Saturday, March 06, 2004
Adidas, Beckham Vow to Dominate World with Ugly New Logo
First Coast News | David Beckham Unveils New Adidas Logo:
David Beckham unveiled his new logo with Adidas - and announced he's extended his contract with the German sportswear company until 2008.Neat. Who cares?
"'The logo is totally me and something that people can relate to," Beckham said Wednesday.Yes -- David Beckham is a stick figure that suffered through a horrible session in Photoshop.
I can so totally relate.
I Couldn't Have Made This Up If I Tried
polkonline.com | Senior citizen food fight injures:
WINTER HAVEN - A brawl at the salad bar at Spring Haven Retirement Community sent three senior citizens to Winter Haven Hospital Sunday. A 62-year-old man was apparently rummaging through the lettuce at the salad bar. That angered some other residents and there was a fight. The man allegedly punched one resident in the face and bit another person on the arm. All participants waived criminal action in the incident. [Rather, their sons and daughters did.] No serious injuries were reported.However the parties involved were sent back to their rooms for "time out" and have been suspended from their medications for the next 5 days.
No mashed potatoes were harmed in the incident.
Road _____
Yahoo! News - New York Driver Nabbed While Watching Porn Movie
Andre Gainey found out the hard way that in the state of New York it's illegal to drive while watching porn. Police said the 35-year old man from Clifton Park, New York, was watching a adult movie called "Chocolate Foam" on Tuesday night while driving his Mercedes Benz in the town of Schenectady when he was spotted by an officer at a stop light.Just imagine the potential for taxi drivers.
Little Mac?
The Herald | DRIVE-THRU PEEP SHOW?
Police took James M. Rondini, 28, of 54 Vincent Ave. into custody after he reportedly drove through the fast-food window at McDonald’s, 40 Martin Luther King Drive, with his pants unzipped, exposing himself to a 19-year-old female employee for the second time this week.This of course comes at a time when McDonald's has chosen to drop "supersize" portions from its menus.
Irony.
Kill Him. Kill Him Now.
Journal Gazette | 03/05/2004 | E-mail fee could stop spammers, Gates says
That's why we get so much junk e-mail: It's essentially free to send. So Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates, among others, is now suggesting we start buying "stamps" for e-mail.Just wait until this gets around to instant messaging.
Friday, March 05, 2004
News Alert: Make this Look Pretty, Bitch!
Stewart found guilty on all counts in obstruction trial - Mar. 5, 2004
A jury found Martha Stewart guilty on all four counts against her in her obstruction of justice trial Friday. Her ex-broker Peter Bacanovic was found guilty on four of the five charges he faced. Both Stewart and Bacanovic left the courthouse without speaking to reporters. Eyewitnesses said Stewart's daughter Alexis was crying. Sentencing set for June 17.
Thursday, March 04, 2004
The Column
Well - with the end of SGA elections and the imposing threat of a column to be written -- I figured I'd take a jab at the way this campus tends to groom itself... or its lack thereof.
There's not too much else to say right now, 'less I come under fire... in which case I'll be back.
As always: comments here and at the DN Online are welcome.
The Ball State Daily News - BEWILDERED SOCIETY: Constant effort needed to 'beautify' campus
Wednesday, March 03, 2004
F#@ing Hypocrites!
Metallica Launches Music Download Site:
Metallica was not shy about voicing their opposition to Napster and other file sharing services, but the band has now decided to join the digital age, albeit legally. On Tuesday, Metallica launched the Web site LiveMetallica.com, which will make each show on the North American leg of the Madly in Anger With the World tour available for download.My only hopes are that: a) this site gets hacked, b)no one uses it.
Hmm... I'm betting on the latter.
Comment of the Week
Well it was another great week for everyone -- good job to all of you who posted. I was laughing very heavily this week while reading the comments, and I apologize I haven't been posting to them as much as I would like to. However, you seem to be doing a kick ass job on your own.
This week was almost decided until I dug deeper into the logs and stumbled, er... dropped to the floor laughing, over this week's winners.
Yup - that's right: I said winners.
This week's recepients are two long time posters who worked flawlessly together this week to pull off a double hitter in the comments. The post was made around 11:30 p.m. last Tuesday (Feb. 24), but the comments were not made until the next day. Normally I won't go back and check comments from posts prior to the last Comment of the Week given away, but given who it was, how late the post was and how great they are -- I decided to pick these two individuals for the first joint Comments of the Week.
The post was in regards to a study that "half of all young Americans will get a sexually transmitted disease by the age of 25."
Congrats to our winners and good luck to everyone as we go into week four of Bitch and Win! Remember: free BS.com swag is on the line -- so have fun, be creative and stay original.
[Click on the Image to see the comments.]
A Preview of the BS to Come
In tomorrow's Daily News I'll take a quick glance back at the SGA election that was.
And I mean quick.
With President-elect Ben Tietz's Slate's position on the environment, I've taken the liberty of briefing students on a few of the requirements on our end of the deal in order to make this whole "beautifying" campus thing work.
Make no butts about it -- it's a serious issue.
All this and more: tomorrow, as Bewildered Society continues in The Ball State Daily News.
Americans 18-29: 'Jon Stewart is our Hero'
CNN.com - Young America's news source: Jon Stewart - Mar. 2, 2004
Readers over 30 might scoff at Stewart's inclusion -- assuming they know who he is. For many under 30, the host of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" is, improbably, an important news source.This, as opossed to an E.D. commerical going into Wolf Blitzer Reports on CNN.
..."A lot of them are probably high," Stewart cracked. "I'm not sure, coming off of robots fighting and into our show, what we're dealing with out there."
And he thinks we're high?
FYI: This is a very in-depth story -- a good read for anyone who is intelligent enough to catch 85% of the Daily Show's jokes on a nightly basis.
McSkiny
FOXNews.com - Business - McDonald's Phasing Out Supersize Fries, Drinks
The hamburger giant has started phasing out its trademark Supersize fries (search) and drinks in its U.S. restaurants as part of an effort to simplify its menu and give customers choices that support a balanced lifestyle, a company spokesman said Tuesday.Damn you Atkins!
Give or Take a Few Mil
Guardian Unlimited | Supreme Court Hears Online Porn Case
The Bush administration's top Supreme Court lawyer says he typed the words ``free porn'' into an Internet search engine on his home computer and got a list of more than 6 million Web sites.Tell him to try typing his administration's name -- then see what that gets him...
Alright, So This is So Yesterday...
Water Once Filled Mars Opportunity Rover Landing Site:
The landing site of the Mars rover Opportunity was once drenched with water, providing an environment that could have supported life, NASA scientists announced at a press conference today.QUICK! SEND MORE CUTE ROBOT THINGEES!
Long Into the Night
Woman Reports Neighbor for Disturbingly Loud Sex
A German woman took her male neighbor to court for noise pollution after he repeatedly kept her awake through half the night and had at least one four-hour sex session, a court spokeswoman said Friday.Notice how you'll never hear this happen to an American.
..the four-hour sex session, I mean.
Tuesday, March 02, 2004
For My Fellow Cards...
With SGA Elections ending this evening, I figured I'd take some time to share my thoughts.
If you aren't a BSU Student, you should probably just hit up the next post.
Meanwhile:
-Be sure to vote. Check out the web sites: Team Tietz / Team Manship. Look at the platforms (agendas) and make a decision, if nothing else. Your vote may very well matter tonight. When you've made your decision: Vote here.Only time will tell, though.
-My prediction: Team Tietz will pull out the upset by a fairly nice margin. Jayson Manship and fellow candidates have been using some clever political methods and language to pull over the votes from the "informed peoples" side. Many of the above average voters seem to respect Manship's current leadership over Ben's prior experience; not to mention a platform that, although already in progress, seems more promising than its opponent. If nothing else, these people recognize Manship's ability to play politician -- and I must say, he does a damn fine job of it.
However, the popular vote will sway in favor of Ben Tietz, for just that: popularity. On the whole, Tietz and Co. have done a good job managing their campaign, although many self-titled realists will say that their platform leans too heavily to the mystical story-telling side, and has listed things that will, for the life of us, never be accomplished. Case and point: potholes. Yet the key for Tietz is what I'd like to call a grassroots campaign effort. [Neglect the fact that the campaign managers haven't even looked into their campaigns this critically.]
This grassroots attempt is seemingly winning over voters from the younger (underclassman) crowd -- mainly those living within campus residence halls; as well as a few student organizations angered by what they call a failed Manship promise from last year. [Manship had promised better communication between student organizations and SGA. One year later, many of the student organizations are complaining that they haven't seen it.] Tied in with a strong voice of diversity and the faces to prove it, this Slate is appealing to the average and/or minority voter.
In the end, it is this crowd of loving Tietz supporters that may win the election for the Slate.
And for those of you who feel I just overanalyzed this whole process:
You still read it, bitch.
Monday, March 01, 2004
Omen?
WCNC.com | Tickets to "Passion of Christ" draws number 666
The number 666, which many Christians recognize as the "mark of the beast," is appearing on movie tickets for Gibson's film at a Georgia theater, drawing complaints from some moviegoers.Smith meets concerned ticker holders by assuming them it is "merely irony." He then tears the tickets, yells "enjoy the show" in a deep, booming voice and walks away and laughing evily.
The machine that prints tickets assigned the number 666 as a prefix on all the tickets for the film, said Gary Smith, owner of the Movies at Berry Square in northwest Georgia. The 666 begins a series of numbers that are listed below the name of the movie, the date, time and price.
[Props to Paul for submitting this link via the contact page.]
Well Here's a Win/Win
Keg-wielding convenience store boss thwarts armed robber:
An old homeless man has been arrested after he fled the convenience store he tried to rob at knifepoint because the store owner threatened to hurl a beer keg at him, police said.Alright! A new national sport!
MENTAL NOTE: Don't drink and go to school
The Telegraph: Teachers strip & thrash engineering student
Students of Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology will boycott their first-session examinations beginning tomorrow to protest against the thrashing of a first-year student, allegedly by teachers.Yes, indeed -- just another splendid night of partying in India.
Prashant Praful, a student of electronics and communication who allegedly entered the premises drunk, was apparently slapped repeatedly by students’ welfare officer Balwant Singh and later stripped and beaten by 17 faculty members in the teachers’ quarters.
Paris Hilton: Wet Again
New York Daily News - Daily Dish & Gossip - Lloyd Grove's Lowdown: For Oscars, Paris pools her assets:
My colleague George Rush reports that the Fox Television pinup swept into Saturday night's 'Lord of the Rings' pre-Academy Awards dinner at the ultramodern hilltop estate of New Line Cinema co-chairman Bob Shaye - and promptly blundered into a Japanese pool carpeted in rose blossoms.Oral sex: It's worse than we all thought.
Jacko hits the WWW
Scotsman.com News - Latest News - Jackson: Why I'm Speaking Out:
Pop star Michael Jackson launched a new web site today, pledging that from now on he would be "speaking out" for himself. On the site, www.MJJSource.com Jackson writes: “I am hoping that you will enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed creating it.I guess he gave up on the little boy sites, then?
LOTR Dominates Oscars, Hollywood, Mankind
Reuters.com | 'Rings' Rules Over Oscars with 11 Wins
"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" won a record-tying 11 Academy Awards on Sunday, including best film -- succeeding after attempts at Oscar's top prize by the first two films in the series had failed.Which means it will soon sink into history and never be spoken/heard of again except for specific times of the year and/or newsworthy events.
It tied 1959's "Ben Hur" and 1997's "Titanic" with the most Oscar victories ever for a single movie.
Thank God.
Here's One for Oprah...
LA teen surfing Internet learns he was allegedly abducted by mother
Authorities arrested the mother of a 17-year-old boy after her son saw his picture on a missing children's Web site and discovered that she was accused of abducting him from his father 14 years ago....which, at this point in time, seems to be heavily lacking in the logic department.
"They were taking her child away and she did what she had to do," Melissa Goudreault, her sister-in-law, said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday from her home in Red Deer, Alberta. "The family is behind her and is trying to raise money for her legal defense."
[Props to the the mystery person who submitted this link via our contact form listed at left. Feel free to keep those links comin'.]
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