SATURDAY, 4/21/2001, 11:58pm HST by Penfold
The "Instant Content" Edition

Too lazy to do real content, too salty about my hockey picks, so I'll just post some pics from tonight.

Pics from Sheila's party

SATURDAY, 4/21/2001, 4:00pm HST by Raul

Dallas won the game and the series.

Picks page updated.

SATURDAY, 4/21/2001, 1:45pm HST by Raul

Well there's a lot going on outside the Summit of the Americas, but as seen above, theres a lot going on inside too, especially with Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso and U.S. President Bush.

Man what's the deal? My picking a team is like the kiss of death. Anyway, half the first round matches are decided. Today's action:

• The Buffalo Sabres put the dirty hurts on the Philadelphia Flyers, closing out their series with an 8-0 win in Buffalo. It's somewhat ironic that Flyers' goalie Roman Cechmanek, whose stellar play during the season got them to the playoffs, allowed 5 goals on the first 9 shots of this contest, essentially sealing Philly's fate.
• The LA Kings took advantage of a slumping Detroit Red Wings team, beating them in Detroit, to take a 3-2 series lead. Startling turn of events for a team that was totally blown out in games 1 and 2 of the series.
• The St. Louis Blues ended the San Jose Sharks' playoff run with a 2-1 victory in the Shark Tank. This game had an absolutely spectacular ending, with two tense faceoffs in the Blues' zone. After the game, Sharks' winger Teemu Selanne revealed that he had been playing with a broken thumb since the first game of the series.
• The Pittsburgh Penguins edged out the Washington Capitals 2-1 for a 3-2 series lead going back to Mellon Arena. Lemieux scored in this one, which featured an after-the-final-buzzer brawl in which Lemieux took a punch and Jagr threw a few forearms.

Well Palmstation's got some advance pics of the latest offering from TRG -- now Handera. It's a greyscale PalmOS device with compactflash AND smartdigital capability. It comes with voice recorder, jog dial, 320x240 display with "virtual graffiti area", 4-AAA power with optional Li-Ion pack, 33mhz Dragomball VZ, 8MB w/ 2MB flash memory, native landscape mode, all in a Palm III form factor ... everything you would want EXCEPT a color screen! Ack! Having used both types of screens, I can honestly say I would never buy a greyscale device. Color adds too much functionality, not to mention niceties. Pdabuzz has got a thread going on this new device also, here.

The terminator is next

After years of sci-fi nuts and phoney professors claiming they have built a cyborg - part machine, part living tissue - it would appear that someone has actually done it.

FRIDAY, 4/20/2001, 9:58pm HST by Penfold

Spending quality time with the woman tonight.

Stolen from our friends at ILoveBacon.

What did China get in that spy plane? Find out here.

Living proof of why stupid people shouldn't breed.

Speaking of stupid people, read about Bush's drug and financial aid policy here.

FRIDAY, 4/20/2001, 1:30pm HST by Raul

Oops, almost forgot the jockey post.

Well the St. Louis Blues put one past San Jose goalie Mikka Kiprusoff in OT to win yesterday, giving them a 3-2 advantage as they head to San Jose for game 6.

Philly staved off elimination by Buffalo, winning 3-1 to make for a game 6 in Buffalo. And Dallas pulled off a win in OT against the Edmonton Oilers, giving them a 3-2 lead going into game 6.

FRIDAY, 4/20/2001, 11:50am HST by Raul

It takes a special kind of person to appreciate this little time waster. You play a writer who has received an armload of petty, poorly-written P.R. releases from flacks at various P.R. firms. Yes, those of us with journ degrees know -- the people that couldn't hack real journalism all went the P.R. route. Anyway your job is to nail as many flacks as possible with their crappy releases -- folded into neat paper airplanes. Conceptually odd, but well executed.

New drug czar eyed

John Walters, a hard-liner who was former drug czar William Bennett's deputy during the first Bush administration, has emerged as the leading candidate to become director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, according to a knowledgeable drug policy source.

Now THAT'S a liberal application of grease. On the other hand, I know someone who didn't put ANY grease on his CPU. Nudge, nudge.

Protecting moneyed interests

TEL AVIV (Reuters) -- Israeli beauty queen Ilanit Levy is donning a diamond-encrusted flak jacket at the Miss Universe contest next month, hoping to make more than just a startling fashion statement.

Matrox still exists?

A Matrox rep at the AMD Tech Team dinner in Philadelphia tonight provided solid info regarding Matrox's current and future plans. To quote: '"G800 is completely dead." Apparently, the G800 was 'based on G400 design' and featured doubled pipelines, 128bit DDR memory, hardware transform and lighting, and some form of dual-chip technology. A slimmed down version will be hitting markets shortly, however. G550 is a single-chip solution featuring the same doubled rendering pipelines, 128-bit DDR support, but only a limited form of T&L.

THURSDAY, 4/19/2001, 10:58pm HST by Penfold
The "Slow Night" Edition

Another slow night of content.

ASCII as stupid questions, get a dumb ANSI. Some fine art done with standard ASCII characters here.

Moooooooo

VIENNA (Reuters) -- The Austrian province of Vorarlberg will ban the practice of blowing up dead cows with explosives on its picture-postcard Alpine meadows, state television ORF said on Thursday. So you might say that the sound the explosion makes is CowBoom.

2500 tons of gold in a Thai cave? Hardly, but how about 2.062 tons of 99.99 percent gold and $5.278 million in cash. Read about it here.

Costco has a sale on the Panasonic DVD-L50 portable DVD player for roughly $550 after shipping and taxes to Hawaii, comes with a Costco rebate of $100 and a Panasonic rebate of $100.. I ordered one, so we'll see if both sides honor their rebates and I get this for $350. Yeah they're mail-ins, but a man can hope.

THURSDAY, 4/19/2001, 12:30pm HST by Raul

Okay, in the same vein as the Backstreey Boys interactive anime the other day, here's your change to Peg the "Backstraight" Boys with paintballs. The execution is kind of weak, but the concept is certainly there.

From left to right:

1. Well the Toronto Maple Leafs swept the Ottawa Senators in the first round of the 2001 Stanley Cup playoffs. Here, Toronto winger Shane Corson picks up brooms and brushes symbolically thrown on the ice.
2. This is an odd looking photo of Colorado Avalanche goalie Patrick Roy losing his stick. Backed by Roy, the Avs swept the Vancouver Canucks in the first round.
3. The Carolina Hurricanes came out fighting to avoid a sweep by the New Jersey Devils, but are in quite a hole at 1 win to NJ's 3. Yes, Carolina goalie Arturs Irbe got a penalty on this play, as did his target, Petr Sykora. Game recap here.

Just in time for the U.S. airing of Flay vs. Morimoto II, it's the official Iron Chef book. Due out May 8, you can get info and preorder it here and here.

Internet advertising from the inside

The banner ad is a complete, unmitigated failure: When we look back on this industry, it will be considered the biggest mistake we ever made. Furthermore, the IAB is a complete, unmitigated failure for sitting around and pretending that by making them a little bigger they are going to work.

WEDNESDAY, 4/18/2001, 9:58pm HST by Penfold

UH strike is over, guess Gary finally has to go back to school.

Yeah, there's no pretty picture for it, but this definitely deserves top billing. A must click link.

Submitted by Brad

Looks like Lucas is raiding Once Were Warriors for its cast members. Check out the cast for Star Wars II here.

Spielburg is stepping down from the Boy Scouts' Advisory Board because of its anti-homosexual views. Read about it here. (How's that for alliteration.)

Why do women always go to bathrooms in packs? Find out here. And I have an independent verification that this is indeed what they do in there.

WEDNESDAY, 4/18/2001, 1:00am HST by Raul and Jui

Well Raven announced that it will make Soldier of Fortune 2, this time based on the Quake 3 engine. This one is reported to be "highly realistic." I hope it doesn't just mean the trajectory of blown off body parts are calculated better. Stomped has the screen shots.

UHPA strike over; semester saved

The nine-day University of Hawai'i faculty strike is over and all classes will resume Thursday, Gov. Ben Cayetano and faculty union leaders announced tonight.

Apparently so. NipGuards prevent the apparently common phenomenon of nipple abrasion. Ouch. Posted especially for Amy.

Itneresting, and besides, I love the moniker "Wacko Jacko". Check it out here.

Well some would say that the two words go hand-in-hand, but anyway. Check out this kinda sick, kinda perverse little animation for those out there that despise Backdoor Boys.

So THAT's how he comes up with the storylines

LOS ANGELES -— Aaron Sorkin, creator of the Emmy-winning drama “The West Wing,” was arrested on a felony drug possession charge at Burbank Airport, officials said Monday. An airport spokesman said a search allegedly found “illicit mushrooms” in a carry-on suitcase Sunday.

That's a lot of lights

In its largest-ever recall of cigarette lighters, the government says some 13 million disposable lighters need to be returned because they have faulty safety features that don't prevent young children from starting fires.

A very rudimentary design, but funny. From Stileproject. Click for larger version.

An interesting little poll. Check it out here.

Well Fuckedcompany is reporting a rumor that Palm may be doing some "restructuring" today ...

Finally got enough sleep last night. Not bad, only jet lagged for one day.

Stolen from our friends at ilovebacon.

I was watching tv late one night, and came across this.

Rent-a-wrestler. Or a $700 video card.

You might be a nerd if......

Submitted by Mei-Li

TUESDAY, 4/17/2001, 11:00am HST by Raul

Thanks to Jui for this one.

Or maybe a little lubrication. Check out the story here.

Stuck in the crapper

A 51-year-old woman was yesterday subjected to a harrowing two-hour ordeal when she was imprisoned in a hi-tech public convenience.

I forgot to include one place in the "where we've been" post -- Trader Joe's, a boon to omiyage-seekers everywhere.

Well as you probably already know, Puff Daffy got himself in trouble again. Excuse me, P. Dingy. Man, this guy is one moron. Who the hell would call himself a fucked up name like that?

Got a few things to attend to this morning so I gotta cut this short.

MONDAY, 4/16/2001, 8:58pm HST by Penfold
The "Still Sleepy" Edition

Woke up at 7AM today, I think I'm still working on CA time.

Meet DJ Super Greg Number One here.

Submitted by Mei-Li

Clippy, that ever so annoying MS Office help tool, is finally slated to be canned. And all I can say is good riddance. Read about it here. See MS's spin on Clippy here.

Dell announces that they will be using nVidia's Geforece2go video chip in its Inspiron 8000 laptop. Read a blurb about it here.

Looks like Borders has had it with the online book selling game and will let Amazon take it over for them. Read about it here.

Enough already, still all cashed.

MONDAY, 4/16/2001, 12:45pm HST by Raul

And now back to your regularly sized content.

Okay, the pics will be showing in the POD gallery in the members' section, but here are the links to the locations:

• Harrah's Las Vegas -- The casino kind of sucks but the hotel is decent.
• Great Mall of the Bay Area -- 'Tis a big, big mall. In Silicon Valley, of course.
• Bay Meadows -- Where someone's horse won 32-to-1 odds.
• Viansa Winery -- A "not sold in stores" winery with really expensive food but pretty good wine. Nice Tuscan theme to the premises.
• Cline Cellars -- Home of the "kick ass" wine.
• Ravenswood Winery -- Nullum vinum flaccidum.
• Sebastiani tasting room -- The winery was closed for "seismic retrofitting".
• Hakusan Sake Gardens -- Good sake doesn't just come from Japan. Kind of nice premises too, for a mainland joint. Be sure to check out the sake process.
• Cache Creek Casino -- The red man sticking it to the white man in the 21st century. We won!

Need a short-term e-mail for getting an account confirmed -- but NOTHING ELSE? Check out Spamgourmet, where you can get an email address that will receive a set number of emails, then eats the spam that comes after. A thing of beauty, really. Thanks to Playboy for this one.

There's also an open-source project planned that will allow anyone to provide this service ... hmmm!

Salon has got some really good reading today:

• Joey Ramone R.I.P.
• Happy birthday, LSD! -- Blotter art, acid hysteria, and more!
• 'Easy Rider' on DVD -- All the pot scenes are real!
• Taiwan sex school -- Saving marriages in the bedroom

Penfold was misinformed; my flight was okay. In fact, the legroom was downright obscene. Yes, my leg is fully extended and there's still at least foot of space left.

Favored teams Philly and Ottawa have yet to win a game, and face do-or-die situations tonight in game 3. Dallas pulled out a win despite a rare bad play by Eddie Belfour. The LA Kings finally beat the Wings and at the very least will avoid a sweep. Lemieux gets physical in the quest to go one-up on the Capitals tonight. And the San Jose Sharks evened it up against the Blues last night and will be looking for the series lead tonight. Colorado and New Jersey are slaughtering as expected.

SUNDAY, 4/15/2001, 5:58pm HST by Penfold
The "Just Back" Edition

Raul and I just got back from San Francisco this afternoon, so here's some stuff submitted by our readers.

Update- Raul is coming in very late. Thats what happens when you fly UAL. No problems with my NWA flight.

Tribes 2 is now available in Hawaii; came in sometime last week ...

For cheaters everywhere, something coming to a state near you, this.

I liek milk and I liek SEX!! More engrish.

Update- Razor tells me that this is a bogus site. This is the actual site the pics were stolen from.

Why you shouldn't eat the worm at the bottom of that mescal bottle. Remember Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan? Check it out here.
Some old content from Friday.

Enough now, too little sleep this weekend.