What The Onion doesn't tell you… is that his atttempt to cash in his punchcard was invalidated when the counter clerk noticed that the 7th punch had left a
hanging chad. Now you know… the REST of the story.
posted by wendell
on Dec 12, 2000 -
0 comments
TiVo schadenfreude! ReplayTV drops 40% of its staff (including a former TV Network Bigwig) and drops out of the retail "box" business. Gee, they're giving up without even asking for a recount of the sales figures from the Palm Beach
Best Buy…
Now, if TiVo can just keep
Microshaft from squishing it like a bug.
posted by wendell
on Nov 28, 2000 -
2 comments
Wen Ho Lee is Free! (sort of) Is this too much of a "seen everywhere" news story to post here? Or is the fact that this story was finally getting "seen everywhere" part of
the good news???
posted by wendell
on Sep 13, 2000 -
12 comments
Freedom of Art Dept.:
In a previous topic, captain cursor said: "It's actually better to have a weak artistic piece when arguing aspects of law. Since the law should apply to all works, good or bad, you don't want to be distracted by the merits of the work.". So what happens when a very popular image is "censored"?
A commercial mural painter in L.A. wants to paint a big Statue of Libery on the side of a building (nobody's paying him to do it). Big murals need permits, the local city councilman doesn't like big murals, the painter starts painting without a permit, gets arrested,
puts up a web site. (At least he gives one page to
the councilman's reply.)
So, MeFi opinion leaders, is this painter a First Amendment hero, an opportunistic promoter or what?
posted by wendell
on May 27, 2000 -
7 comments
Am I nuts or is it possible that
Hell.com could become one of the web's most valuable addresses?
posted by wendell
on Apr 25, 2000 -
3 comments
Stanford University Planning IPO I know this is starting to scrape the bottom of the April 1st barrel, but I WAS the first person to point out that the heading of the e-mail version of this writer's column is "D A N G I L L M O R O N T E C H N O L O G Y" (logical word breaks after DANG, ILL and MORON)
posted by wendell
on Apr 1, 2000 -
3 comments
Warner-Lambert Withdraws Diabetes Pill Rezulin Imagine how it feels hearing this news about six hours after my doctor told me "After looking at your latest liver test, you'd better stop taking the Rezulin, and come in for more tests."
For the record, I was aware of the potential risks before I & my doc started it, and have been doing regular liver tests all along; before my last test, I had noted to doc that I was getting more symptoms of out-of-control diabetes, even though frequent monitoring showed the blood sugar numbers were always IN control, and I was ready to ask for a change to one of the newer drugs... when my latest refill runs out. I'd always assumed that by the time the FDA acts on it it'll be too late, and I am very interested in the official FDA non-position on the safety of the newer drugs...
posted by wendell
on Mar 22, 2000 -
2 comments
This explains (choose one) (1) The real trouble with Globalization, or
(2) Why Germany has started so many wars.
(yes, Wittler is a German name; you wanna make something out of it?)
posted by wendell
on Feb 28, 2000 -
3 comments
The Half-Human, Half-Silicon Chip sounds like something out of a movie I saw on MST3K. And the reference to the "cell in the hole" sounds like an old catchprase from
Seinfeld. In other words, TV Comedy Technology.
posted by wendell
on Feb 26, 2000 -
1 comment
After all the death-penalty arguements have been made, there is only one reason to link to the story about this Texas case: to use the phrase
Beets Around the Bush.
posted by wendell
on Feb 24, 2000 -
24 comments
