If you’re going to forge checks, make sure you spell “Chase Manhattan Bank” correctly.
Month: August 2004
Sixteen Player Mario Kart
I’ve always like the Mario Kart series, and would love to be a part of a 16-player race. Link via Kottke.
Do Two Drunks Cancel Each Other Out?
A drunk horse and buggy driver causes a car to crash. The problem is that the driver of the car was also drunk. Police are a bit perplexed as to what charges to file.
Beer Drinking Bear Now Has a Job
He’s now Hamms’ mascot (this is a follow up to yesterday’s post).
Bots, Blogs, and News Aggregators
Marcus Zillman is offering his 20-page PDF Whitepaper on bots, blogs, and aggregators free of charge. While most of the information there is nothing most folks that know anything about this stuff wouldn’t already know about, but it is handy to have it in one PDF file. Link via Research Buzz.
BugMeNot Dead?
OK, good, I’m not the only one who noticed this, but as I mentioned before when you go to BugMeNot, it appears the site is toast.
Hopefully it’s a temporary thing.
Update: Apparently their host pulled the plug and they’re currently looking for off-shore hosting.
Death To Spammers and Virus Writers
Thanks to the efforts of spammers and virus writers, 63 percent of all email sent in the first half of 2004 was spam and every 12th email had a virus attached. Full Story.
Al Gore Gets Speeding Ticket on Oregon Coast
ASTORIA, Ore. — Former Vice President Al Gore was cited for speeding as he drove a rented car to visit family on the coast, authorities said.
Gore, who was alone, was issued a $141 ticket for driving 75 mph on state Route 26 in the northwest corner of the state, police said. The speed limit is 55.
Here’s a PDF of the ticket. Thanks Barney for the tip. He originally sent me a link to the story over on KGW.com, but BugMeNot appears to be down right now, so I can’t read the story there. So KGW, you just lost some traffic to your competitor because of your registration forms. Congrats.
Would You Like Some Weed With That?
Buy a Big Mac, get some pot.