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Month: January 2001

Google knows all… Check it out for yourself – go to google.com, search for dumb motherfucker and see whose site comes up first.

NOTE: link no longer works – silly google fixed it – at the time of the post, if you did a search for ‘dumb motherfucker’ in google, the first page returned would be a George W. Bush site. Ok- infantile humour, yes – but funny nonetheless…

BlogVoices is gone… We barely even got a chance to use it… I know a lot of people really liked BlogVoices – it will be missed. So, no more comments for us – at least until Blogger Pro! In other Blog By Night news, if you look over to your left, you will see our Brand Spankin’ New® Search box – now you can search our archives for whatever your little heart desires. (powered by atomz.com)

Silly Patent – Apparently a company in Orrville, Ohio owns the patent for PB&J with the crusts cut off. And they’re enforcing it. U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Patent No. 6,004,596: “The sandwich includes a lower bread portion, an upper bread portion, an upper filling and a lower filling between the lower and upper bread portions, a center filling sealed between the upper and lower fillings…The upper and lower fillings are preferably comprised of peanut butter and the center filling is comprised of at least jelly. The center filling is prevented from radiating outwardly and into and through the bread portions from the surrounding peanut butter.”

Freaky Friday banned? This children’s book, published nearly 30 years ago, has been pulled from the library shelves of Hernando County’s schools based on a parent’s complaint about its content. I never read the book, but I used to love the movie. Apparently the parents’ complaint came in the form of two pages of objections mostly concerning references to drinking and smoking or characters who take God’s name in vain. Most worrisome was a passage where the girl in the story, in her mother’s body, describes her principal as he pulled out “the long nails and fangs” during a parent conference. “The hands were clasped together with index fingers tapping (this is the church, and this is the steeple, open the doors and kill all the people.)” According to the parent’s complaint, this sentence teaches children to kill. HUH? Some people have way too much bloddy time on their hands – it’s fucking Freaky Friday for christsakes!!! The American Library Association has a list of The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books – Freaky Friday has never been anywhere near it!

Anti-drug cop dies of an overdose Constable Barry Schneider, a 23-year veteran of the RCMP and a respected drug awareness co-ordinator for Vancouver Island, was found dead in his home with a lethal concentration of heroin and cocaine in his veins. “He was a cop. A drug cop. But there he was, in blue jeans and an open shirt, talking to a roomful of kids about marijuana, cocaine and heroin as if he were just an ordinary guy — who knew a lot about drugs.” (thanks romenesko)

Parenting 101 #1: Why would you treat your son that way? #2: Why would you write about it and let the whole world know how much of a jerk you are! Sure the kid’s probably got some problems – but what kid growing up these days doesn’t? I’m not sure how old he is, but he sounds like just about every other 18-24 year old I know. Dad’s gotta lighten up – I don’t think he realizes that he’s part of the problem… oh wait – he’s a Baptist minister- it all makes sense now…

A Guide to MRML That’s right – Mind Reading Markup Language. These tags can be embedded in any HTML document and are completely invisible to all browsers. No one will know that you have planted hypnotic suggestions while they were browsing your site!

IT may not be all IT’s cracked up to be Dean Kamen, inventor of IT (codenamed Ginger), has stepped forward to dispell some of the rumours surrounding his latest invention. The “proposal quoted several prominent technology leaders out of context, without their doubts, risks and maybes included. This, together with spirited speculation about the unknown, has lead to expectations that are beyond whimsical.” Kamen says the project has promise, “but nothing of the earth shattering nature that people are conjuring up.” Oh well.

Third-grader suspended for bringing gun-shaped medallion to school This kid finds a little 1-inch-long gun-shaped medallion in the snowbank on the way to school and brings it in with him. The medallion had no hole where the barrel would be and posed no threat to students. It looked like a charm for a necklace. The boy never pointed the item or threatened anyone with it. He has been suspended.