Pickled Cats Thrown At Police. The woman became angry at police confiscation of pickled snakes so she threw a jar of pickled kittens at them.
Month: November 2004
SpongeBob Kidnappers Seek Ransom
Police are looking for a a blow-up figure of SpongeBob SquarePants swiped from a Minnesota Burger King. The ransom note found starts off saying “We have SpongeBob.” It then demands, “Give us ten Crabby Patties, fries and milkshakes.” Full Story.
Free Press Release Distribution
This is one for the bookmarks, as I know I’ll need this link in the future for some stuff I’m doing at work (and I know there are PR people that read this site).
Express-Press-Release.com is a free, simple, easy, express and very effective way to distribute over the web your company press releases. Some of our advantages include: no registration required, human edited & monitored content, no long forms – in fact only a few fields on-line form for quick posting, we value your time, own page for each of your press releases (search engine optimized), unlimited posting, your press releases are archived and will never expire or be deleted…
Bush Caught With Fly Down
Would somebody please tell George W. that if he’s going to be chilling out with world leaders for a photo-op, that he makes sure his fly is up.
We Need National Shield Laws
Senator Christopher Dodd is my new hero. He is introducing legislation that will create national shield laws. What is a shield law, you ask? It’s a law that protects journalists from revealing confidential sources of information. Confidential sources have been a huge part of some great journalism, and they need protection.
Shield laws are currently a state-level law, with thirty-one states and the District of Columbia having shield laws to protect the media from disclosing sources in state cases. The problem comes when those cases are brought on the federal level (a trivial matter for a really pissed-off lawyer), then state laws don’t apply. Thanks to stories like this and this, among others, you can start to see there is a problem. Even moreso in this interconnected online world where online journalists probably aren’t covered by state laws.
Priest and penitent, doctor and patient, attorney and client, husband and wife: They all have privileges of some sort, why can’t a journalist and his sources?
Thanks to Barney and Al, two great journalists, for these links.
Library of Congress to Digitize Old Newspapers
I’ll believe it when I see it, but I always get excited when tremendously useful information like this gets put online:
The government promises anyone with a computer will have access within a few years to millions of pages from old newspapers, a slice of American history to be viewed now only by visiting local libraries, newspaper offices or the nation’s capital.
The first of what’s expected to be 30 million digitized pages from papers published from 1836 through 1922 will be available in 2006.
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Now, the only way to view the old papers is to pore through many thousands of microfilm reels at the Library of Congress, regional libraries and newspaper offices.
The Aquariass
You know, I’ve seen this thing before, but I never knew the name of it.
Designed by Oliver Beckert, the Aquariass is an $1,100 aquarium that works with real live fish that you can add on to your toilet. The aquarium doesn?t actually share a tank with the toilet, but you can guarantee there will be at least one visitor to your home who will be afraid to flush for fear of killing all the poor fish inside. And do you really want to have deal with that?
I don’t think I could use the potty with fish swimming around watching me. It’d be like the dog coming into the bedroom while you’re getting intimate with your wife — it just kinds of makes things difficult.
Drugs Are Bad
They cause you to do bad things to your home:
Police surrounded a southeast Bend home for more than two hours Monday while the renter inside, apparently under the influence of methamphetamine, went on a destructive rampage with a baseball bat, causing at least $20,000 in damage before kicking his way through a wall and finally being taken into custody, officers said.
Shot in the dark here, but my guess is he won’t get his security deposit back.
Some People Need A Hobby
This moron will drink Pepsi Holiday Spice for 45 days, and nothing else — no water, milk, nothing but Pepsi Holiday Spice. At least he won’t be brushing his teeth with it like this guy was doing with his beer.
Dan Rather To Step Down
He’s mad as hell, and he’s not going to take it any more. Or something like that.