I Know Its Been 20 Years, But Better Now Than Never
Bob Marley got a star on Hollywood Blvd today. Very few people deserve this more than him.
The more chile peppers, the better
I find this amusing. In Eudora 5, with the new ‘chile pepper’ rating for emails containing dirty words, the word ‘shit’ gets three peppers, and the word ‘fucker’ only gets two. Does that not seem wrong to anyone else?
M(mmmm), Drool.
Damn, I really want one of these.
…sigh
Wait! Don't Hang Up
This study on cellular phones that was just released seems to say that they don’t cause cancer. I’m naturally skeptical of this kind of shit because nowhere does it say who funded it and the details in general seemed kind of on the skimpy side. Plus, the way they obtained the information seems to be actually quite invasive. I wonder if they contacted these people:
“Johansen used cell phone company records to identify Danes who began using the phones between 1982 and 1995. Using those personal ID numbers, he matched phone users with the registry’s cancer records through the end of 1996, to determine if cell callers suffered cancer at the same rate as other Danes.”
Too bad it's a Nissan
Uhm. Okay. So some guy apparently took a PowerBook and mounted it in his Nissan Pathfinder in order to play MP3s and god-knows what else. He uses Airport to transfer the files between his house and car. He calls it the Pathintosh, and it has the Apple logo instead of a front-mounted license plate. Nice. The most disturbing part about the whole thing? ‘Factory steering wheel audio controls rewired to run scripts.’ WHAT THE FUCK? Now THAT’s ingenuity.
I would have put it in a BMW, and called it a ‘PBMW MG3.’ But that’s just me.
I could have used that little 'Under construction' animation…
I spent some time this morning, and got the links at the top working… And just so you know… I am a PHP genius. So there. The searching and archiving functions work (be careful, they’re split up now), and the about section is there. The other sections are placeholders, but you don’t really need to care about that.
the degradation of american sports
I just got a new television set for my new place (which will surely be stolen, defaced, or teepeed sometime soon- read earlier post), and decided to save a little money on
Saturday night and stay in, basking in the glow of 43 inches of pure Japanese
love- on a lot of weblogs, that would be the close to a really interesting story that
I’m sure some of you aren’t old enough to read, but here at alternate.org, it’s just the beginning…
I’m not a huge fan of football, but the erstwhile governor of Minnesota had somewhere along the line convinced me that the program onto which
I was to stumble that night had a little something extra to offer. He was right.
As my remote control fell from my hand in amazement, my mind reeled. Awash in colors, shapes and sounds, this event was unlike anything
I had ever seen (short of that one parade on the hill in Denver where there was that thing with the stuff, but that’s another weblog, too).
It’s as if the marketing executives of the WWF have flat out admitted that we’re morons who simply want
explosions and T&A involved with every event we watch… the cheerleaders were strippers (which
I didn’t mind, really), fireworks shot off after every touchdown, and you could put any nickname you wanted on the back of your jersey.
You used to have to be good enough that Chris Berman gave you a nickname on Sports Center.
Now anyone can have one? Fine, from now on I’m “leader of the naked monkey clan“, a 6 foot 1 inch soph-o-more from
aaaaaal-a-bama…
Now I don’t want to go George Will on you here, but it seems to me that entertainment and sports used to be a little like church and state.
Do I think it’s any coincidence that Dubya gets into office and all the sudden I’ve got strippers on NBC during prime time? I don’t really want to
comment on that, but I’m almost certain that we’re making less of the few great games we have left
every time we figure out how to project a sponsor logo onto the court for the home viewers (tennis), or develop a technology that lets people who don’t really care watch the game without having to really think about why it’s important (hockey’s stupid
pucktracker). If you lower the bar, we simply jump lower. Then if you try to raise it, we just go play another game, because now it’s too hard, and they’ve got a cool new 360-degree camera over on the other field.
God, I hated that thing at the Superbowl…
Like I said, I don’t really care one way or another about sports… it just makes me feel bad for
the people who do that the powers that be would treat them this way. Except for
the strippers… they were okay.
Wipe the tears from your eyes, and SEE.
I know you’re a little frightened by all the changes going on around here, but for the love of god, DON’T CLICK ANYTHING. The top nav really doesn’t work yet, and the survey is old, but at long last, the new design is up. This isn’t a well-read weblog, or even a well-written one, so I’m not worried about launching incomplete code. But if your grubby little hands need to try something out, click on the new ‘hide’ function on the left… Jax helped out on that shit, and it’ll only get better.
Weblogs and indendent film
For every vote the pink design gets, the blue design gets three. So you voiced your opinion, and blammo, you get what you want. The blue design (hence referred to as ‘v3’) is pretty much coded and ready to go. A few more tweaks, and it’ll be live by Monday morning.
And on an unrelated note, I would just like to re-proclaim my love for IFC. I wouldn’t even consider paying for digital cable if I didn’t get it. I just saw a great movie entitled Hi-Life. Rent it the next time you’re in an independent movie rental shop (read: NOT Blockbuster). The best line: ‘Ho ho ho, you fuck.’ Ha. I can’t get enought of that shit.
Yeah, except…
One little thing Jax…
The described event occured in Denver, on Capitol Hill, on SuperBowl Sunday… Last time I lived on the Hill during SuperBowl there were riots, looting, and gun shots… it was pretty damn “depressing”.
Actually, I thought it was kinda cool. 🙂