From an article in Spin about Jack Black: “At the end of October, Epic will release a lavish Tenacious D DVD set that he promises will be ‘nut draining’ (sorry ladies), compiling all six episodes from the group’s eponymous 1999 HBO series. In April 2004, he’ll costar with Ben Stiller in the big screen comedy […]

Lest anybody think that OCLC suing the Library Hotel is silly, keep in mind that it’s a trademark issue, and if they don’t sue, they lose the trademark. Also, the story linked above gives a mistaken impression: OCLC wasn’t looking for money from the hotel; they just needed a licensing agreement in hand to protect […]

Do you want cheeseburger fries with that? Try as I might (and those who know me know that this is exactly the sort of thing I love to eat), I can’t make it sound good. I mean, I’ll try it, of course, but right now I can’t imagine enjoying it.

In addition to Bull the Dog, the City of Pullman and the Palouse historical pictures archives has great pictures of floods. Select “Floods” from the predefined search list to see some amazing flooding, including one picture that notes that you can judge the depth by the water level coming up to the knees of a […]

The Dixie Chicks "don’t feel part of the country scene any longer," and "now consider ourselves part of the big Rock ‘n’ Roll family." I didn’t know it worked that way. Are they going to stop recording country music? Will anyone care? I admire them for their willingness to speak their minds, and I don’t […]

The Loebner Prize is an anuual Turing test. The BBC tells us mostly about the only UK finalist, Jabberwacky, whose purely adaptive methodology is unique in this year’s field: "Nothing is hard-coded, nothing is fixed, and it changes slightly, on its own, every day. Jabberwacky doesn’t have just one personality, and to a reasonable degree, […]

It’s cheesy, and not as funny as I might like, but this tribute to everybody’s favorite thrilling desert experience does seem to capture the essentials.

Slated for a November relase, Let It Be…Naked. Removes the Phil Spector touches, which apparently Paul always hated. In other bad Spector news, police have decided that he was responsible for shooting that woman in February. Oh, yeah. Arr, matey. Avast and whatnot.

Okay, so anonymous sex in public places is risky. Got it. But how cool is England, where people engaged in it are ‘committing no offence unless they are witnessed by a member of the public who can be defined as “outraged” in the eyes of the law.’ I have no idea (and I’m the least […]

In the nick of time, Operation Infinite Purity. I hadn’t realized whitehouse.org was still around, or I would have checked it out sooner. It seems to be from the same batch (or at least an indistinguishable batch) of jokers as Landover Baptist and the ever-so-slightly subtler Objective Ministries. These guys clearly have a lot of […]