Category: Everything Else

Pre-Weekend Fun Link

Here’s a fun time-waster for the holiday weekend: a DIY portrait maker.

My portrait came out looking like this:

It’s not perfect – they didn’t have eye and hair shades that matched my own, and the hairstyle is a dressy one, not my day to day look – but it does give a sense of me.

1,000 Stun Guns

Well, it’s easy to see what the military has decided to use as its next “honest it’s really not torture” persuader of unwilling detainees.

Taser Wins $1.8 Million Stun Gun Contract

The company did not disclose Wednesday which branch of the military would be using the approximately 1,000 stun guns and accessories in the new order, said Taser spokesman Steve Tuttle.

We can guess though.

Another Good Idea

Crossposted from the All Spin Zone:

ASZ’s “DOUBLE BURN” Campaign

What if “word of mouth” and repeat viewings of Fahrenheit 9/11 literally blew the doors off over July 4 weekend? Right at this moment, it’s hard to say if distribution will expand this week, but given all the sellouts, it wouldn’t be a surprise to see the movie hit a lot more screens.

Now, we realize that Spiderman 2 is coming out this weekend, and realistically, there is simply no way that F9/11 beats out S2 at the box office. We may be liberal pollyannas, but we’re not dopes.

But what if F9/11 came in a barnburning second, and made the $22 million box office from this past weekend look like chump change?

ASZ is proud to announce the DOUBLE BURN campaign. All you have to do to participate is see Fahrenheit 9/11 this coming Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or Monday (July 2, 3, 4 or 5).

I like it.

You've Got Spam!

AOL engineer with his head up his butt sells 92 million AOL screen names to spammers. More info here.

The only good news is at least somebody got caught. Too bad for the customers, whose addresses have probably been sold and resold a whole bunch of times since then.

An Idea Worth Considering

Here’s an idea worth considering: Replace the Pledge of Allegance with the Preamble of the Consitution.

The Preamble, which I like many others of my generation memorized thanks to Schoolhouse Rock, is not written as a stand-alone piece of langauge and doesn’t have the same patriotic ‘punch’ that the Pleage does. But looking at it as an alternative to the debate over “under God” is a very good idea and I hope it changes the argument some.