Month: May 2004

President Bush asks RIAA to sue Osama Bin Laden

If all else fails in finding Osama, just send the record companies after him. They’ll find and sue anybody:

In a surprise move the White House admits that they haven’t any idea where Osama Bin Laden is currently hiding, but has revealed intelligence suggesting that he is illegally downloading MP3s. RIAA (Recording Industry Artists Association) has announced that they intend to sue Osama Bin Laden in an attempt uncover his where-abouts. Mr. Bush stated in his recent address that RIAA now has more far reaching powers to uncover wrong doers than the government does and is calling on the organization to pursue one of the Oval Office’s most wanted.

What do search engines think of John Kerry?

The Poor Man’s Drugs

I remember a long time ago the big ruckus about Saccharin, the sweetener in Sweet and Low. Everybody thought it caused cancer (only if you inhaled about 5,000 of those packets at once), then thought it didn’t.

Where am I going with this? Everything causes some disease or can be used to make you high, if you ingest enough of it. Which is the case apparently now with the seeds of Morning Glories — a fairly common flower. Apparently they’ll get you high.

Or at least that’s what kids believe:

Pharmacologist Harry Robertson says it’s unlikely someone could get high from a packet of seeds. “You have to eat an awful lot of seeds and you have to make sure you get the right seeds before you’ll find much of the LSD-like compound.”

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At Halifax Seed, manager Tim Tregunno says it has been 10 years since they’ve had a customer with a hidden agenda. The problem is easy to spot, he adds. “Younger kids coming in asking for five to 10 pounds would certainly be a clue.”

You think so? When have you ever seen a younger kid do anything, let alone garden, that they would need that big of an order?

That ain’t going to be cheap

Just a random thought. I just faxed a two-page document to Hong Kong. Thankfully, it was on the company dime, but I can only imagine what it cost.

It took me a while to figure out how to dial it properly. When I did it the first time, I dialed it wrong. I quietly heard screaming in a foreign language on the other end after they heard the fax tone coming from my end. Needless to say, I got it right the 2nd time.

Anyway, carry on…

That’s one way to attack somebody

Take the mounted fish off the wall, and beat somebody senseless with it.

Another one for the bookmarks

A large collection of icons for arrows, printing, comments, e-mail, and more. Use this for inspiration, not for stealing others’ work.

TopStyle extensions for MovableType

Yes, Nick, I missed this before, so if you use TopStyle and MovableType, you can download code snippets that will make creating custom CSS templates much easier. I’m mostly posting this here for future reference when I decide to redo my templates on this site, but I figured I’d share in case anybody else uses TopStyle and MT.

“Please ban free speech so this never happens again.”

Quoting this Smoking Gun post:

In the wake of an Oprah Winfrey show that included explicit talk about teen sexuality (and addressed topics such as rainbows and getting one’s salad tossed), the Federal Communications Commission received more than 1600 letters complaining about the racy March 18 broadcast and demanding that the talk show host be cited for indecency. And since most FCC correspondents were prodded to write by the agency’s Public Enemy Number One, Howard Stern, and ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel, the Oprah complaints are particularly entertaining and vituperative in their decrying of a double standard employed by the fine-happy FCC brass.

I particularly like the short-and-sweet nature of this letter.

Note that I had no idea what “tossed salad” meant in this context either until I looked it up (yes, I am a bit naive).

The Shining in 30 Seconds

It’s probably a sex toy

A city government employee keeps a female mannequin in his office, the mayor asks to remove it, and the employee screams back that it’s art and should stay, and he’ll sue, despite all the complaints. Weirdo.