SATURDAY, 1/27/2001, 8:55pm HST by Raul and Penfold

From left to right:

1. Saves like these made Byron Dafoe a major player in the Bruins' 4-3 victory over the NJ Devils yesterday in overtime. The puck is going over the top of the net after Dafoe's deflection.
2. A random check shot from the Sharks vs. Stars game yesterday. Richard Jackman gets a stick in the face as San Jose Sharks right wing Matt Bradley goes over the wall into the Stars bench in the first period in Dallas yesterday.
3. This isn't really news, but here's a pic of San Jose Sharks' goalie Evgeni Nabokov, who has been making quite a stir as one of the best rookie goalies this year. San Jose beat St. Louis in OT today, which we watched on the TVs at Costco hehe.

More: Here's a link to video of the infamous McSorley high stick to the head of Don Brashear.

Rice racing on Salon

MILPITAS, Calif. -- If you have never experienced the rush of accelerating to 110 mph in a Mazda RX-7, here is a quick primer: First, you are walloped by a hollow sensation in the bottom of your belly. The shock of acceleration presses you back into the curve of the leather bucket seat, your head tilted back against the headrest. You feel compelled to grab the handle of the door, hoping for some solid reassurance that the pavement has not just become liquid beneath your wheels. You can't decide whether to hold your breath or laugh in giddy exhilaration.

Also from Salon: Darva Conger starts up a Web site.

Think you got what it takes to "bodge" together a win in junkyard wars? Apply here. I really with they'd get rid of that faggot Americano they have now and bring back the sour British guy.

Couple of funny ones from Bangedup.com:

LEFT: What really should be in Cosmo.
RIGHT: What really happened to all of Pets.com's money

Check out totalflava's Classic Old School Hip Hop. A little longer playlist than biaggi's.

Fish story

OSLO (Reuters) -- A blind cod has swum into the same net about 35 times in a Norwegian fjord and is only alive because a soft-hearted fisherman frees him each time.

FRIDAY, 1/26/2001, 10:58pm HST by Penfold
The "End of the Week" Edition

Man, I feel like such the wage slave today. And to Raul, you can lick my feh.

Now if they can just teach him to jump over the moon. Read about the jumping cow here.

Join the Pot Smokers RC5 team. bet SETI doesn't have a team like that.

Coming soon to a DVD near you.

Want to win your next cricket match? How about bribing the other team with sex. Ah, wonderful bribery. Read about it here.

Check out Andrew Magee's amazing par 4 hole in one here (real video) or here (win media player).

FRIDAY, 1/26/2001, 12:45pm HST by Raul

Well broadband has its advantages, and streaming audio from Live365 is one of them. Check out biaggi's old school sh*t from back in the day, located at 216.32.166.89:13672. Copy that number and add it as a URL in Winamp, or go to Live365 and search for biaggi as a broadcaster.

P.S. His playlist is kinda short, and we have to forgive him for the N2Deep and Snoop Dogg covers. But heck, pop crap back in the day is worlds better than everything today.

I can always count on my man Alan Greenspan to come through for me. You thought this sillyness was over eh?

This is scary. Apparently, the same technology that draws the yellow first-down line can be used to digitally add ads onto football broadcasts, as evidenced by the PVI ad between the goalposts in this shot. Not only scary, but likely to incite a revolt among red-blooded American football watchers everywhere.

This from roch: check out the "dumbgoalie" video clip here. While you're at it, check out the rest of the site, which is supposedly for "goalies only." Try to leave and see what it tells you about goalie philosophy.

LEFT: St. Louis Blues Pierre Turgeon scores the game-winning goal in OT against New Jersey Devils' goalie Martin Brodeur last night in St. Louis. Check the recap here.

RIGHT: Despite saves like this from goalie Jamie Storr, the L.A. Kings lost 0-3 at home last night to the Calgary Flames. Check the recap here.

THURSDAY, 1/25/2001, 8:58pm HST by Penfold
The "PC133 CAS2 Luvin'" Edition

Got some PC133 CAS2 256meg sticks of ram today. Works as advertised, had to bump up the voltage a little though, not bad for $165 a stick.

Work has finally gotten around to it and they are sending me to the frozen north. So from monday til friday, I'll be up there.

Microsquish first said it as a DNS config error. But now it looks like it may have been a DDoS attack. If you couldn't get on hotmail or MSN this morning, this is why.

DirecTV has struck back against scofflaws who have been hacking their smart cards. Very devious trick by DirecTV, read about it here.

Thats all the news for today.

THURSDAY, 1/25/2001, 1:30pm HST by Raul
Gong xi fa cai

So yesterday afternoon, there was a lion dance at work. It was a pretty decent sized production, starting off with a string of firecrackers outside (sounded like a 10 or 20k tau), as you can see by the number of people covering their ears. I must be somewhat immune after all these years of partying at the cul-de-sac of ill repute, because it didn't seem all that loud to me.

After some preliminaries outside, the lions made their way inside and a pretty large crowd gathered, normally cubicle-bound people that seemed extra happy to have a spectacle of this magnitude going on at a normally business-as-usual building.

Anyway, after "feeding" a bit outside, the lions made their way into the art gallery and eventually through the advertising department. And they even came into the office, now that's something you don't see too often. Stopped in front of my desk and attracted quite a crowd. The drum and gongs couldn't make it up the stairs so it was a relatively quiet affair.

Which brings me to the point: happy (belated) Chinese news year everyone, go get drunk or something. I had to go to Kobe and have a few drinks to celebrate.

Above, there's just something about Blues games and people getting checked into the bench.

In NHL news: Dallas Stars' backup goalie Marty Turco went very cold in the first 2000 Stanley Cup rematch yesterday in Dallas, allowing 4 goals on 7 shots in the first and being yanked as New Jersey defeated Dallas 4-1.

Mario Lemieux had a natural hat trick in the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-1 win over the Montreal Canadiens yesterday.

(Blue) chips get cheaper

Intel will kick off aggressive chip pricing this weekend amid high PC inventories and slow sales. The chipmaker, sources close to the company say, will cut prices by more than 40 percent on some desktop chips. Many chips in its mobile arsenal will fall by more than 30 percent.

Gotta go wrench on car now, so this post gets cut short.

WEDNESDAY, 1/24/2001, 8:58pm HST by Penfold
The "Loads of Content" Edition

I feel so guilty, searching for content at work.

Need some flowers? Try Anuhea Flowers for proteas. Pictured above is an actual arrangement. They even have web based ordering. Check them out here.

DailyRadar.com has a story about how Vince McMann should improve the game to get people to watch. Read the story here.

Yes, you people who thought that the original pic was fake, here's another one. Read the whole story and the debate on if the pic is fake or not here.

For those people who listen to Hawaii Public Radio, the station broadcast is now available via a Real audio stream here.

Matrix style replays. Using 33 camera spread around the field, CBS promises to give us a new replay looks. Check out the story here.

Coming soon to a theater to you, Stanley Kubrick's magnum opus, A.I. See a trailer of it here.

WEDNESDAY, 1/24/2001, 12:30pm HST by Raul
"RR day" +1

I finally gave in to the dark side and got Road Runner installed. Verizon couldn't give me DSL service, so I'm "stuck" with the evil RR. That means that *gasp* people can actually call me on the phone now! Not like anyone will after all these years of tied up phone line, but it's something to keep in mind.

This reminds me of that ESPN commercial series, about the sports you care about. Apparently in Turkey, camel wrestling is a popular winter sporting event. For the PETA people out there, camels supposedly naturally fight over their females, so the Turks organize such competitions and watch.

Above, that's Crazy Camel and The Light wrestling in front of female camel, Emine, right. This was Sunday during Turkey's largest camel wrestling festival in the Aegean town of Selcuk.

Littlewhitedog is giving away a 30gig IBM 75GXP hard drive. Just enter your email.

Stileproject tipped me off to this one (see it's good for something): you can win a non-speaking walk-on role in Kevin Smith's new movie, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.Hm, if I wasn't speaking, I know what I'd be doing on screen ...

Tef reports that he had to bring in colored mufflers which are bound to be the latest trend among Honda punkalinguses everywhere. Apparently, these are colored with a process similar to the process used to stain titanium. Either that or they ARE stained titanium.

Schala send me this link to an interesting clock Web app. Just try it and see.

Stonin' without burnin'

San Francisco, CA -- Medical marijuana patients may be able to protect themselves from harmful toxins in marijuana smoke by inhaling their medicine using an electric vaporizer, according to initial results of a study by California NORML and Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS).

The study showed that it is possible to vaporize medically active tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) by heating marijuana to a temperature short of the point of combustion, thereby eliminating or substantially reducing potentially harmful smoke toxins that are normally present in marijuana smoke. Vaporizers may therefore substantially reduce what is widely regarded as the leading health concern associated with marijuana, namely respiratory harm due to smoking.

Methinks I shall be retiring from the SETI@home project somewhere around 200 results. The new client is just too buggy to use.

TUESDAY, 1/23/2001, 5:58pm HST by Penfold
The "" Edition

Very interesting concept.

Seems that the Clinton staffers are a bit salty about being unemployed. So they've taken it upon themselves to remove the W key from the keyboard. Read the whole story here.

PC Stats is reporting that lots of people have Napster on their computer. And lots of people with broadband have Napster too. As if we didn't know that already. As Raul will soon find out, broadband + napster + cdrw = pure evil. Read the story here.

These are some really good commercials that didn't make the Super Bowl, but were damm good. Check out the full list here. I highly recommend this one.

Hockey Time

Hockey times for the week of 1/21/01 for those without satellite tv. This week looks pretty sparse.

• ESPN2-23 Wed, Jan 24, 2001 3:00 PM "New Jersey Devils at Dallas Stars"
• ESPN2-23 Wed, Jan 24, 2001 11:00 PM "New Jersey Devils at Dallas Stars"
• Sat, Jan 27, 2001 3:00 PM "San Jose Sharks at St. Louis Blues"

TUESDAY, 1/23/2001, 12:45pm HST by Raul
The "RR-day" edition

Maybe you've seen these little photoshop jobs that place a short red plastic (IMHO POS) bong in GWB's hands. Well here's the guy's homepage.

St. Louis Blues defenseman and captain Chris Pronger, above, will be missing 4-6 weeks following arthroscopic surgery today to repair damaged cartilege in his knee. The Blues are already out star forward Pavol Demitra and have been in a slump as of late. They are now 5 points behind the league-leading Colorado Avalanche, though they still retain second-best overall record.

In other hockey news: Philadelphia Flyers' star winger John Leclair will be out 6-8 more weeks due to an infection in his back. Leclair has played only 8 games this season for Philly.

Hawaii-born yokozuna (grand-champion) Akebono, in a 1997 file photo above, announced Monday that he will retire from sumo due to a recurring knee injury. Akebono was the first non-Japanese-born wrestler to achieve sumo's highest rank. He won 11 Emperor's Cups in his career, including one in his last tournament in November, when he turned in a 14-1 performance.

A repost from last November, for all you new readers who may not have seen it: this homepage demonstrates what happens when Asians have no cultural context. But be sure to scroll down and check out the guy she calls the "Pinoy Will Smith."

Saltspring Island resident Briony Penn rode down a Vancouver street in the buff Monday, along with about 20 island residents and supporters who were protesting logging on their island. Sounds familiar eh? Funny thing is, she's doing an interview by cell phone in this shot.

Dino reports that he heard on the local news before that Holiday Cue did indeed get shut down due to "illegal activities on premises". I searched both local paper Web sites and couldn't find confirmation. I'll try to get a hold of an article through more intensive searches later.

What happens when you have a really popular product with no official name? Well, you make up a name using, um, very common sense.

MONDAY, 1/22/2001, 8:58pm HST by Penfold
The "Skipped Out on a Movie" Edition

Just for you readers, I passed up a chance to see an Imax movie to do content. The things I do for our readers.

Big Boy's Steel Erection, sounds like a pr0n.

Haiku to a Pork Rind

Satisfying crunch!
Be certain to leave behind,
The dark, less-fried rind

Want a good reason to go to a hockey game, how about to get a job. Seems that some companies have taken to recruiting employees at hockey games. Check out the story here.

Remember Dana Plato, Kimberly Drummond from Different Strokes? Well, as the internet would have it, she is now imortalized in HTML. Check out the Dana Plato Cult here.

MONDAY, 1/22/2001, 11:45am HST by Raul

LEFT TO RIGHT:

• A sign of the ever-changing times here in Hawaii: Holiday Cue is no more. I guess their shake-box couldn't keep them alive. Either that or they got raided.
• Another sign: Cinerama theatres is now Checkers auto parts. This one is probably most useful for you out-of-towners, because most town people have seen this already.
• Things that don't change: Would you believe, a rainbow in Manoa? Who would have thunk it?

From Tef: 2001 is the first year that Mattel will make a Honda Civic as part of their HotWheels line.

Hmm, this is interesting, poi cheesecake. Didn't try it but if we do, we'll let you know how it is.

Finally, EA has compiled a listing of all the things that were fixed in each patch. Check here. You can also download the patch in .exe form here at NHLWishList.

Playing naked

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - The bass player of heavy metal group Queens of the Stone Age could not apologize enough on Friday after he was nabbed by authorities for playing naked in front of thousands of people at the giant Rock in Rio music festival.

SUNDAY, 1/21/2001, 3:50am HST by Raul

This ran in the biz section of the Advertiser the other day. Iomega is making its 250MB zips round. They will also have titanium in them somehow, but I think the main idea is that they are all "kewl" now.

Well I finally got that pic of the new Porsche Carrera GT I've been promising.

Dr. Joker's latest thing. If you don't know who Dr. Joker is, click here. Hmm makes me want to go to SE Asia.