SATURDAY, 11/18/2000, 9:58pm HST by Penfold
The "New Big Chair" Edition

Just got back from Costco with my new big leather chair, a steal for only $140. And to Raul, small kine hung over my ass.

Looks like no hockey til tuesday. Bet the women are happy about that. 11/21/00 ESPN2 Toronto vs. New York at 2PM and 11PM.

Nothing really new on the 3dfx card scene. Gamespot says that the v5-6000 will run 1600x1200 and FSAA at 65 fps. Lets see a Geforce2 Ultra do that. 3dfx also says that they are shooting for a 9 month product cycle. Check out the article here.

On the nVidia front, there are some rumors floating around about the upcoming NV20 chip. It is supposed to be approximately 50% faster than the Geforce2 Ultra. Read the story here.

In an appropriately named article, Apus Hardware has some homemade heatsinks on display. IMHO if I had done this, I wouldn't be posting it on my web page, kinda like Raul's zip drive door. But check out the barbarism here.

Soon be to upon us, 3D holographic projection without special glasses. Just like R2D2 in Star Wars. Read the Wired story about it here.

Instead of arguing the relative merits of contributing your spare computer cycles to cracking encryption or finding alien life, how about something we can all agree on: Making money. Donate your spare processor cycles to your favorite charity, yourself. Process Tree has just announced signing it first paying sponsor. Read their announcement here.

Strangely, this article never mentioned Colombia's #1 cash crop. That would at least make lots of the food service workers real happy. Sniff out the story here.

SATURDAY, 11/18/2000, 2:50pm HST by Raul
The "small kine hanging" edition

I will have to banish the thought of a large posting; it gives me a headache.

So this stuff was invented a while ago: ballistic armor for dogs (i.e. bulletproof vest). Some phil-caninist donated a bunch of vests to this police station (I think in Florida). This is the first actual photograph of the vests I have seen. If you can spot the linguistic misappropriation in this post, you're pretty sharp.

More "am i ..." madness: Am I Goth or Not?, from the Lemur. This fad is getting out of hand. Here are some Tokenasians-proposed sites (hey, maybe we should actually make one of them):

• Amigaylookingornot.com (a variant of doilookgayornot.com)
• Amialiveornot.com
• Amimaleornot.com (sister site to amifemaleornot.com)
• Amil33tornot.com
• Amihumanornot.com

Dammit, that was a good-sized shipment

VANCOUVER (Reuters) -- A military reservist faces sentencing next month after pleading guilty to smuggling marijuana into the United States in a Canadian army vehicle, a U.S. court official said on Wednesday.

Well the Firingsquab just posted a preview and a review of two of the most promising games I have seen in a while: No One Lives Forever and Mechwarrior 4:Vengeance. Check em out. NOLF even took an Editor's Choice award, last awarded, I believe, to Ground Control. Mac-o-philes need not apply.

SATURDAY, 11/18/2000, 1:58pm HST by Penfold
The "Deep Frying" Edition

Not Really a full blown news post, just a little bit of self advertising.

As some of you know already, I'm planning to do deep fried turkey this Thanksgiving. Check out here or here or here for more information on deep fried turkeys.
Why am I tell you this? Because I will do your your whole turkey or chicken for you, donations will be accepted (a few B rips should be fine). Email Penfold for more info or if you want me to fry it up.

While I'm on the deep frying trip, I saw this little deep fryer on FoodTV. Looks to be a neat little thing for whipping up small batches for fried food. No spatter deep frying, with automatic rotation. Fordman should get himself one of these things. You can buy one from here, but there are probably cheaper places if you look.

SATURDAY, 11/18/2000, 1:58am HST by Penfold
The "Playing Tribes All Night" Edition

The newest patch of Tribes now comes with full openGL support, so here I am, playing it til 1AM. I feel like I'm back in law school.

Arnold's new movies is out, called The 6th Day. When you see Arnold describing his movie as "A movie that is based on a very emotional story, very dramatic story," you know it's going to blow. You can read an interview about the movie here.

Speaking of movies that blow, looks like Battlefield Earth may be having some problems. Battlefield Earth is some odd science fiction story about invaders of the earth written by long dead Ron L. Hubbard. Its star, John Travolta, wants to do a little post production editing to make the movie better before its release in Germany. I suspect that this stinker of a movie is going to need more than some editing, try a new story and new lead actor. Read the story here.

Now that you're thinking about the end of the world, Daily Radar has an article about the The 15 Coolest Apocalypse Bringers. The only reason I mention this article is they remembered Unicron from The Transformers Movie.

While not as cool as the Lego Star Wars, this Japanese web site has both the Lego Monty Python's Holy Grail and scenes from The Lego Matrix. I think these Japanese people need to get out more.

With all the election madness, I'd vote for this canidate.

Bangkok (Reuters) -- A police officer told reporters some of the [beauty pageant] contestant had complained of unfair competition saying Kesaraporn was actually male.

Hit up the full story here.

FRIDAY, 11/17/2000, 7:30pm HST by Raul
"Only one day off this week" edition

Here's a familiar sight for all your R6/RS junkies: Malaysian commandos took part in a joint exercise aboard the Japanese coast guard vessel Shikishima. The SMG's are MP5's, and the pistol is hard to see, I suspect it's a Sig P226.

These from Tef, DO NOT LOOK AT THESE AT WORK! Well unless you have co-workers/boss with a sense of humor. The "rate my ..." site fad has hit that critical juncture: Rate My Rack specializes in, well, racks, and Rate My Goodies specializes in male and female genitalia. Not too many female ones yet though, so be warned.

In conjunction with the DW retirement story, AP moved this photo of DW, right, winning some 300 mile race at Daytona in 1978. Ah, seriously heavy metal. Those were the days.

In keeping with our appreciation for fast vehicles, here's a shot of the Acela Express, the USA's first bullet train. It hit 150mph on its maiden trip, shown here, setting an Amtrak speed record.

So there it is, the next generation of blotter acid, just one small piece like that will set you up for three days. Nah, it's the chad of "hanging chad" fame. Can you believe all this shit is over a little piece of paper like that? I just posted this because it looks so illegal.

Here's a little submission from Weid: This guy has a job torture-testing Ferraris. Man, what a deal. The page has a few other cool video clips too, for you bandwidth happy people. Check it out here.

THURSDAY, 11/16/2000, 11:58pm HST by Penfold
The "All Fuddy" Edition

I'm having my fuddy moment currently. I say feh to Stecks. But I will drop the atomic news bomb just for you readers.

Jack in the Box must be paying their advertising company a lot of money. Their latest ad gimmick, the Meaty Cheesy Boys, now have their own web site. Check it out here. Featuring 2 new songs and various other crap.

The rumors of 3dfx's demise may have been premature (to the chagrin of the nVidiaites). It seems that 3dfx is going to divest themselves from the actual production of video cards, but not of the retail market. It seems that 3dfx wants to offload the production to third parties while continuing to sell them as Voodoo products. Check out the superior FSAA of the story here.

The rumors of Iridium's demise have also been over-exaggerated. Iridium Satellite LLC has announced that they will buy all the assets of Iridium LLC. Looks like someone is willing to float the satellites and provide people with around-the-world service. Gaze upon the story here.

For the person who has everything. Bet they don't have their own satellite (no, I'm not taking about the Toshiba laptop). What are you going to do with your very own $45k orbiting hunk of metal? Read the story here.

Nothing like some mindless computer destruction to start off the night off right. Eight hard drives vs. .50 cal bullet. Advantage, bullet. See all the computer carnage here.

After destroying your hardware, why not trying out one of these extra funky cases, made by Computers Divine. If not for the cool marbleized finish, get it for the 11 80mm fans.

If you're planning to run 11 fans, you're probably going to need to run an extra power supply. Hardware OC has some instructions here on how to wire up your second power supply without having to plug it into the motherboard.

Our friend Kevin B (who lives in SF, the land of $1600 a month, 1 bedroom apartments) has his own little web site up. While not quite as hard core as this page, it does have a lot of pictures of his travels around the world. Check it out here. And no Kevin, I'm not going to ho myself to MS Frontpage 2000.

Looks like some of our army boys got caught smuggling some high grade BC bud down from Canada.

On a side note, I overheard a conversation from a co-worker about how she had went to the SF Cannabis Buyer's Club as an "observer". She mentioned that they have everything from the Mexi to the northern lights. But some how I suspect she may have been more than just a "casual observer".

Think you are the bad ass shit? Think you could teach the Baywatch actors a few lessons (not acting lessons, we all know they could use that)? Well find out what the world thinks. Submit you photo to Am I Hot or Not and let people vote on how hot you are. If you plan to submit a photo, it looks like showing some skin definitely helps.

A customer walked into a restaurant to be seated. "Smoking or non-smoking?" asked the hostess. The customer replied "Tobacco smoking?" Looking very confused, the hostess said, "Ummm, yeah, non-tobacco smoking?" The customer answered, "Non-smoking then."

THURSDAY, 11/16/2000, 1:30pm HST by Raul
The News Nut

Hot on the heels of the inhumane weapons list, the Daily Radar has posted the 10 coolest looking assault rifles1 list. Their comment about the French is particularly dirty.

Foxnews finally got up the naked tree hugger article. Even features the same photo we had.

For all of you that love free shit (read: contests), Littlewhitedog is giving away an a 30 Gig - IBM Deskstar 75GXP hard drive. Now who couldn't use more hard drive space? Feel free to use your tokenasians email address to enter.

Well this is a doctor talking about France's first genetically screened baby. Evidently, the mother had a history of losing children due to genetic defects, so they checked out the genetics of her latest one before she gave birth. It was normal. But, as the good doctor points out, it may have superior genes.

The Vespa moped, featured prominently in American Grafitti, is making a comeback in the United States. With a full-scale all-hype Hollywood launch, celebs like Kirstie Alley are pitching the new ped, which the manufacturer hopes experiences "Beetle-like" nostalgic popularity.

In a meeting mimicking the infamous Brett Hull in-the-crease goal of the '99 Stanley Cup campaign, Buffalo and Dallas squared off Wednesday at HSBC Arena in New York. Above, the Stars' Jere Lehtinen goes flying over prone Sabres' goalie Dominik Hasek. The game played to a 2-2 tie.

• Joe Amato, the winningest top fuel driver in the NHRA, finally called it quits after a first-round loss in the NHRA finals.
• In Winston Cup, Darrel Waltrip also called it quits. Here's a reflection article on his career at the official NASCAR site.

Here we have some photographic evidence that our earlier Comdex article link was true. Doesn't the guy in the back look like Hypothermia Steve?

WEDNESDAY, 11/15/2000, 7:58pm HST by Penfold
The "Home in Manoa" Edition

If anyone actually looks, I spelled wednesday correct for once.

From our friends at The Onion come the latest news about the presidential election.

El Presidente Clinton

Fed up of not being in the spotlight for once, President Clinton named himself El Presidente, proclaiming Nov. 14 a new national holiday as "Day One of Americlintonian Year Zero."
Read the whole story here.

Bush Retakes New Mexico

Not to be outdone, President-might-be-elect W. offically changed his name to "W". He joins the illustrious ranks of TAFKAP and Carrot Head for the stupidest stage name.

Now to the point, W. has decided to take control the the election the old fashion way, by killing off Democrats. W. had 253 N.M. Democrats summarily executed. W. justified his actions by saying, "It has Mexico in it's name, just just pretend their Zapatistas."
Read the story here.

"Decisive Action was Necessary"

In response to the ongoing conflict over the U.S. election, Serbia has deployed 30,000 peacekeeping troops to ensure an orderly secession of power.

"We must do all we can to support free elections in America and allow democracy to gain a foothold there," Serbian President Kostunica said. "The U.S. is a major player in the Western Hemisphere and its continued stability is vital to Serbian interests in that region."

Read the whole story here.

Just thinking about all the RC5 blocks these things could put out makes me all hot and bothered. Check out the big iron here.

Ed. note: Penfold needs to go on more dates.

Check out these exhibitionist cats, busting out a 3 way for the camera. Courtesy of our friends at ilovebacon.com.

And you thought that the cat 3 way was the lowest we'd go, you now stand corrected. These anatomically correct stuffed animals are part of the Erection Collection. Just right for your next bachelorette party.

WEDNESDAY, 11/15/2000, 1:45am HST by Raul

This isn't fresh news or anything, but here's Paul Allen at the opening of his Experience Music Project museum in Seattle. Here's the caption: "While Bill Gates spends his billions immunizing children in sub-Saharan Africa, funding minority scholarships and helping the homeless, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has built a memorial to guitarist Jimi Hendrix and is funding the search for extraterrestrial life."

That's a Dale Chihuly glass guitar he's holding there. And yes, he does smash it. I bet Dale was stoked.

This is Enrique Rivas. He's using a torch to shape a piece of hand-blown glass during the 7th annual Las Cruces International Mariachi Conference. First of all, I didn't even know mariachis had a conference. Second of all, there are only a couple of things people make out of hand-blown glass these days...

Here's a little bit from Schala, an inane little Web app called Wuname. It gives you a hyped-up "rap name." It's really kind of ridiculous, but might be good for a few laughs.

1. New Jersey Devils' Jay Pandolfo jump-screens San Jose Sharks' goaltender Evgeni Nabokov, but Nabokov stopped the shot anyway. The Devils tried, but it was to no avail; the lost 3-2. They are on a six-game losing streak.
2. Tampa Bay Lightning's Paul Mara is checked by Montreal Canadiens' Arron Asham in a game Tuesday night.
3. Toronto Maple Leafs captain Mats Sundin listens at a team practice in Toronto Tuesday. Sundin (who is one ugly moe right now) caught a puck in the face this weekend. He doesn't usually wear a visor but will be wearing one as the injury, which took 15 stitches to close and left him with two black eyes, heals. He will take it off once it heals, he said.

In other NHL news:

• The Colorado Avalanche's star center Peter Forsberg is out indefinitely with a rib injury suffered during Saturday's win over Anaheim. But if Colorado has one thing going for it, it's depth ...
• It's the Avalanche vs. the Blues on Thursday ....
• I'll link to this Iwon roundup article because it actually has a cool picture.

The shadow of Egghead

US e-tailer CDW has become the latest in a string of dotcoms to cock-up its online pricing.

But the company says it will not honour the price, which offered Quantum hard drives at around half of what they should have cost.

As the Reg reports, this women started a service for women to catch their errant significant others doing the nasty online. The catch is that he has to be an AOLuser. The Reg link is bad, click here if you really want to see the site. WARNING: The site has music on it.

TUESDAY, 11/14/2000, 10:58am HST by Penfold
The "Super Fast FTP" Edition

After Raul yanged at the web hosting company, looks like they fixed it all up. Even the ftp server is super fast now.

And you thought the price of housing was bad in Hawaii. Today's Honolulu Advertiser business section (which Raul lays out) says that San Francisco and San Jose have higher median home prices than Hawaii. The prices are so high, the Mayor of San Jose can't even afford a home there with his 78k salary and his wife's income. Read the story here.

Looks like 3dfx has decided not to produce the V5-6000 quad processor vid card afterall. It turns out they are going to license it instead to Quantum3d (A high end graphics company). Some hard core 3dfx fans have started a petition to get Quantum3d to release it to the public.

UPDATE: Looks like 3dfx is getting out of the whole building the video cards. Check out the story here. So, like nVidia, they'll sell the chips to 3rd parties to produce. Looks like they're headed back to their roots.

The Daily Radar Direct hit has an article about the 10 most inhumane weapons. They include napalm, sarin nerve gas, etc... Though the #1 weapon was predictable without reading the article. Check it out here.

We should get on FoxNew's case for stealing our content (like we've never done it). Looks like some one over there finally got around to posting the story about the testicles cells for stroke victims. Read it here.

Looks like someone has designed software that uses your web cam to monitor you head movement and translate into controller inputs. Hmmm, I could see this being implemented in an adult entertainment cd-rom. Vivid, if you steal this idea from me, I want royalties. Drool over the story here.

NSI, the people who used to be in charge of registering domain names, got sued by a company trying to register a dirty url. Ends up, someone else registered the names while NSI had their head in their ass. Leer at the story here. One of the most amusing pr0n URLs I've seen is jarjarpinks.com. Unfortunately it is no longer up (though still registered to someone) and may have succumbed from excessive litigation.

TUESDAY, 11/14/2000, 1:40am HST by Raul
"Not doing so well in meeting my promised deadlines" edition

A little hockey tit-for-tat. St. Louis Blues' Tyson Nash hits Vancouver Canucks' Brent Sopel at right, and Vancouver Canucks' Trent Klatt hits St. Louis Blues' Alexander Khavanov at left. See, helmets really do go flying in real hockey. This game happened on Saturday.

These cycles with just one wheel are designed and built in Xian, in China's Shanxi province, and sell for 2,888 Chinese yuan (US $350). This just downright strange. You have a wheel right in front of your face. Isn't that dangerous?

Hug them trees

Dona Nieto stands in the center of a logging road to stop an approaching logging truck in Westport, Calif., Nov. 1, 2000. Nieto puts a spin on her work, calling her actions the "striptease for the trees."

Nieto signed the petitions and made the phone calls that have become a largely ignored fixture in the campaign to save California's old-growth trees from logging, and found they "were getting us nowhere fast." Then she took off her shirt and heard chainsaws fall silent for the first time.

"They don'tknow what hit them," she says.

... for winning the Women's 4 Nations Cup in Provo, Utah, late last week. At left, Canada's Vicky Sunohara, left, is taken down by The United States' Karyn Bye, and at right, Canada's Jayna Hefford leaves Team USA players Winny Brodt and Juli Chu, right, behind as she skates off with the puck. Canada beat Team USA 2-0 to win the gold. Hmm, a lot of Asian girls in that league ... maybe they should televise it.

MONDAY, 11/13/2000, 1:30am HST by Raul

I was all ready to post at about 2 a.m. yesterday, but the FTP server was down. Then, just now, I downloaded the newest version of the index, and promptly overwrote the post I had prepared. Fucking Dreamhost. Here it is again:

Yes, kids, stay in shcool. Because it's cool. Just ask these guys.

1. Frank Pedregon's funny car, right, comes apart after colliding with Scotty Cannon's car during qualifying Friday, Nov. 10, 2000, during the Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals at Pomona Raceway. Neither driver was injured, but I can't say the same for the cars.
2. Pittsburgh Penguins' Jan Hrdina (38) puts the puck past New Jersey Devils' goaltender Chris Terreri during the third period Friday night, Nov. 10, 2000. I guess the question is, what was Terreri doing so far out of the box? The Penguins beat the Devils 4-2.
3. Well, whaddya know, chicks DO play hockey. Canada's Heyley Wickerheiser, right, is checked by Finland's Petra Vaarakallio during the Women's Four Nations Cup held in Provo, Utah. Team USA faced team Canada in the finals. I'll post the winner later.

I know the perfect guy for the job ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) -- Germans unaware that they must not throw fish heads in the same rubbish bin as beer cans had better start learning -- rubber-gloved squads of garbage police are out in force to catch them.

City councils across the country have started dispatching staff to sift through bins to ensure households separate their garbage correctly and to fine wrongdoers.

Here's an interesting item I stumbled across, the DUO-MP3 digital music player. It plays MP3s directly out through a headphone jack, or you can throw the thing in a tape player and play them. Question is, how much memory can it possibly have? And who the heck has tape players anymore?

Oh, my, has someone been caught red-handed? From the looks of it, this guy is one of those plentiful inbred folk.

"Hana okolele, brok' your okolele, play da ukulele ..."

More news around noon.

SUNDAY, 11/12/2000, 11:58pm HST by Penfold
The "Midnight" Edition

Don't blame us for no new content, our web server's ftp was down. Raul should be posting some real content soon.

In the ongoing presidential soap opera (the one without the blow jobs), looks like the Bush camp is the first to file suit. I'd be litigation if I went from being ahead by 1800 votes ahead to only 300 ahead. So much for keeping the election out of the courts. Read the story here.

Looks like Intel is about to release the 733 and 766 flavors of the Celeron2 processor. They'd better do something before the AMD Duron owns the budget market. But I had Intel beat, when the RR guy came to install the RR, me noted the processor as a "850 Celeron". Read the whole story here.

Here is a person who built an Atari 2600, gameboy sized. IMHO it would have been easier to port the games into the PalmOS. Hit up the story here.