| QUOTE (Jesus H. Garcia @ April 03, 2007 08:00 pm) |
| That's just... I can't decide what reaction to have first. Does that count as cannibalism? |
I'm not sure if it counts as cannibalism, but it possibly counts as cannibalizing.
Usually when a celebrity does something weird, that's when they get their own thread? Or it could be posted in the Pirates of the Carribean thread regarding the morbid serendipity of Richards imitating the art that imitated him.
His manager says it was a joke. I'm inclined to believe her, just because the story is so wildly crazy, but who knows.
She kind of has to say that though.
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However as NME's Mark Beaumont, who conducted the interview, explained, the comment was no quip, but came about about after much thinking on the guitarist's behalf.
"He didn't offer the information, I had to ask him a couple of questions to get the information out of him," said the writer. "He didn't come straight out with that." |
Coyote walks into downtown Chicago Quizno's. Apparently, he wanted a SoBe. In the picture, he appears to be saying, "And what? You got a problem?"
Aw, the coyote is so cute! That pole is probably not as bad as it looks, but AIIEE, that didn't look fun when they dragged him out. Poor coyote.
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| "If the porn industry wanted to break the logjam of HD-DVD and Blu-ray, it could," McQuivey said. "If they said 'We are going to go with HD-DVD' you would see a few million homes immediately go out and buy HD-DVD players. They have that power." |
Ah, the power of porn.
I like how they cite names of "adult film stars" like everyone should know who they are.
Then again, maybe I'm just out of the porn loop.
| QUOTE (psammead @ April 06, 2007 12:56 pm) |
| But porn wouldn't be the same if it wasn't a bit blurry. Ahem. |
Or so loud you have to turn the volume down to 1. Teri Weigel could break windows.
The last story is even better:
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SHOULDA TRIED 'MENTAL HEALTH DAY'
KEARNEY, Neb. -- Police say a Kearney woman went to extremes to avoid working the weekend. Brandy Killin, 26, faces a felony charge of threatening to use an explosive after she allegedly phoned a bomb threat in to her employer to get out of work.
Police said Killin called First National Omaha, a credit card service center, at 9:52 a.m. yesterday from a pay phone. Killin was supposed to report to work at 10 a.m.
If convicted, Killin could be sentenced to up to five years in prison. She has worked at the company for three months. |
Tim O'Reilly and Jimmy Wales (of Wiki) have
proposed a code of conduct for blogs. Dooce gets a mention in the NYTimes article, as does Mina Trott of Six Apart (Livejournal).
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Chief among the recommendations is that bloggers consider banning anonymous comments left by visitors to their pages and be able to delete threatening or libelous comments without facing cries of censorship.
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One public bid to improve the quality of dialogue on the Web came more than a year ago when Mena Trott, a co-founder of the blogging software company Six Apart, proposed elevating civility on the Internet in a speech she gave at a French blog conference. At the event, organizers had placed a large screen on the stage showing instant electronic responses to the speeches from audience members and those who were listening in online.
As Ms. Trott spoke about improving online conduct, a heckler filled the screen with personal insults. Ms Trott recalled “losing it” during the speech.
Ms. Trott has scaled back her public writing and now writes a blog for a limited audience of friends and family. “You can’t force people to be civil, but you can force yourself into a situation where anonymous trolls are not in your life as much,” she said. |
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| "She's ever so comical - always has been." |
Yes, because nothing brings the funny like a bird having a vise-grip on your neck or "piercing" your earlobe because she's a misanthrope. Highlarity!
I also like the part where she tries to protect the eggs by throwing one at a cameraman. "Birdbrain" indeed.
That bird is like the flying equivalent of those women who steal other people's babies because they don't have one. Very comical...