SATURDAY, 9/8/2001, 11:45am HST by Raul

This is straight out of Caddyshack: Rodex 4000 gets rid of your rodential farm pests by, well, blowing them the fuck up! It's a lovely system designed to deliver a propane/oxygen mixture ... (insert maniacal cackling here)

"A new patent designed to facilitate sexual intercourse" ... nuff said.

Jump jump

LONDON (Reuters) -- Around one million British school children succeeded in causing an earthquake on Friday, jumping up and down simultaneously in the world's largest scientific experiment.

FRIDAY, 9/7/2001, 11:58pm HST by Penfold

Who will take the golden nut?

A pure man sport, building something and sending it out to be destroyed. See all about the BattleBot luvin' here.

Feel like you're back in high school again. Build professional quality paper darts and harass everyone.

Seems like the salmon in Alaska have started glowing. No, it's not a government hatch, maybe it's aliens. Check it out here.

Litigation to the rescue

A California woman has filed a lawsuit against an independent record label for embedding technology in CDs that blocks people from listening to songs on a computer.

FRIDAY, 9/7/2001, 11:00am HST by Raul

While you're on the Lego tip: check out this tweaker's Lego Rubik's cube solver.

Just the thing for all you enthusiasts out there: Cameltoe.org. All camel toes, all the time.

Well it's out, but good luck getting it. The mirrors are being hammered as we speak. But anyway, here they all are for your hammering delight.

This is too funny. Found it circulating around some photography forum.

Bunch of other NHL happenings recently:

• Not only is Eric Lindros back in action, so is Theo Fleury, commonly known as the smallest NHL player that no one wants to play against, fresh off a stint in a substance abuse program. Hey, Fleury looks a little like a certain JET refugee I know.
• Montreal Canadiens captain Saku Koivu has been diagnosed with adbominal cancer.
• The Pittsburgh Penguins are going to be down a talented defenseman until November -- Janne Laukkanen injured himself while screwing around in the offseason.
• Alexei Yashin did end up signing the longest, richest deal in NHL history with the NY Islanders a few days ago. The interesting part is the owners of the Isles are Computer Associates execs. The dot-com bubble apparently hasn't burst for everyone ...

THURSDAY, 9/6/2001, 11:58pm HST by Penfold
The "Rehash" Edition

Ooooh, hash.

Everyone's favorite video news stream is announcing plan to do the TV version. Check out the story here.

Remember the Puppetry of the Penis? Seems that they're holding audition for a new tour company. Potental puppetiers are asked to "be ready to demonstrate their own genital installations". Check it out here.

THURSDAY, 9/6/2001, 12:45pm HST by Raul

This is the absolute bomb. Trooper Clerks, a Flash cartoon in the style of Kevin Smith that captures ... well ... everything. Ten times better than Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. If you know me, then you know I NEVER say something is the bomb. So it must be.

Violence causes video games

It is an unfortunate and well-known fact that the existence of video games has undergone a recent and sudden growth spurt over the past few years. Until now, the source of such atrocities was unknown, but a new study performed by the National Association for the Study of Things Scientifical (NASTS) points to society's focus on violence as a major cause for the recent outbreak of video games, rap music, and even alcohol.

It's not every day you run into a aluminum, bolt-action, laser-sighted spud gun. Well Spudtech has that, and a whole lot more.

Aaliyah: look again

But the media outpouring over Aaliyah shouldn't come as a surprise. She was a creation of the music-media machine, a budding talent whose potential stardom was identified and then manufactured before she'd even grown out of her training bra. Now that she's dead, those same star makers are crafting a "legend" for her, à la Kurt Cobain, Notorious B.I.G or Tupac Shakur.

Apparently, Stephen Hawking is getting a new voice. He was unsatisfied with the American accent he's had for years and now is going to try a British one on for size.

WEDNESDAY, 9/5/2001, 10:58pm HST by Penfold

Because I got high, Because I got high, Because I got high.

All things Python

CENTURION: What's this, then? 'Romanes Eunt Domus'? 'People called Romanes they go the house'?

While scouting around for a broadband connection for my office, I discovered that Verizon has changed their pricing. Now only $41.50 for 1.54M down and 384k up. While not as cheap as residential RR, it ends up being much cheaper for business accounts. Check it out here.

I warn you, once you've been enlightened by broadband, there's no turning back.

End the pain

"I can guarantee to you that I will definitively give up after Episode 3, which will come out in 2005," Lucas told French magazine Tele 7 Days.

WEDNESDAY, 9/5/2001, 1:00pm HST by Raul

Just what every PDA freak always wanted: a 50-lb. butter Palm. It failed to sell on eBay, but really, just seeing it, as in the postcard at left (click to enlarge), is 90% of the appreciation. Discuss here. Just the thing to help clog the hearts of at least 100 card-carrying yuppies.

For any that might happen to have one of Olympus' point-and-shoot digital models (3030/4040, etc): the Tetra housing is a new underwater enclosure system for these models that takes various strobes and hotlights for some kewl sea creature lovin'.

Nothing like a Healthy Bowel eh?

TUESDAY, 9/4/2001, 11:58pm HST by Penfold

1-800-766-LOVE, get in on the phone action right now.

What do you want on your plate? Seems that those 6 letters and numbers on the license plate on your car has become quite the controversial issue. Read about it here.

Maybe this one will get by DMV.

Hopefully this means that a Compaq computer won't automatically mean POS computer. Read about the rumble on Wall Street today here.

Putting tape on the stick

TORONTO (CP) -- Guy Lafleur has signed on as the poster boy for erectile dysfunction, teaming up with Viagra manufacturer Pfizer Canada to promote the problem and what can be done about it.

TUESDAY, 9/4/2001, 2:45pm HST by Raul

Took a trip down to Island Paintball Sports this weekend (Here's a somewhat outdated writeup; the IPS Web site seems to have died), and sat out a few games to do some shooting with the E-10, with the various lens add-ons. All were taken with the TCON-300 + TCON-14b supercombo except for the top middle (TCON-14b only) and bottom middle (TCON-300 only). All are resized from full frames and unedited. Our own writeup is forthcoming.

So as not to be partial to any particular brand of hardware, here's some info about ATI's upcoming mobile Radeon, the direct competitor to NVIDIA's Geforce2Go. The really interesting part about the Radeon is that it supports DDR, while the GF2Go only supports SDRAM.

An interesting sunset as we left Bellows yesterday.

MONDAY, 9/3/2001, 10:58pm HST by Penfold

Because you're small. S-m-all.

These boats over at the Magic Island Lagoons really blaze. Gas powered, sound like little chainsaws set to kill.

Also spotted today, a smallish marlin and two mahi.

Be like the Devil himself, get some action in the buying and trading of souls.

Some misc panorama because I don't have any real, decent content.

I was watching Cannonball Run tonight, and noticed some interesting things about it. It was a Golden Harves movie, produced by Raymond Chow, written by Brock Yates. It starred Terry Bradshaw and had Jackie Chan as a Japanese Race driver who yells at the Japanese co-pilot in Chinese.

MONDAY, 9/3/2001, 9:15am HST by Raul

While many were waiting for the announcement of a successor to the E-10, Olympus went and announced its entry into the fast-growing ultracompact market, now dominated by the Canon Elph/Ixus cameras, and recently joined by Kyocera's Finecam S3 and Nikon's Coolpix 775. Olympus' C-40/D-40 (depending on what part of the world you're in) however, trumps them all in terms of specs. Sporting a full 4 megapixel sensor along with a 2.8x F2.8 - F4.8 optical zoom lens, plus modern features such as noise reduction and automatic dead pixel mapping, the D-40 delivers some serious punch in a small package. One really unique thing about this camera is the fact that it has six working f-stops, whereas most consumer P&S digicams only have two. At $800 it doesn't come cheap, but with all the functionality of Olympus' current top-end full-size P&S offering, the C-4040, the price might be somewhat mitigated.

Remember good ol' Wo-hen Nankan, the Asian Prince in search of a princess? Well he's got a Livejournal for your perusal. Filled with the same kind of outrageous fiction that made the Asian Prince personal site so popular, this does appear to be done by the same person or persons.

Oh yeah, for those wondering how we know it's fiction, Mahv reports that the name Wo-hen Nankan loosely translates to "I'm ugly."

For that special tweaker in your life: send a Virtual Crackrock their way.

Just what the world always needed: a bra fitting sensor that measures the pressure the bra exerts on the body for a perfect fit. One of those units looks an awful lot like a window tint meter.

Now if technology replaces human workers, was there someone performing this job by hand in the past? Actually, according to a show I saw on Discovery channel or TLC, there sure was, and some bra fitters are quite famous (in Europe of course).

SUNDAY, 9/2/2001, 10:58pm HST by Penfold

Man that was a hell of a party last night, another 20# slab of prime beef down the hatch.

Not content with the normal cork screw or two prong cork puller, the thing for the noveau yuppie wine snob is the gas charged cork puller.

We've actually used this at Weid's house last night and it is way cool.