Saturday, May 17, 2003
It appears as if Indiana has finally begun to realize how awful our license plates really are...
Gripes driving BMV to revise its plate design
Amid complaints from police agencies across Indiana, Bureau of Motor Vehicles officials have shelved the 3-month-old design and started issuing plates with smaller letters.
"The officers in the traffic division did say the new plates were hard to read," said Indianapolis Police Department Lt. Paul Ciesielski. Because the characters were the same size -- uppercase, tall and thin -- it was hard to distinguish letters from numbers.
Keep in mind the police said this...
More proof of the public school system's anal-retentive qualities:
Student penalized for attending Bush speech
An eighth-grade singer's appearance during President Bush's Indianapolis visit has struck a sour note with Westfield school administrators, who won't excuse her absence.
Thursday, May 15, 2003
Meet a New Addition
Hong Kong - A couple in China have named their baby son Saddam Sars to mark the two important events taking place at the time of his birth, a news report said on Tuesday.
This kid's gonna be out of style faster than pogs...
Wednesday, May 14, 2003
Penis picture prompts apology
The West Australian newspaper has apologised to Paul Hasleby after mistakenly publishing a photograph of the Fremantle AFL footballer with his penis showing from his shorts.
"At this stage we're keen to pursue all of Paul's options," Hasleby's lawyer said.
Options which may include none other than....penis enlargement..
From the "Yup - we're dumbasses" department:
RIAA apologizes for threatening letter
Last Thursday, the RIAA sent a stiff copyright warning to Penn State's department of astronomy and astrophysics. Department officials at first were puzzled, because the notification invoked the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and alleged that one of its FTP sites was unlawfully distributing songs by the musician Usher. The letter demanded that the department "remove the site" and delete the infringing sound files.
But no such files existed on the server, which is used by faculty and graduate students to publish research and grant proposals.
If Verizon Wireless "Never Stops Working" for us, why do their stores close at 9?
Tuesday, May 13, 2003
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Ooo--aren't we getting pretty:
Debuting this fall....
Money minute: Gadgets allow parents to track teen drivers
Signal Trac costs almost $850 to buy and install, but this really does put parents in the back seat. It uses GPS to report a car's position every five minutes and sends emails when a teen breaks your speed limit.
Drivers won't know the device is there unless you tell them it's there.
Big Brother is watching... and he's teamed up with mommy and daddy.
Novel Idea Alert: For over $800, you could just invest in drivers training.
Monday, May 12, 2003
Several Girls Suspended in Hazing Melee
GLENVIEW, Ill. — A suburban high school Monday suspended several seniors involved in a brutal off-campus hazing (search) melee and will recommend the girls be expelled.
Now how about suspending the dumbass crack-pots who stood there and watched the BS happen?
Sunday, May 11, 2003
Whew..
I made it.
I survived 8 hours of Red Cross CPR/First Aid/Disease Prevention classes... taught by a man who could only be classified as a boring version of SNL's "The Ladies Man."
More tomorrow... post-sleep.
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