January 2001

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    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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    “Twisted” author tells his story The teenage boy charged with uttering death threats tells his story in his own words.

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    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…

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    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…

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    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!

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    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,…

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    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…

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