For those of you who can't get enough of the Osbournes, wander over to Sim Osbornes, a little Shockwave piece on the MTV site that allows some limited action.

After much bitching and gnashing of teeth, I've finally run into a filesharing program that's worth having: It's Kazaalite, which is a spyware-less, adware-less modification of the Kazaa client. I had never seen the Kazaa client before this, and I am quite impressed with its sophistication. Anyway, although it does suffer from occasional instability issues on my machine, I am thoroughly appreciating this piece of software.

From the Egalité Dept.: Leave it up to Gspot do discover Down Syndrome Dolls, unique gifts for unique children. Also at the same site, Benny the Anatomical Teddy Bear.

Here's a bunch of stuff that's been rotting in my content list for a while, but are not really worth a full post each:

• A look at the leaflets dropped over Afghanistan.
• Something about Wal-mart shafting Microsoft and shipping computers with a Linux OS.
• A John Romero project actually seems to be on schedule. Check out the progress on Hyperspace Delivery Boy.
• Something called Know Your Teen Queens: A field guide to Britney and Christina from Jui.
• A little Boondocks strip about racial stereotypes in Episode II. From ... damn, I forget.
• A catalog of people's game rooms.
• Some Cechnya war videos from Gspot.
• A really stupid site called Find the G Spot were you ... well ... do exactly that.

Palm shipping production out of US

Taiwan-based Asustek Computer has struck a deal with Palm to supply PDAs (personal digital assistants) running the new Palm OS 5 and the Intel PXA 250 microprocessor next year, industry sources said.

TUESDAY, 6/18/2002, 5:30am HST by Raul

Oates done in Philly

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The Philadelphia Flyers have decided not to re-sign center Adam Oates, acquired in March for a top goalie prospect and draft picks.

General manager Bob Clarke said the team had expected to re-sign Oates, 39, whose asking price is expected to be around $5 million. But that changed last week when the Flyers acquired center Michal Handzus in a trade with Phoenix.

In other news, Ron Tugnutt is headed for Dallas.

MONDAY, 6/17/2002, 2:45pm HST by Raul

On its face, this is a kind of neat Flash pingpong simulation. But I think it's a subtle attempt to drive people crazy. Damn if it isn't hard as hell! I scored all of one point on the girl, ever. Maybe you'll have better luck. Onsen pingpong.

Mafioso submits this ingenius piece of software called the Dead Man's Switch. Heres a blurb of what it does:

Software ... which is basically a system that, if not reset by a given time, will automatically carry out a series of tasks, such as posting messages to websites like Ars, sending e-mails to loved ones (or hated ones), and encrypting or destroying sensitive files (*cough* pr0n *cough*).

This is a simple, diabolical and kind of nasty game. 5 Finger Fillet is an adaptation of the old knife-between-the-fingers game popularized by the movie Aliens. Not for the squeamish. From Gspot.

This in particular is for Gspot. Create-A-Fart lets you, well, exactly what it says.

Also for G: The Scoop on Poop.

No love for Japan footballers

Belgian soccer may have its Red Devils, but Japanese soccer has its Bed Devils.

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Despite the hordes of adoring fans who'd willingly throw themselves at the feet of national team members, a strict sex ban for the duration of the World Cup is going to ensure the only forward thrusts the players make will be on the pitch.