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Schadenfreude plus Flash equals Cadge Cinema. Nothing groubdbreaking, nothing life-changing, but a nice way to waste a little time by laughing at the misfortune of others.
posted by toddshot at 8:39 PM PST - 3 comments

Ouchy the Clown! He's a disc jockey! And a meeting facilitator! And . . . eh . . . a pro-dom! Did I mention that he's a clown? Terrifying, yet mesmerizing. WARNING: go deep enough into it and you'll see nudies. (Via F2B. )
posted by Skot at 3:34 PM PST - 20 comments

And you thought your 'net connection was slow? On Saturday, a group of Linux enthusiasts in Bergen, Norway, succeeded in exchanging some data using the Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol (CPIP).
posted by andrewraff at 3:28 PM PST - 7 comments

"Rosen said she expected the relative costs of delivering music online to mirror the costs of selling CDs." Please, can someone lock Hilary Rosen away right now? (The subtext: "we can't admit that we've been screwing the public with CD pricing, so they'll have to suffer if and when we deign to offer digital distribution.)
posted by holgate at 3:04 PM PST - 15 comments

Apple to NUblog: Drop Dead When Joe Clark went looking for information about OS X's out-of-the-box inclusion of multiple languages, Apple's PR agency decided he wasn't worth talking to because he wasn't "credentialed."

As Deborah Branscum writes: Weblogs and webloggers may not get respect at Edelman or, perhaps, at Apple. But they should. Time to wake up, folks, and get a clue. [found via NetworkWorldFusion]
posted by idiolect at 1:46 PM PST - 55 comments

Happy Birthday, Audrey :-)
posted by tamim at 1:41 PM PST - 15 comments

Woman's sheep killed in her living room after she blockaded them and herself indoors to stop the foot-and-mouth related culling (this link is slightly behind the news, which was following this Very Important Story minute by minute, including an Sheep Cam inside the house).
posted by methylsalicylate at 12:40 PM PST - 15 comments

Bellsouth raises its rates. Here's another link to the same basic information. To summarize: "Now that we've used our monopoly ownership of the telephone lines to blow out all the small-fry DSL competitors, we're going to reap the benefits by further screwing our choiceless consumers."
posted by goto11 at 12:32 PM PST - 23 comments

Security Threat! But only if your server's running... No crap. I love the Note on Microsoft's security bulletin for it's recent IIS 5.0 security flaw. Did anyone need to be told that?
posted by mecawilson at 12:12 PM PST - 4 comments

Father kills daughters while mother listens on the phone. Even if you are against the death penalty, is a case like this an exception to the rule?
posted by thinkdink at 10:38 AM PST - 147 comments

OK, cue the first GM babies. This time the men in white coats have crossed the line.
posted by CatherineB at 10:14 AM PST - 44 comments

The NEXT next 'All Your Base...' Japanese farting fetish videos for sale. (non-pornographic link)
posted by Dirjy at 10:10 AM PST - 20 comments

Strawberry May Face Prison Time Just another celebrity drug addict, like Downey jr.? Or does he really deserve special treatment because of his cancer patient status?
posted by matteo at 10:04 AM PST - 3 comments

Dr. Carl Winter is an Extension Food Toxicologist and director of the FoodSafe Program at UC Davis. He's also the Elvis of E. coli.
posted by ewagoner at 9:12 AM PST - 2 comments

Quoth the Raven: "Buy A Ford Explorer on Yahoo!" In the category of "new and exciting ways to annoy users - I mean, generate ad revenue," the front page of Yahoo! now has a DHTML ad involving, um, blackbirds flying off a wire and eating birdseed, revealing an ad for an SUV. On the one hand, it's a clever use of DHTML. On the other, I just feel dirty.
posted by solistrato at 8:33 AM PST - 30 comments

Anti-porn groups have declared May to be "Victims of Pornography" month. Looks like some other folks aren't on the same page when it comes to the significance of the month. Which would you rather celebrate? (And for the love of all that is good and right, don't tell us how you're celebrating!)
posted by harmful at 7:38 AM PST - 55 comments

DIY - Dub It Yourself with InfiniteWheel's Dubselector sounds sweet
posted by hmgovt at 6:59 AM PST - 9 comments

Somehow We Survived Survivor 2 "Sunshine" Tina wins, for those who care and for those who don't. Poor Bryant Gumbel... I can't believe he got conned into hosting last night's "special." And we'll never understand why Colby didn't pick Keith to go up against in the final vote, which would've all but guaranteed his own win of the $1 million grand prize. And now, back to your regularly scheduled summer reruns...
posted by yarf at 5:53 AM PST - 30 comments

One for the Darwin Awards me thinks....
posted by monkeyJuice at 5:42 AM PST - 4 comments

Pig Intestine Smuggler Jailed Not everybody's idea of Gourmet food, but...
posted by matteo at 5:14 AM PST - 3 comments

Bad and lack of recent karma sees USA voted out of the United Nations Human Rights Commissionl; while Sudan and Sierra Leone stays on board the 53-nation commission running uncontested in geographic quota. Besides being a sign of Dubya's lacking diplomatic leadership, falling three votes short of securing one of the three seats reserved for the Western nations also means that, for the first time since 1947 America will no longer be a member of UNCHR.
posted by tamim at 2:45 AM PST - 41 comments