July 2004

Thursday 29 July

  • Toilet Humor (12:41) -
  • Another angle on Terror in Skies...hehe (12:21) - Muslim Man Recounts 4 Hours of Fear From "Scrappleface.com" (2004-07-17) -- A harrowing story of one man's experience with "terror in the skies" reached a global audience this week, as web surfers and bloggers circulated it, commented on it and...

Wednesday 28 July

  • Final Design of Nintendo DS (14:42) - Nintendo is showcasing the final design of the Nintendo DS. I guess they tried to make it look sleek, I think it looks a bit boxy. I'm still not sold on the benefits of two screens, seems a bit gimmicky...
  • If you are going to scam people, at least be good at what you do (12:18) - So I emailed the guy with the ridiculous domain name auctions from the other day, telling him I might be interested. When he replied I let him know that I had decided to just spend $19 registering OnlineFortune500.net rather than...
  • Transportation Futuristics (12:05) - Transportation Futuristics is a look back at our visions for the future of transportation from yesteryear. ...

Tuesday 27 July


Monday 26 July

  • Why I hate giant pandas (14:23) - Last night I watched an episode of Nature called "The Panda Baby" I learned that the giant panda is so endearing that people are willing to spend millions of dollars to maintain the species in captivity. Even though giant pandas...

Sunday 25 July

  • Pornaoke (15:27) - Philly's dirtiest party returns to Lucy's Hat Shop, 247 Market Street, 9pm. We provide the scenes, you provide the screams! ..get on the mic and lay down your own dialogue, moans, and groans to scenes from your favorite moments in...

Friday 23 July


Thursday 22 July

  • Cancer Vaccine (23:36) - Scientists have developed a vaccine which may prevent people who have had cancer from relapsing. The vaccine has so far been tested on 19 people after they had surgery to remove cancerous tumours. Two years later, 14 were still cancer...
  • Real Ultimate Power: The Official Ninja Book (00:07) - Everyone loves Real Ultimate Power (except Pirates of course), now you can enjoy reading about the art of the ninja in Real Ultimate Power: The Official Ninja Book. This isn't a joke, the kid really got a book deal. ...

Wednesday 21 July

  • Car vs. Telephone Wire (13:19) -
  • Only in Texas (11:22) - Joanne Webb, a mother of three and a former schoolteacher in the town of Burleson near Forth Worth, was facing up to a year in jail after she sold a vibrator at a private party to two undercover police officers...
  • bugmenot (11:19) - Bugmenot is a handy little site for bypassing websites that require registration (Times, Post, etc). You can visit the website to find logins for a particular site, or you can install the bugmenot extension for your browser. Good tool for...

Tuesday 20 July

  • Liberal Weiners and Right Wing Nut-Jobs (18:27) - This hilarious Bush/Kerry parody cartoon is sweeping the internet. It actually crashed the server of the brothers who made it earlier today and has been moved to AtomFilms. I promise you will ALL love it!!! Just click "Watch Film" once...
  • Friends and Authors of disjointed (15:27) - I've decided that the friends and authors of disjointed deserve some links. Drop some links in the comments or send me an email if you patron this site and have a blog of your own. I don't have time to...
  • Who conducts the crappiest polls? (13:52) - Is it The Register? Have your say. Well, they did find that Windows admins in general prefer listening to Britney Spears while those whose jobs are "Linux" prefer listening to "electro" (?!).. of which examples given were The Orb, Underworld,...
  • Terror in the Skies...Again? (10:54) - Read this riveting article written by a woman who may have very well witnessed a dry-run for a terror attack on a recent flight from Detroit to Los Angeles. It's amazing with all of the supposed civil-liberties violations of the...

Monday 19 July


Saturday 17 July


Friday 16 July

  • Martha Stewart gets five months (15:02) - Martha Stewart picked up the minimum jail time for the charges she faced. 5 months in prison followed by 5 months of house arrest and 2 years of probation. She was also fined $30,000....
  • Finding Bobby Fischer (12:01) - Infamous chess recluse Bobby Fischer has been detained in Japan after trying to use an invalid US Passport. Fischer has been wanted since 1992 for playing chess in Yugoslavia during a period of UN Sanctions against the country....

Thursday 15 July

  • Humor for Nerds (23:45) - Nerd check. Gallery of funny Unix/networking-related pictures. Start from page 4 and work backwards. Also, check out the collection of war and propaganda galleries on the same site. ...
  • Netcat (00:35) -
  • When does alcohol become a drug? (00:32) - It seems that only when you start inhaling vaporized alcohol does it become a drug. "Inhalation or snorting of alcohol is basically synonymous with drug use and that kind of practice should not be encouraged."Because we all know that alcohol...

Wednesday 14 July

  • German Forklift Safety Video (10:57) - The Germans have a harsh way of teaching forklift operational safety. Watch the whole thing, it gets pretty damn funny. 8.4M video....

Tuesday 13 July

  • War on Drugs is damaging Colombian science (15:32) - Scientists from Colombia experience disproportionate difficulties obtaining visas to attend conferences in foreign countries. Isolating Colombian researchers from others in their field stifles progress (on both sides) by limiting knowledge transfer from and to the Colombian scientists. According to Wasserman,...

Monday 12 July


Friday 9 July

  • Republicans help Nader get on the Ballot (11:26) - Michigan Republicans are helping gather signatures to place independent Ralph Nader on the presidential ballot in the battleground state, irritating Democrats who accuse the GOP of trying to pull votes away from candidate John Kerry. Greg McNeilly of the state...

Thursday 8 July

  • W Ketchup (02:29) - For those that can't stand the taste of Democratic ketchup, get you some Freedom Sauce to go with your Freedom Fries. ...
  • Software Piracy? (01:23) - I just had to comment on this Reuter's news report with the headline "World software piracy losses climb to $29 billion". I guess it's normal practice to use controversial or unsubstantiated headlines and then clarify them later in the article,...
  • Fuck for Forest (00:55) - As Kristopher Schau and his band Cumshots were in the middle of their concert; a young couple entered the stage, stripped and had sex. See photos and video. Who is this? Fuck for Forest - "Environmental Porn", that's who. [NSFW]...

Wednesday 7 July

  • Amazon.com Knee-Jerk Contrarian Game (11:42) - Here's a fun game... First, look up the most popular and critically-acclaimed books, movies, and music on Amazon. Click on "Customer Reviews," and sort them by "Lowest Rating First." Hilarity ensues! It's the Amazon.com Knee-Jerk Contrarian Game....
  • Yummy Humongous Canadian Emperor Crab (11:34) - "I have to eat it." ...
  • Found Porn (11:28) - An interesting found note. ...

Tuesday 6 July

  • Moore supports F 9/11 pirates (14:37) - The activist, author and director told the Sunday Herald that, as long as pirated copies of his film were not being sold, he had no problem with it being downloaded. “I don’t agree with the copyright laws and I don’t...

Friday 2 July

  • Moment Magazine (21:19) - The June/August issue of Moment has just been published. Moment is a magazine based in Ann Arbor that stands "for Social Justice, Diversity, and Humanity. Against Oppression, Exploitation, and Exclusion". The theme of this issue is the Prison-Industrial Complex, the...