In a massive coup, Greggo actually sent me a piece of news I never posted! Just what you need for that boring afternoon: Gummi Bear Sex. The photos are absolutely horrible, but they get credit for content.

And the injuries keep mounting:

• Pittsburgh Penguins' superstar Mario Lemieux likely out for season (and Pens' star forward Martin Straka's face injury will keep him out indefinitely as well). The Pens are officially screwed.
• Toronto Maple Leafs sniper Alex Mogilny out indefinitely. Coupled with goalie CuJo's injury, Toronto is officially screwed.
• St. Louis Blues star forward Doug Weight is out with an injury. It's potentially a bad one, judging by the tape. And then power forward Keith Tkachuk is still sitting. The Blues are officially screwed.
• New York Rangers' captain Mark Messier had surgery on his shoulder and will be out at least a month.

An alert reader found that Resellerratings is back up. Word is, it's in some disrepair, but I haven't used it lately so I can't rightly say. Maybe Internet.com knuckled into the public pressure? Either way it's better up than down.

THURSDAY, 2/28/2002, 6:Ish pm HST by Penfold

Running off to Montreal tonight to see, what else, a hockey game, be back on Monday. Now where is my ride?

WEDNESDAY, 2/27/2002, 12:00pm HST by Raul

In an interesting collaboration with Sid Meier, Maxis has brought to market a game called SimGolf, which allows players to virtually design and run a golf course. It gets high marks from the Squab, but the part that worries me is distributor EA's new patch/support system. It requires you to register the game to receive patches. Screw that!

Some interesting items from the hockey world:

• Redwings' Steve Yzerman out for 2.5 weeks with bad knee
• CuJo breaks hand, leaving Maple Leafs "up the creek"
• San Jose Sharks sold to a local investor group
• Mario Lemieux still has a bum hip

Is that a weird-looking contraption or what? It's a lens from Egg Solutions, which allows a camera to take single-frame 360-degree images. Cool idea, but the site is slow as shit!

Here's an interesting page from Lankus: it's a shot of the earth at night from space. It's very interesting to see where the lights are. Hawaii is clearly visible in the middle of the pacific.

TUESDAY, 2/26/2002, 1:30pm HST by Raul

We're closing down the forums due to disuse and increasing intrusion of nag notices by Network54. If you're bummed, let me know and I may look into replacing them with better software. If not, faaahk 'um!

Well for the first time in my life I went out and bought a Honda ... an S2000 Tomy Bit Char-G (above, with cream charger for scale). If you've never heard of or seen one, it's a fully functional remote controlled car about the size of a Hotwheels car! It's something else, really. I'll be doing a writeup someday soon ... here are a couple of sites to peruse in the meantime:

• Martiniracing
• The-gadgeteer's review

Well, PMA has been going on for a couple of days, and while the main bombshells were Nikon's D100, Canon's D60, Fuji's S2 and Sigma's Foveon-powered SD9, there are other interesting announcements being made:

• Lexar invents memory sticks that blink
• Kodak officially debuts its 16-megapixel medium-format back
• Kodak develops enhanced-range JPEG file format
• Contax N digital prototype shown
• Pentax invents a combination binocular-digicam

This is a site for European model Eva Herzigova. While that in itself is uninteresting, it has some really top-notch, artsy, interactive Flash work on it that is definitely worth a once-over. There are even a few surprise endings thrown in there, too. Submitted by Jui.

Here's an interesting site (one of many, according to Penfold) that illustrates the language barrier quite well by translating an English page into a foreign tongue with an online translator, then translates it back to English. It's amazing how mangled things become. Check it out here.

Adobe has announced Photoshop 7.0. And I haven't even um, acquired 6.0 yet. Here's a list of new features.

Well this has been all around the Web, but hey, I'll post it too ... here's a page of examples of about the cheapest-ass rice you'll ever see. Submitted by Jui.

Along the same lines: a Z06 Hyundai. Scroll down a bit for the images.

This is pretty darn old news by now, but I'm posting it so I can do my breakdown of the game. As you know, Team Canada defeated Team USA for the gold medal in the 2002 Winter games on Sunday. Here's are the significant factors I think led to that outcome:

• Talent pool -- First and foremost, Canda had by far the deeper team in terms of outright talent. Nowhere did this hurt the US more than in goal, where Marty Brodeur had a great game as he is capable of doing on a regular basis, while Mike Richter had to elevate his game in order to keep the US in the tourney.
• US defense selection -- The US team was selected to compete in an international tournament first and foremost, so they picked mostly skill defensemen, not big bruisers. This in mind, it's not surprising that they dispatched the European teams, whose forwards aren't as big and powerful as North American forwards, while they struggled against Canada. This was probably the best decision, given that the US does not have many defensemen that are a combination of both bone-crushing defense and timely offense (ala Chris Pronger and Rob Blake).
• Fatigue factor -- Team Canada had come off a game with Belarus that was by all measures an easy one, while Team US played an inspired, emotional game against Team Russia, albeit mostly in the third period. That seemed to take a toll on the US's "hero factor" in the Canada game.
• Tkachuk's injury -- Of the US's top forwards, only a few truly make their living getting their noses dirty in front of the net. Of these, it seems Keith Tkachuk is one of the best at getting the those ugly goals from down low (a talent he had displayed earlier in the tournament). Canada's game is geared toward hard checking and defensive logjams, which tended to limit the effectiveness of snipers like Brett Hull who is more used to eluding than grinding. Thus, Tkachuk's injury and subsequent inability to play weighed heavily on the team's offensive output.

Here's an article some of you will find useful -- the Squab does a little breakdown of Geforce 4 performance with older processors like P3's. It's to help you make up your mind if it's worth going with the latest-and-greatest, versus older stuff like Geforce 3's.

By the by, Michelle Kwan's NHLer boyfriend is Florida Panthers d-man Brad Ference. Found by Jui.

TUESDAY, 2/26/2002, 12:Ish pm HST by Penfold

It's freezing.

All the wonder that is Ron Jeremy, the Documentary.

First come mLife, the ultimatly the mDeath.

Tired of the same old 3d shooter, how about playing one as an Intifada fighter.

A clock, just slightly different.

Submitted by Mei Li

Hockey times

Hockey times for the week of 2/25/02

• FSWH-41 Tue, Feb 26, 2002 2:00 PM "Los Angeles Kings at Columbus Blue Jackets"
• ESPN2-21 Tue, Feb 26, 2002 4:30 PM "Dallas Stars at Phoenix Coyotes"
• ESPN2-21 Tue, Feb 26, 2002 11:00 PM "Dallas Stars at Phoenix Coyotes"
• FSWH-41 Wed, Feb 27, 2002 2:30 PM "Los Angeles Kings at Pittsburgh Penguins"
• ESPN-22 Wed, Feb 27, 2002 3:00 PM "Philadelphia Flyers at New Jersey Devils"
• FOXW2-42 Wed, Feb 27, 2002 5:30 PM "Minnesota Wild at Anaheim Mighty Ducks"
• ESPN-22 Wed, Feb 27, 2002 10:00 PM "Philadelphia Flyers at New Jersey Devils"
• ESPN2-21 Thu, Feb 28, 2002 2:30 PM "San Jose Sharks at Washington Capitals"
• ESPN2-21 Thu, Feb 28, 2002 5:00 PM "Phoenix Coyotes at Colorado Avalanche"
• ESPN2-21 Thu, Feb 28, 2002 11:00 PM "San Jose Sharks at Washington Capitals"
• KITV-6 Sat, Mar 2, 2002 10:00 AM
• FSWH-41 Sat, Mar 2, 2002 11:00 AM "Columbus Blue Jackets at Los Angeles Kings"

SUNDAY, 2/24/2002, 10:Ish pm HST by Penfold

Just a few more days.

No survivors.

Everything that you want to know about the wonder that is the spork.

Spotted in the ghettos of Mililani.

Submitted by Mei Li

Miss Cleo oked

WASHINGTON -- The government and Miss Cleo's psychic hot line have reached a temporary meeting of the minds allowing the telephone service to keep predicting while an investigator looks into charges that it has defrauded customers.

Hear the new Enron voice mail message.