Archive for April, 2006

Lousy Photo Opportunity t-shirt

My president went to New Orleans and all he got was this lousy photo opportunity.

Technorati Tags: Bush, George Bush, New Orleans

Taking drugs into a courthouse - nice move!

A 16-year-old girl was arrested in Valparaiso, Ind., walking through a security checkpoint with marijuana and cocaine after the metal detector went off. She told the police that she was holding the drugs for her boyfriend.
Link from: DumbCriminals.com

Trying comments without moderation

Since I upgraded to WP2 and it installs the Akismet spam filter I’m going to try turning off moderation by default and see how well it does.

Finally upgraded to WordPress 2.02, and added tell-a-friend while I was at it

Several months after it came out I finally got around to upgrading to WordPress version 2. In the process I also added a tell-a-friend script that will let you email postings to friends of yours.

Bad for Easter bunnies in New Zealand

It’s the 15th Great Easter Bunny Hunt. And no, they’re not looking for eggs. 400+ hunters are converging in a small town in New Zealand to help curb the rabbit population. It seems that rabbits are a pest in that part of NZ.
Last year over 500 hunters killed over 21,000 rabbits during [...]

Playboy with no nudity?

It sounds like they’re just trying to use the Playboy brand to sell magazines in Indonesia. But they certainly are getting publicity. Protestors have taken to the streets against Playboy publishing an Indonesian version. The strong Muslim community is against the magazine, even the fully clothed version published specifically for Indonesia. [...]

Jesus walked on ice?

A Florida State researcher, Doron Nof, has published that a rare ice patch could account for the story of Jesus walking on water. The theory is that every 12,000 years or so the conditions are just right for ice to form in northern Israel, and Jesus was actually standing on one of these patches [...]