2002

Ben Curtis Fansite – He has shown a lot of potiental as an entertainer. He is witty and charasmatic. Very agile and can't wait to see him in bigger and better work. He certainly has his career cut out for him and defiently [sic] has a future.

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Yo, this one goes out to all you punk
b*tches who think the Hawkman is soft
just because I'm wicked smart.
Listen up, I got something to say.
Straight out of Oxford a crazy motherf*cker named Hawking.
When I be rocking the mic you be gawking
at me 'cause I'm a bad mama-jamma,
you wanna lock me up put my ass in the slamma.
But f*ck that sh*t 'cause no jail can hold me,
you can't even catch me – much less control me.
So, if you see me coming you better duck,
'cause Stephen Hawking is crazy as f*ck.

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The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class.
City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong.
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%.
Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%.
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33 (99-58-83).
Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7.
Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%.
Percentage of American women who say they'd marry the same man: 50%.

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Why is Moxy Fruvous one of my favorite bands? Yeah, they ROCK! A few months ago, they started releasing songs about their fans (the Fruheads). How cool is that? Yeah, I'm supremely jealous. Chad Maloney, Zard Snodgrass, Heather Rolph, Jason Reiser, Chris O'Malley, Krista Ortgiesen, and some 24 others (a new one is being released each month). “Huge on the Luge” is destined to become a classic, too. These MP3s belong in your collection. If they ever get to San Francisco, I'm going to pull them onto my show – come hell or high water. Any other Fruheads out there?

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What's better than stinkfish bowels? Gretchen's orange chicken. Well, it didn't start out that way. She made this nice glaze (substituting fructose for honey). Yeah, I replaced most of it with peanut butter, but it was tasty nonetheless. The television was tuned into CNN in the background. Some Shiite Dingleberry was going off on Internet addiction. Turns out the only cure is to do a little whacker shellacking. How is that done? I have no idea. If you don't know either, perhaps you should ask a deoxyribonucleic fruitbat. And if it doesn't know, then we're all in trouble. Time for dessert!

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The Net. Arguably, one of the stupidest “technology” films ever released. Not even Sandra could save this one. Premise strong, execution lame. I can't stand movie-made GUIs – especially when they're trying to emulate real-world machines. I could probably make a good living as a Hollywood “tech” consultant. Beats the heck out of flipping burgers, I suppose. Perhaps I'll give that a shot one of these days. Consulting, not serving up fries.

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Intel Expected to Cut Pentium 4 Prices Over Weekend – Northwood is the code name for Santa Clara, California-based Intel's newest Pentium 4 chip, in which some of the dimensions are as small as 0.13 microns. By comparison, a human hair is about 50 microns wide. By moving to smaller line widths, Intel is able to put 55 million transistors on a single chip, and it has said it gets about twice as many chips per wafer on the 0.13 micron manufacturing process than with the 0.18 micron process.

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Turning Macs on Thievery. Stolen computers are notoriously difficult to recover. But a Houston man cleverly found his sister's stolen iMac using remote control software, friends on the Net, luck and brains.

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Factoid: A piece of unverified or inaccurate information that is presented in the press as factual, often as part of a publicity effort, and that is then accepted as true because of frequent repetition.

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10.0.4 Available. OS X 10.0.4 is available in Software Update. Here are the release notes: Improvements for USB devices, including additional external device support for iTunes CD burning. Improved battery life for many PowerBook G3 systems. Improved Classic compatibility. Security updates to OpenSSH and `sudo' services. Support for the new active-matrix 17-inch Apple Studio Display.

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It is impossible to lick your elbow.
A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
A shrimp's heart is in their head.
People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart
stops for a mili-second.
In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a
single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do so – apart from Bones).
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti
especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta
swastikas.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a
telephone call.
Rats and horses can't vomit.
The “sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick” is said to be the toughest tongue
twister in the English language.
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a
sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you
keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million
descendants.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by
700 times.
If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section
1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it
illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their
vehicles?
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already
married.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them
and photocopying their buttocks.
In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Cat's urine glows under a black-light.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.

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I have to disagree with you (and in doing so, come to Gretchen's defense). A neatly stacked pile of coasters is only ready to hold one drink in a somewhat elevated position (a precarious and possibly dangerous setting, depending on the drink involved). On the other hand, if the coasters are conveniently arranged in a variety of positions in easy reach of sitting areas, then they are instantly ready to safely accept your beverage of choice with no wasted movement. The key is to pick coasters in neutral colors, as I see by the video you have done. This allows them to be at home in any surrounding on any surface. Only coasters in hideous neon colors need to relegated to tidy stacks in the corner, out of eyesight.

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I was amazed when I read the article about AOL suing Microsoft. Netscape shot itself in the foot, and they sue Microsoft… Joel Spolsky wrote a lot about netscape a couple of years ago… here are two articles and a quote from an insider: “Things you should never do” and “Netscape goes bonkers.” (Dennis Rivard)

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Well, it doesn't take a math major to figure out that even a few warez
users can suck up a full T-1 quickly. 1.55Mbps divided by 256Kbps upload
speed = 6 users and a full T-1 is exhausted. Now, Waterloo alone has
some 3000+ subscribers on the cable modem system, and I can guarantee
that at any given time there are at least a dozen (likely many more)
people running some sort of file sharing software, which doesn't simply
include the “serious” ones. It's the 14 year olds that are running this
software by the dozen. I personally know 3 people that leave WinMX
running constantly. The cap here is 128Kbps, so there's a minimum of
384Kbps of total bandwidth gone, every second of the day. Nobody else
can ever use it. Doesn't sound like much, but when you start adding all
of this up, you start getting into large numbers fairly quickly.

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Why Did Apple's iBook Have To Grow Up?. I'm a happy user of Apple's iBook line and recently had the opportunity to look at the new 14″ iBook at my local Apple retailer. But I left the store scratching my head and wondering why the design broke away from its ideal form factor. [osOpinion]

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