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Groom Killed By Stripper's Boobs
A fun-filled bachelor party at a strip club turned deadly when a 32-year-old groom-to-be who was enjoying the attentions of a well-endowed stripper suffocated while his face was buried in her breasts....

...the stripper, Kandy Kane, got too into her performance and suffocated the man between her 72-DD breasts....

...Kandy Kane made a statement through her attorneys: "I thought he liked it in there....[Yahoo News]

...ROTFL...most men would dream of dieing that way...I alnost wet my pants...mj
11:10:40 PM    


AT&T Broadband screws customers
In the first deal of its kind, AT&T Broadband announced a partnership with Linksys last week to offer home networking gear as part of its US$45-per-month cable service. AT&T Broadband customers choose from among designated Linksys wired and wireless gear offered at its site, then pay AT&T Broadband $4.95 per month to network two computers and an additional $4.95 per month for each additional PC [MacCentral]

...this sucks! Why should I have to pay for something that I already have. It works, and it has worked since I set it up 18 months ago. Instead I get to pay for lousy service and line ATT's pockets for something that has worked for free. Most of the time I have two machines on the home network, sometimes three machines. So I have to pay at least $10 and possibly &15 more per month. Of course what choice do I have? QWorst has gone and forced all of their customers to use M$N. Last time I checked though I had no choice -- no DSL at my house. Ahhh, the joy of Monopoly!...mj
10:02:31 PM    


Better Living Through Chemicals
Trial got under way in January in which residents of Anniston, Ala., are suing for compensation for Monsanto's (and its corporate successor, Solutia Inc.) routinely having dumped deadly PCBs into the ground and local rivers for 15 years after it knew, from the company's own research, that the pollution was so deadly that fish in the rivers died bloody deaths 10 seconds after initial exposure to the water. According to documents from a chemical-safety organization and published in The Washington Post, Monsanto and its executives actively hid the dangers from its factory's neighbors while also dumping millions of pounds of PCBs into oozing open-pit landfills. (Monsanto no longer produces chemicals but does make genetically engineered food, which, it assures consumers and the government, is totally safe for human consumption.) [Washington Post, 1-1-02]

...this is not a corporate good citizen story...combine this with Enron and you get a pretty ugly story of corporate lies and abuse...mj
4:43:32 PM    


What Is An "UNLAWFUL COMBATANT"
The Status Of Detained Al Qaeda And Taliban Fighters [FindLaw's Writ]

...a great piece that looks at the issues around the status of the prisoners and why it matters...mj
3:37:36 PM    


Bush's niece on drugs
Noelle Bush, the daughter of Florida Governor Jeb Bush and niece of President George W Bush, has been arrested for allegedly trying to obtain a controlled drug with a fraudulent prescription. [BBC News]

...let's see...Bush's daughters using false ID to buy booze...the president has a 'denied' history of coke snorting...now this story...so much for the republican moral high-ground...mj
11:51:28 AM    


Tech Downturn Doesn't Slow H-1B Visas
U.S. demand for visas to hire skilled foreign workers rose last year despite an economic downturn that prompted companies in various industries to lay off more than 1 million workers.

U.S. companies and other groups applied for 342,035 H-1B work visas in 2001, up 14 percent from 2000...[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]

...there is something really messed up going on here...mj
11:43:26 AM    


No Surprise...N2H2 Sucks!
A tip from a reader, a popular Web filter called N2H2 classifies all of ManilaSites.Com as pornography. Screen shot [Scripting News]

...not a surprise since N2H2 is on weak legs. They provide screening software for schools and government agencies. The only thing keeping them alive are a few contracts they hold. The stock is at $.42, and they reported a "Pro forma" net loss for the quarter loss of $510,000. Of course the real loss was much higher - revenue $2.89 million, expenses $4.6 million...you do the math.

These twits used to have live people supplementing the software screening tool they created. Now they pretty much only have the software since they laid off most of the company. You have to love company-speak: "streamlining and redirecting staff, writing off assets, and implementing cost control measures."

What that means is they laid off most everyone, had a grage sale of equipment, wrote off many of the stupid purchases they made and changed coffee vendors...get real, just another dotbomb...mj
11:36:12 AM    


Sucking Vacuum
If you have not seen the Art of Greg Martin, then you do not know what you have been missing. His lyrical space art takes you place you could only dream of going. Makes be want to be an astronaut when I grow up...mj

10:50:08 AM    

Unknown Legend
She used to work in a diner
Never saw a woman look finer
I used to order just to watch her float across the floor...
Neil Young, 'Harvest Moon' 1992

...poetry in words...images that stay in my mind...mj
10:48:19 AM    


College freshmen lean to left
Survey describes students as most liberal since '70s

More college freshmen today describe themselves as politically liberal than at any time since the Vietnam War, a nationwide survey by researchers at the University of California-Los Angeles indicates. [Arizona Republic]

...perhaps it is getting better...since 1980 this country has been dominated by a Republican agenda...it's about time for a change...mj
7:57:35 AM    


Mark 8:36
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?

...i am not a christian...i am a deist [a posting for another day]...still it's a great verse...says a lot about ethics and values...what matters in life...money will not buy you a soul...mj
7:56:32 AM    


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