SATURDAY, 5/19/2001, 1:40pm HST by Raul and Penfold

This site is kind of in the same vein as Otogai World, check out Quick Honey, another very odd art site. Be sure to check out the Soap Machine and this.

What happened to the Pens? No one knows. They lost 5-0 today and didn't even put up a fight. If the Pens get eliminated in another game like this one, Jagr will be gone next year, 100% guaranteed. Unless he decides to work for aloha ...

Unless something miraculous happens very soon, it's all but over for Pitt's Cup hopes. It's really looking like a Col-NJ final.

That big ol' honking truck a little too wussy for you? Put tracks on it.

Interfering with common sense

A couple of weeks ago computer engineer Keith Henson was found guilty in California of a criminal act related to posts he made in the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology, which contained obviously comical (all right, Sophomoric) references to targeting Scientologists with a nuclear missile.

The jury convicted him of interfering with a religion -- likely due to his habit of picketing near the cult's properties -- but failed to reach a decision on two other patently idiotic charges brought by Deputy District Attorney Robert Schwarz, who, it is claimed, is either a Scientology dupe himself, or on old Elron's posthumous payroll.

FRIDAY, 5/18/2001, 11:58am HST by Penfold
The "Penfold Post Part 2" Edition

Oh, you thought all the content was over with tonight. Don't forget, party tommorrow night.

I broke down today and bought the Bose noise reduction headphones. Works surprisingly well. Not cheap though, $300 plus tax. It feels kinda weird using the headsets, it does cancel the noise but it makes you feel a little strange, not sure how to describe it. I suspect you just have to get used to it.

Now this is a true talent. How many women do you know who can do this.

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FRIDAY, 5/18/2001, 8:58pm HST by Penfold
The "Late at Work" Edition

I was actually at work til 7PM tonight, see, I'm not a slacker.

In Chicago, someone was caught doing 160mph in a 40mph zone. And, he did it on a Honda. Check it out here.

Tom Green, famous Mormon polygamist broke down and started crying during his testimony for his trial. Hmmmm, I'd be crying too if I had 5 wives and 29 kids. Check it out here.

Some poor guy got his balls chomped off, pains me just to think about it. Maybe he can go into pr0n like Bobbit. Check it out here.

FRIDAY, 5/18/2001, 7:30pm HST by Raul

Although I hesitate to make any proclamation like the one above, 3-1 in most cases is a near-stranglehold on a series. Anyway, after surrendering a 3-0 lead in regulation, the Colorado Avalanche eked out a win in OT against the St. Louis Blues earlier today at Savvis center. The Iwon bit is here. Earlier in the game, Roman Turek was pulled briefly by coach Joel Quenneville after giving up 3 goals in a 1:18 span, above.

From Salon, a Salon-esque article that basically says "Pearl Harbor" sucks. All I have to say is, the name Jerry Bruckheimer is associated with this film. There is absolutely no chance it won't suck. Bruckheimer wouldn't know good cinema if it bit him in the ass ("Gone in 60 Seconds," anyone?).

Yomigaeru William Shatner's career!

The introduction of Enterprise was not the only Star Trek-related news in UPN's announcement of its 2001-2002 primetime schedule today. William Shatner (Captain James T. Kirk) will host two one-hour specials featuring a culinary competition based on an international franchise, plus other shows produced by and starring Star Trek veterans have been added to the network's lineup.

Better link here. -Penfold

A couple of questions come to mind:

• What does it mean by an "Americanized version" of the Iron Chef? Will the real Iron Chefs even show up?
• Will Captain Kirk ruin the whole thing? You know how Americans are notorious for on "not getting" IC. Choosing Bill Shatner as an MC borders on "not getting it."

Bush whacked

AUSTIN, Texas -— President Bush's 19-year-old daughter Jenna pleaded no contest Wednesday to a charge of being a minor in possession of alcohol, and must attend alcohol awareness classes.

Well here's a Register article on Palm's big financial problems.

Penfold and I were discussing this just recently. Palm has no one to blame but themselves for their money problems. In this iteration of PDAs, they have failed to bring anything to market that is really worth having over an older Palm. And their new "replacements" for the older Palm series aren't even as good as the old models. To be fair, Handspring has also not really brought any worthwhile Visors to market except, possibly, for the Edge. In fact no PalmOS manufacturer has come out with anything worthile. Handera (TRG) comes closest with its 330 model, but without a color screen, I just wouldn't rush out to buy one. And Palm's picking SD expansion technology over Compact Flash ... that was another major blunder. But we'll leave it at that.

Deja Vu on Anandtech

Anandtech community member Dennilfloss has dramatically confessed to the murder of another member, single mother Nowheremom, on the tech site's forum.

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The twist is that Dennilfloss was in fact Nowheremom. In his confession, he said the creation of a female alter-ego started as a joke because he wanted to see what it would be like for a woman to post on the forums. Nowheremom made her first appearance in October 1999. But it all started getting out of hand when he started getting approaches from other men on the forum, so he created a relationship with Nowheremom and himself.

THURSDAY, 5/17/2001, 7:58pm HST by Penfold

More sparse content tonight. Don't blame me, the content universe is conspiring against us. Today's Pitt-NJ games was so incredibly pitiful.

For those long cross country airplane trips (like HNL-CVG), noise canceling headphone. Now to decide if the Bose one is worth 2x the Koss one. Having flown to Alaska in January, and to SF in April, I really need one of these things.

Relive your memories of days gone past, when you were but a little sprout here. Just some of us have more memories to look back on. Man, there were some weird cartoons way back then.

Our own resident Shmoo.

THURSDAY, 5/17/2001, 1:30pm HST by Raul

Well that picture is probably worth a thousand words. Check out the story here.

Finally capitalizing on a 60 shot performance, the St. Louis Blues beat the Colorado Avs 4-3 in double overtime yesterday. Here's a bit on the effects of OT playoff hockey. Late news: The Penguins scratched Robert Lang for today's game late due to an injury, in addition to the earlier Kasparaitis scratch.

Another kind of learning

Scottish police have been forced to rethink an anti-drugs campaign after discovering they were sending kids to a porn Web site.

Tayside Police had handed out thousands of leaflets to children in primary and secondary schools in the area, recommending they log onto the site to learn about the dangers of drugs.

These aren't as complex as the long stick kung-fu Penfold posted earlier, but they are cool-ish none the less. Check em out here.

WEDNESDAY, 5/16/2001, 7:58pm HST by Penfold
The "Humpin it part 2" Edition

Sittin' around, pondering if I should go to court tommorow or not.

Just in time for you people who wake up, roll over, and turn on the computer. Check it out here.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Arthur Tucker was burned during a one-hour treatment for a swollen prostate with a microwave device called the Prostatron.

Doctors at Vanderbilt University Medical Center had to amputate his penis. Tucker and his wife sued Vanderbilt and the company that makes the device for $13 million.

I thought the whole point of burning the incense was to cover up the smell. Check out the hemp incense here.

Submitted by Jui.

Seems that some prostitutes in Cancun, Mexico have taken to wearing uniforms. Strange, I though that the way too short skirts was the uniform. Check out the whole story here.

Sound familiar? I pay $2.10 a gallon for premium, Cayatano needs to get the AG all over Chevron's ass again.

WEDNESDAY, 5/16/2001, 12:00pm HST by Raul

Happy Hump Day

I've always had a soft spot for games like these since the days of Core Wars and Omega -- games in which you write a program either to do battle itself or to control a combat unit. Once the action starts, you can't do anything but sit back and see how well you did. Anyway Roboforge is the latest game in that vein. LWD has a review of the beta here.

In high school I wrote a game called ARENA, in which you programmed a little ship (a pixel on the screen) to do battle with another shit, also run by a program. I even implemented a shortened version of Redcode (the Core Wars language) for it. *wistful sigh* The days when I coded for fun ... hey wait a minute, maybe things actually don't change!

No, it's not a vulgar comment. But what exactly is a deke, or a head deke, stick deke, or shoulder deke for that matter? What does 'freeze the puck' refer to? Well wonder no more. Here's a pretty accessible hockey glossary for your perusal. Read it through once and you'll have a pretty good grasp of the game.

Oh yeah and for Luzsyd: Be sure to check the puck entry.

Let the Force guide your census answer

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has issued a further warning to Star Wars fans intent on marking "Jedi" as their religion in the upcoming census.

The second warning was prompted following concerns about an e-mail circulating widely in Australia which urges readers to identify their religion as "Jedi" in a national census to be held on August 7.

Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Darius Kasparaitis is out indefinitely with broken bones in his foot. I believe the injury came when he went down to block a shot and took a puck off the ankle area. They way they're talking about it, it doesn't seem that major of an injury, but either way, Pitt is out a man where they are already a little soft ...

TUESDAY, 5/15/2001, 6:58pm HST by Penfold
The "Johnny Bravo" Edition

Ever watch Johnny Bravo? Just saw an episode with an Animal Farm reference. It's the kind of joke where if you get it, it's super funny, if you don't, it doesn't make any sense.

Now with the important news for today, Pitt beats NJ 4-2. Pitt Goalie Johan Hedberg wasn't looking too sharp in the first period when NJ went up 2-0, but then, who else but Mario, busts out with two critical assists to rally Pitt to victory. Check the story here.

Proof positive of what us men knew all along, girls are evil, hehe. Well at least when they're not being all sweet and sensitive.

This one is strictly for the women. Guys, you are warned.

Your repository for info on bad movies like Beastmaster (hey, that's is a good movie), Fist of the Northstar (another quality anime), and Megaforce (ok, this one is horrendous). Check out the bad movies here.

Will code for food.

TUESDAY, 5/15/2001, 12:20pm HST by Raul

Here's something stupid and mildly amusing for you to look at: a Flash Star Wars "gangsta rap".

People can patent almost anything. Funny thing, I've seen this in action before. Didn't know it was infringement. Cats love lasers.

Something even stupider for you to look at: The $20,000 Zig.

Not to be left out of fray, the ever-so-liberal Salon has dropped its 2 cents on the Supreme Court medical marijuana decision. Not much truly new information, just the Salon twists we have come to know and love.

I've seen this around the Web in several places, and maybe you have too. But since someone officially submitted it, I'll post it. Have a look at the Asian Prince. Funny thing is, I've seen another page with another equally weird looking SE Asian guy, with very similar text. This one is much more comprehensive though. Be sure to listen to his "bad hair day freestyle" in the Music section and his "vibrating pen hand" in the Bad Boy Life section. This Asian Prince dude(?) can also be found under classification II, number 14 on Mullets Galore.

MONDAY, 5/14/2001, 7:58pm HST by Penfold

StL lost AGAIN, man Colorado is going to screw me up. Party this weekend, see the members section for details.

Colorado goes up two games to none over th hapless Blues. See the whole story here.

How much do you know about Iron Chef? Find out here. I got 22 out of 26 right. Many of the answers can be found here.

What's a DWIoH? Find out here. He was even found not guilty.

What's up on the North Slope of Alaska? Nothing really, but freezing weather, oil, and server farms.

MONDAY, 5/14/2001, 12:30pm HST by Raul

Well in keeping with my strong support for reasonably-priced software, I picked up Serious Sam from CompUSA for a mere $20 -- an unheard-of price for a new game that is receiving so much critical acclaim. To put it into a few words, the game is stunning. The graphics are first-rate and the framerates are surprisingly smooth. And it is quite fun for the itchy-trigger-fingered among us. I more or less concur with the Firingsquid review here.

Who else but PETA could bring you the Lettuce Ladies. Although they're not that hot. And it seriously makes me think about what happens to your powers of reason when you just eat veggies.

SCOTUS hands weed back to drug dealers

The Supreme Court handed medical marijuana users a major defeat Monday, ruling that a federal law classifying the drug as illegal has no exception for ill patients.

You know you want to do it. Well thanks to Camp Chaos, now you can. Blast Jar Jar into little pieces.

SUNDAY, 5/13/2001, 8:00pm HST by Raul

We're going to cut the posts back to 1 per day on a typical weekend ... even your intrepid Webmasters deserve days off, and content is typically sparse on weekends anyway!

Hockey is a Christ-sanctioned sport, evidently. Have a look at Catholic Supply's Jesus sports figurines. Image how much damage Jesus could do on the ice. He doesn't even need pads or skates for that matter. He could probably deliver crushing bodychecks without touching anyone, and take shots from behind his own net and bank them in off the half boards. And look at that, he's the third man in the faceoff circle, but no ref is going to throw him out!

Tef sniffed this one out: Apparently, the All Your Base craze has gotten at least one kid in hot water. Found here but mirrored just in case.

Okay so this has been around for quite some time, but if you're like me, you've often wondered what the story is with Japanese lolitas, loose-socks and the go-go girl chic. Well wonder no longer ... What an odd society.

Well now that the XFL has gotten the punt, the analyses are popping up like psylocibin shrooms on cowshit after a warm summer rain. Check a few here and here. Am I the only person that finds the name "XFL" ironic. The ex-football league was really a self-fulfilling prophecy.

So THIS is what Gary coleman is doing now. Submitted by Tef. Too bad the demise of Daily Radar meant the demise of Dr. Ho.