Month: November 2004

Two Years Ago Today

This site as you know it was was born two years ago today (though, as I mentioned on that entry and more recently, I had been blogging before that but my archives got trashed). But today marks the anniversary of two years of consistent blogging on this MovableType installation.

So what did I do to celebrate? Nothing, really (maybe I’ll buy myself lunch today or something). I did finally get around to renaming my mt-comments.cgi and mt-search.cgi files so they won’t get hammered as bad by automated robots hellbent on breaking my site. But this entry is what I did. Read on…

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November 30, 2004

The Ad Graveyard

This has been around for a couple months, but I hadn’t linked to it: The Ad Graveyard has risque print and Web advertisements that were rejected by clients of ad agencies. Some are funny, some are tasteless (“The said it would take three more bullets: The Beatles Reunion”), but all of them are worth a look.

November 30, 2004

Which One’s The Real Penny?

Don’t cheat. Go here and guess which one is the real penny.

November 30, 2004

Freesco Router

Another one for the bookmarks (quoting LangaList):

FREESCO (stands for FREE ciSCO) is a free replacement for commercial routers supporting up to 3 ethernet/arcnet/token_ring/arlan network cards and up to 2 modems. Why should you use Freesco? Ease of use – it’s insanely easy to set up Thoroughly documented – it’s more or less self contained, read one doc and you’re off and running Like most players in this field, it runs off one floppy Freesco runs in as little as 6 Mb RAM. Unique Web Control Panel Freesco is the easiest to use, one disk Linux system available.

November 30, 2004

Harvard Gets Punked By Yale

In what is one of the best practical jokes that I can think of, Yale students faked being members of the “Harvard Pep Squad,” passed out pieces of paper to the

Harvard side of their football stadium, convincing the folks there that the sign would say “Go Harvard” when they all held up their pieces of paper. In reality, when they held the sign up, it said “WE SUCK.” Pictures, story, and video here.

November 30, 2004

Weapons Stash Found Under Sunriver Home

No further information is being released right now, but this is what Barney has right now:

A hidden stash of explosives, detonators, automatic weapons and modified firearms was found in three containers that repair contractors discovered and removed from the crawlspace beneath a Sunriver home, Police Chief Mike Kennedy said Tuesday.

The containers also contained silencers and conversion kits for automatic weapons, Kennedy said in a news release, declining to identify the address or even the street in the resort community where the cache was found on Monday. The owner of the home was contacted and denied any knowledge of the containers or their contents, Kennedy said.

I grew up in this area, and know a lot of people out here. I’ve got a definite interest in hearing who’s involved in this because a) I want to make sure it’s not one of our homeowners at work and b) I want to make sure it’s not one of my dad’s employees or former employees that found it (my dad doesn’t know anything about it) or even one of his old employees that stashed it, for that matter (my dad’s worked out here for about 25 years, and dang near every construction-type of person has worked for him at some point).

I’m definitely keeping an eye on this. Especially considering it, at most, is about four miles from where I sit right now.

November 30, 2004

Target.com Sells Blowjobs, Too

This after it’s revealed yesterday all the other stuff they sell. Sadly, after ordering, the blowjob won’t arrive for “4-6 weeks.” Link (with screenshot) over at BB.

November 30, 2004

Somebody’s Having Fun With Target.com

First Target.com sold anal massage, then today they’re selling marijuana, crack, and MDMA (meth). I have a feeling these are all being done by somebody that works at Target or by somebody with access to their system. Links via BB (who has screen shots in case this stuff goes down).

November 29, 2004

The Anti-Ribbon Campaign

We’ve all seen them: The little magnetic ribbons on peoples cars that make the owners of said cars feel better because they “Support The Troops.” They feel like they’ve done their part to support the troops by sticking a magnet on their car that the troops will never see.

This guy is starting an Anti-Magnet Campaign, and I support him 100%:

Why are you doing this?

We believe that there is strong possibility that the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan might be a little far away or maybe even a little too busy to be checking out the pseudopatriotic magnet on the back of a 1986 Geo Metro as it drives down I-95 or sits in an Olive Garden parking lot.

Why do you hate America?

We don’t hate America, we hate that people think slapping a stupid magnet on the back of their car has meaning. Mostly everyone in this country supports the troops and hopes they will return safely. Maybe you should be telling them directly in person, on the phone or in a letter and not driving around with a big magnetic banner you probably got at Wal*Mart that simply attempts to prove to everybody but the troops that you support the troops more than everybody else.

Link via BB (just digging through my old links, don’t mind me).

November 29, 2004

Blogger Murders Mother

Figures it was a LiveJournal user (</sarcasm>). This story is all over the ‘net today (heard about it late yesterday). Rachelle Waterman hated her mother (why, I have no idea, as the daughter appeared to have a pretty cushy life) and used her blog to recruit folks to help her in the deed. Link to copy of one of her final entries, posted Nov. 14 — hours after law enforcement learned of the mom’s reported death. In the entry, Waterman writes about a trip to Anchorage to do a bit of shopping. Link to Waterman’s blog. Link to related post on glassdog. Link to news coverage. All links via BB and Waxy.

November 29, 2004