You've got to be kidding.
Ex-nurse Misty Ann Weaver, winner of April's Worst Employee of the Month Award, who hatched a zany plan to cover up a missed deadline at work by setting a fire that killed three people, has been released prior to her trial with an ankle bracelet that allows her to go to church (bless her heart!) or, as the article notes, "go to interviews." !?
If you have anything that needs burning at work, co-workers you need dispatched, or if you just want to drop her a line explaining how your work ethic differs slightly from hers, Misty can apparently be reached at:
Misty Weaver
5403 Beverlyhill Street
Houston, TX 77056
He's just Venting
Dateline... UTAH - City councilman Mark Easton had a beautiful view of the mountains, until a new neighbor purchased the lot below his house and built. Apparently, the new roof was 18 inches higher than the ordinances would allow, so Easton, went to the city to complain. The new neighbor had to drop the roof line.
Recently Easton called the city again because he didn't like a vent on the side of the new home.
Interesting concept. Pimp your favorite struggling local band, invest a little dough, and get a cut if they succeed.
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Homeless man finds $21,000 in bonds, returns them to the owner... who gives him a paltry hundred dollar reward (from... I'm guessing a republican)!!!
Offended samaritans have been flooding him with reward money to make up for it.
The Compact
A group of San Francisco area folks have pledged to not buy anything in 2006 except food, medicine and underwear.
SF Gate article
While this is going to an extreme to make what is an admirable point, imagine if the general populace made this sort of pledge for just a month out of the year? A week? Could you do it? Do you think it would make a difference?
My first thought was just think how much fatter everyone would get because now you'd have all this extra money and all you can buy is food. Or drugs! Yay! Perscription drug habits for everyone!
Katrina
As bad as we knew this would be, it's actually much worse. The disorganization of the response has been absolutely apalling.
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When I first read the article in this month's Wired about aSmallWorld, I thought it was either a joke or just an essay, not a piece of journalism. That's not meant to be a slam on Ms. Jardin's writing skills; I just didn't think it was real.
As much as they probably want you to think, Damn! How do I get access to this biyatch? the first thing that crossed my mind when I hit the home page was, This is supposed to be the portal to every single hip, rich person of influence in the world, and their web site sucks. What's up with the blurry graphics?
looking to get out now?
I'm hitched, but for you single types, sign up to meet foreigners sympathetic to the plight of reasonable Americans stuck with a 4th-rate President. Who knows, someone may come to your aid.
check it
Think of it as an Underground Railroad for enslaved liberals.
via Ken W.
Funkmaster Flex, the hot-rod king of the central Bronx, has a new show on Spike TV.
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Since [our employer] went down in flames and laid all of us off, I find that getting to the west side is harder than it used to be. I'm concerned that I'm getting a little rusty on my hipster language skills.
I thought I'd offer to the men and women of House8 the latest in cultural language trends, so that when we're re-employed we can pick up where we left off.
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That said, here's a guide to Flex's car lingo:
* Whip: Car
* Shoes: Wheels
* Ride out: Take off
* Churp and tie: Burnout
* Dubs: Tires more than 20 inches in diameter
* Big block: Old car with a lot of horsepower
* Thump thump: Noise made by loud sound system
* Pipework: Exhaust system; ie, "That's serious pipework!"
* Floating: Driving a hot truck slowly down a crowded street
* Third-lane style: Going more than 70 miles an hour
* Trick out: Doing anything "after market" to your car
via New York Post, Page Six
How many pictures of clocks do you think this guy is gonna get?
via harrumph!
This war isn't really over....
Join us as we gather to erect a memorial wall bearing the names of all the victims of the Iraq War, and call for a Commission of Inquiry to investigate Bush's justification for war. Please Bring flowers to lay at base of the wall
Starts: TONIGHT at 4:00 PM
Where: Federal Building
230 S. Dearborn, Chicago
----I'll probably be there around 5:30 if you're interested in meeting me there, email me.----
Liz
via Carolyn Danckaert, AFSC
Yah, well Carlos- we all thought your proposal sounded sweet and romantic- but puh-leese, it cannot compare to this, "straight out of storybook" action. I hope someday when I am buying tampax and freeze-pops, I will look up and see my knight in shining armor...my turkey man. (sigh)
A great idea, poorly executed
Distributed computing projects have always been of interest to me. You really have to wonder what all those incredibly over-powered computers out there, for the most part, doing nothing, could actually do if they were put to use in a common cause. SETI@Home is probably the most well-known application. Cool? Check. Uber-geeky? Check. Really important and timely? Uhhh....
I'm currently running Folding@home's screen saver, which helps to understand how protein folding affects major diseases.
So along comes a really, really, really great idea: use the now fairly well established dist computing community to help find promising candidates for SARS drugs. (If the link times out, don't be surprised.)
Unfortunately, their web servers do not appear to be up to the task of getting slashdotted, boingboinged, etc. etc., and talked about on the news. You gotta really want this thing. We're talking over an hour (or longer!) for 10 MB over a T1! WTF!?! Has anyone heard of a mirror site over there?
It also appears that their Mac OS X client doesn't work reliably. I think I've installed it, but nothing would indicate that. I'm in the process of downloading the WinXP client, which I may have downloaded by this afternoon.
A magazine dedicated to stuff people found in their alleys / laundromats / cellars.
via Winster
Feeling like the Gardens of Babylon are sooo ancient history? The Lighthouse of Alexandria? Boooring!
Help pick new Wonders of the World. You can also donate to help rebuild all the Buddha statues the bastard Taliban destroyed.
via kottke
Have a half-baked idea? Share it with the world. Or, spend hours reading others' submissions and comments. Why do dishwashers open top-down?
via More Like This
This service allows teen (and "tween" -- doncha love that word?) girls to rate and email regular boys. Not celebrities. Just boys. They have trading cards and everything. Friggin' geniuses.
Is it possible to have a Redneck neighbor from Vietnam? I guess so...
As yet another victim of the (A) dot-bomb crash, and (B) the terrorist attack-induced recession, I went to work one day to find that I had been downsized. Made redundant. Laid off. Canned. Ouch!
In an effort to rectify this situation, I have posted my resume and portfolio online thanks to the most generous proprietors of this fine weblog establishment, House8.
Have yourself a look-see and let me know what you think. If anyone has a good lead on full or part-time employment for a graphic designer with several years of web and print experience, I'm your man!
johnf@house8.net
If you can stand another story about the attacks on the US and the nice things people do for each other, this is a pretty ok ending...
This is a few days late perhaps, but this gallery shows photos of people around the world and how they have responded to the terrorist attacks on America.
via Susi P
Exerpts from a New York email
I got an email today from a friend who recently moved to New York. After talking in detail about the horror of the recent events that he had the displeasure of watching from his office window he wrapped up with these comments:
...and as if it isn't already too much, i spend the next couple of days listening to The Dolt make inspiring statements about "finding these folks" (did he actually call terrorists "folks"!?), how we're gonna "whip terrorism" (not crush, destroy, vanquish...) and say "this was the first war of the 21st century". so "the war", it's over then? and this just in: "There's an old poster out West as I recall that said: 'Wanted, dead or alive." does he think this is a CBS mini-series?
God help us.
I couldn't agree more.
via Dennis of New York
for those who can appreciate the art of manipulating bicycle designs. i know i do. meet the Chunks.
via My friend Todd
Our intention was always to create something unique, while at the same time satisfying a real need. We felt the timing was right. With Artnet, the largest and most influential art e-commerce site, abandoning their attempts to auction art (losing too much $$$), and smaller sites folding left and right, we knew it would be foolish to build a site founded on selling art. In fact, what was needed was not a site for art buyers, but for visual artists Ð that spoke directly to artists. Give artists the news, articles, reviews, and interviews that matter Ð in a relaxed, stylish setting devoid of the aloofness and myopia that plagues the art world. But also make ArtKrush a valuable, hands-on resource by offering information on grants, scholarships, jobs and calls for entry. And finally, for ArtKrush to have real staying power, it must be a national site. In other words, the content must be consistently high-quality and intriguingly diverse.
via The Morning News' Site of the Week
Corner Kids have come to play hide and seek at your house! Position these 2 ft. tall cloth figures in any bare corner for a one-of-a-kind display that will tug at your heart every time you walk into the room. "Kids" are attired in realistic clothing, right down to their laced-up sneakers! Assorted outfits. Imported.
This annoying site lets people post the license plate # of people who drive fast or "unsafe" then submits them to the correct municipality. Grrrrrr. It must be from one of those clueless dicks who block traffic on the way into work, driving 10 mph under the speed limit with their directional blinking for two miles, a car full of brats, and a cell phone glued to their ear.
It's philosophy, "We're all going to reach our destinations, why drive so fast?" Make me puke.
Please send angry letters to dead at the wheel
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In a study released this month, sociologists at the College Park, Md., campus found that Internet users appear to be more open, tolerant, trusting, optimistic and literate than non-users. This cannot be dismissed simply as the profile of a younger and better-educated group, the researchers say, because they controlled for these and other demographic factors and found that the mindset held up regardless.
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They support sex education in the public schools, but not birth control for teenagers. They have greater tolerance for homosexual and premarital sex, but not extramarital or teenage sex.
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I guess they didn't study AOL chat rooms...
Shite! Looks like Robot Frank is selling autographed pics from his web site. Wait just a minute--several members of house8.net are featured there in robot gear, in the Robot Army section of the site. Does that mean Frank's going to cash in on our photos if someone choses one of the pics from the Mighty Chicago Chapter? Dang! That scum bucket! Looks like we'll have to dig out the old gear and attach Robot Frank when he is most vulnerable. Double Dang! Most of us robot idiots either left the robot gear at Inner Town Pub or in the middle of Augusta Blvd.
just when i thought the net was losing its flare. once again proving the human mind is as small as a pooh nugget from a emaciated ninety year old with nothing but Early Times in his lunchbox. This Dang goes out to all of you lovers who lack one thing:Jack Tripper's smooth pick up tactics.
via jane
Keenan needs Screensavers
I have grown tired of looking at Mr. T. scowling at me from across the aisle, on Keenan's A-Team screensaver. She's had it on her mac forever. I'm appealing to your bad taste to send her something fresh and tacky. Thank You.
And apparently this is from a site that teaches young girls all about their bodies (see URL above for the full blown, with music version). A) I would think this is so stupid if I were 13 and using the site, B) I am slightly disturbed by the concept of dancing tampons in general. That sounds...uncomfortable.
via www.captainfez.com
one of my favorite sites, chickenhead.com, has some new content worth laughing at. i like to think society will one day accept children carrying guns. kinda like the legalization of pot issue. shit, just legalize it and maybe kids will respect guns more and, therefore, respect those they execute at school. we really need that, yo.
via here
The online companion to Richard Saul Wurman's book "Understanding". Demonstrates the power inherent in understanding and the notion that understanding is power. Well, I'll be damned.
via someone sent this, God only knows who.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, boys...
INDEPENDENTS DAY is a worldwide event celebrating independent content and design on the web. It's supported by an informal network of designers, artists, writers, editors, developers, and producers who create content primarily to enrich the web rather than their bank accounts.
Interesting.
