Posts by D. H. McKee

AOL Auctions off Spammers car

America Online said its members have submitted more than one million AOL screen names in the Internet company's unorthodox drawing for a spammer's seized sports car.
Last week, AOL announced it had confiscated a red Porsche Boxster S convertible as part of a settlement with a spammer who made more that $1 million from sending unwanted junk e-mail. AOL, a unit of Time Warner Inc., launched a sweepstakes for the car on March 30 as "a gesture of support and thanks" to its members for their help in the fight against spam.

Parental damper

Wanted to go cycling today, but had to stick around and wait for my parents to come over. They just...

Falling asleep with the TV again

Spent a bit of time at a pub, doing the typical Friday afternoon business meeting, then headed back to home...

Dada didn’t Die

Lowtax pointed out that while most people don’t know what Dada is, there’s been a resurgence of Dadaism on the...

Eyeball that Jewellery

Body piercing and tattoos make way -- the latest fashion trend to hit the Netherlands is eyeball jewellery.
Dutch eye surgeons have implanted tiny pieces of jewellery called "JewelEye" in the mucous membrane of the eyes of six women and one man in cosmetic surgery pioneered by an ophthalmic surgery research and development institute in Rotterdam.
The procedure involves inserting a 3.5 mm (0.13 inch) wide piece of specially developed jewellery -- the range includes a glittering half-moon or heart -- into the eye's mucous membrane under local anaesthetic at a cost of 500 to 1,000 euros (270 to 540 pounds).

Pirates taking over Airwaves

A group of original pirate radio DJs are to celebrate the 40th anniversary of offshore pirate radio by broadcasting live from a ship once more.
Pirate BBC Essex will start transmitting off the Essex coast from the lightship LV18 on Saturday, 40 years after pirate station Radio Caroline first took to the airwaves.

Britian in Danger

Britain's top policeman has underlined his warnings about the terrorist threat to Britain.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens said: "We are now in a state of real danger."
He firmly rejected the accusation that he had been scaremongering or that the Home Secretary, David Blunkett, had rebuked him for saying that an attack on Britain was "inevitable".

Letting George Do It

Pondering The World's Mother-In-Law
I'm trying to understand American foreign policy. It's like oil-painting on a trampoline, but makes less sense. I'm not sure anybody could do it--not even if you took St. Augustine and Jimmy the Greek and Carl Friedrichs Gauss and wired them together in parallel.

Go Jays Go….

Got a free trip to T.O. to see the Blue Jays lose to Detroit. Doesn’t look like much of a...

HELLBOY!

Awesome flick. I’m going to see it again, then I’m going to buy the DVD. Ron Perlman (aka Beast from...