Wage war with Iraq? Not in my name.
December 2002 Archive
Happy New Year!!!
29 December 2002
You're at your computer, not doing anything, when the hard drive light suddenly comes on. What the heck is Windows doing? What are all those programs running in the background? Do you really need them? Here's the answer.
Did Santa bring you the Tourette syndrome Barbie that you asked for?
Harpo Marx spied for the FBI.
Iran has halted stoning as a form of capital punishment for women, a senior judiciary official in Iran has been quoted as saying. So is Iran still an axis of evil?
28 December 2002
Coming Soon!!! New Look!!! Same Old Content!!!
Today's Zen Story:
A Japanese warrior was captured by his enemies and thrown into prison. That night he was unable to sleep because he feared that the next day he would be interrogated, tortured, and executed. Then the words of his Zen master came to him, "Tomorrow is not real. It is an illusion. The only reality is now." Heeding these words, the warrior became peaceful and fell asleep.
What can we learn from this? Post your thoughts here.
Lookout Iraq. We have a secret weapon.
We now have evidence that Hitler attempted to develop an atomic bomb. North Korea has expelled our nuclear inspectors and is restarting its nuclear program. Should we get them before they get us? They already have three nuclear warheads. We're the only superpower left. I just don't know.
Safety Tip: If the fog is too thick for you to see, GET OFF THE ROAD!!!
Do you like to read while you bathe with Jesus?
Are you old enough to remember going to the theater and seeing the newsreels that came on before the movie started? Now you can watch them online.
Time for Iraq to duck and cover. Our missles are now more powerful.
Here's a new system to prevent ice from bringing down power lines.
Kentucky’s new license plate design
Bigfoot on patrol in Russia.
The perfect vehicle to deal with road rage.
Some sexy snacks for the ladies...or special guys.
Is President Bush practicing cowboy diplomacy?
PANAMA CITY, Fla. - Tales of Rudolph of red-nose fame, Dasher, Prancer and Santa's other tiny reindeer dominate at Christmas time, but have you heard of the strangest deer of all?
Has anybody ever told you to go jump off a bridge?
I saw what you did, and I know who you are.
27 December 2002
Santa stages ho-ho-holdup at Houston tollway booth.
Houston Mayor knows the value of imperfect gift.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A man the federal government once labeled "the most wanted computer criminal in U.S. history" has won a long fight to renew his ham radio license and next month can resume surfing the Internet.
Mariah Carey stunned fans when she went on TV - with no knickers.
Animal park visitors get to eat the animals.
26 December 2002
Homeless people in New York have collected a $5,000 Christmas present for a police officer who refused to arrest one of them last month.
U.S. exposure to ruinous attack, more than 15 months into the war with al Qaeda, remains unbounded.
Today's Quote
"Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him."
-Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the HeartYoung girls apparently have no qualms about using their bodies to make money, and dating sites on the Web are conducive to this trend.
Who's making money from the Internet? Hint: not me!
WASHINGTON - Al-Qaeda 'sleeper cells' in Canada and the United States have communicated with each other as recently as this month, probably to plan terrorist attacks in the US, Canadian intelligence experts said yesterday.
25 December 2002
I'm disappointed. I didn't get the Lingerie Barbie Doll I wanted.
What did Jesus look like?
24 December 2002
I once put up a bird feeder in my backyard. The damned squirrels discovered it, ate all the bird seed and destroyed the feeder. If only I had one of these. Be sure to watch the video clip.
(Thanks to Jim)Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002. How many of these am I guilty of?
22 December 2002
Coffee, Tea, or Should We Feel Your Pregnant Wife’s Breasts Before Throwing You in a Cell at the Airport and Then Lying About Why We Put You There?
The Pentagon wants to sniff out fugitives - literally.
BERLIN (Reuters) - German drinkers could be about to face their worst nightmare -- a beer shortage.
21 December 2002
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hundreds of Iranian and other Middle East citizens were in southern California jails on Wednesday after coming forward to comply with a new rule to register with immigration authorities only to wind up handcuffed and behind bars.
Is that a monkey in your pants, or are you just happy to see me?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- El Nino's return in 2002 helped to hike global temperatures to the second highest on record and scorch the earth with widespread drought, U.S. government forecasters said Tuesday.
15 December 2002
MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. (AP) A hospital security guard has been accused of stealing a winning lottery ticket from a dead man and using his girlfriend to cash the ticket, police said.
Large meteorite impacts may not just throw up huge dust clouds but also punch right through the Earth's crust, triggering gigantic volcanic eruptions.
Riders on the Storm...played on the harp.
Watching a gory tooth extraction helps people remember unrelated facts, brain researchers have shown.
Play with my eye.
Cats are from Mars.
Stop kitty porn!!!
14 December 2002
Looks like a garage sale Christmas.
Today's Zen Story:
Two monks were washing their bowls in the river when they noticed a scorpion that was drowning. One monk immediately scooped it up and set it upon the bank. In the process he was stung. He went back to washing his bowl and again the scorpion fell in. The monk saved the scorpion and was again stung. The other monk asked him, "Friend, why do you continue to save the scorpion when you know it's nature is to sting?"
"Because," the monk replied, "to save it is my nature."What can we learn from this? Discuss among yourselves. You may post your thoughts here.
The head of the government's Total Information Awareness project, which aims to root out potential terrorists by aggregating credit-card, travel, medical, school and other records of everyone in the United States, has himself become a target of personal data profiling.
We've been having wacky weather here in Houston, colder and wetter than normal. Blame it on El Nino.
Do you hate pop-up windows? You can stop them with the new Netscape 7.01 web browser.
On Dec. 17th, Saturn and Earth will be unusually close together.
Coming Soon!!! Gulf Wars-Episode II
You say the dog ate your homework? Don't try that excuse in Houston.
13 December 2002
I'm dreaming of a White Trash Christmas.
Do you ever get a song stuck in your head?
Cats' meows may have evolved to be more easily interpreted by people, says a researcher.
(Thanks to Val)WOMEN are routinely charged more than men by plumbers, builders, electricians and locksmiths, according to a survey of 500 businesses in 30 cities. Shocking, just shocking.
GERMAN TWP., Montgomery County | A petite 17-year-old, irate after seeing three men running from her home in the wee morning hours Tuesday, sprinted outdoors barefoot, clad in pajamas, outran one of the trespassers, tackled and straddled him, then hogtied him with a rope until police arrived minutes later. Note to service men: don't try to overcharge this girl.
Tha katz in tha hood all be doin tha kat rap. Know what I'm sayin?
12 December 2002
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is preparing to use anti-personnel land mines in a war with Iraq, despite U.S. policy that calls for the military to stop using the mines everywhere in the world except Korea by 2003.
COLLEGE STATION, December 10, 2002 – Sure Santa Claus asks boys and girls what toys they want, but, why they want them is a better question. The answer may have to do with a biological pre-wiring that influences boys' and girls' preferences based on the early roles of males and females, says a Texas A&M University psychologist.
Has your computer been making strange, hissing sounds?
TOKYO - Depressed by rising unemployment and an uncertain future, more and more Japanese are turning to an unlikely source of solace -- miniature pigs.
Got a question? Try the Internet Public Library.
11 December 2002
Why liberals don't like guns.
An entirely new arsenal of weapons, based on devices designed to introduce subliminal messages or to alter the body's psychological and data-processing capabilities, might be used to incapacitate individuals.
Emma Smith, founder of the Wired Woman Society and co-author of Technology With Curves, explains why women need to be more involved in the world of technology.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 — Americans sickened by chicken contaminated with salmonella and campylobacter may stay ill longer and pay more for treatment due to virulent strains of the bacteria that resist common antibiotics, Consumers Union said Tuesday. And the bacteria taste like chicken.
What's on Roger's desktop?
10 December 2002
Explore the planet Mars NOW.
Santa better watch out in Britain, where the service club Rotary International has warned against letting children sit on the laps of red-suited, white-bearded volunteers during the Christmas season. Guess I won't be playing Santa this year.
It's so cold in the shop where I work, I'm thinking about buying these.
High speed pics of bullets at the time of impact.
How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate, they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. —George Orwell, 1984
A nice home page for kids, from John Dvorak.
8 December 2002
SYDNEY, Australia - Hundreds of women from drought-ravaged southern Australia plan to bare it all to the heavens in a bid to make it rain.
DUPONT, Wash. -- A trash can containing as much as $10,000 in cash was unearthed by crews preparing a forested site for a transit park-and-ride lot, officials said. Maybe it came from D.B. Cooper?
How to tell which kitty discovered your stash.
Another Christmas gift idea: Show your loved ones you care by ordering my hands-free cell phone kit.
The weather guessers say Houston has an 80% chance of rain on Monday. If I get caught in the rain, will I stay drier by running or walking?
An English vicar has celebrated his church's 100th birthday by stripping off for a saucy calendar. (with photo)
We're having Technical Difficulties.
Mars in the popular imagination is a planet that was once warm and wet, a place that might have fostered life. But new research shows how these imagined pleasant periods were brief, hellish, and punctuated by utter catastrophe. Maybe that's why the Martians decided to come to Earth.
Less than a month after the Leonid meteor shower, another excellent display is just around the corner. The reliable, annual Geminid meteor shower is scheduled to reach its peak during the pre-dawn hours of Saturday, Dec. 14.
Thoughts on the American empire …
7 December 2002
Just in time for Christmas, the new H&K MP7.
SPOKANE — A law firm has sued a California software manufacturer for fraud, alleging that Internet advertising banners that impersonate computer error messages are deceptive.
Square dancing farm tractors.
Dirty hands are weapons of mass destruction, spreading all sorts of nasty germs.
Wal-Mart's business practices "may be leading to a new kind of globally sanctioned gender discrimination."
Most people agree that Duct Tape can save you money on costly repair bills but did you know that you could create a wallet to hold all of the money you’ve saved? Who wouldn't want a Duct Tape Wallet for Christmas?
I once dated a contortionist, but she broke it off.
Photos of our own weapons of mass destruction: atomic bomb tests from the 1950's in Nevada.
6 December 2002
Some features your computer probably doesn't have.
(Thanks to Val)Eating too much refined bread and cereal, rather than chocolate and greasy foods, may be the culprit behind the pimples that plague many a youngster.
Who invented the electric chair?
An amateur photographer named Mike Maginnis was arrested on Tuesday in his home city of Denver - for simply taking pictures of buildings in an area where Vice President Cheney was residing.
Did you miss the recent solar eclipse? Here's a nice pic from last year taken in Zambia.
1 December 2002
Marlboro, N.J. (AP) - Passengers on a Greyound bus said the driver told them he was taking them "to the Taliban'' after they criticized his meandering route Saturday night, prompting a massive police response.
Sex, software, politics, and firearms. Life's simple pleasures...
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