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I have a bad feeling about this... Original: Originally posted on Saturday, 2001-10-20 at 20:36:55.

I'm working on a way for users to be randomly given the ability to moderate comments. This may take a while because the more I tinker with it, the more I find that this software is held together very tenuously with strands of thread :) What I'd like to ...

New York Yankees' Jorge Posada, right, slides safely into second base after hitting a shot to right field as Seattle Mariners shortstop Carlos Guillen looks to umpire Gary Cederstrom for the call during the fourth inning of Game 1 of the American League Champi...

A Halifax firefighter [in a wacky outfit -SD] sprays down a colleague outside Purdy's Wharf tower in downtown Halifax on Tuesday. Hundreds of workers ended up outside after suspicious white powder was found in the building. Original: Originally poste...

According to this article, it takes 7 shots from 9mm service pistol, or several blasts from a shotgun to take down a crazy, giant pitbull. Good information to know in case you're ever in a dark alley with a crazy, giant pitbull. Update: Yes, that is my ar...

I had the chance to correspond with a lovely individual today, whom I'll tell you about. Suffice it to say that, as the title suggests, some people just shouldn't use computers. But first let me give you a little back story... I run several mailing lists,...

A friend of mine told me about this friend of hers who made his first stop-motion animated film. I have to say, for a first attempt, it's pretty sweet. Check it out. You'll need Real Player to make it go. Originally posted on Monday, 2001-10-15 at 17:52:...

In an interesting twist of fate, I happen to have some photos from the Mr. Leather 2002 contest held at Reflections last Saturday night. One of our users, morr, has a girlfriend whose brother organized the show. Anyway, I lent them my digital camera, and the...

In the wake of Bert appearing in photos with Osama bin Laden in a Bangladesh-made poster, the Bert is Evil website has been shut down and replaced with a letter from the guy who started it all, explaining his reasons. It's a real shame it had to come to this,...

Similar to the photoshop idea, I suppose you could photoshop it if you like, but the real challenge here is to come up with things that these two gentlemen might be saying. A soldier on sentry duty and a military policeman take shelter behind two concrete ...

Here's what to do: Take this photo below and mangle it, distort it, change it. Bend it to your will. Post your results in the comments. Some other examples of what I'm talking about are here. Original: Originally posted on Friday, 2001-10-12 at 1...

Damn. I think I want this. Nokia has announced new model of cell phone that can not only play but also ENCODE mp3s. It also has a builtin FM radio. This phone will allow you to record FM radio and encode it in realtime to an MP3 whicih you can then transfe...

Remember the game show Just Like Mom? It was basically like the Newlywed game except it was a mother and one of her kids that would try to match their answers. Read about my problems with this whole scenario. Yeah, it's true; even as a kid, I would ri...

After much tribulation, people can finally pay online for crawl t-shirts via one of two methods: This secure web site. PayPal Of course, you can still hand me cash :) E-Payment transactions must be completed by 14 October 2001 to make sure I ac...

So far this year, I've noticed three shows being broadcast in a 16 x 9 aspect ratio (1.78 : 1): Angel, Enterprise, and E.R.. I think this is the best thing to happen to T.V. since color. It's about time that Television was ushered into the 21st century. Wh...

An Afghan horse trader leads his horses through the mountainous area of the Khyber Pass headed to the western Pakistani city of Peshawar, October 3, 2001. The horse trader brings horses from the northern parts of Afghanistan and travels for about 25 days to re...

This guy, at some point in the past, had a very interesting auction running on Ebay. Unfortunately, the thought police got to it before the masses could. I guess he's just sick and tired of kicking people's asses for free. Originally posted on Wednesday...

I'm getting quite serious about the whole home theatre thing. I'm planning to completely remodel one of the rooms in my basement to function solely as my theatre room sometime in the not-so-distant future. I've already had a contractor come and take measur...

In a move destined to keep the final recorded works of Nirvana out of fans' hands for many months, Courtney Love has sued both Universal Music Group and the two surviving members of the band, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic for total control over the rights to ...

Here's the second half of the double-shot to keep you occupied :) Original: Originally posted on Monday, 2001-10-01 at 22:03:05.