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Tuning Into the Hype About Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi Internet access is popping up in all kinds of businesses, including fast-food restaurants and coffee shops. But do customers really want it? By Elisa Batista. [Wired News] Hell yah we do! The problem with the article is, they assume Starbucks to be the model place for Wi-Fi. A…
...Read MoreFor those of you who haven’t found them already, Tim Bray points to some great news links to keep you up to speed on the War in Iraq. Don’t Watch the War on TV. We don’t get TV at home, so I’ve been following the war (a bit obsessively, I will admit) on the Web….
...Read MoreKIM JONG IL has started blogging. [Instapundit] Actually The Phil pointed me at this a week ago. I laughed until I cried. Everyone at work was looking at me but I couldn’t help it. ROR.
...Read MoreNo Pants Fridays. Anybody care to join me?… [C:\PIRILLO.EXE] Quick! Somebody get that guy a job before he REALLY starts to lose it! I wonder if this could be a side effect of the hair dye.
...Read MoreSuper squid surfaces in Antarctic: “A colossal squid has been caught in Antarctic waters, the first example of Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni retrieved virtually intact from the surface of the ocean.” [From the Desktop of Dane Carlson] Undoubtedly there is a TV movie in the works somewhere.
...Read MoreAn unconfirmed report on NPR just aired that the US has found lots of an anthrax-like white powder near Baghdad. [Scripting News] Whoa! That’s what I like about Dave being on the east coast now….he gets up earlier and post’s the news earlier.
...Read MoreWar hacking continues. Now the Iraqi government’s official website, http://www.uruklink.net is off the air, too. It was redirected to http://www.itshappening.com/index_three.html for a while,… [Richard Bennett’s Omphalos]
...Read MoreHow well did you sleep last night?. From a relative in Iraq, some (newswire) pictures of how the troops are catching a few winks here and there…. [Richard Bennett’s Omphalos] Great pictures. It’s a little scary how in one shot it doesn’t look like they’re in foxholes but graves. Oh, there’s a bottle of pee…
...Read MoreSay you work for a teevee news outfit — ABC’s 20/20, for example — and you’ve got a digital camera and you’re taking some tourist shots around Camp Patriot. And then, for some reason, you decide to take a few shots of your dick, because … well, who knows? And then say you lose your…
...Read MoreYvan Eht Nioj. From an episode of the Simpsons: Bart and his friends are turned into a boy band, complete with a video that repeats the phrase “Yvan eht nioj” over and over in the chorus. When Lisa asks what it means, Homer replies that it doesn’t mean anything. “It’s nonsensical, like ‘ramma lamma ding…
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