And if you did, too, you need to see it. Cheney gets an earful — in his own words — as he hems and haws in the aftermath of Katrina. On live TV.
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Complaining that his impending exit was a little tumultuous owing to the icky fact that people started leaving the party and/or calling for his head, Tony Blair weakly offered:
“I would have preferred to do this in my own way”
Well, last time you did things in your own way, it was called the Iraq [...]

Downtown Toronto has gone wireless. As of yesterday, Toronto Hydro is offering free wireless Internet access for six months throughout the downtown core. It’s the largest project of its kind in North America. Dig it.
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I’m not sure how or why, but my commenting is acting squirelly again. If you’re trying to leave one, stay tuned. I’ll have it fixed shortly.
UPDATE: The massively awesome folks at Laughing Squid have resolved this problem, which, as it turns out, was of the id10t/PICNIC variety on my part. Comment away.

Mobile phones now contain cameras, MP3 players, GPS units, video games and more. Generally, however, you don’t go a week without a dropped call, regardless of what carrier you’re with (and believe me, I’ve had ‘em all).
It’s probably for that reason that the Mobile Phone Throwing Championship was born. This year’s winner chucked a phone [...]

A dentist in Indiana has figured out a way to put gold teeth on a cat — in this case, a Persian named Sebastian.

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Or was that 1899?
Stupid historical perspective. Always getting in the way of yet another gold rush.
CNN reports that an assortment of venture capitalists are ponying up a collective $100 million on some ideas that they’re sure will be winners.
Some examples:
The Ultimate iDrive: A driver’s tech fantasy fully realized: an in-dash computer with a keyboard built [...]

Working my butt off today, so I haven’t had any time to post anything.
I did, as part of my workday, find a pretty cool site, adclassix, which is a treasure trove of classic print ads. Not the prettiest site I’ve ever seen, and no thumbnails, either. But if you’ve got time to waste, it’s a [...]

Max Mayfield, Director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center, says Katrina was just a spit and a cough.
A tireless advocate for hurricane preparedness, he suggests that it’s only a matter of time before the big one — the really big one — makes landfall.
The difficulty, of course, lies in the way coastal real estate development [...]

I found this again the other day. Possibly the stupidest and most homoerotically charged fight scene in cinematic history.

It’s incomprehensible that this thing was ever greenlighted by someone with money. But then, when Rob Schneider can have a career, I guess anything can happen. Cue the winged pigs.
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