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 Archive for February 2004

Who knew such things existed? | February 18, 2004 18:12:41 PM
http://www.comp.utas.edu.au/students-nhm/baina/auv/fish/

Some of them look like props. My favorite is the long-nosed chimaera.

Five Blades | February 17, 2004 15:53:22 PM
http://www.theonion.com/opinion.php?i=1&o=1

I know this link will probably break on their next update, but this is one of the better Opinion pieces from The Onion in a while. Contains coarse language.

Emo Leonard | February 11, 2004 11:55:44 AM
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/040211/480/lr10102111528&e=7&ncid=705

I wonder how long it would take to drive up on a weekend?

Another entry | February 3, 2004 12:40:04 PM
I introduce a new feature to the site that further illustrates my need for NewsBruiser. In the past, I said you couldn't link to a particular entry on my site because Coranto has no dynamic way of pulling up a particular entry. You have to wait for it to be archived first, and then the link will work forever after.

So, I found way to generate the hard link that will work once the entry is archived. The date now reflects the hard link. Click any of the current ones and you'll see the hard link doesn't work -- because it hasn't been archived yet. So if for some God-forsaken reason you want to soft link to an entry on the front page, you can use the ~.

Yeah, it sucks.

Competition From Beyond | February 3, 2004 12:17:27 PM
More spam:
Hi there! Sorry for an e-mail out of the blue, but I just did a search for the term hp lovecraft on Google and found nightlightpress.com ranked 27. Since I publish a related website about Office Equipment - Inkjet Cartridges (it's strictly informational, so I'm definitely NOT a competitor of yours), I'd like to link to your site.


On an interesting note, #27 rank for H.P. Lovecraft! I consider it an honor, although if I think hard about it, big deal. #27 for Cthulhu would be a big deal.

Speaking of racy things | February 3, 2004 8:58:51 AM
I just got Viagra spam from sender "Conception Ellis." He is sort of the pregnancy-related poor man's Action Jackson.

Police Commissioner. Dammit, Ellis! Get in here! Take a look at this, as if you hadn't heard! (throws down a newspaper with the splash headline "FOUR WOMEN FOUND NOT PREGNANT")
Conception Ellis. Get off my back, Kapowski.
Police Commissioner. You call this conceiving?? As far as I'm concerned, you don't have the right to wear that badge! If it wasn't for the mayor's recommendation, you'd be clearing out your desk!
Conception Ellis. I'm following up a new lead on some more women who are without child. If all goes well, they'll be pregnant by the end of the day.
Police Commissioner. Exactly what reason do I have to ever trust you on a mission like this again?!
Conception Ellis. Take a hike, commish. I got a job to do. (slams door so hard that the glass breaks)
Police Commissioner. (shaking fist angrily) CONCEPTIONNNNN!

I'm sorry, Miss Jackson | February 3, 2004 6:59:55 AM
Re: The Super Bowl halftime show in which Janet Jackson's boob appears.

Okay, they maintain that it was an accident. But that it was staged. See, the plan was to have Justin Timberlake rip off the front of her shirt and show a red bra underneath, but the red bra came away too.

So let's say it worked the way they "intended." She's singing, and suddenly instead of a black top, she now would have a patch of red on the black top. WOW. What a finale. That's like saying "I know I stabbed him with the knife twelve times, but at the time, I had intended to merely scrape the dull edge across his skin, to remove dirt and oil in the fashion of the ancient Greeks."

Then you throw in the fact that some MTV promoter said "there will be some shocking moments as well" or something like it, and the fact that MTV's website afterwards treated the whole thing like "man, that's wild! That's rock 'n roll!"

But the worst part is that it was the Super Bowl. What is it even doing there? I guess it needed superstars to validate it. Next on Sesame Street: Britney, Madonna and the Count! "One sensationalist lesbian kiss! Two sensationalist lesbian kisses! Ah ah ah!"