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Wednesday, February 28, 2001

Great piece on Weblogs in

Great piece on Weblogs in today's San Francisco Chronicle. Link

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A homebrew MST3K Web-episode: Mike

A homebrew MST3K Web-episode: Mike and the 'bots take on a Chick Tract about the evils of D&D. High-larious! Link (Thanks, Cascio!)

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Monday, February 26, 2001

Simply astonishing tiki merchandise. Link

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Flash! Mormon apostle advises consumption

Flash! Mormon apostle advises consumption of snacks as a means to control masturbation! Link (Thanks, Elder Shunn!)

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Artwork by the other Shigeru

Artwork by the other Shigeru Miyamoto Link

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Action figure deities at jesuschristsuperstore.com

Action figure deities at jesuschristsuperstore.com Link

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The coolest goddamn shoes in

The coolest goddamn shoes in the universe. Link

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Friday, February 23, 2001

PayPal froze a customer's account

PayPal froze a customer's account with $20,000 in it. I suspect there's a run going on at PayPal because every time I try to log on I get a message telling me that its servers are too busy. I want to get my $500+ out now. But I have a bad feeling. According to this Salon article, "PayPal remains outside the strictures of banking laws. Consumer accounts have neither the protection of federal insurance systems like FDIC nor the assurance of regulatory oversight." Link

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Facsinating account of the weliveinpublic.com

Facsinating account of the weliveinpublic.com fiasco, by Jupiter/Pseudo founder and (ex?)-millionaire Josh Harris's live-in girlfriend, Tanya Corrin.

"Before the project began, I was hoping I�d be able to do absolutely everything in public, even masturbate. But I never got comfortable with being naked or using the toilet (that was Josh�s specialty), and especially not having sex. Josh wanted to have wild simulated sex, but that felt too manipulative. This was about real life, real feelings. So we did it under the covers late at night, or else we�d cover the cameras. Once we had dirty-talking sex with the camera covered, still unaware that the audio had gone out crystal clear. We were mortified. Viewers went berserk.

Link

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Review of a new book,

Review of a new book, BURIED ALIVE.

"In 1937 Angelo Hays was interred in the village of St. Quentin de Chalais after a motorcycle accident. When insurance inspectors exhumed him a few days later, they discovered that Hays was still alive. A head injury had caused his system to shut down temporarily, making him appear dead. Hays recovered and went on to invent his own security coffin equipped with a chemical toilet and radio transmitter. He became a minor celebrity in France, performing for a TV audience from six feet under."

Link

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And Memepool's picked up the

And Memepool's picked up the soft-drink story! Slashdot effect, here we come! Link

posted by Cory Doctorow at 08:01:18 AM permalink | Other blogs' comments

Excellent OpenCola/Disneyland story in today's

Excellent OpenCola/Disneyland story in today's Globe and Mail. Link

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Thursday, February 22, 2001

Robots to lay fiber optic

Robots to lay fiber optic cable through sewer pipes. (Thanks Jon!) Link

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"A young Chinese tiger keeper

"A young Chinese tiger keeper has been mauled to death after apparently trying to defecate on one of his big cats." Link

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Heh. Speaking of Microsoft, looks

Heh. Speaking of Microsoft, looks like their redirector has been hacked by someone with a relatively subtle sense of humor. Link (Here's a mirror of it -- refer to this once MSFT catches on Link)

posted by Cory Doctorow at 11:27:28 AM permalink | Other blogs' comments

"You brutish product of the

"You brutish product of the mineral world!" A collection of insults hurled by Dr. Smith at the robot from Lost In Space. Link

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Microsoft operating system chief Jim

Microsoft operating system chief Jim Allchin is the Joe McCarthy of the software industry: "Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer ... I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business. I'm an American, I believe in the American Way. I worry if the government encourages open source, and I don't think we've done enough education of policy makers to understand the threat."Link

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Supreme court will hear drug

Supreme court will hear drug bust case based on thermal imaging. "For the first time, the Supreme Court is going to tell us how far government can go in snooping into our private residences and personal lives." I can hardly wait to hear the bullshit sophistry that Scalia will spout when he pulls the string behind his neck. Link

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Millennium, shmillennium. 2001 is important

Millennium, shmillennium. 2001 is important because it's Uncle Walt's 100th Birthday. Happy 100th, you crazy frozen head, you! Link (Thanks, Amanda!)

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Wednesday, February 21, 2001

PSI has earned my undying

PSI has earned my undying enmity by buying up the greatest li'l ISP in Toronto and turning into a steaming pile of ratshit. Check out this high-freakin-larious email from a senior PSI manager to his salesteam over at FuckedCompany. Link (Thanks, jbrewer!)

posted by Cory Doctorow at 10:39:37 PM permalink | Other blogs' comments

More awesome stuff from the

More awesome stuff from the site below. This is a reprint from an old Johnson Smith catalog. Link

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Ultra fantabulous scan of a

Ultra fantabulous scan of a 1940s book of jazz fanatic cartoons, by my hero, ex-UPA cartoon director, Gene Deitch. Link

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Bad EMF, bad! Get your

Bad EMF, bad! Get your metal-lined underwear and bedding right here. Link

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Disneyland and the Space Needle

Disneyland and the Space Needle were terrorism targets. Link

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Simson Garfinkel's Technology Review article

Simson Garfinkel's Technology Review article about Net-connected objects: "I still can't figure out why you would want to put a toaster on the Net. But early this year, Japanese housewares manufacturer Zojirushi plans to begin marketing an Internet-enabled hot pot that can send short messages to cellular telephones using a built-in wireless modem. Zojirushi will pitch the hot pot to the adult children of aging parents. Whenever the pot is used, explains iReady president Ryo Koyama, it automatically transmits a message letting the child know that the parents are okay and enjoying a cup of fresh tea." Link

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Nerds like to talk about

Nerds like to talk about how copy-protection hardware won't catch on because the PC players don't want it. But here's how it's gonna proliferate: A $10 storage disc that holds 500MB (the last SmartMedia card I bought held 64MB and cost $75) and enforces copy-protection/rights-management. How long until everyone swtiches over to these things? How long before PC players need to integrate with it?

How can this thing only cost ten bucks? Two possibilities come to mind: One, they're being sold below cost; or two, earlier generations of removable media were wildly overpriced. Link

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Tuesday, February 20, 2001

Hey, if anyone out there

Hey, if anyone out there is looking to drop half a gee on me, here's some kick ass Haunted Mansion shwag for sale on eBay. Link

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Dyslexic, trash-talking hacker homepage. Link

Dyslexic, trash-talking hacker homepage. Link (Thanks, Oxblood!)

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Get your rolls of anti-United

Get your rolls of anti-United Nations toilet paper here. Link

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Really cool watercolor paintings of

Really cool watercolor paintings of simple Lego sculptures. Link

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The latest iteration of the

The latest iteration of the "All Your Base Are Belong to Us" story:

Uploading User: What Happen?
Napster Client: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Downloading User: We Get Signal.
Uploading User: What !
Downloading User: Main screen turn on.
Uploading User: It's You !!
RIAA: How are you gentlemen !!
RIAA: All your base are belong to us.
RIAA: You are on the way to destruction.
Uploading User: What you say !!
RIAA: You have no chance to survive make your time.
RIAA: Ha Ha Ha Ha ....
Napster Client: Uploading User !
Uploading User: Take off every 'Zig' !!
Uploading User: You know what you doing
Uploading User: Move 'Zig'.
Uploading User: For great justice.

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Salon has an article about

Salon has an article about the portrayal of women in the comic books of Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez. Link

And here's a Salon interview with los bros. Hernandez. Link

And here's Salon's little gallery of Hernandez art. Link

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NY Times story on potentially

NY Times story on potentially unbreakable crypto: "with Dr. Rabin's system, the message stays secret forever because the code uses a stream of random numbers that are plugged into the key for encoding and decoding. The numbers are never stored in a computer's memory, so they essentially vanish as the message is being encrypted and decrypted. 'If someone walks into my office with a court order or if they put a gun to my head they still could not read my conversations,' Dr. Lipton said." Link

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Monday, February 19, 2001

Ebay photo of an infant

Ebay photo of an infant posing with several bags of dried mushrooms. Link

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Friday, February 16, 2001

This B-Movie site called The

This B-Movie site called The Astounding B Monster is a treasure trove! Link

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The Crater Kid is a

The Crater Kid is a great cartoon strip. Read the 100-episode "Screaming Stones" first. Link

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Weird life and death of

Weird life and death of B-Movie star Susan Cabot (Curse of the Wasp Woman). Link

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The panel I did yesterday

The panel I did yesterday at the O'Reilly P2P show got some Wired news coverage. Link

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Like my friend said, "it's

Like my friend said, "it's like calling the cable company to tell them your stolen cable is out." Link

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Thursday, February 15, 2001

From Technology Review: "It ain't

From Technology Review: "It ain't the Jetsons, but NASA has a plan for reducing airline and highway congestion: Fly yourself to a community 'smartport' in an idiot-proof mini-superplane." Link

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Funny email makings the rounds:

Nike now lets you personalize your shoes by submitting a word or phrase which they will stitch onto your shoes, under the swoosh. So Jonah Peretti filled out the form and sent them $50 to stitch "sweatshop" onto his shoes. Here's the responses he got... fun and games with Nike...

From: "Personalize, NIKE iD"
To: "'Jonah H. Peretti'"
Subject: RE: Your NIKE iD order o16468000

Your NIKE iD order was cancelled for one or more of the following reasons:
1) Your Personal iD contains another party's trademark or other intellectual property
2) Your Personal iD contains the name of an athlete or team we do not have the legal right to use
3) Your Personal iD was left blank. Did you not want any personalization?
4) Your Personal iD contains profanity or inappropriate slang, and besides, your mother would slap us.

If you wish to reorder your NIKE iD product with a new personalization please visit us again at www.nike.com

Thank you, NIKE iD

From: "Jonah H. Peretti"
To: "Personalize, NIKE iD"
Subject: RE: Your NIKE iD order o16468000

Greetings,

My order was canceled but my personal NIKE iD does not violate any of the criteria outlined in your message. The Personal iD on my custom ZOOM XC USA running shoes was the word "sweatshop."

Sweatshop is not:
1) another's party's trademark,
2) the name of an athlete,
3) blank, or
4) profanity.

I choose the iD because I wanted to remember the toil and labor of the children that made my shoes. Could you please ship them to me immediately.

Thanks and Happy New Year, Jonah Peretti

From: "Personalize, NIKE iD"
To: "'Jonah H. Peretti'"
Subject: RE: Your NIKE iD order o16468000

Dear NIKE iD Customer,

Your NIKE iD order was cancelled because the iD you have chosen contains, as stated in the previous e-mail correspondence, "inappropriate slang". If you wish to reorder your NIKE iD product with a new personalization please visit us again at nike.com

Thank you, NIKE iD

From: "Jonah H. Peretti"
To: "Personalize, NIKE iD"
Subject: RE: Your NIKE iD order o16468000

Dear NIKE iD,

hank you for your quick response to my inquiry about my custom ZOOM XC USA running shoes. Although I commend you for your prompt customer service, I disagree with the claim that my personal iD was inappropriate slang. After consulting Webster's Dictionary, I discovered that "sweatshop" is in fact part of standard English, and not slang. The word means: "a shop or factory in which workers are employed for long hours at low wages and under unhealthy conditions" and its origin dates from 1892. So my personal iD does meet the criteria detailed in your first email.

our web site advertises that the NIKE iD program is "about freedom to choose and freedom to express who you are." I share Nike's love of freedom and personal expression. The site also says that "If you want it done right...build it yourself." I was thrilled to be able to build my own shoes, and my personal iD was offered as a small token of appreciation for the sweatshop workers poised to help me realize my vision. I hope that you will value my freedom of expression and reconsider your decision to reject my order.

Thank you, Jonah Peretti

From: "Personalize, NIKE iD"
To: "'Jonah H. Peretti'"
Subject: RE: Your NIKE iD order o16468000

Dear NIKE iD Customer,
Regarding the rules for personalization it also states on the NIKE iD web site that "Nike reserves the right to cancel any personal iD> up to 24 hours after it has been submitted". In addition, it further explains: "While we honor most personal iDs, we cannot honor every one. Some may be (or contain) other's trademarks, or the names of certain professional sports teams, athletes or celebrities that Nike does not have the right to use. Others may contain material that we consider inappropriate or simply do not want to place on our products. Unfortunately, at times this obliges us to decline personal iDs that may otherwise seem unobjectionable. In any event, we will let you know if we decline your personal iD, and we will offer you the chance to submit another." With these rules in mind, we cannot accept your order as submitted. If you wish to reorder your NIKE iD product with a new personalization please visit us again at www.nike.com

Thank you, NIKE iD

From: "Jonah H. Peretti"
To: "Personalize, NIKE iD"
Subject: RE: Your NIKE iD order o16468000

Dear NIKE iD,

Thank you for the time and energy you have spent on my request. I have decided to order the shoes with a different iD, but I would like to make one small request. Could you please send me a color snapshot of the ten-year-old Vietnamese girl who makes my shoes?

Thanks,
Jonah Peretti

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openCOLA releases its opensource soft-drink

openCOLA releases its opensource soft-drink recipe. (What does it taste like Cory?) Link

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Excellent shockwave video: "All Your

Excellent shockwave video: "All Your Base Are Belong To Us." Link

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Wednesday, February 14, 2001

Thursday's TV Ultra Pick: "CONSPIRACY

Thursday's TV Ultra Pick: "CONSPIRACY THEORY: DID WE LAND ON THE MOON?" Link

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Why can't MTV ever show

Why can't MTV ever show videos like this? Link

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While we're on the subject:

While we're on the subject: The Onion's annual print-n-snip Valentines. Link

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This just in: love depresses

This just in: love depresses teenagers! Link

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Tuesday, February 13, 2001

This "bodge" seems to have

This "bodge" seems to have helped the BlogVoices slowdown. Link

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From USA Today: "To hear

From USA Today: "To hear Premiere magazine tell it, Arnold Schwarzenegger is an uncouth boor who frequently groped women and engaged in extramarital liaisons." I read the Premiere article. It's pretty funny. When Arnold was allegedly caught in his movie trailer performing oral sex on a woman who was not Maria Shriver, he said "Eating is not cheating." Link

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The New Yorker has started

The New Yorker has started to put some of its content online. Link

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Monday, February 12, 2001

Author Steven Levy discusses his

Author Steven Levy discusses his new book, Crypto with Mike Godwin (late of the EFF) in a public ongoing discussion on the WELL. Link

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Jef's followed up on the

Jef's followed up on the too-cool License Plate Maker (you saw it here first -- we've always got the jump on Memepool [just kidding, Dan]) with the Acme Valentine Heart Maker. Betcha can't eat just one! Link

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Now people are going to

Now people are going to think that I copied Shag. Link

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Cory Doctorow's report from the

Cory Doctorow's report from the front lines of the Peer-to-Peer revolution. Link

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A $10 disposable cell phone.

A $10 disposable cell phone. "It's just a dumb phone, it really is," she said. "It's about three credit cards thick; it's about the size of a credit card. It works just like your regular phone, except it doesn't have any features." Link

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San Jose Mercury News article

San Jose Mercury News article about peer-to-peer. "'Napster brought anarchy to the masses. This next generation of P-to-P will institutionalize that anarchy,' said Robert Batchelder, a research director at Gartner Dataquest" Link

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Sunday, February 11, 2001

CircleVision 360, Disney's wraparound panorama

CircleVision 360, Disney's wraparound panorama tech, met the public in 1967. It's always had a kind of nostalgic flavor for me, but I guess I can understand why the Canadian government wasnts to see the O! Canada! CircleVision flick at Epcot updated. It's a gargantuan clichefest, twenty years out of date and kind of embarassing for those of us from the Great White North. Link (Thanks, Robynne!)

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Saturday, February 10, 2001

Great NPR commentary from Douglas

Great NPR commentary from Douglas Rushkoff on the perception shear between tech-kids, VCs, and the collapse of the dotcoms. Requires RealPlayer. Link (Thanks, Pat!)

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Friday, February 9, 2001

I keep sayin' it and

I keep sayin' it and sayin' it: Nothing important is ever communicated via PowerPoint slides. Okay, I was wrong. Link (Thanks, lagoon!)

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Fun page about the first

Fun page about the first video games, including 1958's "Tennis for Two." Link

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David Pescovitz says: "Archive of

David Pescovitz says: "Archive of radio shows by the guy who also puts out 'Secret Museum of Mankind.' Audio CD compilations of some of the first 78 recordings of music from all over the globe. Link

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From The Industry Standard: "Around

From The Industry Standard: "Around Valentine's Day, a spacecraft will land on Eros, an asteroid named after the Greek god of love, to snap photos of the terrain that can be seen online." Link

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Wednesday, February 7, 2001

Now patent-protected: the orgasmatron. Link

Now patent-protected: the orgasmatron. Link (Thanks, Michael!)

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EFF co-founder John Gilmore explains

EFF co-founder John Gilmore explains What's Wrong With Copy Protection, and why CPRM is evil. Link

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Tuesday, February 6, 2001

Billyclubs, lexan shields and burning

Billyclubs, lexan shields and burning cars: Yahoo! news photos of the riots of the world. Link

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This just in: BellSouth isn't

This just in: BellSouth isn't making money off of its payphones anymore -- between 1-800-COLLECT and cellular phones, the only people using payphones anymore are crack-dealers with stolen calling-cards. They're getting rid of all 143,000 of them! (Er, the phones, not the crack-dealers) Link (Thanks, ronks!)

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Lots of interesting Disney news

Lots of interesting Disney news popping up. Looks like they've found some unexploded, WWII-era bombs in the area they're dredging for Disneyland Hong Kong. They're gonna leave them there:

McWhirter said it's likely some artillery shells will end up buried there but added they would pose no risk to Disneyland or the public. Six-inch artillery shells have been the most common finds, he said. "Once it goes into the landfill, that's about it, unless you're tossing it around," McWhirter said. "Once it goes into the landfill, it's not really an issue." Link (Thanks, Amanda!)

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Sunday, February 4, 2001

My obsession with the Haunted

My obsession with the Haunted Mansion started when I was 6 years old, in 1977, and my folks took me to Walt Disney World. It was our last night, we had three E-Tickets left, and decided to go the Mansion just before closing. It was dark, the wolves were baying, and there was a small group in the queue area. The castmember who opened the door was perfect: "Master Gracey requests more bodies," and the ride-through was amazing. Afterward, we went to the now-defunct gift-stand at the front of the queue area. I spent every cent of my birthday and Christmas money on junque from the shop, and best of all were the glowing cards.

We got in our rental car and headed back to my grandparents' place in Lauderdale. I fell asleep in the back seat, and the next thing I knew, I was being carried into a new car. The rental had broken down, and the company sent out a new one. My dad carried me into the replacement, and my favorite souveniers, the glowing cards, were left behind.

The rental company never found them. When I returned a few years later and hunted for replacements, no one at any of the shops or Guest Relations knew what I was talking about. Ever since then, I've been trying to find someone, anyone, who'd heard of these things.

I was halfway convinced I'd imagined them when I stumbled across the listing for them on Jeff Baham's amazing Haunted Mansion site. Obsessive Web-searching and eBay scouring have failed to turn up any for sale. I would kill to own them again. Someone, somewhere, must have a set they're willing to part with. I sure hope so, anyway. Link, Link

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Goddammit! Two of my fave

Goddammit! Two of my fave Disneyland rides (Pirates of the Carribean, Roger Rabbit's Toontown Spin) have been closed because of serious accidents, and they took the rifles out of Fort Wilderness on Tom Sawyer Island because one of them tore someone's finger off. Color me sad. You'd think that CNN could at least get the name of the Toontown Spin right. Call that reportage? I sure don't. Fascist bastards. Link

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Saturday, February 3, 2001

Hey, sysadmins! Sick of spam?

Hey, sysadmins! Sick of spam? SpamShield is a sendmail utility that automatically detects spammers hitting your mail-server, in near-real-time and Ping-of-Death/DoSes them, shutting down their machine. Ah, justice. Link (Courtesy of the Voidmstr)

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Friday, February 2, 2001

There's something amazingly compelling about

There's something amazingly compelling about Jef Pozkanzer's Web-widgets, especially this one: the Acme License-Plate Maker. Link

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Thursday, February 1, 2001

OK, it's meanspirited, but here's

OK, it's meanspirited, but here's a site devoted to my favorite Bay Area loony. Frank Chu is the guy who walks up and down Market Street bearing a sign that reads: "IMPEACH CLINTON: 12 GALAXIES GUILTED TO A ZAGNATRONIC ROCKET SCIENCE." Yes, it's bad to make fun of schizophrenics, but this guy's delusions have positively Phil-Dickian depths. And it's a funny sign. (Thanks, spingo!) Link

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