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comment posted at 6:04 AM on Dec-13-00

Oldsmobile succumbs. Another auto nameplate goes the way of the dodo... and Plymouth... ending up nowhere but in memories. While corporations seem to want brand above everything else, doesn't reducing the number of brands equal a contradiction?
comment posted at 1:33 PM on Dec-12-00

6 year-old boy in foster care because his mother insists on breastfeeding him. "It's an offense to me that my child has been in foster care for over 120 days because [the state] decided it didn't believe in my parenting philosophy," said the unidentified mother.
comment posted at 6:25 AM on Dec-13-00

 ISAWYOU.COM SETS STAGE FOR RADICAL, NEW MESSAGING MEDIUM --Zonagraphic Messaging connects people, communities worldwide. So not only can you get in touch with that cutey you saw in the mall last week and didn't get a chance to talk to, but you can also report crimes & rat on bad drivers. I wonder what other uses could there be for this service?
comment posted at 11:46 AM on Dec-12-00
comment posted at 6:30 AM on Dec-13-00

Just let Canadians decide and there won't be a tie.
comment posted at 6:49 PM on Dec-11-00

Google Toolbar -- anyone try this yet?
comment posted at 6:41 AM on Dec-12-00

Ever wondered where Lorem ipsum... came from?

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comment posted at 1:49 PM on Dec-11-00

Ray Bradbury to weigh in at a symposium on regional transit problems. Flying cars! Flying cars!
comment posted at 9:44 AM on Dec-11-00

Where were you when you heard that John Lennon had died, 20 years ago today? I was seven, getting ready for school when the news came over on our old radiogram, and I can remember my mother's white-faced shock: one of those moments that emblazoned itself upon my memory.
comment posted at 6:41 AM on Dec-13-00

I know it's all about anti-tobacco, but I still don't get their television commercials. Their website is hella phat, though.
comment posted at 1:38 PM on Dec-7-00
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comment posted at 5:37 PM on Dec-8-00

This would be funnier if it wasn't so close to the truth. And I thought the Onion made up their fake news.
comment posted at 1:40 PM on Dec-7-00

And this month's award for the most useless application of modern technology goes to.......Alison's PantsCam! Give a couple of college students a digital camera, a wireless network, and some free time, and they'll provide streaming data of the insides of their pants. Once again, I go to the wrong University.
comment posted at 11:16 AM on Dec-6-00

It feels like 1997 all over again. I guess Uncle Steve's Reality Distortion Field has a limited radius after all. How's everyone's favorite fruit company going to pull out of this one? I don't think OS X is going to be the new iMac. (Although the Cube looks like it's on track to become the next 20th Anniversary Mac...)
comment posted at 7:35 AM on Dec-6-00
comment posted at 1:44 PM on Dec-6-00

Carnivore sucks. You think so, but did you know that Steve Bellovin, Matt Blaze, Peter G Neumann and Gene Spafford agree with you? Along with David Farber from UPenn, they were asked to identify specific areas of concern by the Chief Scientist at Justice for review by a team from the Illinois Institute or Technology's Research Insititute. They weren't real impressed with the quality of the report that team returned.
comment posted at 10:32 AM on Dec-6-00

Sony's latest ad campaign has been pulled from the networks for being too edgy. It's certainly got an edge that I doubt children would understand, but they're still pretty funny (part 2 and part 3). Is this what happens when we have to protect everyone from anything remotely racy? Do you agree with the decision to pull them off the air?
comment posted at 10:36 AM on Dec-6-00
comment posted at 8:07 AM on Dec-7-00

Cell Phone Guns Discovered. “We find it very, very alarming,” says Wolfgang Dicke of the German Police union. “It means police will have to draw their weapons whenever a person being checked reaches for their mobile phone.”
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comment posted at 2:13 PM on Dec-6-00

Wired wants your nomination for worst Vaporware of the year 2000. (Hardware included.) Read the 1999 article here.
comment posted at 9:29 AM on Dec-5-00

Unionizing efforts stamped out at a dot.com. 13 people whom the union was planning on representing were fired in a round of layoffs. Four others invovled in the unionization attempt were fired in October. There has yet to be a succesful unionization at any dot.com.
comment posted at 10:06 AM on Dec-2-00

Alice demo (Download, 78MB) has been released. Even if you're not big on video games you might want to give this one a try. *Requires a PC with 3D graphics accelerator and fast connection to download in sane amount of time.
comment posted at 10:18 AM on Dec-2-00
comment posted at 4:42 AM on Dec-3-00

Homer Simpson is doing the Matt Drudge thing, exposing neighborhood scams and crimes. Is this a legitimate way of poking fun at Drudge's style or simply a commercial tie-in with the show?
comment posted at 9:42 AM on Dec-2-00

Chicken's head found in fast food order at McDonald's [via MeatFilter.com] "Katherine Ortega said she found a fried chicken's head in the box of chicken wings she ordered Tuesday night" The picture of the chicken head is not to be missed.
comment posted at 1:40 PM on Nov-30-00
comment posted at 4:37 AM on Dec-3-00

Read Dark Dungeons and want to know what the fuss is about? Feeling left out when the cool kids argue about whether a storm giant could take a green dragon? Never fear! Wizards of the Coast, a division of multinational fun conglomerate Hasbro, is making some soul-corrupting old D&D stuff available as free downloads.
comment posted at 1:39 PM on Nov-30-00

<drool> Oh boy, do I want one of these. Unless, of course, the idiots at Kyocera/Qualcomm blew it again, and *didn't* make it capable of using CDPD to get to the Internet. [calls, gets wrong answer, screeches loudly enough that everyone on MeFi can hear...]
comment posted at 1:32 PM on Nov-30-00
comment posted at 4:34 AM on Dec-3-00

The New Trailer for Final Fantasy triggered my drool reflex. The summer of 2001 is when it comes out. The next likely game company to make a movie seems like Blizzard after watching all the mini-movies in Diablo 2.
comment posted at 5:11 PM on Nov-29-00
comment posted at 4:50 AM on Nov-30-00

Pooh Urges Eeyore To Concede Election. It's all going down at the Hundred Acre Wood.
comment posted at 1:22 PM on Nov-29-00

Men listen with half-the-brain. Women, the whole. Now it's obvious that women are superior and it is inevitable that they will dominate the human race, kill off the male and live like those space Amazonians you saw in Star Trek. Yep.
comment posted at 4:08 PM on Nov-30-00

Lettuce ladies want to slim (clap) you up! I didn't know Elizabeth Berkley was the original lettuce lady. Heck, I didn't even know they existed at all. I noticed the site has some false advertising, though -- on the front page, it says "wearing nothing but strategically placed lettuce leaves..." but how in the world would those tops stay on with straps of lettuce? I guess "wearing nothing but lettuce and green colored underwear" doesn't have the same ring to it.
comment posted at 8:16 AM on Nov-29-00

Not a terribly serious topic, but I saw the Grinch movie on the weekend and hated it savagely. Just deplored it from beginning to end. And as time has passed and I've thought more about my extreme reaction, I've grown to hate it even more. This dude at Entertainment Weekly makes a pretty good case for why this blockbuster is a big chunk o' crap. Thoughts? P.S. I did see Quills last night however, and it was amazing.
comment posted at 8:11 AM on Nov-29-00
comment posted at 6:39 PM on Nov-29-00

Mutants with 4-colour vision! And you thought the magnetic kid was just the beginning...
comment posted at 5:04 PM on Nov-29-00

Ronald MacDonald may have just stepped over his boundaries. A 4 star hotel in Switzerland you say...? That seems just like one hamburger too much too swallow...
comment posted at 5:46 AM on Nov-29-00

Is this annoying to anyone else? I usually get most of my news from either ABCnews.com or CNN.com, then this morning I noticed that every time I load ABCnews, an annoying ad banner pops up for AT&T over the browser toolbar. I know that big sites have used popups before (usually as announcements or something else), but an ad popup on such a major site seems like an even further blurring of that line between media and advertising. I guess I'm switching news sources.
comment posted at 5:45 AM on Nov-29-00

YAWA... Yet Another Weblog Article...it's amazing how writers always manage to talk about the same seven (or so) weblogs in every article I've seen on the subject.
comment posted at 11:20 AM on Nov-28-00
comment posted at 12:11 PM on Nov-28-00

i did some snooping around on the cbc website and i found this and this. the first is the graphic that they used after the liberals won, the second is the graphic they had ready if the liberals lost.

hmm, chretien looks more tired in the second one. perhaps he is looking to some martin supporters on his left, waiting to pummel him? hmm...martinites attacking from the left just doesn't make any sense!
comment posted at 7:49 AM on Nov-28-00
comment posted at 8:32 AM on Nov-28-00