Lord Mandelson Covered In Custard
You can file this one in the “stupid idiot protester” bin. British Business Secretary Lord Mandelson was hit with a huge cup full of green custard by a protester from the group Plane Stupid....
Category: news and things
Can Britney Spears Sing Anymore?
Okay now, we have all watched the Britney Spears saga, as this once rising star wandered away from show biz to have a couple of kids with a baby factory of a husband, went...
Robin Williams Cancels Shows
This one sort of caught me by surprise. Comedian and general energizer bunny Robin Williams has been hospitalized and had to cancel some shows from his current “Weapons of Self-Destruction” show, after becoming short...
GM May Not Be Viable Anymore
Is it a ploy to get more money from the US government? It was reported today that “General Motors Corp.’s auditors have raised “substantial doubt” about the troubled automaker’s ability to continue operations, and...
Digital TV Cutover Still Not Right
Nothing like a good government program to be sure that things will get all screwed up. Digital TV is coming – very soon. In fact, it has been coming for years, like a train...
Obama Inauguration leads to traffic heck
I think the people who live and work in the Washington area are glad this sort of stuff only happens once every 4 years, because it’s turning into a disaster. President Elect Obama will...
Y2 Zune Stops 30GB Players
About 9 years late, or so it seems, certain Zune music and video players have been affected by a date issue which leaves the players locked out and unable to work. It seems that...
Most Popular Internet Searches
The internet is an amazing place in part because it most easily reveals what people really want. Example being that the vast majority of people will say that they have no interest in adult...
Polaroid Era Ends as Film Production Ceased
It’s the end of an era for many camera fans. If you grew up in the anywhere between the 50s and the 80s, you probably knew someone who had a polaroid camera. They were...
November 4th 2008 election day in the US
November 4th is election day in the US. While I am not an american citizen, the race in the US is important to much of the free world, as the President of the United...
New Orleans Facing Hurrican Gustav
Hurricane Gustav (as I write this) is about 24 hours or so away from giving New Orleans a slap potentially bigger than Katrina, and quite possibly on that scale. It has been very interesting...
Colleges Want to Lower Drink Age
This story on the surface seems a little weird, College rectors and presidents calling for a lowering of the drinking age from 21 to 18, because many students still drink at frat parties and...
XM – Sirius merger approved by FCC
It took pretty much forever for this to happen, but it has always pretty much been clear it would. The FCC has approved by a 3-2 vot the merger of XM and Sirius satellite...
