Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
According to this article, rock legend Pete Townshend has issued a public statement denying being a paedophile after his name was linked with a police Internet porn inquiry. I just love this quote from the article:
“I think I may have been sexually abused as a child and I was doing research into it.”
Hmmm… .
Update on 1/12: Looks like he’s admitted to paying to view child pornography, but only “to see what was there.” That’s like saying you read Playboy just for the articles.
No, I’m not kidding. Jaime Rodriguez shares the same first name as his son. Apparently this fact cause the city of Chicago to put all his son’s parking tickets in his name. From the story:
The teacher, who topped Chicago’s list of city employees with unpaid tickets, explained that it was his 26-year-old son–also named Jaime–who accumulated the citations, not him.
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The younger Rodriguez collected tickets both on his own car and his dad’s car. His father said the city “took the easy way out” and stuck him with the citations because his name is the same as his son’s.
The elder Rodriguez says he has learned a lesson: “Not to lend my car to my kid — or to change my son’s name to Peter, or something.”
I guess when you have that kind of money, you can just have other people tell you the time. But at least make sure you’re wearing your watch right-side up when you post a picture on your Web site. (click on the picture)
Linuxworldexpo.com. You would think that site would run Linux, right? Nope. It’s running Windows. Kind of reminds me of Microsoft’s troubles getting Hotmail converted to Windows (it was running Unix before — and ran better).
Granted, you could easily cheat this quiz, but why would you? Is it a GIF or a JPEG?
From the Miami Herald (found via The Obscure Store), the Alliance group at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Miami hosted “Senior Citizens Are Coming Out of the Closet.” From the article:
‘When your grandchildren call you and say, `What did you learn today?’ ” Brand said, holding up an underwater vibrator, ‘You can say, `I learned about vibrators.’ ”
The seniors also got a kick out of the penis-shaped pasta.
When a site is linked on a popular site, people attach a verb to it based on the site that hit it: Drudged, Farked, Slash-dotted, etc… . If you’re paying for your bandwidth, being linked from one of those sites will probably make your bill really high, and will probably cause the site to shut down. This is especially true if you host pics of nekkid ladies on your site (don’t worry, there’s no porn on that site, just a funny note from the “server”).