Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
Apparently I’m the number one result for i want a penis on Google. I’m the number two result for “cell phone with vibrator,” number three for “10 pound hamburger,” number one for “invisible movie characters,” and number nine for “long penis.”
I really need to quit looking at my referral logs. Those hits came in the last few hours, so I can only imagine what I’d find if I dug around a bit.
Almost 600 marijuana plants and “clones” worth an estimated $375,000 at maturity were seized in a raid on a Powell Butte greenhouse late last week. Full Story.
Sadly, when/if these old ladies are thrown in jail, they’ll probably spend more time in prison than our child-molesting cop (who is now out on bail, by the way).
Oh my…
A rabbit set alight by a bonfire at a British cricket club got its revenge when it ran burning into a hut and set it ablaze destroying costly equipment, the club said on Friday.
Members of Devizes cricket club in Wiltshire, western England, were burning dead branches when a rabbit caught up in the waste sped burning from the flames spreading a fire which destroyed lawnmowers and tools worth $110,000.
This is a Monty Python sketch waiting to happen. Full Story.
Last I checked, the Associated Press Stylebook requires capitalization for the words Internet, Net, and Web. Wired is bucking that trend. I agree with them, as the words are just another common medium — we don’t capitalize radio, television, or newspapers, do we? If I remember correctly (and I don’t have my stylebook in front of me), the AP stylebook also hyphenates “on-line” which I’ve always violently refused to do, because the hyphenation makes it sound like there’s one “line” that transports all of the ‘nets traffic — similar to “on-air” (which should be hyphenated).
Link via Waxy.
Update: Read the comments below for a differing opinion.
Update Again: Another media blog that supports the decision.
Apparently the fireworks shot off during the Opening Ceremonies for the Olympics managed to set fire to a local park. Whoops.
On Monday, Costco Wholesale Corp., better known for bulk chicken and cases of soda, started test marketing caskets along side mattresses at a North Side Chicago store and one in suburban Oak Brook.
Forget buying one, I’d rather just build my own. Links via Waxy.
Joke Sent From Craig…
Police today warned all men who frequent clubs and parties to stay cautious when offered drinks by women. Females are using a date rape drug called “beer” to target unsuspecting men. This drug comes in liquid form and is available nearly everywhere.
“Beer” as it is commonly referred to, is used by female predators to persuade hapless male victims to go home with them. Women need only persuade a man to consume a few of these “beers” and then ask him home for no-strings-attached sex, a simple approach that renders most men helpless.
After several “beers,” men will have sex with even unattractive women. Often men awaken with only hazy memories of the night before, a horrible headache, and a vague feeling that something bad happened.
Some really unfortunate men are even separated from their life’s savings in a scam called “a relationship.”
In extreme cases, females have entrapped unsuspecting males into long-term servitude through a punishment called “marriage.”
Apparently, men are much more susceptible to this scam once “beer” is administered.
Forward this warning to every male you know. And if you, or some man you know, have fallen victim to this insidious “beer” and the predatory women who administer it, rest assured: male support groups exist in every major city where you can discuss the ugly details of your encounter in an open and frank manner with similarly affected, like-minded guys.
For the support group nearest you, look in the Yellow Pages under “Golf Courses.”
You could win toilet paper for life. Link via PRBop.
Thanks to Jon for pointing this tid-bit out. Jon and I posted links to the story about the local sheriffs deputy that was arrested on child molestation and drug charges. He was later arraigned on 143 sex abuse and drug charges, and after I read more about this guy, I want him to go to jail for as long as frickin’ possible. If he’s sentenced the maximum for each of those counts, he won’t get released in my lifetime, which is the way I hope things go.
Personally, I’d like to see the guy fry, but that’s something, as a parent, all child molesters do. What makes this even more disturbing is that the officer was a DARE officer and a School Resource Officer, meaning he was interacting with kids on a daily basis. I wouldn’t be surprised to see more charges coming out of this now that things have gone public (more victims coming forward, etc… ).
The part that I found entertaining, that I wouldn’t have seen had it not been for Jon pointing it out, was a story that somebody shared at the arraignment that just screams as to the type of folks that live in certain areas of Central Oregon, and the type of person this guy was:
“I know that he was a good police officer,” said Bend-area resident Janet Wickersham. But she also said that five years ago, after the officer came to her Spring River home to take a domestic-violence complaint (involving one of her four children’s fathers), Malloy, not in uniform asked if he could date her daughter — who was then 16 years old. (He would have been about 33 at the time.)
“I told him, ‘Not until she’s 18 — then you can come and get her,'” Wickersham said. “He didn’t do anything out of the ordinary. He never did anything with my daughter. … He lived down the road from us.” She said the family moved to Newport for a couple years, and that her daughter, now 21, still lives there.
Acknowledging she was “a little drunk” at the time, Wickersham said she responded to Malloy’s request by putting her own arm around him and lifting her leg to do the same. “I said, ‘What do you want with a near-virgin with no experience, when you can have a mature woman like me?’ But guys like younger women.”
At one point during the court proceeding, as the judge set the new bail amount, Wickersham exclaimed: “He’s in deep!”
Understand that the Spring River area is just a few miles from where I work and, by and large, quite a few of the folks that live there are just like that. If that doesn’t scream white trash, I don’t know what does.
An interesting proposal. There are some great arguments here, and I for one would love to see OSX running on a PC, or the ability to run another OS on Mac parts. Link from Ken.