At least according to Fox Sports. I actually have seen all those commercials, and they’re all quite good, but some of them listed I wouldn’t consider “all-time greatest.” You be the judge. Link from Fark.
Month: January 2003
Urge Your Representative to Co-Sponsor the DMCRA
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (a foundation that everybody who is a technology user of any sort should support) is asking for your support on a bill that I wholey stand behind as well. From their site:
Representatives Rick Boucher and John Doolittle recently re-introduced the Digital Media Consumers’ Rights Act (DMCRA, H.R. 107), which would enact labelling requirements for usage-impaired “copy-protected” compact discs, as well as several amendments to 1998’s infamous Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
Use your voice to protect your digital fair use rights! After several years on legislative defense, this is your opportunity to let Congress know that we want positive changes to the DMCA. Tell your friends, tell your family, but first TELL CONGRESS!
This is just one of many causes the group fights for, but they have a simple form to fill out that will e-mail or fax your representative for you in regards to this bill. A letter was just sent to my representative.
Friends, your sex is making me too jealous
A great Daily Northwestern column about an apartment dweller who’s bothered by her neighbor’s loud sex. I just love this quote:
Dear neighbors: I’m not sure who you are or which apartment you live in, but I know you, and I’m sure you will be able to recognize yourselves by this description. You’re the people who started having very loud sex at 1:48 this morning and did not finish until 2:27. While your stamina is to be commended, I still am hoping that your genitalia turns blue and falls off so as to prevent any repeat performances.
Because when I say loud, I don’t mean I heard a few moans and inferred that a bit of the old “in-and-out” was going on. No, by loud I mean porno-style screaming, just-got-out-of-prison-and-haven’t-seen-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex-in-two-years boinking.
And it only gets better from there. Funny stuff.
Politicos say U.S. 666 hurts tourism, economic development
Another Obscure Store link. Earlier, I posted a link to a story about a bible college shunning their “666” phone prefix. Now New Mexico politicians have decided to change the name of U.S. 666 in the northwestern part of the state. “It has negative connotations,” says the transportation secretary. “It also discourages tourism and economic development in the area.” Full story here.
Big ‘pot’ stash was only hay
What Chicago police thought was more than $660,000 worth of dope in a pickup truck last month turned out to be hay from a Roman Catholic church’s nativity scene. Click here for full story. Link from Obscure Store.
Harry Potter ecstacy pills not for kids
You may have heard about the Harry Potter-stamped ecstacy pills, and obviously the dealers are trying to sell these to kids, which is sad, but what is funny is how the BBC graphics department (who I’ve mentioned before) never can put an appropriate picture on a serious article. These pills are not just for kids though expressions in 2nd picture imply of this article that these kids have already found the pills.
BBC graphics department looks into Linux, gives up
Another from NTK. Obviously the BBC news graphics team didn’t know what to do with this story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2680955.stm
Never go to this school to learn English
From NTK, the Starbridge English Academy. Just don’t try to learn english by reading their site, as quite a few words are misspelled.
Hillary Rosen steps down from RIAA post
Full story at the Reg and Google News. And I have to say, I hope whomever replaces her isn’t nearly as much of a pain in the butt. Besides plowing over what the Constitution stand for, fixing CD prices, as well trying to shut down Internet radio and poisoning peer-to-peer file sharing networks, there have just been far too many things that the RIAA has done wrong. I know I won’t miss her.