Slashdot about to sink to new lows
Large format ads are coming to Slashdot. You know, the kind you get when you're reading Zdnet? The kind that take up half the page? And of course, you can PAY to get rid of the ads if you want, $5/1000 page views.
Best Slashdot comment? (No, I will not visit your motherfucking sponsor. If you're not in it for the love, and you can't figure out any better way to pay for your site than by slapping some ugly, corrupted banner across the top of your pathetic work, then fucking close up shop, kill yourself, and leave the Web to non-polluters).

Googlebot
While I don't agree with the author's vision of Google's future, this is too funny to miss

Jack Valenti still full of shit
Runny, brown, smelly shit. Check out this Register article about a recent letter to the editor of the Washington Post from him. (Jack Valenti is the president of the Motion Picture Association of America)
Update:Timothy over at slashdot must have seen my post, because there's an article about this on slashdot now.

Prove it!
In an amazing turnaround, the judge in the Napster lawsuit has asked the music companies suing Napster to prove THEY own the copyrights to the music they sell, and prove those copyrights weren't used to monopolize and stifle the distribution of digital music. The judge showed definite disdain for the RIAA & it's members. I think this is just starting to get interesting.

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Best.. Olympics.. Ever
WOOOO CANADA WON!!!!!!

2-1 Canada...

Go Canada Go!!!!!
Well, the game is just starting. And, no offense to my American relatives, but we are going to kick your pasty white asses!

Pink hair baaaad
Morons.org has a link to a BBC article about a school in Suffolk who changed a girl's hair from pink to brown in her yearbook photo. The teacher says "fundamentally pink hair is not acceptable at Northgate", and "The school had high standards, which he intended to maintain": apparently this doesn't apply to doctoring photos and not letting the submjects of those photos know.
Also, note the english spelling of 'colour', which I find funny for some totally irrational reason.

Bush nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Bush, the President that is, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Apparently some people failed to notice the WAR he's fighting in Afghanistan? (war!=peace)

Cool
Wal-Mart is going to start selling OS'less PC's. Let's see how long before Microsoft sues them, because of course, what else would you do with an OS'less PC than load a pirated version of Windows? Surely not load Linux?

Nine seconds
BBC Has an article on how the web is affecting your concentration, changing your attention span to that of a goldfish- nine seconds. It looks like a good article, unfortunatley, I only read the first two articles before getting bored with it...

Nolan Curtis - Bitter Tech Support Advisor
Cool 'article' on Bbspot but you probably have to work in tech support to get the full effect of it. I love the warning: *Warning: Toxic Levels of Sarcasm*

Tea Room in space
Japan plans to build a 13 square foot tea room for the International Space Station, which they hope to launch in the Kibo laboratory module, which is scheduled to be launched in 2004. The only problem they haven't figured out is how to drink boiling hot tea in a Zero-G environment.

Open Source Developer Stoned for Praising .NET
This is a JOKE, but it's quite funny