
Honestly, can’t Larry King find some real news to report? He should get an interview with this guy. And huzzah to Reuters for updating their web site to look like part of the 21st century.
I’m not really a fan of professional basketball, but I thought that this story of triumph over adversity would have universal appeal. Now that Shaquille O’Neal’s big toe is all better, he is expected to return to play on Friday. No doubt the struggling Lakers are glad that he has overcome his critical injury and is now able to return to his duties of taking up the entire court with his massive girth, occasionally dunking, and missing all of his bricks free throws. Hey, maybe this will mean no more stupid Burger King commercials! Alas, that would be too perfect…
In a case that should be a new benchmark for frivolous lawsuits, “lawyers have filed a class-action lawsuit against McDonald’s on behalf of New York children who have suffered health problems, including diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity.” Pretty damn stupid, right? Wait until you hear about some of the plaintiffs: “a Bronx teen who ate every meal at McDonald’s for three years while living in a homeless shelter” and “a 13-year-old boy from Staten Island who says he ate at McDonald’s food three to four times a week and is now 5-foot-4 and 278 pounds.” Why the judge didn’t laugh in those lawyers’ faces, explain to them what the term “parental supervision” means, and throw some French Fries at them I just don’t understand…
Read this review of Harry Potter and the Chamber Of Secrets, not to hear how great the film is, but for this summary quote: “We’ve accidentally allowed a retarded monkey to rule America, but otherwise it’s not such a whimsical place. Perhaps works like this can help set that to rights.” Word. Although retarded monkeys everywhere are offended…
Blogger is not playing nicely with my template. This page will look pretty shitty until they fix it.
Update: The page finally looks right, but the problem with templates is still there. Maybe the folks at Blogger will look at my reported issues and find a fix that doesn’t require the screwy workaround I had to kluge to make everything look right.
These sculptures of aquatic creatures made from hubcaps are amazingly detailed and intricate.
I’ve been lauding Mozilla’s ability to block pop-up and graphical banner ads for some time now. However, many companies are switching to far more annoying animated Flash ads that can’t be disable conventionally. Have I got an application for you! jTFlashManager allows you to disable and enable Flash on the fly, at least if you use Mozilla or Netscape. IE users will have a slightly harder time, but there is a work-around. I refuse to use IE unless absolutely necessary, though, so I hope that features like these will start to convert the people who haven’t seen the light. 😉
Yup. God Bless America. 🙂
We knew our geography, dammit! I find results from a recent National Geographic survey very disturbing:
The society survey found that only about one in seven – 13 percent – of Americans between the age of 18 and 24, the prime age for military warriors, could find Iraq. The score was the same for Iran, an Iraqi neighbor.
Although the majority, 58 percent, of the young Americans surveyed knew that the Taliban and al Qaeda were based in Afghanistan, only 17 percent could find that country on a world map…
The survey asked 56 geographic and current events questions of young people in nine countries and scored the results with traditional grades. The surveyed Americans got a “D,” with an average of 23 correct answers…
Thirty-four percent of the young Americans knew that the island used on last season’s “Survivor” show was located in the South Pacific, but only 30 percent could locate the state of New Jersey on a map.
Something has to change, because as John Fahey, president of the National Geographic Society points out, “If our young people can’t find places on a map and lack awareness of current events, how can they understand the world’s cultural, economic and natural resource issues that confront us?” That and we’re just looking pretty stupid here…
