TAR5, Episode 1 is set to record automagically on TiVo: (2004) Eleven teams begin their race around the world at Santa Monica Pier in Los Angeles; a medical emergency has one team racing to catch a flight; tensions between teams mount as one team tries to keep an alliance; two teams battle to avoid elimination. Tuesday 7/6 8:30pm 2 WBBM Duration: 1:30 Ahhhhh!!! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Insert mental image of me running around and around going “Aaaaaah!” here. Insert mental image of David making plans to spend that evening in the basement with the door closed here.
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Map & Graph: Countries by Mortality: Contact with powered lawnmower (per capita) …and yes, Moldova is #1! Clever Rance! And now, a song: I’m looking over my dead dog Rover That I overran with the mower One leg is missing, the other is gone The third leg is scattered all over the lawn There’s no use explaining, the one remaining It flew through the old screen door Oh, I’m looking over my dead dog Rover That I overlooked before!
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Announcing a new contest: design a pro-democracy, pro-freedom of choice T-shirt. The catch is, you have to find the model. And that is why there was a wave of international censorship after George W Bush appeared at the window of an Irish castle wearing a white undergarment, rather than his traditional shirt and tie. It would be ridiculously easy to do this, which is why it’s apparently such a big deal that the Irish presidency issued a hastily written memo within minutes of the incident. Unfortunately, some images had already been transmitted by the host broadcaster – which I’m assuming…
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Of the various Amazing Race teams, Dennis and Erika seem the most interesting of the “models and beauty queens” set. After all, nekkid skydiving is quite an accomplishment for a girl. Over at TWOP, we’re wondering about this photo, which was taken at TARcon3, the fan-and-racers party that took place the night of the TAR3 finale in New York (yes, that’s right, the Racers show up – some of them come straight from the CBS party as soon as the winners are revealed). As we’re coming up on the fifth season, TARcon5 will be held in New York for the…
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Salon (subscription) reports the special version Barbara Streisand sang at the recent fundraiser for John Kerry. It’s too good to cut… it may go down the memory hole, so here it is: Here are the lyrics as transcribed by the press pool reporter at the fundraiser. All together now: People I mean G-O-People Who’d believe there’s such people in the world Bush sees a Lotta Condoleeza They’re dividing the planet’s oil According to Richard Poil And they’re all just trainees Of Cheney’s Now Rumsfeld We must get rid of Rumsfeld He’s the spookiest person in the world As for Powell…
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There seems to be something of a flap on in the spam/spyware/hackware category: Chicago Tribune | Experts Study Developing Internet Attack We ran Ad-Aware just now because everything was running slowly, with a lot of unknown activity. AOL Communicator and AOL were going nuts. Hmm. I ran Norton after David left because I ran across this somewhat more authoritative article in the Trib than some of the blog entries I noticed about the problem. May be something in it.
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Our esteemed Veep in charge of war profiteering and feathering the nest of his “former” firm Halliburton/KBR had this to say on the floor of the Senate: either “Fuck off,” “go fuck yourself,” or “fuck you.” Yes, that is Vice-President of the United States of America and President Pro Tem of the Senate Richard “Biggus Dickus” Cheney, in a heated and “frank” exchange” with Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont. There’s your goddamn family values for you. As there is some confusion as to the precise wording, we’ll all have to wait until the official Senate transcript is released. Right.
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Ooh! Look at the pretties! This blog operates as kind of a digest of castmembers’ posts from something called the “original board” and also from the Fireflymovie.com fan site. It points to yet ANOTHER blog that is hosted on the official SerenityMovie site. It’s a mite confusing keeping all the kinblogs and message boards straight but if you’re a fan of Joss Whedon’s short-lived Firefly television series (and soon-to-be Big Damn Movie coming to a theater near you), you’ll have to read it all. I don’t know who’s doing it, but I hope they got permission for all the reposts……
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OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – Oklahoma’s attorney general wants a state judge removed on suspicion he frequently masturbated and used a device for enhancing erections while his court was in session, a spokesman for the office said on Thursday This brings an unpleasant image to mind when thinking of the judicial branch. The weirdest part: he actually admitted in court (in a murder trial, no less) that he had a penis pump under the bench, but claimed it was a gag gift. Gag? it’s positively gag-alicious.
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BoingBoing notes: Earnest Miller savages savages Orrin Hatch’s grotesque new law. Such beliefs seem common among distributors of so-called peer-to-peer filesharing (“P2P”) software. [“So-called,” indeed. Hatch isn’t about define what P2P software is because it would end up including things like e-mail, IM, VoIP, HTTP and plenty of other internet protocols. P2P is how much of the internet works.] “So-called” indeed. That’s Orrin’s way of saying “I dont want to acknowledge an entity I find morally distasteful, so I’ll put it in quote marks so you know that it’s evullll and I disapprove.” Ugh, I hate that guy. Moralizing little…