Wasted

alternateorg on April 29, 2002

In a 20/20 type internet expose, CNN has put together a rather bland story about a young female alcoholic. The main goal of the story is to try and hint at a genetic disposition in some people toward alcoholism. That’s fine and interesting, but what’s truly amazing is that this girl consumed on average 216 drinks per week. That comes out to about one and a quarter drinks every hour of the day. I can hardly fathom this. If nothing else the financial repercussions would be so enormous as to inhibit this. I’m sure frat boys across the country consider this a challenge.

Okay, not a good example

alternateorg on April 25, 2002

NYTimes: The Workaround: 32 Steps to Frustration


The phenomenon affects some so-called standard-format DVD movies, including “The Mummy” and “The Bone Collector.” While some might argue that this is not so much a bug as a critical response, portable computer users are told that each time they wish to watch such a movie, they must follow a nine-step procedure that involves first viewing the DVD’s bonus material.

Viewers of certain wide-screen-format DVD’s have no such option. Gateway advises them to try to track down the standard-format version. To date no known workarounds exist for those who have been unable to finish watching the Mariah Carey vehicle “Glitter.”

Sounds like a feature to me. Any interesting workarounds that you’ve seen? I can’t really think of anything too heinous recently… Except I remember Conflict Catcher a few years ago used to cause extension conflicts itself. And NAV telling me that a virus definitions file it itself downloaded was infected with a virus.

Moziwwa

alternateorg on April 25, 2002

So due to SU’s persistence, this site now looks halfway decent in Mozilla. No word on OmniWeb, Opera, iCab or any other .01% browser yet. 😛

Psycho Bitch

alternateorg on April 20, 2002

Lovely miss Love. Remaining Nirvana members are trying to have a court prove what we have all known for years, that Courtney Love is a fucking lunatic.

I am personally one of the not so few who thinks she had Kurt and El Duche killed.

Because He's Really Smart

alternateorg on April 19, 2002

If you, or someone you know has kids, then you should be intimately familiar with Blue’s Clues. Apparently, the host (one Steve Burns) was quite popular with the soccer mom crowd in his day. Now he’s decided that he’s done with all that kiddie stuff. He just wants to rock.

The thing is, he’s actually incredibly talented at the whole rock thing. See, he did one of the most intelligent things ever, and enlisted the help of the Flaming Lips. If you’re still thinking that they’re the annoying band that did that mid-90s “Vaseline” song, and not the brilliant band of the Soft Bulletin, then I feel very sorry for you. Or maybe I’m jealous, because you have something brilliant to go experience, and that’s always a good thing.

The Lips’ influence is very apparent in his work, and there’s just nothing wrong with that. I just never expected someone who could have been this generation’s Mr. Rogers to go and rock out with his bad self. Enjoy the weirdness. His website is almost this year’s Wesley page, in the surrealness factor. Steve just seems like a swell guy.

Ol' switcheroo

alternateorg on April 10, 2002

I’m not even going to bother to hide that this is an April Fool’s joke. (via Metafilter)

What I find really funny are people’s repsonses to this article. My favorite:


Hey guys. I love the arm transplant. I’ve also been interested in extreme mods but never seen anyone that has done something like that. I’d like to run something past you to see if it would even be feasable. I have larger feet and hate it. I’d love to find someone to trade feet with. Do you know if something like that would be surgically possible? I’ve even thought about finding 2 guys and putting one of each of their feet on me and giving them each one of mine. Make some interesting pairs of feet 🙂