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Have James Hattori and CNN found the next "Gorgeous Guy"? I didn't see the story, but I'm guessing this nationally-televised appearance by our favorite celebrity earlier today was a precursor to a piece on tomorrow's edition of CNNdotCOM which will be presented as a sort of conditional mea culpa — because, hey, even the savviest among us can fall victim to "internet hoaxes". Better tune in.
posted by barkingmoose at 8:40 PM PST - 12 comments

Is your kitty an exhibitionist? Show your cat off at Cat-scan.com.

Um... Wait. Does this remind anyone of another post?

It even reminds me of another post...

Why, it must be Metafilter's birthday again!! (And possibly Cat-scan's, but I don't know about that...)

Hope I didn't step on any surprises, but it was too good not to post.
posted by o2b at 8:15 PM PST - 26 comments

Hands where I can see them, and turn off that tape recorder! Today the Massachusetts Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a man for violating the commonwealth's electronic surveillance law when he secretly recorded police who pulled him over in a traffic stop. While it's generally bad to tape people without telling them, should there be an exception w/r/t to recording public officials acting in their official capacities? Or is wrong just wrong?
posted by dchase at 5:17 PM PST - 22 comments

Emoticons creep closer to being officially considered writing
You have to scroll down a ways ... I don't mean to sound elitist. I believe language is a living thing, and can grow and change and grow up to be a ballerina, if it wants to, even if that seems like an innocent child's dream right now, and is not to be taken seriously really. Seriously though, don't you have a kind of sick feeling that a version of the OED is giving recognition to the idea that punctuation and numerals are making entry into language?
posted by rschram at 5:05 PM PST - 15 comments

The players tried to take the field, but the marching band refused to yield. Sounds kinda like the plot of "Revenge of the Nerds", with the jocks led by Ogre and Ted McGinley's character taking on Booger, Poindexter and the rest of the Tri-Lambs. Can't the band and the jocks just get along?
posted by msacheson at 3:17 PM PST - 6 comments

Bush to Waive Helms-Burton Law Under pressure from key European allies, President Bush is poised to reverse a campaign position, and in the process, screw over the Cubans in Florida.
posted by Rastafari at 2:56 PM PST - 8 comments

Pro-abortion?
"I'm getting fat because I'm eating a lot," said the 12-year-old with a mental age of 8, who conceived four months ago after being raped by her father.
Anyone against abortion?
posted by nonharmful at 2:47 PM PST - 75 comments

July 17th - The Day That Counts. These people have a plan to make their feelings known on the issue of public money being diverted to religious organizations. I had no idea that the atheists were so organized! Is this sort of thing a tremendous waste of time, or do you think it can, or will affect policy discussions?
posted by kristin at 2:35 PM PST - 11 comments

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!! It's so cute!!!
posted by Pinwiz at 2:10 PM PST - 36 comments

An oldie but a goodie: The Visual Table of the Elements.
posted by solistrato at 1:51 PM PST - 5 comments

Shit, leave NYC for the summer and watch what happens. I'm not sure how I missed the closure of Twilo. Now The Village Voice reports on Giuliani's war against the "superclubs." "Cabaret laws," "crackhouse statutes," all the greatest hits are here! MeFi has bitched about this sort of thing in the past, but boy, it's really irking me now. (via Ghost In The Machine)
posted by logovisual at 1:42 PM PST - 1 comments

The Spiderman Teaser Trailer has just been released, and does it look cool! Too bad that we have to wait until May '02 to see it.
posted by Sal Amander at 12:56 PM PST - 40 comments

Road rage man gets sentenced to 3 years. The man who threw the fluffy white dog into oncoming traffic is sentenced to 3 years in jail -- the maximum jail time allowed. Is this appropriate? Extreme? If there wasn't such media attention to this case, or if the dog wasn't so cute, would the man have still gotten maximum jail time?
posted by jennak at 12:47 PM PST - 40 comments

First Webvan, Now Homeruns... Bugger! Das ist kaputt, ja?
posted by jennak at 12:37 PM PST - 16 comments

The cold war is over so we can just relax. The russians don't lose track of nuclear material because they still use archaic manual methods rather than buggy software the United States gave them. [via comp.risks]
posted by rdr at 12:28 PM PST - 4 comments

Carl, why do you remind us of these things? Don't you know they hurt? (Mistah Kottka reminded me to post this.)
posted by solistrato at 12:16 PM PST - 7 comments

Your next Nobel Prize winner. (Shower sciences)
posted by geronimo_rex at 12:05 PM PST - 5 comments

"It's about attitude. It's not about girls in swimsuits."
posted by geronimo_rex at 10:41 AM PST - 46 comments

What's your story? That's the question that the site EatTheseWords asks. In nature, it's quite similar to {fray}, only not as focused. Which format do you prefer--that of {fray}'s, or the more general purpose approach seen at ETW? Find any particularly interesting stories there?
posted by moz at 9:31 AM PST - 10 comments

Publish someone else's copyrighted book, DON'T go to jail. (I can't believe no one else has posted this yet: at least, I couldn't find anything that looked relevant). "A U.S. federal judge has rejected Random House's request for a preliminary injunction to stop an online publisher from selling electronic versions of Cat's Cradle, Sophie's Choice and six other books. U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein ruled on Wednesday that the right to print, publish and sell the works in book form in the contracts at issue does not include the right to publish the works in the electronic format."
posted by maudlin at 9:29 AM PST - 7 comments

Homestar Runner is a funny ass web cartoon. Strong Bad Sings is just a taste of the weirdness within.
posted by owillis at 9:02 AM PST - 7 comments

French can sue their birth doctors for not killing them in the womb... I thought the link I posted about a woman suing her boss when she crashed her car after driving home drunk from a staff party was the height of lawsuit insanity, but this takes the cake: in France, if you are seriously disabled, you have the right to sue a doctor who failed to recommend an abortion to your mother.... .... Homosaywhat?
posted by tweek! at 8:49 AM PST - 123 comments

And the winner of the 2000 metre evasion of a tank is.... Well, you'll have to wait until 2008, when Beijing hosts the games. Maybe in seven years their human rights stance may have shifted a bit.
posted by dwivian at 8:01 AM PST - 50 comments

Glow in the dark toilet seats - My life is finally complete.
posted by plinth at 7:43 AM PST - 11 comments

The end is neigh. This wonderful little company is just about to unleash an ISP filter system that will allow content providers to decide which users get access, namely, those who have paid them a fee. Your ISP will soon have to pay individual fees to offer you anything. Your rate will go way up, your choices will go way down. Web surfing as we know it, is dying. Check the Slashdot freak-out.
posted by dong_resin at 7:28 AM PST - 24 comments

The 2001 Emmy nominations were announced yesterday. The Sopranos and West Wing came in with 22 and 18 nominations each. Are these really the best that teevee has to offer?
posted by ahughey at 6:56 AM PST - 38 comments

Lesbian gives birth to brother's baby
Wait, wait, it gets better.
51-year-old lesbian has given birth to her brother's baby after IVF treatment.
posted by nonharmful at 6:17 AM PST - 21 comments

At its heart, the battle is a border dispute. Virgina poses a threat to Marylands border integrity. It is "..the first skirmish in a much larger battle."
posted by stbalbach at 6:06 AM PST - 16 comments

Did the Hell's Angels do it? It could have been the landlord. Or is it just hoax? We could take the advice of a professional astrologer or a psychic or maybe the answer lies encoded in the Bible? Or is it just a Republican plot to discredit a Democrat and bolster Bush's "dismal approval rating" (which is currently only 12 points higher than Clinton's was at the same point in his presidency.) No! The Democrats framed him because of his conservative views! What about the Mossad? Maybe you can locate her body in this aerial photograph.

There are just HOURS of fun to be had over at ChandraLevy.com - a very unofficial clearinghouse for information on the ongoing investigation into her disappearance which bears little resemblance to the staid demeanor of findchandra.org.

My favorite? Where is Ted Kennedy's car right now anyway? Just in case. You check the Potomac, I'll look in the tidal basin...
posted by RevGreg at 5:36 AM PST - 70 comments