A gang of clowns rob a Manchester wine bar, getting away despite three accidents en route. Probably wouldn’t normally blog this if I didn’t currently have Grand Theft Auto III (which I borrowed from my sister over the weekend) on the brain. (Via Triptych Cryptic.)
Category: Culture
My Buddy.
Surfers go ga-ga over their IM buddy-bots.
Fighting for Forgiveness.
In an inspiring condemnation of the death penalty, Ross Byrd, the son of James Byrd Jr., struggles to save the life of the white supremacist who dragged his father to death.
Blame Business Casual.
Robin Givhan of the Post blames the recent corporate scandals on Dress-Down Fridays. Somehow, I don’t think most of these guys would be any more straight-laced in a power tie.
Oh, shut up already.
Normally, I just stay out of the computer wars, since (a) Mac people tend to be so vehemently evangelical and since (b) – even though I’ve been using ’em since my dad bought a TRS-80 back in the day (on which I used to play the hell out of a game called “Sword of Zedek,” which for some reason I can’t find anything on the web about )- I’ve never been much more than a moderately informed user (which, in blog circles, makes me ridiculously uninformed.) That being said, every time I catch one of these annoying new Apple ads, I become ever deeper entrenched in my fondness for PC’s. “Using my PC was like being stuck in a bad relationship?” Please. Like I want to wait an extra eighteen months for new games to get a Mac port.
While I did have an Apple IIc as a kid (Mmmm…”Old Ironsides,”) I didn’t really use Macs until I was forced to in high school and, to cut to the quick, I thought they were crappity crap. When a PC goes down, even a rudimentary user like myself can try to ascertain the problem in DOS. When a Mac went down…well, you were stuck looking at that stupid icon. It’s a glorified calculator. It’s no doubt true that the Windows OS is and has been a complete facsimile of the Macintosh, but I’m kinda hoping we move past GUI’s eventually. Ok, I’ve probably betrayed my ignorance a few times over in this post already, so I’ll close it up. Suffice to say, those Apple ads irk me to no end.
Bottles and Can’ts.
New York City rolls back its recycling program, meaning not only less recycling (of course) but less cash opportunities for the bottle-collecting homeless. Bad call. Hopefully, most of us will keep the bottle bags going.
Kinder Traffik.
Kinder eggs are illegal? I didn’t know that…I used to love ’em growing up. All I know is you have to expect a certain amount of risk in life, and any kid who isn’t old enough to figure out the score shouldn’t be eating that much chocolate anyway. (Via MikeL.)
Loan Relief.
The economy may be going sour and there’s fewer jobs to be had, but there is some good news on the horizon for Generation Y. College loan interest rates will hit record lows at the end of the month.
Cooking the books.
Martha Stewart, ImClone insider trader.
Soldiering On.
A report from the Sixth Annual Webby Awards.