Small Dead Animals has another interesting set of threads going on besides the one I bring up in this post below:
Kate wonders why the soldiers didn't fire back and why the CBC reports a "history of rollovers" in the fallout over the taxicab collision with a APC last week
She also cares slightly more than me about the Oscars, and has the unfortunate desire to watch Lorne Calvert talk.
Moving onto /.:
- It turns out paying extra on your credit card gets the Homeland Security people concerned. Well, I guess it is out of place these days...
- Toronto is the next city threatening to become a citywide hotspot. This thread eventually degrades into a talk about Toronto's homeless. I would comment more on this, but I'll wait until a story with more relevence and local flavour comes about.
- New Jersey is trying to make anonymous website postings illegal. Great, like my site has few enough postings as it is...
- The Playstation 3 is now officially behind schedule. This would be good news for Microsoft if only they hadn't botched the 360 launch so badly. You can buy a %@^#load of games for the 360 in every electronics store in Edmonton. You can buy controllers, miscellaneous accessories, even dust covers for the damn thing every time you turn around. An actual Xbox 360? Good luck! The PS3 is now scheduled for the Christmas season, but I'm sure that will be pushed back soon enough...
- George Lucas predicts the era of the $200 million movie will soon come to a close. No kidding George...you killed it!
- There is now a (British) live action version of the Simpsons Opening Theme. That the Slashdot posting quickly degenerated into complaints over the mistakes in the video and excessive overuse of Comic Book Guy catchphrases was of course predictable.
- Record labels may be engaged in price fixing. This is going to go the same as the gas prices checks.... in the end, the price is determined by (surprise surprise) the market.
- Jupiter has a new red spot. Er, I thought the old red spot had vanished or something. (Turns out it was the Great Dark Spot on Neptune
And finally, from good old fark....:
- Wired reports computers might become "soft" sooner than you think. Fark chose "fruit roll up" joke over "erection joke", oddly enough.
- Cheating in exams is essential to being a good patriotic Bosnian.
- 50% of all product returns are done by stupid people. The other 50%? Cheap asses.
- Swedish currency is going to move. If anybody would make money smarter than they are, it would be the Swedes.
- 50% of product returns are done by stupid people. The other 50%? Cheap asses.
- Finally, women can get boob jobs with credit card signups. But if they have big boobs, they don't need a credit card anymore now do they??
Time's running out. Sign onto my free baseball pool today!
