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6.29(11:39PM):// Final Post?
I am leaving for the beach with my friend Ryan for a week tommorow morning... The train leaves at 9:15 AM. No posts for you for an entire week... Think you can survive?

AskJeeves.com... It seems there are no limits as to what you can ask the ever-faithful search-butler. That's what everyone thought, until someone got the nerve to ask: "Is Jeeves gay?"

Okay, this site has to be the most interesting thing I have stumbled across on the world wide web to date. Looking at Vintage Vacuum Cleaner images sure makes me want to... Well, it makes me want to go to sleep.

I had some other funny links to post, but I'm tired...

Volatile Atlanta Braves reliever John Rocker, who landed himself in hot water last year by insulting New Yorkers in a Sports Illustrated magazine article, will not ride the city's No. 7 train to Shea Stadium for Thursday night's National League game against the New York Mets as he vowed he would. [More]

The first broadcast on the Internet of penile-pump-implant surgery drew relatively few Web surfers on Wednesday. The Webcast of the procedure, which claims the highest satisfaction rating of any therapy for serious erectile dysfunction, attracted only a few thousand viewers at the start of the program. [More]

Four men enjoying a game of night-time nude cricket were caught out by British police after a member of the public reported them, authorities said on Thursday. A West Yorkshire police officer broke up the game at Scholes Cricket Club near Huddersfield, northern England, in the early hours of the morning after receiving a complaint about the naked antics. [More]

A Norwegian airline has run into an unexpected safety problem: Seat belts on its aircraft are vanishing because they have become a hot fashion accessory. "What we know is that it is in fashion for the street look," Stig Martin Solberg, spokesman for Braathens airline, said Thursday. "It has been a problem for about a year and is increasing." [More]



6.29(1:15PM):// Grafite Network.
Wow, I feel special. I decided to pay Grafite a visit, and when I got there, there was a poll entitled "Who would win in a fight?" Sort of a joke-type poll thingie. But anyway, my name was on it, and I had ten votes cast for me. Wow, I didn't think that you people even knew that I existed. And I have the screen shot below to prove it!



So umm... Yeah, everyone head on over to The Grafite Network and vote for me now! Oh yeah, and look, he used my word!



Larf is a powerful thing, it is not to be taken lightly... Respect the larf. Caress it. And remember, in the end, the larf you take is equal to the larf you make.



6.29(12:19PM):// My Apology.
Over the course of the past few days, I have been smoking alot of crack, (sarcasm, ladies and gentlemen...) and my page has been kinda messed up. The navigational system wasn't working correctly, and any attempts to go to a different section of my page were halted by that annoying "404 error" screen. I've fixed it now, sorry about any inconvenience that it may have caused.

Haha, I love Eminem, he takes full advantage of his ability to piss people off. When confronted about homophobic shots that spatter the new album like punctuation in a long run-on sentence, his response was to say "When he uses the word 'faggot' it doesn't necessarily mean a gay person, it means 'sissy' and '@!#$'. Do I really hate gay people or not? That's up for you to decide..." Even more disturbing was the reaction of his producer Doctor Dre who said, "I don't really care about those kind of people." His new CD has the word "faggot" in it almost as many times as it has the other f-word, and GLAAD is pretty pissed off.

Hey, Walter is getting laid tonight. Woohoo.

What the hell is this? I am like dumbfounded, some people have absolutely no lives whatsoever.

Haha, this is pretty funny.

A bare-breasted blonde mermaid perched atop a rock is making tourists gape in disbelief along a Norwegian fjord. "One man once jumped off a boat and swam over to me," Line Oexnevad, 37 and mother of two children, told Reuters on Tuesday of her unorthodox job as a professional siren. "Most people just look and cheer." Oexnevad, naked except for a long blonde wig and a costume fish-tail, said she has sat five times on a rock along the Lyse fjord in West Norway in the past three summers, hired as a surprise attraction for tourist boat trips and parties. [More]

At last, one of music's great pioneers will get her due--and a new generation will get its Graceland. That's right, everyone's favorite navel-baring, 18-year-old phenom Britney Spears will soon get her own museum, thanks to the kind folks in her hometown of Kentwood, Louisiana. In a year or two, America's youth will look back on her and feel the same way that they do about The New Kids On The Block... So isn't the constructiopn of a museum in her honor kind of pointless? [More]

Distributed Science Inc and Popular Power are ramping up to offer distributed computing projects that differ from the first generation -- such as RC5 and SETI@Home -- in that they will pay the volunteers who participate, and it offers a chance to work on something more tangible. [More]

A Thai policeman has confessed to shooting one man dead and trying to kill his friend after they booed his karaoke performance at a restaurant. [More]

The curtain fell on a rolling pornographic theater this past weekend after an eagle-eyed state trooper spotted some steamy images playing on a television screen in a car, authorities say. Virginia State Trooper Todd Golling saw the X-rated footage while working a drunken driving patrol Friday night on the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel. The driver was also charged with possession of crack cocaine and possession of marijuana. [More]

Darva Conger, television's multimillionaire bride, removed her wedding dress and everything else for the August issue of Playboy. Conger said Wednesday she gave the Playboy offer a lot more thought than the decision to wed Rick Rockwell on live TV. [More]

Romanian prostitutes, their business hit by economic recession, are trying to lure clients by offering to do household chores for them after having sex, a newspaper reported Wednesday. The daily National quoted a "sexual agent" in Bucharest as saying that many women in the sex business had added cooking and house-cleaning to the repertoire of the world's oldest profession. [More]

The disc jockey thought it was pretty funny, but Britney Spears' fans weren't laughing. An announced appearance by the teen pop star prompted about 400 children and parents to line up outside WBHT-FM's studio. Their hopes were shattered when a limousine pulled up and a tuxedo-clad man emerged carrying a Britney Spears doll in a box. [More]

A male will know that he is entering the "male menopause" because he will develop "cyberphobia" - an all-consuming obsession with the young, virile computer whiz-kids who are shooting up the corporate ladder behind him, a Christian conference on marriage will be told today. [More]

The crew of a Southwest Airlines flight to Chicago turned the plane around early on Tuesday to pick up three sisters who got off in Kansas City for a snack. The three girls, aged 8, 9 and 12, got off the Chicago-bound flight from Los Angeles during a brief stopover in Kansas City to get something to eat, an airline spokeswoman said. [More]

You've seen them on TV, those friendly folks hired to make the Wal-Mart experience a pleasant one. But a Westwood Sunday school teacher says her run-in with a "people greeter" gave her nightmares for months. "It was terrible," said Mary Claire Ball, 72, who sued the mega-chain after she was stopped and her shopping cart searched for stolen goods. She had none. Umm... Aren't the people who greet you at the doors of Wal-Mart usually retarted people? [More]

A former topless dancer is seeking unspecified damages from heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson in connection with a May incident in which she says the boxer struck her while she was working at Cheetah's. In the lawsuit, Victoria Bianco said Tyson struck her in the chest without provocation after they exchanged smiles and she began to sit beside him on a couch at the topless club on Western Avenue. "Tyson's violent and powerful blow sent Victoria several feet across the floor and caused her to fall on her tailbone," according to the lawsuit filed late Friday. The lawsuit states that Bianco continues to seek medical care for her injuries. What the hell is wrong with that guy? He also recently said he was going to rip one of his opponent's hearts out and feed it to him, and he said he was going to eat his children... I'm not kidding either. [More]

And now, I leave you with something that should make you happy... Unless you're a girl, in that case, just close the site now, don't bother looking beyond this text.





6.29(2:14AM):// Nope, No Subject!
I don't feel like doing an update right now, I'm pissed off. My parents are so retarted, they think that if you leve me alone with a member of the opposite sex for more than thirty seconds, we will have sex or something. They are so gay about stuff involving girls... My very close friend Crystal invited me to go to the beach with her, which would be alot of fun, but since she is a girl... Well, lets just say I really doubt they are going to let me go. And they have met her on numerous occassions, I have known her since the beginning of 9th grade. But anyway, this Friday I am going to the beach with my friend Ryan for a week. So I will do some kind of mega-update to keep you occuppied while I am out pimpin' the beach hoes. I'm sorta tired though so I am going to bed now. Oh yeah, I saw American Beauty tonight... I didn't really like it though. It was kinda messed up, although Mena Suvari looked pretty hot in it.



6.28(12:10AM):// Hell Yeah.


Damn, check out that hottie up there... She just blows away all of the competition. No need for hot girls like these while that hot mama is around. Speaking of girls, look at the expression on this girl's face. Frightening. <- [Don't click that link, for the love of God.]

I have never heard anyone use the term "mother farmer" as an insult before... Maybe it's just me.

Driveways Of The Rich And Famous? God, shit can't get much weirder... Whoops, I just proved myself wrong.



6.27(3:42PM):// Whatever.
I never enter contests on the 'net, but here is one that doesn't look half-bad.

At least 28 people have died in Finland during celebrations to mark the midsummer weekend. Most of the deaths were alcohol related. It is the third year that the number of victims has risen, and the increase has led to calls for action. [More]

Public prosecutors are taking KLM Royal Dutch Airlines to court for grinding up 440 live Chinese squirrels in an industrial meat-processing machine. The airline and two of its employees will face unspecified charges for mistreating animals. [More]

Women around the world are perking up their ears -- not to mention other assets -- over a new bust-boosting spray! The bra-in-a-bottle, called Haute Tenue, is being sold by cosmetics giant Yves Saint Laurent here and in the United States for around $55. [More]

Traffic on London Bridge had to make way for an army of fundraisers as they exercised an ancient right to herd sheep into the Square Mile. [More]

A toy inventor is aiming to be the first person to go into space in a homemade rocket - and he's knocking it up in his shed. Knowcking it up? Does that mean he is having sex with it? [More]

An art consultant in Los Altos, stirred to action by the runaway success of a wacky Chicago public art program that last year sprinkled the Second City with several hundred decorated fiberglass cows, is trying to bring a thousand fiberglass bulls to Silicon Valley by next summer. [More]

Unless you've been living on a desert island for the past decade, you know what it is. But how do you spell it? "Dot-com" is preferred, according to the new edition of the Random House Webster's New College Dictionary. Or it can be "dot.com," but certainly not "dotcom" or ".com." According to Random House, the preferred terms are also "antiglare" (a type of headlight), "sky surfing" (aerial skateboarding), "slamming" (change of long-distance service without customer's permission) and "zettabyte" (one sextillion bytes). Those are among the hundreds of words appearing for the first time among 207,000 definitions in the 1999 edition of the dictionary due out next month. Also included are "gaydar" (a homosexual's ability to spot another), "eye candy" (attractive person of limited merit) and "senior moment" (brief lapse or moment of confusion). Some of the slang phrases included are "dead-cat bounce" (a temporary recovery in stock prices after a steep decline) and "my bad!" (whoops). In the 1940s, says Random House, the list included apartheid, atom bomb, baby-sit, barf, cheeseburger and gobbledygook. In the 1950s came aerospace, brainstorming, car wash, do-it-yourself and meter maid. [More]

Well, that's about it for now. I'll update some more later on tonight, I think I am going over to my girlfriends house to go swimming now.



6.26(12:06AM):// More Bad News...
Ugh, tonight has not been a good night for my site. All of my link images died... If anyone had me linked, please go to the "Link Me" section and re-link me using whichever button you please, thanks you.

Ummmm... Now here is something that I did not want to see... Oh yeah, and this is actually pretty damn funny.

A Budapest man has lost his car to a nearby car bomb explosion for the second time in two years and has sworn never to buy one again. [More]

A British team have invented a pair of walking boots which could be used to power mobile phones, personal stereos and other electrical equipment. [More]

Celebrated French mime artist Marcel Marceau and a British theatrical agent settled a legal battle Monday -- appropriately with hardly a word being said. [More]

Scantily dressed prostitutes in a popular Madrid park should not be ordered to cover up because they are simply wearing the uniform of their profession, according to the capital's chief public prosecutor. [More]

A starving elephant has collapsed and died after developing a bad case of trapped wind as she was being transported to the Thai capital, Bangkok. [More]

A desperate woman stripped off on a remote road to attract attention from passing motorists after trying for three hours to flag someone down to help her injured husband. [More]

Oh yeah, and if you are like me, then this might come in handy.



6.26(10:23PM):// Son Of A Bitch!
This is just so typical... The server that was hosting all of the files that I was going to link got hacked. Yeah, someone with nothing better to do then sit in front of a computer screen and mess other's people shit up got into the server, and deleted everything. There was at least 5 gigs of stuff uploaded... A bunch of DivX movies, about 7 or 8 full albums, tons of miscellaneous MP3's, some cool games, a bunch of brand new music videos... All gone. I am so mad, and the people who uploaded the stuff for me are pretty pissed off too. Well, I have one thing that you can still download if you wish, although the link won't be alive for more than a week or so, it is located on deuce's server, where I uploaded a couple of files, but someone else uploaded this for me. Click on the image below to download the DVD rip of "Deep Blue Sea". For more information on the movie, click here.





6.25(12:59PM):// Proctophobia.
Right now I have a bunch of shit uploading, and a few friends of mine have uploaded stuff for me, so when I feel like it I will post some full albums on here for you. Seriously people, get in touch with me and send me requests, like albums you would like to see on here, and I'll see what I can do.

From pyrotechnic pop-tart experiments and exploding whales, to Spam haiku and rotting Spam closeups, the web is quite a strange place. Where else can you get an estimate of the exact US population at any given time?

Sometimes I come across pages that look like they are probably humorous... But I don't take the time to read them and find out what they are all about. This page is a perfect example. If it actually is funny, lemme know.

Google Inc, one of the fastest growing search engines on the web, today announced it has released the largest search engine on the Internet. Google's new index, comprising more than 1 billion URLs, offers users the web's most comprehensive collection of websites, which can be easily searched with Google's fast and highly relevant search technology. Available now at http://www.google.com, Google's portal and destination site customers can also license this new index for integration with their own websites. [More]

A new shampoo will make head lice glow in the dark so mums and dads can spot them easily in their children's hair. Scientists say some super-nits have become resistant to chemical treatments. But many parents know that it can be difficult to pick out every last trace by hand. [More]

An American couple left their kids home alone with a black bear as a baby sitter. A motorist had spotted the bear in a car and notified police. [More]

The overnight appearance of crop circles in a field in southern Russia has puzzled farmers, with witnesses saying aliens landed there. Russian Public TV reported that a farmer from the village of Yuzhnoye, Stavropol Territory called in local officials "to record an act of vandalism" after finding that his field of ripe barley had seemingly been ruined. [More]

The Vatican on Monday released the text of the "third secret of Fatima" and a document supporting its interpretation of the 1917 vision as foretelling the papal shooting and communism's persecution of Christianity. [More]

I get alot of requests from people asking me to plug their websites, trust me. And most of the time, the sites suck. But a few of them have come to my attention as being pretty nice sites. So check out Jam Sandwich, Jx2 Online, Suffocation, and System Of A Down Warez. They are all great sites and are definitely worth a look. Don't feel like looking at any more websites at the moment? Well, then just go stare at these pics of some hot chick instead.



6.25(2:52PM):// Still Smokin'.
Mike Tyson maintains he's rusty, but he looked like a well-oiled machine for 38 seconds on a rainy night in Scotland. That's how long it took the former heavyweight champion to stop Lou Savarese outdoors at Hampden Park. Sorta like premature ejaculation... Except it's not... Nevermind. Another failed attempt at humor brought to you by yours truly. [More]

A scorpion hitched a ride on a Pennsylvania-bound flight from Detroit and stung a passenger, prompting the crew to divert the plane to Cleveland. The unidentified passenger's right hand was swollen a few hours after Wednesday's unscheduled landing. [More]

I really want one of these. They used to be just like calculators, where they would hold like memo's and phone number's for you, and that was about it. Now they can play MP3's, go online, you can play games on them... They even have advanced stuff like voice-recognition software, which is really cool. Stuff is getting so advanced,, how are we supposed to keep up with it? Well, you could start by coming to my site daily! For more information on this cool gadget, click here.

Engineers at consumer electronics giant Kenwood Corp. have developed a new technology that makes compressed digital music files, such as MP3 files, sound as good as the original cut from a compact disc. The technology, code-named Supreme Drive, re-creates high-frequency sound signals usually lost when music is converted into digital data and then compressed. [More]



6.25(12:14AM):// Visual Feast.
Click on any image to view it in it's entirety.







6.24(11:34PM):// Jurassic Park, PA.
It honestly sounds like there are a bunch of dinosaurs outside of my house stomping around. That is a really gay way to describe it, but there are these huge booming sounds shaking my entire house and they like echo, I can tell they are coming from a few miles away, and it isn't thunder or fireworks... Pretty damn wierd.

A warez group known as "UTOPiA" has finally found a way to bypass the security in the Sega Dreamcast... So the new big thing on the 'net will be people pirating Dreamcast games. The first game released was "Dead Or Alive 2", and I can imagine that more will be out soon enough. Apparently, UTOPiA is the only group that knows how to bypass the Dreamcast security and properly pirate the games, at least for now, so the only group releasing the games will be them. For more information, click here, or go here and discuss it in the forum.

Deputies at the Duval County Sheriff's Office in Jacksonville, Fla., are busy Thursday fielding calls about an e-mail hoax that claims people are being infected with the virus that causes AIDS from hypodermic needles hidden in gas pump handles. More than 1,000 phone calls and e-mails questioning the information have been received from as far away as California. The e-mail, which has been in circulation for about a week, is entitled, "A dangerous prank going around." It warns people to inspect handles at self-serve gas pumps before using them to be sure no needle is concealed. It purports to be from "Capt. Abraham Sands" of the "Jacksonville Police Department." No officer with that name has ever worked for the agency, which has been called the Duval County Sheriff's Office since the city and county merged in 1968. [More]

Amazon's stock promptly plummeted 20 percent Friday to $33.88, its 52-week low, and things are not looking good. [More]



6.24(3:34PM):// Adrenaline.

Want some music videos?

Special thanks to Mizi, who has helped me out a hell of alot with alot of things related to this page, including supplying a decent amount of the files found here.

KoRn - Clown
KoRn - Faget
Limp Bizkit - Counterfeit
A Perfect Circle - Judith
Kittie - Charlotte
Slipknot - Surfacing
Pantera - Walk
Methods Of Mayhem - Get Naked
Slipknot - Spit It Out
Nine Inch Nails - Starsuckers Inc.
Marilyn Manson - The Dope Show
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
KoRn - Somebody, Someone


Also, Deuce hooked me up with unlimited space on his server... Problem is, I'm on 56K, and no one else is allowed to upload shit for me onto that server. But Leet2K and I worked something out, and he is going to give me space on his server, and I'll get some of my friends on high-speed connections to upload for me... What does that mean to you? Well, alot more files, for one thing. Things are looking up for this site!



6.24(1:2PM):// Ecstasy.
I have never personally done E, although I know many people who have, and it makes you wonder... How can so much happiness come from one little pill? Here is a poem I stumbled across, entitled "We could truly live in ecstasy."

Little pill, white and round,
Gulp of water, turbo down.
Anxiety now, can't stand or sit,
Just wait, don't worry, it will hit!
In half-an-hour, you rise inside,
Everyone loves, no hate to hide.
Everything's good, there is no wrong,
If the whole world swallowed it,
Everyone would get along...
World peace, I have a vision,
Cannot be obtanied through religion;
But can be resolved chemically,
There is a God, called Ecstasy.

Some people claim to communicate with their guardian angels while on the drug, others have even been so sure that they held a personal conversation with God. All unordinary experiences aside, everyone seems to do it for the same reason - to capture that unmatchable "euphoric" feeling that I have been told about many times.

You're probably wondering "If he has never touched the stuff, then why is he bothering writing about it?" Well, it just strikes me as a very interesting topic, especially things like falling in love while tripping, and contacting dead relatives. From what I have heard, people usually drop E at raves, although I found an article about a Christian church service involving ecstasy.

I don't really have much else to say about this topic, I just found some interesting resources on it, and felt obliged to share them with you. It's a shame that things that sound so great are potentially damaging... I also uploaded a very cool song by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, called "Ecstasy", which can be downloaded here. For more information on Ecstasy, as well as other drugs, check out Glimpse.org. From what I remember, that site had an entire section devoted to "pill-popping".



6.24(1:21AM):// Nutsack.
I am in love... With a website. "Cameltoe Heaven", to be more specific. No, that's the name of the site. The site that I'm in love with! Who's on first? What's on second?

Want to hear something frightening? Janet Reno is posing for Playboy sometime next year. Okay, she isn't [whew], but what I was really going to say was that PBS has ordered episodes of Teletubbies all the way to the year 2008. That is seriously scary... I mean that show is some wierd-ass shit.

Hope, a friendly 2-year-old orange cat, has been stuck near the top of a five-story-tall maple tree for nine days. Cat owner Christopher O'Clair lives at the Westminster Apartments in Browne's Addition. The tree and the cat are just west of the building. Wanna know why he's really up there? Well... s8n raped the living hell out of that cat. [More]



6.23(1:25PM):// In Den Arsch!
This girl I know IM'ed me today, and told me that two of her close friends were on vacation in Florida. They were tanning on the beach, and they fell asleep. While they were sleeping, some guy drove by and ran them both over, and the girl's family saw the whole thing. If you want to read the full story, click here. Who the hell drives on the beach anyway? Strange... Although it is legal to drive on some beaches.

Dennis Miller is bringing his ranting schtick to "Monday Night Football" as the wild card in ABC's bid to overhaul a program with declining ratings. Miller and Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Fouts, a straight Xs-and-Os analyst, will join holdover play-by-play announcer Al Michaels in the broadcast booth this season. [More]

Insiders at Warner Brother Studios have reported that The Matrix Parts 2 and 3 will actually be the same movie and just retitled. The technique known in the industry as 'retitling' was pioneered on television sitcoms, and first used on film in the 'Friday the 13th' series of movies. [More]

A Cambodian man who was denied his lover's hand in marriage eventually won it after backing up his proposal with an AK-47 assault rifle and a bucket of gasoline. [More]

In Germany authorities can reject parents' choices of names for their children - for instance, if they don't serve to help identify their gender. You know something is wrong when you can't legally name your baby girl Rufus... [More]

"It's understood that Hollywood sells Californication..."

Not to sound like a homophobe, which I don't think that I am, but as far as I'm concerned, only homosexuals would wear this stuff. Oh yeah, and ravers too. All I can say is that I wouldn't be caught dead wearing shit like that. Oh yeah, go here.



6.22(5:34PM):// Humorous Imagery.

Click on any image to view it in it's entirety.







6.21(11:17PM):// Rants N' More.
I would say that 90% of students in schools nationwide anticipate Summer more then anything else during the school year. This year, however, I was not part of that 90%. Why? Well, Summer is no fun at all if you don't have anyone to hang out with... Right? I know hearing me say this hasd to be getting old... But, I just moved here, at the beginning of the school year, and I didn't know anyone in the area. I met a few people through school, but more of 'accquaintances' than anything else. So what am I supposed to do all summer? Sure, I have a girlfriend, she and I are very close, but we need our space every once in a while, and I know one or two people who live in my neighborhood. Other than that, all of my friends are back where I used to live. Currently, my girlfriend is on vacation (you could call it that) with her grandparents, and she will be gone until Friday. So this entire week I have done nothing but sleep, go online, and lift weights. Sounds like a blast, doesn't it? I really need to get out of this house... But I have nowhere to go. I am considering just walking, and seeing where I end up... No, that wouldn't work very well. I would take the train down to Harrisburg to see all my friends, but I am broke, and a one-way ticket is like twenty bucks. So I am left with one option: Hitchhiking... Which will most likely lead to me being anally violated and dumped in a river in Timbuktu. Whose fault is that? My parent's, for making me move here. No, I don't really think that, I'm not totally unreasonable, but basically I am just bored out of my mind so I started typing and just didn't stop until right now.

Anyway, I am still working on getting some server space so I can upload shit for you, so for now, I'll just post some interesting news stories.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's translator raised eyebrows by referring to German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder as the "German Fuehrer," a title associated with Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. [More]

You can smoke in many places in Halifax and the Canadian port city often has the tang of fish and salt water in the air, but you can't wear cologne or perfume, at least not in public. I bet they enourage farting... [More]

A Lebanese military court sentenced a man to one year in jail for calling on people to celebrate the death of Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, a judicial source said Wednesday. [More]

A Japanese man charged with child pornography offences in Cambodia could, if convicted, become the first Japanese citizen to be prosecuted under a new Japanese law applying to child porn offences committed overseas. [More]

A seven-foot-long American crocodile was captured on Miami's private Fisher Island after spending four days lolling in the waves and sunning on a beach that is usually the preserve of the rich and famous. [More]

At a San Francisco auction this week, somebody ponied up almost $5,000 for an auction lot featuring Al Capone's toenail clippers, as well as dice, a christening medal and an ivory cigar holder once owned by the legendary crime boss. [More]

A Vancouver woman was undergoing psychological examination after it was discovered she had been living with the body of her dead father, possibly for as long as two years. [More]

A two-year-old girl survived a nine-story plummet from the window of an apartment block in Russia's Far East, police said on Tuesday. [More]

After nearly 6 years, two million downloads and an estimated 1.8 billion connections to IRC networks around the globe, mIRC Co. Ltd announced that the number of registered copies of their flagship product has reached the elusive double-digit mark. At 7:21 PM, Ronnie47, who has used mIRC for less than a month, made the historic $20 purchase using his credit card. A regular chatter in EFNet's #40+chat channel, Ronnie47 believed he was required to purchase the software. [More]



6.21(4:57PM):// The Nerds Stike Again.
The Nike corporate Web site was taken over by hackers today who replaced the content with a message about the "inequality" of the global economy. The Web page posted by a group calling itself "S-11" completely obscured Nike's site. [More]

The White House endorsed on Wednesday a major Internet industry initiative aimed at boosting online privacy by redesigning the way ``browsing'' software handles personal data. After years in development, the new standard underwent on Wednesday its first public test of how similarly engineered software applications would work together. The test took place in New York. Industry leaders like Microsoft Corp. and America Online's Netscape have pledged to rebuild their Web browsers to support the new architecture, called P3P, short for Platform for Privacy Preferences. It's about time. The feds keep on hax0rin' me, and frankly I'm getting sick and tired of it! [More]

Packing one gigabyte of data storage capacity on to a disk the size of an American quarter, IBM's newest Microdrive can hold up to 1,000 high-resolution photographs, a thousand 200-page novels or nearly 18 hours of high-quality digital audio music. [More]

With all the talk of Internet speed, images on the Web are still embarrassingly slow and clumsy. We've had to rely on JPEG technology as old as the Internet itself. A file format called JPEG2000 (.JP2) aims to change all this. JPEG2000 will achieve in one mode what JPEG does in 44 largely incompatible modes, and it will add enhancements for more innovative use of digital images. [More]



6.21(11:47AM):// No Subject For You!
"Forget Eminem, Necro is probably the sickest individual in hip hop music today."

That about sums this guy up. Another white rapper with obvious talent, but if you're waiting to hear his shit on the radio... Well, don't hold your breath. As far as I'm aware of, the only place to hear this guy's shit is right here. But if you're looking for the next "My Name Is", then steer clear of this guy... You'd be better off listening to that one-hit wonder 1,000 Clowns. Ugh, I hated that guy. Anyway, you can thank WebSurfer from MP3 Crackhouse for the link. Anyway, now for some interesting news 'bits'.

To Hollywood's alarm, a British company is selling modified DVD players that output pure digital signals. Unlike regular DVD players, which provide ho-hum quality analog pictures, Function Communications' modified DVD players output a stream of pure digital video. Sounds sweet, right? Of course, this is too good to be true.... They're being sued. [More]

After some 30 years as the curious sport of eccentric Brits, then as a surprise hit for the last eight years in the Midwest and South, lawn mower racing has finally arrived at the big time in the Northeast, culminating last weekend in a national race in central New York state. Now, the question is whether lawn mower racing has got what it takes to become the country's next national obsession. Bryan, if you're reading this, stop drooling. [More]

John Rocker can't wait to get to New York next week... And ride the subway with all the people he insulted last year. "The first day I get to New York, I'm getting on the Number 7 train," the Atlanta Braves reliever told USA Today Baseball Weekly, which hits the newsstands Wednesday. "I'm taking it to Shea Stadium. I won't be in a cab. I won't be on the bus. I'll be on that train. And I'm looking forward to it. And if someone wants to talk to me, that's fine." [More]

For those of you who don't know, John Rocker plays for the Atlanta Braves. Last December, he made some comments in Sports Illustrated that really pissed some people off. Here's an excerpt, "The biggest thing I don't like about New York are the foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?" Me and my girlfriend were at a Phillies/Braves game, and some white guy came up to us and gave us t-shirts and big signs that read "Rocker Sucks", and the website adress "www.rockersucks.com". We held up the signs for shock value, but some lady said if she saw them again, she'd kick us out. Okay, enough about that, I just wanted to make sure everyone knew who he was.

Farmers in a small Polish community are locking their chickens up in pens to protect them from an unusual predator: the country's beloved storks. I have a feeling it isn't the storks... I think it's this guy. [More]