Desktops, Russian-style

Some stylin' wallpapers for your desktop - in various resolutions - from a site in Russia.

Awwww....

Pointless (but cute) Flash animation of a cat who purrs and swipes at your cursor.

Dear God, Won't Someone Please Make This Person Go Away?

I don't get it, hasn't Puff Dumbass blown through his money by now? Shouldn't he have already gone the way of fellow hacks like Hammer and filed for bankruptcy or something? Instead, he continues to linger, wearing out his welcome like the party guest that refuses to leave - sitting on your couch, talking about himself and raiding your fridge long after everyone else has went home.

The Smoking Gun snagged one of the invites from his latest party and it's one of the most narcissistic, self-important things I've ever seen.

Dubbed - with typical Puff modesty - "The Greatest Party of All Time", the invitation included a list of guidelines for those planning to attend. Guys, leave those scuffed shoes at home and gals - no pedicure, no dice. Also, if you weren't wearing Gucci or one of the other designers on Puff's ultra-shallow list of faves, forget about it loser. Thankfully, for those not certain of the definition of "flyness", the host graciously recommended that you you "think of me", at the CDFA awards, for instance, as one of many examples.

Were there any justice in the world, an earthquake would have swallowed up this party and all who attended - sucking them deep into the bowels of the earth, where they'd never be heard from again.

Tedi, the Martial Arts Teddy Bear

You may wanna let this one load while you're in the shower or something if you're on a 56k like yours truly, even the low-bandwidth version is over 2 megs.

How Much is My Pez Dispenser Worth?

Probably a dollar - but hey, if you happen to have a gem like the ultra-ugly Green Hornet Pez pictured above (valued at $760 U.S.) it might be worth looking into in this searchable priceguide.

Landspeeder for Sale

This driveable and totally boss-looking landspeeder (a street legal Ford beneath the window-dressing) is up for auction on eBay. Think of the looks you'll get and all the nerds drooling and have spastic fits when you pass them by in this baby.

Live, Hot Seamonster Webcam Action!

The official site of Lochness, home of the Lochness Monster, or Nessie, as she's affectionately called, has two webcams - one above and one below the water - for you amateur Nessie hunters out there to view. This guy says he may have caught screen caps of it already, you be the judge.

New Look

I'm going to be playing with the template a little tonight so if things look weird, please overlook it, okay? Hopefully I'll have all the bugs worked out of this stupid thing soon, so bear with me.

Start-up Introduces "Tractor Beam"

BioRyx 200 uses 200 lasers to move and manipulate small particles like cells and sperm.

Those Zany Aussies

Here's a good one: 70,000 Australians upset their census by listing their religion as "Jedi" on the forms. You have to give it to them, the Australians are a madcap bunch.

Case in point: last night I was watching one of those crazy Aussie nature-show guys, not Steve the Crocodile Hunter, but another one - I wish I could remember his name. It was some really gripping television, I have to say. This guy was the craziest human being I've ever seen (with all due respect to to Evel Knievel and Farrah Fawcett).

This guy's batting about a big cobra - teasing it - more or less, like he's daring it to bite him. I have to admit, I was rooting for the snake after awhile - which surprised us all and actually did bite the guy (justifiably, I might add, as he did everything but give it noogies in the course of telling the home viewers how deadly it was and what a mongoose might do if it were in his situation). Dude's no mongoose, however, ballsy though he might be and the cobra bites the assclown right on his hand. Of course, now, it's not fun and games anymore - he's all "Okay, I'm bit, the snake bit me, I'm bit over here!" They give him some antivenom and rush him to the hospital (which is forty miles away, of course) and he's laying there in a hospital bed going "No more, never again, that's it - I'm getting too old for this stuff," and I'm thinking "good move, guy - guess you have a little sense about you, at that."

Two hours later, the guy's right back in the desert, playing chicken with the same monstrous cobra and practically juggling this super-venomous Boomslang. Australians, man - they rock.

Fetch, Boy, Fetch! Goooood boy...OMG, LOOK OUT!

Help this adorable pup catch frisbees and balls in the Flash game Frisbee Dog - but watch out for grenades and spiked discs, which prove fatal for the poor pooch.

"ROTFLMAF", I've Heard - But Who Uses "ILICISCOMK"?

The first abbreviation most of you have probably seen if you've spent more than five minutes in a chatroom anywhere on the web, but the second one and many of these others I've never heard of and are as foreign as the Japanese chat exchange above to me. There are many more examples of chat/email shorthand in this large list from NetLingo - The Internet Dictionary.

BTW (by the way), "ILICISCOMK" stands for "I Laughed, I Cried, I Spat/Spilt Coffee/Crumbs/Coke On My Keyboard", apparently, and if you know that, you've been spending way too much time on the internet - go out and do some fishing or something.

X-treme Candy-making

So I'm sitting here and I'm a little hungry and in the mood for some cookies. I'm browsing around and I come upon this site, pastrywiz.com and though I haven't checked out the cookie recipes yet, I have a feeling this is probably the wrong place to look.

I was thinking along the lines of some plain, old-fashioned peanut-butter cookies - these pastry wiz folks are way harder-core than that. There's a whole section here on sugar blowing. I had no freaking idea what kind of radical things were going on in pastry kitchens these days, nor did I know what sugar blowing was...but these people are melting and shaping sugar with a full-on blowtorch and metal tube like a glassmaker and throwing together things like the sugar-swan pictured above.

There are step-by-step instructions for any of you culinary extremists out there who'd like to give it a shot, but remember - The Ends of the Earth and it's proprietor take no responsibility for any third degree burns you may incur by way of your dangerous pastry thrill-seeking. As for myself, I'm going to wait until tomorrow and buy one of those little rolls of cookie-dough - I may not even bother to cook it.

Pocket Full of Kryptonite

This has to be the coolest Superman action figure I've ever seen - there's only one thing I find kind of troubling...

Check out the Man of Steel's "package" in the larger photo here on the site.

Geez, no need for x-ray vision - Supes is puttin' it on display for all of Metropolis to see.

You Hadda Be a Bigshot, Didya?

On board an outbound flight from Philadelphia International Airport, David Vassallo, 46, bragged to a fellow passenger that he was a federal sky marshall. Only problem was, he was actually a postal worker and the passenger he shot his mouth off to was - you guessed it - a federal sky marshall :)

Save Sheeba!

Well...looks like people have gotten wind of the fact that savekaryn.com was actually a moneymaker. The site, run by a self-described "basket-case" who has very bad spending habits, basically asks you to donate money - getting nothing in return - to help her pay off her credit card debts. Unbelievably, she's raked in enough dough so far to account for half of her original $20,221.40 - all without even getting naked, or even showing her face, for that matter.

Incidentally, here's what she looks like. I'm surprised she didn't go ahead and put her picture on, she's kind of cute and probably would have racked up the full 20 grand by now had she posted it initially...never underestimate the abundance of lonesome dorks willing to throw money at girls on the internet.

At any rate, now that the word's out on Karyn's success, you may as well brace yourself for what I'm sure are to be endless parodies and copycats - errrr...copydogs, rather.

What's Scarier: Poe, Master of the Macabre or Wacko Jacko? How About the Two Combined? Egad!

This is coming from The Star magazine, U.S. supermarket tabloid extraordinaire and the story is so utterly ridiculous as to be impossible, but I'm posting it anyways 'cause it's the funniest. According to The Star's crack reporters, none other than Marlon Brando is coaching Michael Jackson for an upcoming role in which he'll be playing the horror story master, Edgar Allen Poe.

I guess it's not that far fetched. I mean, look at the startling similiarities looks-wise, in the pictures above. They could be twins. And with that ultra-spooky homage to plastic surgery gone horribly wrong that he calls a face, Jackson is sure to bring chills galore to the audience.

Oh God, please let this be true - I smell a cult classic.

The Toast Always Lands Butter-Side Down

In other words, anything that can go wrong, will, as the math-contest winners above can attest.

The origin and history of Murphy's law, along with every permutation of it you can think of can all be found here, neatly categorized under topics like love, computers, commerce, etc.

0wnz0red

Thought I'd plug this piece of science fiction on Salon, 0wnz0red, a story about programmers who take on the ultimate hack: that of their own bodies. Why sleep or exercise when you're the sysadmin. of your body's operating system?

A really kickass bit of writing from Hugo Award winner and resident BoingBoing blogger, Cory Doctorow.

Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution

A brief history of hacking.

Guard Your Mind!

With MindGuard, the personal anti-psychotronic software for Amiga and Linux:

MindGuard is a program for Amiga and Linux that protects your mind by jamming and/or scrambling psychotronic mind-control signals and removing harmful engrammic pollutants from your brain. It also has the ability to scan for and decipher into English specific signals so you can see exactly Who wants to control you and what They are trying to make you think.

Was the Moon Landing a Hoax?

Compelling evidence that puts the Fox special and others to shame. This is pretty funny stuff.

Gwyneth and Steve

This is a repost but I came across it again today and had to put it up again, in case anyone missed it, it's just that funny. Gotta love Steve Martin.

Fubbs

A very odd, trippy little website...I really don't know what else to say about it, just check it out for yourself.

Stark, Naked Love!

And the struggle continues...(warning: language).

News of the Day

I realized the other day that I'd been neglecting posting a lot of news stories like I used to and have been mulling over ways I could incorporate a separate section into the blog devoted just for that purpose. In the meantime, here are a few headlines for you to peruse:

Burnt Jimi Hendrix Guitar Up for Auction

Woman Who Gave Birth at Five Back in Spotlight (Yep, you read that right...5)

The Babe's Bat Found After 20 Years Under a Bed

Escaped Emu Mistaken for Naked Man

Australian Drug Dealer Allowed $118,800 Tax Write-off for Stolen Drug Money

Man Accused of Trying to Kill Friend Who Gave Him a "Wedgie" Faces Charges

Woman Has Two Sets of Identical Twins

The Schøyen Collection

An incredible collection of 12,536 manuscripts of all kinds, spanning the course of five-thousand years of human history, from Aborigine art to medieval texts and Asian antiquities, with loads of info and hi-res pictures of many items.

Hey, Where's the Fire?

Check out this wicked-bad jet-powered ride...the 1940 Ford fire engine, powered by two Rolls/Royce 601 Viper engines w/afterburners, is the world's fastest truck.

Nanopop History

Nanopops has a lot of hilarious little flash movies starring little stick-figure-type characters of the same name. I especially liked their take on the history of the Beach Boys and other bands like Nirvana in the History of Pop section.

Subversive Stickers

Someone's selling stickers with a message, they're for people to put on random gas pumps when they travel. The yellow, warning-label-type appliques remind you to stop your engine before pumping, not to smoke and proclaim "thank you for supporting global terrorism". They seem to be selling well and I wouldn't be surprised to start seeing these pop-up at service stations across the country.

Oh, What a Joyful Web We Weave

The Hawaiian Happy Happyface Spider, or Theridion grallator , has to be one of the oddest arachnids I've ever seen, there are several kinds on the islands, all bearing a variation on the famous smiley-face icon. This was on the Honeyguide Weblog, a fascinating little blog about nature and animals.

Been a Long Time Since I Saw One of These

In fact, I'd forgotten they even existed. I remember playing with these as a kid - I doubt this would entertain a little kid today for long, though, there's no rocket launchers or batteries and it doesn't even morph into any kind of robot or spaceship. Actually it's pretty lame, we were easily entertained then, though. There are some other neat little toys you can build, like mousetrap cars and a sardine-can jetboat on the homepage, Mechanical Toys.

Sexiest Cartoon Babes of All Time

Retrocrush, apparently with time on their hands, compiled this list of their picks for the top 50 sexiest cartoon babes ever. Of course I have no opinion on this utterly silly topic, but I suppose if I just had to pick one I'd go with their "Jean Gray, of the X-Men" selection.

Life Imitating Popcorn Entertainment

I had this movie laying around the house for awhile I hadn't watched, a 1996 Kurt Russell action flick called Executive Decision. I finally got around to watching it tonight and for the most part, it was your typical shoot-'em-up action fare. It was the kind of movie you saw all the time in recent years and thought nothing of: Islamic Terrorist Villian with machine guns vs. Clever, American, Blue-eyed Hero with machine guns. Your run-of-the-mill two hours of shooting, daring-do and miraculous escapes. A year ago, this film would have had roughly the emotional impact on me as a Weezer video, if that.

Lots of things have changed since then, though. As the movie played out I found myself completely taken aback by the plot. You see, these particular movie bad guys had hijacked a civilian airliner, a 747 - and were demanding that a fellow terrorist be released from U.S. custody, along with some gold, safe passage, etc. In actuality, though, their plan was to use the plane (which was filled with a nerve gas bomb) as an instrument of attack against Washington D.C. Their leader had planned it all as a suicide mission. Incidentally, his underlings, mostly, seemed to be in the dark about his intent as well...it was just plain spooky to watch after the events of last September.

I won't go into the entire plot, as it's mostly irrelevant - suffice it to say that Kurt and his crack team of commando buddies miraculously save the passengers and the city at the last possible second, as is par for the course for this type of movie, but it's amazing how differently this plays now than it must have when it was made. I realize I'm hardly the first person to point this out, in fact I seem to recall them talking about this on television back when the news of 9/11 was fresh and everyone was looking at it from every possible angle, trying to make sense of what had happened, but I'd never seen the film and it took me by surprise. Scenes that wouldn't have really affected me before (the terrorists shooting hostages, their leader kneeling on a prayer rug in anticipation of the fruition of his plan, the president trying to decide whether to shoot down the plane) suddenly took on a whole new meaning and I felt like I had an emotional investment in the picture. Even the ending felt weird and surreal, with Kurt driving off with the beautiful but brave heroine, everyone safe and sound. I've gone on enough about it, I guess, I would like to add one more thing, though.

Aside from all the cans-of-worms this movie opened up from an intellectual standpoint, there was one thing about it that was absolutely wonderful, pre- or post 9/11: Steven Segal gets killed off in the first twenty minutes. If only all his films were like that.

Where'd They Come Up With the Name Jethro Tull, Anyways?

A page detailing the way various bands came about their names. Regarding Mr. Tull - a lot of people still think that Jethro Tull is a solo singer, actually, the band's namesake was a british farmer in the 17th century who invented the precursor of the modern plow. Guess they just thought it sounded cool.

A neat little site I found by accident while playing Google Quiz.

Woo-hoo! I'm a high-class nerd now!

I got me one of them there usernames at Metafilter, or as we uptown with-it folks call it, "MeFi". It's a great site and I swipe a lot of the links on here from it. Actually, I was pretty glad about that username. When MeFi's membership started to skyrocket, before I began frequenting it, the folks running the show stopped new signups altogether for awhile. Then, eventually, they began to dole out a maximum twenty free signups a day.

Being an undesirable vagrant-type with no Paypal account I was kind of left out in the cold (you do have the option of kicking them a few bucks via the pal if you want to jump right in and get a membership regardless of the day's quota being filled). It was no huge thing but it always bugged me a little when I'd see a story I wanted to comment on and couldn't.

Anyhow, I knew if I persevered, one day I'd luck up and hit the Metafilter username lottery and finally, I did. So if there are any fans or members of the site out there, maybe we'll bump into one another on their message boards, I'm JimmyOlsen, of course :)

The Plane Facts

I've posted paper-airplane making sites before, this one looks pretty good, though - it even has a paper helicopter (above), as well as some other designs that look like they'd sail for ages - looks like a great excuse to grab some paper, take the kids outside and get some fresh air.

Nosepilot

This has to be the nicest Flash animation I've seen all year - a dreamy, Fantasia-esque cartoon set to jazz and 20's style torch-music. Two words of advice: When you start the movie, be sure to click on the word "anglais" in the guy's glasses, the other two links are a rant about his webspace provider and the same cartoon with all the lyrics sung in French (disregard this if you happen to be French, I guess). Also, it's pretty big, I'm on a 56k though and it streamed rather well up to a point - if it hangs after the first set of credits, just stick with it and it should be okay.

Anyways, some exceptionally nice Flash-work here and well worth a look-see.

Ten Thousandth Visitor Today!

Well, my sitemeter counter is on 9,999 - so I figure that, assuming the world doesn't blow up in the next five minutes or people stop searching for "nude+pics+amy fisher" or whatever - I'll have bypassed the ten-thousand mark by the time this post is finished. Probably at least fifty of those hits are mine, as I sometimes forget to ignore my ip address at sitemeter before I tend to my blog, but what the hell - it's still a crapload of visitors and I say it's time to break out the champagne and party hats. I started this blog back in November of 2001 and I'd never had a website that had more than maybe 40 visits or something, so to me 10,000 hits is kind of a big deal.

Hopefully over the course of the year I can improve on my traffic flow - with a little bit of luck. I never really thought that I'd still be posting to this thing when I first set it up at Blogger and these last couple months I suppose I haven't been quite as diligent about posting to it as I used to be - but I'm still here, plugging away and more than likely will be for quite some time.

Thanks to all my friends and regular readers for stopping by - there have been a lot of times I felt like just saying "forget it" but then someone would write me or leave a nice comment or something and give me incentive to keep on posting. I hope you'll continue to stop by my little blog and I promise - as long as you keep coming by, I'll keep doing my best to entertain you with more weird/zany/funny crap and my own semi-humorous ramblings. Seeya tomorrow and oh...whoever you were: visitor 10,000? Your new Corvette is in the mail.

(Let me be perfectly clear - that was a joke, just in case some jerk out there tries to sue me for a damn Corvette :P)

How's the Weather?

Well, I added a weather sticker to the site today. I know you're all obsessed with knowing what temperature it is here where in my city and I hate to deprive you. I've been seeing those weather pixies popping up everywhere on people's pages and I sort of liked the idea, but the weather pixies themselves struck me as a little sissified, so I had to look elsewhere.

To make a long story short, I went to wunderground.com and picked up the plain old boring text thing you see to your right and below the various links and stuff. It was super-easy to set up and If you'd like one for your own page you can get it here or by clicking the sticker below.

Wacky Gifts

Christmas is still 125 days away, but it's never too early to start thinking about that hard-to-shop-for person on your list. Wonderfully Wacky has some really off-the-wall items - from the "knight light" (pictured above), to big-ticket stuff like a high-performance bar stool that travels up to 22 mph - for the eccentric drunk on your list. Check your discerning taste at the door, please.

Frozen Cuisine for the Bachelor Gourmet

The Single Man's Guide to Frozen Dinners takes a look at the good, the bad and the inedible among the freezer section's offerings. Having eaten my share of frozen meals, I can vouch for the validity of a lot of this guy's research and I'm looking forward to trying out some of that Freschetta Pizza he was raving about.

Corpses for Sale!

Who knows why you'd want one, but if you ever need a fully-articulated, durable and reliable corpse this is the place to order them. They're not real corpses, of course - that'd be just plain weird.

Is That a Zygomatic Smile or Did You Think My Joke Sucked?

The Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs and Body Language Cues takes a look at the way your body and expressions can betray you as well as ways we are influenced by non-verbal sensory information. There's some really interesting things here:

"Today on NBC's Today Show Matt Lauer talked about how Madonna had lied to him about her announced pregnancy just the other day. He showed the video and her response, but he missed something to ponder about. She did what I call the eyelash flutter (different, under high speed camera, from the eye-blink: we can see that it does not close completely and the speed is amazing) when asked, 'Are you pregnant?' I first observed this eyelid behavior in 1985, and find that people who are troubled by a question or an event do this, especially if they have to answer and are about to lie. I tell attorneys to look for the eyelash flutter when they have people on the stand; it means they really do not like the question at all. I even had a case where the individual picked out the route of escape for me when I went through several routes with him; I just waited for the flutter to pick out the way." --Joe Navarro, Special Agent, FBI (3/21/00 7:02:26 PM Pacific Standard Time, and subsequent)

A lot of varied and intriguing discussion of everything from the effects of certain colors on people's mood to the reasons why people sometimes obsess over their lawns:

Damn, I poured my whole life into this lawn, my heart, my soul, the tender feelings I've held back from my family . . . . Look, some people hoist a flag to show they love their country. Well, my lawn is my flag. --Hank Hill, King of the Hill

Some very thought-provoking stuff.

Man's Best Best Friend

The Dog of the Day invites you to nominate your pup as the day's top canine companion. The Cat of the Day and Pet of the Day are also featured if you're not a canine fan.

They're Site is Really Good

Yes, I know I said "They're" instead of Their in that title - I'm not that lame, but I still felt it wouldn't hurt to sign up for the Daily Grammar Lesson.

I'm always agonizing over which words to capitalize and how to properly use commas and such. Hopefully, this will help and I'll be able to better serve the blog-reading public by dazzling them with my new-and-improved grasp of the English language soon.

Man Auctions Off His Own Bad Luck On eBay

Looks like this guy's desperate enough to try anything to change his run of bad luck:

My bad luck will have to be transfered to you but I dont know how, so I am up for suggestions! Please, serious bidders only as this is not a joke to me. I have tried everything, this is my last resort. Happy bidding!

I'm gonna pass on this one, I have enough of my own - granted, though, nowhere near as bad as his.

The Theban Mapping Project

A great repository of information about the mapping of the Valley of the Kings, with loads of articles, illustrations, timelines and interactive material. Be sure and check out the interactive Flash Atlas for movies and a 3D tour of the tombs - historical sites don't get any better than this one.

Reason 242,347,243 I Hate Not Having Broadband

This batch of award-winning 3D animations featured on TechTV's Eyedrops. While I did watch a couple in the blocky, choppy mess that passes for streaming video on a 56k modem connection, I imagine they're ten times better at 165 kpbs. Enjoy, cable-folks, you awful, horrible bandwidth suckers, you.

Sorry, about that - please overlook my bitterness and envy.

Awwwwww....

Just a silly little Flash movie about little, bitty, cute pets. Guess that pretty much says it all - my heart is warmed over here.

This Site Really Spooked Me Out

My Son Peter is the site of a man who claims that for the past eight years, his son Peter, who died at the age of four - along with Peter's mother - has been visiting him and more or less driving him crazy. I don't know what to think of this - whether it's a hoax or what. It definitely delivered a few goosebumps, though.

How Sad is This?

Santa Cruz's Deputy District Attorney is advocating the placing of stickers that proclaim "No Baby Dumping" on their dumpsters. What kind of world is it that such a thing would even be considered? I'll never get why these sorry excuses for human beings can't at least abandon their babies in a hospital waiting room or orphanage...would it really be that much trouble to take the extra five minutes to make sure their baby is taken care of? How many of these prime examples of wasted oxygen will go on to have more babies, as well? I'm guessing 90%.

Alright, that was my little bit of serious social commentary for the day - I don't really like to bring anyone down but good Lord, sometimes the news just really bugs the hell out of me and I have to get it off my chest.

By the Power of Grayskull - He-Man Returns!

Toonami is reviving the old He-Man and the Masters of the Universe cartoon series for the Cartoon Network. I know this is where most male bloggers would get all teary-eyed and start talking about how great the show was and recounting their many great memories of Skeletor and Castle Greyskull - but I won't.

Maybe it's because I'm 34 (a little older than your average blogger) and just missed the target-group that was snatching up the numerous toys and action-figures by a handful of years, but I never really cared for it.

To me, He-Man sort of represented the beginning of the end as far as quality television cartoons for children went. The cast and stories seemed to be hastily slapped together for the sole purpose of driving the He-Man-toys marketing machine. I know a lot of you spring chickens out there love the stuff, though - so here's the scoop on the new series and some nostalgia concerning the old one.

Say, What's That Around Your Neck? "It's Grandma!"

In an apparent move to one-up the Whammo toys creator's having his ashes put into a limited-edition run of Frisbees for family and friends, these folks will turn your dearly departed's carbon into a diamond.

Stan Lee - Dirty Old Man

Well, true believers, Legendary Marvel Comics creator Stan Lee will soon be unveiling his latest project, a new cartoon for TNN called Stripperella, modeled after and voiced by Pamela Anderson. Stan says the toon, which revolves around a stripper with superpowers (i.e., the ability to use her tongue to scan and fax things by licking them and lie-detecting breasts - yes, you read that right - lie-detecting breasts) is really "...a family show...but for a highly sophisticated family.'' 'Nuff said. Time for your medication, Stan.

(Who am I kidding? I'll be watching this crap...I'm shallow.)

Tanya Harding - Woman Behind Bars - Now Showing on Skinemax!

Tanya Harding arrived at the Clark County Jail in Washington yesterday, prepared to serve a ten day sentence for drinking while on her probation. Why am I bothering to post this? Well, mainly for the benefit of all the freaks who used to come here through Google via searches for things like "Tanya Harding + Naked + Pics". Yeah, I know, it boggles the mind, but it happens, day in, day out. Weirdest part is, I was never really that high up in the search results - so these dudes weren't idly checking on a whim, they were going through maybe twenty pages of results, scanning site after site, holding on to the hope that their somewhat pathetic dream of seeing America's most infamous Olympic trailer trash naked would come true.

The Internet is a scary, awful place sometimes and instead of fighting it, I'm just going to pander, pander, pander, my friends. So here's a little scrap for my Harding perv visitors - as well as anyone who likes to laugh at the troubled lives of hapless celebs. Hope you enjoy it.

By the way, check out the look of absolute glee on Tanya's face as she heads towards the jail. What's up with that, was she drunk when the picture was taken, as well?

Starlight, Starbright...

Really huge pics of galaxies and other celestial eye-candy from the Hubble Heritage Museum.

Space Rock

A funky little Flash game - try and avoid the asteroids and keep your spaceman from getting destroyed.

Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy

I've got a nagging feeling that I've posted this before, but what the heck, here it is again.

Phil's site points out all kinds of common misconceptions about astronomy as seen in the movies, on television and everyday life.

Actual Items

I don't watch as much as I used to, but Conan O'Brien's Late Night is probably my favorite talk/variety show and one of the bits he does that I always liked was his take-off of The Tonight Show standard where Jay takes real ads and personals from small-town newspapers and points out the funny or strange things about them.

Conan's version is called Actual Items and although they're decidedly bogus, they're pretty funny.

Conan used to have a really great site, with features like this and many others. Apparently NBC decided to get cheap on him, though and for awhile it was cut back to nothing but a short bio and a description of who was going to be on the show that night. At least they've brought back Actual Items and a couple other comedy features.