Wednesday, January 28, 2004


A picture named greta-garbo.jpg Social Nets Not Making Friends. As the number of social networking services like Friendster continues to swell, the technorati are pushing back. An antisocial backlash is afoot. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]

I vant! To be!

ALONE!!!

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A picture named winterhate.jpg To paraphrase Yosemite Sam:

"I hates WINTER!"

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Dept. of Natural History (explosives division)

A picture named deadwhale.jpg Sperm whale explodes in Tainan City, Taiwan. Blood and guts of 17-meter long 50-ton mammal splatter sidewalks, automobiles parked nearby. A dead sperm whale being transported through Tainan City on its way to a research station suddenly exploded yesterday... [Taiwan News]

Man, this story has it all: sperm, cars, explosions! It's the feel-good hit of the season!

Well, except for the whale. And maybe those folks who have to smell it.

Local news reports showed a number of people who had gathered to take photographs of the whale before it exploded in Tainan City, as well as residents and shop owners following the explosion. Many were wearing gauze-masks and trying to clean up the spilled blood and the entrails with brushes and brooms.

"What a stinking mess! This blood and other stuff that blew out on the road is disgusting, and the smell is really awful," said one resident.

Well, you can't have everything.

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DPRK-Fine Dining (AP).

A semi-clandestine eating out guide for Pyongyang is circulating among foreigners in the capital of the Stalinist state, but, so far, no Michelin stars.

[Nippon Goro Goro]

"I'll have the Ill-Jong Chicken, please."

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