crankymessiah wrote:
] "Speed kills. But it is not only the speed at which people
] drive that is the problem: the speed of the music they are
] listening to also has a hand in their fate. An Israeli
] researcher says drivers who listen to fast music in their cars
] may have more than twice as many accidents as those listening
] to slower tracks."

which reminds me of flying through a windshield while listening to Love & Rockets 'It Could Be Sunshine' in high school.

RE: Fast music linked to car crashes

Check out Bubb Rubb and L'il Sis talkin bout whistlers.

Humor, on so many levels

Stolen from a posting on Slashdot.

1. A tremor in the pants. The last time I felt this was in the presence of my old master.

2. You are unwise to lower your pants.

3. We've got to be able to get some reading on those pants, up or down.

4. She must have hidden the plans in her pants. Send a detachment down to retrieve them. See to it personally Commander.

5. These pants may not look like much, kid, but they've got it where it counts.

6. I find your lack of pants disturbing.

7. These pants contain the ultimate power in the Universe. I suggest we use it.

8. Han will have those pants down. We've got to give him more time!

9. General Veers, prepare your pants for a surface assault.

10. I used to bulls-eye womp-rats in my pants back home.

11. TK-421. . . Why aren't you in your pants?

12. Lock the door. And hope they don't have pants.

13. Governor Tarkin. I recognized your foul pants when I was brought on board.

14. You look strong enough to pull the pants off of a Gundark.

15. Luke. . . Help me take...these pants off.

16. Great, Chewie, great. Always thinking with your pants.

17. That blast came from those pants. That thing's operational!

18. Don't worry. Chewie and I have gotten into a lot of pants more heavily guarded than this.

19. Maybe you'd like it back in your pants, your highness.

20. Your pants betray you. Your feelings for them are strong. Especially for your sister!

21. Jabba doesn't have time for smugglers who drop their pants at the first sign of an Imperial Cruiser.

22. Yeah, well short pants is better than no pants at all, Chewie.

23. Attention. This is Lando Calrissean. The Empire has taken control of my pants, I advise everyone to leave before more troops arrive.

24. I cannot teach him. The boy has no pants.

25. You came in those pants? You're braver than I thought.

"Wal-Mart's influence on the U.S. economy has reached levels not seen by a single company since the 19th-century rise of Standard Oil, economists and historians say. Even if you don't shop at Wal-Mart, the retail powerhouse increasingly is dictating your product choices -- and what you pay -- as its relentless price cutting helps keep inflation low."

Interesting article on just how huge Wal-Mart has become.

Wal-Mart's influence grows

] When I was a kid adults used to bore me to tears with
] their tedious
] diatribes about how hard things were when they were
] growing up; what
] with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning
] uphill both ways
] through year 'round blizzards carrying their younger
] siblings on their
] backs to their one-room schoolhouse where they maintained
] a straight-A
] average despite their full-time after-school job at the
] local textile
] mill where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help
] keep their
] family from starving to death!
]
]
] And I remember promising myself that when I grew up there
] was no way in
] hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids
] about how hard
] I had it and how easy they've got it!
]
] But....
]
] Now that I've reached the ripe old age of twenty-nine, I
] can't help but
] look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it
] so fuckin'
] easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a
] goddamned Utopia!

1987 Reprezent!

i am so there!

The State of the Union Drinking Game 2003

"ENFIELD, Conn., Jan. 24 -- LEGO Company today announces one of only two existing scale replicas of the famous Stanley Cup is missing since the close of the annual Super Show that took place in Las Vegas earlier this week."

Just what is this world coming to?

LEGO Stanley Cup Stolen

I'm not joking. A obscure law called the No Electronic Theft (NET) Act that former U.S. President Bill Clinton signed in 1997 makes peer-to-peer (P2P) pirates liable for $250,000 in fines and subject to prison terms of up to three years. (You may want to read it, since you'll likely be hearing more about it soon.)"

Hey, you--the unindicted federal felon

Sprint DSL customers are at risk of having their e-mail addresses and passwords stolen -- even when their computers are powered off -- due to weak security controls on their DSL modems.

I posted this info to se2600 almost a year ago.

Sprint DSL's Gaping Security Hole

"San Diego, Calif. -- Hoping for a simultaneous marketing and military coup, the Bush administration today officially set a war date, announcing that the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq will be part of the Super Bowl XXXVII halftime show."

U.S.-Led Iraq War Slated For Super Bowl Halftime Show