• The Rose Parade bleachers are still up on Colorado Blvd. That pisses me off for some reason. Cause they put them up in mid-November. Can\’t they take them down with the same eagerness?

  • Vatican establishes new rules for pedophilia cases.

    …pedophile cases were subject to pontifical secrecy. Only priests should handle such cases, including those serving as judges, prosecutor or defense advocate in church tribunals.

    Jesus Christ in a Taco Bell! How often does clerical pedophilia happen that the Vatican needs special rules for handling it?

  • The TrafCam is a neat little GPS-based traffic camera warning program. You\’ll need some kind of Palm Pilot connected to a GPS unit to use the software. If you approach a traffic camera, the software displays an arrow indicating the direction to the camera and the distance. So now you can give the camera the finger as you run the light and it takes your picture. Not that I encourage running red lights.

  • The pricing for the new Mini Cooper was recently announced. $16,850 for the base model and $19,850 for the Cooper S. Keep in mind the Cooper is built by BMW, so that\’s a damn good price for a beamer. I saw them at the autoshow and they look really cool in person. I want a green one with a white roof, then I\’d paint a Union Jack on it.

  • The Celebrity Atheist List. Neat.
    [ From Pith and Vinegar ]

  • MSNBC suggests that DVD extras might be reduced or even eliminated completely for future releases. Actors and directors have recently started demanding big payments for commentaries and interviews. And most DVDs don\’t have big enough budgets to pay the actors. Eventually we\’ll probably have commentaries done by the key grip and the lighting guy.

  • Oh boy! Just what I\’ve been looking for: a book on Building Really Annoying Web Sites. It has chapters on obnoxious background images, popup windows, flash movies, and everything else you love about Geocities sites.

  • MacWorld interviews Trent Reznor about digitally editing and shooting footage for the upcoming live DVD. Apple.com has a more in-depth interview.

  • A Tribute to Forgotten Heroes is a list of the 10 best minor characters in the Star Wars movies. Some of these guys are really fucking obscure.

  • The LA Auto Show starts today, so we might head down there and check out the new cars. I think I\’m slowly turning into a car nut. Since I got my car in October I\’ve been reading various forums and magazines looking at the possible modifications I can do to customize it. I don\’t mean like airbrushing a mural of the Battle of Gettysburg on the hood, but little details like clear sidemarkers and metal sill plates.