They’ve already announced that Spider Man 3 is scheduled to be released in May, 2007. Francis says that since they haven’t started shooting the movie yet, right now the trailer merely consists of a guy dancing around wearing Underoos. Or something like that…
Category: Stupid
This disgusts me
Kraft execs lay off 6000 workers, close 20 plants, yet five executives there got $10-million in bonuses.
Another Microsoft “Solution”
Microsoft’s solutions to their problems have been asinine in the past. So how would they suggest you block pop-ups? “Contact the administrators for the Web site and ask them to remove the pop-up ads from the site.” I wish I were joking.
Only an Oregonian…
…could be famous on national TV for their ability to blow up balloons with their nose.
Stupid Law, #4958
This is something that would only happen somewhere like Alabama (ducking to avoid the stuff that will now be flung at me). A State Representative was pulled over for driving like a moron — because he was drunk (so say police, though the Rep denies it). Here’s the kicker: During legislative sessions — or when traveling to or from sessions — Alabama state law only lets the police arrest legislators for felonies, treason or breach of peace. So the police drove him home.
Why I vote down tax measures
Oregonians have just rejected measure 30, and a series of draconian cuts are falling. It’s a disaster for rural schools. So what is Oregon’s governor doing? He’s visiting Iraq.
And I’m willing to bet he isn’t using his own money for that trip. Link from Rob.
Microsoft wants to kill your productivity
According to Microsoft, there’s only one really affective way to avoid security problems in its browser:
The most effective step that you can take to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks is not to click them. Rather, type the URL of your intended destination in the address bar yourself. By manually typing the URL in the address bar, you can verify the information that Internet Explorer uses to access the destination Web site. To do so, type the URL in the Address bar, and then press ENTER
I’ve got a better idea: If you want to avoid the problems, just download and use Moz.
School suspends “hacker”
A thirteen year-old kid gets suspended for three days for using a DOS command (net send * “Hey!”) to send a one-word message to all 80 computers on his school’s network. What’s even more disturbing was the fact that his teacher is obviously a complete moron. Full Story.
There’s a follow up response from the kid who did it (with links and more comments — the kid’s parents are pretty cool about everything), that describes what exactly happened.
A six-year-old terrorist?
Why don’t I trust the government to do things right? When they’re fully convinced that a six-year-old girl is some sort of terrorist. I don’t care how nice they were to her, the security people should have never had to do that to a little girl — period. Quoted:
My daughter was scared and shaken up by the ordeal and told us that she “hated it.” At least the security people were polite to her. But they were like polite robots, unable to laugh at the fact that someone had mistakenly pegged a little girl as a potential terrorist. No, they insisted that she had to take off her shoes and get patted down and have a wand passed over her body and have her Hello Kitty suitcase opened and examined with a fine toothed comb.
Salon has a good editorial about this.