Stargate spoilers here.
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Vince Vaughn has pitched his take on the proposed live-action Speed Racer movie, based on the Japanese animated series, with himself cast as Racer X… Heads up, David! This may be coming to a theater near us.
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A software engineer for America Online stole the Internet provider's customer list � some 92 million names � and sold it to an on-line marketer, setting off a torrent of unsolicited commercial e-mail commonly known as spam, federal authorities said today. You know, I'd say this wasn't the first time this happened. I used to have a volunteer job on AOL answering mail questions, and they were just so drag-assy about spam blocking, like it just wasn't that big a deal. And meanwhile, I was getting more spam than anything on my AOL account, I still have an AOL account,…
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More proof that some people think they have a direct line to God: combine a cell phone mast with a crucifix, stick it on a church steeple, and have unlimited anytime minutes for prayer in your local calling area. It could also be taken as a commentary on how much passion and sacrifice is needed in order to get decent coverage without excessive drops… or possibly on what a person goes through when attempting to get to level II on a service call. Strangely enough, we actually kicked this idea around at Holy Moly, because our steeple already looks like…
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Last spring, a group of military lawyers known as judge advocate generals warned that civilian lawyers within the Bush administration were creating “legal ambiguity” on how international treaties should be applied to people in U.S. detention. Many JAG lawyers say their advice was disregarded as the White House sought to tweak the laws of war for political ends. I’m betting that in spite of the custom-made angle, this won’t show up as a “ripped from the headlines” episode on JAG because it’s not very complimentary to the current administration (okay, the usurping administration, I’m annoying like that). But “boo-yah” to…
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Oh, this is rich. BoingBoing reports that a pundit named Lauren Weinstein narrowly avoided being skewered on a fake “debate” show called “Crossballs.” Whew! Crisis averted. However, it appears that at least one conservative pundit was contacted to appear on the show, but was warned off in time by another conpundit that wasn’t so cautious. There follows a lengthy tirade in the “Bush-bashers are traitors, all critics of the Administration are evil, Hollywood is part of the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy” vein. Read, or don’t read, it’s your choice. But it’s funny to think that at least one neocon fell…
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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. – Warning from the Sheriff’s Department: Don’t show up for jury duty with a bad attitude. Ross Selkirk’s alleged behavior got him arrested and he had to pay $5,000 bail to get out of jail. Holy crap, it’s a good thing I didn’t throw attitude and snark around when I was called for jury duty. Though if I had been down at California Avenue 2 days in a row, and then got empanelled when I thought I’d dodged a bullet, I’d be pretty pissed. I guess the lady that sat behind me got off pretty lightly…
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I finally finished reading Nine Parts of Desire a couple of weeks ago, and found it disturbing and also enlightening. For instance, this article from the Beeb: Iran’s government has launched a crackdown on women who flout the strict Islamic dress codes during the hot summer months. And according to the book, Iran is actually strangely flexible in its rigidity – Khomeini was always more willing to extend more rights to women, so long as they observed the proprieties. At least they can work outside the home, for one thing. And drive, for another. Iranian women are better off than…
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Well, I think I’m approaching the apogee of the third stage of blogging, at least in Moveable Type. Oh, no, not because I’ve learned everything there is to know about MT, but because I’ve learned just enough to know there’s a hell of a lot I don’t know about what I’m doing with the blog; when I run it through the validator there are a hell of a lot of errors that I don’t really understand (well, some). I might be able to do a lot of cleanup, or more likely a lot of damage to my main index template…
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A Northwest Airlines flight that was headed to Rapid City, South Dakota, landed a few miles off course at Ellsworth Air Force Base, and passengers had to wait in the plane for more than three hours while their crew was interrogated. Passengers on Northwest Flight 1152, an Airbus A-319 from St. Paul, expected to be welcomed to Rapid City Regional Airport on Saturday, but after about five minutes they were told to close their window shades and not look out, said passenger Robert Morrell. OOPS! Well, that story will be making the rounds at work tomorrow. And hey, I’ll bet…