Friday, April 09, 2004
College Ruled
Expatica ?4 Living in, moving to, or working in Germany, plus German news in English:
BERLIN - A police officer in Berlin has been denied a promotion because he submitted a hand-written curriculum vitae on unlined paper instead of lined paper, according to a press report Wednesday.:-O
Awww, hell no!
WFTV.com - News - 24 New Complaints Against Disney "Tigger" Employee
WFTV.com - News - 24 New Complaints Against Disney "Tigger" Employee
Authorities have received 24 more complaints in the week since a Walt Disney World employee was charged with molesting a 13-year-old girl and her mother while dressed as the character "Tigger."Says one victim:
"I don't think it was a mistake," she said. "Everybody who goes through my photo album says, 'Tigger is groping you."'You see see the clips from Frankenstein @ Universal...
Comment of the Week
Yah yah... I'll get it up this weekend.
Full Speed Ahead
Expatica ?4 Living in, moving to, or working in Belgium, plus Belgian news in English:
A police radar in Brussels recently stopped a car travelling at three times the speed of sound, newspaper La Derniere Heure reported on Wednesday.No - they really don't have a damn clue.
Where'd they think of that?
TheDenverChannel.com - News - County Road F-U To Get New Name
CODY, Wyo. -- A Park County road that's been the subject of loathing and ridicule for its obliquely obscene name is about to be renamed Stagecoach Drive.No word yet on the renaming of the road's 1992 expansion, F-U 2.
About 40 homes are along Park County Six F-U. The road runs along the North Fork of the Shoshone River and around Buffalo Bill Reservoir.
Sub-orbital Something
News: Commercial space flight takes big step up
US Federal Aviation Agency gave out the first license to a private company for an approved Space Ship. The private company called, Scaled Composites, are based in Mojave Desert within California. The company is owned by the high-altitude flight pioneer Burt Rutan. He has declared an ambition of providing sub-orbital flights to paying customers within 10 years.It's the year 2004, we're in the midst of a technological revolution and we are very close to having solid technology which would allow an everyday citizen to fly out of our earth's atmosphere.
...and we're still going to call it a "space ship?"
Thursday, April 08, 2004
Media God #2
CNN founder Ted Turner get star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Ted Turner, founder of the leading US TV news cable network CNN, sounded almost humble Wednesday as he admired his new Hollywood Walk of Fame star.In other news, Turner's purchase of Atlanta, GA is still pending.
Wednesday, April 07, 2004
Read the Headline on this One
'Girls Gone Wild' creator is zooming in on new ventures
More ambitious is Francis' licensing deal for a chain of "Girls Gone Wild" restaurants with the business partners behind several Las Vegas bar franchises, including Coyote Ugly, which inspired a 2000 movie.Damn, talk about Hooters to the extreme.
Life's a Pisser
antiMUSIC's antiTainment News April 2004: J.Lo's Mom Hits $2.4 Million Jackpot, Thanks Virgin Mary
Jennifer Lopez can now hit up her mother for a loan if her next film bombs. J.lo’s mother, Guadalupe Lopez, 58, won a $2.4 million jackpot on a slot machine in Atlantic City this past weekend.Mrs. Lopez was pleased with the slot's jackpot, seeing as she not yet realized her daughter has (recently) been somewhat of slot machine herself.
I <3 First Amendment
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: April Fools' editions sink college papers
Being funny without being offensive is tough to do, which is why three college newspapers that published April Fools' Day editions - those at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Scranton and the University of Nebraska at Omaha - are in trouble.Bullshit!
Binge kills 'first-time' teen drinker
Binge kills 'first-time' teen drinker
BARTONVILLE -- Binge drinking at a cousin's birthday party apparently killed a 16-year-old honors student who campaigned against drug and alcohol use at her high school in this central Illinois town, authorities said.Just a little PSA.
Trisha Vance, whose blood-alcohol content of 0.439 percent was more than five times the legal limit for driving in Illinois, apparently had never had liquor before sharing a 1.75 liter bottle of vodka with her cousin on his 17th birthday, authorities said.
Study Blows Top Off Past Rumors
The Globe and Mail | Ejaculation good for the prostate, major study finds
Men who ejaculate a lot aren't doing themselves any harm. In fact, they may be reducing their chances of getting prostate cancer, according to the biggest study of it kind.Numbers, please...
Men in the highest ejaculation category, 21 or more times a month, had an apparent reduction in risk of 33 per cent.For those playing the home game, that's almost every day and a half..
Think there's a climax, errr... peak to this reduction?
"We were quite surprised by the results," said Dr. Michael Leitzmann, who headed up the research team that looked at all forms of ejaculation, including sexual intercourse, masturbation and nocturnal emissions.Wow - now that's a hell of a job to put on a business card.
[Thanks to Ryan Miller for the tip.]
Tuesday, April 06, 2004
Ooo... Cloud
[Props to Ryan Miller for reminding me of this story.]
I watched a lot of TV as a kid, did you?
USATODAY.com - Short attention span linked to TV
The more television infants and toddlers watch, the more likely they are to have trouble paying attention and concentrating during their early school years, a study reports Monday.That's about as far into the article I got, after that I started to go make myself so
Answering Machine Inventor Hears His 'Beep'
TheIndyChannel.com - News - Inventor Of Telephone Answering Machine Dies
The man who invented the telephone answering machine has died at age 92. Joseph Zimmermann Jr., who died Wednesday, crafted the machine in 1948 and patented it a year later.Memorials can be left with name, number and a brief message after the tone.
Monday, April 05, 2004
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Comment of the (last) Week
This week's (actually, "last week's," because I've been slacking) winner comes from a post where we told you about a soccer player (football, by the UK's standards) who was punished for helping authorities capture a streaker in the midst of a game.
As always, click below to see the winning comment.
Stay with it: there are only two more weeks left! That's right, BS.com's Bitch & Win will announce its final winner on April 21! Which means prizes will be going out soon. Keep reading, bitching and winning.
In the meanwhile, I'm going back to policing myself.
Faster, Damnit
New Scientist | Flash mob supercomputer misses its target:
An ambitious attempt to build a makeshift supercomputer from hundreds of random laptops has missed its target of breaking into the list of the world's top 500 fastest machines.Aww...
More than 700 volunteers gathered at the University of San Francisco on Saturday to build the "flash mob supercomputer" using their own laptops. But many of the volunteered computers were simply too unreliable for the whole system to run "in parallel" for long enough to reach top speed.Windows: again.
A Long Read
Size does matter : Prominent penis gives cold-dwelling mammals an edge.
A study of animals across the world has confirmed what many men have long suspected - a large penis can be a recipe for success in the mating game.*Grumbles*
The value of an impressive organ depends on the terrain, however. Animals at high latitudes tend to benefit more from being better endowed than species in more hospitable climes, according to Steven Ferguson of the Freshwater Institute in Winnipeg, Canada, and Serge Larivière from the Delta Waterfowl Foundation in Portage La Prairie, Canada.And yes: this article is a serious as you expect it to be from the samples above.
How's 9 column inches on a penis bone sound to ya?
That's scientific journalism.
Déjà vu
CNN.com - Campus blocked off after shooting at dance
Police restricted access to the Madison, New Jersey, campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University after a student was shot and wounded during an "escalating confrontation" at a student dance, university officials said Sunday.Remember the high school shootings of years past?
They're in college now.
Leadership a la Smashed
The Ball State Daily News - ALCOHOL: SGA vice president ticketed for minor consumption Sunday morning
Law enforcement officials said the vice president of the Student Government Association was cited for underage drinking at a weekend fraternity party.Not so good.
However, she strongly denies being cited.Really not so good.
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