Month: November 2002

Most of you have probably played the game of making porn film names from real movies. Well, this page seems to have a definitive list, if that’s possible. Oh, and I’ll go out on a limb and will classify this as NSFW.

Slashdot is reporting that an animated Star Wars series will debut on the Cartoon Network in the near future. Apparently, it is set in between Episodes II and III and is being produced by Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter’s Lab, Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack), so maybe it won’t suck too badly.

If you are an astronomy fan, tonight is the night for you. The Leonid Meteor Shower will appear with an intensity not to be seen for another century. Rarely do these meteorites strike the earth, but NASA has provided us with a glimpse of what a 12+Kg rock can do to a late model American car when they do. Please make sure that you check out the hyperlink for the word “lucky” in the story. Those NASA guys do have a sense of humor.

Here’s a good link for spotting information and peak viewing times.

Jeffrey Jones was arrested on child sex charges. Character actor Jones was perhaps best known for his role as Ed Rooney, Dean of Students in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Pretty sad if it’s true…

Former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman is suing Atlanta Journal-Constitution journalist Bill Wyman for using his real name. Apart from the obvious stupidity of this claim, the bassist was not even born Bill Wyman, changing his name from William George Perks in 1964.

ESPN presents its list of the 10 most controversial plays in sports history. Although I totally agree with their number one choice, when three seconds were put back on the clock during the 1972 U.S. vs. U.S.S.R. Olympic basketball game, I still have a personal grudge against that little kid that interfered with Orioles’ outfielder Tony Tarasco in the 1996 ALCS, depriving the Orioles of their chance to knock out the Yankees.

In yet another blatantly asinine attempt at “copy protection,” record labels are test-releasing DVDs that become unreadable a limited time after being exposed to air. The New York Times (free registration required to view the link; sorry) writes:

In the promotion by Atlantic Records, retailers in the southern United States will offer a free sample DVD to buyers of a CD by Nappy Roots, a hip-hop group. Once the packaging is opened, the disc will work for only eight hours before being made unreadable by a dye sandwiched between the DVD’s layers that interacts with air, leaving it opaque.

I hope consumers will denounce this for the farce that it is. Not only is the technology ripe for misuse and confusion, but think of the waste generated by all of the DVDs rendered useless; AOL freebies are bad enough! The discussion at Slashdot is worth reading if you feel like venting…

For some Friday Fun, try Radial Pong.

Michael Jackson looks really weird. Just thought you’d want to know.

In case my previous post wasn’t enough to convince you, Mozilla is set to add another feature to make it that much more attractive: spam filtering. I use Eudora as my e-mail client right now, andcontinually update my own manual filters, but they only do so much. If this new predictive filtering works right, it would make things a lot easier. The feature is still in version 1.3 Alpha, so keep an eye out for it in future versions while the bugs are ironed out.