SATURDAY, 4/28/2001, 8:58pm HST by Penfold
The "Saturday Night" Edition

It's done.

Anyone who is currently gettin' some care to test this out for us?

The latest in fashion gear, the bubble wrap attire. Pop some on, or off as the case may be.

Mid tower atx case for those into this kind of thing.

Coming soon to a theater near you, Rush Hour 2.

SATURDAY, 4/28/2001, 6:45pm HST by Raul

'Bows fall again

Well the Rainbow men's volleyball team lost again in its bid for the MPSF championship and most likely, a NCAA tournament berth. They were ousted by UCLA in 4 games. Oh well.

Yet Another Time Waster: 3d Carpet Golf.

Well the the big favorites made comebacks today, although it wasn't without a lot of effort:

• The Colorado Avalanche took out the LA Kings in front of a true-to-form performance from goalie Patrick Roy. The Avs were frustrated by the Kings for most of the game but played them tight, eventually slipping a pair past LA goalie Felix Potvin, who remained sharp for the most part. Perennial all-star and postseason attendee Ray Borque saved an early LA goal by swatting the puck out of midair as it flew over Roy toward the goal.
• The NJ Devils squeezed out a 6-5 win in OT against the Toronto Maple Leafs, finally solving Cujo for 4 goals before the end of the second. But NJ squandered the 4-1 lead and had to win off a nice pass play in OT.
• The Pittsburgh Penguins solidified their position against the Buffalo Sabres with a 3-1 win to go up 2 games to 0 in the series. Pens goalie Johann Hedberg again turned in a strong performance, and offensive defenseman Andrey Ferrence scored the game-winner for Pitt. Jagr sat this one out with his "charley horse." For Amy: Alexei Kovalev knocked Buffalo's Alexei Zhitnik out cold with a huge hit in the first.
• Mike Modano might play in tomorrow's Dallas-St. Louis game. Apparently his leg injury was "just a sprain."

Sneaky erosion of rights

On Thursday, anti-abortion forces won a battle in the ongoing legal, political and rhetorical war over choice, when the House of Representatives passed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act 252 to 172, with 53 Democrats signing on.

Apparently, the article that proclaimed Sam Walton had overtaken Gates was just plain f'in WRONG. Check out the NEW story here.

FRIDAY, 4/27/2001, 7:58pm HST by Penfold

Thou slacketh.

For Raul.

20x!!!!!, damm thats fast. Check it out here.

Where'd the puck go George? Where'd it go? Belfour gets burnt looking the other way. Check out the highlights here.

Back from the dead and coming back in an online version, PCXL. Now if it's worth $4.95 a month, we'll see.

Bush busted for binging on booze

AUSTIN, Tx. -- President Bush's 19-year-old daughter, Jenna, was cited early Friday for alcohol possession by a minor, police said.

The ticket was issued by Austin police who were checking for minors in possession of alcohol at nightclubs along the city's popular East Sixth Street.

FRIDAY, 4/27/2001, 12:50pm HST by Raul

Okay I am posting this from the laptop on a tight time budget, so no graphic, but do check this out. Hyakugojyuichi! Pretty nice work for a 14-year-old kid.

And then maybe you can tell me ... WTF?!?!

From Salon: A Harvard professor's move to "give in to pressure" from the RIAA and not publicly release his research on cracking secure-digital music watermarking schemes might really have been gneius in disguise. Check it out here.

They do it differently in Hawaii

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) -- A high school baseball team committed its worst error off the field during a road trip last week by hiring strippers to perform in their hotel room, the Columbus Dispatch reported on Friday.

Hit up the full story here.

Also from Iwon: Free breast implants for some soldiers in Britain

To sum it up: three games, three upsets.

• The only non-major upset: Pitt beat Buffalo handily, 3-0. Unfortunately for the Pens, Jagr developed a problem with his leg and is questionable for starying in Game 2.
• Toronto shut out NJ, backstopped by still-red-hot Cujo.
• LA stunned Colorado in overtime following a questionable performance by Avs goalie Patrick Roy.

More Egg crap

It started with a tip from a Register reader whose bank advised him to cancel his Visa credit card after shopping at on-line retailer Egghead.com, then developed into a tour de force of public-relations worst practices, and finally ended in lingering doubts about whether Egghead's vehement claim that no credit card data was compromised during its Christmas hack is trustworthy.

Also: Occasionally, we do snake the Reg.

THURSDAY, 4/26/2001, 8:58pm HST by Penfold

Dammit, got court again tommorow.

Hotwire is kinda like Priceline, but they'll tell you the price up front, but still won't tell you the airlines or the flight times. Much better IMHO. This site is really good for last min flights. Check it out here.

Feel like busting out a new yo momma joke? Check it out here.

Jumping the shark is that magical time when you know your favorite TV show is all down hill. Check out some famous jumping the shark moments here.

Men want sex

LONDON (Reuters) -- Women stay in monogamous relationships for security and men stay in them for sex, a science journal says.

"It's a cynical view of human relationships, but researchers now say it is the driving force behind the evolution of monogamy -- and women started it," New Scientist magazine said Wednesday.

THURSDAY, 4/26/2001, 11:45am HST by Raul

Here's a cool little Quicktime vid that is an Atari devotee's masterpiece. Nothing much more to say except check it out!

Now this is just a cool case. Figuratively, not literally, of course. A little impractical, but okay for the task it is being used for.

Maybe you've seen this story on IBM minions being caught red-handed spraypainting graffiti on San Francisco sidewalks. Well they're at it again. But what you probably haven't seen is pics of the SF symbols.

So what happens after the Stanley Cup and you're at work jonesing? Try this online hockey game. It's a really weird implementation that is pretty hard to play, but heck, they get points for effort. Gee, I wonder if it was made by some Canadian programmer?

Busted

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- A California Appeals Court has upheld a jury's decision to give a woman $1.08 million because a doctor surgically enlarged her breasts without her permission, but the woman has decided against getting the operation reversed because she no longer trusts doctors.

WEDNESDAY, 4/25/2001, 11:58pm HST by Penfold
The "Damm Screw" Edition

It's pretty late, but I have a decent excuse. Got a screw in the tire, spent all night getting it fixed.

Got my new portable dvd player today. Full report on it coming up on it soon. Pr0n on the road, who'd have thunk it.

For those weird people who eat at McDonalds, here's a site to help you with those annoying questions.

WEDNESDAY, 4/25/2001, 12:30pm HST by Raul

Well the Handera 330 was officially released, and some reviews are out already. Check here and here.

Salon to offer pr0n

Trendy online rag Salon has addressed its steadily decreasing relevance by embracing it fully.

The "leading Internet media company" as it dares call itself has just rolled out a subscription service called 'Salon Premium' which will offer "galleries of erotic art and photography in 'Salon Sex,'" or soft-core porn euphemized as 'fine art' for sensitive, educated types who affect to respect women and to relish ballet and California Chardonnay.

Got a medical prescription and don't know where to get seeds? Or are you a care provider? Try here. Seems much more real than that WeDeliver crap.

The conference finals are just a day away, so make sure you get your fill of the hype. Here's some more. (Get in your picks, slackers. You know who you are, and everyone else does, too.)

The recipe to Mario Batali's 1000 Proof Negroni Cocktail.

Florida fun

Video pranksters were drooling after Mayor Lee Sullivan told them -- on camera -- that his city offers spring break visitors unbridled opportunities for sex and underage drinking while admitting it has "no culture."

TUESDAY, 4/24/2001, 7:58pm HST by Penfold

Isn't there anything good on network TV anymore? And no, I'm not watching Titanic without Jelly.

The Register has a little blurb about England's Advertising Standards Authority's list of the 10 most complained about print ads. See them all here.

See the latest in pr0n technology coming soon to a computer near you. Who do you think were the first adopters of the VHS, CD-ROM, and DVD format?

High quality, glow in the dark condoms. Check out the producer's site here. Hehe, gives new meaning to the word glow stick.

For Gary, a recipe for scrapple.

More stupid human tricks

INDEPENDENCE, Ky. -- Two teen-agers trying to mimic an MTV show that features daredevil stunts have been charged with a felony after they rammed into another teen with a car.

The boy suffered a broken leg, cuts and bruises on his body, and bumps on his head. He was taken by ambulance to St. Elizabeth Medical Center South in Edgewood. He was listed in good condition Tuesday.

TUESDAY, 4/24/2001, 12:45pm HST by Raul

Get yer picks in!

Turn your back on Brass Eagle for a little while and what happens? It releases STILL MORE guns. The latest are the Brass Eagle Avenger and the Viewloader (now a BE subsidiary) Genesis. The latter looks like a tricked version of the former. You can check the actual Web sites here and here, although you won't find any more information than is available in the press releases. I find it funny how they go to great lengths to avoid using the B word ("blowback"). Looks like vert feeds are standard issue on all guns these days ...

From WARPIG: Finally, an interesting new mask that might actually be worth buying. The DYE Invision mask, in addition to having a curved lens, is designed for very small side profile, making it feel closer to "no mask at all." Heh. Should be out soon.

Well The Advertiser finally decided to put an Avantgo Channel together. It's kind of huge for the number of articles in it, however I suppose editing the stories down would generate enough workload for half another person, really. Maybe they need to do arbitrary hacks or have reporters suggest cuts. Check the instructions for installation here or preview the Palm page here.

Gov. Gary Johnson of New Mexico paid a visit to the nation's capital to try to talk some sense into our government. But he finds ignorance more than anything else. Big surprise. Check his story here.

The end of the cod story

OSLO (Reuters) -- A blind cod, who cheated death in a fishnet 40 times before retiring to a life of luxury in an aquarium, has apparently been killed by kindness.

Well apparently, the Titanium Powerbook was not the bomb.

MONDAY, 4/23/2001,11:30pm HST by Raul

From left to right:

1. Martin Straka was the hero of the day as he scored an unassisted goal to give the Pittsburgh Penguins the win over the Washington Capitals. The Capitals were eliminated from the series.
2. Adam Deadmarsh, traded this year from the Colorado Avalanche, scored 2 goals, including the overtime game-winner as the Los Angeles Kings completes a 4-game comeback, eliminating the Detroit Red Wings from the playoffs. The Wings were without captain Steve Yzerman and wing Brendan Shanahan, and could not get their shit together.
3. Remember that huge beef I mentioned earlier that happened after the last Capitals-Penguins game? Here's the aftermath. As you can see, everyone got involved. At least Marc Bergevin was happy.

MONDAY, 4/23/2001, 8:58pm HST by Penfold and Raul
The "Pitt Wins" Edition

First round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs are finally done. Onward to round 2. Sorry for the late post everyone, was busy this morning getting a car transferred.

The Chinese government is considering building a 300 story, 3700 foot building to be named the Bionic Tower. Check it out here.

Well the latest buzz is about the Weakest Link, a quiz show made apparently made interesting by the host's degrading words toward the losers of each round. I'm sorry folks, but that idea is old hat. The original, and from the looks of it, much better version of this was Inquizition, a quiz show featuring the Inquizitor who would berate contestants that were on the losing end after each round. He was always kept in the dark and his identity was never revealed, which seemed to work better than Anne Robinson's schtick apparently does.

And of course, Win Ben Stein's Money. -Penfold

People Powell

QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) -- What do marijuana and tear gas have in common? They both have smells that Secretary of State Colin Powell says he can never forget.

Nuts scraped again

A security flaw in Netscape's SmartDownload browser plug-in leaves users vulnerable to attack even if the application is disabled.

The simple act of visiting a Web site with a maliciously constructed URL could be enough for a Trojan horse program to infect the user's Windows PC, BugTraq claims.

Also from the Reg:

• Someone set up this titanium Powerbook user the bomb.
• This was in The Advertiser last week, but now one of our regular sources has an article up so I can link it. Napster to use audio "fingerprinting"

Quote of the day

"On ecstasy, Joan Rivers looks like Pamela Anderson, so imagine what Pamela Anderson looked like."

-- Tommy Lee on how he fell in love with ex-wife Pamela Anderson at first sight when he was drunk on champagne and high on ecstasy.

Fetishists are up in arms over the EU's proposed banning of all PVC products. Read about it here.

What to you do when you're laid off from the dot.com industry? Why go to work for the one dot.com industry making money. Check it out here.

SUNDAY, 4/22/2001, 6:45pm HST by Raul and Penfold

This is the view of beautiful Sonoma Valley, California, from Viansa Winery. Image created in Photoshop from 3 photos shot using a Canon S100 Elph in stitch-assist mode.

I'm sorry, but these people suing media companies over Columbine need a multibillion-dollar foot in the ass. Check out a sometimes vitreous discussion here.

So those tweaky people at UC Berkeley are developing the world's smallest combustion engine -- the MEMS rotary internal combustion engine. The prototype, above, is already the world's smallest wankel, but the final product is to be half-a-milimeter wide. It's envisioned as an alternative power source for portable electronics such as laptops and PDAs, as ZZZ discusses. Really unbelievable.

The best part is you'll be carring a microwankel in your pocket. For those in the dark about rotary engines/wankels -- they're the engines that power the Mazda RX line of cars.

Wally wally uber alles

Well CNN reports that Bill Gates has been usurped as world's richest man by none other than Sam Walton, proprietor of your friendly neighborhood Wal-Mart. Hit up the full story here.

SUNDAY, 4/22/2001, 12:58pm HST by Penfold
The "Early Start" Edition

Felt like doing content early today, nothing better to do.

NJ comes back and dashes the Hurricanes thoughts of a first round upset. One day after Buffalo's 8-0 thrashing of Philly, NJ dominates Carolina 5-1.

Now I've heard of a WDP Dark Angel, but a Blue Light Special Angel?

Silly law suit

Denver, CO -- The Sanders' suit, filed hours before a two-year statute of limitations expired, claims that if not for violent games and other media images - in particular, a school massacre scene from the movie "The Basketball Diaries" - the rampage by Harris and Klebold wouldn't have happened.