Andy's page o' links: 06/01/2004

Wednesday, June 30, 2004

Very neat US map outlining what the most common soft drink generic name is by region. Very interesting the trends, almost the whole South is Coke, while the whole Great Plains and Midwest is Pop

http://www.popvssoda.com/countystats/total-county.html

Dude selling his Pimp my Ride car on eBay, I bet MTV is pissed

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=2482965800&category=6400

Dumbass kid tries to blackmail Playboy. Hey kids, if you are going to try and blackmail a very large international corporation, don't use your home email and deposit money they give you in your regular bank account

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/06/29/nhack29.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/06/29/ixportal.html

Sen. Clinton said. "We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

Please take my money away, yeeeaaaaa!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/06/28/politics2039EDT0165.DTL&type=printable

Tuesday, June 29, 2004

Teenage male student rats out hot female teacher that he is having sex with. I know this is a crime and all, but what a dumbass kid.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0628042teach1.html

And some extra pics (I can't believe her wedding pics are on the net)

http://www.mjmorningshow.com/morning_DebraPics.html

http://www.mjmorningshow.com/morning_DebraPics2.html

Leeches now approved for medicinal use, as we digress back to 200 year old medical techniques.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5319129/

Cell phone companies putting fake "taxes" on people's bills? Just one more reason for me to not like T-mobile

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4972632/

Worlds 50 highest paid athletes, dang they make a lot of money:

http://www.forbes.com/work/forbes/2004/0705/093tab.html

Monday, June 28, 2004

This is pure awesome, how cool is this guy?

http://www.cp-tel.net/pasqualy/hole/page1.html

Friendly Dog Thwarts Killing Spree (from Ginger)

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,123882,00.html

Well somehow the code for my old page got erased, so I am rebuilding it from scratch. Bear with me on the format, but links are still here and will be updated as usual.

-Andy

Friday, June 25, 2004

New cast member in Star Wars Ep. 3:

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=108736002&p=yx87367x8

Cheney uses the F-word in the Senate...haha

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5289848/

Thursday, June 24, 2004

Fun game, my fastest time was .1820 sec (besides when I got .0980 one time, but I think that was a fluke). Can you beat me?

http://www.exploratorium.edu/baseball/reactiontime.html

Great story about some kids who refused to open the door for cops trying to bust their party

http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/crimelaw/features/9269/index.html

Health benefits to drinking beer:

http://www.doubleagent.com/show_briefing.php?briefing_id=95

Man wins over $500,000 in Jeopardy...must be nice

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/06/23/national1927EDT0738.DTL

Wednesday, June 23, 2004

Lightning hits 19 people at once...sweet

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5268499/

Interesting article about counterfeiting US dollars in N. Korea

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/3819345.stm

Tuesday, June 22, 2004

First manned private space flight a success:

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/SS1_touchdown_040621.html

Pretty funny, "17 Things Women Love, But Men Hate"

http://www.askmen.com/fashion/austin_60/98_fashion_style.html

Monday, June 21, 2004

Sunken boat raised by ping pong balls:

http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/8954923.htm

Wow, if this new law is passed say goodbye to: Online file sharing, VCRs, CD recorders, DVD recorders, TiVo...damn

http://news.com.com/Antipiracy+bill+targets+technology/2100-1028_3-5238140.html?part=rss&tag=5238140&subj=news.1028.20

Friday, June 18, 2004

Madonna changes her name?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5234922/

Jeopardy contestant wins 11th consecutive show, nice...

http://nypost.com/entertainment/23172.htm

Meteor the size of a house hits Australia, yet they can't find it?

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9869458^421,00.html

Mel Gibson named most powerful celebrity of 2004 (from James)

Link

Thursday, June 17, 2004

John Kerry is serving the fine people of Massachusetts by missing 88 percent of Senate votes

http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/23111.htm

I could have sworn it was Atlanta, GA

El Paso, Texas Named Sweatiest U.S. City

Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Interesting story I got from Ginger:

http://www.gwinnettdailyonline.com/GDP/archive/article104BF93DC82E41CB8D2181491D825B09.asp

Scariest truck cargo ever...

http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040615_2158.html

Tuesday, June 15, 2004

The next hot book, move over Da Vinci Code:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595094724/ref%253Dase%255FfadetoblackonlinA/002-5493498-6135249

Army unveils new uniform

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/army_new_uniform

Monday, June 14, 2004

Holy crap, police find 13 illegal snakes in a condo, including a 15 foot python.

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/nation/8893597.htm

Great...

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/06/11/wkor11.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/06/11/ixworld.html

Watch your bank accounts folks:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5184077/

Friday, June 11, 2004

Quotes from leaders around the world about Reagan. Farewell to a great American, farewell Gipper.

http://www.presidentreagan.info/tributes.cfm

Funny and weird flash site (with sound)

http://www.gorkhouse.com/shakethatass.html

Interesting story, What would you do?

http://www.mlive.com/news/grpress/index.ssf?/base/news-15/1086880613103820.xml

Thursday, June 10, 2004

Woot! I finally figured this game out that I posted a couple of weeks ago. No I haven't been working on it the whole time. I bet total it took me about an hour and a half to get it.

http://personal.baker.edu/web2/cdavis09/roses.html#instructions

Here's a little more detailed article about the game and Bill Gates trying to figure it out:

http://member.melbpc.org.au/~lborrett/computing/petals-bg.htm

Pretty funny

http://www.collegehumor.com/?pg=victorias

Good job Pentagon, way to be on top of things

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/08/wasted.flights.ap/index.html/

Funny column about poker

Dave Barry

Wednesday, June 09, 2004

Creed breaks up. I'm sure some of you love this

http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1488149/20040603/creed.jhtml?headlines=true&_requestid=345929

Weird site that can read your mind. Pretty neat

http://digicc.com/fido/

A site about beating each other with phonebooks. I wish I could see the movies at work, but I'll look at home and give a better review.

http://www.phonebooking.com/

Awesomely mormon:

http://www.ldolphin.org/mormon.html

Tuesday, June 08, 2004

First of all I wish I had known sooner about these "old friends" touring again; secondly why are they only touring in the US for half a summer and then never again?

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--music-simonampgarfu0607jun07,0,339478.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire

Monday, June 07, 2004

For all you astronomers out there

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5157959/

Cooking with Semen...riiight:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1468&item=4172421264&rd=1

A bit slow updating today...sorry about that.

Woman running for public office isn't really running, it's her husband who's running but can't.

http://www.bangornews.com/editorialnews/article.cfm?ID=423778

Friday, June 04, 2004

Interesting

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2246888404&category=13960

What a fun place to live

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1516&ncid=1516&e=3&u=/afp/20040603/od_afp/afplifestyle_nkorea_040603172009

Thursday, June 03, 2004

I don't know what else to say about this, except quite funny:

http://www.fred.net/turtle/asskicker/asskicker.html

Ultra High Resolution TV? Yes please:

http://www.cdfreaks.com/news2.php?ID=8067

Awesome tornado pic from a few days ago

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11844572&BRD=377&PAG=461&dept_id=531813&rfi=6

People always come up with something new to complain about

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,121579,00.html

Wednesday, June 02, 2004

Think he might be aiming a little high?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1469&item=4171666294&rd=1

Interesting article about Seinfeld's new multi-million dollar Manhattan garage.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0527041jerry1.html

Tuesday, June 01, 2004

Teen who posts her own naked photo charged with child porn

http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/20040329pornp6.asp

Awesome...I don't know about $3000 awesome, but I would love to have this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3815314978

Cool idea:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=857&ncid=757&e=10&u=/nm/20040528/od_uk_nm/oukoe_odd_sweden_condom

When I see a link like below I click expecting something a lot cooler. Stinkin British news puffery...

POP babe Britney Spears boobed on stage — by bulging out of her daring low-cut top.

Haha, Bush keeps Saddam's pistol mounted on a plaque in his office

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101040607-644112,00.html

Interesting:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38726

Andy's page o' links