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You knew it would happen: CD-eating fungus!
Offers opportunities for waste disposal (of course, something like that could never get out of hand…)
Speaking of sci-fi scenarios, didn't William Gibson come up with bit-rot, some sort of actual data decay? Are my files really safe? Sumerian clay tablets have lasted 5000 years, but all I've got are promises!

- alex 6-25-2001 4:08 pm [link] [1 comment]

The series finale of Xena, Warrior Princess is on tonight (Sat 6/23) at 8:00PM on Ch 11.
From Salon and AP.

- alex 6-23-2001 8:15 pm [link] [add a comment]

"Turner's really suing Acme Rent-A-Car on Whalley Avenue in New Haven for cozying up with Big Brother. He's trying to recoup a $450 charge for allegedly speeding on his way to Virginia in an Acme minivan. The van was equipped with a Global Positioning System, or GPS, which transmits data via satellite. It clocked him "going at speeds in excess of 90 mph on three separate occasions," according to court papers. The internal device did, but the cops didn't."
- dave 6-22-2001 7:03 pm [link] [add a comment]

LOS ANGELES (AP) - ``Frasier'' star Kelsey Grammer will receive more than $1.6 million per episode in a deal that makes him the highest-salaried actor in television history, Daily Variety reported Friday.
- dave 6-22-2001 5:27 pm [link] [add a comment]

Gail Collins Named Editorial Page Editor of New York Times
- dave 6-22-2001 4:44 pm [link] [add a comment]

boogie master John Lee Hooker, dead @ 83


- bill 6-22-2001 3:40 pm [link] [9 comments]

everybody loves whitey

now that the yankees plan to launch their own network theyll need some programming to fill the gap between the yankees nets and devils games. espn has a preview of possible shows.
- dave 6-21-2001 6:08 pm [link] [1 comment]

Pork chop?
"Babe" faces the ax.
- alex 6-21-2001 2:37 pm [link] [1 comment]

Blogathon:

You'll need to make an entry on your site every 30 minutes for 24 hours. We all begin at the same date & time: July 28, 12:00pm PST.

Feel free to pre-write, but please don't set up a script to do your updates. Everyone should be live.

I'm going to try to be on AIM the whole time. My handle is frytopia. Feel free to keep me awake.

This is gonna be fun!
Just imagine the edge of your seats excitement: 48 davezilla posts in one day. The good times just keep rolling.
- jim 6-20-2001 10:17 pm [link] [2 comments]

the Lady's Flatus Inhibitor, circa 1864, and other inventions of michael flannigan...
- linda 6-20-2001 3:25 pm [link] [1 ref] [1 comment]

Just Ask Alex--summer is almost here cause my favorite stinky tree is in bloom (what tree is that again good doctor), and is it possible i saw a baby pigeon on my window sill??
- Skinny 6-20-2001 2:18 pm [link] [5 comments]

"Failing the "Perception Test"

"PBS routinely ignores its own rules in allowing conservative/Republican propagandists surreptitious, unacknowledged access to its network."

- dave 6-20-2001 12:19 am [link] [2 refs] [4 comments]

PORNADO REPORT :

" As you know the Bada Bing Girls from the Soprano's will be appearing in the
August Issue of Playboy.

On June 28th they will be on the Winstar Radio station from 9 to 10 A.M. to
promote the Issue. They will also be appearing on the RON & FEZ Radio Show
at 2:15 PM.

ELEKTRA and the other girls will be appearing at Tower Records in Manhattan,
sometime in midday. And in late afternoon they will be appearing at Tower
Records in Paramus, New Jersey in late afternoon.

Then it's off to the BADA BING (aka SATIN DOLLS in Lodi, New Jersey) for a
HUGE PARTY from 9 to 10 PM. Phone Number is 201-909-8983.

Also at this Party besides the BADA BING GIRLS will be the PLAYBOY CYBER
GIRLS, and cast members of the SOPRANO'S. The age requirement to get into
Satin Doll is 21. Elektra told me there should be a great time had by all.

More news will be available soon."







- bill 6-19-2001 11:24 pm [link] [4 refs] [1 comment]

the ekpyrotic universe - SO WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS THAT THERE WAS A UNIVERSE OF 3-DIMENSIONAL MATTER THAT WAS EXISTING BEFORE THE UNIVERSE WE ARE IN THAT WAS SLAMMED BY ONE OF THESE 5TH DIMENSIONAL WAVES. AND THEN SETS OFF AGAIN WHAT WE HAVE BEEN CALLING THE BIG BANG WHICH WAS THIS ENORMOUS, RAPID EXPANSION OF HEAT AND ENERGY BEFORE THE CURRENT MATTER UNIVERSE.
- linda 6-19-2001 10:17 pm [link] [2 refs] [5 comments]

I think I'll wait for Alex's confirmation before I believe this, but apparently,

...[a] slithering, evil-eyed alligator is lurking where New Yorkers least expect it - in an otherwise peaceful lake in Central Park.
And like all great media stories, this one provides local New Yorkers with an opportunity to show off their amazing grasp of historical events.
"It was hysterical - like Napoleon crossing the Delaware or something," one source said, chuckling.
Indeed.
- jim 6-19-2001 6:58 pm [link] [2 comments]

according to a TV show linda and i were watching the top 3 illicit trades are 1) drugs 2) endangered animals 3) arms
- Skinny 6-19-2001 12:07 pm [link] [1 ref] [3 comments]

Mermaid Parade gets packaged.
NY Post article.

- alex 6-18-2001 6:21 pm [link] [add a comment]

But do they have a vibrate mode?
- jim 6-18-2001 4:54 pm [link] [1 comment]

Doh : OED


- bill 6-14-2001 7:03 pm [link] [1 comment]

Unhappy people make the best workers. Boy, that really makes a lot of things clear. (via plastic)
- jim 6-14-2001 5:26 pm [link] [add a comment]

dave on strike?
- linda 6-14-2001 3:04 am [link] [2 comments]

Richard Helms's niece and the Taliban.
After all, the American Right and Islamic Fundamentalism have a lot of common ground.

- alex 6-13-2001 8:29 pm [link] [add a comment]

Wren's Nest
Pagan weblog.
- alex 6-13-2001 3:30 pm [link] [add a comment]

Marijuana after age 45 harder on heart than sex
Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)
June 12, 2001
New York (dpa) - Smoking pot after age 45 puts more stress on the heart than strenuous sex, leading to a five-fold increase in the likelihood of a heart attack for about an hour afterwards, Canadian and U.S. scientists said in media reports Tuesday.
- linda 6-12-2001 10:37 pm [link] [3 comments]

godapalooza
- linda 6-12-2001 8:08 pm [link] [add a comment]