Friday, April 16, 2004
MSNBC - Sisters' Keeper
MSNBC - Sisters' Keeper
A new book goes undercover into America's sororities and finds that many of the stereotypes are shockingly true.Fucking duh.
Some Hard Hitting News
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | US porn industry hit by HIV fear
Leading figures in the US pornography industry have called for all adult movie production to cease for two months because of fears of an HIV epidemic among its stars.Gives a whole new meaning to "type casting."
The Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation called for production to cease for two months while all actors were tested for the virus. The proposal has been seconded by the industry's trade publication, Adult Video News.They have a Health Care Foundation?
Take this as you will:Jill Kelly, a former porn star who runs her own production company, said: "Anyone who continues to shoot at this point are complete idiots."
More Power to the...Power?
CNN.com - White House mulls new top intelligence post
WASHINGTON -- The White House is considering the creation of a powerful new post to oversee all of the nation's intelligence agencies, Bush administration officials said Friday.Strange, isn't that the President's job?
Verizon Now Getting Ass Kicked
Yahoo! News - AT&T Wireless Service to Name That Tune
NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Wireless Services Inc. (NYSE:AWE - news) said on Thursday it launched a music recognition service that identifies songs for mobile phone customers, from a database of about 1 million songs.Still no cure for cancer.
When a customer presses #43 on any AT&T Wireless phone and holds the handset near a speaker, the company says it will send back a text message containing the title of the song playing and the singer's name for 99 cents, on top of call charges.
Thursday, April 15, 2004
Speaking Now
MSNBC - Groening to lend his voice to 'The Simpsons'
Matt Groening, creator of “The Simpsons,” will make his first guest voice appearance on Sunday’s show, Fox network said.Hm - you know contract negotiations must be sucking ass...
Smile
Sex-tape investigation involves Litchfield Park teen:
Did girls bare their breasts for a video that may have been shot on the campus of a Goodyear high school?Adding, "Besides - I thought I took that tape home weeks ago..."
The possibility was raised Wednesday as Maricopa County sheriff's deputies announced a sex-tape investigation involving a 15-year-old Litchfield Park boy.
The suspect, a freshman at Millennium High School, 14802 W. Wigwam Blvd., is accused of secretly videotaping three 14-year-old female classmates invited to his house.
Doug Wilson, superintendent of the Agua Fria High School District, said he's not aware of any improper videotaping at the school.
"This is news to us," Wilson told The Arizona Republic. "It would come as a giant surprise if a tape like this is found."
Oops... She'll Do It Again
Britney planning TV show:
Britney Spears is reportedly in negotiations to produce and star in her own reality TV series.Eh - have her sign on Friday, give her the weekend to think about it, and she'll be out of the "engagement" before the following Wednesday.
[Props to Ryan Miller for the link.]
The Column
Boy - this one ought to get some reactions.
The Ball State Daily News - BEWILDERED SOCIETY: 'Guy code' ruins party enjoyment
[UPDATE: I've posted (albeit early) a copy of the unedited version of this column under my column section here @ BS.com. If there's one column you read unedited, make this one it!]
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
Newsday.com - U.S. Air Marshal Forgets Gun in Restroom:
CLEVELAND -- A federal air marshal accidentally left her gun in a restroom at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, an airport spokeswoman said Friday.This, ladies and gentleman: your first line of homeland security defense.
$3.2 Million Blown to Sh-t
E! Online News - Trump Doubles "Apprentice" Pay:
Donald 'You're fired!' Trump says he has negotiated a new contract with NBC that will purportedly double his take home pay for the next two seasons of The Apprentice.Again, that buzzword?
...not catching.
The President is Speaking
"I do the best I do to console them."
-President Bush, speaking of his communications with 9|11 victims during a press conference moments ago
Monday, April 12, 2004
Round and Round
Man wins $270,600 after betting life savings
A man who put his life savings on the line took home $270,600 in a double-or-nothing roulette wheel gamble at the Plaza Hotel and Casino.Ballsy.
Ashley Revell, 32, a London man who said he liquidated all his possessions to fund his leap of faith, put $135,300 on red at the roulette table Sunday as a film crew videotaped his wager.
Sunday, April 11, 2004
Not Funny
Reuters: Parents of 'Weird Al' Yankovic Found Dead:
SAN FRANCISCO - The elderly parents of parody musician 'Weird Al' Yankovic have died of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning at their home outside San Diego, the county medical examiner's office said.
Say No More
The Salt Lake Tribune -- Potential weapons pile up at SLC airport
What type of crap do TSA officials pick up at security checkpoints?
For starters, there was the guy who tried to board his flight with a can of gasoline. "He told [TSA agents] that he knew his car's gas tank was empty at the airport in Kansas City," said Earl Morris, Transportation Security Administration director for Salt Lake City. "He wanted to fill it up when he got there."
Oh but wait - we're wasteful, too.
Passengers can make arrangements to get confiscated items back, though most of the monthly stockpiles are picked up by the Genera Services Administration and disposed of. But not all of it. Since the beginning of the year, travelers also have unknowingly left $3,319 at Salt Lake International's security checkpoints. Those contributions go into the agency's general fund.Bastards.
'Awe'some
ESPN.com - MLB - Tear jerker: Steinbrenner cries on TV
George Steinbrenner started blubbering on TV during a pregame show Thursday, the second straight day that he had been moved to tears.Yes, that's right: they said "blubbering."
On Wednesday, during a surprise telephone call from Roger Clemens, Steinbrenner broke down when the Rocket thanked him for making him a Yankee.
NASA Claims to Have Done Something
RedNova News: NASA Develops a Black Box for People
Just as a plane's black box records crucial mechanical data, NASA's device, the CPOD (pronounced "see-pod"), keeps track of biological data, like changes in heart rate, the amount of oxygen in the blood stream, how the wearer is moving ... and much more.F#cking big brother...
'Peek-a-boo'
Edmonton Journal - Highrises threaten nude beach:
VANCOUVER -- For the sunbathers of Vancouver's renowned Wreck Beach, the pending development of 'Peekaboo Towers' that would overlook the famous nude locale is, well, unnatural.Insert journalism punny text here....
The University of B.C., which provides access to Wreck Beach, has recently unveiled plans to build four 20-storey high-rise residences for nearly 2,000 students. It is not known when the project would be completed.
The nude beachgoers say students living in the residences will be able to see all of God's creation.Yes - college dorms overlooking a nude beach.
That's a room with a view.
Big Surprise
CNN.com - Bush: Memo had no 'actionable intelligence'
President Bush said Sunday that an intelligence memo he read shortly before September 11, 2001, contained no "actionable intelligence" that would have helped him to try to prevent the 9/11 attacks.
The briefing was headlined, "Bin Laden Determined To Strike in US."
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