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Entries from December 2002

Prisoners fight over pet spider, skull bashed in

December 19th, 2002 · No Comments

Spyder’s SpiderA prisoner at the Charlotte Correctional Institue who accused two other prisoners of stealing his pet spider got his skull fractured by the accused. I wonder what inmates would name a pet spider? Today, my vote would be for…

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Radio Free Software

December 19th, 2002 · No Comments

Radio Free Software This type of stuff will make things really fun in the future. I’m the process of looking for a PocketPC device that I can get Bluetooth, GPS, and 802.11 going at the same time. If all it…

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Ex-Olympic gymnasts banned for appearing in adult movie

December 19th, 2002 · No Comments

They performed gymnastic routines naked on apparatus such as the beam, for the film which was broadcast by a private cable network. [via Ananova: Quirkies] Ananova’s coming through with all sorts of good stuff today….

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Tags: Life · Sport

Bookmakers draw up odds for crazy betting

December 19th, 2002 · No Comments

Crazy odds for the New Year. These are almost as fun as the Super Bowl bets. I’d be willing to bet $10 on Jacko’s full head transplant. [via Ananova: Quirkies]…

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LibraryLookup: Good use of web services. Some lib …

December 12th, 2002 · No Comments

LibraryLookup I’m a big fan of bookmarkletsand John Udell has come up with a really useful idea, to check the local libraries from the listings of Amazon, BN, etc. Unfortunately, the Free Library of Philadelphiawasn’t in the listing, so I…

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Report: Silicon Valley Insiders Profited

December 8th, 2002 · No Comments

In depth analysis by the San Jose Mercury News, executives at Silicon Valley companies that lost most of their value during the dot-com bust made billions of dollars when they sold their stock. In other news, bears do indeed like…

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Email that won’t travel more than 500 miles

December 8th, 2002 · No Comments

This is pretty great. For every human problem there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong. – H.L. Mencken “And I was fairly certain I hadn’t enabled the ‘FAIL_MAIL_OVER_500_MILES’ option.” [via Boing Boing]…

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