SATURDAY, 3/10/2001, 11:58am HST by Penfold
The "Raul in Hospital" Edition

Raul, that bitch ass, stuck me with doing content myself for the next few days. To find out the hospital and room #, ask Sluggirl.

Read the history of the very first video game here.

With the soon to come demise of the XFL, Titan Entertainment will be making new programs. Once such program is X-Span, adding attitude to politics. Check it out here.

Keeping an eye on those spying on us, the 2001 Big Brother Awards were given out recently. Check it out here.

Want to practice busting-a-move before you actually have to do it? Check out how the Japanese are doing it here.

SATURDAY, 3/10/2001, 11:30am HST by Raul

I went through the archives and did a load of fixes, so if you were looking through them lately and found problems, they should be fixed now.

Well 3dfx didn't have enough money to keep itself afloat, but it DID have enough money to make these snazzy 3dfx tiffany lamps for its execs. One was for sale on eBay a little while ago, but even after being [H]ardOCP'd, it only mustered $51. I'm not going to mirror that auction, so when the link dies, it dies. I must say, as tacky as these things are, there's something kinda cool about 'em.

RIAA, courts, get a clue

AOL has escaped a lawsuit in the US after one of its subscribers used the ISP's service to sell child porn.

The Florida Supreme Court ruled yesterday, by a vote of four to three, that AOL could not be prosecuted for illegal sales taking place through its service.

Well we posted a few articles about this stuff, so check out Dr. Matlock, who actually does laser vaginal rejuvenation and designer vaginoplasty.

SATURDAY, 3/10/2001, 3:20am HST by Raul

So while you weren't looking, the evil AOL (-Time Warner) Empire has slipped it to you yet again ... now you've got an annoying ad browser at the bottom of your ICQ message windows. "Please god, make it stop!" you shriek. But you get no divine intervention. Instead, take matters into your own hands and free yourself from your manacles. WARNING: I have not tested the .dll deletion method yet, but the SMS button remover works. I'll test and compile this information into an article sometime soon.

Interestingly, the thread that message is a part of was once a sub-thread under a different posting, one which specifically lamented the existence of said browser window. It seems ICQ has cut that thread of posting out, leaving only this unexplained "The problem is caused by ..." thread.

If you raised your eyebrows at this (in surprised understanding, not clueless confusion), you just might be l33t.

FRIDAY, 3/9/2001, 8:58pm HST by Penfold
The "Iron Chefu" Edition

Someone set Ian Lind up the bomb.

Way too cool.

Introducing the next contender to face the GeForce3, the Kryo II. Check out the Hercules press here.

The Northwest airlines mechanics strike has been put off for at least 60 days. So at least my flight to San Francisco is safe. Read about it here.

A 14 year old gets sentenced to life in prison for a crime committed when he was 12 years old. Check it out here. For another opinion of it, try here.

[rant]What kind of society are we when we put someone away for life for something they did when they were 12 years old. The US is constantly screaming about human rights except when it applies to themselves. I'm sure everyone has done some pretty bad stuff when we were young, but could we do anything that bad. I mean, it's a damm kid. 12 years old. Enough of this charging kids as adults. They're kids, aren't they?[/rant]

Because I know what you come here for.

Bjorn Borg (that tennis guy) is calling on Europeans to have more sex. Check it out here.
How to score free pr0n. Check it out here.

THURSDAY, 3/8/2001, 9:58pm HST by Penfold
The "Female Sex Content" Edition

Yup, she back and complaining already, my wonderful grandmother.

Zero Tolerance Schools?

"By creating zero tolerance," Zimring says, "you raise the price of telling an adult about what a kid you like told you. Under those circumstances, you get exactly what you had here: a reluctance to tell on your friends."

I guess women have had enough of men fantasizing about French maids. So now they're offering a naked male cleaner as a prize. Read about it here.

Find out why those shower massagers and the fukuoku 9000 are so popular here.

THURSDAY, 3/8/2001, 2:00pm HST by Raul and Penfold

Don't call us, we'll call you

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -- Fed up with the incessant ringing of mobile phones, the leaders of India's parliament have installed jamming devices to thwart lawmakers who refuse to turn their phones off.

Philadelphia Flyers' star forward John Leclair was cleared by his doctor to practice with the team recently, although his back infection is not fully healed yet.

If you were looking for the Khabibulin story that Penfold talked about, but his link didn't contain, click here.

So what do the guys who brought you Sound Blaster have up their sleeves for the coming months? Check it out here.

Discovery phase

Burglars found my dildo
Memo to crowbar wielders: I hate hot pink -- it was my husband's idea.

WEDNESDAY, 3/7/2001, 8:58pm HST by Penfold
The "Froggie" Edition

Grandma is probably coming back tommorow.

Guy Hebert goes to the Ranger and Nikolai Khabibulin goes the the Lightning. This is turning out to be a mad trading session just before the playoffs. Check it out here.

Seems like Swedes have increasingly been getting busy on the first date and their condom use is also down. Check it out here.

WEDNESDAY, 3/7/2001, 12:10pm HST by Raul

Got my 128MB stick for my laptop, talk about worlds of difference. Gotta love cheap memory -- just $60 to my door. Thanks to Memoryempire for making it a relatively painless transaction. They do a lot of eBaying, so you can beat their listed prices pretty easily, and they ship US postal. Now if they would just get rid of that stupid tail on your cursor when you go to their page ...

Palm has officially announced the M105, a spiffy-looking successor to the M100 budget PDA. The main difference between the M100 and M105 is the 8MB memory in the 105 (vs. 2MB in the 100). If you ask me, the M100/105 series is lacking some key features, the most major of which is a lack of flash ROM -- meaning no OS updates should Palm ever release PalmOS 4.0. And since the 105 ships with PalmOS 3.5.1, you don't even get the newest OS out (3.5.2). At a price of $199, you'd be better off getting a Palm IIIxe for $179.

But wait! Palm has sneakily phased out the IIIxe -- there are no MSRPs on the site, you can't find it in the Palm store and not on some of Palm's major resellers. Savvy Tokenasians readers take note -- if you want a good PDA with 8MB memory, run out and get a IIIxe NOW, because they are going to go like wildfire and new ones aren't being made.

WIPO does "good"

It's fairly rare, but WIPO has made a decision regarding www.yourmove.com that we (and normal people everywhere) agree with. It decided that Scottish businessman Irving Remocker is fully entitled to the domain name and can do with it what he wishes.

Also from The Reg: Hackers redirect Hamas site to serve up porn. I would have headlined it "Ooh allah-la-la".

Couple of interesting ones:

• This teacher is a little bit too connected to the Web.
• These are really, really terrible, but we have to give this guy an A for effort. Allyourbase MP3's.
• I haven't been able to stay online long enough to view this, but here is a street racing vid set to the Allyourbase song. Let me know if it's weak, I'll pull this link.

TUESDAY, 3/6/2001, 9:58pm HST by Penfold
The "I love you Laura" Edition

I thought it was a good time to say it.

Coming soon, the Scooby Doo movie. But where's scooby? Check it out here.

Remember the palm phone we've been posting about? Well here's one that uses the visor springboard port. Check it out here.

Think Napster is going to go belly up because of the injunction? Not if the pig latin mp3 converter has anything to say about it. Check it out here.

Hockey Times

• FSWH-21 Wed, Mar 7, 2001 10:00 AM "Montreal Canadiens at Los Angeles Kings"
• FSWH-21 Thu, Mar 8, 2001 5:30 PM "Nashville Predators at Los Angeles Kings"
• KITV-6 Sat, Mar 10, 2001 10:00 AM "Detroit Red Wings at St. Louis Blues"
• FSWH-21 Sat, Mar 10, 2001 5:30 PM "Chicago Blackhawks at Los Angeles Kings"
• ESPN-22 Sun, Mar 11, 2001 3:00 PM "Dallas Stars at Colorado Avalanche"
• ESPN-22 Sun, Mar 11, 2001 10:00 PM "Dallas Stars at Colorado Avalanche"

TUESDAY, 3/5/2001, 2:00am HST by Raul

Damn, RR down for maintenance. Gotta bust out the good ol' phone line for this post.

When I first checked this thing out and saw the long, all-caps description, I thought for sure this was a hoax. Then I scrolled down and there are actual PICTURES of this thing! It's a jet-powered MR2 on eBay. Thanks Tef for this one.

"Napster" going out of country?

Young Canadian computer science student Matt Goyer claims to be preparing to set up a Napster clone with HavenCo, which operates out of the ludicrous principality of Sealand, to evade recording industry lawyers, according to a story in Monday's Globe and Mail.

Not! But it IS a movie completely rendered in the Quake III 3D engine. Hmm what exactly would Quake III: The movie be like? Frag, frag, frag, frag ...

Salon comes out with an article about a book on the clitoris, an organ which, supposedly, has been 'obscured' for over two millennia. Hmmm ....

MONDAY, 3/5/2001, 8:58pm HST by Penfold
The "Big Plotting" Edition

Another day, another dollar, or $160 as the case may be.

Memminger Takes a Hit

He must have attended many Hollywood-style soirees where the beautiful people partied, struck development deals on the side and said things to each other like, "My liege, why dost thou bogart that joint?"

Read about Cambodia's first transvestite beauty contest here.

Interesting, mobile broadband. Now if they'd just make a working palm ICQ or MSM. Read about it here.

MONDAY, 3/5/2001, 1:00pm HST by Raul and Penfold

Well I've been wondering for a little while why I couldn't access Icebox.com, and today I finally came out of denial and checked fuckedcompany.com for any news. Sure enough, Icebox pulled the plug in February. This depresses me somewhat, but after reading a little about the way Icebox was run, it seems like they didn't have much of a business model to begin with. Still, they had great content. Anyway, here are some links to media on the foldup:

• Frozen out of VC market, Icebox.com folds
• The Puddle Where Icebox Stood

And some alternate cartoon entertainment sites:

• Mishmashmedia -- From the creator of Hard Drinkin' Lincoln and Queer Duck.
• Heavy.com -- Not just cartoons, but a multimedia (REALLY HIGH BANDWIDTH) site.
• Giantheads -- At first glance, this stuff looks interesting. I'll have to check it out later.
• Jibjab.com -- Haven't taken a good look at this one yet.
• the bran flakes -- Haven't taken a good look at this one either.
• Jotto.com -- Haven't taken a good look at this one either.
• And of course our old standbys, Campchaos (Napster bad!) and Joecartoon (Supafly!).

So to all you out there who didn't check out Icebox when I told you to -- it's too fuckin' late now!

Some major, major trade news today: 7-time all star Teemu Selanne, who was with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, was traded a little north to the San Jose Sharks. Also recently, the St. Louis Blues acquired d-man Alexei Gusarov from the New York Rangers in return for defenseman Peter Smrek.

I will copy if it kills me

Forget the Serial Copy Management System, music fans. Macrovision Corporation is taking CD copy prevention to the next level. The folks who made it impossible to loop your DVD player through your VCR want to make sure you can't copy new music either. On February 27, Sunnyvale, CA-based Macrovision announced that it will begin beta-testing its "Safeaudio Toolkit," a CD-audio copy-protection technology. One major record label has already completed its own testing, according to an official statement. Macrovision announced its intention to go forward with the technology late last year.

Hit up the full story here.

Can't hide your plam Pr0n

Passwords and data can easily be obtained through a backdoor in Palm OS, even if a Palm device is "locked".

That's the conclusion of researchers at security firm @stake who have discovered that the "system lockout" function in Palm OS security, which means a device will not work until the correct password is entered, can easily be bypassed.

Also on the Reg: Intel cuts processor prices ... again.

SUNDAY, 3/4/2001, 7:58pm HST by Penfold and Raul
The "Conned into Content" Edition

Oh well, I guess it's my turn to do the joint post. Hehe, I said joint.

I haven't played this, but Raul told me to post it. As far as I know, you're the character of Banja the Rasta and it's some kind of free online game where you go around and do stuff. Check it out here.

Remember that PalmPhone that was posted earlier? Here's a review of it here.

How about figuring out when the bus is going to come using your cell phone. Basically the bus transmits it's position and speed to the central computer and it dishes out the info about the bus location to you WAP phone. Very very interesting. Check it out here.

Something for you trekheads. With the upcoming ending of the Voyager series, rumors have been flying around concerning what the next one would be. Here's more info to ponder about it.