A Living Will
A man and his wife were sitting in the living room and he said to her, “Just so you know, I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle. If that ever happens, just pull the plug.”
His wife got up, unplugged the TV […]

Douglas Kern at Tech Central Station argues that the fifty year run of UFOs and alien visitations in pop culture is over.
Why? The same reason Dan Rather is no longer an anchorman: the Internet.
If UFOs and alien visitations were genuine, tangible, objective realities, the Internet would be an unstoppable force for detecting them. How long […]

From the LaLa Times:
REDONDO BEACH – In what many Southern Californians are calling a divine miracle and others are calling a bunch of bunk, John Paul II’s visage allegedly formed in the sand overnight. Scientists were at a loss to explain how it happened.

Spectators gawk at what they say resembles John Paul II’s countenance, miraculously […]

Omar Sharif is becoming the new Tara Reid–just can’t keep out of the tabloids. First the wild and crazy former star of “Dr. Zhivago” gets an Islamic death threat. Later he gets stuck with the one valet in Los Angeles that doesn’t understand how to convert Euros to dollars so he beats him while […]

From Blogs of War

Here’s a story you’d never read in an Islamic blog.

“Not the boat! Please, not the boat!”

The American Traitor: Separated At Birth? is a brilliant site.
I’ll reproduce just the Kerry photos, but check out the link for Hillary Clinton and Joe Lieberman clones and the other stuff that they’ve done…priceless!

Makes me look forward to 2008!
technorati: John kerry

A new site, homepricerecords.com, lets you see recent home sales and prices using Google Maps.

Since it uses Google Maps, you can pan, zoom, and look at satellite views. The only problem I found was an apparent lack of data from the last six months or so — but I may not have tried hard enough.
Update: […]

“Bride and Prejudice” is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). The film contains some chaste romancing, some naked and ripped male torsos and a Harvey Weinstein cameo.
- New York Times

Answer:  Miranda McOsker–the starting quarterback for Southern California’s Bishop Montgomery High School’s JV football team. What’s more, she threw three touchdown passes in one game. How would you like to have been the team she was shredding?
It turns out that there are another 252 girls just like her playing football out of 100,000 boys at […]

Two new sites want to be online marketplaces for news photos taken by amateurs.
Spy Media lets users upload photos (only “entertainment, historical, news event, sports, natural disasters”) and price them.
Another new site, Cell Journalist, seems to have the same concept.
In the UK, a similar site — Scoopt.com — has sold only three photos. It seems […]

After-market customization doesn’t get better than this:

Before anyone posts a flamming comment, unless you are PETA and are complaining about the cruelty to this poor camel I don’t really want to hear about it.

I was at a recruiting function for the business school I graduated from in 1986, and a 2003 graduate asked me — quite seriously — if we had computers back then.
I almost fell out of my walker.
The answer: Yes, we did:

I was reading about people complaining about the New York Times (imagine that) and came across this site dedicated to circumventing website/blog registration requirements:

Type in a URL and it gives you log-ins that do not require you to give an email address, personal information, accept a cookie, etc.
technorati: Internet

Someone woke up Saturday morning on the wrong side of bed…
The Indian Ocean tsunami caused the global death toll from natural disasters in 2004 to triple from the year before to about a quarter of a million ? the highest total in almost 30 years, the international Red Cross said last week.
The body count from […]