Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
From Obscure Store:
Sharisse Kanet is spending her high school senior year enrolled at Wesleyan University, but her family believes she should still be named valedictorian. The dad of the No. 2 student says: “How could this person be the class valedictorian when they’re not a student at Hull High School?”
From Obscure Store: Many Twin Cities residents ran from their homes and headed to the JusTruffles shop after it was mentioned by Oprah. Customers crowded the lobby an hour before the store opened. “We forgot to lock the door, and they just started coming in,” says one of the owners. He adds: “Whatever Oprah says, people do.” Full Story.
But James A. McCormack, 20, says he was “highly intoxicated” when he drove a stolen bulldozer through an unfinished building last year. Full Story via Obscure Store.
This just goes to show that we freak out FAR too much about little things. Full Story. Link from Obscure Store.
I always thought that obnoxious Steve from the “Dude, you’re getting a Dell” commercials was a bit weird. Well, apparently he acts like that because of his pot-smoking habits.
From Obscure Store: George F. Barr, 37, was shot several times when a dispute in a strip club spilled onto the streets. Witnesses say there had been a dispute earlier in the night between groups of patrons who were tussling for a better view of dancers onstage. Full Story.
OK, this is just wrong. To steal the text from Obscure Store (where I got this link):
Fat slob, er….hamburger-eating contest winner Ian D. Walker says: “I didn’t really want to do it at first, considering that I’m supposed to be on a diet. But all my friends came out to support me. So I figured I’d give it a shot.” Walker said he took a three-hour nap after eating all that beef.
And you’re actually reading this? Find a TV, and go watch the Super Bowl (and of course the commercials) which will probably be better than the game).
U.S. defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld this week directed the armed service to strip military Web sites of information that could benefit adversaries, citing a terrorist training manual and a year-long review of the Department of Defense’s 700-gigabyte Web presence. Full story here.
I just love this quote: “”One must conclude our enemies access DoD Web sites on a regular basis.” Ugh…Rumsfeld’s a moron, and really is going a bit too far with this. Almost any information could be useful to an adversary in some context, but if this memo is followed, it would lead (as Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) says) to a “wholesale withdrawal of information from defense Web sites… This is a broad brush approach that’s not the right way to go.”