SATURDAY, 2/10/2001, 8:58pm HST by Penfold
The "Full Content" Edition

And now back to your normally scheduled content.

FoxNews has a little bit about Dutch drug policy. Nothing earth shaking, but I thought the pic was nice. Check it out here.

Hmmmm, very very odd.

How about this for a way to get a Valentine's Day mate. Two complete strangers have handcuffed themselves together and flown to New York in a bid to win 5,000 pounds each if they stay locked in love until Valentine's Day. Read about it here.

Thought you were deep in debt? Check out this guy, Ibrahim Elwahsh, 36, a temporary worker with a $25,000 annual income, charged up a storm during a 1995-96 spending spree totaling some $450,000 including cash advances, gift certificates and more than 50 round-trip airline tickets, which he either used or sold, Assistant U.S. Attorney Donna Gallucio said. Read about this deadbeat here.

Check out this hack of the Memorex site. Uses flash animation, is really cool. Definatly not you every day hack. Check it out here.

SATURDAY, 2/10/2001, 6:58pm HST by Penfold
The "Laura's Condition" Edition

As some of you know today, Laura went into the hospital for surgery to remover her spleen. Unfortunately, it was an emergency operation, and she wasn't able to take the LSAT today. She should be out of the hospital soon, maybe by Monday. I'll see how she is tommorow, though the brother said she's ok.

SATURDAY, 2/10/2001, 12:30pm HST by Raul

Now this is something for all you folks that didn't have Tinker Toys when you were a kid: the SodaConstructor is like a virtual erector set except cooler -- you can build movement into your objects by using "springs" and "muscles." Check it out but be prepared to puzzle over it for quite a long time before you get anything done.

Here's a Salon bit on marketers using your Napster library lists to target spam at you.

Also, here's another bit they have on the real story of the Clinton "leaving the White House" gifts.

Well in a shameless plug: if you want the latest on the sub-Japanese fishing vessel situation, check Honoluluadvertiser.com, which seems to have a lot more on it than the uh, competitors.

FRIDAY, 2/9/2001, 11:58pm HST by Penfold
The "One Day til the LSAT" Edition

If you're taking the Feb. LSAT, it's tomorrow, so have fun. Or at least as much fun as you can have taking the LSAT. Remember, when in doubt, choose C.

Some of the people from the Iolani Class of 93 might remember this person. Why does it seem that they always end up in the Narcissus or Cherry Blossom Festivals.

Remember when I posted about the Plextor 16x10x40 drive. Here's a review of it. Check it out here.

It seems that the single women in Singapore throw oranges (or maybe tangerines) into the river in hopes of finding a husband. Read about it here.

Wow they have it easy. Us men have to throw flowers, chocolates, and maybe even dinner to find a potential partner. And what do we get? Nothing but torment and plotting women.

Somewhere off the south of Diamond Head, a US sub ran into a Japanese fishing boat. There are at least 9 people still unaccounted for. You'd think the subs sailed deeper than that. Read about it here.

FRIDAY, 2/9/2001, 12:00pm HST by Raul

Hehe no comment necessary. Also from CJ: Now this is my kind of research. They even pay you. Hey, is "bonorarium" a real word?

zMax: placebo effect case study

The Federal Trade Commission has filed suit in U. S. District Court seeking to halt false and misleading advertising for zMax auto additives and has asked the court to order refunds to consumers who bought the products. The agency alleges that enhanced performance claims for the product are unsubstantiated, that tests cited to support performance claims actually demonstrated that motor oil treated with zMax produced more than twice as much bearing corrosion than motor oil alone, and that the three different products - an engine additive, a fuel line additive and a transmission additive - were all actually tinted mineral oil.

Well if you're wondering how the company that makes the best graphics chips in the world came up from having only a sliver of market share to assimilating a once-dominant competitor, check this Squab article. For fun, do some Web searching on old nVidia articles and see which pundits foresaw the demise of 3dfx and the dominance of nVidia.

iWon raid

MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) -- An intoxicated German beer drinker who urinated on the leg of a woman student in the middle of a crowded Oktoberfest beer tent was fined $600 by a Munich court on Wednesday.

Also from iWon: Viagra soft drink banned in Japan and the cod is back.

MINI-CONTEST: If you happen to be the 10,000th hit, take a screenshot of the counter and send it in. We'll give you ... umm ... something.

THURSDAY, 2/8/2001, 12:30pm HST by Raul and Penfold

Question: What do you call a modern full-size car with a high-po V8 that only comes in black with 18 inch star rims, that revives an old banner name for the marque? Would you believe a Mercury Marauder?

Yes, Ford is taking a play right out of GM's book with the release of the new Mercury Marauder, which will be powered by a 300hp V8 and, well, just check out the press at the Mercury site.

Well it's not the Beastie Boys per se, but BS2K, made up of Adam Horovitz and Amery "Awol" Smith, has an album out, which features some experimental, low-fi sound. Worth a listen, check Napster if you're not sure. I like 'Buddy' because it says 'fuddy' hehe.

Well, looks like I jumped the gun on the Pitt-Philly game; it was LAST night. Anyway, Flyers' goalie Roman Cechmanek, fresh off a somewhat disappointing first All-Star appearance, let in 6 goals on 20 shots and was yanked in favor of Brian Boucher, who proceeed to let in three more goals. That's right, Pitt won 9-4. Pitt forward Alexei Kovalev got the hat trick and two assists for the first 5-point game of his career, wing Jaromir Jagr could only (heh) muster 2 goals and 2 assists. It's funny how a 4-point game for Jagr barely gets mentioned these days.

From Tef: Ghetto Scooter is the low-income answer to all the rich kids' Razors and fancy shmancy shit.

Well here's a sneak peek at the latest incarnation of the most popular audio program in the world (and incidentally, one of the biggest reasons PCs rule over Macs). There's no such thing as a free Mac audio player that sets the industry standard.

Axe the cel

Mobile phones are evil, evil we tell you. Yesterday the Danes told us that they didn't cause cancer, but even if they don't, mobiles can still kill you.

Not sure if this is a Photoshop job or not, but it's funny either way.

WEDNESDAY, 2/7/2001, 8:58pm HST by Penfold
The "Love is in the Air" Edition

With only 7 days until Valentines Day, I detect the smell of love in the air. Oh wait, maybe thats just old socks, hehehe.

I threw in a new mp3 file in the files section. I recomend it only for the hardcore QuakeIII fans. Oh yeah, Steven Hawking is that super smart wheelchair guy.

There's a new build of icq out. Haven't tried it yet, all I know is the build number is new. Check it out here.

Seems like a certain Dr. Stuart Meloy has stumbled on something quite interesting.

This is a direct quote -- she said, 'You're going to have to teach my husband how to do that'," Meloy, an anaesthesiologist and pain specialist in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, said in a telephone interview.

Meloy had stumbled onto an unexpected side-effect of the pain device he was using -- an ability to cause orgasm.

WEDNESDAY, 2/7/2001, 11:00am HST by Raul

LEFT: A rainbow trout fingerling peers out from the gullet of a northern pike in a lobby aquarium exhibit at the Alaska Department of Fish & Game in Anchorage, Alaska. The agency has declared an "open season" on the illegally transplanted trout- and salmon-slaying northern pike in local waterways.
RIGHT: Scotland's Craig Brewster of Ionikos is challenged by an unidentified player of Ethnikos Asteras during a Greek League soccer match in Athens on Sunday. That's some challenge!

Do-it-yourself DSL

Sick of not being able to get decent DSL service? The answer may be to take matters into your own hands and bypass the telco altogether.

Well, I must be a little hard up for content posting this. But I guess the "FSBE" part make me chuckle.

I was looking through some Salon articles and stumbled on this one. Now tell me if, by the time you hit the end of the article, you aren't thinking, "What a dumbass bitch!" Not being misogynistic here, but just take a look at the unadulterated ignorance in the last paragraph. I guess I just posted this to rant.

Get the story of this $200 bill with the face of George W. on it here.

TUESDAY, 2/6/2001, 9:58pm HST by Penfold
The "Onomatopoetic Thoughts of the Day" Edition

Bonus points if you know what onomatopoeia is.

Want a real engineering project? How about hanging the shell of a VW off the Golden Gate Bridge and getting away with it. Read all about it here. They even made NPR this afternoon.

Arnold for president? Hmmm, seem like the Republican Party like to get actors who can pretend to be politicians. Well, I guess he can't be any worse than Regan. Read about the possibility here.

The EU doesn't think that the W understands European foreign defense policy. Surprise surprise surprise. Read about it here.

Seems like the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition is going to have Siegfried and Roy in it. Maybe SI is looking to expand the swimsuit edition's appeal. Hmmmm, bet they're going to be butt pirates. Read about it here.

nVidia has just released their latest official driver release, 6.50. And the performance gains are none. And it had a problem with the overclocking when coming off standby. See the performance numbers here.

A student at Kent State got busted for a StarCraft Clan. Me thinks that the Kent State security really needs to get a clue. Read the whole story here.

TUESDAY, 2/6/2001, 10:50am HST by Raul

This from Lemur: It's kind of like the Puppetry of the Penis thing, but Stupid Penis Tricks is more conceptual rather than graphic.

From left to right:

1. Boston College's Rob Scuderi sends Harvard's Tyler Kolarik flying with a hard hip check in the first game of the 49th Beanpot Tournament in Boston on Monday. FYI, the Beanpot is an annual tournament featuring Boston College, Boston University, Harvard and Northeastern.
2. Ray Borque, showing his form on the way to winning his eighth "Most Accurate Shooter" title. Borque hit all four targets with 6 pucks, beating out Peter Forsberg, Milan Hejduk and Donald Audette, all of whom hit the four targets with 7 pucks.
3. And here it is, the biggest collision of the entire 2001 NHL All-Star game. Flyers' goalie Roman Cechmanek, probably trying to make up for letting a goal in just prior to this while way out of the crease, made an aggressive move to cover up the puck in front of a charging Paul Kariya, who went flying head over heels. Kariya was not injured, but took a little while to get up.

Well, the new Holy Land Experience theme park is drawing the ire of Jews, who think it is aimed at converting them. I think the greater issue is being missed though, and that is WHY THE FUCK DOES THE WORLD NEED A GODDAMN HOLY LAND EXPERIENCE THEME PARK? Hmm, if they don't have the Arab shooting gallery and serve Molotov cocktails at the bar, I'm going to have to say it's not a very realistic experience.

Ron Fellows,driving the Rolex 24 winning Goodwrench GTS Corvette (2), lower right, and Andy Pilgrim,driving the fourth place overall Goodwrench GTS Corvette (3), center, take the checkered flag together at the finish line Sunday in Daytona Beach, Florida, proving yet again that American cars rule.

MONDAY, 2/5/2001, 11:45am HST by Raul
The "Still Sick" edition

Well, if you missed it, you missed the highest scoring All-Star game in history. But never fear, you can check out a good deal of it, and all kinds of writeups, here. Now it's back to the regular season. The featured game tonight is Pitt vs. Philly, in a rematch of the Pens' worst loss -- 5-1, with Jagr sustaining a concission -- since Lemieux' return.

Evidently, he really did know how to score

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (Reuters) -- Phoenix Suns forward Clifford Robinson, the team's leading scorer, was arrested early Monday and charged with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia and for DUI.

Here's the goods, libbed, lubed, rough-cut, any way you like em. If I sign up, anyone want to volunteer to help me test? Hehe ...

Saw this one on [H]ardOCP: Some might blame this on the fact that the guy is probably a stoner, but I say a stupid person is just a stupid person.

Gateway theory debunked

Washington, DC -- A new study published in the American Journal of Public Health has challenged the so-called "gateway theory" and suggests that people born after the 1960s are less likely than baby boomers to progress from using marijuana to hard drugs.

No, it's not some morbid TV talk show spoof. It's some documents that say federal agents went shooting with David Koresh and even provided some of the guns. I suppose the feds just wanted to know how good of a shot he really was. Uh, yeah.

Yet another bit of content unabashedly ripped from [H]ardOCP: Isn't it uncanny how much the Rambus logo looks like the Rockford Fosgate logo? Maybe they are trying to say that Rambus memory will give you 'dickhard reponse!'

SUNDAY, 2/4/2001, 7:58pm HST by Penfold
The "Party at Gary's" Edition

Gary said that the parentals are running off to Thailand again. Hmmm, maybe party of there later.

What happens when you run two 1.5ghz AMD TBirds smp? Find out here.

Want to know where the inner city education system excel at? Why it's the use of the metric system. Read about it here.

Ever look at where that can of Libby's corned beef comes from? Bet it comes from somewhere in South America, most likely Brazil or Argentina. In light of the mad cow scare, the US is banning beef imports from Brazil. Maybe be time to stock up on those wonderful black and red cans or try some New Zealand canned corned beef.

No, this isn't the joke about the wallet that turns into a briefcase. Read about the plight of some men trying to grow back their foreskin here. Doesn't sound all too pleasant to me.

SUNDAY, 2/4/2001, 10:15am HST by Raul
The "posting as the game starts" edition

The North American all-stars won the Super Skills competition 15-13. My votes are for Ray Borque and Evegeni Nabokov for the best showings. I had to set up the TV in my room earlier than expected so I could watch the game today. (Oh man, they have Dennis Leary as a special guest!)

Here's a quick fact as the game gets started, I'll continue this post after the game.