AM African Solstice
Celebrated Solstice tonight. Enjoyed some neat African food at AM Africa, the local non-Chinese, non-Korean, non-Vietnamese restaurant in Kitchener. Great...
LOTR2: Nemesis
OK, so I did something really stupid on Friday. I tried to go see LOTR2. Yeah, what the hell was...
Vegetarian Loaf Killing Inmate
Sniper suspect and vegetarian John Lee Malvo says he is getting sick from eating the jail's meatless loaf, which is usually served to inmates for disciplinary reasons.
For the past two weeks, the Fairfax County jail has been serving the 17-year-old Malvo "the loaf," a hodgepodge of flour, raisins, carrots, potatoes and other ingredients baked into brown cakes.
THEMIS Accused of Fraud on Latest Image of Mars Face
Under the surface of Mars lies an ancient, nuclear-powered city left by Martian citizens. At least, that's what a group of space researchers think. And they're trying to prove it by invoking a little-known remnant of President Clinton's last days called the "Data Quality Act" that went into force in October of this year. The filing, dated October 31, 2002, gives NASA 40 days to address the complaint that there is faulty data on Arizona State University's THEMIS Web site.
BioWare Announces Two Expansion Packs for Neverwinter Nights
Atari, BioWare Corp. and FloodGate Entertainment are joining forces to expand the universe of the smash hit Neverwinter Nights™ , the award-winning fantasy role-playing game based in the Dungeons & Dragons™ Forgotten Realms™ world created by Wizards of the Coast. Neverwinter Nights™: Shadows of Undrentide is the first official expansion pack and is scheduled for release in Spring 2003.
AOL patents instant messaging
America Online has quietly secured a patent that could potentially shake up the competitive landscape for instant messaging software. The patent, filed in September this year, grants AOL instant messaging subsidiary ICQ rights as the inventor of the popular IM Internet application. The patent covers anything resembling a network that allows multiple users to see when other users are present and then to communicate with them.
Ghost Of Christmas Future Taunts Children With Visions Of PlayStation 5
SOUTHFIELD, MI.Bored with scaring elderly misers, the Ghost of Christmas Future is spending the holiday season taunting modern children with visions of Christmas 2016's hottest toy: the Sony PlayStation 5, a 2,048-bit console featuring a 45-Ghz trinary processor, CineReal graphics booster with 2-gig biotexturing, and an RSP connector for 360-degree online-immersion play.
Suffering Support, Batman!
Customer: "hello my computer was making a strange hissing noise last night and this morning when I turned it on there was a crackling noise and some smoke then nothing, if I bring it in can you fix it?"
Cities Zero In on Sex Shops
The past decade has been a boon for Utah's sex industry. Shops in Midvale and Roy offer tantalizing lingerie and sex aids. Topless maids tidy up in Davis County. Male and female escort services find a niche market.
But recent years have also been sprinkled with restrictive city ordinances and retaliatory lawsuits. South Salt Lake bans nude dancing. Provo moves exotic dancers to the outskirts. Midvale fights its sex-gadget shop.
At least three Utah cities -- South Salt Lake, Midvale and Ogden -- are entrenched in First Amendment litigation headed for appellate courts.
Man survives on Taco Bell sauce
CHARLESTON, W.Va.--A man trapped for almost a week in his car after it plunged into a ravine survived in the freezing cold by melting snow for water and eating packets of fast-food sauce.