Friday, April 30, 2004

Windex
Despite what you heard from Dad in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," Windex will probably not cure whatever ails you. It will however, clean your windows, remove the taco sauce from your keyboard, and banish years worth of ear and finger crud from your white slimline telephone in the wink of an eye. Click more.. below.
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Wednesday, April 28, 2004

White Sox
Chicago White Sox marketing boss Rob Gallas quit his job last week. This motivated the Tribune to interview a pack of yuppie scum bags from Wrigleyville about what they might do to juice the White Sox perennially low attendance. Typical responses from these "lovable losers" fans (Cubs fans) like paint the team blue or play at Wrigley Field can be ignored out of hand, but there was one really kick ass idea. Click more.. below.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2004

What a Wonderful World
I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world

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Monday, April 26, 2004

Chernobyl
On this day in 1986, at the Chernobyl nuclear power station, technicians attempted a poorly designed experiment resulting in the worst accident in the history of nuclear power generation. Click more.. Below.
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Saturday, April 24, 2004

Cranking Fidel
The FCC concluded Friday that WXDJ-FM in Miami should be fined $4000 for airing a crank call made to Cuban President Fidel Castro. The FCC rejected the station's claim that a rule requiring people to be notified before their voices are used does not apply to people in Cuba. Does the FCC blow or what? Click more.. below.
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Friday, April 23, 2004

False Rumor?
Can God change Pepsi to Dr Pepper? News Flash: Pepsi denies patriotic packaging rumor, blames Dr Pepper. See "Coke to Pepsi."

Pepsi says, "We wanted to clarify an erroneous report that has been circulating around cyberspace for some time. Pepsi has not created any packaging containing an edited version of America's Pledge of Allegiance. A patriotic package used in 2001 by Dr Pepper (which is not a part of PepsiCo) was inappropriately linked to this rumor."

We'll have to wait and see.
posted @ 07:29 PM CST [link]

Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Coke to Pepsi
Pepsi has new "patriotic" cans coming out with pictures of the Empire State Building and the Pledge of Allegiance on them. For some reason, however, Pepsi left out the two BIG little words on the pledge, "Under God." Don't they know that only God can change Coke to Pepsi? Click more.. below.
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Sunday, April 18, 2004

Fun Spam
I got some great political spam this afternoon. Click here to see what George W. is really dealing with. Opens in a popup window.

Yes, Saturday is skin rotation day. OK, so I'm late. Check it out. Tell your friends.
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Thursday, April 15, 2004

Spring
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.

T. S. Eliot, opening lines of The Waste Land, "The Burial of the Dead" (1922).
posted @ 02:35 PM CST [link]

Wednesday, April 14, 2004

Got a Shot?
Buffy lead the charge of female pop culture icons capable of putting the "whup ass" on their men at the drop of an eyelash. Now, with leather-clad, butt-kicking, kung fu chicks everywhere in the movies and on TV, "This Week's Fantasy" examines whether the somewhat out of fashion white, heterosexual male has a chance with these juiced-up heroines. Link opens in a new window.
posted @ 08:27 AM CST [link]

Tuesday, April 13, 2004

John Hanson
John Hanson, American Revolutionary leader and president under the U.S. Articles of Confederation, was born on this day in 1721.

A member of the Maryland Assembly (1757-79), he represented Maryland in the Continental Congress (1780-82). On Nov. 5, 1781, he was elected by the Continental Congress "President of the United States in Congress Assembled," an office he held for one year. He is sometimes referred to as "the first president of the United States," but he was a congressional presiding officer and had none of the powers of the president under the Constitution.
posted @ 04:02 PM CST [link]

Monday, April 12, 2004

Rock On, Yoda
Yoda, University of Michigan Medical School's oldest mutant mouse, celebrated his fourth birthday today, according to the AP, making him the human equivalent of 136 years old. What a mouse! Click more.. below.
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Saturday, April 10, 2004

Happy Easter
Go color some eggs. Oh wait, before you go, check out the new "This Week's Skin."
posted @ 04:11 PM CST [link]

Friday, April 9, 2004

Stand Up!
Ronald Harwood, Oscar-winning screenwriter and playwright, backed out of an agreement to direct a revival of "The Dresser," his drama about an aging actor struggling through "King Lear," because The Manitoba Theater Center is a smoke-free environment. "I had no intention of allowing myself to be forced out into the street in winter to partake of one of my great pleasures," Harwood said to the Associated Press earlier this week, "I have recently visited Canada and had to suffer the most draconian anti-smoking regulations in restaurants and public buildings." Go Ron! Click more.. below.
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Wednesday, April 7, 2004

MIA
Missing in action? No, mired in aftershock. The time change hit me like a ton of bricks this year. On the up side, the "aftershock" was mixed with an even dose of spring fever. Chicago has been having June like weather since Sunday. But scratch that, we're here to whine about the time change! Ben Franklin claims in "This Week's Fantasy," that "it's not my fault, man!" but we know different. Links open in a new window.
posted @ 05:18 PM CST [link]

Sunday, April 4, 2004

Daylight Saving
Benjamin Franklin's letter to the editor of the Journal of Paris, written in 1784, is widely credited as the modest beginning of daylight saving time as we know it. DST, (ouch, it even sounds evil) is now universal in the western world. Well Ben, aka Poor Richard, see how they jump. Link opens in a new window. It's bad and it gets worse with every gadget that has a clock but no circuit to adjust for your brainchild automatically. Anyone who takes a few minutes to read the text of Ben's letter will agree, I'm sure, that though he is a card by eighteenth century standards, he would have made a world-class middle manager. Click more.. below.
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Saturday, April 3, 2004

Don't Think Twice
It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It don't matter, anyhow
An' it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If you don't know by now
When your rooster crows at the break of dawn
Look out your window and I'll be gone
You're the reason I'm trav'lin' on
Don't think twice, it's all right

Click more.. Below. Oh, Saturday is skin rotation day.
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Thursday, April 1, 2004

March's Ten
The monthly, optimized, time management reading list entitled, "What Did Everyone Else Read?" in March.

With your time management problems in mind, I have listed March's ten most "viewed" entries, as reported by Cliff's Notes month-end logs, ranked by times viewed, and annotated with my comments on each entry. Cool, brother! Yeah, we just keep on keepin' on. Click more.. below for all this and links too!
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