Month: February 2004

Today will be the suck.

I wish I could go home, go back to bed, and wake up 2 weeks from now. Anybody want to join me?

EXOTIC FOREIGNER ALIAS = Favorite Spice + Last Foreign Vacation Spot
Pepper Frisco

SOCIALITE ALIAS = Silliest Childhood Nickname + Town Neighborhood Where You First Partied
Titi Masson

“FLY GIRL (or Guy!)” ALIAS (a la J. Lo) = First Initial + First Two or Three Letters of your Last Name
R. Co

DIVA ALIAS = Something Sweet Within Sight + Any Liquid in Kitchen
Chocolate Sunlight

DETECTIVE ALIAS = Favorite Baby Animal + Where You Last Went to School
Cub McGill

BARFLY ALIAS = Last Snack Food You Ate + Your Favorite Drink
Chip Scotch

SOAP OPERA ALIAS = Middle Name + Street Where You First Lived
Leo Fortin

PORN STAR ALIAS = First Pet's Name + Street You Grew Up On
Blackjack Filion

ROCK STAR ALIAS = Any Liquid on the Bar + Last Name of Bad-Ass Celebrity
Tequila Pacino

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view.php?id=147848

You know it had to happen. Someone is suing Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake, CBS, MTV, and Viacom because of the boobie incident. Citing “outrage, anger, embarrassment and serious injury” due to the “sexually explicit conduct” during the Superbowl, some nimrod is filing a proposed class-action lawsuit “on behalf of all Americans”, seeking compensatory and punitive damages.

I've said it once, I'll say it again, God bless America. Original story at The smoking gun.

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In other news from the dumb, Dubya is speaking out against same-sex marriage. Old Dubya says a constitutional amendment will be necessary to ban gay marriages if state court judges persist in approving them.

A quote: “Marriage is a sacred institution between a man and a woman. If activist judges insist on redefining marriage by court order, the only alternative will be the constitutional process. We must do what is legally necessary to defend the sanctity of marriage.” That dude is just plain scary. People don't want to follow your opinions? Force them to. After all, God told you it was your duty… Scaaaaary.

Found this this morning.

Seeing as the US already has a chimp for president, I'd vote for the 8-ball.

Original link: http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/scigliano0204.asp?trk=nl

Analog watches
Dot-matrix printers
Typewriters
Broadcast radio
Pagers
Reel-to-reel tape
Vacuum tubes
Fax machines
Mainframe computers
Fortran

One could also add: vinyl and VCRs

Books
Title	Author	Link
Madwand	Roger Zelazny	Amazon link
Seduced by Moonlight	Laurell K. Hamilton	Amazon link
Return of Nathan Brazil	Jack L. Chalker	Amazon link
Twilight at the Well of Souls	Jack L. Chalker	Amazon link
Echoes of the Well of Souls	Jack L. Chalker	Amazon link
Shadow of the Well of Souls	Jack L. Chalker	Amazon link
Gods of the Well of Souls	Jack L. Chalker	Amazon link
Ghost of the Well of Souls	Jack L. Chalker	Amazon link
Across Realtime	Vernor Vinge	Amazon link

DVDs
Title	Link
Lost in translation	Amazon link
Swimming Pool	Amazon link
The Last Samourai	Amazon link
Kill Bill, vol 1	Amazon link
Kill Bill, vol 2	Amazon link
Babylon 5, 5th season	Amazon link

Oh goodie, just what the world needed.

http://www.inspirationsensation.com/

Christian rock idol.

Serial streaker Mark Roberts said today that Janet Jacksons controversial moment of right breast nudity stole my thunder at the Super Bowl.

Roberts, 39, from Liverpool, streaked on to the pitch just before the second half of play on Sunday night.

He managed to do an Irish jig and the Moonwalk before being clobbered by a player and carried off the field by police.

Roberts said he ran on the pitch in Houston, Texas, dressed as an American Football referee, moments before the second-half kick off.

He tugged away his uniform, which was held together with velcro, leaving just a strategically-placed plastic American football and a baseball cap.

The guy was lining up to take the kick. He just looked totally confused, Roberts said from his hotel room in Houston.

I was there, naked, apart from a plastic American football over my nether regions held on with Sellotape, doing a Riverdance in the middle of the Super Bowl, and nobody was coming after me.

The two teams were looking at each other, trying to work out what was going on, so I started to Moonwalk.

Then I started doing crazy body poses and thats when the whole of the Houston police department came chasing on the field.

I took off on the chase. One player tried to tackle me and I dodged him and a second ran into me and gave me a shoulder charge. He was huge. I spun like a top.

Roberts was carried off the field by several police officers and later charged with trespassing. He will have to appear in court in Houston on Monday.

He said police officers were more amused than angry at his stunt during the game in which the New England Patriots narrowly beat the Carolina Panthers.

Officers even asked him to sign copies of his rap sheet, which showed his mugshot and fingerprints.

It was the first time Roberts has streaked in the United States.

So far, he has worn his birthday suit at the Wimbledon Mens tennis final in 2002, the Grand National in 1996 and on ITVs This Morning in 1995, when he ran on to the giant weather map on the Thames.

The former church handyman, from the Kensington area of Liverpool, has had other conquests in Hong Kong and Thailand. In all he has streaked 300 times.

He calls himself a professional streaker and says he has advertising deals in Europe.

But his exploit at the Super Bowl was the highlight of 11 years of going naked.

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He had received scores of interview requests and Playboy magazine has asked him for an interview. His moment of glory was also shown on late night US talk shows.

Robertss only regret about the Super Bowl streak was that it was overshadowed by Janet Jacksons own moment of exposure.

Her half-time performance, which ended with Justin Timberlake tearing her top to reveal her right breast, has caused uproar in America.

She took my thunder. If she hadnt done that I would have been front page material, Roberts said.

This has to be the most useless act of policy I've seen in a long while.

In a sign that no matter is too small to affect international diplomacy, the US State Department has issued an edict banning its longtime standard typeface from all official correspondence and replacing it with a “more modern” font.

In an internal memorandum distributed on Wednesday, the department declared “Courier New 12” – the font and size decreed for US diplomatic documents for years – to be obsolete and unacceptable after February 1.

“In response to many requests and with a view to making our written work easier to read, we are moving to a new standard font: 'Times New Roman 14',” said the memorandum.

The new font “takes up almost exactly the same area on the page as Courier New 12, while offering a crisper, cleaner, more modern look,” it said, adding that after February 1 “only Times New Roman 14 will be accepted.”

“This applies to diplomatic notes,” the memorandum said tersely.

There are only three exceptions to the draconian new typographical rules: telegrams, treaty materials prepared by the State Department's legal affairs office and documents drawn up for the president's signature, it said.

The memorandum offered no explanation for the exceptions, leaving foreign service officers to speculate as to whether the White House, US treaty partners and telegram readers are not yet able to handle the change.