If you have some free time and want to see how much of the world’s geography you really know, then head on over to the The Traveler IQ Challenge and test yourself. I’ve already clocked in about 30 minutes of wasted time. I need to go waste more because I can’t seem to get past [...]
Over at Releaselog, there’s a blurb about the movie, Man From Earth. The producer sent along a nice little email about how thankful he was that piracy, in particular bitorrent, was raising awareness and sales of the movie. Our independent movie had next to no advertising budget and very little going for it until somebody [...]
We all know what a great actor William Shatner is. Now, however, he has some pretty good competition from David Caruso. While I have professed my disdain for Caruso and CSI: Miami, nothing quite captures the essence of my hatred like reddit. Sure, the post is two months old, but I still get a laugh [...]
In a grand act of stupidity, NYU students have said they’d give up their right to vote in next year’s elections of they had free tuition, a million dollars, or an iPod. Two-thirds say they’ll do it for a year’s tuition. Only 20 percent said they’d exchange their vote for an iPod touch…And half said [...]
Schools all over the world are banning fun activities in their attempts to eliminate “sexual behavior.” One girl was given detention for hugging. Just last week, a school in Illinois disciplined a student for the very same thing and a Texas student got in trouble for holding hands with a friend. In 2005, New Zealand students [...]
Despite the fact that New York’s Governor, Elliot Spitzer, claimed that driver’s licenses were the best thing next to sliced bread, he has caved into pressure and will not be pursuing his original goal of getting all illegals in his state driver’s licenses. Spitzer said he was giving up because he had concluded that “New [...]
In 2001, many people watched as the Taliban destroyed the gigantic statues of Buddha in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. World leaders condemned the attacks and people offered their support. This past week, however, militants in Pakistan attacked another important statue of Buddha. In northwest Pakistan’s Swat valley, armed Islamist militants recently attacked one of the oldest and [...]
Despite Governor Spitzer’s deal with the Department of Homeland Security, most people in New York are angered over his proposal of giving illegal aliens driver’s licenses. Proponents of the deal say that this will make pedestrians safer. Exactly how is this possible? It is relatively easy to pass the driver’s exam and having a license [...]
When the New York Mets blew the season last month, many fans were upset, though not surprised, that it happened. The Mets hadn’t played well and, often, appeared as if they were mailing it in. Fans, however, became extremely angry when Tom Glavine decided to add his views on the matter. After a dismal September [...]
As if it wasn’t bad enough to have a jacket that can track your child’s every movement, parents now think it’s a great idea to put RFID chips in their children’s school uniforms so they can keep track of them even when they’ve taken off their nifty Blade Runner jackets. Clare Rix, the marketing director, [...]
