Archive for January, 2004

Hostels

Thursday, January 29th, 2004

Hostels.com kinda rules.

A Woman’s Guide on How to Pee Standing

Thursday, January 29th, 2004

A friend of mine told me about this: A Woman’s Guide on How to Pee Standing. Like, at a urinal for example, without having to do much more than unzip the fly of your jeans. At first I was skeptical, but she claims to have been practicing with increasing success. Somebody else will have to […]

Bad moon rising

Thursday, January 29th, 2004

According to the calculations over at the Navy’s Virtual Reality Moon Phase Pictures, I was born on a full moon.

Professor Parrot

Thursday, January 29th, 2004

An article about a super-intelligent parrot from the BBC.

Mood monitoring coming to a workplace near you

Thursday, January 29th, 2004

A scary article on Wired, Mood Ring Measured in Megahertz, about technology that is being developed by the military to monitor physical & emotional conditions in team members engaging in high-risk decision making processes. For military applications, it sounds alright, but they talk more about it being used in the workplace, which is fucking SPOOKY […]

Cinema Therapy

Thursday, January 29th, 2004

I just found this article on MSN that’s kind of stupid, but I like the idea of what they are talking about a whole lot. Apparently, there’s a growing fad which people are terming “cinema therapy” where people use movies to help them work through personal issues. They also describe how the Chicago Institute for […]

Whale Explodes!

Thursday, January 29th, 2004

This is one of those stories that’s so short and sweet that I need to quote it in its entirety: Decomposing Whale Explodes on Street:
“TAIPEI (Reuters) - The decomposing remains of a 60-tonsperm whale exploded on a busy Taiwan street, showering nearby cars and shops with blood and organs and stopping traffic for hours, […]

Yikes!

Thursday, January 29th, 2004

Check out this jail photo of James Brown, who was just released on a domestic violence charge. He’s in ROUGH shape.

Shake it like a polaroid … uh…. flashlight

Thursday, January 29th, 2004

I wanna get me one of these here flashlights that don’t take no stinkin’ batteries or nothing. It’s like, you just shake it, and then you get 15 minutes of light magically out of it. Seems like a sweet deal.