Review: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour
Deepwater Horizon Suits Hit Courts Across the Gulf States
Prince "Adam Ant!" Charming Returns!
Twitter's @BreakingNews Has Killed the Meaning of "Breaking News"
iPad 3G Released on Walpurgisnacht
According to Apple Insider, the iPad 3G will officially launch today at 5 p.m. Today is also Walpurgisnacht, a pagan holiday that calls for bonfires to be built to keep the evil (or maybe just mischievous) dead from harassing the living. We’re sure this is mere coincidence. [AppleInsider]
The Crazies Are Rampant in China
Report about one of the more recent attacks In The Crazies, a 1973 George Romero film remade earlier this year, the water supply of a small town is contaminated with a toxin that causes residents who drink the water to go batshit crazy and start killing people. It’s a bit like a zombie movie without [...]
Twitter’s @BreakingNews Has Killed the Meaning of “Breaking News”
The meaning of “breaking news” has probably been on life support at best since the beginning of the 1990s and the first Gulf War, when CNN regularly deployed attention grabbing “BREAKING NEWS” graphics and portentous music to detail nearly every burp and fart of America’s first war with Iraq. While the tweet in the screen [...]
A Tale of Evi and Randi
News story about the Quaids’ arrest last year in Marfa, TX – related to the same case described below Randy Quaid and his wife Evi were shuffled off to a Santa Barbara, Calif. jail on Monday, having breezily ignored a number of hearings regarding charges they defrauded a resort in Montecito to the tune of [...]
Some Kid on the Internet Scooped Gizmodo’s iPhone 4G Bombshell in February
On February 21 this year, a Tennessee kid with the Twitter screen name TUDream (TheUltimateDream) googled “iPhone 4G.” He discovered the image above, which he stated was “a pic uploaded by a chinese tweeter.” TUDream Twitpic’d the image and probably went about his business. Until today, that is, when Gizmodo published the Apple scoop to [...]
“Collateral Murder” – Wikileaks Unleashes a Bombshell on the U.S. Military
Collateral Murder, from Wikileaks Wikileaks has released a video that may either blow up in the whistleblowing site’s face or make a ton of people in the Army very uncomfortable. Likely both. With “Collateral Murder,” Wikileaks reveals what it says is “a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people [...]
Writer David Mills Dead From Aneurysm
David Mills, an Emmy-winning writer connected to storied TV dramas like Homicide: Life on the Street, ER and NYPD Blue, has died. Mills suffered a brain aneurysm while in New Orleans as a staff writer and co-executive producer for the new HBO series, Treme, which is slated to premiere April 11. Mills, a former journalist, [...]
Today in Doom: Brit Hospital Gets Its Own Strain of Contagious Pneumonia
YouTube – “Don’t Fear the Reaper” – Blue Oyster Cult We’ve heard that H1N1 has had a resurgence, particularly in the southern United States. Now a hospital in Staffordshire, England has apparently developed its own brand of pneumonia. Yay? From the BBC:
Plane Crashes Into Building in Roanoke
UPDATE… Roanoke.com reports the following: “A small private plane with two people on board crashed into the side of a 2-story UPS Freight building near the Roanoke Regional Airport after reporting trouble to air traffic controllers…” So it appears it may have been a tragic accident. EARLIER… There are reports of a plane crashing into [...]
Today, In Celebrities You Kinda Forgot: Ricky Martin Makes the Most Unsurprising Revelation, Ever
Ricky Martin, singing about unfamiliar territory, apparently Wow, no one saw that coming. Icon of hairy-chested Latino machismo Ricky Martin has come out of the closet! Who knew he was in there? From his website: “I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I [...]
Sex Offenders? On YOUR ChatRoulette?
That’s right, perverts. It’s all fun and games till someone sees your tumescent winkie. And by someone, we mean a kid. The Texas Attorney General has issued a decidedly unsurprising “Consumer Alert” about ChatRoulette, the random webcam chatting site where you’re almost guaranteed to see a strange man masturbating within 5 minutes of logging on. [...]
[UPDATED] Multiple Federal Raids on Militia Groups in Ohio and Michigan
YouTube – Homeland Security, FBI Raid Militias in Multiple States 2/2. UPDATE 2… Fox News reports that raids took place in Indiana as well. Also: “Seven people have been arrested for allegedly selling pipe bombs.” While Fox notes that the arrests “are related to alleged militia activity in the region,” the conservative news organization states [...]
[UPDATED] FBI, Homeland Security, Joint Terrorism Task Force Conduct Mysterious Raids in Ann Arbor
The Ohio Militia’s “Response to Corporate Media” UPDATE 2… A look through the Ohio Militia’s top MySpace friends may well be meaningless, but if you assume for a second that these federal raids in northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan are related (read earlier post and update below), it looks more and more like the FBI, [...]
Annals of Hate: Did an Obama Bumper Sticker Prompt Road Rage?
From Nashville we have a tale of apparent Obama-induced rage, which will probably show up in the DSM V as a rare and untreatable psychological disease if this keeps up. In this instance we have one Mark Duren and his unnamed 10 year old daughter, on their way from her school, in a vehicle sporting [...]
Deepwater Horizon Suits Hit Courts Across the Gulf States